Holy Paladin Gearing Guide

Patch 10.2.6 Last Updated: 23rd Apr, 2024
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Gear

Holy Paladin Tier Set

(2) Set Bonus: Holy Shock’s critical strikes heal for 60% more and reduce the cooldown of Light’s Hammer by 2 sec, or Holy Prism by 1 sec.

(4) Set Bonus: Light’s Hammer heals 100% more frequently and generates 1 Holy Power every 4 sec. Holy Prism’s healing is increased by 80% and it generates 1 Holy Power if cast on an enemy target, or 3 if cast on an ally.

Holy Paladin Best in Slot Gear

You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Holy Paladin, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

Best Gear for Raiding

The following list is optimized for healing inside a raid environment.

Slot Item Source
Head Gaze of the Living Quarry Terros (Vault of Incarnates)
Neck Elemental Lariat or Bromach’s Disentombed Locket Crafted Item (Jewelcrafting) or Uldaman Legacy of Tyr
Shoulders Heartfire Sentinel's Steelwings Tier Set
Cloak Voice of the Silent Star (rare) or Mantle of Blazing Sacrifice Sarketh (Abberus) or Smolderon (Amirdrassil)
Chest Heartfire Sentinel's Brigandine Tier Set
Wrist Allied Wristguard of Companionship Crafted Item (Blacksmithing)
Gloves Heartfire Sentinel's Protectors Tier Set
Belt Phlegethic Girdle Larodar (Amidrassil)
Legs Heartfire Sentinel's Faulds Tier Set
Boots Lavaforged Sollerets or Kurog's Thunderhooves Volcoross (Amirdrassil) or Kurog (Vault of Incarnates)
Ring Seal of Filial Duty Broodkeeper (Vaut of Incarnates)
Ring Signet of Titanic Insight Crafted Item (Jewelcrafting)
Trinket Ominous Chromatic Essence Experiments (Aberrus)
Trinket Screaming Black Dragonscale Kazzara (Aberrus)
Main Hand Vakash, the Shadowed Inferno (rare) Fyrakk (Amirdrassil)
Shield Calamity’s Herald or Defender of the Ancient Neltharion (Abberus) or Gnarlroot (Amirdrassil)

Best Gear for Mythic+

The following list is optimized for M+ and prioritizes items that can be acquired without raiding.

The notable exceptions here are the trinkets which have also been optimized with the highest possible DPS in mind - don’t be afraid of swapping these if you can’t get them or if you need more survivability. There is a list of other viable trinkets further down the page.

Slot Item Source
Head Heartfire Sentinel's Forgehelm Tier Set
Neck Elemental Lariat* or Tuskarr Bone Necklace Crafted Item (Jewelcrafting) or Brackenhide Hollow
Shoulders Heartfire Sentinel's Steelwings Tier Set
Cloak Potion Stained Cloak Algeth’ar Academy
Chest Breastplate of Proven Knowledge Algeth’ar Academy
Wrist Allied Wristguard of Companionship Crafted Item (Blacksmithing)
Gloves Heartfire Sentinel's Protectors Tier Set
Belt Trapmaster’s Utility Belt Brackenhide Hollow
Legs Heartfire Sentinel's Faulds Tier Set
Boots Twenty- Two League Striders Azure Vault
Ring Thunderous Downburst Ring The Nokhud Offensive
Ring Eternal Sentry’s Ring Uldaman Legacy of Tyr
Trinket Fyrakk's Tainted Rageheart or Waters Beating Heart Fyrakk (Amirdrassil) or Halls of Infusion
Trinket Belor'relos, the Suncaller or Spoils of Neltharus Tindral Sageswift (Amirdrassil) or Neltharus
Main Hand Vakash, the Shadowed Inferno (rare) or Tz'onna, Fear-Strike Fyrakk (Amirdrassil) or Azure Vault
Shield Crystalized Bulwark Azure Vault

*Lariat can be swapped in favor of a crafted Cloak or Belt with Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch

Embellishments

Allied Wristguard of Companionship is the best and most versatile embellishment to craft early for both raid and M+.

Elemental Lariat - as this item's power scales with the amount of gems you have socketed, it should be crafted later into the patch when you have more sockets.

DO NOT CRAFT Flourishing Dream Helm - it does not proc from AoE or Environmental damage

Keep in mind as well that the biggest power spike generally comes from crafting a weapon such as a Obsidian Seared Hexsword if you don’t already have a high ilvl weapon.

Mythic+/Damage focused

Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch is by far the best DPS Embellishment for Holy Paladin, and you would most likely run it in Mythic+. Keep in mind you can only use this embellishment on "Armor" pieces.

Holy Paladin Trinkets

Recommended trinkets

Screaming Black Dragonscale - Very Rare drop form Kazzara in Abberus, between Intellect, Crit and Leech this trinket has everything a Holy Paladin could ask for, coupled with an uncommonly high uptime.

Ominous Chromatic Essence - This trinket is a typical “stat-stick” giving you a large amount of a secondary stat of your choosing, it’s a good pick for any form of content, but especially strong in raid when multiple people have it equipped.

Whispering Incarnate Icon - Is the “Stat Trinket” of Vault of the Incarnates, while it’s not as powerful as Ominous Chromatic Essence, it’s still pretty close.

Pip's Emerald Friendship Badge - is the “Stat Trinket'' of Amirdrassil. You can read about how it works here. It’s a good trinket, but since you cannot choose which buff is active, it’s not as good as other stat sticks.

Broodkeeper's Promise - A “set-and-forget” passive heal, bundled with a versatility buff for both you and your target, even though this trinkets still requires a lot of testing, currently it's showing great promise.

Rashok's Molten Heart - The GOAT of Aberrus is back though a bit diminished. While it still provides a large amount of passive healing and a versatility buff, the mana regen portion has been significantly reduced, and it is not the absolute bis it used to be.

Raid trinkets are our best in slot, but Water's Beating Heart and Spoils of Neltharus are decent options that you can get from M+ and use as placeholders while you farm for other trinkets on this list..

Mythic+ Only Trinkets

Fyrakk's Tainted Rageheart - will give you a massive boost to damage and survivability, essential if you’re looking to push higher keys.

Belor'relos, the Suncaller - a powerful pure damage trinket with baseline Intellect.

Beacon to the Beyond - very similar to Belor'relos, the Suncaller although not as good because it has mastery instead of intellect.