Holy Paladin Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Infusion Of Light increases the healing of Flash Of Light by an additional 100% and absorb from Greater Judgement by an additional 100%
• (4) Set Bonus: Judgement now has a 20% chance to grant Infusion Of Light. Holy Light now has a 100% chance to grant Infusion Of Light, but its mana cost is increased by 50%.

The 2p set bonus is pretty simple and self explanatory. It’ll just buff the effects of Infusion Of Light.

The 4-piece set bonus is the biggest gameplay change this season. Once you have it, Judgment becomes a higher priority than Flash Of Light whenever you don't have an Infusion of Light proc. It will also severely limit the number of Holy Light casts you can afford before running out of mana.

The increased mana cost is an intentional drawback. During PTR testing, the set bonus made it too easy to generate Infusion Of Light without relying on Holy Shock, leading to a playstyle where players could entirely ignore Holy Shock in favor of simply casting Holy Light whenever they needed Infusion Of Light procs.

Blizzard added the mana penalty to discourage that strategy and keep Holy Shock at the center of the rotation. While it's unusual for a tier set to effectively weaken one of your abilities, it's a better outcome than permanently nerfing Holy Light, since the drawback disappears when the tier set is replaced.

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+

Recommended Trinkets:

Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel – A powerful on-use trinket that's excellent in both Raid and Mythic+. It's also one of the easiest trinkets to obtain, dropping from the first boss of the raid. At the time of writing, it significantly outperforms every other healing trinket and is the clear best-in-slot option.

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - A stat stick with Intellect. It can proc 6 different buffs that enhance secondary stats in various ways, all of them are useful as paladin benefits from all secondary stats.

Wavecaller's Seastone – A simple statstick trinket that gradually increases intellect, up to 6 times and then diminishing before starting the cycle anew

Alternatives

Freightrunner's Flask - Intellect trinket with an on-use Crit buff. It’s 1 min 30 sec. cooldown will line up with Divine Toll, so use them together.

Lightspire Core – An Intellect trinket that provides a flat passive Mastery bonus and occasionally spawns beams of light that grant additional Mastery while you're standing in them. The passive Mastery alone makes this trinket a fine choice, so don't go out of your way to chase the beams if it means sacrificing positioning or mechanics.

Stormbound Emblem Of Dazar – An Intellect trinket with an on-use effect that grants a large Haste bonus after a 2-second channel. Its 2-minute cooldown lines up perfectly with Avenging Wrath.

Lightspire Core – An Intellect trinket that provides a flat passive Mastery bonus and occasionally spawns beams of light that grant additional Mastery while you're standing in them. The passive Mastery alone makes this trinket a fine choice, so don't go out of your way to chase the beams if it means sacrificing positioning or mechanics.

The biggest power spike you can get at the start of a new Tier/Season is from equipping a new weapon. This is a very competitive slot, and it’s unlikely that a weapon dropping in a raid will be given to a Healer over a DPS. For these reasons, it’s recommended that your first Spark be used on crafting a weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt as it’s the best embellishment for throughput.

Subsequent Sparks should be used to replace low ilvl pieces of gear and you can craft them with Arcanoweave Lining as it is the second best embellishment for throughput.

The optimal slots for crafted gear are bracers and cloak, but if you have other low ilvl pieces just make sure you’re not crafting gear that’s going to take up a slot you need for a tier piece.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Early into the Season the best items to target are Chausses Of Unbound Rancor from Ula’tek and Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel from Nek'zali the Soulcoiler. Even if you’re not a raider, you should go out of your way to try to get these items.

Another good boss to spend your early bonus rolls on is The Lost Explorers. The main item you’re looking for is Gebbo's Bottomless Bag, but the entire loot table is great, including a weapon and shield. If you've already looted or crafted a good item in these slots, you can more precisely target the trinket by bonus rolling in Retribution loot-spec.

After that, use your bonus rolls to target your lowest item level gear slots and replace your weakest pieces.

Late into the Season, when optimizing your gear, items you want to target (in addition to the previously mentioned) are Baleful Hexblade from The Coiled Altar and Aqirbane Reliquary from Ula’tek.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Holy Paladin:

• Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell
• Rune Of Lingering
• Rune Of Masterful Cunning
• Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.