WoW Forever Paladin
Paladin was the class Blizzard used on stage to explain the whole philosophy, and it is the second most changed class in the demo build with 20 new talents and 12 removed. Holy Strike is a baseline melee attack from level 6, Judgement no longer consumes your seal, and Blessings last an hour.
Sim status
Paladin for Forever: Quick Sim live in beta
MythicSim is integrating the open-source wowsims engine, via its community Forever fork, as a second backend. The engine is theirs; MythicSim adds the hosting and the one-click front end. Quick Sim ships first, checked against live beta data from 17 September 2026. Stat priorities, trinket boards and a droptimizer follow once beta gear and loot tables exist. Retail Midnight sims are unaffected.
What changes for Paladin
Seal of Fury is new and built for tanking: its damage does not scale with weapon speed, it applies a small absorb, and judging it taunts at ten yards. That is the tool Protection never had in Classic. All three capstones are new as well: Light's Vigil marks a target so the next Holy Shock on it triggers party healing or extra damage, Templar's Bulwark absorbs 100% of maximum health for eight seconds, and Twist of Light gives Retribution an Echo when a seal is replaced so the next melee attack applies the old seal's effect.
Undead Paladins are the headline race and class combination of the expansion. Forsaken join Humans and Dwarves as playable Paladins, giving the Horde its first Paladins outside of a Blood Elf timeline.
Demo build census: 20 new talents, 12 removed.
Specs
- Holy PaladinHealer
Blessing of Kings is baseline and Blessings last an hour, so the healer no longer burns points and cast time on upkeep.
Capstone: Light's Vigil
- Protection PaladinTank
Seal of Fury is a purpose-built tank seal with weapon-speed-independent damage, a small absorb and a judgement that taunts.
Capstone: Templar's Bulwark
- Retribution PaladinDPS
Holy Strike at level 6 and seals that survive Judgement give the tree a real rotation for the first time.
Capstone: Twist of Light
New spells and talents
New spells
- Holy Strike
- Seal of Fury
New talents
- Light's Vigil
- Templar's Bulwark
- Twist of Light
Removed
- Blessing of Kings (now baseline)
From the BlizzCon 2026 demo build via the community talent calculators. Beta will change some of this; the page is updated as it does.
Races
Human, Dwarf, Undead. Undead Paladin is new to Forever. The Skyborne cannot be Paladins. Racials are rebuilt so no two races share a passive and weapon skill racials are gone, which is why race is a real sim input in Forever.
What the Paladin sim has to model
Beyond the engine-wide changes (unified hit and crit, Expertise, bonus healing as spell damage, periodic crits), these are the Paladin-specific pieces the Forever engine needs before a stat weight for this class means anything.
- A Retribution rotation with Holy Strike as a filler and seals that persist through Judgement.
- Seal of Fury threat and absorb for Protection, including its taunt-on-judgement.
- Blessing of Kings as an always-on baseline buff rather than a talent decision.
Paladin trinket boards
One board per spec, ranked on the Forever engine once beta data lands. Each page already lists every trinket a Paladin can equip at 60 and where it drops.
Other Forever classes
Common questions
Is there a WoW Forever Paladin sim?
A beta one, at /wow-forever/sim. MythicSim runs the open-source wowsims Forever engine (a community fork of wowsims/classic, not a MythicSim engine) as a second backend, with Paladin on its new talent trees. Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number. Talent values are being checked against beta data from 17 September 2026; launch is 4 November 2026.
What new spells does Paladin get in WoW Forever?
Holy Strike, Seal of Fury. New talents include Light's Vigil, Templar's Bulwark, Twist of Light.
Which races can be a Paladin in WoW Forever?
Paladin can be played by Human, Dwarf, Undead in World of Warcraft: Forever. Undead Paladin is new in Forever. The Skyborne cannot be Paladins.
What are the Paladin specs in WoW Forever?
Holy (Healer), Protection (Tank), Retribution (DPS). Forever keeps the three Classic trees for every class and reworks their contents; there are no new specs.
Do I need a /simc string to sim a Forever Paladin?
No. The SimulationCraft addon is retail-only. Forever sims will use a Classic-style character export addon that MythicSim ships with the sim. Until it is live, this page is reference material for the class changes.
Beta
Sim your Forever Paladin
Paste your WoWSims Exporter text and get a DPS number for your talent spec. Progress is posted in the MythicSim Discord and the changelog.