Retribution Paladin Leveling Guide From 1 to 70 for TBC Classic
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Retribution Paladin leveling guide for TBC Classic. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Paladin leveling guide. We also have an Holy Paladin leveling guide and a Protection Paladin leveling guide.
Level by Level Rotation, Talents, and Trainer Skills
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Leveling Talent Tree & Build
Holy
5
Protection
10
Retribution
46
- Level 60 — 1 point in Divine Strength
- Levels 61 to 65 — 5 points in Redoubt
- Level 66 to 68 — 3 point in Precision
- Levels 69 to 70 — 2 points in Guardian's Favor
Redoubt will not help much, as you will not often be wearing a shield, but you will never be using Devotion Aura because of how much of a damage increase Sanctity Aura grants. Precision increases your chance to hit both with melee attacks and spells, allowing you to itemize for more damage. Guardian's Favor greatly lessens the cooldown of your Blessing of Freedom and Protection, which have strong uses both in parties or solo.
Leveling Rotation
- Use Seal of the Crusader to apply Judgement of the Crusader for added Holy damage.
- Keep Seal of Righteousness up.
- Keep up either Seal of Righteousness or Seal of Command, depending on which one you should be using. Use Consecration on cooldown for more than 1 target, if you have the Mana.
- Use Judgement on cooldown if you have the Mana for it, keeping in mind that you will need to reapply your seal after.
- Use Hammer of Wrath on cooldown.
- Use Crusader Strike on cooldown.
- Melee.
List of Trainer Skills to Buy
It is important to buy all abilities as you level as they are cheap and Paladins have quite a few abilities that are extremely powerful in certain situations and you never know when you will need them.
Retribution Paladin Macros and Addons
Setting up an user interface and macros early on you will greatly improve the quality of your leveling experience. Check out the Retribution Paladin Macros and Addons guides in the link below for the full list.
How to continue to improve your Retribution Paladin at level 70
Once you achieve level 70 we suggest you check out DPS Paladin Guide, which goes more in detail of how to play your level 70 Paladin.
Some of the most relevant pages to dive deeper into are:
- The DPS Paladin Talent builds guide offers a default build to maximize your damage output as a Retribution Paladin;
- Our DPS Paladin Rotation guide teaches you how to actually deal damage in a variety of situations. It also includes tips on how to utilize your cooldowns and utility.
- Check out the Retribution Paladin Stats guide if you would like to learn how each stat effects your survivability and threat;
- The Gear guide for DPS Paladin includes a list of gear to for you to acquire and where to find it;
This guide has been written by Sellin, a former top 10 US raider and current season and several time Gladiator, long time WoW Player and passionate about all things Warcraft and Theorycrafting. You can follow him on Twitter and watch him on Twitch.
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