Retribution Paladin DPS Spell List and Glossary — Dragonflight 10.2
On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as a Retribution Paladin in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Retribution Paladin spells.
Retribution Paladin Spell Glossary
If you are new to Retribution, this is a great place to start to get an understanding of how the spec works. On this page we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used for within the specialization, how they interact with each other and also with important cooldowns. If you already have experience with Retribution and are comfortable with it in the current expansion, it is recommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.
Main Resources For Retribution Paladin
Retribution's main resources are Holy Power and time. Holy Power is generated and spent by various abilities,
with your spenders like Templar's Verdict and
Divine Storm generally being some of your highest damage abilities.
Your generators are all restricted in some fashion by time, whether they have cooldowns or generate Holy Power automatically at specific intervals.
Optimizing your rotation will involve making sure that you waste as little Holy Power as possible by using your abilities wisely
in order to maximize Holy Power gain while also keeping your generators on cooldown as much as you can.
Unlocking Abilities
Note that this page lists all abilities, assuming you are at max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated Paladin Leveling page that has detailed information on when you unlock all of these abilities.
Retribution Paladin Baseline Abilities
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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CS | Deals Physical damage to your target and generates 1 Holy Power. |
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- | Deals Holy Damage to your target and generates 1 Holy Power. |
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TV | Your primary single-target Holy Power spender. It deals Holy damage to your target and costs 3 Holy power. |
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Cons | Places an AoE effect on the ground that does a small amount of damage over 12 seconds. It has a regular limit of 1. |
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Bubble | Makes you immune to all damage and harmful effects, including loss of control effects for 8-seconds. |
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- | Taunts an enemy, forcing them to attack you. |
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- | Grants 9 seconds of ![]() |
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- | Shows the location of all nearby undead on your minimap until cancelled. |
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- | Allows you to resurrect an ally during combat. |
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- | Your out-of-combat resurrection ability. |
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FoL | A healing spell with a short cast time. |
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HoJ | Stuns the target for 6-seconds. |
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WoG | Heals a friendly target for a considerable amount. Costs 3 Holy Power. |
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SotR | Deals Holy damage to all enemies in front of you and increases your Armor based on your Strength. It costs 3 Holy Power, but requires a shield equipped to be able to cast it. |
Paladin Tree Talent List
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Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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LoH | Heals a friendly target for 100% of your maximum Health. |
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Freedom | Removes movement-impairing effects from an ally and grants them immunity to these effects for 8 seconds. |
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HoW | Deals Holy damage to the target and generates 1 Holy Power. Useable against targets below 20% Health, or while ![]() |
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- | Removes all Poison and Disease effects from a friendly target. |
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- | Grants access to ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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- | Increases your Speed and Avoidance by 2%. |
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- | Grants access to ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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- | Fears an Undead, Demon, or Aberration for up to 40 seconds. Damage will break the effect. |
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FoJ | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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Steed | Summons your Charger mount for 4-seconds, increasing your movement speed by 100%. You can use abilities as normal while mounted on it. |
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GJ | Adds a consumable debuff to ![]() |
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Rep | Incapacitates an enemy for up to 1-minute. Damage will break the effect. |
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BL | Disorients enemies in a cone in front of you for up to 6 seconds. Any non-Holy damage will break the effect. |
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Cav | Adds a second charge to ![]() |
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- | Increases the duration of ![]() |
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- | Interrupts a cast and prevents spells in that school from being cast for 3 seconds. |
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Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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- | Increases your Armor and Critical Strike by 4%. |
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AW/Wings | Increases damage and healing by 20% for 20 seconds. Has a 1-minute cooldown. |
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- | Increases the damage of ![]() |
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- | Casts an extra ![]() ![]() |
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- | Adds a passive healing effect to ![]() |
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Sac | Lasts 12 seconds, transferring 30% of the damage taken by the target to you. The effect is automatically canceled if the transferred damage causes you to fall below 20% health. |
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- | Grants 20% extra Armor, 10% reduced area of effect damage taken, and 10% extra Stamina. |
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BoP | Protects the targeted ally from all Physical damage and harmful effects for 10 seconds, with a 5-minute cooldown. It can be used to clear harmful Physical damage debuffs
and bleeds from the target or prevent them from being applied to begin with. Enemies will not attack targets affected by ![]() |
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- | Causes ![]() |
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HH | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() ![]() |
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- | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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- | When your ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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US | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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- | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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- | Increases the range of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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- | Causes your ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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- | Increases your Mastery and Strength by 4%. |
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DP | Gives your Holy Power spenders a 10% chance to make your next Holy Power spender free and deal 10% additional damage or healing. |
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- | Increases your Haste by 4% and reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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Incand | Spending Holy Power within your ![]() |
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ToL | Grants all your spells and abilities a chance to deal additional Holy damage or extra healing. |
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DaD | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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DT | Casts ![]() ![]() |
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- | Your auto attacks deal additional Holy damage. |
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SoO | Enhances your two ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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FL | Enhances your two ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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DR | ![]() ![]() |
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- | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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Retribution Tree Talent List
Rows 1-4
Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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BoJ | Deals Physical damage to the target and generates 1 Holy Power. |
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DS | Deals Holy damage to nearby enemies. Costs 3 Holy Power. ![]() |
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- | Reduces the cooldowns of ![]() ![]() |
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- | Reduces the cooldown of ![]() |
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Expurg | ![]() |
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FV | Replaces ![]() ![]() |
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JV | Replaces ![]() |
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- | Removes the cast time of ![]() |
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- | Automatically casts a free ![]() |
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AoW | Your auto attacks have a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of ![]() |
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Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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- | The range of ![]() ![]() |
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- | Provides a stacking buff that stacks once every 2-seconds, with a maximum of 10 stacks, that each increase the damage of ![]() |
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ToL | ![]() ![]() |
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SoV | Grants you a 10-second damage absorption shield which absorbs up to 30% of your maximum Health. It explodes when it is consumed by damage or when it expires, dealing the absorbed amount as Holy damage divided between all enemies within 8 yards. It has a 90-second cooldown and a 0.75-second global cooldown. |
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- | Enemies dealt damage by ![]() ![]() |
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ZF | Increases auto-attack speed by 20%. |
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- | Increases the radius of ![]() |
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RoL | Critical hits by your single target Holy Power spenders grant 5% Haste for 10 seconds. |
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CSAA | Replaces your auto-attacks with ![]() ![]() |
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TS | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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DW | Increases the duration of ![]() |
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CB | Replaces ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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DH | Replaces ![]() ![]() |
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EL | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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VoJ | Increases the damage of your Holy Power spenders by 20%, but also increases their Holy Power costs by 1. |
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HotC | Increases your ![]() |
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HJ | Increases the duration of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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AWM | Combines with ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Crus | Replaces ![]() |
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BC | ![]() ![]() |
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EP | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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- | Increases the critical strike chance of ![]() |
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Ability | Abbreviation | Description/Effect |
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- | Increases Critical Strike damage by 5% for all abilities and causes ![]() ![]() |
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- | Increases the damage of your periodic damage effects, e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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FR | A targeted AoE damage effect with a 1-minute cooldown, 30-yard range, and an 8-yard radius. It does Holy damage to targets hit and causes a debuff that increases damage taken by your Holy Power spenders by 30% for 12 seconds. |
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ES | A 30-second cooldown that applies a debuff to the target for 8 seconds. When it expires, it deals an additional 30% of the damage your abilities did to the target during that 8-second window. |
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WoA/Wake | Deals Radiant damage to targets in a cone in front of you, slowing them by 50% and generating 3 Holy Power. Instead of slowing Demons and Undead, they are stunned for 5-seconds. |
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DA | Your Holystrike abilities to deal 5% increased damage. In addition, casting Holystrike abilities now generates stacks of ![]() |
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EW | Increases the duration of ![]() ![]() |
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- | You gain 3 Holy Power when you cast ![]() ![]() |
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SL | Dealing Radiant damage has a chance to cause an additional explosion of Radiant damage at your target's location, leaving behind a ![]() |
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated formatting and ability descriptions for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- 05 Apr. 2023: Updated various descriptions for latest hotfixes.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 17 Jan. 2023: Shield of Vengeance now has a 90-second cooldown.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Seal of the Crusader no longer affects allies.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Bolas, a long time Retribution Paladin enthusiast, theorycrafter, and sometimes high-end raider. You can find him in the Paladin Discord as bolas.ret.
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