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 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 5 Eternal Flame 6 Judgment 7 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 8 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 9 Hammer of Wrath 10 Shield of the Righteous 11 Holy Shock

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

1 Judgment 2 Holy Shock 3 Holy Shock 4 Eternal Flame 5 Flash of Light 6 Judgment 7 Holy Shock 8 Light of Dawn 9 Holy Shock

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

Ability	Top-player CPM
Holy Shock	13.8
Eternal Flame	13.7
Flash of Light	8.7
Beacon of Virtue	3.6
Judgment	2.8
Divine Toll	1.7
Hammer of Wrath	0.9
Cleanse	0.8
Light of Dawn	0.7
Holy Light	0.7
Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
Avenging WrathOff-GCD	0.6
Divine ProtectionOff-GCD	0.6
Divine SteedOff-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 Holy Shock 3 Holy Shock 4 Eternal Flame 5 Liquid LusterOff-GCD 6 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 7 Hammer of Wrath 8 Holy Shock 9 Divine Toll

#showtooltip Holy Shock
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Holy Shock

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	13.8
2	Eternal Flame	13.7
3	Flash of Light	8.7
4	Shield of the Righteous	6.6
5	Judgment	5.9
Z	Beacon of Virtue	3.6
X	Divine Toll	1.7
C	Hammer of Wrath	1.7
V	Holy Light	1.5
R	Cleanse	0.8
F	Light of Dawn	0.7
T	Divine ProtectionOff-GCD	0.7
G	Divine SteedOff-GCD	0.7
Shift+1	Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
Shift+2	Avenging WrathOff-GCD	0.6