Paladin Hero Talents - The War Within (11.0.2) (2024)

Last updated on Aug 21, 2024 at 18:20by Mytholxgy24 comments

This guide will walk you through the best Hero Talents for Holy Paladin for Raiding and Mythic+, how they impact your gameplay, and more.

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. Ifyou want to learn more about the best regular talents for HolyPaladin, check out our Talents page:

Herald of the Sun is our strongest Hero Talent in all scenarios. While it may fall behind in damagecompared to Lightsmith, it offers significantly more healing, and the healing that it does provideis much more useful since Lightsmith is largely uncontrollable and impacts very few targets. Sun's Avatarspecifically offers a ton of extra healing when you use Avenging Wrath, turning this into an even strongercooldown. It does, however, require you to be somewhat careful about where you use your Dawnlights because youwill want to make sure that the beams hit as many targets as possible. Generally, that means avoid putting Dawnlight on melee players when in spread situations.

Lightsmith's primary strength comes in the form of the damage provided by Sacred Weapon.This functions similarly to the old Blessing of Summer, where it can be used on other players and givesyou damage in return. It will often struggle in raiding situations because you can only give a few playersthe buffs you offer. Compare that with Herald of the Sun, where you can potentially cross beams throughthe entire raid; it is clear which one offers more impact beyond just numbers (Lightsmith still fallsbehind even number-wise).

Herald of the Sun will be the best choice when you are at any point concerned about healing.During the start of a season, doing very high keys, or even in situations where you don't feel confident, then you will gain significantly more healing from Herald.

Lightsmith pulls ahead in terms of pure damage but can feel a bit weaker since it lackssome of the power in Avenging Wrath that Herald of the Sun gets from Dawnlightand Sun's Avatar. When in situations where you don't care at all about healing, you candefinitely opt into playing Lightsmith, and the damage you gain will be well worth it, assuming you canstill heal your group efficiently without taking away from casts that could've instead beenspent on DPS globals.

The key to getting the most value out of Herald of the Sun is to make sure thatyou are optimizing your Dawnlights. You will need to cast Holy Prism or Barrier of Faith as much as possible to keep the most Dawnlights out as possible.If you are playing Awakening, however, you will want to hold Holy Prism/ Barrier of Faithif you are close to a proc, that way, when you do, in fact, proc, you can have an extra Dawnlightactive and thus an extra beam active, giving you a significantly higher amount of healing.

Lightsmith has no appreciable impact on your rotational priorities. You willsimply want to make sure that you are continuously using Sacred Weapon in orderto buff the players in your group. As mentioned previously, you will prefer using them onother players; that way you control who the buffs go to rather than casting them on yourselfand letting them choose a player at random.