Retribution Paladin DPS Guide - Midnight Pre-Patch

Par Bolas Actualisé : 20/01/2026

Retribution Paladin OverviewLame de justiceJugementVerdict finalTempête divineRetribution Paladin Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Retribution Paladin Cheat Sheet Retribution Paladin Changes in MidnightRemoved Abilities

Final Reckoning

Of Dusk and Dawn

Divine Arbiter

Searing Light

Reworked Abilities

Marteau de courroux is no longer a separate button, now upgrades Jugement during Courroux vengeur

Marteau divin is now a passive talent for

Bouclier du vengeur is now a passive effect tied to Protection divine

Résonance divine now duplicates next Jugement casts instead of casting them periodically

Gloire radieuse no longer procs Courroux vengeur randomly

Retribution Paladin Hero Talents: Templar and Herald of the Sun Marteau de la LumièreMarteau empyréenAubastreTempête divineMarteau de courroux Playing a Retribution Paladin in

Try to not waste Holy Power. This is the most important thing to remember when playing Retribution. A significant portion of our damage comes from spending our Holy Power, so overcapping it will reduce your damage significantly.

Keep Expurgation active and Jugement debuffs applied to enemies. These effects significantly buff your other damage.

Prioritize using Holy Power generators when they won't cause Holy Power waste, and Holy Power spenders otherwise. Putting generators on cooldown earlier means you get more overall casts over the course of an encounter.

Gearing a Retribution Paladin in What Professions are Best for Retribution Paladin?BlacksmithingBest in Slot gear What Race is Best for Retribution Paladin?Étreinte de Pa’kuView ChangelogNavigation BarFeedbackDiscord server

Tags : JcE

Commentaires

Commentaire de Mknapp

In the list of racial mounts you have missed the lightforge ram, the new paladin dwarf mount (my favourite addition brought by 8.0 :p )!

Commentaire de DraethDarkstar

Dark Iron Dwarf and their mount are also missing.

Commentaire de Paxidos

Random question, what's the source of the image at the top of this guide? That blood elf wielding Sulfuras is so cool!

Commentaire de WoW0

Here is a macro I made up I want to share. It is very simple and fun to use because I didn't really like Retribution Paladin for years because I kept away from writing macros.

/castsequence reset=6, Crusader Strike, Blade of Justice

It's pretty easy. The reset cool down should be enough.

Open source.

Commentaire de TulkorHammer

I found this guide to be very helpful. Thank you!

Commentaire de 0Aloreth

The fantasy section looks lackluster to me. Here's my idea for a revision:

Where other paladins would use their powers to protect the innocent, Retribution Paladins opt to punish the guilty. They zealously channel the Light to transform themselves into avenging angels, smiting their enemies and aiding their allies in doing the same. No matter how dire the situation becomes, the paladin remains ardent, faithful, and brave to the very end.

Commentaire de williamj

Retribution has received almost no changes to its current abilities. The only change was a healing nerf and Legendary quality of life change for Venthyr, a covenant that Retribution doesn't use anyway. This is a opinion not fact,I play two pallies and my main uses Venthyr and the other setup your way and not a lot of difference in dps plus venthyr helps raid group with heals and adds to my burst with hammer up for a long time.Please keep opinions to just that and remind people to play what they like and not just what some think are best dps.

Commentaire de xeracross

Hey I had a question on why

Community perception of Retribution is not particularly high.

was placed in the weakness section for ret pallies? I'm coming back to the game for DF and I never heard of ret pallies being iffy except for like in vanilla.

Commentaire de Poca84

Hi. i have a question. In every build you skilled "Exorcism" but its never in a roation. why should is use the point at this?

Commentaire de Mortson

How long till pve changes are made ? Ret is insane !

Commentaire de williamj

so this xpack vers goes back to being last stat lol,after dragonflight making it like number 1 secondary stat.

Commentaire de Xxeeno

All of the BiS gear that is from previous dungeons, is that because they are coming back during the season?

Commentaire de Archalyon

Why is the guide showing herald of the sun for Raid? Templar is simming better on ST?

Commentaire de jodhw

good info

Commentaire de 2623627

Wowhead please replace the guide writer

Commentaire de cLax0n

Guide writer Bolas is currently crashing out. Grab some popcorn my ret friends.

Commentaire de chincheckchuck

Maybe time for a new guide writer since this one has decided that helping the community is less important than their parse

Commentaire de Sazapahiel

Since this guide writer has decided to go down to clown town they need to be replaced. Nobody should ever take them seriously ever again, I certainly wont.

Commentaire de Camron

I will be boycotting Wowhead guides until Bolas is removed from any and all guide-writing duties.

This is, as you can guess, related to the recent Discord drama where Bolas is having a complete mental breakdown because he didn't get what he wanted.

Not a good look for a guide writer, nor an adult.

Commentaire de wertui007

Should I even play ret without double digit buffs?

Commentaire de Tyneic

I'm confused, I came here looking for a guide on how to shut down a discord channel, where do I find that info? I've checked twice and this is indeed the Ret guide so it's gotta be around here, right?

Commentaire de Grunchler

Imagine playing a class that you have to cry on a discord server about to get buffs.

Retribution Paladin DPS Guide - Midnight Pre-Patch

Contribuer