Retribution Paladin leveling build (10–60)

How to play it

• Seal of Command at level 20 is the engine: 70% weapon damage procs. Judge it on big pulls and let Sanctified Judgement refund mana.
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization and Vengeance stack with crits from Conviction; Pursuit of Justice is 15% movement speed, which is worth two talent points on any leveling route.
• Champion of the Light converts up to 60% of Intellect into spell damage, so Holy Strike, Judgements and Consecration scale with the mail you are wearing.
• Unsealed Wrath at 40 stores copies of your Seal; use Holy Strike (trained) to spend them.

Talents taken

Holy (5)

• Divine Strength 5/5: Increases your Strength by 10%.

Protection (14)

• Divine Intellect 5/5: Increases your total Intellect by 10%.
• Redoubt 3/5: Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 18%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks.
• Precision 3/3: Improves your chance to hit by 3%.
• Improved Hammer of Justice 3/3: Decreases the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice spell by 15 sec.

Retribution (32)

• Benediction 5/5: Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 10%.
• Improved Judgement 2/2: Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement ability by 2 sec.
• Conviction 3/3: Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 6%.
• Sanctified Judgement 3/3: Gives your Judgement ability a 100% chance to return 60% of the Mana cost of the judged seal.
• Vindication 2/3: Gives your damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Attack Power by 136 for 30 sec.
• Seal of Command 1/1: Gives the Paladin a chance to deal additional Holy damage equal to 70% of normal weapon damage. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Lasts 30 sec. Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing 68 to 73 Holy damage, 137 to 145 if the target is stunned or incapacitated.
• Pursuit of Justice 2/2: Increases movement speed and mounted movement speed by 15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.
• Sacred Arbiter 1/1: Increases the damage of your Holy Strike ability by 20% and causes it to refresh all Judgement effects on the target.
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 3/3: Increases the Holy and Physical damage you deal by 6%, and reduces all threat you generate by 20% while a two-handed melee weapon is equipped.
• Repentance 1/1: Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 6 sec. Any damage caused will awaken the target. Only works against Humanoids.
• Vengeance 3/3: Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 3% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Champion of the Light 5/5: Increases your spell damage by up to 60% of your Intellect, and reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 1.0 sec.
• Unsealed Wrath 1/1: Your melee attacks store a copy of your active Seal for 15 sec, stacking up to 3 times. Landing an attack with a different Seal consumes all stacks, giving the stored Seal its normal chance to activate once per stack.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).