Retribution Paladin Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.0.2

Legendary Powers are special effects affixed to crafted items in the Shadowlands (through Runecarving). Most of these effects have benefits that are specific to your spec, and others work for all Paladin specs. On this page, we will go through the best ones for all types of content. Please refer to our Paladin Legendary Powers page and our Runecarving page for more information about these powers.

This is our recommendation for which Legendary to craft first as a PvE player that does a variety of content. It is simply the best Legendary if you could only ever craft one.

The Mad Paragon is by far the best overall Legendary for Retribution Paladins. It has the best single-target and second-best AoE potential.

If raiding is your main focus, the The Mad Paragon Legendary is the best choice. It performs great for single-target and cleave. If you joined the Venthyr Covenant, this is one of two Legendaries which synergize well with Ashen Hallow.

Other usable options for raiding are listed below.

1. Relentless Inquisitor performs great in single-target and good in cleave, as long as you do not have to restack the buff often.
2. Vanguard's Momentum performs good for single-target and decently in cleave. If you joined the Venthyr Covenant, this is one of two Legendaries, which synergize well with Ashen Hallow.
3. The Magistrate's Judgment performs well in single-target and decently in cleave. This Legendary gives Paladins using Execution Sentence the chance to potentially fit another Templar's Verdict inside the damage window.
4. Of Dusk and Dawn performs well in single-target and good in cleave. It also gives you a defensive buff.

If Mythic+ is your main focus, the Tempest of the Lightbringer Legendary is the best choice by far. It performs so well for cleave that the lack of single-target throughput is irrelevant over a full dungeon run.

Other usable options for Mythic+ are listed below:

1. The Mad Paragon performs great for single-target and cleave. If you joined the Venthyr Covenant, this is one of two Legendaries which synergize well with Ashen Hallow.
2. Of Dusk and Dawn performs well in single-target and good in cleave. It also gives you a defensive buff.
3. Relentless Inquisitor performs great in single-target and good in cleave, as long as you do not have to restack the buff often.
4. The Magistrate's Judgment performs well in single-target and decently in cleave. This Legendary gives Paladins using Execution Sentence the chance to potentially fit another Templar's Verdict inside the damage window.
5. Vanguard's Momentum performs good for single-target and decently in cleave. If you joined the Venthyr Covenant, this is one of two Legendaries, which synergize well with Ashen Hallow.

If climbing Torghast is your main focus, the Stable Phantasma Lure Legendary is the best choice. The additional Phantasma earned has a high chance to make up the loss of not using any of our other Legendaries.

Other usable options for Torghast are listed below.

1. The Mad Paragon performs great for single-target and cleave. If you joined the Venthyr Covenant, this is one of two Legendaries which synergize well with Ashen Hallow.
2. The Magistrate's Judgment performs well in single-target and decently in cleave. This Legendary synergizes well with Anima Powers affecting Holy Power spenders and Judgment cooldown.
3. Tempest of the Lightbringer is the strongest cleave Legendary, and it synergizes well with many Anima Powers affecting Holy Power spenders.

• Final Verdict should not really be chosen for any situation. The proc rate is abysmal, and the effect when it procs is minimal. The additional range on Templar's Verdict/ Final Verdict only has minimal impact in PvE.
• Uther's Devotion provides decent utility, but we are looking for additional throughput for PvE.
• Echo of Eonar is not powerful enough in its proc for it to be considered.
• Judgment of the Arbiter does too little damage to be useful.
• Norgannon's Sagacity is useless for us, as we can cast almost everything important while being able to move anyway.
• Sephuz's Proclamation is not useful for PvE.
• Vitality Sacrifice is not useful for PvE.
• Maw Rattle does too low damage, and the damage reduction is too low to consider it for defensive purposes.
• Third Eye of the Jailer is not powerful enough in its proc for it to be considered.