Welcome to Skill-Capped’s Holy Paladin PvP Guide for Cataclysm
All sections for Holy Paladin PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Holy Paladin in PvP for Cataclysm, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will give a brief overview of Holy Paladin in PvP for Cataclysm Season 9.
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Why Holy Paladin?
With the new addition of Holy Power, Holy Paladin deviates from its Wrath of the Lich King counterpart, making it distinctly different from its healer contenders. In Cataclysm Season 9, Holy Paladins are considered one of strongest healer specializations due to their defensive and utility toolkit, and their ability to immediately top their teammates with instant healing. Down below, we will further analyze why Holy Paladin is a powerful healer for Cataclysm Season 9.
As mentioned before, their healing is revolved around Holy Power. To gain value out of Holy Power, this requires using generator spells, Holy Shock, Tower of Radiance, which involves using Flash of Light on a target with Beacon of Light applied, and occasionally Crusader Strike, in order to make usage out of Word of Glory. This spell provides massive healing to targets when they are low HP, which is from the talent, Last Word. When pairing their offensive cooldowns, Avenging Wrath and Guardian of Ancient Kings, Holy Paladins can immediately top their teammates with one instant Word of Glory, which is why they prioritize using Holy Shock off cooldown to optimize Word of Glory healing output.
The strength of Holy Paladin does not stop there, as this specialization will enhance the strengths of melee cleaves from it’s diverse selection of defensive and utility abilities. What enables melee cleaves is making sure they can maintain full uptime on their selected target. Having a snare and root removal from Hand of Freedom makes their allies more difficult to peel off their targets, making them more deadly in combat. Their damage mitigation ability from Hand of Sacrifice assists with sustaining their allies, allowing them to play more aggressively if needed.
Due to Cataclysm Season 9 being the best season for melee cleaves, Holy Paladin is considered both the most powerful healer for melees to perform with, and the bane of melee cleaves when facing them. Since their toolkit offers Blessing of Protection as a damage immunity, Hand of Freedom for mobility, and sprint effects from Speed of Light when using Divine Protection, Holy Paladins make melees struggle the most when trying to stay on their targets.
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