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Paladin Class Guide — Class Guides · WoW Forever

A plate-wearing holy warrior who heals with the Light, protects with blessings, auras and seals, and fights in melee. Paladins heal, tank or deal damage with a two-handed weapon.

Roles
Healer, Tank, Damage
Specializations
3
Popular builds
5
Version
WoW Forever

How the paladin plays

Paladins in WoW Forever are reworked more than most classes. Holy Strike, a melee attack, is trained at level 6, Consecration is trained by every paladin, Hammer of the Righteous comes at level 40, and Seal of Fury gives tanks a shield. Holy Shock and Divine Favor come from Holy talents.

Seals and Judgement still drive the class, and Retribution's Twist of Light rewards swapping Seals: the Seal you replace leaves an echo on your next swing.

Templar's Bulwark, an absorb shield as large as your health, joins Divine Shield and Lay on Hands, which makes paladins very hard to kill.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Blessings and Auras for every group.
  • Very hard to kill: Templar's Bulwark, Divine Shield and Lay on Hands.
  • All three specs have clear jobs: healing, tanking and melee damage.
  • Cleanse for poisons, diseases and magic.

Weaknesses

  • Every spec leans on mana.
  • Few ways to catch a fleeing enemy.
  • Healing is mostly single-target.

Specializations

The specs compared

Each spec rated from 1 to 5 at what it does in WoW Forever. Single and several targets mean damage for damage specs, healing for healers and threat for tanks; a spec's own guide names its ratings for its role.

RatingHolyProtectionRetribution
Single target
Several targets
Survivability
Utility
Solo and leveling
Ease of play
  • Holy

    Healer · 2 builds

    The healing tree: more powerful Holy Light and Flash of Light, cheaper heals and the tools to keep a tank or a raid alive.

    Top talent:Light's Vigil

    Holy guide
  • Protection

    Tank · 1 build

    Tanking with a shield: Holy Shield, more block and armour, damage reduction and threat.

    Top talent:Holy Shield

    Protection guide
  • Retribution

    Damage · 2 builds

    Two-handed melee damage from seals and judgements, with crits and utility for the group. The usual leveling tree.

    Top talent:Twist of Light

    Retribution guide

Gear

  • Mail until level 40, then plate.
  • Holy wants +Healing, Intellect and crit; Protection wants Stamina, defense and spell damage for threat; Retribution wants Strength, crit and Intellect, which Champion of the Light turns into spell damage.
  • Two-handed weapons for Retribution; a one-hander with a shield for Holy and Protection.

Each spec guide ranks its stats and says what to look for on its gear.

What WoW Forever changed

Against Classic Era, the paladin in WoW Forever has these changes. New spells: 8. Changed spells: 29. Spells no longer trained: 5. Talents that Classic Era doesn't have: 19. Each spec guide lists its own. The spell list shows every change.

Paladin class quests

The quests that unlock class abilities, by the level each route starts at.

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