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Retribution Paladin rotation guide & helper

Play Retribution Paladin like a skilled player: the current priority, cooldowns that line up, AoE when it pays and kicks on the casts that matter.

Updated for patch 12.1.5 · World of Warcraft: Midnight · Windows
Guide

How Retribution plays.

Build Holy Power with Blade of Justice, Hammer of Wrath, Judgment and Crusader Strike, and spend it on Final Verdict or Divine Storm. Wake of Ashes makes more Holy Power, so you spend 5 before it goes out. Herald of the Sun is the guides' pick for Mythic+ and raid; Templar plays with Hammer of Light.

One target

  1. At 5 Holy Power: spend first (Templar waits for Wake of Ashes to set up Hammer of Light).
  2. Wake of Ashes when Avenging Wrath isn't about to come back.
  3. Divine Toll.
  4. Blade of Justice at two Art of War or Righteous Cause stacks.
  5. Spend: Hammer of Light, then Final Verdict.
  6. Blade of Justice, Hammer of Wrath, Judgment, then Templar Strike / Templar Slash or Crusader Strike.

Packs

  • Divine Storm takes Final Verdict's place from 2 targets.
  • Divine Storm also goes out on one target when Divine Arbiter allows it.

Cooldowns

  • Avenging Wrath and Execution Sentence go on cooldown in Mythic+, no holding.
  • Execution Sentence goes out with Wake of Ashes, on targets that live longer than 10 seconds.
  • Fireblood goes out inside Avenging Wrath.

Good to know

  • With Walk Into Light, Hammer of Wrath moves up and goes out before it caps at two charges.
  • Rebuke is handled by the helper's interrupt step.
  • Your defensives go out by your health (set on the Spells page).
What it does for you

Built for Retribution.

01

Cooldowns that line up

Your Retribution cooldowns go when the priority says so, not when a timer runs out.

02

AoE when it pays

Area spells only once enough enemies are around you. You pick the number.

03

Kicks and stuns

Interrupts on the casts that matter, at the last safe moment, and no stuns on mobs that can't be stunned.

04

Immunity learning

It learns which mobs shrug off your spells and stops casting them there.

05

You stay in control

Every spell, threshold and line of the priority is yours to change. One switch turns it off.

In the rotation

Retribution spells it uses.

Lines for spells you don't have are skipped, so it follows your talents.

Execution SentenceAvenging WrathHammer of LightDivine StormTemplar's VerdictWake of AshesDivine TollBlade of JusticeHammer of WrathJudgmentTemplar StrikeTemplar SlashCrusader Strike
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Play Retribution Paladin with the helper.

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