Retribution Paladin Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stat Ranking

Strength > Mastery >=Haste >= Crit > Versatility

Depending on your gear, you can have different stat weights. The best advice you can have from me is to always sim yourself.

Stat Outline

Haste increases your auto attack pace, affects Global Cooldown and decreases cooldown on several Holy Power generators such as: Judgment, Blade of Justice, Hammer of Wrath and Crusader Strike.

Critical Strike increases the chance of doing double damage by your abilities, auto attacks and other sources of damage such as trinkets, enchants or some extra effects on several gear pieces. Also Templar Hero Talent tree rewards you with extra AoE damage if you crit with Empyrean Hammer.

Mastery increases all Holy Damage you deal with your class or spec abilities. It won't affect other sources of Holy damage such as trinkets or Lightforge Draenei’s racial ability. Also increases the chance to deal extra damage with Judgment.

Versatility increases all damage done and also reduces the damage taken by half of that amount. This stat was huge for us in Dragonflight, however with mastery buff it should fall behind.

Alliance: Human = Draenei = Iron Dwarf > Dwarf >>> Lightforged Draenei

Horde: Tauren > Zandalari (Paku) = Blood Elf > Zandalari (Kimbul) = Zandalari (Bwonsamdi)

• In general, race choice doesn’t matter that much. For example, Lightforge Draenei is only worse by like 1.4% compared with the best races
• So first of all choose a race based on your own preferences, because if you are not excited to play dwarf for example, the desire to play a paladin may also decrease.

You should also consider all racial bonuses including the utility ones:

• Iron Dwarves can dispel negative effects with Fireblood and gain even more main stat. However if it is not stacked with Avenging Wrath/Crusade the value decreases dramatically. Iron Dwarves also move faster in dungeons by 4%;
• Draenei has a flat main stat bonus, plus a healing HoT - Gift of the Naaru;
• Human’s dps bonus grows with each patch due to the number of secondary stats on gear. You also can remove stuns with Will to Survive;
• Dwarf has flat 2% crit damage and a Stoneform, that is simply a good defensive ability and it isn’t combined with DPS bonus, like the Iron Dwarves have. So you can freely use it for 10% damage reduction or to remove debuffs;
• Lightforge Draenei’s Light's Judgment was nerfed years ago and unfortunately they can’t offer anything useful;
• Zandalari trolls have access to different buffs, however the Embrace of Pa’ku gives the most value due to the extra 4% crit for 12 seconds. You also have a Regeneratin’ that allows you to heal yourself at max health very fast, however this cast can be interrupted by damage;
• Tauren has a flat 2% crit damage bonus, increased stamina and a War Stomp. This toolkit makes Tauren a very solid choice for any scenario;
• Blood Elves have an additional 1% crit chance, and Arcane Torrent that gives Holy Power and dispels magic from enemies. This is still a good choice for the Horde paladin players

Some enchants are dictated by your current stat value. We are still waiting on a proper APL for simcraft, however these enchants I recommend at the time of writing.

Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace

Chest: Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance

Bracers: Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance

Boots: Enchant Boots - Scout’s March

Legs: Stormbound Armor Kit

Rings: Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike: +315 Crit, Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery: +315 Mastery, Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste: +315 Haste

Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Authority of the Depths

First of all we should talk about the unique Algari Diamond. We are interested in Culminating Blasphemite which gives +181 Primary Stat and +0.15% Critical Effect per unique Algari Gem color. So as you can see this gem is going to dictate at least 5 gems to use.

We are aiming for one gem of each color:

1. Green - Masterful Emerald
2. Purple - Quick Onyx
3. Red - Masterful Ruby
4. Blue - Masterful Sapphire
5. Orange - Masterful Amber

Food: Beledars Bounty

Phials: Flask of Alchemical Chaos / Flask of Tempered Mastery

Potions: Tempered Potion

Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion

Weapon Oil: Ironclaw Whetstone