Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gear Page for Retribution Paladin. This guide contains all the information you need to know about how to gear a Retribution Paladin, including crafted gear, embellishments, and trinkets.

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

Pre-Season BiS

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Pre-Season BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Mythic Dungeons for Midnight Pre-Season.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Whirling Voidcleaver	Magister's Terrace
Helm	Greathelm of Temptation	Murder Row
Neck	Pendant of Malefic Fury	Murder Row
Shoulder	Amalgamation's Harness	Maisara Caverns
Cloak	Bloodthorn Burnous	The Blinding Vale
Chest	Sentinel Challenger's Prize	Den of Nalorakk
Bracers	Trollhunter's Bands	Maisara Caverns
Gloves	Bonds of the Hash'ura	Den of Nalorakk
Belt	Riphook Defender	Windrunner Spire
Legs	Legplates of Lingering Dusk	Magister's Terrace
Boots	Oathsworn Stompers	Magister's Terrace
Ring #1	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Idol of the War Loa	Den of Nalorakk
Trinket #2	Vessel of Tortured Souls	Maisara Caverns

In general, you should focus your early crafts on getting embellished gear. For more information on those, see the section below.

Once you have your two embellished items, jewellery is a good choice to craft since you can customize its secondary stats as required, and rings and neck with good stat distributions can be difficult to acquire. Finally, fill out any low-item level non-tier slots such as bracers or belt, and then you have the option of crafting additional embellished items for different content types.

When crafting gear, you will want to use a missive to set the item's secondary stats. 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.

For Retribution, you have a few 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.

Gear can be upgraded using Crests. Upgrading gear for a given slot will also reduce the cost of future upgrades, which reduces the opportunity cost of upgrading early on. In general, you should aim to upgrade the slots with the highest impact first - for Retribution, this is:

1. Weapon
2. Trinkets
3. Helm, Chest, Legs, and Jewellery
4. Shoulders, Belt, Gloves, and Boots
5. Bracers and Cloak

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