Paladin Skill Tree

Paladin skills in Diablo IV are structured around a small number of core mechanics rather than isolated abilities. While individual skills vary in function, most are designed to reinforce shield use, sustained melee presence, or the projection of holy power through conjured effects.

Many skills naturally cluster around the Paladin’s Oath doctrines. Melee-focused skills tend to support Zealot and Juggernaut playstyles, while conjured holy abilities and Judgement effects align more closely with Judicator builds. Disciple-oriented skills interact with Arbiter Form and reward ability sequencing and cooldown management rather than sustained basic attacks.

While any skill can be selected regardless of Oath, builds are generally most effective when their chosen skills reinforce the same underlying mechanics. The skill list below provides full details for each ability and its upgrades.

Basic Required Points: N/A

Brandish Generate Faith: 14 Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Brandish the Light, unleashing an arc that deals 75% damage. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Basic, Disciple	Enhanced Brandish Brandish now pierces.	Returning Light Brandish's light returns to you, dealing 52% damage on its return.
		Sword of Mastery While Healthy, Brandish deals 127% damage and travels 100% faster.
		Cross Strike Brandish unleashes 2 additional arcs that deal 120% damage and apply Vulnerable .

Holy Bolt Generate Faith: 16 Lucky Hit Chance: 44% Throw a Holy hammer, dealing 90% damage. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Basic, Judicator, Disciple (upgrade), Justice (upgrade)	Enhanced Holy Bolt Holy Bolt now applies Judgement.	Ricocheting Bolt Holy Bolt deals 135% damage and ricochets 3 times.
		Divine Bolt Holy Bolt becomes a Disciple Skill. Holy Bolt pierces, deals 120% damage, and applies Vulnerable .
		Storm Bolt Holy Bolt becomes a Justice Skill with a 7 second Cooldown. Holy Bolt is hurled and smashes the ground, dealing 315% damage and Stunning (CC) enemies in an area for 2 seconds.

Clash Generate Faith: 20 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Strike an enemy with your weapon and shield, dealing 115% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Shield Tags: Basic, Juggernaut, Zealot (upgrade)	Enhanced Clash Whenever you cast Clash, gain Crusader's March for 6 seconds. Crusader's March grants you x 15% Block Chance and 2 stacks of Resolve.	Punishment You are emboldened during Crusader's March, granting: + 30%Retribution Chance 1,981 Thorns x 20% Thorns damage
		Skirmish Clash becomes a Zealot Skill and cleaves in an area for 155% damage. Crusaders March no longer grants Block Chance or Resolve, instead granting + 10% Critical Strike Chance up to + 30%.
		Seize Them Your Resolve empowers Clash, dealing x 8% increased damage per stack of Resolve. Every 3rd strike, enemies are Pulled in (CC).

Advance Generate Faith: 18 Lucky Hit Chance: 14% Advance forward with your weapon, dealing 105% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Basic, Zealot, Mobility, Juggernaut (upgrade), Disciple (upgrade)	Enhanced Advance Casting Advance grants you Unhindered for 2 seconds.	Vanguard's Rush Advance rushes into enemies, granting 1 Fervor on each strike and deals an additional x 25% damage per stack of Fervor you have.
		Wave Dash Advance becomes a Juggernaut Skill. Advance's impact waves out, dealing 137% damage and gains 1 Resolve for every 1 meter you dash.
		Flash of the Blade Advance becomes a Disciple Skill and has a 10 second cooldown. Advance becomes a dash that cuts through enemies, applying Vulnerable and dealing 230% damage.

Core Required Points: 1

Zeal Faith Cost: 20 Lucky Hit Chance: 3% Strike enemies with blinding speed, dealing 80% damage followed immediately by 3 additional strikes dealing 20% damage each. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Core, Zealot	Enhanced Zeal Zeal gains 2 additional strikes.	Zealot's Legacy Zeal extends its assault, randomly seeking surrounding enemies and striking 4 additional times.
		Death or Glory Zeal costs x 10% Maximum Life instead of Faith and strikes around you in a circle. Whenever you lose Life, Zeal's damage increases by 40% and Critical Strike Chance by 40% for 6 seconds.
		Cull the Wicked Zeal's cleave is larger, gains 2 additional strikes, and deals x 25% increased damage to Weakened enemies.

Blessed Shield Faith Cost: 28 Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Bless and hurl your shield with Holy energy, dealing 216% damage that ricochets up to 3 times. Damage: Holy Damage Requires a Shield Tags: Core, Judicator, Juggernaut (upgrade)	Enhanced Blessed Shield Blessed Shield deals + 1% additional damage for each Armor on your shield.	Shield of Retribution Blessed Shield becomes a Juggernaut Skill. Blessed Shield travels straight without returning, pulsing your Thorns damage each second for 3 seconds before bursting for 378% damage.
		Shield of the Revenant Blessed Shield now boomerangs and pierces instead of ricocheting, dealing 270% damage. When Blessed Shield hits a Crowd Controlled enemy, gain 5 Faith.
		Shield of Justice Blessed Shield detonates Judgement and ricochets 5 additional times. Whenever, Blessed Shield detonates Judgement, it empowers your next throw to deal 40%[x] increased damage, up to a maximum of 5 times.

Blessed Hammer Faith Cost: 10 Lucky Hit Chance: 24% Throw a Blessed Hammer that spirals out, dealing 115% damage. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Core, Judicator, Disciple (upgrade)	Enhanced Blessed Hammer Blessed Hammer now hits enemies multiple times.	Mortar Combat Blessed Hammer mortars 3 hammers to the ground, dealing 67% damage in an area.
		Disciple's Halo Blessed Hammer becomes a Disciple Skill. Blessed Hammer follows and orbits around you, dealing 115% damage and attacking 20% faster.
		Shattering Blow Blessed Hammer deals 115% damage and shatters into 3 small explosions on impact, dealing 46% damage each.

Divine Lance Faith Cost: 25 Lucky Hit Chance: 6% Impale enemies with a heavenly lance, stabbing 2 times for 90% damage each. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Core, Disciple, Mobility, Zealot (upgrade)	Enhanced Divine Lance Divine Lance's damage is increased by 30% of your Movement Speed bonus.	Tip of the Spear Divine Lance flurries, stabbing 2 additional times and deals 32% damage each. Killing Vulnerable enemies with Divine Lance increases its Attack Speed by 5% for 10 seconds, up to 30% .
		Zealous Joust Divine Lance becomes a Zealot Skill. Divine Lance now stabs with 2 additional spears in a wider area, dealing 68% damage each and has a 10% increased Critical Strike Chance.
		Divine Javelin Throw Divine Lance, dealing 90% damage to the first enemy hit and bursting for an additional 450%. The first time an enemy is hit by a Divine Lance, they are impaled and dragged with it.

Shield Bash Faith Cost: 32 Lucky Hit Chance: 16% Charge at an enemy and bash in front of you, dealing 205% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Shield Tags: Core, Juggernaut, Mobility	Enhanced Shield Bash Hits with Shield Bash counts as Blocks. This effect can trigger once per Cast.	Breach Hits with Shield Bash grant you + 10% Retribution Chance for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
		Smite Shield Bash smites the first enemy it hits, dealing 287% damage, Stunning (CC) for 1 second, and Knocking Back enemies behind for 102% damage.
		Lay Siege Whenever you have Resolve, Shield Bash increases impact size by x 50% and deals 246% damage. Gain 1 Resolve per enemy hit.

Passives

Piety Your Maximum Faith is increased by 5.

En Garde You gain + 10% Armor and + 5% Block Chance.	Parry Blocking restores 1 Faith.
	Riposte Blocking grants you x 6% damage for 5 seconds.

Discipline Your Core Skills deal x 6% increased damage.

Auras Required Points: 2

Fanaticism Aura Faith Cost: 10 Cooldown: 15 seconds Passive: Spending Faith emanates power from you, granting you and your allies + 5% Attack Speed and + 2% Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds up to a maximum of 4 times. Active: Weaken all Nearby enemies for 4 seconds. Tags: Aura, Zealot	Enhanced Fanaticism Fanaticism Aura's passive also grants you and your allies 10% Maximum Resource.	Rite of Vengeance Fanaticism Aura Passive increases Critical Strike Damage by x 15% for you and your allies. Critical Strikes trigger Fanaticism's Passive.
		Rite of Humility Fanaticism Aura's active instead makes Nearby enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds. Damaging Vulnerable enemies will also trigger Fanaticism's Passive.
		Rite of Redemption Weakened enemies who die within Fanaticism Aura's radius Heal you for 0.5% and Fortify for 1% of your Maximum Life.

Defiance Aura Faith Cost: 25 Cooldown: 20 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Passive: Your presence reinforces you and your allies, granting 30% Armor and 30% bonus on All Resistances. Active: You become Unstoppable for 2 seconds. Tags: Aura, Juggernaut, Defensive	Enhanced Defiance Defiance Aura's Passive also grants you and your allies 10% Maximum Life.	Rite of Might Defiance Aura increases your damage by x 10% for 4 seconds whenever you gain Resolve.
		Rite of Prayer Defiance Aura's Passive also Heals you and your allies for 2% of your Maximum Life per second. Healing allies grants 2 stacks of Resolve every 2 seconds.
		Rite of Thorns Defiance Aura's Passive also grants 912 Thorns and increases all Thorns damage by x 75% for you and your allies. Defiance Aura's Active instead releases a nova dealing x 500% of your Thorns damage.

Holy Light Aura Cooldown: 25 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 25% Passive: You and your allies emanate the Light, dealing 90% damage every 2 seconds to 3 random Nearby enemies. Active: Unleash 2 pure bolts of light, dealing 320% Holy damage to the Closest enemy and chaining up to 4 additional enemies before returning to you. When your first bolt of light returns, Heal for 12% of your Maximum Life. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Aura, Judicator	Enhanced Holy Light Holy Light's Passive now targets 2 additional enemies.	Rite of Submission Holy Light's Active now Stuns (CC) enemies for 3 seconds and deals 130% damage.
		Rite of Mercy Holy Light's Active chains 2 more times and Fortifies you and your allies for 4% of their Maximum Life.
		Rite of Judgement Holy Light's Active instead Judges enemies and its Cooldown is reduced per rank.

Passives

Longevity You gain + 10% Healing received.	Renewal Blocking Fortifies you for 0.5% of your Maximum Life.
	Anointing Your allies Heal for 11% of the Healing you receive.

Valor Required Points: 9

Shield Charge Cooldown: 10 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 35% Charge with your shield and push enemies Back, granting+ 10% Damage Reduction and dealing 90% damage while Channeling. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Shield Tags: Valor, Juggernaut, Channeled, Mobility, Valor, Judicator (Upgrade)	Enhanced Shield Charge Shield Charge grants 1 Resolve whenever it hits an enemy.	Phalanx Charge Shield Charge surges forward in a wave of energy and Knocks enemies Back, dealing 158% damage.
		Virtuous Charge Shield Charge becomes a Judicator Skill and consumes Judgement on impact, increasing its damage by + 20% for each Judgement consumed up to 100%. When Shield Charge ends, you release a Holy nova, dealing 90% damage and Stunning (CC) enemies for 3 seconds.
		Relentless Charge Shield Charge becomes a Core Skill that: Costs 20 Faith to Cast and additional 1 Faith per second. Hits count as Blocking. Deals 158% damage. Grants + 10% Retribution Chance per second up to 50% .

Aegis Cooldown: 20 seconds Surround yourself with shields of the Light, Taunting Close enemies and gaining 100% Block Chance for 4 seconds. Tags: Valor, Juggernaut, Defensive	Enhanced Aegis Casting Aegis grants Unstoppable for 4 seconds.	Impunity While Aegis is active, you gain 40% Thorns and Retribution Chance.
		Faith Is My Shield Aegis now applies Judgement instead of Taunting enemies. Blocking while Aegis is active applies Judgement to the attacker.
		Stay Resolute Passive: Gaining or spending Resolve has a 4% chance to trigger a free Aegis. Active: Casting Aegis grants maximum stacks of Resolve.

Falling Star Cooldown: 12 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 24% Soar into the air with angelic wings and dive onto the battlefield, dealing 80% damage on takeoff and 240% damage on landing. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Valor, Disciple, Mobility, Zealot (Upgrade)	Enhanced Falling Star Killing a Vulnerable enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Star by 0.5 second.	Freefall Falling Star has 1 additional Charge.
		Fanatic Descent Falling Star becomes a Zealot skill, now dealing 560% damage on landing and Weakening enemies hit for 4 seconds.
		Faster Than Light Falling Star cuts through the battlefield, creating a fissure that deals 180% damage to enemies before erupting for 60% damage.

Rally Charges: 3 Charge Cooldown: 16 seconds Rally forth, gaining 20% Movement Speed for 8 seconds and generate 22 Faith. Tags: Valor, Zealot	Enhanced Rally Rally's increases your Movement Speed by an additional + 10% and generates 5 additional Faith.	Words of Sacrifice Rally now costs 15% of your Maximum Life and can stack.
		Words of Inspiration Rally spends all available Charges, reducing all active Justice Skill Cooldowns by 3 seconds per Charge.
		Words of Rejuvenation Rally generates 20 more Faith and gains 1 additional Charge.

Passives

Resolute Gaining a stack of Resolve Heals for 0.5% of your Maximum Life.	Conviction Gain + 0.3% Attack Speed for each stack of Resolve up to + 3.0%. Damage: Physical Damage	Courage You gain 1 Resolve every 7 seconds an Elite enemy is Nearby.
	Attenuate Gain + 1% Resource Cost Reduction for every stack of Resolve up to 5%.

Thorns and Thistles Gain 20 Thorns and your total Thorns damage is increased by x 15% Damage: Physical Damage

Repentance Gain + 6% Retribution chance. Damage: Physical Damage

The Best Offense You deal x 6% increased damage while Fortified. Damage: Physical Damage

Fortitude Gain x 6% Critical Strike Damage while Fortified. Damage: Physical Damage

Justice Required Points: 14

Purify Cooldown: 12 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Enshroud your enemies in the Light, Dazing (CC) them for 2 seconds. Damage: N/A Tags: Justice, Judicator, Defensive	Enhanced Purify Purify generates 10 Faith for each enemy affected by Purify .	Sentence Purify also Judges enemies and its cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds.
		Surrender Instead of Dazing enemies, Purify now Stuns (CC) for 4 seconds.
		Absolution Purify now can be cast on enemies instead of Dazing (CC) them, dealing 380% damage and Weakening them for 4 seconds.

Consecration Cooldown: 18 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 12% Bathe in the Light for 6 seconds, Healing you and your allies for 4. Maximum Life per second and damaging enemies for 75% damage per second. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Justice, Judicator, Defensive	Enhanced Consecration While inside Consecration, you and your allies deal x 15% additional damage and consume x 15% less resource.	Hallowed Ground Consecration's size is increased and lasts an additional 4 seconds. Enemies within Consecration are now Weakened.
		Bastion Consecration Immobilizes (CC) enemies and can be cast anywhere.
		Sanctify Consecration lasts 3 seconds, increasing its damage and Healing by 20% each second. Consecration detonates when it expires, dealing 90% damage to all enemies and Healing you and your allies for 15% of their Maximum Life.

Condemn Cooldown: 15 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 26% Harness the Light and Pull (CC) enemies in after 1.5 seconds, briefly Stunning (CC) them and dealing 240% damage. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Justice, Disciple	Enhanced Condemn While Casting Condemn, become Unhindered for 1.5 seconds.	Gather the Guilty Condemn now has 1 additional Charge and applies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
		Atonement Condemn casts significantly faster, instead of Pulling (CC) enemies in, dealing 420% damage.
		Shepherd the Flock Condemn's build up marks all enemies and drags them to your location after it casts.

Spear of the Heavens Cooldown: 14 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Rain down 4 heavenly spears from the sky, dealing 160% damage and Knocking Down (CC) enemies for 1.5 seconds. After 1.5 seconds, the spears burst, dealing 120% damage. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Justice, Judicator	Enhanced Spear of the Heavens Consuming Judgement reduces Spear of the Heavens active cooldown by 0.5 seconds.	Pronouncement of Heaven Spear of the Heavens's first spear gains a permanent Judgement mark and remains on the battlefield, dealing 120% damage per second for 8 seconds.
		Part the Heavens Spear of the Heavens now drops 8 spears along the path toward your target.
		Fist of the Heavens Spear of the Heavens becomes a Core Skill and is now pure Holy energy that crashes down from the sky. On impact it deals 386% damage and breaks into 5 projectiles, dealing 386% additional damage to enemies in their path.

Passives

Crack in the Armor You deal x 6% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

High Charity You gain 4% Cooldown Reduction.

Righteousness You deal x 6% increased Holy and Fire damage.

Leave Luck to Heaven You gain 3% Lucky Hit Chance.

Pacify You gain + 15% increased Crowd Control duration.

Dizzying Blow You deal x 7% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.

Iron Sharpens Iron You gain + 6% Critical Strike Damage.	Break the Line You have a + 2% increased Critical Strike Chance and deal x 5% increased Damage to Weakened enemies.	Heavyweight You deal x 6% increased Critical Strike Damage while Healthy.
	Press the Advantage Critically Striking grants you 3% Damage Reduction for 5 seconds.

Ultimate Required Points: 21

Heaven's Fury Cooldown: 30 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 2.8% Grasp the Light, dealing 200% damage around you per second before releasing it to seek Nearby enemies and dealing 60% damage per hit for 7 seconds. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Ultimate, Judicator	Enhanced Heaven's Fury Heaven's Fury's light Judges enemies.	Triplicate Heaven's Fury splits into 3 beams, dealing 36% damage each hit for 7 seconds.
		Walk With The Light Heaven's Fury splits into 5 orbiting beams, dealing 78% damage each hit for 7 seconds.
		Final Justice Heaven's Fury can cast anywhere, concentrating the Light as it grows and Pulls enemies in (CC) while dealing 105% damage per second before erupting for 1,260% damage. Heaven's Fury's Cooldown is increased by 10 seconds.

Fortress Cooldown: 60 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 14% Make your stand, becoming Immune for 3 seconds and create a defensive area around you for 8 seconds. Standing in your Fortress grants you and your allies 2 Resolve stacks every 0.5 seconds. Tags: Ultimate, Defensive, Juggernaut	Enhanced Fortress While inside of your Fortress your Skills are free to cast and you gain x 4% damage per stack of Resolve.	Rampart of Thorns Enemies inside Fortress are Slowed (CC) by 50% and take 500% of your Thorns damage per second.
		Barricade Killing enemies inside of your Fortress extends its duration by 0.5 seconds up to 20 seconds. You may recast Fortress to move it to your current location.
		Entrench While inside of Fortress your Life cannot be reduced below 1 .

Zenith Cooldown: 25 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 28% Summon a divine sword that cleaves the battlefield for 450% damage. Casting Zenith again cuts through the battlefield for 400% damage and Knocks Down e(CC) nemies for 2 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Ultimate, Zealot, Mobility (Upgreade)	Enhanced Zenith While Zenith is active, you are Unstoppable .	Empyrean Edge Zenith is now also a Mobility Skill that: Dashes to enemies Weakens enemies Gains + 25% Critical Strike Chance Killing Weakened enemies with either of Zenith's strikes will reduce its cooldown by 2 seconds.
		Sermon of Steel Zenith unleashes your wrath, dealing 158% damage and can be cast indefinitely for 4 seconds before starting its Cooldown. Instead of Knocking Down enemies, Zenith's 2nd strike extends this duration by 0.5 second.
		Sunder Zenith sunders a rift in the ground with a single strike, Knocking Down (CC) enemies and dealing 900% damage. After 0.75 second, the rift detonates for 675% damage.

Arbiter of Justice Cooldown: 120 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 16% Ascend to the heavens and crash upon the battlefield as an Arbiter for 20 seconds, dealing 600% damage upon landing. Damage: Holy Damage Tags: Ultimate, Disciple, Mobility	Enhanced Arbiter of Justice Arbiter Form's Wing Strikes recast time is reduced by 0.5 seconds.	Divine Intervention Arbiter of Justice ascends for an additional 2 seconds and rains Blessed Spears on the battlefield. Upon landing, Arbiter of Justice bombards the battlefield with 10 additional Blessed Spears , making enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
		Reach of the Law Arbiter's Wing Strikes now apply Judgement to enemies.
		Seraph's Wings Arbiter Form gains the following benefits: 100% Movement Speed Wing Strikes deal x 200% increased damage Wing Strikes apply Vulnerable .

Passives

Master Craftwork Your Armor is increased by 50% of your Shield's Block Chance.

Shake It Off You have a 8% chance to become Unstoppable for 1 second after being hit by a Crowd Control Effect.

Shining Armor Gain a bonus based on your equipped weapon and armor qualities: Unique Weapon or Shield: Gain x 5% Damage. Unique Helmet, Chest or Pants: Gain + 5% Armor.	Giant Slayer You deal x 5% increased damage to Elites and x 8% increased damage to Healthy enemies. Damage: Physical Damage
	Sacred Arms Gain a bonus based on your equipped weapon types: Two Handed: Gain x 5% Critical Strike Damage. One Handed and Shield: 5% chance to ignore damage.

Key Passives Required Points: 33 - You can have a point in only one of these at a time.

Coat of Arms Your damage is increased by 75% of your Armor Percent and 50% of your Block Chance.

Path of the Penitent Your Zealot Skills cost 100% more Faith, but casting them grants all Skills + 6% Resource Cost Reduction and x 10% increased damage for 4 seconds, up to 10 times.

Exaltation During Arbiter your damage is increased by x 85% and Wing Strikes strike 1 additional time.

Judgement Day Consuming Judgement increases your damage by x 6% for 5 seconds, up to x 90%. Judgement now spreads to nearby targets without Judgement when it detonates.