In this article, we present you with various talent trees for Retribution Paladins (WoW 4.3) that you can use in specific situations. We also give you pointers for customising your talent tree and adapting it to a particular boss. The other articles of our Retribution Paladin guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the left.

1. Standard Talent Build↑top

As a Retribution Paladin, there is a one talent build that is ideally suited for most raid encounters.

This build takes all the useful talents possible while maximising your DPS potential. The single optional talent point is placed in Divinity.

2. Customising Your Build↑top

As a Retribution Paladin, you have an extremely limited choice of optional talents. We will present them briefly, before explaining what each of the relevant glyphs does.

2.1. Optional Talents

You only have one free talent point that you can place freely in one of the following talents:

• Repentance, which provides you the Repentance ability, a form of crowd-control. It does not have many uses in raid encounters.
• Divinity, which provides you with a minor increase in healing received (as well as healing done). It provides you with slightly better survivability.

2.2. Glyphs

2.2.1. Prime Glyphs

You should use the following 3 glyphs in all situations:

• Glyph of Exorcism, which increases the damage of Exorcism by 20% (in the form of a DoT).
• Glyph of Seal of Truth, which provides you with 10 Expertise (skill, not rating) when Seal of Truth or Seal of Righteousness is active.
• Glyph of Templar's Verdict, which increases the damage of Templar's Verdict by 15%.

A few mentions should be made regarding Glyph of Seal of Truth:

• The Expertise that you gain from it will show up on your character sheet while Seal of Truth or Seal of Righteousness are active, so it is easy for you to calculate how far you are from the desired 26 Expertise cap (see the statistics page for more details).
• This glyph should never be replaced, not even if you are over the Expertise cap when using it. In this case, you will simply reforge Expertise Rating off your gear (see the statistics page for more details).

2.2.2. Major Glyphs

Major Glyphs do not provide any DPS increases. Glyph of the Ascetic Crusader is the only mandatory glyph, which reduces the mana cost of your Crusader Strike.

Other options include:

• Glyph of Hammer of Wrath, which reduces the mana cost of Hammer of Wrath. This glyph is recommended.
• Glyph of Divine Protection, which causes your Divine Protection to grant 40% magic damage reduction (as opposed to 20% physical damage reduction and 20% magic damage reduction when unglyphed).
• Glyph of Rebuke, which removes the mana cost of Rebuke. It is useful in fights where you need to interrupt regularly.
• Glyph of Holy Wrath, which causes your Holy Wrath to also stun Elementals and Dragonkin, which can be useful in some encounters.

2.2.3. Minor Glyphs

Minor Glyphs generally provide you with small benefits that make your life easier, but do not increase the strength of your character or your raid. The best glyphs to use are:

• Glyph of Blessing of Kings, which reduces the mana cost of your Blessing of Kings by 50%.
• Glyph of Blessing of Might, which reduces the mana cost of your Blessing of Might by 50%.
• Glyph of Truth, which reduces the mana cost of your Seal of Truth by 50%.