Retribution Paladin 17/0/34
Where the 51 points go
Holy17 pts
Increases your Strength by 10%.
Increases your total Intellect by 10%.
Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 15%.
Allows 20% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Reduces the mana cost of your Cleanse and Purify spells by 20% and reduces the cooldown of your Exorcism and Holy Wrath spells by 33%.
Protection0 pts
Retribution34 pts
Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 10%.
Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement ability by 2 sec.
Reduces the mana cost of your Consecration, Holy Wrath, Exorcism, and Hammer of Wrath spells by 40%.
Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 5%.
Gives your Judgement ability a 100% chance to return 60% of the Mana cost of the judged seal.
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.
Increases movement speed and mounted movement speed by 15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.
Increases the damage of your Holy Strike ability by 20% and causes it to refresh all Judgement effects on the target.
Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 6%.
Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 3% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 3 times.
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.
Increases your spell damage by up to 60% of your Intellect.
Reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 1.0 sec, and reduces all threat you generate by 20% while Righteous Fury is not active.
Reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%, and when you replace your Seal of Command, Seal of Righteousness, Seal of Fury, or Seal of Justice with a different Seal, you gain an Echo of that Seal. Your next melee attack applies the replaced Seal's effects, consuming the Echo.
Level-by-level talent order
You get your first point at level 10 and one more every level, so each row is one level. Rows marked with a tree name are where that tree opens a new tier.
| Level | Put the point in | Rank | Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1/5 | Retribution | |
| 11 | 2/5 | Retribution | |
| 12 | 3/5 | Retribution | |
| 13 | 4/5 | Retribution | |
| 14 | 5/5 | Retribution | |
| 15 | 1/2 | Retribution | |
| 16 | 2/2 | Retribution | |
| 17 | 1/5 | Retribution | |
| 18 | 2/5 | Retribution | |
| 19 | 3/5 | Retribution | |
| 20 | 4/5 | Retribution | |
| 21 | 5/5 | Retribution | |
| 22 | 1/3 | Retribution | |
| 23 | 2/3 | Retribution | |
| 24 | 3/3 | Retribution | |
| 25 | 1/1 | Retribution | |
| 26 | 1/2 | Retribution | |
| 27 | 2/2 | Retribution | |
| 28 | 1/1 | Retribution | |
| 29 | 1/2 | Retribution | |
| 30 | 2/2 | Retribution | |
| 31 | 1/3 | Retribution | |
| 32 | 2/3 | Retribution | |
| 33 | 3/3 | Retribution | |
| 34 | 1/3 | Retribution | |
| 35 | 2/3 | Retribution | |
| 36 | 3/3 | Retribution | |
| 37 | 1/1 | Retribution | |
| 38 | 1/3 | Retribution | |
| 39 | 2/3 | Retribution | |
| 40 | 3/3 | Retribution | |
| 41 | 1/2 | Retribution | |
| 42 | 2/2 | Retribution | |
| 43 | 1/1 | Retribution | |
| 44 | 1/5 | Holy | |
| 45 | 2/5 | Holy | |
| 46 | 3/5 | Holy | |
| 47 | 4/5 | Holy | |
| 48 | 5/5 | Holy | |
| 49 | 1/5 | Holy | |
| 50 | 2/5 | Holy | |
| 51 | 3/5 | Holy | |
| 52 | 4/5 | Holy | |
| 53 | 5/5 | Holy | |
| 54 | 1/3 | Holy | |
| 55 | 2/3 | Holy | |
| 56 | 3/3 | Holy | |
| 57 | 1/2 | Holy | |
| 58 | 2/2 | Holy | |
| 59 | 1/3 | Holy | |
| 60 | 2/3 | Holy |
Stat priority and gearing
Seal of Command procs scale with weapon damage, so weapon speed and damage range beat any single stat.
Hit caps (9% melee, 16% spells, 440 Defense) are the Classic 1.12 values Forever inherits; the news desk notes any change. Pre-raid best-in-slot lists will be added once the Forever item database is public and verified; we will not guess at item stats.