Azeroth Survivors Paladin build

Azeroth Survivors Paladin build: how the class plays

An Azeroth Survivors Paladin build runs on one heavy hammer and eight holy abilities, with no heal in the pool. Hammer Of Wrath fires every 1.5 seconds, Consecration drops 7 damage ground for 8 seconds, and Divine Shield is the only pick that stops damage, so position and cooldown order decide a run.

What the game's own class text says

The class record describes the Paladin as "a light-forged justiciar bathed in the radiant glory of the sun spirit, wielding a heavy hammer to lay down holy consecration while shielding himself in invulnerability as he purges mutated creatures". The hammer is Hammer Of Wrath, the consecration is Consecration, and the invulnerability is Divine Shield. Nothing else in that description is flavour: there is no summon, no heal and no second defensive ability anywhere in the pool.

Three of the eight abilities do the work you would expect

Four of the eight are Strikes, so they resolve on the enemies in reach right now: exorcism, holy shock, hammer of justice and judgement. One is a Bolt, one is a GroundSelf area under the hero, one is a Nova around the hero, and one is the Immune window. A Paladin that stands still kills the front of a wave and nothing behind it, which is what the two area picks exist to fix.

No ability needs a button press

Every ability casts itself at the targets its kind picks, on its own cooldown, so a run is movement, dodging and card picks. Whatever you take at level three keeps firing for the rest of the run, and the pool holds four Strikes that only reach about 12 to 22 units, so walking into a pack puts the hero closer than the abilities need him to be.

Azeroth Survivors Paladin build order, step by step

For an Azeroth Survivors Paladin build, take Consecration first, Holy Shock second and Exorcism third, then Holy Wrath once the wave splits, and pick Divine Shield as the sixth slot. Two of those finish at level 8 before the last slot is filled, because a run holds six abilities and six passives.

1. Take Consecration as soon as the card shows up, because it is the only GroundSelf in the pool: 7 damage with a 7 radius that stays under the hero for 8 seconds while he walks away from the wave.
2. Add Holy Shock next, because 24 damage on a 2.5 second cooldown is the cheapest Strike in the pool and it fills the gap between Hammer Of Wrath casts.
3. Take Exorcism for the single target, because 36 damage on a 5 second cooldown is the largest hit the class owns, and a boss is the one enemy that will not walk into Consecration.
4. Take Holy Wrath before the waves thicken, because it is the pool's only Nova: 14 damage to everything inside an 11 radius every 5 seconds, which is the answer for a run that is already surrounded.
5. Take Hammer Of Justice only when something keeps closing on you, because it is the pool's only crowd control: 8 damage to 2 targets at 12 range, plus a 3 second stun.
6. Hold Divine Shield in the last slot rather than spending it, because it is the only Immune ability in the pool, it lasts 4 seconds and the next charge is 28 seconds away, so it is worth more in a corner than at full health.
7. Stop at six abilities and stop leveling one at 8, because six abilities at 8 levels each and six passives at 5 levels each is everything a run can hold.

Level-up cards arrive at random, so some runs will not offer Consecration for minutes. When that happens take Judgement or Hammer Of Justice and push Holy Wrath earlier than this list says, because a Paladin with no ground area still needs one answer to a wave that arrives from two sides. Hammer Of Justice is the weaker hit at 8 damage and 12 range, but its 3 second stun is the only thing in the pool that stops enemies moving.

Which abilities are in the Azeroth Survivors Paladin pool?

An Azeroth Survivors Paladin build draws on eight abilities: one starting pick and seven more that only arrive as level-up offers. The table copies what the game data stores for each: the kind that decides targeting, base damage, cooldown, the range it reaches, the radius it covers, the enemies a cast touches and how long it lasts.

Read the cooldown column of an Azeroth Survivors Paladin build and the pool splits in two. Hammer Of Wrath fires every 1.5 seconds and Holy Shock every 2.5, so those two carry the first minutes on their own. Exorcism, Holy Wrath and Judgement sit at 5, 5 and 4 seconds, Hammer Of Justice at 6, Consecration at 9, and Divine Shield at 28, so each of those is spent on a moment instead of being held down.

The damage column does not rank the pool on its own either. Exorcism stores 36 damage every 5 seconds on a single target, while Consecration stores 7 damage on a 7 radius for 8 seconds and Holy Wrath stores 14 on an 11 radius, which is why a wave dies faster to the two smaller numbers. Divine Shield stores 0 because it hits nothing: the 4 seconds of immunity is the entire ability, on the longest cooldown in the pool.

Two entries carry something the damage column cannot show. Hammer Of Justice adds a 3 second stun to its 8 damage, and Consecration's damage keeps running for 8 seconds after the cast, so a paladin can drop it and keep walking. Everything else is a single hit resolved at cast time.

How do the two Paladin routes differ?

An Azeroth Survivors Paladin build has two routes out of the same eight abilities. Route one stacks Exorcism, Holy Shock and Judgement on single targets with Divine Shield as insurance; route two puts Consecration and Holy Wrath on the wave and keeps the Strikes as filler. Both stop at six slots.

Route 1: single target, built on Exorcism

Hammer Of Wrath carries the opening, Holy Shock fills every 2.5 second gap, Exorcism lands 36 damage every 5 seconds and Judgement adds 26 to 2 targets. Hammer Of Justice comes in for its 3 second stun against anything that reaches the hero, and Divine Shield is the 4 second window used when it does. This route wants a boss in front of the hero and room to walk backwards.

Route 2: ground and area, built on Consecration

Consecration puts 7 damage ground with a 7 radius under the hero for 8 seconds every 9 seconds, Holy Wrath hits an 11 radius for 14 every 5, and Holy Shock stays as the instant filler while Exorcism answers anything that survives. Divine Shield can stay at one level here because the ground is doing the killing.

Both routes run on the same clock: bosses arrive at intervals through the run, so route one earns its levels inside those boss windows and route two earns them in the minutes between. That cadence is also why route two still wants Exorcism by the third boss, and why route one wants Holy Wrath once the wave arrives from two sides instead of one. With six slots, an Azeroth Survivors Paladin build cannot take a slot back once it is spent.

Which passive cards fit a Paladin run?

Passive cards for an Azeroth Survivors Paladin build are shared by all nine classes, so they are never a Paladin-only list: six slots, five levels each, drawn from the same ten cards. What fits this class is Amplify Magic for the two radii, Arcane Intellect for the cooldowns, and the survivability cards, because the pool holds no heal.

The last column is the fraction the data file stores for each level: 0.1 on Amplify Magic, 0.5 on Renew, 1 on Mark of the Wild. Six slots against ten cards means four of them never make the run, so the choice is a cut rather than a collection, and a Paladin should spend the cut on what the pool cannot do for itself.

For an Azeroth Survivors Paladin build the two that change the most are Amplify Magic and Arcane Intellect. The first widens Consecration's 7 radius and Holy Wrath's 11, the two numbers that decide how much of a wave a cast touches; the second shortens every cooldown in a pool whose fastest abilities sit at 1.5 and 2.5 seconds. Power Word: Fortitude and Renew cover the stretch where area damage has not caught the wave, since the ability pool holds no heal at all, and Blessing of Might and Blessing of Kings multiply the hits that do land.

What mistakes end a Paladin run early?

Most Azeroth Survivors Paladin build problems end on a decision made in the first two minutes rather than on the size of the wave. Six mistakes cost the most, and each one has a number from the ability pool or the run rules behind it, so they are easy to check against a finished build.

• Filling all six ability slots early. An ability you never level stays at level 1 while the cap is 8, so a sixth slot is usually worth less than one level in Exorcism or Consecration.
• Going wide instead of deep. Six abilities at level 1 or 2 hit less than three at level 6, and a run only has so much time to spend levels in.
• Spending Divine Shield at full health. It is 4 seconds of immunity on a 28 second cooldown, so it is worth more in the last seconds of a corner than at the start of one.
• Skipping the ground area. Without Consecration or Holy Wrath the class kills the front of a wave one Strike at a time, and the four Strikes reach only 12 to 22 units.
• Chasing enemies. Hammer Of Wrath fires at whatever is nearest, so walking into a pack only puts the hero inside it for no extra damage.
• Taking a seventh ability. A run holds six, so the card is wasted unless it replaces a slot you meant to drop.

One fix covers most of them: decide at the start which two abilities reach level 8, then treat every other card as support. A Paladin with two finished abilities and four finished passives clears further than one with six half-built abilities and no passive at all, and the immunity window is the only thing the pool gives back when that plan fails.

Azeroth Survivors Paladin build FAQ