Retribution Paladin DPS Talents & Builds Guide - WoW Classic

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Göttliche Stärke

Divine Strength gives 10% more strength when fully talented. Strength is your primary source of AP, making this mandatory for any build.

Göttliche Weisheit

Divine Intellect gives 10% more intellect when fully talented. While a larger mana pool is useful, it is generally not worth the 5 point investment.

Spiritueller Fokus

Spiritual Focus gives you a 70% chance to not lose casting time when taking damage during your Heiliges Licht and Lichtblitz casts. This is useless in PvE, but is great for PvP where you will be doing lots of healing on yourself and teammates, and where an quick Heiliges Licht could be the difference between life and death.

Verbessertes Siegel der Rechtschaffenheit

Improves your damage done by your Siegel der Rechtschaffenheit and its Judgement. You will not be using this seal for PvE as Ret, making this useless.

Heilendes Licht

Increases your healing done by Heiliges Licht and Lichtblitz by 12%. This could be useful, but at this point putting more talents into Holy means losing damage talents elsewhere.

Weihe

Drops a zone on the ground that damages enemies within for a holy damage over time while they are inside. This is your only source of AoE damage, making this a required talent for most builds.

Verbesserte Handauflegung

Essentially makes your Handauflegung a much better spell and lowers the cooldown from 60 minutes to 40 minutes. This could be useful, but at this point putting more talents into Holy means losing damage talents elsewhere.

Unumstößlicher Glaube

This gives you a 10% chance to resist fear and disorient effects. This could be useful, but at this point putting more talents into Holy means losing damage talents elsewhere.

Illumination

With this you get the mana cost of a healing spell refunded when it crits. This is too far down in the Holy tree to be worth taking.

Verbesserter Segen der Weisheit

Makes your Segen der Weisheit slightly stronger. This is too far down in the Holy tree to be worth taking, and will almost always be used by a Holy Paladin in a raid.

Göttliche Gunst

A powerful cooldown that makes your next healing spell a guaranteed critical strike. This is too far down in the Holy tree to be worth taking.

Dauerhaftes Richturteil

Makes your Judgment effects last longer, but this is too far down in the Holy tree to be worth taking.

Heilige Macht

Increases your critical strike chance of your Holy spells by 5%. This is too far down in the Holy tree to be worth taking.

Heiliger Schock

Holy Shock is one of Holy's signature spells. It is a 30-second cooldown that provides a strong, instant, burst heal when you need it. This is too far down in the Holy tree to be worth taking.

Protection Tree Talents

Verbesserte Aura der Hingabe

Improves the effect of your Aura der Hingabe, and should always be taken if you might be using this aura. This is generally a good talent to take as well due to its low placement in the tree, and since you need the points to get into the next row.

Verschanzen

Increases your chance to block after being the victim of a critical strike. This is useless for Ret since you will not be using a shield.

Präzision

Increases your chance to hit which is useful for when you want to use Richturteil or melee attacks. This is a required talent in most builds unless you are already hit capped through gear, but that most likely will not be the case.

Gunst des Hüters

Lowers the cooldown on your Segen des Schutzes and increases the duration of your Segen der Freiheit. This is a great talent alone since both of those are awesome spells, and is definitely worth taking to get later into the Protection tree and for PvP.

Zähigkeit

While the extra armor is great for PvP against physical damage dealers, this is useless in PvE. However, if you need the points to go later in the Protection tree, this is better than some other options.

Segen der Könige

A powerful buff that is a requirement in any group. At least one Paladin in your group should always have this to put on everyone, making this a great choice to have in a normal build. You could choose to skip this if you knew for sure that another Paladin in your raid group was going to be the one casting this, but there are not really better options to take in other trees.

Verbesserter Zorn der Gerechtigkeit

Completely useless in both PvE and PvP since Ret Paladins should never need or want to hold threat on any target.

Schild-Spezialisierung

Similar to Verschanzen, this is useless for Ret since you do not use a shield.

Vorahnung

You will not need defense as a Ret Paladin, making this worthless in all content unless you are trying to build some sort of hybrid tank build.

Verbesserter Hammer der Gerechtigkeit

While Hammer der Gerechtigkeit is mostly useless in PvE, it is one of your strongest abilities in PvP. This can be worth putting points into for PvP since it is such an effective stun and control tool, great for killing or disengaging.

Verbesserte Aura der Konzentration

Aura der Konzentration is an amazing aura for casters, but this will most likely be used by Holy Paladins, not Ret. This is too far into the Protection tree to be worth taking.

Segen des Refugiums

This blessing is not particularly great for the majority for the raid group, but is amazing for tanks. At least one Paladin in your raid should have access to this, usually, the same one who is also picking up Verbesserte Aura der Konzentration since they both require lots of points into the Protection tree. This is too far into the Protection tree to be worth taking as Ret though, and will usually be picked up by a Holy Paladin.

Abrechnung

While this can be very useful for leveling, it does not provide a good enough effect to justify so many points into the Protection tree as a DPS.

Einhandwaffen-Spezialisierung

You will not use 1H weapons, and this is too deep into the Protection tree to be worth taking.

Heiliger Schild

While this is a great tanking ability, it is not worth taking as a Ret Paladin and is far too deep into the Protection tree.

Retribution Tree Talents

Verbesserter Segen der Macht

Segen der Macht is a requirement for all melee in your group. Most builds will include this since its such a powerful blessing for many classes.

Segnung

Reduced mana cost of spells is great and allows you to DPS for longer periods of time without running out of mana.

Verbessertes Richturteil

Richturteil is your most used damage dealing ability, making this a required talent.

Verbessertes Siegel des Kreuzfahrers

While you will not be using Siegel des Kreuzfahrers normally, Judgment of the Crusader is worth using on longer fights, specifically bosses, making this talent still worth taking.

Abwehr

This is a great filler talent and defensive choice for PvP, but useless for PvE.

Rechtschaffene Schwächung

This talent could be situationally good in PvP against melee targets but is not worth the points. There are better options to take for both PvP and PvE.

Überzeugung

This increases your critical strike chance on attacks, making it required for any Ret build.

Siegel des Befehls

This is your primary seal as a Ret Paladin and makes up a big portion of your damage. This is required to play as a Ret Paladin since you will be using this 99% of the time.

Streben nach Gerechtigkeit

Movement speed is very important in general and is a great option to put points into, especially with how little mobility Paladins have.

Auge um Auge

This is a powerful PvP talent against casters and can reflect lots of damage, but is useless for PvE.

Verbesserte Aura der Vergeltung

Improves your Aura der Vergeltung, which is great if you were running this aura. There are better aura options for most situations though and is not worth spending the points for usually.

Zweihandwaffen-Spezialisierung

Increases your damage with 2H weapons, making this a required talent for Ret.

Aura der Heiligkeit

Paladins are the only class that does holy damage, making this aura not useful to other party members, but is a nice damage increase for you.

Rache

Provides a nice damage bonus for a few seconds after critically striking, making this a required talent for Ret. This also increases the value of crit as a stat for Ret.

Buße

This is a powerful control spell in PvP, and can be great in dungeons where strong control abilities are usually required. While this might not be useful in raids, it is worth the one point investment just to have for other situations.

Leveling WoW Classic Paladin Talent Builds

Why Retribution?: Retribution talents have a lot of synergy with each other, between Abwehr, Überzeugung, Zweihandwaffen-Spezialisierung, and Rache, simply auto attacking will get you through most of your leveling content. Paladins are one of the best support classes and even as Ret they can provide a leveling partner like a Rogue or Warrior with a lot of utility to overcome any sort of world PvP you might encounter while leveling.

Some Talents Come Down To Preference: The order in which talents are suggested in the following guide are going to be based on the assumption that you're on a PVP server and you'll occasionally get into a scrap, if you aren't experiencing much World PVP you can take more PVE oriented talents.

For an in depth look at leveling talents for Paladins, see our guide, Paladin Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Spec 1-60 - WoW Classic.

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Kommentare

Kommentar von Aranador

Hey, thank you for the really nice guide!

I was wondering though, since ret seems to have a pretty tough stand in the community, what about some kind of hybrid heal/ret build?
Maybe something like 21/0/30 - problem would be the hit cap though, but i wouldn't cut Vengeance somehow.

Somehow i would like the option, but i have never played classic before.

Thanks again!

Kommentar von thanehand

I would have minor disagreement with the standard build, instead opting for something like this:

11/8/32

For the following reasons:

Forget about Spiritual Focus (if you want to dps, you shouldn't be healing - more intellect is better for less mana downtime
Forget about Repentance - it's a CC, which others in the party will have better options. You can spent the point in Benediction, again for less mana issues

Also, for the Kings build:

If you be blessing Kings in the group (i.e you're going to pick that up in prot tree) then keep the holy talents from the standard build (you want Consecration!) and drop points from Improved Blessing of Might - you can't bless both on the whole group anyway, and a point from Vengance (not ideal to do this, but better to keep Consecration, and you can't drop it anywhere else)

11/11/29

Kommentar von bastion251

So i have to disagree with the standard build . Repentance While an OK cc other classes do it better. I would use that point to finish out benediction. I'd also get rid of Spiritual focus and go For Divine Int. 10 % int is just to good to pass up. Just my 2 cents.

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