Retribution Paladin PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.2.5)

Level	Choices
15	✔ Zeal	✘ Righteous Verdict	✘ Execution Sentence
25	✘ Fires of Justice	✔ Blade of Wrath	✘ Empyrean Power
30	✔ Fist of Justice	✘ Repentance	✘ Blinding Light
35	✔ Unbreakable Spirit	✔ Cavalier	✘ Eye for an Eye
40	✘ Divine Purpose	✘ Holy Avenger	✔ Seraphim
45	✘ Selfless Healer	✘ Justicar's Vengeance	✔ Healing Hands
50	✔ Sanctified Wrath	✘ Crusade	✔ Final Reckoning

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Zeal is the best choice in this tier. This increases your overall damage output.

Blade of Wrath is the best choice in this tier. This proc is great for increasing your sustained damage and will help you generate more Holy Power.

Fist of Justice is the best choice in this tier. Hammer of Justice is the strongest crowd control you have. This talent will help reduce its cooldown significantly. You will primarily use this to help setup crowd control on the enemy healer.

Unbreakable Spirit is the best choice in this tier. This decreases the cooldown on many of your important abilities by a large amount. However, if you think you will be the primary focus for the enemy team or need the extra mobility to reach a target, Cavalier is also a great choice.

Seraphim is the best choice in this tier. Seraphim lines up well with Execution Sentence and this also gives a boost to all of your stats. This will significantly increase your overall damage output when used.

Healing Hands is the best choice in this tier. Without this talent, Word of Glory does not do enough healing to keep you or your teammates alive. With this talent, you will be using Word of Glory on yourself or others to keep them alive when your healer cannot.

Final Reckoning is the best choice in this tier. The one use part of this talent deals damage and also makes enemies hit by the damage take additional damage from your Holy Power spells. The passive of this talent gives you a chance to deal additional damage to enemies and they will take 10% increased damage from your Holy Power spells. This is overall a large increase to your burst and sustained damage.

If you are playing against a team where you will be able to have a lot of uptime, like a melee cleave, Sanctified Wrath is the better option. This makes your burst damage much stronger and gives you a bigger kill window.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.

Blessing of Sanctuary removes all stun, silence, fear, and horror effects from you target. It also reduces the duration of these effects for 5 seconds. This gives you extra utility when playing against teams with several of these effects. This should be used versus teams that rely on stun setups on your healer to get crowd control.

Aura of Reckoning is another option if you want to increase your damage. You will gain 1 stack after you or an ally is hit with a critical strike. At 50 stacks, your next weapon swing will deal more damage and proc your Avenging Wrath.

Unbound Freedom is a mandatory talent versus teams with multiple roots, slows or snare effects. This will make it so your Blessing of Freedom increases your movement speed and you will gain Blessing of Freedom if you use it on a teammate. It also makes it undispellable.

Law and Order is a great talent versus teams with ranged on it. More often than not, the enemy healer or DPS will have the ability to dispell your Hand of Hindrance slow. This talent makes it so you can use it more often when this happens. Blade of Justice will also apply this slow.

Lawbringer makes Judgment also apply the Lawbringer debuff to its initial target. Enemies hit by Lawbringer will lose up to 10% of their health. This talent is great versus teams that will be stacked often. Your cleave damage increases drastically versus these teams.

Vengeance Aura makes it so that whenever you or your partners get put into crowd control, your Holy Damage and critical strike increases. This is great versus druids with Cyclone or Mages with Polymorph. You can replace Blessing of Sanctuary with this PvP talent, as long as the enemy team does not have much crowd control.

Judgments of the Pure is an interesting PvP talent that dispels a Poison, Disease, and Magic effect on your teammate when you use Judgment on an enemy that applied it. This gives you a way to dispel debuffs. Use this against Affliction Warlocks, Shadow Priests, and Elemental Shamans to remove their debuffs.