Pink Raid Frames posted a guide to Holy Paladin healing today and I’d like to go through their guide quote by quote and give my opinions.  So, stop by their site and read it if you haven’t yet.
There are two strategies to Holy Paladin healing and their guide is a great guide to the most popular and easiest strategy.   Its [...]

Malygos is the pinnacle of Patch 3.0 raiding.  Sure, you can go on to do Sartharion with 3 drakes, but Malygos is the last unique raid boss your guild will come up against before heading into Ulduar in Patch 3.1.  Malygos is an intense, exciting fight that will definitely challenge your ability to keep everyone [...]

Note:  This post is outdated.  Check out my new Holy Paladin PvP Gear post for the latest info.
This blog, like me, has always been dedicated to PvE Holy Paladins.  But, if you’re anything like me, you still probably do the occassional battleground and maybe even an Arena match or 2 (or 10).  You might have collected a few pieces [...]

Note: This article is outdated. Judgements can now be used equally by any paladin spec (although you still should not overwrite a prot paladin’s judgement).
Judgements are confusing.  They do different things for each Paladin spec and you can only have one type of each judgement on a mob.  If you have a Holy Paladin, Protection Paladin, and [...]

Banana Shoulders has a first look at the Holy Paladin Tier 8 gear.  The first thing I notice is that Tier 8 has about double the Mp5 of Tier 7, but actually has quite a bit less Crit than Tier 7.  Tier 8 does give us a modest boost to the rest of our stats, including Spell Power, Intellect, Haste, [...]

Once you’ve understood importance of a strong UI, and you’ve got your macros set up, its time to get a good healing Add-on installed and set up.  If you’re really serious about healing, you need to install the Add-ons that will help you do your job well.  For this post, I’ll focus exclusively on Healbot. [...]

My earlier post discussed the benefits of spending some time up-front setting up your UI for healing.  Your macros should be the first thing you set up, since you’ll need to use them both in your hotkeys and in your add-ons.  Ideally you’ll set up all three aspects of your UI at about the same [...]

What’s the point of Add-ons anyway?
I’ve played a Holy Paladin exclusively ever since I hit level 70.  I was a good healer back in BC, however, I had a strong mind-set against ever using any Add-ons or macros to heal for a few different reasons:

Blizzard built the game to be played a certain way.  If [...]

Paladins have always been known as the best single-target (tank) healers.  Holy Paladins have quick, powerful, and mana-efficient single-target heals, but lack any kind of AoE heal outside of the Glyph of Holy Light.  Priests, druids, and shamans have all been the preferred healers for raid-wide damage.
Despite this, it is very possible for a Holy [...]

Today Blizzard announced some new paladin changes that will affect Holy Paladins when the 3.1 Patch hits.  Most of them are nerfs.  In all, they’re not too bad for PvE paladins, they were more aimed at PvP paladin which are pretty OP in Arenas right now.

All paladins auras had their range extended from 30 yards [...]