Retribution Paladin DPS Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.2

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+ the 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 is all much more commonplace in Mythic+ than in 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 Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 3 page below.

Retribution Paladin is a good melee DPS specialization for Mythic+ in Dragonflight. A Retribution Paladin brings frequent single-target and cleave burst damage and a good amount of utility through talents.

Note that the talents recommended below are specifically for Mythic+. You can check our full talent page below to see a more generalized overview of Retribution talents.

Both the single-target and cleave rotations do not change in Mythic+ content. For more information about the Retribution Paladin DPS rotation, refer 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; once you leave combat, it takes about 20 seconds before it starts to decay.

Retribution Paladin supports the group through damage, healing, auras, and other additional effects listed below.

• Intercession allows you to bring an ally back to life during combat.
• Activate Devotion Aura to reduce all damage taken by your group by 3%, or Retribution Aura for additional throughput.
• Activate Concentration Aura to reduce all silence and interrupt effects.
• 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.
• Repentance can be used to hinder 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. Remember 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 take enemies out of combat for a short duration or AoE interrupts crowd-controllable, casting enemies.
• Turn Evil fears an Undead, Aberration, or Demon target within 20 yards for up to 40 sec.
• Cleanse Toxins can 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.

• Cast Cleanse Toxins on the Afflicted Soul adds spawned by the Afflicted affix to despawn them.
• Cast Hammer of Justice to crowd control the Spiteful Shade adds spawned by the Spiteful affix.
• Cast Turn Evil or Repentance to crowd control the Incorporeal Being adds spawned by the Incorporeal affix.
• Cast Blessing of Freedom with talented Unbound Freedom on a party member who is afflicted by the Entangling debuff cast by the Entangling affix to free you both of you.

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.