Wing Strikes - Holy Avenger

The Arbiter Wing Strikes Paladin Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4 Season 12.

Avengers, assemble! This build fully focusing on juicing up the Arbiter Form to unleash smiting Wing Strikes upon all enemies while Gliding through the battlefield. With the Uniques Sanctis of Kethamar andGriswold's Opus you ascend your Disciple into a true Holy Avenger.

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If you are not level 60 yet, make sure to check out the Wing Strikes Paladin Leveling Guide instead.

1. Ascent into Arbiter with Arbiter of Justice and Disciple.
2. Use Fanaticism Aura and Defiance Aura for their buffs and to refresh Cooldowns with Resplendence Glyph.
3. Use Holy Light Aura to gain Fortify and healing.
4. Use AdvanceVanguard's Rush to stack up Path of the Penitent, trigger Moni and generate Faith.
5. Use Shield Bash to proc Qax when it is ready, proc Moni again and gain Resolve for Rite of Might.

Wing Strikes Mechanics

• Wing Strikes is a sub-skill of Arbiter Form, which is triggered from Disciple. It benefits from all Disciple Skill Tag benefits.
• Wing Strikes have a fixed Attack Speed of around 4 hits per second, with a short pause after each 4.
• Wing Strikes benefit from Critical Hit Chance
• Wing Strikes can not trigger Lucky Hit Chance
• Why are we still stacking Attack Speed then?
• • Because of Preacher (see below)

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are we using Preacher instead of Shield Bearer as Paragon Board?

• TL;DR: It's much more damage.
• Preacher gives much more damage than the description might insinuate - the tooltip is wrong.
• At +0% increased Attack Speed, it is already a 65%[x] multiplier.
• The Damage Formula for Preacher is approximated to be:
• • 1.65 * (1 + [Sum of AS / 100] x 0.4)
• At 100% increased Attack Speed, this results in
• • 1.65 * (1 + 1 x 0.4) = 2.31 => 131%[x] multiplier.
• However, with the Attack Speed Bonus from Fanaticism Aura being in Cap2, we can reach even higher than 100%.
• "But my Block Chance from Shield Bearer! Is losing that a problem?"
• • Not if you have tempered Ranks to En Guarde on your Shield.

Why are we stacking Attack Speed even though Wing Strikes does not benefit from it?

• Because Preacher scales absurdly well with it and it still speeds up all of your casting animations.

What about Herald of Zakarum?

• First of all the tooltip is incorrect. It states that it multiplies your Armor by 50%[x] so a factor of 1.5. In reality, it only increases your Armor by +50%, which gets added into a pool of all other +% Armor additives. And we have plenty of those through passives like Master Craftwork, En Guarde and Shining Armor plus Paragon Nodes. However, The real kicker is the 50% increase to Strength and +Ranks to Core Skills which significantly boosts our DPS and our flat armor, resulting in a decent damage gain. If a Legendary Shield will outperform Herald of Zakarum is only answerable by mathing it out. Generally, if a build had access to a good aspect via equipping a legendary shield and not caring about +Ranks to Core Skills, a legendary Shield will likely be favored. It also is able to provide other useful stats like Critical Strike Chance and Cooldown Reduction. But, if you are already capped on these stats, it's benefits are significantly diminished. As Arbiter Wing Strikes does not benefit from +Ranks to Core Skills, the Legendary Shield will pull ahead in almost all cases.
• TL;DR: Wear a Legendary Shield with En Guarde tempered.

Elixirs and Incenses

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs you want to use Elixir of Advantage II to increase your Attack Speed. If you are already capped on Attack Speed, use Elixir of Iron Barbs II for more Armor.

For Incenses you want to use Spiral Morning for All Stats to reach requirements for Paragon Nodes if you do not have Shroud of False Death, otherwise use Ancient Times for Strength. Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

20th of March 2026

• Reworked the Boss/Push Variant.

14th of March 2026

• Added Godslayer Crown and Penitent Greaves for the Midgame Variant.

11th of March 2026

• Updated for Season 12 - Patch 2.6.0

12th of January 2026

• Updated for Patch 2.5.2

20th of December 2025

• Updated the FAQ, swapped Shield Bearer to Preacher (see FAQ for reasoning).

16th of December 2025

• Combined the Speed, Mythic and Endgame variants into Speed as they were basically the same.

14th of December 2025

• Day 3 Updates - A lot of information has been added all around the guide.
• Notable Change: Added Holy Light Aura instead of Aegis for Endgame and Mythic Variants as it one-shots anything in T4 with sufficient Gear.
• Added Speed variant with Flash of the Blade Advance and March of the Stalwart Soul.
• Updated the Endgame & Mythic Paragon Boards to have all points spent.

11th of December 2025

• Build published for Season 11 - Patch 2.5.0