Paladin Holy Guide 4.3.4 PVP

Paladin Holy Guide 4.3.4 PVP

Hpaladin Guide (4.3.4)

Index
1 - Gemming, Gearing and Enchants.
2 - Viable comps, and tactics for the Holy Paladin.
3 - Spec and glyphs.
4 - Counter tactics for certain comps.
5 - How manage your cooldowns as a Holy Paladin.
6 - Crit/Haste or a bit of both?
7 - How to play defensively and offensively as a Holy Paladin.
8 - Macros!
9 - Basic tactics.
10 - Addons.
11 - Sets

1 - Gemming, Gearing and Enchants.

1a) Gearing, Enchants -
Head: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Ornamented Headcover With 60 Intel/35 Resilience
Neck: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Pendant of Meditation
Shoulder: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Ornamented Spaulders With 50 Intel/25 Resilience
Cape: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Drape of Meditation With 50 Intel or 70 Spell Pen.
Chest: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Ornamented Chestguard 40 Resilience
Bracers: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Bracers of Meditation 50 Intel
Gloves: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Ornamented Gloves With 50 haste
Belt: Girdle of Shattered Stone (PvE) With belt buckle
Legs: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Ornamented Legplates With 95 Intel/55Spirit
Boots: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Greaves of Meditation With 50 Haste
Rings: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Band of Meditation, Cataclysmic Gladiator's Band of Cruelty/Ring of the Riven(PvE). I also have a PvE Ring for one of my set ups.
Trinkets: Wingward Heart(PvE) and Eye of Blazing Power (PvE) Also use double PvP Trinket depends on the set up I'm running.
Weapon: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Gavel With Power Torrent
Shield: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Barrier With 40 Intel
Relic: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Relic of Salvation

1b) Gemming -
Bare in mind that this is my basic gemming setup for my main comps, If commented I will add my other gemming/gear setups.
Also I always go for the socket bonus's they all help us in one way or another!
Meta - +45 Intel and +3%Crit effect. [Burning Shadowspirit Diamond]
Red - +50 Intel [Brilliant queen's garnet] x6
Blue - +25 Intel and +25 Spirit [Purified Shadow Spinel] x2
Yellow - +25 Intel and +25 Resilience [Willfull Lava Coral] x3

1c) Reforging -
You want to leave everything that is Crit.
Everything that is mastery reforge into Crit.
Leave haste as it is, the reforging is pretty simply and basic as a Holy Paladin. There's not much more to say, You don't need anything else and this balances both Crit/Haste out.

2) Viable comps, and tactics for the Holy Paladin -
(3s) - Our 3s comps are quite limited.
Original PHD - Hpaladin, UnholyDK and MMHunter.
SHD - Rshaman, UnholyDK and MMHunter.
Kittycleave - Hpaladin, Feral and Awarr.
KFC - Hpaladin, MMHunter and Awarr.
Original KFC - Hpaladin, MMHunter and SRogue
TSG - Hpaladin, Awarr and UnholyDK
(2s) - As a Hpaladin in 2s, you can really team up with anything.
Hpaladin/Firemage.
Hpaladin/DK.
Hpaladin/Awarr.
Hpaladin/Feral.
There are a lot more comps trust me, i'v just listed the ones that I can see that applies to most.

3) Specs and Glyphs -
This is my main spec, that I play with almost any comp.
http://freecode.hu/wowtal/eng/?PA#02332 ... 1,-1,-1,-1
This spec allows you to get the most of your procs, stay offensive and switch defensively without a problem.
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This spec allows you to get the most out of your crit, allowing you to get a lot of procs on the plus side aswell.
http://freecode.hu/wowtal/eng/?PA#02332 ... 1,-1,-1,-1
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Denounce spec, everyone knows it and the purposes. This spec is amazing against mirrors/healer dps comps, also against anything that relies on crit.
http://freecode.hu/wowtal/eng/?PA#02332 ... 1,-1,-1,-1
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Glyphs -
(Prime Glyphs)

Glyph of Holy Shock Increases the critical effect chance of Holy Shock by 5%.
Glyph of Word of Glory Increases the healing done by Word of Glory by 10%.
Glyph of Seal of Insight While Seal of Insight is active, the effect of your Healing spells is increased by 5%.

(Major Glyphs)

Glyph of Turn Evil Reduces the casting time of your Turn Evil spell by 100%, but increases the cooldown by 8 sec.
Glyph of Cleansing Reduces the mana cost of your Cleanse by 20%.
Glyph of Hammer of Justice Increases your Hammer of Justice range by 5 yards.

(Minor Glyphs)

Glyph of Insight Reduces the mana cost of Seal of Insight by 50%.
Glyph of Blessing of Kings Reduces the mana cost of Blessing of Kings by 50%.
Glyph of Blessing of Might Reduces the mana cost of Blessing of Might by 50%.

4) This part I'm going to leave for the comments, if you could simply comment on what tactics you want to see for what counter comps i'll add them.

5 - How to manage your cooldowns as a Holy Paladin.
Paladins are very strong with a cooldown being used. We have many of them one click away, but they can act against you if you're not careful. We have Wings, Guardian, Trinket, Bubble, BoP, Hand of Freedom and more. Use them at crucial efforts as wasting even one of these could end up falling behind on healing.

6) Crit/Haste or a bit of both? -
Throughout my time of playing wow, i'v seen loads of different Gear/Gemming/Reforge Setup! You name it, i'v seen it literally.
I wanted to stay clear of this topic, because it's really up to you but i'v been asked quite a few times recently on why I balance mine out, and either to go Crit/Haste.

My personal opinion and set up is a bit of both, I don't reforge full into haste or crit. The haste we get off the Holy set of gear I leave as it is, the mastery we get I reforge that into crit and of course leave the crit as it is. Also the spirit we get from the gear set up I stated above, DO NOT reforge out of it.
This leaves us with a balance of crit/haste, and that's my personal choice.

Why balance it out?
I balance haste/crit out because, simple if we go full into crit that's luck based. Luck doesn't always treat us right, so having a bit of haste also comes into play. We don't get lucky with a crit to top someone off? We can simply have a quick flash heal to gain the healing we lost without getting a crit.

7) How to play Offensively and Defensively as a Holy Paladin?

Defensive play - Playing defensively is simply sitting back, letting your partner do his thing and just keeping him topped off. Playing safe as I call it, we just simply don't have the momentum to push in and play offensive the opponent's have either pushed us back to play defensive with there offensive play or have got some momentum going! This just means, we've got to sit tight hold out there play, sitting pillars, hoj'ing for peels and maybe get some counter pressure going.

Offensive play - Playing Offensively is like it says, pushing in for some rebukes to get some pressure going or maybe even just getting a Exorcism off to get some Extra damage out, not much but it counts! Offensive, is literally doing anything you can to land the kill, but if you sit this kind of gameplay to much you could end up of getting counter pressured and maybe lose. It isn't always best, but within the game you'll know when you can switch plays.

8) Macros - Something, that I could truly not live without.

Hand of Sacrifice Party 1/2
#showtooltip
/cast [target=Party1] Hand of Sacrifice
#showtooltip
/cast [target=Party2] Hand of Sacrifice

Hand of Freedom Party 1/2
#showtooltip
/cast [target=Party1] Hand of Freedom
#showtooltip
/cast [target=Party2] Hand of Freedom

Cleanse Myself, Party 1 and Party 2
/cast [target=player] Cleanse
/cast [target=Party1] Cleanse
/cast [target=Party2] Cleanse

Turn Evil Gargoyle Macro [Fear DK Pet]
#showtooltip
/cast Turn Evil
/cleartarget
/targetexact Ebon Gargoyle
/cast [exists] Turn Evil(Rank 1)
/stopmacro [exists]

Aura Mastery Macro
/cast Aura Mastery
/cast Divine Favor

Basic Focus HoJ Macro
/cast [@focus] Hammer of Justice

Seal Macro
/cast [nomodifier] Seal of Insight
/cast [modifier:shift] Seal of Truth
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Seal of Justice

Judgement Macro
#showtooltip
/cast Judgement
/startattack
/cast Hand of Reckoning
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Turn Evil Macro, This macro is truly amazing! Fears any Undead Pet/Minion in the Arena, Or Fear Your Mouse Over Pet/Minion.
#showtooltip
/use [@arenapet1,harm][@arenapet2,harm][@arenapet3,harm][@arenapet4,harm][@arenapet5,harm][@mouseover,harm][]Turn Evil

Basic Focus Rebuke [Kick] Macro
/cast [@focus] Rebuke

Cancel Macros
/cancelaura Avenging Wrath
/cancelaura Divine Shield
/cancelaura Hand of Protection
/cancelaura Divine Plea

Trash Macro, For when your going to use Wings/Divine Plea or Sac your partner.
#showtooltip
/cast [target=player] Hand of Salvation
#showtooltip
/cast [target=party1] Hand of Salvation

Basic Focus Arena 1/2/3 Macros
/focus [target=arena1]
/focus [target=arena2]
/focus [target=arena3]

9) Basic tactics -
Rebuffing while in arena - When i'v topped someone off, or even have a free global where I know my partners can handle themselves I'll simply rebuff Kings/Might Which ever is suitable.

Hand of Sacrifice - This transfer 30% of damage to you when cast on someone in your team who is being attacked. This acts as a trinket for us, simply if you see someone casting a poly or you can predict when a Repentance/Blind is coming you can Trash Buff your partner, and sac him. That makes your Sheep/Blind/Repentance Instantly upon Damage. Using this at the right time, could win you the game!

Sitting Pillars - This can be found in Sovereign's guide, You can find all the information about sitting pillars in his guide! It's tricky to explain, so I'll leave you to jump over to his guide as he's explained it magnificently!

(Versus Class Tactics will be added soon.)

10) Addons -

OmniCC (Shows a certain icon for what "CC" or "Disorient" You are in)
Quartz (Helps in several ways, timers on buffs etc.)
DoomCooldownPulse (Shows a timer on your cooldowns)
Gladius (Arena Frames)
Hotkeyhider (Hides all your keybinds and just makes your UI look a lot more tidy)
Interrupt bar (Shows you when certain interrupts have been used)
Bagnon (Basically puts all your bags together, and shows up as one)
Fontdamage Changer (Changes the basic ingame font of your damage)
Safe Queue (Life saver, takes the "leave queue" off your arena pop)

11) Different sets, etc. -
Main setup (2s) - listed in, 1a) Gearing, enchanting etc.
Basic Resil setup (2s&3s) - Full PvP Gear, PvE Belt(Girdle of Shattered stone), PvE Trinket(Windwand Heart) and On use PvP Trinket.
Proc/PvE setup - Full PvP Gear, PvE Belt(Girdle of Shattered stone), Double PvE Trinket(Windwand Heart and Eye of Blazing Power) and PvE Mace(Maw of the Dragonlord).
Upgraded Resil setup - Full PvP Gear, PvP weps, On Use Trinket (PvP) and PvE Trinket (Windwand heart)

11a) Comp setups, with which sets? -
Holy Paladin/AWarr; Main setup, sometimes Basic Resil setup depends on the comps queing.
Holy Paladin/DK; Main setup.
Holy Paladin/FireMage; Main setup/Basic Resil setup.
In 3s, I mostly run the Main setup because of the flatline of the Holy Paladin 3s comps anyway.
But if we run into TSG/Vanguards/PHD that actually decides to switch me after bubble i'll run Upgraded Resil setup.
I rarely use the Proc set up, the only time I will use it is if I fall behind on healing against a certain comp.