This is written to help paladin healers prepare themselves for Karazhan. A paladin has access to all healing gears due to his high armor proficiency, therefore gearing up as a healer is relatively easy. To start off most good gears comes from instances, so that is where you should look for besides quest rewards and reputation rewards. Start by buying some green healing gears off the Auction House and slowly replace them as you gain better equipment through instances. The stats you should look for are Intellect, Stamina, +Healing and MP5.

Your paladin healer should attain the following unbuffed:

• 1000-1200 +Healing
  Increases the amount of healing your spells can do, you should always aim for more as it is never sufficient.
• 9000-1000k Mana Pool
  To increase your mana pool, pile up on Intellect. It is always good to have a bigger mana pool so keep increasing your Intellect.
• 17% Spell Critical Chance
  Unlike other healer classes spell criticals play a big part in a healing paladin’s game. With Illumination, 60% mana is refunded whenever a healing spell crits, this allows mana conservation. Intellect also increases spell critical rating so stock up on it. With talents such as Sanctified Light and Holy Power combined, you have a base spell critical chance of 11%, with gear there should be no problem hitting 17% or more.
• 100+ MP5
  A high mana pool is no use if you do not have mana to cast spells. Thus mana regeneration or MP5 is vital to the paladin.

GEAR LIST

Head

• Mask of Penance (Mekgineer Steamrigger, Steamvault)
• Metallic Headband of Simm’onz (Quest Reward)
• Watcher’s Cowl (Revered with Cenarion Expedition)
• Collar of Command (Shirrak the Dead Watcher, Auchenai Crypts)
• Hallowed Crown (Harbinger Skyriss, Arcatraz)

• Enchant: Glyph of Renewal

Neck

• Natasha’s Guardian Cord (Quest Reward)
• Necklace of Resplendent Hope (Epoch Hunter, Old Hillsbrad Foothills)

Shoulders

• Vestia’s Pauldrons of Inner Grace (Cache of the Legion, Mechanar)
• Mantle of Autumn (Laj, Botanica)
• Hallowed Pauldrons (Grandmaster Vorpil, Shadow Labyrinth)

• Enchant: Greater Inscription of Faith/Greater Inscription of the Oracle

Back

• Vicar’s Cloak/Mantle of Vivification (Quest Reward)
• White Remedy Cape (Tailoring)
• Avian Cloak of Feathers (Talon King Ikiss, Sethekk Halls)

Chest

• Breastplate of Many Graces (Grandmaster Vorpil, Shadow Labyrinth)
• Harness of the Deep Currents (Murmur, Shadow Labyrinth)
• Void Slayer’s Tunic (Quest Reward)

• Enchant: Exceptional Mana

Wrist

• Primal Surge Bracers (Aeonus, Black Morass)
• Blackstrike Bracers (Tailoring)

• Enchant: Major Intellect

Hands

• Fathomheart Gauntlets (Warlord Kalithresh, Steamvault)
• Prismatic Mittens of Mending (Commander Sarannis, Botanica)

• Enchant: Major Healing

Waist

• Girdle of Divine Blessing (Random World Drop)
• The Sleeper’s Cord (Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates, Arcatraz)
• Tarren Mill Defender’s Cinch (Quest Reward)

Legs

• Starcaller’s Plated Legguards (Quest Reward)
• Consortium Plated Legguards (Quest Reward)
• Hallowed Trousers (Talon King Ikiss, Sethekk Halls)
• Moonglade Pants (Aeonus, Black Morass)

• Enchant: Silver Spellthread

Boots

• Boots of the Glade-Keeper (Cache of the Legion, Mechanar)
• Jeweled Boots of Sanctification (Warbringer O’mrogg, Shattered Halls)
• Auchenai Boots (Quest Reward)
• Light-Woven Slippers (Darkweaver Syth, Sethekk Halls)

• Enchant: Vitality

Rings

• Ancestral Band/Ring of Convalescence (Revered with Thrallmar/Honor Hold)
• Celestial Jewel Ring (Quest Reward)
• Cosmic Lifeband (Nethermancer Sepethrea, Mechanar)

Trinkets

• Scarab of the Infinite Cycle (Aeonus, Black Morass)
• Xi’ri’s Gift (Revered with Sha’tar)
• Lower City Prayerbook (Revered with Lower City)

Shield

• Crystal Pulse Shield (Random World Drop)
• Silvermoon Crest Shield (Murmur, Shadow Labyrinth)

• Enchant: Intellect

Weapon

• Lightsworn Hammer (Warchief Kargath Bladefist, Shattered Halls)
• Hammer of the Penitent (Mechano-Lord Capacitus, Mechanar)
• The Essence Focuser (Random World Drop)

• Enchant: Major Healing

Libram

• Blessed Book of Nagrand (Quest Reward)
• Libram of the Lightbringer (Quest Reward)

NOTE: Each healing libram grants a bonus to a certain spell, depending on which spell you use more often, equip that libram. For example, I use Libram of the Lightbringer when I have to heal main tank as Holy Light will be casted more often.