Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Season 1

The launch of Midnight included a stat squish, which has changed the value of some stats a small amount. Overall, the gearing strategy is the same as always, where you want a spread across all secondaries, while slightly preferring Mastery and Haste.

For more specific information about how stats work for Retribution, you can visit our Stats guide:

With the sheer number of possible gear combinations, a generic stat priority or BiS list is not going to tell the entire story of how to gear your character. Instead, you should use Raidbots to get a better idea of how changing different items will affect your character. Especially for Retribution, you will frequently find the values of different stats fluctuate a lot as you upgrade your gear, so using a more objective metric to help you make gearing decisions is invaluable.

If you are not experienced with using Raidbots, see the guide below for more information on how to use it:

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BiS Gear for Retribution Paladin

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

3.1.

BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from any source for Midnight Season 1. Although this is a theoretical best list, the best item for your character specifically can often be different depending on other items currently equipped.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Bellamy's Final Judgement	Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Helm	Luminant Verdict's Unwavering Gaze	Matrix Catalyst, or Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Shoulder	Luminant Verdict's Providence Watch	Matrix Catalyst, or Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Luminant Verdict's Divine Warplate	Matrix Catalyst, or Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Spellbreaker's Bracers	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Gloves	Voidclaw Gauntlets	Seat of the Triumvirate
Belt	Hate-Tied Waistchain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Legs	Luminant Verdict's Greaves	Matrix Catalyst, or Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Greaves of the Unformed	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Ring #2	Sin'dorei Band of Hope	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	Radiant Plume	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas

3.2.

Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Mythic+ for Midnight Season 1. Although this is a theoretical best list, the best item for your character specifically can often be different depending on other items currently equipped.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you want to target specific dungeons for items that increase your power the most, we recommend the following dungeons:

• Pit of Saron: The only dungeon with a Neck with a good stat distribution, and also can drop other useful items, such as a solid Weapon and Ring.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: Two good rings and a small loot table otherwise.
• Skyreach and Algeth'ar Academy: Both have a strong trinket and a Weapon.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Liferipper's Cutlass	Maisara Caverns
Helm	Luminant Verdict's Unwavering Gaze	Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Barbed Ymirheim Choker	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Shoulder	Luminant Verdict's Providence Watch	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Luminant Verdict's Divine Warplate	Matrix Catalyst
Bracers	Spellbreaker's Bracers	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Gloves	Voidclaw Gauntlets	Seat of the Triumvirate
Belt	Girdle of the Shadowguard	Seat of the Triumvirate
Legs	Luminant Verdict's Greaves	Matrix Catalyst
Boots	Oathsworn Stompers	Magister's Terrace
Ring #1	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Solarflare Prism	Skyreach
Trinket #2	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy

3.3.

Raid Gear BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Raids for Midnight Season 1. Although this is a theoretical best list, the best item for your character specifically can often be different depending on other items currently equipped.

TipsWhich Raid Items Do I Want Most?

The most important raid items for Retribution are:

• Gaze of the Alnseer: By far the strongest trinket option, without competitive alternatives. Drops from Chimaerus.
• Radiant Plume: Another exceptionally strong trinket. Raid trinkets in Midnight Season 1 are substantially more powerful than Mythic+ alternatives. Drops from Belo'ren.
• Bellamy's Final Judgement: The best weapon from raids. Drops from Lightblinded Vanguard.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Bellamy's Final Judgement	Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Helm	Luminant Verdict's Unwavering Gaze	Matrix Catalyst, or Lightblinded Vanguard in The Voidspire
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Shoulder	Luminant Verdict's Providence Watch	Matrix Catalyst, or Fallen-King Salhadaar in The Voidspire
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Crafted by Tailoring
Chest	Luminant Verdict's Divine Warplate	Matrix Catalyst, or Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Bracers	Spellbreaker's Bracers	Crafted by Blacksmithing
Gloves	Emberborn Grasps	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas
Belt	Hate-Tied Waistchain	Crown of the Cosmos in The Voidspire
Legs	Luminant Verdict's Greaves	Matrix Catalyst, or Vaelgor and Ezzorak in The Voidspire
Boots	Greaves of the Unformed	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls in March on Quel'Danas
Ring #2	Sin'dorei Band of Hope	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus in The Dreamrift
Trinket #2	Radiant Plume	Belo'ren in March on Quel'Danas

Since there is a lack of trinkets suited to Retribution's cooldowns this season, you will often simply end up using passive trinkets instead. Luckily, there are a few strong passive options you can use, especially from Raids.

Your ideal combination is:

Retribution Paladin Trinkets

Passive - Gaze of the Alnseer
Passive - Radiant Plume or Umbral Plume

There are quite a few other options available, which can be found below.

Click for Retribution Paladin Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Gaze of the Alnseer Radiant Plume Umbral Plume
A Tier	Heart of Ancient Hunger Solarflare Prism Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
B Tier	Light Company Guidon Vessel of Tortured Souls Heart of Wind Galactic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity
C Tier	Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige Kroluk's Warbanner Latch's Crooked Hook Dragon Games Equipment
D Tier	Mark of Light Void Stalker's Contract

Professions are useful as a way to fill slots and customize secondary stats on items, as well as adding special effects to the items too. Although you should sim your options to check what the best one for your gear setup would be, a good default to use is Thalassian Missive of the Feverflare.

If you want to find out more about professions, check out our Midnight Professions guide:

Early on, crafting a Two-Handed Weapon is a strong choice if you use Myth Dawncrest to upgrade it to 285 item level, since weapons provide a much larger increase than any other item slot. It will cost 4 Spark of Radiance rather than 2, but it is definitely worth it. Once you either loot or craft a weapon, other embellished items are the next priority.

Retribution Crafted Gear Priority

• Blood Knight's Warblade with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Any low item level slot with Arcanoweave Lining
• Any slot you do not have on Myth track yet

For Retribution, you have a few embellishment combinations that are competitive:

• Arcanoweave Lining
• Loa Worshiper's Band with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier
• Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt

Arcanoweave Lining is very similar in power to Loa Worshiper's Band with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier boosting its effectiveness, and either combination could perform slightly better depending on your exact gear setup. Arcanoweave Lining is the default recommendation here since it also buffs your allies as well. Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt is the best option for a weapon embellishment if you craft a weapon and simply need to pick something, but is weaker than armor embellishment options.

If you use Loa Worshiper's Band, you will want to use either Flawless Masterful Peridot or Flawless Masterful Garnet as secondary stat gems instead to maximize the power of its proc.

Because crafted gear has a slightly lower item level cap than Myth track items, you will eventually want to use armor embellishments on slots that have relatively less Strength. Bracers and cloak are good choices for slots to craft on later, but keep in mind that these are eventual best slots - for your first craft or two, bracers are the worst slot to use since you want to get a high item level piece for an impactful slot.

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable that you purchase instead of selecting an item from your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for a Radiant Jewelbinder item that allows you to add a socket to the above piece of gear, if you acquired them in Season 1.

Gear can be upgraded using Crests. Early on these are fairly limited, so you will want to prioritize the most important slots to upgrade first. For Retribution, these are:

Retribution Paladin Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helm/Chest/Legs/Jewellery ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots

For more information on gear upgrades, see the guide below: