Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Retribution Paladin in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.7
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Retribution Paladin in PvP in Dragonflight, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most important change that came with Dragonflight – talents. We will go over the class and spec trees, as well as the best PvP talents for Retribution Paladin in Dragonflight.
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Retribution Paladin Talents Overview
Paladin Class Talents
You will always want Blessing of Protection against any team with a physical stun, but you can also drop this point whenever you play with Blessing of Spellwarding.
You have a choice between Repentance and Blinding Light. Repentance tends to be strongest with casters such as when playing with a Warlock, Balance Druid, or Shadow Priest. This allows you to go for Repentance off of other CC such as Fear from a Warlock or Cyclone from a Druid. Blinding Light is a good alternative when playing with another melee or Hunter.
Cavalier is great for most matchups where you need the mobility and Healing Hands can be dropped for Cavalier in match-ups that tend to be shorter. Healing Hands is great for longer match-ups as it allows the opportunity to use Lay of Hands multiple times and increases the healing of Word of Glory based on missing health. This can be useful when forced on the pillar by double caster and you have excess Holy Power.
Cleanse Toxins can also be considered when playing against Shadow Priest, Rogue, Feral Druid or Death Knight, however we don’t currently recommend doing this due to the relative strength of ret paladins when compared to other classes.
Vengeful Wrath is now mandatory due to the tier set providing a damage bonus to Hammer of Wrath while also increasing the damage enemies take from holy power spenders.
Retribution Spec Talents
The ret tree does not have many flexible points. With nerfs to the various choice nodes, there is one clear option such as Final Verdict and Final Reckoning.
Crusading Strikes and 1 point in Blessed Champion are needed if you want AoE as this allows your damage to effect 2 extra targets. If you are playing a comp where you can break CC such as with a hunter, you can drop Blessed Champion for another point in Highlord’s Judgement.
Retribution Paladin PvP Talents
Ret pvp talents have become a lot more flexible due to Unbound Freedom becoming a standard talent and a handful of nerfs to some of the PvP talents, including Aura of Reckoning.
In the current meta, your default loadout will typically include Aura of Reckoning, Luminescence and Blessing of Sanctuary.
Blessing of Sanctuary can then be dropped whenever there isn’t something important to dispel such as Fear, Stormbolt, or Cheap Shot.
When this happens, it will typically be for another damage talent, or Blessing of Spellwarding if it’s needed.
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