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Paladin Guides for World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King

PVP WotLK Retribution Paladin Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Retribution Paladin guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Paladin class as Retribution. With this setup you will be king of the arena in no time!

Talents

This is the standard Retribution Paladin PVP Build.

Retribution Paladin PVP Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Other Viable Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit rating (8% for raids, 263 rating)
  2. Expertise (26 is cap, 213 rating)
  3. Strength
  4. Critical Strike
  5. Agility
  6. Haste

You need 8% hit rating to never miss bosses. Expertise reduces the chance of your attacks being dodged or parried. you need 26 expertiese or 213 expertise rating to hit cap. Once you hit expertise cap bosses will not be able to dodge your attacks.

Your primary stat for this build is Strength because it provides attack power and scales with raid buffs. Critical strike rating is also a very significant DPS boost. Agility increases our critical strike rating which makes it a decent stat. Lastly we have haste which is useful primarily because it increases our auto-attack frequency.

Rotation

PVP situations don’t usually allow for a rotation so I’m going to list some gameplay tips instead.

Your opponents should always be as debuffed as possible. This will make it harder to dispell your CC’s when you use them. Every time you land a crit you get an instant Flash of Light thanks to The Art of War. Judgement has a high critical strike chance, this makes it great at letting you cast instant Flash of Light‘s.

Almost never use Holy Light to heal. It costs a ton of mana and also has a long cast time making you vulnerable to interrupts. Don’t forget that you can heal with Divine Storm though.

Using Avenging Wrath with your trinkets can lead to deadly burst dps. You should coordinate this combo with your teammates to secure a kill.

PVE WotLK Retribution Paladin DPS Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Retribution Paladin guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Paladin class as Retribution.

Talents

This is the standard Aura Mastery spec. It has all of the core Retribution talents and Divine Intellect, and Aura Mastery from Holy.

Retribution Build (Aura Mastery)

This second build is a Divine Sacrifice build. This build is recommended for progression rading with a serious guild. This build is lower DPS with higher raid survivability thanks to Divine Sacrifice.

Retribution Paladin Build (Divine Sacrifice)

The first spec, Aura Mastery, is higher DPS and generally recommended.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Relentless Earthsiege Diamond requires 1 of each color to be activated, after activating it fill the rest of your sockets with Bold Cardinal Ruby.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit rating (8% for raids, 263 rating)
  2. Expertise (26 is cap, 213 rating)
  3. Strength
  4. Critical Strike
  5. Agility
  6. Haste

You need 8% hit rating to never miss bosses. Expertise reduces the chance of your attacks being dodged or parried. you need 26 expertiese or 213 expertise rating to hit cap. Once you hit expertise cap bosses will not be able to dodge your attacks.

Your primary stat for this build is Strength because it provides attack power and scales with raid buffs. Critical strike rating is also a very significant DPS boost. Agility increases our critical strike rating which makes it a decent stat. Lastly we have haste which is useful primarily because it increases our auto-attack frequency.

Rotation

Retribution Paladins have more of a priority list than a rotation. The priority list is listed below.

  1. Hammer of Wrath 
  2. Judgement 
  3. Crusader Strike 
  4. Divine Storm 
  5. Consecration 
  6. Exorcism
  7. Holy Wrath

Other than that, just use any skill as it comes off cooldown.

PVE WotLK Protection Paladin Tank Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Paladin Tank guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Paladin class as Tank.

Protection Paladins are good AOE tanks that have good damage mitigation. The take less damage than a Druid/Death Knight so mixing in a shield tank will really help your healers out.

Talents

Firstly, we have a build with just the core 56 talent points which are required as a prot paladin tank regardless.

Prot Paladin Core Talents

This 2nd build is the first “core” build filled out with Retribution talents to complete the build. The retribution talents give us better threat generation.

Prot Paladin Build (high threat)

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Insightful Earthsiege Diamond requires 2 blue and 1 red gem to activate. After you activate your meta you can either stack Solid Majestic Zircon for health or gem for stats depending on what you need/prefer.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Defense (540 is def cap / required to raid)
  2. Stamina
  3. Armor
  4. Hit rating (8% for raids)
  5. Expertise (26 is cap)
  6. Strength
  7. Dodge/Parry
  8. Block

You will need 540 Defense to be capped in raids. Keep in mind, this is 540 “Defense”, not defense rating. For raids you will need 8% hit, which is 263 hit rating. For dungeons you will need around 5%, which is 164 rating. Expertise cap is 26 which should be pretty easy to hit with the help of Combat Expertise, Glyph of Seal of Vengeance and racial weapon passives.

Rotation

Protection paladins follow the 969 rotation. This rotation contains 5 skills total. The first two skills have a 6 second cooldown and the other 3 skills have a 9 second cooldown. You use a 9 second CD skill then use a 6 second CD skill and work your way down the list alternating.

9 second skills

6 second skills

PVE WotLK Holy Paladin Healer Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Holy Paladin guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Paladin class as Holy. If you follow this build you should be topping the healing charts in no time!

The beauty of a holy paladin is their large heals combined with great survivability. When other healers may fall over dead, you will still be there, healing the tank to the bitter end. Holy Paladins make great tank healers by the way.

Talents

This is the common holy paladin build. It takes Divinity from the Protection tree to increase all healing by 5%. It also takes Conviction from the Retribution tree for the extra 5% critical strike chance.

Holy Paladin PVE Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Insightful Earthsiege Diamond requires one of each color gem to activate. This is why we need 1 red gem and 1 blue gem. Nightmare Tear is another option to activate your meta gem.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Intellect
  2. Spell Power
  3. Haste (676 soft cap)
  4. Critical Strike

Intellect is the main stat for Holy Paladins because it increases the size of your mana pool. Holy Light requires a lot of mana per cast, which is why we need a large mana pool.

You could use Flash of Light as your primary healing spell instead of Holy Light and this would change your primary stat from Intellect to Spell Power but this doesn’t work as well for end game content.

Rotation

Healing only one tank

Cast Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light on the tank and use Flash of Light, Holy Light and Holy Shock to heal everyone else.

Healing Two tanks

Cast Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light on one of the tanks and continually cast Holy Light & Holy Shock. If you are running out of mana use Flash of Light.

Lower Gear healing

If you have a lower gearscore, you are probably going OOM in most fights. You should switch to Flash of Light as your primary healing spell and use Holy Light occasionally to get the Light’s Grace buff.