Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (2024)

Last updated on Sep 09, 2024 at 18:00by Bolas66 comments

General Information

On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for yourRetribution Paladin in World of Warcraft The War Within (Season 1).

If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Retribution Paladin gear and best in slot.

1.

Best in Slot Gear Guide for Retribution Paladin

Welcome to our Gear Page for Retribution Paladin. Thisguide contains all the information you need to know about how to gear a Retribution Paladin, including crafted gear, embellishments, and trinkets.

For more specific information about how stats work for Retribution, you can visit our Stats guide:

Retribution Paladin Stat Priority

2.

The Importance of "Simming Yourself" as a Retribution Paladin

With the sheer number of possible gear combinations, a generic stat priority or BiS list is not going to tell the entire story of how to gear your character.Instead, you should use Raidbots to get a better idea of how changing different items will affect your character. Especially for Retribution, you will frequently findthe values of different stats fluctuate a lot as you upgrade your gear, so using a more objective metric to help you make gearing decisions is invaluable.

If you are not experienced with using Raidbots, see the guide below for more information on how to use it:

Simming Yourself — A Guide to Raidbots

3.

BiS Gear for Retribution Paladin

Season 1 Overall BiS ListSeason 1 Nerub-ar Palace BiS ListSeason 1 Mythic+ BiS List

4.

Season 1 Overall BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from any source for Season 1 of The War Within.

Some items listed are only available from the Great Vault. While these are theoretical BiS, other similar itemsthat are more easily obtained can be substituted instead. You should not be dropping significant amounts of item levelfor items on this list in most cases.

SlotItemSource/Note
WeaponRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (1) Everforged GreataxeBlacksmithing
HelmRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (2) Entombed Seraph's CasqueMatrix Catalyst
NeckRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (3) Sureki Zealot's InsigniaSikran in Nerub-ar Palace
ShoulderRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (4) Entombed Seraph's PlumesMatrix Catalyst
CloakRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (5) Royal Emblem of Nerub-arUlgrax the Devourer in Nerub-ar Palace
ChestRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (6) Entombed Seraph's BreastplateMatrix Catalyst
BracersRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (7) Everforged VambracesBlacksmithing
GlovesRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (8) Entombed Seraph's CastigationMatrix Catalyst
BeltRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (9) Girdle of Somber PloysThe Dawnbreaker
LegsRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (10) Legplates of Broken TrustThe Stonevault
BootsRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (11) Boots of the Black BulwarkThe Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #1Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (12) Seal of the Poisoned PactQueen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (13) Writhing RingwormBroodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (14) Mark of KhardrosGrim Batol
Trinket #2Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (15) Ara-Kara SacbroodAra-Kara, City of Echoes

4.

Nerub-ar Palace BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Nerub-ar Palace for Season 1 of The War Within.

While the items listed are theoretical BiS, other similar items can be substituted instead for most slots.You should not be dropping significant amounts of item level for items on this list in most cases.

SlotItemSource/Note
WeaponRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (16) Anub'arash's Colossal MandibleSilken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
HelmRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (17) Entombed Seraph's CasqueMatrix Catalyst
NeckRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (18) Sureki Zealot's InsigniaSikran in Nerub-ar Palace
ShoulderRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (19) Entombed Seraph's PlumesMatrix Catalyst
CloakRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (20) Royal Emblem of Nerub-arUlgrax the Devourer in Nerub-ar Palace
ChestRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (21) Entombed Seraph's BreastplateMatrix Catalyst
BracersRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (22) Devoted Offering's IronsQueen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
GlovesRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (23) Black Blood InjectorsBroodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
BeltRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (24) Nether Bounty's GreatbeltNexus-Princess Ky'veza in Nerub-ar Palace
LegsRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (25) Entombed Seraph's GreavesMatrix Catalyst
BootsRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (26) Boots of the Black BulwarkThe Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #1Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (27) Seal of the Poisoned PactQueen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (28) Writhing RingwormBroodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (29) Skyterror's Corrosive OrganRasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (30) Mad Queen's MandateQueen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace

4.

Season 1 Mythic+ BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Mythic+ for Season 1 of The War Within.

While the items listed are theoretical BiS, other similar items can be substituted instead for most slots.You should not be dropping significant amounts of item level for items on this list in most cases.

SlotItemSource/Note
WeaponRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (31) Wild HammerGrim Batol
HelmRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (32) Entombed Seraph's CasqueMatrix Catalyst
NeckRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (33) 'Emergency Stop' KeychainThe Stonevault
ShoulderRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (34) Entombed Seraph's PlumesMatrix Catalyst
CloakRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (35) Anvilhide CapeThe Stonevault
ChestRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (36) Entombed Seraph's BreastplateMatrix Catalyst
BracersRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (37) Bracers of Umbral MendingGrim Batol
GlovesRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (38) Entombed Seraph's CastigationMatrix Catalyst
BeltRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (39) Girdle of Somber PloysThe Dawnbreaker
LegsRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (40) Legplates of Broken TrustThe Stonevault
BootsRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (41) Ballast SinkersSiege of Boralus
Ring #1Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (42) Umbriss BandGrim Batol
Ring #2Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (43) Band of the Roving ScalawagSiege of Boralus
Trinket #1Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (44) Mark of KhardrosGrim Batol
Trinket #2Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (45) Ara-Kara SacbroodAra-Kara, City of Echoes

4.

Best Trinkets for Retribution Paladin in The War Within Season 1

Raiding Trinket Tier ListMythic+ Trinket Tier List

5.

Raiding Trinket Tier List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains trinkets from any source, ranked according to their strength in raid content.As raid content is primarily single-target-focused, trinkets that are stronger in single-target will tend to be ranked higher.

5.1.

S-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (46) Ara-Kara Sacbrood
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (47) Mark of Khardros
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (48) Skarmorak Shard

5.2.

A-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (49) Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (50) Skyterror's Corrosive Organ
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (51) Mad Queen's Mandate

5.3.

B-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (52) Spare Meat Hook
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (53) Oppressive Orator's Larynx
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (54) Treacherous Transmitter

5.4.

C-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (55) Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (56) Void Pactstone
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (57) Quickwick Candlestick

5.5.

D-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (58) Sikran's Endless Arsenal
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (59) Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (60) Algari Alchemist Stone

6.

Mythic+ Trinket Tier List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains trinkets from any source, ranked according to their strength in Mythic+ content.As Mythic+ is primarily AoE-focused, trinkets that are stronger in multi-target situations will tend to be ranked higher.

6.1.

S-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (61) Ara-Kara Sacbrood
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (62) Mark of Khardros
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (63) Skarmorak Shard

6.2.

A-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (64) Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife

6.3.

B-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (65) Treacherous Transmitter
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (66) Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg

6.4.

C-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (67) Skyterror's Corrosive Organ
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (68) Spare Meat Hook
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (69) Oppressive Orator's Larynx
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (70) Void Pactstone
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (71) Quickwick Candlestick

6.5.

D-Tier

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (72) Mad Queen's Mandate
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (73) Sikran's Endless Arsenal
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (74) Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (75) Algari Alchemist Stone

7.

Retribution Paladin Tier Set for The War Within Season 1

The Tier Set bonuses for The War Within Season 1 for Retribution Paladin are:

  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (76) Paladin Retribution Season 1 2pcRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (77) Blade of Justice damage increased by 15% and Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (78) Wake of Ashes damage increased by 10%.
  • Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (79) Paladin Retribution Season 1 4pcRetribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (80) Wake of Ashes increases your damage done by 8% for 8 seconds.

These bonuses increase the damage of Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (81) Wake of Ashes and Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (82) Blade of Justice and also provide a decent damage increase during your cooldown windows.They are not insanely strong bonuses, but you should still aim to get them as soon as possible.

8.

Retribution Paladin Crafted Gear and Embellishments

8.1.

Crafted Gear for Retribution Paladin

In general, you should focus your early crafts on getting embellished gear. For more information on those, see the section below.

Once you have your two embellished items, jewellery is a good choice to craft since you can customize its secondary stats as required, and all crafted rings come with a socket.Finally, fill out any low-item level non-tier slots such as bracers, cloak, belt, and feet, and then you have the option of crafting additional embellished items for different content types.

When crafting gear, you will want to use a missive to set the item's secondary stats. Although you should sim your options to check what the best one for your gear setup would be, a good default to use is Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (83) Algari Missive of the Peerless.

8.2.

Embellishments for Retribution Paladin

Embellishments are still being actively tuned at the moment - it is in your best interest to wait until Season 1 has started to use your Sparks just in case things change.

For Retribution, you have a few combinations that perform very similarly:

  1. Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (84) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension & Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (85) Writhing Armor Banding
  2. 2x Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (86) Dawnthread Lining
  3. 2x Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (87) Elemental Focusing Lens

Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (88) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension along with Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (89) Writhing Armor Banding is a strong combination,but does require you to use a crafted weapon - this can be a bonus as weapons are by far the most important slot to get at high item level, but they do require 2 Sparks rather than 1 to craft,which will force you to use a non-Spark crafted item for your second embellishment while you wait for your next spark. If you do not get a high item level weapon early and can craft at 636 then this combination is a good choice.Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (90) Dawnthread Lining is very close to the Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (91) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension combination, performing slightly ahead or behind depending on the uptime you can maintain.Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (92) Elemental Focusing Lens is the next best armor embellishment after Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (93) Dawnthread Lining if you cannot maintain high uptime on its buff.

Because crafted gear has a slightly lower item level cap than Myth track items, you will want to use armor embellishments in slots that have relatively less Strength.Bracers and cloak are good choices for slots to craft on.

9.

Best Gear Upgrades for Retribution Paladin

Gear can be upgraded using Crests and Valorstones. Upgrading gear for a given slot will also reduce the cost of future upgrades, which reduces the opportunity cost of upgrading early on.In general, you should aim to upgrade the slots with the highest impact first - for Retribution, this is:

  1. Weapon
  2. Trinkets
  3. Helm, Chest, and Legs
  4. Shoulders, Belt, Gloves, Boots, and Jewellery
  5. Cloak and Bracers

10.

Changelog

  • 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for TWW Season 1.
  • 28 Aug. 2024: Updated embellishment recommendations.
  • 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
  • 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 28 Nov. 2023: Added the new Legendary and adjusted trinket recommendations.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Added BiS lists and overhauled page formatting for Patch 10.1.7.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 24 May 2023: Updated for Cataclysm Timewalking and added Pocket Anvil for pure single-target.
  • 06 May 2023: Updated for trinket and T30 secondary stat changes.
  • 02 May 2023: Updated Raid and Dungeon gear and added m+ embellishments.
  • 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
  • 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 17 Jan. 2023: Readded Idol of Tampling Hooves after it got fixed.
  • 16 Dec. 2022: Added second on-use trinket Manic Grieftorch.
  • 16 Dec. 2022: Removed Idol of Tampling Hooves because it didnt hit raid bosses properly.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 1 loot tables.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.

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