Paladin Retribution Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Blade of Justice 2 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 3 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 4 Execution Sentence 5 Wake of Ashes 6 Final Verdict 7 Final Verdict 8 Divine Toll 9 Final Verdict 10 Final Verdict

1 Blade of Justice 2 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 3 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 4 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 5 Execution Sentence 6 Wake of Ashes 7 Final Verdict 8 Final Verdict 9 Final Verdict

1 Blade of Justice 2 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 3 Gladiator's BadgeOff-GCD 4 Wake of Ashes 5 Final Verdict 6 Divine Storm 7 Execution Sentence 8 Divine Toll 9 Final Verdict 10 Final Verdict

#showtooltip Blade of Justice
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Blade of Justice

Ability	Top-player CPM
Crusading StrikesPassiveFires on your weapon swings — median gap 1.3s. It scales with time spent in melee range, not with a key.	39.9
Final Verdict	18.0
Divine Storm	10.0
Blade of Justice	6.0
Judgment	5.4
Hammer of Wrath	5.4
Wake of Ashes	1.9
Divine Toll	1.0
Execution Sentence	1.0
Eternal Flame	1.0
Avenging WrathOff-GCD	1.0
Divine ProtectionOff-GCD	0.7
Blessing of Freedom	0.4
Divine SteedOff-GCD	0.4

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Judgment 2 Divine SteedOff-GCD 3 Blade of Justice 4 Judgment 5 Divine Shield 6 Judgment

1 Blade of Justice 2 Divine SteedOff-GCD 3 Judgment 4 Divine Storm 5 Judgment 6 Divine Storm 7 Divine ProtectionOff-GCD 8 Blade of Justice

1 Judgment 2 Judgment 3 Blade of Justice 4 Gladiator's BadgeOff-GCD 5 Avenging WrathOff-GCD 6 Wake of Ashes 7 Final Verdict

#showtooltip Judgment
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Judgment

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Blessing of Protection
/cast [@mouseover,noharm,exists][] Blessing of Protection

#showtooltip Blessing of Freedom
/cast [@mouseover,noharm,exists][] Blessing of Freedom

#showtooltip Blessing of Sacrifice
/cast [@mouseover,noharm,exists][] Blessing of Sacrifice

#showtooltip Intercession
/cast [@mouseover,dead,exists][] Intercession

#showtooltip Lay on Hands
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,noharm,exists][] Lay on Hands

#showtooltip Cleanse Toxins
/cast [@mouseover,noharm,exists][] Cleanse Toxins

#showtooltip Rebuke
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Rebuke

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Final Verdict	18.0
2	Divine Storm	12.5
3	Blade of Justice	6.2
4	Judgment	5.4
5	Hammer of Wrath	5.4
Z	Wake of Ashes	1.9
X	Divine Toll	1.0
C	Execution Sentence	1.0
V	Eternal Flame	1.0
R	Avenging WrathOff-GCD	1.0
F	Gladiator's BadgeOff-GCD	0.8
T	Divine ProtectionOff-GCD	0.7
G	Divine SteedOff-GCD	0.5
Shift+1	Blessing of Freedom	0.4
—	Crusading StrikesPassiveFires on your weapon swings — median gap 1.3s. It scales with time spent in melee range, not with a key.	44.5