Retribution Paladin DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — 12.0.5

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Although the Raid build linked above is a strong default build in most situations, each individual boss can have talents swapped depending on the profile your raid needs. The options listed here are strong swaps to make for each encounter, but you can still find success with alternative builds on each one too. The swaps listed are assuming the Templar Raid single-target build as a baseline.

• Take: Blessed Champion
• Drop: Judgment of Justice
• Radiant Glory can also be taken over Execution Sentence for stronger cleave damage and more flexible cooldown timings.

• Although a single-target build is the best choice for Vorasius, there is currently a bug that causes Execution Sentence to not be correctly applied sometimes, which makes Radiant Glory a more consistent choice.
• Take: Radiant Glory
• Drop: Execution Sentence

• Pure single-target is fine here, but picking up minimal passive cleave talents for the Orbs is also a decent option.
• Take: Blessed Champion
• Drop: Judgment of Justice

• The distance mechanics on this boss change depending on the difficulty, so some talents that are useful on Mythic are not useful on Normal or Heroic, since the distance is too big for them to cleave correctly.
• For difficulties below Mythic, there are plenty of situations where burst AoE is useful on this encounter, but many of the talents that are useful for consistent AoE situations aren't actually useful here. For example, Blade of Vengeance and Tempest of the Lightbringer won't contribute much damage, since the phases you are able to hit both bosses you still won't have enough range to cleave with Blade of Justice, and you will still cast Final Verdict instead of Divine Storm on two targets. Blessed Champion is a strong option here, since the spells it affects will cleave two targets on this encounter. Radiant Glory can also be a consideration as it can make Voidorb damage more consistent.
• On Normal or Heroic:
  • Take: Blessed Champion
  • Drop: Judgment of Justice
• The Mythic version of this encounter has timings that work much better for Radiant Glory and will allow the bosses to be close enough to be cleaved with Blade of Vengeance. Tempest of the Lightbringer is still not recommended since casting Divine Storm is worse than Final Verdict on 2 targets.
• On Mythic:
  • Take: Blessed Champion, Blade of Vengeance, Radiant Glory, Sanctify
  • Drop: Judgment of Justice, 2 points in Heart of the Crusader, Execution Sentence

• This is an encounter where you can consistently always cleave either two or three targets. This makes AoE talents more valuable, although you will still end up focusing and cleaving off a priority target when you are able to hit two enemies.
• Take: Blessed Champion, Blade of Vengeance, and Sanctify
• Drop: 2 points in Heart of the Crusader and Judgment of Justice
• Radiant Glory can also be taken over Execution Sentence with little overall difference. An alternative option is to run full cleave talents and only use Divine Storm as a regular spender, even on two targets. For this, you would drop Jurisdiction and Final Verdict and instead run Tempest of the Lightbringer and Judgment of Justice.

• Although there are opportunities to cleave on this encounter, all the important areas for damage on Heroic are single-target - all cleave can be done passively. This makes a pure single-target build the best choice. Timings for Execution Sentence also work very well on this encounter.
• For Mythic, cleave talents are a lot more useful. Taking Blessed Champion over Judgment of Justice is worth it on this difficulty.

• Although single-target damage does still matter, there are a lot of opportunities for useful passive cleave on this encounter, which makes some AoE options pretty attractive.
• Take: Blessed Champion, Blade of Vengeance, Radiant Glory, Sanctify
• Drop: Judgment of Justice, 2 points in Heart of the Crusader, Execution Sentence

• For the Bird phase, there will be adds that spawn consistently that can be cleaved. Blessed Champion is useful for these, but Blade of Vengeance won't damage them if you're cleaving off the boss.
• Take: Blessed Champion
• Drop: Judgment of Justice

• The regular single target build is the best option for this encounter. Although there are adds that spawn, the timings line up perfectly with normal burst cooldowns, and additional AoE talents will provide little to not benefit for the stronger passive cleave during burst windows.