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The Paladin has received some great boosts with the WoTLK expansion. It is particularly their damage tree that has gotten a lot of improvements. In this guide I will show you which talents should be applied and for what reason. Get all the info you need in this paladin leveling guides.

Let's first have a look at the build:

Paladin Lvling Build

You basically take all the Retribution talents except for Deflection and Divine Purpose, except if you plan to play with somebody else often, then you can make a few alterations 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 fantastic for single playing and can also enhance the damage of entire parties and even raids. Pursuit of Justice is really superb because it enhances both your movement speed as well as the mounted movement speed by 16%!

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

You will also be able to take Repentance which is a great crowd control option. The Art of War makes it possible for you to instantaneously heal when some of your damaging skills have a critical strike and that is just excellent because it keep you progressing. You will need some mana however but that is supplied through Judgements of the Wise which gives a nice increase to your Judgement spells: you will acquire 15% of your mana anytime you cast a Judgement spell and you will also get the replenishment effect which maintains 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 great for lvling. While still being able to heal you can hand out enormous amounts of damage and hit that level cap in no-time.