WoW Forever Paladin Talent Tree & All Talents

The complete static Paladin reference for the three current talent trees. It shows the real row gates, every direct prerequisite, published rank text with per-rank evidence, and the Classic counterpart for each talent. 139 of 139 Paladin ranks have confirmed effect text.

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Paladin Holy talent tree

Holy links mana recovery to critical heals through Reverence → Illumination, and branches from Holy Shock into Light’s Vigil and Boundless Light. Consecrated Ground is a new talent that modifies Consecration targets, but Consecration is still listed among the Classic talents absent from this data.

17 talents · 7 rows · row 7 requires 30 earlier points in this tree · 46 of 46 ranks have confirmed effect text.

Rows and point gates in Holy

Row gates count only points spent in earlier rows of Holy; points in another tree do not help. The deepest row shown in this snapshot is row 7, which requires 30 earlier points in this tree. Talents in the same row do not unlock one another merely by spending points in that row.

Classic comparison for this tree: 7 new, 7 changed, 0 moved, 1 unchanged, and 4 Classic talents removed. Counts describe snapshot status, not a recommendation.

Direct prerequisite chains in Holy

Illumination — Requires Reverence rank 2. Row 3; 10 earlier points required in this tree.
Boundless Light — Requires Holy Shock rank 1. Row 5; 20 earlier points required in this tree.
Light's Vigil — Requires Holy Shock rank 1. Row 7; 30 earlier points required in this tree.

Key talents in Holy

Reverence — No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies. Row 2; maximum rank 2; 5 earlier points required.
Illumination — Requires Reverence rank 2. Row 3; maximum rank 5; 10 earlier points required.
Holy Shock — No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies. Row 5; maximum rank 1; 20 earlier points required.

All Holy talents

Talent	Position	Ranks & source status	Classic comparison
Spiritual Focus Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 1 Max rank 5; 0 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Gives your Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Light's Vigil spells a 14% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. Official Rank 2/5 — Gives your Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Light's Vigil spells a 28% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. Official Rank 3/5 — Gives your Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Light's Vigil spells a 42% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. Official Rank 4/5 — Gives your Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Light's Vigil spells a 56% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. Official Rank 5/5 — Gives your Flash of Light, Holy Light, and Light's Vigil spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 2 “Gives your Flash of Light and Holy Light spells a 14% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.”
Divine Strength Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 1 Max rank 5; 0 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases your Strength by 2%. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases your Strength by 4%. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases your Strength by 6%. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases your Strength by 8%. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases your Strength by 10%. Official	Unchanged from Classic Classic: Holy, row 1 “Increases your Strength by 2%.”
Healing Light Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 3; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Increases the amount healed by your Holy Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Shock spells by 4%. Official Rank 2/3 — Increases the amount healed by your Holy Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Shock spells by 8%. Official Rank 3/3 — Increases the amount healed by your Holy Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Shock spells by 12%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 3 “Increases the amount healed by your Holy Light and Flash of Light spells by 4%.”
Reverence Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 2; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Allows 15% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting. Official Rank 2/2 — Allows 30% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting. Official	New in Forever
Improved Seals Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 5; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 3%. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 6%. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 9%. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 12%. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases the damage done by your Seals and Judgements by 15%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 2 “Increases the damage done by your Seal of Righteousness and Judgement of Righteousness by 3%.”
Purifying Power Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 2; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the mana cost of your Cleanse and Purify spells by 10% and reduces the cooldown of your Exorcism and Holy Wrath spells by 17%. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the mana cost of your Cleanse and Purify spells by 20% and reduces the cooldown of your Exorcism and Holy Wrath spells by 33%. Official	New in Forever
Divine Favor 4% of base mana \| Instant \| 2 min cooldown · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 1; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — When activated, gives your next Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock spell a 100% critical effect chance. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 5 “When activated, gives your next Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock spell a 100% critical effect chance.”
Illumination Passive · Requires Reverence rank 2.	Row 3 Max rank 5; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, Light's Vigil, or Holy Shock heal spell you have a 20% chance to gain Mana equal to 50% of the base cost of the spell. Official Rank 2/5 — After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, Light's Vigil, or Holy Shock heal spell you have a 40% chance to gain Mana equal to 50% of the base cost of the spell. Official Rank 3/5 — After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, Light's Vigil, or Holy Shock heal spell you have a 60% chance to gain Mana equal to 50% of the base cost of the spell. Official Rank 4/5 — After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, Light's Vigil, or Holy Shock heal spell you have a 80% chance to gain Mana equal to 50% of the base cost of the spell. Official Rank 5/5 — After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, Light's Vigil, or Holy Shock heal spell you have a 100% chance to gain Mana equal to 50% of the base cost of the spell. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 4 “After getting a critical effect from your Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock heal spell, gives you a 20% chance to gain Mana equal to the base cost of the spell.”
Holy Conduit Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 2; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the mana cost of your Consecration, Holy Wrath, Exorcism, and Hammer of Wrath spells by 20%. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the mana cost of your Consecration, Holy Wrath, Exorcism, and Hammer of Wrath spells by 40%. Official	New in Forever
Divine Precision Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 2; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Improves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 4%, and reduces the duration of Silence effects on you by 10%. Official Rank 2/2 — Improves your chance to hit with Holy spells by 8%, and reduces the duration of Silence effects on you by 20%. Official	New in Forever
Infusion of Light Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 2; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Your Holy Shock and Flash of Light critical hits reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light cast within 15 sec by 0.5 sec. Official Rank 2/2 — Your Holy Shock and Flash of Light critical hits reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light cast within 15 sec by 1 sec. Official	New in Forever
Oath of Light No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 1; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Swear an Oath to protect target ally for 5 min, increasing the healing of your Holy Light on them by up to 0, your Flash of Light by up to 0, and your Holy Shock by up to 0. Only one Oath of Light may be sworn by the Paladin at any one time. Official	No Classic record
Consecrated Ground Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 2; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Gives your Holy spells 5% increased damage against the first 4 enemies that enter your Consecration. Official Rank 2/2 — Gives your Holy spells 10% increased damage against the first 4 enemies that enter your Consecration. Official	New in Forever
Holy Shock 160 Mana \| Enemy: 20 yd range \| Friendly: 40 yd range \| Instant \| 10 sec cooldown · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 1; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing 129 to 139 Holy damage to an enemy, or 110 to 118 healing to an ally. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 7 “Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing 204 to 220 Holy damage to an enemy, or 204 to 220 healing to an ally.”
Boundless Light Requires Holy Shock rank 1.	Row 5 Max rank 2; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Increases the critical strike chance of your Holy Shock spell by 15% when cast on allies not affected by your Oath of Light. Official Rank 2/2 — Increases the critical strike chance of your Holy Shock spell by 30% when cast on allies not affected by your Oath of Light. Official	No Classic record
Holy Power Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 6 Max rank 5; 25 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases the critical strike healing bonus of your Holy spells by 10%. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases the critical strike healing bonus of your Holy spells by 20%. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases the critical strike healing bonus of your Holy spells by 30%. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases the critical strike healing bonus of your Holy spells by 40%. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases the critical strike healing bonus of your Holy spells by 50%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 6 “Increases the critical effect chance of your Holy spells by 1%.”
Light's Vigil 730 Mana \| Enemy: 20 yd range \| Friendly: 40 yd range \| 1.5 sec cast \| 6 sec cooldown · Requires Holy Shock rank 1.	Row 7 Max rank 1; 30 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Applies Light's Vigil to a friendly target for 30 sec. The caster's next Holy Shock on the target incurs no cooldown and heals the target and their party for 315 to 333. Only one Vigil per Paladin may be active in each party. Official	New in Forever

Removed from Classic Holy

Consecration (was row 3) — Consecrates the land beneath Paladin, doing 64 Holy damage over 8 sec to enemies who enter the area.
Improved Lay on Hands (was row 3) — Gives the target of your Lay on Hands spell a 15% bonus to their armor value from items for 2 min. In addition, the cooldown for your Lay on Hands spell is reduced by 10 min.
Improved Blessing of Wisdom (was row 4) — Increases the effect of your Blessing of Wisdom spell by 10%.
Lasting Judgement (was row 5) — Increases the duration of your Judgement of Light and Judgement of Wisdom by 10 sec.

Paladin Protection talent tree

Protection combines block, shield mitigation and threat. Redoubt → Shield Specialization, Templar’s Bulwark → Swift Judgement and Holy Shield → Shieldsworn are prerequisite chains. Holy Shield’s current text grants 30% block for 10 sec; Blessing of Kings and Blessing of Sanctuary are absent.

17 talents · 7 rows · row 7 requires 30 earlier points in this tree · 49 of 49 ranks have confirmed effect text.

Rows and point gates in Protection

Row gates count only points spent in earlier rows of Protection; points in another tree do not help. The deepest row shown in this snapshot is row 7, which requires 30 earlier points in this tree. Talents in the same row do not unlock one another merely by spending points in that row.

Classic comparison for this tree: 4 new, 7 changed, 2 moved, 2 unchanged, and 4 Classic talents removed. Counts describe snapshot status, not a recommendation.

Direct prerequisite chains in Protection

Shield Specialization — Requires Redoubt rank 5. Row 3; 10 earlier points required in this tree.
Swift Judgement — Requires Templar's Bulwark rank 1. Row 4; 15 earlier points required in this tree.
Shieldsworn — Requires Holy Shield rank 1. Row 7; 30 earlier points required in this tree.

Key talents in Protection

Redoubt — No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies. Row 1; maximum rank 5; 0 earlier points required.
Holy Shield — No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies. Row 5; maximum rank 1; 20 earlier points required.
Shieldsworn — Requires Holy Shield rank 1. Row 7; maximum rank 1; 30 earlier points required.

All Protection talents

Talent	Position	Ranks & source status	Classic comparison
Divine Intellect Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 1 Max rank 5; 0 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases your total Intellect by 2%. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases your total Intellect by 4%. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases your total Intellect by 6%. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases your total Intellect by 8%. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases your total Intellect by 10%. Official	Unchanged from Classic Classic: Holy, row 1 “Increases your total Intellect by 2%.”
Redoubt Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 1 Max rank 5; 0 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 6%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. Official Rank 2/5 — Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 12%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. Official Rank 3/5 — Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 18%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. Official Rank 4/5 — Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 24%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. Official Rank 5/5 — Damaging melee attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block by 30%. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 1 “Increases your chance to block attacks with your shield by 6% after being the victim of a critical strike. Lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks.”
Precision Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 3; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Improves your chance to hit by 1%. Official Rank 2/3 — Improves your chance to hit by 2%. Official Rank 3/3 — Improves your chance to hit by 3%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 2 “Increases your chance to hit with melee weapons by 1%.”
Guardian's Favor Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 2; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the cooldown of your Blessing of Protection by 1 min and increases the duration of your Blessing of Freedom by 3 sec. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the cooldown of your Blessing of Protection by 2 min and increases the duration of your Blessing of Freedom by 6 sec. Official	Unchanged from Classic Classic: Protection, row 2 “Reduces the cooldown of your Blessing of Protection by 60 sec and increases the duration of your Blessing of Freedom by 3 sec.”
Sacred Duty Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 2; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the cooldown of your Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Templar's Bulwark spells by 30 sec, and reduces the duration of Forbearance by 5 sec. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the cooldown of your Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Templar's Bulwark spells by 60 sec, and reduces the duration of Forbearance by 10 sec. Official	New in Forever
Templar's Bulwark 110 Mana \| Instant \| 5 min cooldown · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 1; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — When activated, this ability grants you an absorb shield equal to 100% of your maximum health for 8 sec. Applies Forbearance for 1 min. Cannot be cast while Forbearance is active. Official	New in Forever
Improved Hammer of Justice Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 3; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Decreases the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice spell by 5 sec. Official Rank 2/3 — Decreases the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice spell by 10 sec. Official Rank 3/3 — Decreases the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice spell by 15 sec. Official	Moved from Classic Classic: Protection, row 4 “Decreases the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice spell by 5 sec.”
Shield Specialization Passive · Requires Redoubt rank 5.	Row 3 Max rank 2; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your shield by 15%, and gives your blocks a 50% chance to restore 4% of your maximum Mana. Official Rank 2/2 — Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your shield by 30%, and gives your blocks a 100% chance to restore 4% of your maximum Mana. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 3 “Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your shield by 10%.”
Toughness Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 5; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases your armor value from items by 2%. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases your armor value from items by 4%. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases your armor value from items by 6%. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases your armor value from items by 8%. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases your armor value from items by 10%. Official	Moved from Classic Classic: Protection, row 2 “Increases your armor value from items by 2%.”
Swift Judgement Instant \| 1 min cooldown · Requires Templar's Bulwark rank 1.	Row 4 Max rank 1; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Unleash the energy of a Seal spell upon an enemy. Does not consume the Seal. Refer to individual Seals for Judgement effect. Does not share a cooldown with your Judgement ability. Official	New in Forever
Improved Righteous Fury Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 3; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 3%. Official Rank 2/3 — While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 6%. Official Rank 3/3 — While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 9%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 3 “Increases the amount of threat generated by your Righteous Fury spell by 16%.”
Anticipation Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 5; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases your Defense Skill by 4. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases your Defense Skill by 8. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases your Defense Skill by 12. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases your Defense Skill by 16. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases your Defense Skill by 20. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 3 “Increases your Defense skill by 2.”
Stoicism No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 2; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the duration of Stun and Charm effects on you by 10%. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the duration of Stun and Charm effects on you by 20%. Official	No Classic record
Holy Shield 150 Mana \| Instant \| 10 sec cooldown \| Requires Shields · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 1; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Increases chance to block by 30% for 10 sec, and deals 75 Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. Each block expends a charge. 4 charges. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 7 “Increases chance to block by 30% for 10 sec, and deals 65 Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. Each block expends a charge. 4 charges.”
Reckoning Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 5; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Gives you a 8% chance after Blocking and a 20% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Official Rank 2/5 — Gives you a 16% chance after Blocking and a 40% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Official Rank 3/5 — Gives you a 24% chance after Blocking and a 60% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Official Rank 4/5 — Gives you a 32% chance after Blocking and a 80% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Official Rank 5/5 — Gives you a 40% chance after Blocking and a 100% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Protection, row 5 “Gives you a 20% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike.”
Iron Creed Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 6 Max rank 3; 25 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability by 10%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 2% for 6 sec. Official Rank 2/3 — Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability by 20%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 4% for 6 sec. Official Rank 3/3 — Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability by 30%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 6% for 6 sec. Official	New in Forever
Shieldsworn Requires Holy Shield rank 1.	Row 7 Max rank 1; 30 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Reduces the cooldown of your Holy Strike ability by 4 sec. Additionally, Holy Strike now strikes with your shield, triggering your active Holy Shield and Shield Specialization talents without consuming their charges or triggering their cooldowns, and allowing you to Block spells for 6 sec. Official	No Classic record

Removed from Classic Protection

Improved Devotion Aura (was row 1) — Increases the armor bonus of your Devotion Aura by 5%.
Blessing of Kings (was row 3) — Places a Blessing on the friendly target, increasing total stats by 10% for 5 min. Players may only have one Blessing on them per Paladin at any one time.
Improved Concentration Aura (was row 4) — Increases the effect of your Concentration Aura by an additional 5% and gives all group members affected by the aura an additional 5% chance to resist Silence and Interrupt effects.
Blessing of Sanctuary (was row 5) — Places a Blessing on the friendly target, reducing damage dealt from all sources by up to 10 for 5 min. In addition, when the target blocks a melee attack the attacker will take 14 Holy damage. Players may only have one Blessing on them per Paladin at any one time.

Paladin Retribution talent tree

Retribution combines seals, Judgement and critical-hit scaling. Seal of Command 1 gates Vengeance, while Repentance 1 gates Unsealed Wrath. Sacred Arbiter increases Holy Strike damage and refreshes Judgement effects; Improved Holy Strike and Crusade are not present.

17 talents · 7 rows · row 7 requires 30 earlier points in this tree · 44 of 44 ranks have confirmed effect text.

Rows and point gates in Retribution

Row gates count only points spent in earlier rows of Retribution; points in another tree do not help. The deepest row shown in this snapshot is row 7, which requires 30 earlier points in this tree. Talents in the same row do not unlock one another merely by spending points in that row.

Classic comparison for this tree: 3 new, 8 changed, 2 moved, 2 unchanged, and 4 Classic talents removed. Counts describe snapshot status, not a recommendation.

Direct prerequisite chains in Retribution

Vengeance — Requires Seal of Command rank 1. Row 5; 20 earlier points required in this tree.
Unsealed Wrath — Requires Repentance rank 1. Row 7; 30 earlier points required in this tree.

Key talents in Retribution

Seal of Command — No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies. Row 3; maximum rank 1; 10 earlier points required.
Vengeance — Requires Seal of Command rank 1. Row 5; maximum rank 3; 20 earlier points required.
Sacred Arbiter — No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies. Row 4; maximum rank 1; 15 earlier points required.

All Retribution talents

Talent	Position	Ranks & source status	Classic comparison
Deflection Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 1 Max rank 5; 0 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases your Parry chance by 1%. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases your Parry chance by 2%. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases your Parry chance by 3%. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases your Parry chance by 4%. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases your Parry chance by 5%. Official	Moved from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 2 “Increases your Parry chance by 1%.”
Benediction Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 1 Max rank 5; 0 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 2%. Official Rank 2/5 — Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 4%. Official Rank 3/5 — Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 6%. Official Rank 4/5 — Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 8%. Official Rank 5/5 — Reduces the Mana cost of all instant cast spells and abilities by 10%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 1 “Reduces the Mana cost of your Judgement and Seal spells by 3%.”
Improved Judgement Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 2; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement ability by 1 sec. Official Rank 2/2 — Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement ability by 2 sec. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 2 “Decreases the cooldown of your Judgement spell by 1 sec.”
Conviction Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 3; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 2%. Official Rank 2/3 — Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 4%. Official Rank 3/3 — Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 6%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 3 “Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 1%.”
Sanctified Judgement Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 2 Max rank 3; 5 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Gives your Judgement ability a 33% chance to return 20% of the Mana cost of the judged seal. Official Rank 2/3 — Gives your Judgement ability a 66% chance to return 40% of the Mana cost of the judged seal. Official Rank 3/3 — Gives your Judgement ability a 100% chance to return 60% of the Mana cost of the judged seal. Official	New in Forever
Vindication Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 3; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Gives your damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Attack Power by -2 for 30 sec. Official Rank 2/3 — Gives your damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Attack Power by -4 for 30 sec. Official Rank 3/3 — Gives your damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Attack Power by -6 for 30 sec. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 3 “Gives the Paladin's damaging melee attacks a chance to reduce the target's Strength and Agility by 5% for 10 sec.”
Unyielding Faith Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 2; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the duration of Fear and Disorient effects on you by 15%. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the duration of Fear and Disorient effects on you by 30%. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Holy, row 3 “Increases your chance to resist Fear and Disorient effects by an additional 5%.”
Seal of Command 65 Mana \| Instant · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 1; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Gives the Paladin a chance to deal additional Holy damage equal to 70% of normal weapon damage. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Lasts 30 sec. Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing 46.5 to 50.5 Holy damage, 93 to 101 if the target is stunned or incapacitated. Official	Unchanged from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 3 “Gives the Paladin a chance to deal additional Holy damage equal to 70% of normal weapon damage. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Lasts 30 sec. Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing 68 to 73 Holy damage, 137 to 145 if the target is stunned or incapacitated.”
Pursuit of Justice Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 3 Max rank 2; 10 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Increases movement speed and mounted movement speed by 8%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. Official Rank 2/2 — Increases movement speed and mounted movement speed by 15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 3 “Increases movement and mounted movement speed by 4%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.”
Eye for an Eye Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 2; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — All critical strikes against you cause 5% of the damage taken to the attacker as well. The damage caused by Eye for an Eye will not exceed 50% of the Paladin's total health. Official Rank 2/2 — All critical strikes against you cause 10% of the damage taken to the attacker as well. The damage caused by Eye for an Eye will not exceed 50% of the Paladin's total health. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 4 “All spell criticals against you cause 15% of the damage taken to the caster as well. The damage caused by Eye for an Eye will not exceed 50% of the Paladin's total health.”
Sacred Arbiter Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 1; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Increases the damage of your Holy Strike ability by 20% and causes it to refresh all Judgement effects on the target. Official	New in Forever
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 4 Max rank 3; 15 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Increases the Physical and Holy damage you deal by 2%, and reduces all threat you generate by 7% while a two-handed melee weapon is equipped. Official Rank 2/3 — Increases the Physical and Holy damage you deal by 4%, and reduces all threat you generate by 14% while a two-handed melee weapon is equipped. Official Rank 3/3 — Increases the Physical and Holy damage you deal by 6%, and reduces all threat you generate by 20% while a two-handed melee weapon is equipped. Official	Unchanged from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 5 “Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 2%.”
Turn Evil No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 2; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/2 — Reduces the cast time of your Turn Undead spell by 0.5 sec, its cooldown by 5 sec, and allows it to affect Demons. Official Rank 2/2 — Reduces the cast time of your Turn Undead spell by 1 sec, its cooldown by 10 sec, and allows it to affect Demons. Official	No Classic record
Repentance 60 Mana \| 20 yd range \| Instant \| 1 min cooldown · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 5 Max rank 1; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 6 sec. Any damage caused will awaken the target. Only works against Humanoids. Official	Moved from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 7 “Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 6 sec. Any damage caused will awaken the target. Only works against Humanoids.”
Vengeance Passive · Requires Seal of Command rank 1.	Row 5 Max rank 3; 20 earlier points required.	Rank 1/3 — Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 1% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times. Official Rank 2/3 — Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 2% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times. Official Rank 3/3 — Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 3% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times. Official	Changed from Classic Classic: Retribution, row 6 “Gives you a 3% bonus to Physical and Holy damage you deal for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability.”
Champion of the Light Passive · No direct talent prerequisite; only the row gate applies.	Row 6 Max rank 5; 25 earlier points required.	Rank 1/5 — Increases your spell damage by up to 12% of your Intellect, and reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 0.2 sec. Official Rank 2/5 — Increases your spell damage by up to 24% of your Intellect, and reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 0.4 sec. Official Rank 3/5 — Increases your spell damage by up to 36% of your Intellect, and reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 0.6 sec. Official Rank 4/5 — Increases your spell damage by up to 48% of your Intellect, and reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 0.8 sec. Official Rank 5/5 — Increases your spell damage by up to 60% of your Intellect, and reduces the cast time of your Hammer of Wrath by 1 sec. Official	New in Forever
Unsealed Wrath Requires Repentance rank 1.	Row 7 Max rank 1; 30 earlier points required.	Rank 1/1 — Your melee attacks store a copy of your active Seal for 15 sec, stacking up to 3 times. Landing an attack with a different Seal consumes all stacks, giving the stored Seal its normal chance to activate once per stack. Official	No Classic record

Removed from Classic Retribution

Improved Blessing of Might (was row 1) — Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Blessing of Might by 4%.
Improved Seal of the Crusader (was row 2) — Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Seal of the Crusader and the Holy damage increase of your Judgement of the Crusader by 5%.
Improved Retribution Aura (was row 4) — Increases the damage done by your Retribution Aura by 25%.
Sanctity Aura (was row 5) — Increases Holy damage done by party members within 30 yards by 10%. Players may only have one Aura on them per Paladin at any one time.

Sources and scope for this Paladin reference

Talent structure, official talent IDs, array order, row gates, and rank text come from the official WoW Forever talent export for build 1.60.1.70790, snapshot snap-4c0dd5427276. Classic comparison metadata comes from talentsforever.com. The two sources and their licenses are listed on the data and sources page.

A missing rank text is displayed as “Unknown” rather than reconstructed from memory or Classic. The source badges describe each published rank; they do not upgrade an unknown value into a verified one.

Official source: WoW Forever talents.json (CC BY 4.0). Classic metadata: talentsforever.com.