• 3/3 Protector of the Innocent: this talent will account for a large amount of the healing that we do over the course of a fight, and will often result in overhealing. Despite this, however, it still provides free healing to the paladin, healing which does transfer to the Beacon target, making it extremely desirable.
• 3/3 Judgements of the Pure: 9% casting haste for the cost of two talent points, especially considering the usefulness of haste for Holy Paladins, is a simple choice. This talent also provides 30% increased mana regeneration from Spirit, for 60 seconds after judging a target.
• 3/3 Clarity of Purpose: a one second reduction on the cast time of three of our most used spells is, again, something we simply cannot live without.
• 1/2 Last Word: the benefit of this talent is not overly impressive, but it is the only talent left of the first two tiers that we can take to unlock the third tier. It can prove beneficial in some situations, but a second talent point in it is generally a waste because of the situational nature of this talent and the already high critical strike chance of the spell on sub 35% health targets due to the first talent point.
• 1/1 Divine Favor: provides you with a powerful healing cooldown the usefulness of which is unquestionable.
• 2/2 Infusion of Light: these talent points provide two useful benefits: firstly an increased critical strike chance on Holy Shock and secondly a 1.5 second cast time reduction on your next Holy Light, Flash of Light, Divine Light or Holy Radiance following a Holy Shock critical strike. As you can notice, the two elements of this talent point have good synergy and will not only increase the critical strike chance of a spell you should be using every 6 seconds, but also provide you with extremely fast Divine Lights and Holy Radiances.
• 2/2 Daybreak: this provides you with a 20% chance, when casting Holy Light, Flash of Light or Divine Light, for your next Holy Shock cast within 12 seconds not to trigger a cooldown. This results in occasional bursts of healing and Holy Power generation, further boosting your healing.
• 1/2 Enlightened Judgements: This talent's benefits are threefold: it grants hit rating based on the Holy Paladin's spirit, it increases the range of judgements and it also provides a small heal to the paladin each time a judgement occurs. Since Holy Paladins rely actively on being able to land successful attacks on a target to gain the benefits of judging as well as mana return from melee attacks and Holy Power generation from Crusader Strike, the hit rating part of this talent is needed. With the high amount of spirit that healers have, gaining hit rating equal to half of it will be more than enough to make sure your attacks do not miss. The increased range for judgements is also useful and provides you with more mobility since you can judge from farther away. Finally, the self-heal does transfer to the Beacon target and while the amount is quite small, it is effectively free. A second point in this talent is only really justified by the need to maximise judgement range, and as such should only be taken if 2/2 in Improved Judgement have already been taken.
• 1/1 Beacon of Light: this spell is absolutely crucial to your healing in raids, allowing you to heal two targets at the same time, as well as allowing Holy Power generation through direct Flash of Light or Divine Light heals on the Beacon target.
• 3/3 Speed of Light: the benefits provided by this talent are twofold: increased casting haste by 3% and a 60% movement speed increase for 4 seconds after using Divine Protection. Three talent points here are vital for the casting speed bonus. In addition, the movement speed increase can prove highly useful in many situations.
• 1/1 Sacred Cleansing: this talent grants Holy Paladins the ability to dispel magic effects and is essential to take at least in a 10 man raiding environment where the number of players who can dispel magic may be limited. Regardless of its reduced necessity in 25 man raiding, there is no other useful talent to take in order to access the fifth tier.
• 3/3 Conviction: this talent grants a stacking buff that increases healing by 3% per stack and stacks up to three times for total of 9% increased healing. It is triggered each time you critically hit with your spells or abilities. During normal raid encounters, this should have high uptime and is the sole reason why Critical Strike Rating is of any use to you outside of Infusion of Light.
• 1/1 Aura Mastery: this is a highly useful raid damage-reduction cooldown when coupled with Resistance Aura and as such should never be skipped (and the spell itself should, of course, be used extensively).
• 2/2 Paragon of Virtue: this talent reduces the cooldowns of three abilities you make use of often during any raid encounter and as such its benefits cannot be overlooked.
• 3/3 Tower of Radiance: alongside Holy Shock, this talent is your other source of Holy Power generation and although you will hardly ever be using Flash of Light to trigger its effects, casting Divine Light on the Beacon of Light target is something that can happen quite often. This talent also allows you to generate a charge of Holy Power each time you use Holy Radiance.
• 1/1 Light of Dawn: this is your 31-point talent. Light of Dawn is a frontal cone AoE heal that costs Holy Power.
• 3/3 Divinity: this is a flat 6% increase to healing done and healing taken and cannot be passed up as there are no other more beneficial talents available.
• 3/3 Crusade: this talent grants a 30% increase to the healing of Holy Shock, and as such it surpasses any other alternative in usefulness.

This section covers the optional talents and offers a brief outline as to why they are useful.

• 2/2 Eternal Glory: provides a solid chance to return Holy Power on using Word of Glory. While Word of Glory itself isn't extremely powerful, the healing from it is very cost efficient and as such this talent can prove to be quite beneficial. Do note that it is prevented from occurring back-to-back by having a 15 second internal cooldown.
• 1/2 or 2/2 Improved Judgement: despite preferring melee range as a Holy Paladin, this talent provides great utility on a lot of fights where being in melee range simply isn't possible by giving you unrestricted mobility and flexibility of positioning while allowing constant Judgement uptime. 1/2 or 2/2 is a personal choice, however 2/2 is required for those wishing to unlock Pursuit of Justice.
• 1/2 or 2/2 Blessed Life: despite its overt PvP nature, this talent proves quite useful in passive Holy Power generation during most PvE encounters (a large majority of the AoE damage triggers the effect). It is possible to only take a single talent point here, however since the sources of damage that trigger this effect do not occur with great frequency, it will often lead to a much longer period of time between Holy Power charges being generated than the 8 second internal cooldown. As such, 2/2 is recommended.
• 2/2 Pursuit of Justice: only available if you have taken 2/2 in Improved Judgement and it grants a 15% increase to movement speed, which would otherwise need to be obtained through a feet enchant. The usefulness of a movement speed increase in basically every single raid encounter in the game is unquestionable, which makes this talent a solid choice.