Hello, one and all!
As stated, I am new to playing Holy Pally. I really enjoy healing on a Holy Priest, but the Paladin lore calls to me! lol I just really don’t want to melee. I’m terrible at it.
Is there a viable pve holy pally spec for doing 5 mans and normal raiding? I’m not into high keys, mythic raiding.
Thanks for any info you can give me!
Yeah you can play herald without any of the melee talents and do just fine but your group is just gonna lose a big chunk of dps from you sitting afk at range.
Thank you for the info!
Im not hardcore. I just play for fun. I also don’t “stand there afk.” So nothing that I do, my melee loss isn’t going to mean anything. lol As you can see, I am level 10.
That’s awesome! Do what you think is fun. But just so you know the way the scaling works your damage spells are the most individually powerful at level 10. I see level 10-19 healers doing top damage sometimes when I was leveling my Druid.
You’ll lose a little damage, but you can still contribute a decent amount if you talent into Righteous Judgment and Veneration.
The first one will make your Judgment spell drop a Consecration whenever you cast it, doing a lot of free AOE damage, and the second will give your casted spells a good chance to let you cast a Hammer of Wrath on any enemy, at range, and heal your party while you do it.
Between Judgment, Consecration, Hammer of Wrath, amd offensive Holy Shocks when you can manage it, you’re doing ok damage for a healer, and have lots of time at range to use Flash of Light and Holy Light.
You’ll be missing out on a little damage from Crusader Strike, Shield of the Righteous, and a second, hardcasted melee Consecration, but these are in no way vital at the level of content you want to do.
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The only melee spells in our rotation are crusader strike….and shield for dumping hp which u could choose not to press. And you need to be in melee to kick anyways…and your mastery incentivizes being close.
I really just dont see caster pala being viable unless you’re doing easy stuff and/or outgear the content. Kinda just gimping yourself imo. And I dont even mean your dmg, our dmg is meh anyways, but you would be gimping your heals
Mastery is fine. You will always be putting a beacon of light on SOMEBODY in melee, and being close to your beacon counts as being close to you for mastery
This would be one of the bigger losses.