Retribution Paladin DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Season 1

Retribution can choose between Crusading Strikes and Templar Strikes for different types of Holy Power generation in its builds. Although both talents are competitive, in general Templar tends to favor Crusading Strikes while Herald of the Sun prefers Templar Strikes. There are no other talent changes needed to swap between them.

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Best Talents for Retribution Paladin in Midnight

Templar Single-Target Templar Cleave/Dungeons Herald of the Sun Single-Target Herald of the Sun Cleave/Dungeons Templar Open World/Delves

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Best Templar Single-Target Talent Build for Retribution Paladin

This build is best for pure single-target situations. Radiant Glory can be taken instead of Execution Sentence for a more consistent damage profile with better passive cleave, but less funnel.

Use the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game.

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Best Templar Cleave/Dungeon Talent Build for Retribution Paladin

This build drops the worst single-target talents for stronger AoE options. For more AoE damage, Judgment of Justice can be swapped for Tempest of the Lightbringer, and Jurisdiction can be swapped for Sanctify. Swapping Execution Sentence for Radiant Glory will also give a more consistent damage profile that does slightly better overall AoE damage, but is worse for funnel and priority target damage.

Use the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game.

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Best Herald of the Sun Single-Target Talent Build for Retribution Paladin

This build is best for pure single-target situations. Crusading Strikes can also be used instead of Templar Strikes.

Use the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game.

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Best Herald of the Sun Cleave/Dungeon Talent Build for Retribution Paladin

This build drops the worst single-target talents for stronger AoE options.

Use the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game.

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Best Delves and Open World Talent Build for Retribution Paladin

This build works best for short-duration multi-target combat and frequent movement from enemy to enemy. For longer sustained combat where enemies live for more than a few seconds like higher level Delves, the regular Mythic+ builds should be used instead.

Use the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game.

The new Apex Talent for Retribution is Light Within. This provides bonus effects to Art of War or Righteous Cause, increasing the damage of the next Blade of Justice cast and causing it to also deal additional AoE damage. It also increases Holy Power spender damage during Avenging Wrath. Prioritizing using Blade of Justice when procs occur is be a sizeable damage increase.

Retribution has two Hero Talent trees, Templar and Herald of the Sun. These each have different visuals and gameplay, augmenting the core Retribution talents and abilities.

Templar gives you access to Hammer of Light after casting Wake of Ashes, which is a separate Holy Power spender that does significant AoE damage. It also has extra bonus effects such as Divine Hammer and Empyrean Hammer that do additional AoE damage passively.

Herald of the Sun procs Dawnlights when Wake of Ashes is cast, which are powerful DoT effects that grant extra bonuses while active. It also significantly increases the power of Hammer of Wrath through talents like Walk Into Light.

Many talents can cause your rotation to change significantly to accommodate them. For specific advice on how to best use the talents recommended, see the Rotation guide.

"War Mode" is an opt-in feature that enables cross-faction PvP combat in the open-world. Enabling War Mode provides the following benefits:

• PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
• 10% increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.
• 10% more experience gained while leveling.
• Earn Conquest Points, which can reward gear every week.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended enabling the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will make yourself available for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.

No War Mode talents have any impact on open-world PvE content for Retribution. For PvP talents, see the guide above.