Holy Paladin Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 2 Holy Paladin Tier Set Bonus:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets which applies a HoT for 15 seconds. Insurance is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them for a set amount.
• (4) Set Bonus: Divine Toll applies Insurance to allies it heals for 8 seconds. Divine toll cooldown is reduced by 1.0 sec each time you spend Holy Power

Besides giving us slightly more Divine Toll + Beacon of Virtue combos, neither (2) set nor (4) set bonus will change the way you play the game. These are sweet and simple increases to HPS and will just enhance what you’ve already been doing since the TWW prepatch.

You should still prioritise 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.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The two best performing trinkets this season are: Eye of Kezan and Mister Pick-Me-Up.

Eye of Kezan - is the stat-stick of this tier, it comes with mastery which is a high priority stat for Herald of the Sun and an effect which gives a lot of intellect stacks. It’ll take about 4 minutes to reach full potential making it ideal for long raid encounters, but it’ll lose power in M+ if you spend a lot of time out of combat.

Mister Pick-Me-Up - this is a very simple Intellect trinket, with a strong passive healing effect.

From raid, honorable mentions go to Mug's Moxie Jug and Reverb Radio, both of these trinkets perform well, but not as well as our previously mentioned BIS trinkets.

Best alternatives from Mythic + are: Signet of the Priory and Carved Blazikon Wax.

Signet of the Priory - Intellect trinket with an on-use effect that grants secondary stats to both you and your party members with the same trinket (party members only, not raid). Best use it by binding it to your wings.

Carved Blazikon Wax - Intellect trinket with a chance to proc some versatility. It also gives a little extra versatility if you stand in the light it procs, but don’t play around this effect as its benefits are negligible.

Raid

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension - This is a simple buff that stacks a random secondary stat as long as you’re in combat. It can be crafted on a weapon which is the biggest power boost you can get from a single item, so this should be the first thing you craft.

Writhing Armor Banding - Since Ascension is a Nerubian embellishment, this will double its effect. Craft it on whatever low ilvl piece of gear needs to be replaced, just make sure it’s not taking up a tier slot.

Keys

Since stacks drop when out of combat Ascension loses a lot of value in M+. Unfortunately none of the alternatives are very good. If min-maxing it’s recommended you first craft a Binding of Binding, as this is the biggest damage boost you can get, followed by a Fractured Gemstone Locket or Dawnthread Lining, the benefits are all marginal so don’t worry about it too much.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Starting May 13th (14th for EU) Dinars, now called Puzzling Cartel Chips, will be reintroduced into the game. These can be obtained through new weekly quests called Turbo-Boost: Powerhouse Challenges (kill 4 Raid bosses in Liberation of Undermine) OR Ultra Prime Deluxe Turbo-Boost: Powerhouse Challenges (complete 4 Mythic+ Dungeons).

First week’s reward will be 3x Puzzling Cartel Chips, with each subsequent week earning 1x, up to a total cap of 9x Puzzling Cartel Chips per character.

Puzzling Cartel Chips can be spent in Dornogal at an NPC called Consultant Wrexxle, located near the Great Vault. He sells a variety of weapons, trinkets and other select items from both raid and dungeons. Each item has a currency cost of 3, and while Hero track items can be bought with no additional requirements, Myth track Raid gear will require you to kill the raid items associated Raid Boss on Mythic difficulty and Myth track Dungeon gear will require you to beat the timer in all Season 2 M+ dungeons at +12 or higher.

Recommended items for Puzzling Cartel Chips:

1. The Jastor Diamond - easily the most difficult item to get in the game as it requires you to both beat Chrome King Gallywix and everyone else who rolls for it (if it even drops).
2. Mister Pick-Me-Up - a very powerful trinket, must-have for every healer - which is why everyone wants it.
3. Eye of Kezan (for raiding) or Mug’s Moxie Jug (for M+) - both very desirable and very hard to obtain items, as they drop from Gallywix and Mug’Zee respectively.

If you already have all of the items listed above I would recommend Test Pilot's Go-Pack, Big Earner's Bludgeon and Titan of Industry.

Cyrce's Circlet

Cyrce's Circlet is a unique ring introduced in Patch 11.0.7. Unlike traditional rings, it doesn’t provide any stats but features three sockets for unique gems that can be switched around freely once you’ve collected them. As of patch 11.1.5 this is still a BIS item.

Recommended gems for pure healing:

• Yellow Socket - Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
• Blue Socket - Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
• Pink Socket - Windsinger's Runed Citrine

Recommended gems for pure damage:

• Yellow Socket - Thunderlord's Crackling Citrine
• Blue Socket- Undersea Overseer's Citrine
• Pink Socket- Old Salt’s Bardic Citrine