Paladin Holy Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Judgment 2 Holy Shock 3 Holy Shock 4 Eternal Flame 5 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 6 Holy Shock 7 Judgment 8 Judgment 9 Holy Shock 10 Holy Shock 11 Judgment 12 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 13 Eternal Flame 14 Holy Shock 15 Holy Shock

1 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 2 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 3 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 4 Beacon of Virtue 5 Divine Toll 6 Light of Dawn 7 Light of Dawn 8 Holy Shock 9 Holy Shock 10 Light of Dawn 11 Hammer of Wrath 12 Flash of Light 13 Flash of Light 14 Holy Shock 15 Light of Dawn

1 Judgment 2 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 3 Holy Shock 4 Judgment 5 Light of Dawn 6 Holy Shock 7 Judgment 8 Light of Dawn 9 Holy Shock 10 Judgment 11 Holy Shock 12 Light of Dawn 13 Holy Shock 14 Judgment 15 Holy Shock

#showtooltip Judgment
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Judgment

Ability	Top-player CPM
Holy Shock	14.0
Eternal Flame	13.5
Flash of Light	9.0
Beacon of Virtue	3.6
Judgment	2.8
Divine Toll	1.7
Light of Dawn	1.3
Divine SteedOff-GCD	0.9
Hammer of Wrath	0.7
Divine ProtectionOff-GCD	0.7
Cleanse	0.7
Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
Avenging WrathOff-GCD	0.6

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Divine SteedOff-GCD 2 Holy Shock 3 Holy Shock 4 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 5 Judgment 6 Holy Shock 7 Beacon of Virtue 8 Eternal Flame 9 Judgment

1 Judgment 2 Holy Shock 3 Shield of the Righteous 4 Holy Shock 5 Judgment 6 Holy Shock 7 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 8 Divine SteedOff-GCD 9 Shield of the Righteous 10 Word of Glory 11 Word of Glory 12 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 13 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 14 Word of Glory 15 Holy Bulwark

1 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 2 Judgment 3 Flash of Light 4 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 5 Holy Bulwark 6 Hammer of Wrath 7 Shield of the Righteous 8 Sacred Weapon 9 Flash of Light 10 Hammer of Wrath 11 Hammer of Justice 12 Word of Glory 13 Flash of Light 14 Hammer of Wrath 15 Shield of the Righteous

#showtooltip Judgment
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Judgment

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 90% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 10%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 98% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 2%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 85% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 10%	Rune of Self-Mending 75% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 22% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 2%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Masterful Cunning 82% Rune of Critical Power 10% Rune of Burning Haste 5% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 2%	Rune of Masterful Cunning 52% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 25% Rune of Critical Power 20% Rune of Burning Haste 2%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%	Rune of Overload 90% Rune of Echoes 10%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Holy Shock
/use [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Holy Shock

#showtooltip Lay on Hands
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Lay on Hands

#showtooltip Intercession
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,dead,exists][] Intercession

#showtooltip Divine Shield
/stopcasting
/cast Divine Shield

#showtooltip Blessing of Protection
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Blessing of Protection

#showtooltip Blessing of Freedom
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Blessing of Freedom

#showtooltip Blessing of Sacrifice
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Blessing of Sacrifice

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Holy Shock	14.0
2	Eternal Flame	13.5
3	Flash of Light	9.0
4	Shield of the Righteous	6.6
5	Judgment	6.2
Z	Beacon of Virtue	3.6
X	Divine Toll	1.7
C	Hammer of Wrath	1.7
V	Holy Light	1.5
R	Light of Dawn	1.3
F	Divine SteedOff-GCD	0.9
T	Divine ProtectionOff-GCD	0.7
G	Cleanse	0.7
Shift+1	Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
Shift+2	Avenging WrathOff-GCD	0.6