World of Warcraft: Forever Retribution Paladin - Spec, Builds, and Talents

On this page we will discuss the best Retribution Paladin talent options for PvE content. With strong talents in all three talent trees that can enhance your damage output, there are two different build archetypes that seem to perform the best for Retribution Paladin. The Seal Twisting build goes deep into the Retribution tree to pick up Twist of Light and picks up supporting talents to empower this playstyle. The Shockadin build instead goes into the Holy tree to pick up Holy Shock, along with picking up almost all talents in the Retribution tree to support this archetype build.

This build focuses on enhancing your physical damage as well as your spell damage by taking most of the talents in the Retribution tree that increase your direct damage output. All remaining points go into the Holy tree to increase your base stats, and we also pick up Improved Seals for more damage and Reverence for some Mana sustain.

When playing a Seal Twisting build you have a handful of talent options you can switch out, depending on your situation. Some will enhance your damage a bit more when you are still gearing your character, while others are better options to support your group in Raids when needed.

• If you are lacking enough Hit chance on your gear to hit the Melee Hit cap of 8% you will probably gain a bit of damage and consistency by dropping Divine Intellect and Reverence to path through Toughness to reach Precision for 3% more Hit chance.
• If your Raid does not have a Warrior or a Feral Druid Tank that can apply Demoralizing Shout or Demoralizing Roar you might need to drop a point in Instrument of Law to take a third point in Vindication. This will require you to time your Hammer of Wrath in execute to happen just after your melee swings, and cost you a small amount of damage.

The Shockadin build goes a bit deeper into the Holy tree, picking up Holy Shock and Consecrated Ground, while still going deep enough into the Retribution tree to talent into Champion of the Light. Shockadins focus more on taking talents that improve their Holy damage and drop a handful of talents that mostly enhance Physical damage, including Seal of Command.

The Shockadin build has a bit less room for talent swaps compared to the Seal Twisting build, because a lot of the damage is tied to key talents that you cannot do without. Below are a couple options of talent changes you might find useful depending on your situation.

• if your raid needs an Attack Power reduction and you have nobody else to provide it through Demoralizing Shout or Demoralizing Shout, then Vindication is a solid pickup. To access Vindication you drop points from Conviction, costing you roughly 2-3% of your own damage.
• If you need to reduce your threat generation because you are regularly pulling aggro from your tank, you can drop Consecrated Ground for Instrument of Law. This will cost you roughly 5% of your damage to reduce Threat generation by 20%.

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