Welcome to Skill Capped’s Retribution Paladin PvP Guide for The War Within 11.0
All sections for Retribution Paladin PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Retribution Paladins in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Retribution Paladins in The War Within.
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What’s New for Retribution Paladins in The War Within?
Entering into The War Within, Retribution Paladin has experienced massive changes, especially directed at their playstyle. Most of this comes from their newly introduced hero talents, giving them more exciting ways to deliver massive amounts of pressure onto their opponents.
Starting off with our specialization tree, Retribution Paladins receive a new talent, Radiant Glory, that grants you short wings proc after using Wake of Ashes. This makes Wake of Ashes way more important in our rotation than before. Avenging Wrath also received some modifications to it, as this will not lose out on healing and damage when specced into Avenging Wrath: Might, which can make normal wings more of a preferred option than Crusade in niche cases.
Entering into the hero talent trees, our first tree, Herald of the Sun, focuses on maximizing AoE and sustain damage with our new powerful passive ability called Dawnlight. Dawnlight is a potent damage-over-time effect applied to your target after using Wake of Ashes and two Holy Power spenders. This also radiates a portion of its damage to nearby enemies, linking your character to any active Dawnlights as a beam effect, and deals significant damage to targets passing through them.
Our second viable hero talent tree is Templar, which provides more direct single target and burst damage with our new talent, Light’s Guidance. This talent grants you access to Hammer of Light, a powerful five Holy Power cost finisher dealing massive damage to the target and four nearby enemies, after using Wake of Ashes. It synergizes incredibly well with our Radiant Glory talent, granting you Avenging Wrath whenever Hammer of Light is available for massive burst.
Both Radiant Glory and our hero talents revolve around Wake of Ashes to activate our primary damage modifiers and abilities. This makes Wake of Ashes your main source of delivering damage regardless of what hero talent build you pick if you choose this talent.
Overall, this spec tends to be deadly in competitive play, as you have multiple routes of dealing damage depending on the composition you play or face. You’ll also receive more uptime on your Avenging Wrath as opposed to previously in Dragonflight if you select Radiant Glory, making this spec feel great when played offensively.
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