Retribution Paladin DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Aberrus. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible guides.

This page contains talent builds and information specific to Retribution Paladin. The information here assumes that you have a general understanding of how the basic mechanics in the raid work, so if you are not fully clear about any mechanical aspects, see the guide above.

Here, you can find information about the best talents to use for each encounter in Aberrus, as well as information on how to best deal with the various mechanics on each boss. The information here is focused on helping your progression, which is not always the same thing as doing the highest damage for the encounter. Strategies that aim to do more damage at the cost of making the encounter more difficult to kill are outside of the scope of this page.

Retribution uses largely the same single-target build for most of the raid, with only occasional talent changes. This is the build you should use for most bosses, and that will serve as a foundation for all encounters:

Use the single-target build linked above.

• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection just before Hellsteel Carnage.
• Divine Steed is useful to drop Dread Rift outside of the raid and to kite Rays of Anguish over them if targeted. It is also useful if you need to move for Wings of Extinction if it knocks you or will knock you into a damaging ground effect.

Use the single-target build linked above. While you can fight the bosses together for a short time at the very beginning of the encounter, it is not long enough to be worth making any talent changes for.

• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection when soaking Fiery Meteor, Molten Eruption, Gloom Conflagration, and Convergent Eruption.

For more information, please refer to our Amalgamation Chamber guide.

For Normal or Heroic, use the single-target build linked above. For Mythic, use the following build:

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Since you fight multiple bosses for extended periods of the encounter, Blessed Champion is a talent worth taking.

• You can use Blessing of Protection to remove the DoT component of Rending Charge from other players, and Divine Shield to remove it from yourself.
• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection when you have high stacks of Unstable Essence.

Unless your group is tunneling the boss, you will want some AoE talents for the waves of adds. You can either use a build that still focuses mainly on single-target or a full AoE build:

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• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection for your assigned Catastrophic Slam soak.
• Make sure to spread for the secondary part of Flaming Cudgel. You can stand a little further away from the boss than other melee DPS if necessary since most of your abilities have a longer range.

Use the single-target build linked above.

• Use Divine Steed to drop Searing Slam out of the raid, making sure to not overlap it with previous drops.
• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection during Searing Slam or Charged Smash.

For more information, please refer to our Rashok, the Elder guide.

Use the single-target build linked above.

• Blessing of Protection and Divine Shield can be used to immune the damage from Shrapnel Bomb.
• Be careful of the where you will be knocked by Blast Wave, as you have no way to deal with them other than simply running. Use Divine Steed to move for these if necessary, or otherwise for Tactical Destruction.
• Kick the golems from Animate Golems with Rebuke and focus them down.
• Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection can be used as necessary for any overlaps of Blast Wave, Unstable Embers, and Dragonfire Traps.

Use the single-target build linked above.

• You can use Blessing of Protection and Divine Shield to prevent the knockback from Overpowering Stomp.
• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection when targeted by Molten Spittle or soaking Lava Ejection.

For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.

Use the single-target build linked above. Although there are additional targets in some phases, they are either targets that need to be focused as a priority or ones that will simply die to passive cleave from the rest of the raid.

• You can use Blessing of Sacrifice on other players targeted by Volcanic Heart.
• Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection during Umbral Annihilation.
• Divine Shield will let you survive Ebon Destruction while also removing all prior stacks, so you may want to save it for the second or third cast.
• Blessing of Protection can remove the debuff from Calamitous Strike from your tank, but make sure they are aware you are planning on casting it.

Use the single-target build linked above. Although there are additional targets in some phases, they are either targets that need to be focused as a priority or ones that will simply die to passive cleave from the rest of the raid.

• You need to clear your Oppressing Howl debuff by being hit by Mass Disintegrate or Searing Breath. Use Shield of Vengeance and Divine Protection to help survive this.
• Interrupt Empty Recollection casts with Rebuke.
• If you get targeted by Embrace of Nothingness, you can use Divine Shield to soak it alone.

For more information, please refer to our Scalecommander Sarkareth guide.