Retribution Paladin DPS Mythic+ Tips — Shadowlands 9.0.2
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Retribution Paladin in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.0.2.
Unique Challenges of Mythic+
Mythic+ Dungeons, especially high ones, are arguably the peak of WoW's competitive PvE content alongside Mythic raiding.
In Mythic Dungeons, as a Retribution Paladin, you will be personally responsible for a larger part of the group's total damage output, compared to a Mythic Raiding group, where you may only be responsible for approximately 7% of it. The skill and execution of each of the individual players in the Mythic+ group is much more important.
Next to just doing damage, in Mythic+ you will be responsible for some things to make the group's run faster and easier. Interrupting, soaking mechanics, throwing some off heals, offering some blessings, and using your stun are all much more commonplace in Mythic+ than your usual Mythic raid.
In this guide, we will talk about optimizing your Paladin for Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to configure your character, how your rotation may change, and some tips and tricks to maximize your throughput.
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our Shadowlands Mythic+ Season 1 page below.
Retribution Paladin is a decent melee DPS specializations for Mythic+ in Shadowlands. A Retribution Paladin brings very strong single-target burst damage & very strong cleave and AoE burst damage, as well as a good amount of utility through talents and the baseline kit. The main issue is the lacking mobility.
Retribution Paladin Mythic+ Build
For Mythic+ Dungeons as a Retribution Paladin, your focus will be on maximizing single-target and cleave burst damage periods. The greatest strength of a Retribution Paladin is the high throughput during cooldowns, which ties into the weaker than average throughput without cooldowns.
Note that the talents recommended below are specifically for Mythic+. If you wish to see a more generalized overview of Retribution talents, you can check our full talent page below.
These are our recommended talents for Retribution Paladin in Mythic+
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30 |
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35 |
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40 |
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45 |
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50 |
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Level 15 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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Zeal should always be chosen.
Level 25 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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Empyrean Power should always be chosen.
Level 30 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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Here you need to choose based on your crowd-control requirements and group setup.
Fist of Justice offers more frequent stuns.
Repentance offers an incapacitating tool against Humanoids, Demons, Undead, Dragonkin, and Giants.
Blinding Light offers an AoE disorient crowd-control tool, where any non-Holy damage breaks the effect. This ability is also used as AoE interrupt against crowd-controllable enemies.
Level 35 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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For more frequent defensive cooldowns, choose Unbreakable Spirit.
If your group keeps running ahead of you and you struggle to keep up, choose
Cavalier. For a high-level Mythic+ Dungeon, we recommend the defensive
option over the mobility option.
Level 40 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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Divine Purpose is the recommended default choice for this tier.
Seraphim and
Holy Avenger are cooldowns you can use if your
group has planned pulls ahead of time in very specific intervals.
For Kyrian Paladins,
Seraphim is the recommended choice
for this tier. Seraphim enhances the strong
Divine Toll burst, and
should always be used together.
Level 45 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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Pick between Selfless Healer and
Healing Hands. If you do not
want to spend Holy Power on
Word of Glory, always pick
Selfless Healer.
Level 50 Talents for Mythic+ as a Retribution Paladin
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Sanctified Wrath is the recommended default choice for this
tier, as long as your enemies are alive during the majority of your
Avenging Wrath. All of the AoE damage is spread out during
Avenging Wrath's duration.
Final Reckoning can be used in low keys, where each trash fight is
very short. All of the AoE damage is frontloaded.
For Kyrian Paladins,
Final Reckoning in combination with
Seraphim is a very competitive alternative, since they can use more
Holy Power spenders during the
Final Reckoning and
Seraphim
window by generating a lot of Holy Power very quickly with
Divine Toll.
Retribution Paladin Mythic+ Rotation
Both the single target and multi-target rotations do not change in Mythic+ content. For more information about the Retribution Paladin DPS rotation, refer back to the Rotation below.
Pool Holy Power towards the end of every trash pull, so that you can start spending Holy Power faster. Holy Power does not decay in combat and, once you leave combat, it takes about 20 seconds before it starts to decay.
Retribution Paladin Utility
Retribution Paladin provides support for the group through damage, healing, auras, and other additional effects listed below.
- Activate
Devotion Aura to reduce all damage taken by your group by 3%. If you have multiple Paladins, use
Retribution Aura to get
Avenging Wrath if an ally dies.
- Activate
Concentration Aura to reduce all silence and interrupt effects, as well as all fear effects (requires
Pure Concentration finesse conduit).
- With a 5-second duration,
Wake of Ashes is a very potent AoE stun, but it only works against Demon and Undead enemies.
Hammer of Justice is a single target stun with a very long 6-second duration. Use it often to stun casting mobs that you cannot interrupt with
Rebuke. The talent
Fist of Justice allows you to use it more frequently.
Repentance can be used to incapacitate a single Humanoid, Demon, Undead, Dragonkin, or Giant type enemy within 30 yards until you attack it. Cast it if you want to move around or delay dealing with a particularly dangerous mob. Incapacitating the leader of a patrolling group will also stop the entire group from moving. Keep in mind that you pull aggro and enter combat if you move too close to the incapacitated target.
Blinding Light can be used to disorient enemies within 10 yards. This can be used either to take enemies out of combat for a short duration, or to AoE interrupt crowd-controllable, casting enemies.
Turn Evil fears an Undead, Aberration, or Demon target within 20 yards for up to 40 sec.
Cleanse Toxins can be used to remove all Poison and Disease effects from a group member.
Blessing of Protection removes bleeds and other Physical damage effects. Additionally, it grants your target immunity to Physical damage and harmful effects for 10 seconds. It is often used on group members who pulled aggro from the tank via damage or healing.
Blessing of Sacrifice reduces damage taken by a party member by 30%, but you suffer 100% of damage prevented. It lasts 12 seconds, or until transferred damage would cause you to fall below 20% health. Communicate with your tank and healer to plan when to use this.
Blessing of Freedom removes and prevents movement-impairing effects for 8 seconds.
Lay on Hands heals a friendly target for an amount equal to your maximum Health.
Mythic+ Affixes
- The new seasonal affix
Prideful spawns a Manifestation of Pride at every 20% trash count, where you should never use your damage cooldowns for. After killing the add, you will gain a 30% damage buff for 60 seconds. Holding your damage cooldowns will allow you to use this damage buff in combination with your damage cooldowns for very high burst damage.
- Use
Hammer of Justice and
Hand of Hindrance to crowd control the Spiteful Shade adds during
Spiteful weeks.
- Use
Flash of Light and
Word of Glory generously during
Grievous weeks. Use
Blessing of Protection and
Lay on Hands to remove the debuff from a group member with many stacks.
- Use
Judgment and
Blade of Justice to target Explosive Orbs on range.
- Communicate with the tank to use
Hand of Reckoning or
Blessing of Protection to help him reset his
Necrotic stacks if necessary.
Best Mythic+ Covenant and Soulbinds for Retribution Paladin
While the recommendations here apply to Mythic+, feel free to check out our Covenant page for the full details on everything this system has to offer.
You have multiple Covenant choices:
Covenant | Soulbind | Recommended Tree |
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Kyrian | Pelagos | Pelagos Mythic+ tree |
Night Fae | Korayn | Korayn Mythic+ tree |
Venthyr | Nadjia the Mistblade | Nadjia Mythic+ tree |
Before you have enough Renown to unlock Korayn, use Niya in the meanwhile.
Additional information on how to use each of the Covenant Abilities can be found on the rotation page linked below.
Conduits for Mythic+
Potency Conduits for Mythic+
Endurance Conduits for Mythic+
Finesse Conduits for Mythic+
Light's Barding (improved mobility)
Echoing Blessings (improved utility)
Pure Concentration
Best Mythic+ Legendaries for Retribution Paladin
If you would like more information about Legendaries available to Retribution Paladin, you can visit our dedicated page by clicking the link button.
Trinket Considerations for Retribution Paladin in Mythic+
When choosing your trinkets, we recommend simulating yourself on Raidbots. Raidbots offers you the ability to simulate trinkets for Mythic+ with the DungeonSlice Fight Style option.
You also can find good trinkets to use for Mythic+ on the Gear page linked below.
Changelog
- 16 Jan. 2021: Added Kyrian talent notes.
- 07 Dec. 2020: Page updated for Shadowlands Mythic+ Season 1 start.
- 10 Nov. 2020: Page updated for Execution Sentence and Final Reckoning changes.
- 13 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Urthearso, theorycrafter for Retribution Paladins. If you have any questions about the spec you can reach him on the official Paladin Discord, on Twitter, and during his streams on Twitch.
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