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WoW Forever tools, patch notes and dates. Sources checked.

World of Warcraft: Forever Paladin

From the beta client, build 1.60.1.70009, read 25 Sep 2026, and Blizzard's notes of 24 Sep 2026.

Paladin in Blizzard's newest notes

In the notes

15 lines under the Paladin heading of WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, Updated September 24, Blizzard's words.

  • Retribution Aura will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
  • Fixed a bug causing the Flash of Light cast animation to not play at the end of the spell cast.
  • Fixed various issues with Consecration.
    • Fixed an issue where Consecration would fail to apply its increased damage effect to some targets.
    • Fixed an issue where Consecration’s Z axis wasn’t functioning consistently.
    • Fixed an issue where Consecration could pull targets vertically above or below the caster.
  • Holy Strike’s % of weapon damage per rank changed to 25%/29%/32%/36%/39%/43%/46%/50% (was 25%/25%/30%/30%/35%/35%/40%/40%).
    • Developers’s notes: This increases Holy Strike’s damage at all points while leveling, and increases how much it contributes to your rotation. Early ranks of Holy Strike didn’t always feel like an upgrade when purchasing a new rank, and we wanted to adjust that.
  • Fixed a bug with Echo of Justice, causing it to have a higher than intended chance to activate.
  • Righteous Fury: Holy threat increase increased to 60% (was 90%).

Holy

  • Holy Strike’s cooldown lowered to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds).
  • Improved Holy Strike removed from the Talent Tree.
    • Developers’ notes: Even though there are sometimes cases where talents feel ‘required’ by classes, like Relentless Strikes for Rogues, having one that reduces the cooldown of a core ability so early on in a healing talent tree made this feel like a talent that was required. So we’ve removed it and made its behavior baseline.
  • Light’s Vigil’s tooltip has been reorganized to make it more clear that the damage component is the only version that returns some of the Mana cost.
  • Holy Power now increases the Critical Strike chance of Holy Strike by 15% and retains all of its old effects.

Retribution

  • Vengeance now activates off of non-periodic critical strikes.
  • Vengeance’s maximum stacks lowered to 3 (was 5).
  • Two-Handed Weapon Specialization’s damage increase reduced to 2/4/6% (was 3/6/9%).
  • Sacred Arbiter now increases the damage of Holy Strike by 20% (was 10%).
  • Twist of Light now additionally reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%.

50 talents in three trees, 19 of them not in Classic Era by name.

Holy 17

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Improved Seals
  • Voice of Truth
  • Reverence
  • Purifying Power
  • Infusion of Light
  • Divine Precision
  • Consecrated Ground
  • Light's Vigil

Classic Era talents not in this tree

  • Consecration
  • Improved Blessing of Wisdom
  • Improved Lay on Hands
  • Improved Seal of Righteousness
  • Lasting Judgement

Protection 16

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Improved Seal of Fury
  • Sacred Duty
  • Swift Judgement
  • Templar's Bulwark
  • Iron Creed

Classic Era talents not in this tree

  • Blessing of Kings
  • Blessing of Sanctuary
  • Improved Concentration Aura
  • Improved Devotion Aura

Retribution 17

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Holy Conduit
  • Sanctified Judgement
  • Sacred Arbiter
  • Champion of the Light
  • Instrument of Law
  • Twist of Light

Classic Era talents not in this tree

  • Improved Blessing of Might
  • Improved Retribution Aura
  • Improved Seal of the Crusader
  • Sanctity Aura

51 abilities and 160 ranks the class line trains.

Not in Classic Era by name

  • Holy Strike level 6
  • Seal of Fury level 10
  • Hammer of the Righteous level 40
  • Light's Vigil level 50

Tagged on the abilities page as possible Season of Discovery leftovers: Hammer of the Righteous, Enhanced Blessings, Exorcist.

Races that can be a Paladin

Every race

Common questions

What changed for the Paladin in World of Warcraft: Forever?

By name, in the beta client's tables, 19 of the Paladin's 50 talents and 4 of its 51 abilities are not in Classic Era's lists. Blizzard's notes of 24 Sep 2026 carry 15 lines under the Paladin heading, shown on this page.

Which races can be a Paladin in World of Warcraft: Forever?

In the beta client's tables: Human, Dwarf and Undead. New pairs in Forever: Undead.

Talents and abilities are the beta client's own tables, read through the wago.tools mirror; the notes are Blizzard's words from its forum. World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.