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The Paladin has gotten some fantastic boosts with the WoTLK expansion. It is primarily their damage tree that has received a lot of positive changes. In this guide I will explain which skillsets should be utilized and for what reason. This retribution paladin leveling guide has all the info you will need.

Let's first have a look at the build:

Paladin Leveling Build

You simply take all the Retribution talents apart from Deflection and Divine Purpose, except if you plan to play with someone else frequently, then you can make a few changes and use Divine Purpose. Now, you can keep reading, or do this the easy way with the Ultimate World Of Warcraft Guide.

What makes the Retribution tree so highly effective? To start with you will increase your Blessing of Might which is the Blessing you will be implementing on yourself all the time to boost your attack power. Then you got your Improved Judgment which enables you to use Judgments more often which also results in a lot more damage output.

Heart of the Crusader is not only superb for single playing and can also improve the damage of entire parties and even raids. Pursuit of Justice is seriously wonderful because it increases both your movement speed as well as the mounted movement speed by 16%!

Then you have some other nice skills and you will end up being able to go for Sanctified Retribution which will allow you to turn on your Retribution Aura which raises Holy damage done by 10% which is really wonderful. This one gets even more desirable when you get the Improved and Swift retribution upgrades more down in the talent tree.

You will also be able to take Repentance which is a great crowd control capability. The Art of War allows you to instantly heal when some of your damaging skills have a critical strike and that is just terrific because it keep you moving. You will need some mana nonetheless but that is provided through Judgements of the Wise which gives a nice lift to your Judgement spells: you will obtain 15% of your mana every time you cast a Judgement spell and you will also get the replenishment effect which sustains even more mana.

With Crusader Strike and Divine Storm you will achieve two ace abilities when it comes down to dealing fantastic damage. Jointly with your Seal of Command and your Retribution Aura you will be able to deal out gigantic damage. Righteous Vengeance is also really great and adds to all the damage dealt in the form of a DoT (damage over time) ability.

All collectively you can say that the Retribution tree is just good for leveling. Even while still being able to heal you can hand out large amounts of damage and hit that lvl cap in no-time.