Retribution Paladin Leveling Guide From 1 to 80 for WotLK Classic
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Retribution Paladin leveling guide for Wrath 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 a 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
7
Protection
7
Retribution
57
Major Glyphs
Minor Glyphs
Select MajorMinor Glyph
- Level 70 & 71 — 2 points in Divine Strength
- Levels 72 to 76 — 5 point in Seals of the Pure
- Level 77 & 78 — — 2 points in Guardian's Favor
- Level 79 & 80 — — 2 points in Healing Light
Finally, you can dump the remaining points into the Holy and Protection trees. Divine Strength and Seals of the Pure are both critically important as damage talents, but the final 4 points are more personal choice for your quality of life. Healing Light especially is a good choice since it will help minimize downtime while leveling by increasing your healing.
Leveling Rotation
- 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 either of your Judgement abilities on cooldown.
- Use Hammer of Wrath on cooldown.
- Use Crusader Strike on cooldown.
- Use Divine Storm 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
By setting up a 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 80
Once you achieve Level 80 we suggest you check out our full Retribution Paladin guide, which goes more in detail of how to play your Level 80 Paladin.
Some of the most relevant pages to dive deeper into are:
- The Retribution Paladin Talent builds guide offers a default build to maximize your damage output as a Retribution Paladin;
- Our Retribution 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 affects your survivability and threat;
- The Gear guide for Retribution Paladin includes a list of gear to for you to acquire and where to find it;
Changelog
- 31 Aug. 2022: Page added.
This guide has been written by Sellin, a former top 10 US raider 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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