160 Mana · Instant · Enemy: 20 yd range · Friendly: 40 yd range · 10 sec cooldown
Holy Shock ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing 138 to 149 Holy damage to an enemy, or 119 to 128 healing to an ally.
Redesigned: 160 Mana, 10 sec cooldown and a 40 yd friendly range where Classic Rank 1 cost 225 Mana on a 30 sec cooldown at 20 yd. The numbers differ between the level 38 demo paladin (129-139 damage, 110-118 healing) and the level 60 BlizzCon slide (shown here).
What Holy Shock does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing 204 to 220 Holy damage to an enemy, or 204 to 220 healing to an ally.
Where Holy Shock sits in the Holy tree
Holy Shock is a Holy talent for Paladin. You need 20 points in Holy before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Divine Precision, Light's Vigil.
- Unlocks: Divine Precision
- Unlocks: Light's Vigil
- Same row: Divine Precision, Consecrated Ground
How often people take Holy Shock
70 of the 212 public Paladin builds saved here — 33% — put at least one point in Holy Shock. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
- BlizzCon 2026 'Paladin Class Change' talent slides (Rank 1/1 tooltip)