Retribution Paladin DPS Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Retribution Paladin for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Retribution Paladins and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Retribution Paladin
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Retribution Paladin
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection when targeted by
Spew Oil.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
- Vexie has a burn phase where she takes extra damage, but this phase is very long so you will naturally always get at least one set of cooldowns during it.
Mechanical Tips
- You shouldn't need to actively try to cleave adds to kill them.
Passive cleave from
Wrathful Descent and
Divine Hammer should be enough alone.
Mythic Difficulty
- On Mythic you will need to catch
Oil Canisters that drop when Bikers die to prevent them from spawning
Oil Slicks.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection when at high debuff stacks or during
Colossal Clash.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
Mechanical Tips
- This encounter has a single-target phase and a two-target phase. In general single-target focused talents are the best choice here,
since you will be in that phase longer and much of your cleave is passive.
Tempest of the Lightbringer is still taken for the two-target phase.
Mythic Difficulty
- Toys will periodically appear in the arena. These will need to be kicked into opposite ones before
Colossal Clash to prevent a wipe.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection with the
Lingering Voltage DoT or during the intermission phase.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
- Rik does have an immune phase where he takes 99% less damage - make sure you don't use longer cooldowns like
Divine Hammer before this.
Mechanical Tips
- Rik is primarily a single-target fight. On Heroic or Mythic there are semi-frequent add spawns that need to be cleaved down quickly,
but you will not need to swap any talents for this - that said, you can use
Wake of Ashes and
Hammer of Light if your group is struggling to kill them.
Mythic Difficulty
- On Mythic failing some mechanics will cause you to become
Entranced, requiring you to be damaged to break the effect.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection during
Electromagnetic Sorting.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
- Stix also has an immune phase where he takes 99% less damage - make sure you don't use longer cooldowns like
Divine Hammer before this.
- Sometimes you will be targeted by
Rolling Rubbish. Do not worry if you used cooldowns before this, they will generally be up again by the time you finish it.
Mechanical Tips
- Stix is predominantly single-target but does have some extra adds that will need to be cleaved down.
Our passive cleave from
Wrathful Descent and
Divine Hammer should be enough for this without needing to swap talents.
- Territorial Bombshells will spawn that will need to be damaged below 75% health before they can be dragged to the boss.
You can swap to these if they need more damage, but it is not ideal to have to swap targets for
Execution Sentence.
Mythic Difficulty
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection during
Sonic Ba-Boom.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
- Do not worry about boss movement during cooldowns - your Holy Power generation should be high enough to not need to be in melee range for them.
Mechanical Tips
- Sprocketmonger is a pure single-target boss, so there is no need for any cleave talents.
- Although the boss will move out of range constantly, Ret has long enough range that you should be able to continue damaging the boss.
Mythic Difficulty
- On Mythic all players are assigned
Posi-Polarization or
Nega-Polarization, which deals damage and knocks you back when you come into contact with the opposite one.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-ARmed Bandit for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection when targeted by
Withering Flames.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
Mechanical Tips
- This boss is primarily single-target. There will be occasional secondary priority targets that spawn that will need to be specifically damaged.
Ideally you do not have to hard swap during
Execution Sentence, but if possible try to damage the assigned adds.
Mythic Difficulty
- Reel Attendants will need to be intentionally hit by
Pay-Line in order to be defeated.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Retribution Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use
Shield of Vengeance or
Divine Protection while Mk II Electro Shocker are active.
Cooldown Usage
- In general, Ret's cooldown usage is the same on every fight - the gap between our cooldowns is so short that you can use them on cooldown every time.
Mechanical Tips
- Mug'Zee is a predominantly single-target boss with occasional priority add spawns.
Some of these adds will spawn inside
Earthshaker Gaol that will require you to kill the add to break out, while others can be cleaved down while fighting the boss. Single-target talents should be sufficient for any priority targets.
Mythic Difficulty
- Many mechanics require interactions from opposite sides to remove them.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Retribution Paladin
This boss was not testable on the TWW Alpha/Beta servers. Information will be forthcoming once it is available on Live servers.
Defensive Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Cooldown Usage
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mechanical Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage
Retribution Paladin has a wide array of defensive abilities - some that reduce damage, some that prevent it, and some that heal you instead.
For large single hits or damage over a short period, you should use Shield of Vengeance and
Divine Protection as your regular short cooldown defensives.
Divine Shield prevents all damage and also removes most debuffs but has a much longer cooldown, so it should be seen as a last resort.
Lay on Hands and
Word of Glory can also be used to help heal yourself and others if damage is ticking at a slower pace, but mana is a limitation to you being able to spam these.
General Cooldown Usage
Retribution Paladin has very straightforward damage cooldowns with the recommended builds. Wake of Ashes and
Execution Sentence
are your most important active cooldowns, which also share a very short cooldown of 30 seconds. This means that they are very easy to sync up but also that delaying
casting them will very often cause you to lose total casts over an encounter with such a short cooldown. You should aim to cast them as close to on cooldown as possible
while still keeping mechanics or boss phases in mind.
Divine Hammer is maintained by spending Holy Power and should be kept up as much as possible.
Make sure not to activate it before a boss becomes immune or disappears.
Changelog
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Bolas, a long time Retribution Paladin enthusiast, theorycrafter, and sometimes high-end raider. You can find him in the Paladin Discord as bolas.ret.
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