Classic Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot

Use the buttons below to choose a phase and view the Best in Slot gear-set available during that phase.

2.

Retribution Paladins Gear Sets

Phase 6 Phase 5 Phase 3 & 4 Phase 1 & 2

2.1.

Phase 1 & 2 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Lionheart Helm	Blacksmithing
Neck	Onyxia Tooth Pendant	Celebrating Good Times
Shoulder	Truestrike Shoulders	Pyroguard Emberseer Upper Blackrock Spire
Cloak	Cape of the Black Baron	Baron Rivendare Stratholme
Chest	Savage Gladiator Chain	Gorosh the Dervish Blackrock Depths
Wrist	Wristguards of Stability	Shared Loot Molten Core
Hands	Flameguard Gauntlets	Shared Loot Molten Core
Waist	Onslaught Girdle	Ragnaros Molten Core
Legs	Cloudkeeper Legplates	BoE World Drop
Feet	Bloodmail Boots	Shared Loot Scholomance
Ring 1	Quick Strike Ring	Shared Loot Molten Core
Ring 2	Painweaver Band	General Drakkisath Upper Blackrock Spire
Trinket 1	Hand of Justice	Emperor Dagran Thaurissan Blackrock Depths
Trinket 2	Blackhand's Breadth	General Drakkisath's Demise
Weapon	Bonereaver's Edge	Ragnaros Molten Core

2.2.

Phase 3 & 4 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Lionheart Helm	Blacksmithing
Neck	Onyxia Tooth Pendant	Celebrating Good Times
Shoulder	Drake Talon Pauldrons	3 Dragons Blackwing Lair
Cloak	Cloak of Draconic Might	Trash Blackwing Lair
Chest	Savage Gladiator Chain	Gorosh the Dervish Blackrock Depths
Wrist	Wristguards of Stability	Shared Loot Molten Core
Hands	Flameguard Gauntlets	Shared Loot Molten Core
Waist	Onslaught Girdle	Ragnaros Molten Core
Legs	Legguards of the Fallen Crusader	Firemaw Blackwing Lair
Feet	Chromatic Boots	Chromaggus Blackwing Lair
Ring 1	Circle of Applied Force	Flamegor Blackwing Lair
Ring 2	Master Dragonslayer's Ring	The Lord of Blackrock
Trinket 1	Hand of Justice	Emperor Dagran Thaurissan Blackrock Depths
Trinket 2	Blackhand's Breadth	General Drakkisath's Demise
Weapon	The Untamed Blade	Razorgore the Untamed Blackwing Lair

2.3.

Phase 5 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Avenger's Crown	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Neck	Onyxia Tooth Pendant	Celebrating Good Times
Shoulder	Avenger's Pauldrons	Shared Loot AQ40
Cloak	Cloak of Concentrated Hatred	The Prophet Skeram AQ40
Chest	Avenger's Breastplate	C'Thun AQ40
Wrist	Hive Defiler Wristguards	Princess Huhuran AQ40
Hands	Gauntlets of the Righteous Champion	Viscidus AQ40
Waist	Ossirian's Binding	Ossirian the Unscarred AQ20
Legs	Avenger's Legguards	Ouro AQ40
Feet	Avenger's Greaves	Shared Loot AQ40
Ring 1	Band of Accuria	Ragnaros Molten Core
Ring 2	Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight	Brood of Nozdormu Exalted
Trinket 1	Heart of Wyrmthalak	Overlord Wyrmthalak Lower Blackrock Spire
Trinket 2	Darkmoon Card: Maelstrom	Darkmoon Elementals Deck
Weapon	Dark Edge of Insanity	C'Thun AQ40
Libram	Libram of Fervor	BoE World Drop

2.4.

Phase 6 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Avenger's Crown	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Neck	Onyxia Tooth Pendant	Celebrating Good Times
Shoulder	Avenger's Pauldrons	Shared Loot AQ40
Cloak	Shroud of Dominion	Sapphiron Naxxramas
Chest	Avenger's Breastplate	C'Thun AQ40
Wrist	Wristguards of Vengeance	Anub'Rekhan Naxxramas
Hands	Gauntlets of the Righteous Champion	Viscidus AQ40
Waist	Girdle of the Mentor	Instructor Razuvious Naxxramas
Legs	Avenger's Legguards	Ouro AQ40
Feet	Avenger's Greaves	Shared Loot AQ40
Ring 1	Band of Unnatural Forces	Loatheb Naxxramas
Ring 2	Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight	Brood of Nozdormu Exalted
Trinket 1	Heart of Wyrmthalak	Overlord Wyrmthalak Lower Blackrock Spire
Trinket 2	Darkmoon Card: Maelstrom	Darkmoon Elementals Deck
Weapon	Corrupted Ashbringer	Four Horsemen Naxxramas
Libram	Libram of Fervor	BoE World Drop

While not used for many bosses, some raid encounters will require the use of resistance gear to simply just survive the incoming damage. Below you can find our recommended gear sets for Frost, Nature, and Fire resistance gear sets, allowing you to easily optimize your gear choices when resistances are needed.

Some items, which are not powerful enough to be in the best in slot list, have special properties that make them very valuable to acquire for specific encounters or as a weapon swap mid-fight. We will list the most notable special items for the current phase, and their effects and application below.

• Gnomish Battle Chicken summons a chicken that attacks your enemies for 1.5 minutes, with a cooldown of 30 minutes. The chicken scales with your Engineering skill (Level 60 at 300 skill), and buffs your group with 5% increased Attack Speed through Battle Squawk. This is what makes it well worth using while grouped.
• Arcanite Dragonling summons a dragon that attacks your enemies for up to 1 minute, with a cooldown of one hour. The dragon scales with your Engineering skill (Level 60 at 300 skill) and causes a stacking debuff that increases Fire damage taken, which makes it worth using in later raids to boost Fire Mage damage.
• Skull of Impending Doom is given as a quest reward from completing Forbidden Knowledge in the Badlands. While generally undesirable, if you need to run somewhere fast, it can be a useful item to have.
• Furbolg Medicine Pouch is sold by Gorn One Eye when you reach Honored status with Timbermaw Hold. This is a great item that you can swap during combat to provide you with a significant 1000 heal over 10 seconds. For comparison's sake, Heavy Runecloth Bandage heals you for 2000 over 8 seconds, but requires you to channel it, and you cannot take any sort of damage in the channel duration.
• Tidal Charm allows you to instantly stun an enemy for 3 seconds. It has a 50% drop chance from Prince Nazjak, who spawns around 25,84 in Arathi Highlands. Due to his very high respawn timer it might be hard to get this trinket, but the stun it provides is a life saver and duel winner.
• Linken's Boomerang allows you to potentially disarm or stun an enemy when used, which makes it useful in certain scenarios, especially in PvP. Its rewarded from the Un'Goro Crater quest It's Dangerous to Go Alone.
• Luffa removes a bleed effect, such as Garrote, from yourself when used. You get this item from the Searing Gorge quest Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More Like It.
• The Alliance-only Crystal of Zin-Malor allows you to kill yourself easily, and you do not get durability loss if you die from its effect. This can occasionally be useful, such as when you regret getting on a fly path after you are already flying or if you need to talk with the Blackrock Depths key ghost NPC. You get it from starting the quest Tormented By the Past.