Retribution Paladin Rotation Guide - Midnight

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Holy Power Economy: Generating and spending Holy Power comprises the majority of your damage. Make sure to not waste it by generating it above the level you need.

Use Procs: Свет в душе can be wasted if Клинок справедливости isn't used fast enough. Make sure to be aware of when Искусство войны procs in order to spend them as soon as possible. The buff stacks to 2, so you have some leeway to use them.

Manage your cooldowns: Although using them as soon as they come up is usually the best option, sometimes there can be situations where one ability is delayed and you need to hold it slightly in order for your cooldowns to all line up. There can also be situations where holding them for mechanics or extra add spawns can be better overall.

Best Retribution Paladin RotationHero Talent Master Switchesentire page's Best Retribution Paladin Single Target Rotation Please select a Hero Talent option to generate a Single Target priorityThe builds used below are covered in the Talents page. Priority

Cast Гнев карателя

Cast Смертный приговор

Cast Молот Света if it's castable after using Испепеляющий след

Cast Молот Света with a Избавление Света proc in any one of the following situations:

The builds used below are covered in the Talents page.

Priority

Best Retribution Paladin AoE Rotation

Retribution in AoE uses a priority list. This means with each GCD we go top to bottom on a list, and press the button with the current highest value. Retribution swaps to the AoE priority on 2+ targets in all talent builds.
With selected, the priority is as follows: With selected, the priority is as follows:

Please select a Hero Talent option to generate an AoE priority

The builds used below are covered in the Talents page.

Priority

Cast Гнев карателя
Cast Смертный приговор
Cast Молот Света if it's castable after using Испепеляющий след
Cast Молот Света with a Избавление Света proc in any one of the following situations:

The builds used below are covered in the Talents page.

Priority
1. Cast Гнев карателя
2. Cast Смертный приговор
3. Cast Окончательный приговор with a Небесный арбитр proc from Божественная буря and 5 Holy Power
4. Cast Окончательный приговор with an Небесная порука proc
5. Cast Божественная буря with 5 Holy Power
6. Cast Испепеляющий след
7. Cast Божественный благовест
8. Cast Молот гнева with 2 charges
9. Cast Клинок справедливости with 2 stacks of Искусство войны if Гнев карателя isn't active
10. Cast Окончательный приговор with a Небесный арбитр proc from Божественная буря
11. Cast Божественная буря
12. Cast Молот гнева
13. Cast Клинок справедливости
14. Cast Правосудие
Best Retribution Paladin Opener

The opener follows a similar priority to the regular one, applying important debuffs first before putting your other strong abilities on cooldown.
You can use the buttons below to display openers for both single-target and AoE, depending on your chosen Hero Talent.With selected, opener details are as follows:With selected, opener details are as follows:

Please select a Hero Talent option to generate an Opener sequence

The builds used below are covered in the Talents page.

Sample Timeline

Opener Sequence
1. Клинок справедливости
2. Гнев карателя
3. Зелье безрассудства and any on-use trinkets
4. Смертный приговор
5. Испепеляющий след
6. Молот Света
7. Божественный благовест
8. Continue with normal rotation.
Alternative Sample Timeline

This is an alternative cooldown sequence that can be used. Details are explained below.

Alternative Opener Sequence
1. Клинок справедливости
2. Гнев карателя
3. Зелье безрассудства and any on-use trinkets
4. Испепеляющий след
5. Молот Света
6. Смертный приговор
7. Божественный благовест
8. Continue with normal rotation.
1. Клинок справедливости
2. Гнев карателя
3. Зелье безрассудства and any on-use trinkets
4. Испепеляющий след
5. Окончательный приговор
6. Окончательный приговор on single target, or Божественная буря on AoE
7. Смертный приговор
8. Божественный благовест
9. Continue with normal rotation.
Pre-Combat Check

Before any combat happens, it is important for Retribution Paladin to make sure the following are done. This is mostly important for raids - dungeons, delves, or open-world content generally won't require all of these buffs.

Retribution Paladin Major Cooldowns

Retribution has quite a few cooldowns, mostly 30 and 60 second abilities, that will naturally line up together when used on cooldown.

Execution Sentence

The goal with Смертный приговор is to fit as much damage within its window as you can. All damage done to targets hit by the initial damage count towards the funnel portion, so you should keep using AoE abilities if you're fighting multiple targets.

Avenging Wrath

Гнев карателя is a straightforward off-GCD damage buff that you'll want to make sure you have active before using other cooldowns. When using Священная война, you'll ideally want to stack it sooner rather than later, but it's worth putting other abilities like Смертный приговор on cooldown before worrying about stacking it.

Radiant Glory

Блистательная слава removes Гнев карателя as an active ability and instead automatically applies it when Испепеляющий след is used. Because the duration of the buff is relatively short and Испепеляющий след does a significant amount of damage, it's better to cast Испепеляющий след inside a Смертный приговор window rather than trying to have a buff active before using Смертный приговор if you're using both of them.

Hammer of Light

There's two situations when Молот Света will become castable: right after pressing Испепеляющий след, where it costs 3 Holy Power, and when you reach 50 stacks of Избавление Света, where it's free. You should always immediately cast Молот Света after Испепеляющий след, but procs can be held in some situations. If a free Молот Света proc happens just before Гнев карателя comes off cooldown it's a good idea to hold it, and it can also be held a few seconds if Неоспоримое постановление is already active, but make sure to use it if Гнев карателя or Смертный приговор is about to end and before the proc expires.

Trinkets

Retribution will often value on-use stat trinkets highly. Retribution can often use multiple of these, as they can be lined up with alternating cooldown sets with little downside. You should use them with Гнев карателя, before your other important cooldowns. When using Алгет'арская шкатулка с секретом, it can be channeled precombat on pull, but should otherwise be used before the rest of your cooldowns, since it takes a few seconds to gain its buff.

Гнев карателя doesn't buff the damage of trinket procs or on use effects, but it does increase their Crit chance, which means that for most instant on use trinkets you'll hold them a few seconds on pull for a little bit more damage. For trinkets with a cooldown desynced from Гнев карателя, you generally don't want to hold it or Гнев карателя for 30s to line them up - this is a major damage loss as you'll often lose casts over a fight.

Retribution Paladin Advanced Tips

Rather than casting Смертный приговор directly after Гнев карателя, it can be held until Священная война is stacked up. This is started during the opener and then repeated for each subsequent cooldown sequence. It is an extremely small damage increase when played optimally, less than 1%, but will be a damage loss when played suboptimally. Beyond Священная война stacks, this also means you are much more likely to cast all Молот гневаs buffed by Божественный резонанс inside Смертный приговор.

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Most of the time you will simply cast procs instantly, but in some situations you may want to hold it for specific buffs.
You will still cast spenders below 5 Holy Power, but casting them is higher priority at 5.
Empyrean Legacy makes Final Verdict also cast Divine Storm, and will both generate and consume Divine Arbiter when used with Divine Purpose.

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Why does the opener list blade of justice BEFORE judgement?
I get the cooldown and damage are different but in any situation where you open on a boss that is likely 30+ yards away, you're not gonna be able to use BoJ until you're almost in melee range, so opening with judgement while walking to the boss will net you 1 more gcd. It's simply more efficient and intuitive.
Honestly sometimes it feels like guide writers only play simcraft and not the actual game

Комментарий от Razko

It seems like there's a little bug in the rotation list. It says "Requires Crusade" over both the Crusade entry as well as the Avenging Wrath entry. Obviously the normal wings don't 'require' Crusade.

Комментарий от Sinstriker

I noticed Holy Avenger is included and Divine Purpose was left out. Only mentioning it because of the new Sims section.

With the Tier Set the rotation change is rather simplistic. You just give the 2pc as many chances as possible to pop after a Divine Purpose proc. You just hold you're free HP spender from Divine Purpose until you either hit 5 HP or Art of War procs. The result is 2 HP spenders inside the 3sec Seraphim.

If your lucky DP procs off DP. Damage can be amazing . . or below average.

It was the most fun set up to test in ptr . . . but . . . it's a big dice roll.

Комментарий от olaivo

Why do you spec into exorcism if you never use it? Also, why do you spec into radiant decree? It seems way worse than Ashes to Dust. Since Wake of Ashes does more damage on your main target (and still some AoE), you already have AoE on Divine Storm and Consecration AND you get more Holy Power generation for Divine Storms which do more damage and in the end of packs (say >3 mobs) you can switch to Templars Verdict and have more Holy Power generation to keep Righteous Verdict up.

Комментарий от OpusKrokus

I'm confused. I freshly spec'd into this because my guild has plenty of tanks. Consecration is listed in the rotation, but I have been searching for it for several minutes and cannot find it either in my spell book or talent tree. What am I missing?

Комментарий от CommanderTyler

Hello, can someone explain to me why Final Verdict and Divine Storm has a much higher prio at 5 holy power compared to 4. I can't find any reason not to send them at 4 or am I missing something?

Комментарий от ZendaraThenebra

I DON'T GET IT... !
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I do not understand some points about this part:

Retribution Paladin Cooldown Usage

With the t30 set bonus, Молот гнева also applies the Правосудие debuff, which means that you essentially drop Правосудие from your rotation entirely inside Гнев карателя keeping most Вердикт храмовника still buffed with Молот гнева and Божественный резонанс.

OK, THANK YOU! BUT...
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Where is this information coming from and wich buff is it talking about?

Can you throw Молот гнева instead of Правосудие when Огонь очищения is up and gain the set bonus effect damage?
— If so, why is this page the only one with this information?

Or is this about the buff coming from Великое правосудие for your next holy power ability?
— If so, then why mention the « with the t30 set... » to begin with? That buff has nothing to do with it...

There are too many contraddictions there: the entire page tells you to use as many Правосудие you can, keeping it on cooldown all the time and then suddenly it tells you to drop it entirely during your main burst window? (as that would be "just then" like it's not every 60 seconds) wich one is it now...?

Комментарий от Khumi

Why is Final Reckoning no longer recommended for M+? Seems like a no brainer for AoE

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Комментарий от yarmyk

Why use Клинок справедливости AND Правосудие before Испепеляющий след during Templar RG opener? Seems like a waste of GDC and a Holy Power.
Клинок справедливости with Священный клинок talent generates 2 Holy Power, Испепеляющий след adds 3, giving us enough Holy Power to use Молот Света without extra Правосудие.
Or is the delay intentional (e.g., accounting for potential party buffs that come 1 GCD later)?

Комментарий от KodokuTenshi

Why is there no rotational mention of the ''empyrean legacy'' talent?

Edit: Thanks, it's now edited in.

Комментарий от shatteredking666

For the single target rotation, why are we prioritizing Divine Storm on the Divine Arbiter procs rather than Final Verdict?

Retribution Paladin Rotation Guide - Midnight

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