Retribution Paladin Gearing Guide

Retribution Paladin Season 2 Tier Set Bonus:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate Winning Streak! Increasing the damage of your Templar’s Verdict and Divine Storm by 2% stacking up 10 times. Spending Holy Power on damaging abilities has a 12% chance to remove Winning Streak!
• (4) Set Bonus: When you lose your Winning Streak! You get the last Holy Power spent back, you cannot lose Holy Power for the next 4 seconds, and the damage of your Holy Power abilities are increased by 10%.

This Tier Set is pretty random and its efficiency depends on when you are able to cast Holy Power spenders for free. If you get this buff during your burst window - it is a win. Any other scenarios are less efficient or even annoying.

You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Retribution Paladin, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Retribution Paladin uses the following trinkets for different scenarios:

1. Eye of Kezan - absolute BiS for progression in raids. Provides most dps increase at fights longer than 5 mins. Can be considered to be used in M+, however requires constant chain pulling the mobs to maintain stacks from trinket. However, it isn’t a realistic scenario for some keys.
2. House of Cards - best on-use trinket which provides a lot of Mastery at right time.
3. Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Very strong passive trinket and the best alternative for Eye of Kezan.
4. Signet of the Priory - another good on use trinket if you don't have House of Cards.

In season 2 of TWW we 99% want to shift from Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension to more crit from x2 Dawnthread Lining. It is caused by Best-In-Slots from One-Armed Bandit. However, weapon craft is still a good choice, but chasing the BiS we have to change our crafting priorities to the following:

1. If you got lucky with a Myth Track 2-hand weapon or Best-In-Slots you should use x2 Dawnthread Lining on armor pieces. You can use them on Cloak, Bracers, Belt or Boots.
2. If you did not recieve a Myth Track 2-hand weapon or Best-In-Slots then craft a 2-hand weapon like Everforged Greataxe with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.
3. Then any low item level armor slot (including cloak) at your current situation with Writhing Armor Banding. Ideally it should be Bracers, Belt, Boots or Cloak.
4. The rest of your crafts can be used to fill up your gaps in gear item level wise, or stat-wise.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

On May 14 we will finally have access to Puzzling Cartel Chips. This currency is also known as Dinars from previous expansions like S4 of Shadowlands and Dragonflight.

Basic idea of this system is to be a “bad luck protection” in the middle of the season.

You have to complete a weekly quest and defeat 4 bosses of Liberation of Undermine or complete 4 Mythic+ keys. Doing so on week 1 will award you with 3 Puzzling Cartel Chips which is equal to 1 item to purchase from a vendor. Every next week this quest will only provide 1 Chip per quest. Which means your next purchase is going to be available on June 4th, and the next and last one on June 25th. Yes, this currency is capped by 9 per character, which means that every character can purchase only 3 items in this season.

Purchased items can be upgraded up to 684, but to unlock mythic track grade your character has to defeat Mythic boss with this item at least once. For Mythic+ items your character has to complete each dungeon in time on level 12 or above.

List of items you should focus as Ret paladin:

1. The Jastor Diamond: Very Rare item with unique effect. If you have access to a Mythic version this is a #1 item to purchase.
2. Best-In-Slots: If you were playing through this season you might already have a Mythic track weapon. Only because of that fact I’m placing this as #2 item. If your character is fresh and has access to a Mythic One-armed Bandit it should become a top priority.
3. Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker or Eye of Kezan: Choice between these 2 trinkets should be easy. Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker is a more versatile passive trinket for any type of the content. Eye of Kezan is only better in raid for fights longer than 5 minutes, which are only 3 fights right now: One-Armed Bandit, Mug’zee and Gallywix. It is also easier to get all 12+ keys to be done and unlock access for Mythic track upgrade of Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker than killing a Mythic Gallywix.
4. House of Cards: If you were lucky with your vaults and got some items from the list above, you can spare your left Chips to purchase this on-use trinket.

Corruptions

In patch 11.1.5 on May 20 Horrific visions are available one more time. This content rewards you with a Corruption enchant for your Head slot.

As Ret paladin you should be only interested in Greater Rune of the Void Ritual.

If you don't have access to it, you can use its smaller version - Lesser Rune of the Void Ritual.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

Recommended Titan Discs for Retribution Paladin:

Your best effect for new belt in 11.1.7 is Critical Chain for every type of the content.

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.

Cyrce's Circlet

The Cyrce's Circlet ring starts with 639 item level and can be upgraded to a maximum item level of 658. There are 3 specific sockets for 3 types of new gems that grant different effects and empowerments to the ring.

The best combination for Retribution Paladin is:

• Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
• Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
• Legendary Skipper's Citrine

With all of the citrines available, this ring remains BiS until you get a Mythic-track ring from Season 2 with the best secondary stats.