Retribution Paladin

Templar

Reliable ⓘPatched ⓘ

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Retribution Paladin (Templar) deals 84% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 17 of 51) and 80% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 33 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 13.5% more than SimulationCraft's.

At a glance

4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept

Fight	Manual DPS	SBA + cooldown	SBA alone	Assisted Highlight	Rank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon	278,017	83.9%−16.12%	57.7%−42.27%	97.4%−2.59%	17 of 51
Raid boss	240,287	80.1%−19.86%	55.5%−44.51%	95.4%−4.60%	33 of 51

Against real +15 players

Real dungeons · data from 7 Nov 2026

−5%damage with the button and cooldowns, simulated on real +15 routes, against typical Retribution Paladin (Templar) players, from 172 real runs.

All specs against real players, and how it is measured

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What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

86%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 59%, Assisted Highlight 98%.

Manual308.5Kreference
SBA + cooldown264.7K86% of manual
SBA alone182.7K59% of manual
Assisted Highlight303.3K98% of manual

Patched: SimulationCraft needs a fix to play Blizzard's list for this spec.Patch 0007-paladin-ret-sba-judgment-becomes-hammer-of-wrath. In the game the Judgment button becomes Hammer of Wrath while its buff is up; SimulationCraft never pressed it. The patch lets the button become Hammer of Wrath. Without the fix (SimulationCraft as published, or Raidbots) the assistant's figures differ; manual play is not affected.

Best Mythic+ talents for the button

For one-button play in M+, import this build: +13.5% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's build.

Best of 9 builds tested with the button (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-10-04: a talent search for the button, one talent swap at a time from the build of the #8 M+ player on murlok.io.

One-button damage (SBA + cooldown DPS), M+ dungeon, 4-piece

Best M+ build for the buttonRecommended264,701+13.5%
SimulationCraft's build233,201

Best M+ build for the button: talent string Recommended for one-button

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SimulationCraft's build: talent string

CYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANbbzMzywMDAAAAAAzUGzwMjtxsNMz2MGjxwMWYbAAAZmptZmtZAAbAGAMmhZwMmZ2w2MYYMjBD

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. The best build we found for the button. Every figure on this page uses it.

Best raid talents for the button

For one-button play on a raid boss, import this build: +0.6% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's raid build.

Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-11): it starts from SimulationCraft's raid build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats SimulationCraft's raid build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps SimulationCraft's raid build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.

Talents changed: it drops Sanctification and takes Endless Wrath. Defensive talents stay: no build that drops one is offered. The search only counts damage, so check you can do without what it drops (a utility spell, for example).

Best raid build for the button: talent string Recommended for one-button

CYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANbbzMzywMDAAAAAAzUGzwMjtxsNMz2MGjxwMWYbAAAZmptZmlZAAbAGAMmhZwMmZ2w2MYYMjBD

SimulationCraft's raid build: talent string

CYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANbbzMzywMDAAAAAAzUGzwMjtxsNMz2MGjxwMWYbAAAZmptZmtZAAbAGAMmhZwMmZ2w2MYYMjBD

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

Ability	Manual	SBA + cooldown	SBA + cooldown vs manual
Divine Storm	36.5K11.8% · 86.3 casts	31.7K11.9% · 54.8 casts	−4,824
Hammer of Light	32.1K10.4% · 25.9 casts	29.6K11.1% · 23.7 casts	−2,547
Divine Arbiter	27.1K8.8% · 32.6 casts	19.4K7.3% · 20.7 casts	−7,674
Crusading Strikes	27.0K8.7% · 275.6 casts	26.9K10.1% · 268.9 casts	−45
Final Verdict	21.1K6.8% · 86.8 casts	25.0K9.4% · 106.5 casts	+3,963
Empyrean Hammer	19.6K6.3% · 612.3 casts	17.4K6.5% · 558.5 casts	−2,190
Light Within	17.2K5.6% · 30.3 casts	14.2K5.3% · 24.1 casts	−3,062
Perfected Guillotine	13.3K4.3% · 29 casts	12.9K4.9% · 28.3 casts	−351
Execution Sentence	13.2K4.3% · 5.5 casts	5,9652.2% · 6.3 casts	−7,281
Divine Hammer	13.2K4.3% · 50.8 casts	10.5K3.9% · 41.1 casts	−2,694
Blade of Justice	11.5K3.7% · 52.9 casts	8,6863.3% · 38.3 casts	−2,784
Highlord's Judgment	9,5683.1% · 59.7 casts	5,9242.2% · 35.6 casts	−3,644
Empyrean Hammer (Wd)	9,0672.9% · 166.3 casts	8,3543.1% · 150.4 casts	−713
Divine Storm (Tempest)	7,9362.6% · 86.3 casts	6,9102.6% · 54.8 casts	−1,026
Expurgation	5,6121.8% · 137.7 casts	4,0741.5% · 98.5 casts	−1,538
Hammer of Wrath	5,5741.8% · 14.1 casts	2,1130.8% · 5 casts	−3,461
Truth's Wake	5,1321.7% · 26.7 casts	4,5731.7% · 24.8 casts	−559
Hammer of Wrath (Divine Exaction)	4,0351.3% · 11.3 casts	3,0241.1% · 7.8 casts	−1,011
Hammer of Wrath (Divine Toll)	3,3681.1% · 12.9 casts	2,8781.1% · 9.6 casts	−490
Execution Sentence (Init)	2,9541.0%	3,3651.3%	+411
Judgment	3,1791.0% · 17.8 casts	1,4750.6% · 8 casts	−1,704
Consecration (Tick Blade Of Justice)	3,0671.0%	2,8411.1%	−226
Venomfang Burst	3,0141.0% · 85 casts	2,9121.1% · 82.9 casts	−102
Devour Morsel	2,3370.8% · 42 casts	2,6311.0% · 49.4 casts	+294
Wake of Ashes	2,6040.8% · 11 casts	2,4780.9% · 10.2 casts	−126
Venomfang	2,2420.7% · 89.4 casts	2,1750.8% · 87.4 casts	−67
Wake of Ashes	1,8020.6% · 10.8 casts	1,7370.7% · 10 casts	−65
Wake of Ashes	1,7740.6% · 10.7 casts	1,7430.7% · 9.8 casts	−31
Judgment (Divine Exaction)	1,6620.5% · 9.7 casts	1,6650.6% · 9.2 casts	+3
Judgment (Divine Toll)	1,3150.4% · 10.3 casts	1,4660.6% · 10.7 casts	+151
Rune of Unleashed Fire	9220.3% · 54.8 casts	9170.3% · 54.4 casts	−5
Rune of Lingering	3020.1% · 54.8 casts	2980.1% · 54.4 casts	−4
Total	309.2K	265.8K	−43.4K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Retribution Paladin (Templar)

What are the best Mythic+ talents for Retribution Paladin (Templar) with the one-button rotation?

The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 13.5% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 9 builds tested (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.

What are the best raid talents for Retribution Paladin (Templar) with the one-button rotation?

The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant on a raid boss deals 0.6% more damage with the button than the raid build we used before. It comes from a talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import.

How much DPS does Retribution Paladin (Templar) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

Related builds

Other hero talents of Retribution Paladin

Retribution Paladin · Herald of the SunM+ −18.45% · raid −28.91%

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.