Paladin Talent Points

Paladin Builds

This site lists different talent builds for paladins of World of Warcraft. Many of these paladin builds come from forums, wowwiki or even myself. I hope you find the following builds useful.

I will be updating this page a lot over the coming months as 3.0 and WOTLK will cause a lot of changes in builds. If some of the builds become invalid I apologize and I will try to remove expired builds as soon as I can. If you notice any build that is expired please email me.

Finding the right paladin build that has been tested and works can save you a lot of gold.

Paladin Builds

This area lists paladin talent builds for World of Warcraft. Some of these builds will be for the current 3.0.2 version and some will be for WotLK. If you have any questions or suggestions please give me an email.

Holy Builds

• 1 - 51/5/5 - Pure PvE(LvL 70)
• 2 - 43/18/0 - PVP spec(LvL 70)
• 3 - 51/5/5 - Healbot PVE Healer Build (LvL 70) - this is your classic PVE Healing build. It provides you with every healing talent and spell Holy has to offer as well as the basic Buff – BoK from Prot and 10% instant cast mana cost reduction from Ret. This is one of the most widespread builds pre WotLK.
• 4 - 53/0/18 - Healbot PVE Healer Build (LvL 80) - build which will still include full range of Holy Talents while taking advantage of the extra 8% crit from the Ret Tree
• 5 - 54/10/7 - Expanded Healing/Buffing - makes the healer less interruptable as well as adding Blessing of Kings, Improved Blessing of Might, and mana cost reduction for all instant cast spells.

Protection Builds

• 1 - 0/56/5 - Pure Tanking Spec(LvL 70)
• 2 - 0/54/7 - Tank Spec(LvL 70)
• 3 - 5/56/9 - Cookie Cutter Tank Build(LvL 80) - standard "cookie-cutter" tank build for Wrath.
• 4 - -
• 5 - 5/58/7 - PVE Only Protection Build(LvL 78)
• 6 - 5/56/9 - Tanking Build (Revised) (LvL 79)
• 7 - 5/56/10 - Protadin Raid Build(LvL 80) - this is a build focused on keeping the Paladin's survivability high while still generating a good amount of threat as well as keeping mana efficiency.
• 8 - 5/56/10 - Shadobeast's WotLK Tanking Build - Protection Paladins in Wrath of the Lich King get several new talents, which are primarily used to increase the damage of your tanking abilities, as well as reducing mana costs of several abilities. This spec uses most, if not all, of the new WotLK talents for protection, as well as stealing a few talents from holy and ret for things like mitigation, agro, and the mitigation of CC.
• 9 - 0/55/6 - AOE Prot Build

Retribution Builds

• 1 - 0/5/56 - PVE Ret build(LvL 70)
• 2 - 0/25/46 - Very Heavy Single Target Damage Pure Retribution Spec(LvL 80) - (Reckoning) (No Spiritual Focus)
• 3 - 2/25/44 - Heavy Single Target Damage Spec (LvL 80) - (Reckoning) (2/5 Spiritual Focus)
• 4 - 5/25/41 - Moderate Single Target Damage Spec(LvL 80) - (Reckoning) (5/5 Spiritual Focus)
• 5 - 7/18/46 - Moderate Single Target Damage Pure Retribution Spec(LvL 80) - (No Reckoning) (5/5 Spiritual Focus)
• 6 - 7/10/54 - Very Heavy Single/Multi Target Damage Pure Retribution Spec(LvL 80) - (Divine Storm) (5/5 Spiritual Focus)
• 7 - 0/18/53 - Very Heavy Single/Multi Target Damage Pure Retribution Spec (LvL 80) - (Divine Storm) (No Spiritual Focus)
• 8 - 18/0/43 - Ret/Holy(LvL 70)
• 9 - 18/0/43 - HoT Paladin(LvL 70) - The idea behind it is simple: Instant FoL’s, HoT’s and JoTW. You get the basic healing talents from Holy which believe me will still allow you to heal adequately but you add the Hybrid feel from Ret.
• 10 - 0/5/66 - Sun Warrior Build - This build is designed to do well in all environments, but especially in PVE. It emphasizes Holy magic damage over physical but has plenty of both and loads of group utility.

Hybrid Talent Builds

• 1 - 40/21/0 - Beacon hybrid 10 man raid spec(LvL 80)
• 2 - 40/21/0 - Solo boss killing spec(LvL 80)
• 3 - 37/0/34 - JoTW Healer Build(PVE/PVP) - Downsides include: lack of Beacon of Light, Judgments of The Pure, Enlightened Judgments and Holy guidance which translates into: 10 Yard Judgment Range, -120 Spellpower, -15% Spellhaste and no Utility Heal. Advantage are (over a cookie cutter build): 15% run speed increase, 100% chance to remove a Stun with HoF, 1 min 20 yard 1 min PVE, 6 sec PVP CC, and the mother of it all – Judgements of the Wise. This build capitalizes on having a significant amount of mana being restored every time you judge and having some increased Utility over the cookie cutter. You can gem for +healing instead of MP5 regaining +Spellpower lost with Holy Guidance and with superb crit I foresee little to no Mana Issues when utilizing JoTW. Good build when used properly. "
• 4 - 39/10/22 - Stout Defender (PVP)(LvL 80) - it takes advantage of majority of the Holy talents while dabbling into Prot and Ret for some Utility such as Spellcrit, Improved HoF and Dispel resistances.