PvE Holy Paladin Pre-Raid Best in Slot (BiS)

Before you can start earning the most powerful items from raids, you’ll need some equipment to get you started. Holy Paladins who are just starting to dip their toes into endgame content will want to work on building a set of pre-raid gear that provides plenty of mana regeneration from Spirit while also boosting their healing power through Intellect and other throughput stats.

Paladins can use any kind of armor, but you should always wear Plate due to the 5% increased Intellect you receive through your Plate Specialization passive ability. The Relic slot is gone in Mists of Pandaria, so you won’t be equipping Librams anymore.

Pre-Raid Best-in-Slot Items

Here is the best gear you can obtain as a Holy Paladin outside of raids in Mists of Pandaria, including dungeon loot, random daily scenario rewards, reputation rewards, and profession bonuses. Don’t forget to gem, enchant, and reforge every item to complete your optimization.

Head

• Six Pool’s Open Helm
  • 2250 Valor Points – requires Honored with Shado-Pan
• Specialized Retinal Armor
  • Engineering BoP – taught by Engineering Trainers
• Yaungolian Helm
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Crown of Holy Flame
  • High Inquisitor Whitemane in Scarlet Monastery (Heroic)

Neck

• Links of the Lucid
  • 1250 Valor Points – requires Honored with The Klaxxi
• Brewfather Necklace
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Necklace of Disorientation
  • Sha of Violence in Shado-Pan Monastery (Heroic)

Shoulder

• Paleblade Shoulderguards
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with The Golden Lotus
• Yaungolian Pauldrons
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Shoulderguards of Painful Lessons
  • Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance (Heroic)

Back

• Sagewhisper’s Wrap
  • 1250 Valor Points – requires Honored with Shado-Pan
• Brewfather Cloak
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Dirl’s Drafty Drape
  • World Drop BoE
• Cloak of Hidden Flasks
  • Hoptallus in Stormstout Brewery (Heroic)

Chest

• Chestplate of Limitless Faith
  • Blacksmithing BoE – Plans: Chestplate of Limitless Faith drops from Phase 1 raids
• Battleguard of Guo-Lai
  • 2250 Valor Points – requires Honored with The Golden Lotus
• Living Steel Breastplate
  • Blacksmithing BoE – Plans: Living Steel Breastplate requires Honored with The Klaaxi
• Yaungolian Breastplate
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Swarmbringer Chestguard
  • Raigonn in Gate of the Setting Sun (Heroic)

Wrist

• Fallen Sentinel Bracers
  • 1250 Valor Points – requires Honored with The August Celestials
• Yaungolian Vambraces
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Siegeworn Bracers
  • General Pa’valak in Siege of Niuzao Temple (Heroic)

Hands

• Gauntlets of Unbound Devotion
  • Blacksmithing BoE – Plans: Gauntlets of Unbound Devotion drops from Phase 1 raids
• Gauntlets of Jade Sutras
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with The August Celestials
• Yaungolian Gauntlets
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Living Steel Gauntlets
  • Blacksmithing BoE – Plans: Living Steel Gauntlets requires Honored with The Klaaxi
• Mindbinder Plate Gloves
  • Taran Zhu in Shado-Pan Monastery (Heroic)

Waist

• Divide’s Loyal Clasp (Alliance) / Divide’s Greatheart Clasp (Horde)
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with Operation: Shieldwall (Alliance) / Dominance Offensive (Horde)
• Klaaxi Lash of the Doubter
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with The Klaaxi
• Yaungolian Girdle
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Quivering Heart Girdle
  • Master Snowdrift in Shado-Pan Monastery (Heroic)

Legs

• Ambersmith Legplates
  • 2250 Valor Points – requires Honored with The Klaaxi
• Yaungolian Legplates
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Sudsy Legplates
  • Yan-Zhu the Uncasked in Stormstout Brewery (Heroic)

Feet

• Greatboots of Flashing Light (Alliance) / Scar Swallower Greatboots (Horde)
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with Operation: Shieldwall (Alliance) / Dominance Offensive (Horde)
• Bramblestaff Boots
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with The August Celestials
• Yaungolian Sabatons
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Barreldodger Boots
  • Ook-Ook in Stormstout Brewery (Heroic)
• Glintrok Sollerets
  • Gekkan in Mogu’shan Palace (Heroic)

Finger

• Loop of the Shieldwall (Alliance) / Dominator’s Loop (Horde)
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with Operation: Shieldwall (Alliance) / Dominance Offensive (Horde)
• Seal of the Prime
  • Shadow of the Empire quest in Dread Wastes
• Leven’s Circle of Hope
  • 1250 Valor Points – requires Honored with The Golden Lotus
• Vithrak, Gaze of the Deadman
  • Flameweaver Koegler in Scarlet Halls (Heroic)
• Brewfather Signet
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Beastbinder Ring
  • Houndmaster Braun in Scarlet Halls (Heroic)
• Viscous Ring
  • Commander Ri’mok in Gate of the Setting Sun (Heroic)

Trinket

• Heartwarmer Medallion (Alliance) / Cutstitcher Medallion (Horde)
  • 1750 Valor Points – requires Honored with Operation: Shieldwall (Alliance) / Dominance Offensive (Horde)
• Scroll of Revered Ancestors
  • 1750 Valor Points – Requires Honored with Shado-Pan
• Relic of Chi-Ji
  • Reward for turning in Darkmoon Crane Deck at the Darkmoon Faire
• Price of Progress
  • Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance (Heroic)
• Vial of Ichorous Blood
  • General Pa’valak in Siege of Niuzao Temple (Heroic)
• Empty Fruit Barrel
  • Ook-Ook in Stormstout Brewery (Heroic)

Main Hand

• Je’lyu, Spirit of the Serpent
  • Sha of Doubt in Temple of the Jade Serpent (Heroic)
• Scavenged Pandaren Scepter
  • Daily Random Scenario
• Carapace Breaker
  • Raigonn in Gate of the Setting Sun (Heroic)
• Amber Spine of Klaxxi’vess
  • 168 gold – requires Exalted with The Klaxxi

Off Hand

• Inscribed Red Fan
  • Inscription BoE – taught by Inscription Trainers
• Scroll of Whispered Secrets
  • World Drop BoE
• Umbrella of Chi-Ji
  • Archaeology BoA – Pandaren artifact
• Shield of the Protectorate
  • Raigonn in Gate of the Setting Sun (Heroic)
• Metanoia Shield
  • Jandice Barov in Scholomance (Heroic)
• Masterwork Lightsteel Shield
  • Blacksmithing BoE – Plans: Masterwork Lightsteel Shield sold by Blacksmithing Supplies vendors