Hi all,
I haven’t played a Paladin since vanilla and I remember hating all the seals and judgements - at that time it was just too much for me. I rolled a Retribution Paladin last night and bought all of the heirlooms I could get but when I went to icy-veins to look at the rotations, many of the rotations started at level 110, even though I chose the rotation guide for level 1 through – and I won’t have the spells suggested as first and second moves until much later levels.
Can you please post your favorite leveling guide for Retribution paladin, starting at level 20?
Seltzer
Ret is very simple. You have 2 types of abilities; abilities that generate holy power and abilities and spend holy power. Playing ret isn’t about pressing the buttons in the same order for an entire fight, it’s more of a dance. While you’re levelling, get a feel for the relationship between your generators and spenders. The other important synergy to be aware of is the buff judgement applies; it will increase the dmg of your next spender. As a rule of thumb, 2+ targets you should use divine storm, single target always use templars verdict.
As for your talents, https://www.wowhead.com/talent-calc/paladin/retribution/cpjz - EDIT (TALENTS ARE STRICTLY FOR LEVELLING; DO NOT USE AS YOUR RAIDING OR 5MAN SETUP)
Whilst levelling, you should have judgement, blade of justice and crusader strike. Basically, try following this.
Start the fight with judgement, blade of justice, crusader strike.
Now you have 4 holy power. Use your templar’s verdict.
This is where it gets fun, because now you have to look at two things while you use crusader strike again: your judgement and blade of justice cooldowns, and any procs.
Your main goal is to always use judgement before blade of justice and you should almost never have both of your crusader strike charges available.
An example where having both crusader strikes ready is if you have 3 holy power AND your blade of justice is available. In this case, you will obviously use blade of justice to get 5 holy power (this also follows the priority system because judge > blade > crusader strike; crusader strike comes last).
- EDIT (I may be wrong, but I do believe this is the ONLY time you ignore the priority for judgement > blade of justice, because if you are on 3 holy power, judgement is ready but a blade of justice proc puts it off cooldown, I do believe it’s better to use blade of justice before using judgement.)
So basically playing ret well requires you to understand the priority system, keeping a constant eye on your cooldowns, any procs as well as how much holy power you currently have. If you can start trying to track all of this while you’re levelling, by the time you get to 120 you will be very comfortable in most content!
Good luck =)
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Great! I’m going to try this out. Thank you.