Retribution Paladin DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.1.0)

Last updated on Feb 27, 2025 at 10:00 by Bolas 72 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Retribution Paladin in World of Warcraft The War Within (11.1.0).

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. This guide 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:

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 find the 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:

3.

BiS Gear for Retribution Paladin

Season 2 Overall BiS List Season 2 Liberation of Undermine BiS List Season 2 Mythic+ BiS List
4.

Season 2 Overall BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from any source for Season 2 of The War Within.

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

Slot Item Source/Note
Weapon Best-in-Slots Icon Best-in-Slots Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Helm Fullthrottle Facerig Icon Fullthrottle Facerig The Geargrinder in Liberation of Undermine
Neck Semi-Charmed Amulet Icon Semi-Charmed Amulet Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Shoulder Aureate Sentry's Roaring Will Icon Aureate Sentry's Roaring Will Matrix Catalyst
Cloak Consecrated Cloak Icon Consecrated Cloak Tailoring
Chest Aureate Sentry's Encasement Icon Aureate Sentry's Encasement Matrix Catalyst
Bracers Everforged Vambraces Icon Everforged Vambraces Blacksmithing
Gloves Aureate Sentry's Gauntlets Icon Aureate Sentry's Gauntlets Matrix Catalyst
Belt Coin-Operated Girdle Icon Coin-Operated Girdle One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Legs Aureate Sentry's Legguards Icon Aureate Sentry's Legguards Matrix Catalyst
Boots Cutthroat Competition Stompers Icon Cutthroat Competition Stompers Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #1 The Jastor Diamond Icon The Jastor Diamond Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #2 Cyrce's Circlet Icon Cyrce's Circlet Siren Isle
Trinket #1 Eye of Kezan Icon Eye of Kezan Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #2 Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker Icon Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker Operation: Floodgate
4.

Liberation of Undermine BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Liberation of Undermine for Season 2 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.

Slot Item Source/Note
Weapon Best-in-Slots Icon Best-in-Slots Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Helm Fullthrottle Facerig Icon Fullthrottle Facerig The Geargrinder in Liberation of Undermine
Neck Semi-Charmed Amulet Icon Semi-Charmed Amulet Rik Reverb in Liberation of Undermine
Shoulder Aureate Sentry's Roaring Will Icon Aureate Sentry's Roaring Will Matrix Catalyst
Cloak Test Pilot's Go-Pack Icon Test Pilot's Go-Pack Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine
Chest Aureate Sentry's Encasement Icon Aureate Sentry's Encasement Matrix Catalyst
Bracers Test Subject's Clasps Icon Test Subject's Clasps Sprocketmonger Lockenstock in Liberation of Undermine
Gloves Aureate Sentry's Gauntlets Icon Aureate Sentry's Gauntlets Matrix Catalyst
Belt Coin-Operated Girdle Icon Coin-Operated Girdle One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
Legs Aureate Sentry's Legguards Icon Aureate Sentry's Legguards Matrix Catalyst
Boots Cutthroat Competition Stompers Icon Cutthroat Competition Stompers Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #1 The Jastor Diamond Icon The Jastor Diamond Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Ring #2 Cyrce's Circlet Icon Cyrce's Circlet Siren Isle
Trinket #1 Eye of Kezan Icon Eye of Kezan Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine
Trinket #2 House of Cards Icon House of Cards One-Armed Bandit in Liberation of Undermine
4.

Season 2 Mythic+ BiS List for Retribution Paladin

This list contains the BiS items from Mythic+ for Season 2 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.

Slot Item Source/Note
Weapon Dessia's Decimating Decapitator Icon Dessia's Decimating Decapitator Theater of Pain
Helm Aureate Sentry's Pledge Icon Aureate Sentry's Pledge Matrix Catalyst
Neck Strapped Rescue-Keg Icon Strapped Rescue-Keg Cinderbrew Meadery
Shoulder Aureate Sentry's Roaring Will Icon Aureate Sentry's Roaring Will Matrix Catalyst
Cloak Chef Chewie's Towel Icon Chef Chewie's Towel Cinderbrew Meadery
Chest Aureate Sentry's Encasement Icon Aureate Sentry's Encasement Matrix Catalyst
Bracers Stonefury Vambraces Icon Stonefury Vambraces The MOTHERLODE!!
Gloves Gauntlets of Absolute Authority Icon Gauntlets of Absolute Authority Operation: Mechagon
Belt Automatic Waist Tightener Icon Automatic Waist Tightener Operation: Mechagon
Legs Aureate Sentry's Legguards Icon Aureate Sentry's Legguards Matrix Catalyst
Boots Hops-Laden Greatboots Icon Hops-Laden Greatboots Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring #1 Ring of Perpetual Conflict Icon Ring of Perpetual Conflict Theater of Pain
Ring #2 Cyrce's Circlet Icon Cyrce's Circlet Siren Isle
Trinket #1 Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker Icon Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker Operation: Floodgate
Trinket #2 Signet of the Priory Icon Signet of the Priory Priory of the Sacred Flame
4.

Best Cyrce's Circlet Gems for Retribution Paladin

Cyrce's Circlet is a ring introduced in Patch 11.0.7 that you can acquire and upgrade by completing activities in the new Siren Isle zone, up to a maximum item level of 658. The ring has 3 sockets, which can each fit a specific kind of gem. There are four different gems available for each of the three sockets, for a total of 12 gems. The strength of the gem effects scale with the item level of your ring.

For Retribution, Cyrce's Circlet is significantly stronger than other rings and should be used as soon as possible. With the optimal gem combination, no other rings come close to competing with it, even including all Season 2 items.

For gems, these are the best choices for Retribution in all situations:

  • Thunder: Stormbringer's Runed Citrine Icon Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
  • Sea: Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine Icon Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
  • Wind: Legendary Skipper's Citrine Icon Legendary Skipper's Citrine

For more information on how to acquire and upgrade the ring, along with all of the different gems that it can use, check out our Cyrce's Circlet guide below:

5.

Best Trinkets for Retribution Paladin in The War Within Season 2

Raiding Trinket Tier List Mythic+ Trinket Tier List
6.

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

  • Eye of Kezan Icon Eye of Kezan
  • Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker Icon Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
5.2.

A-Tier

  • House of Cards Icon House of Cards
  • Mechano-Core Amplifier Icon Mechano-Core Amplifier
  • Suspicious Energy Drink Icon Suspicious Energy Drink
5.3.

B-Tier

  • Mister Lock-N-Stalk Icon Mister Lock-N-Stalk
  • Zee's Thug Hotline Icon Zee's Thug Hotline
  • Viscera of Coalesced Hatred Icon Viscera of Coalesced Hatred
  • Reverb Radio Icon Reverb Radio
5.4.

C-Tier

  • Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife Icon Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife
  • Signet of the Priory Icon Signet of the Priory
  • Spelunker's Waning Candle Icon Spelunker's Waning Candle
  • Sigil of Algari Concordance Icon Sigil of Algari Concordance
  • Funhouse Lens Icon Funhouse Lens
5.5.

D-Tier

  • Geargrinder's Spare Keys Icon Geargrinder's Spare Keys
  • Ravenous Honey Buzzer Icon Ravenous Honey Buzzer
  • Razdunk's Big Red Button Icon Razdunk's Big Red Button
  • Torq's Big Red Button Icon Torq's Big Red Button
  • Grim Codex Icon Grim Codex
  • Remnant of Darkness Icon Remnant of Darkness
  • K.U.-J.0.'s Flame Vents Icon K.U.-J.0.'s Flame Vents
  • Algari Alchemist Stone Icon 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.

5.6.

S-Tier

  • Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker Icon Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
5.7.

A-Tier

  • House of Cards Icon House of Cards
  • Mechano-Core Amplifier Icon Mechano-Core Amplifier
  • Suspicious Energy Drink Icon Suspicious Energy Drink
  • Spelunker's Waning Candle Icon Spelunker's Waning Candle
  • Funhouse Lens Icon Funhouse Lens
5.8.

B-Tier

  • Reverb Radio Icon Reverb Radio
  • Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife Icon Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife
  • Signet of the Priory Icon Signet of the Priory
5.9.

C-Tier

  • Geargrinder's Spare Keys Icon Geargrinder's Spare Keys
  • Razdunk's Big Red Button Icon Razdunk's Big Red Button
  • Zee's Thug Hotline Icon Zee's Thug Hotline
  • Ravenous Honey Buzzer Icon Ravenous Honey Buzzer
  • Viscera of Coalesced Hatred Icon Viscera of Coalesced Hatred
5.10.

D-Tier

  • Eye of Kezan Icon Eye of Kezan
  • Mister Lock-N-Stalk Icon Mister Lock-N-Stalk
  • Sigil of Algari Concordance Icon Sigil of Algari Concordance
  • Grim Codex Icon Grim Codex
  • Torq's Big Red Button Icon Torq's Big Red Button
  • Remnant of Darkness Icon Remnant of Darkness
  • K.U.-J.0.'s Flame Vents Icon K.U.-J.0.'s Flame Vents
  • Algari Alchemist Stone Icon Algari Alchemist Stone
6.

Retribution Paladin Tier Set for The War Within Season 2

The Tier Set bonuses for The War Within Season 2 for Retribution Paladin are:

  • Paladin Retribution 11.1 Class Set 2pc Icon Paladin Retribution 11.1 Class Set 2pc — Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak!, increasing the damage of your Final Verdict Icon Final Verdict and Divine Storm Icon Divine Storm by 2%, stacking up to 10 times. Spending Holy Power on damaging abilities has a 12% chance to remove Winning Streak!
  • Paladin Retribution 11.1 Class Set 4pc Icon Paladin Retribution 11.1 Class Set 4pc — When you lose your Winning Streak!, you get the last Holy Power spent back, you cannot lose Holy Power for the next 4 seconds, and the damage of your your Holy Power abilities are increased by 10%.

These bonuses increase the damage of your Holy Power spenders and provide more free casts of them. You should aim to get these bonuses as soon as possible and use them at all times.

7.

Retribution Paladin Crafted Gear and Embellishments

7.1.

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 Algari Missive of the Peerless Icon Algari Missive of the Peerless.

7.2.

Embellishments for Retribution Paladin

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

  1. 2x Dawnthread Lining Icon Dawnthread Lining
  2. 2x Elemental Focusing Lens Icon Elemental Focusing Lens
  3. Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension Icon Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension & Writhing Armor Banding Icon Writhing Armor Banding

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension Icon Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension along with Writhing Armor Banding Icon 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 675 then this combination is a good choice. Dawnthread Lining Icon Dawnthread Lining is very close to the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension Icon Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension combination, performing slightly ahead or behind depending on the uptime you can maintain and your other weapon options. Elemental Focusing Lens Icon Elemental Focusing Lens is the next best armor embellishment after Dawnthread Lining Icon Dawnthread Lining if you cannot maintain high uptime on its buff.

In Season 2, there are much stronger alternative weapons with special effects like Best-in-Slots Icon Best-in-Slots which means that any crafted weapon will eventually be replaced. Crafted weapons should be seen as an early way to get a high item level weapon easily, but not an item that will be permanently used in the long term - you will eventually want to swap to armor embellishments.

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.

8.

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, Legs, and Jewellery
  4. Shoulders, Belt, Gloves, and Boots
  5. Cloak and Bracers
9.

Changelog

  • 27 Feb. 2025: Updated gear recommendations.
  • 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
  • 01 Jan. 2025: Updated trinket recommendations.
  • 17 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
  • 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
  • 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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