Level 30 best in slot gear for Retribution Paladin

At the beta cap of 30, in place since 1 October 2026 (Blizzard). This list follows the cap: when it rises, these pages regenerate for the new one.

  • 15slots
  • 45items
  • 7with a source
  • 2,114could be equipped
  • 30beta cap

The best in slot (BiS) list for a Retribution Paladin at level 30: the top 3 items per slot the class can equip, ranked by the stat weights printed beside them. Head: Defender's Leather Helm scores highest. It ranks by those open weights; it is not a claim of which item is strongest in play.

Best in slot, by slot

45 From the beta build
Top 3 items per slot for a Retribution Paladin at level 30
Icon Item Item level Score Source
Head 84 items qualify
Defender's Leather Helm Leather 30 17.2 Crafted Defender's Leather Helm (Leatherworking)
Veteran's Chain Helm Mail 30 16.4 Crafted Veteran's Chain Helm (Blacksmithing)
Veteran's Silvered Chain Helm Mail 25 13.6 Crafted Veteran's Silvered Chain Helm (Blacksmithing 95)
Neck 35 items qualify
Amulet of Vengeance Miscellaneous 43 12
Ethereal Talisman Miscellaneous 43 9.4
Kaleidoscope Chain Miscellaneous 35 8.4
Shoulder 80 items qualify
Clacking Carapace Spaulders Mail 43 13.1
Wrangling Spaulders Mail 38 11.4
Brigand's Pauldrons Mail 40 11.2
Back 117 items qualify
Corpsefeeder's Shedding Cloth 43 10.4
Crocolisk Skin Gaiter Cloth 30 9
Sergeant Major's Cape Cloth 30 8.4
Chest 230 items qualify
Grimtotem Naturalist's Tunic Leather 45 19
Kolkar Marauder Chain Mail 42 17.5
Shining Silver Breastplate Mail 29 16.4 Crafted Shining Silver Breastplate (Blacksmithing 135)
Wrist 120 items qualify
Overgrown Cuffs Leather 43 13.3
Arathi Armbands Leather 40 9.5
Stromgarde Cuffs Mail 40 9.2
Hands 172 items qualify
Jangdor's Handcrafted Gloves Leather 45 14.5
Pratt's Handcrafted Gloves Leather 45 14.5
Lumber Luggers Leather 43 13
Waist 182 items qualify
Officer's Belt Mail 35 15.8 Crafted Officer's Belt (Blacksmithing 150)
Prowler's Leather Belt Leather 35 15.2 Crafted Prowler's Leather Belt (Leatherworking 150)
Defiler's Chain Girdle Leather 33 14
Legs 189 items qualify
Veteran's Silvered Chain Leggings Mail 30 17.7 Crafted Veteran's Silvered Chain Leggings (Blacksmithing 125)
Southern Watch Leggings Mail 42 17.2
Undertow Legguards Mail 40 15.2
Feet 184 items qualify
Ironheel Boots Mail 45 13.6
Enormous Ogre Boots Leather 43 12.6
Shapeshifting Sentinel's Strides Leather 29 12
Finger 91 items qualify
Bloodsport Band Miscellaneous 45 13.4
Wyvern Heart Band Miscellaneous 34 12
Band of Allegiance Miscellaneous 35 10.6
Trinket 4 items qualify
Defiler's Talisman Miscellaneous 33 2.4
Talisman of Arathor Miscellaneous 33 2.4
Rune of Duty Miscellaneous 25 1.6
Main hand 295 items qualify
Bludgeon of Betrayed Virtues One-Handed Mace 43 94.3
Soulsplatter Mace One-Handed Mace 43 90
Blackwater Scimitar One-Handed Sword 45 87.3
Off hand 103 items qualify
Pit Fighter's Shield Shield 42 9.2
Salbac Shield Shield 45 9
Desperate Barrier Shield 43 8.2
Two-hand 228 items qualify
Abandoned Ferocity Two-Handed Axe 43 132.6
Scavenged Magram Armament Polearm 43 128.1
Cragwood Maul Two-Handed Mace 42 120.9

Score: the item's stats times the weights on the right, rounded to one decimal. Hover an item for its tooltip. A source line is printed when the data has one (a recipe, a quest, a drop or a vendor seen in play); no line means none is recorded yet.

How this list is scored

One number per item: each stat times its weight, added up. The weights are this site's own choice and are printed here in full, so the list can be checked and argued with.

Stat weights for Retribution Paladin
Stat Points per point
Strength 1
Agility 0.5
Stamina 0.4
Intellect 0.2
Attack Power 0.5
Crit Rating 0.6
Hit Rating 0.7
Melee weapon DPS 3

Rules

  • Requires Level at most 30, item level at most 45 (the cap plus 15: it keeps out records with no level requirement that sit far above what a level 30 character wears).
  • A Paladin at level 30 wears Cloth, Leather, Mail and a shield and wields Axes, Maces, Polearms, Swords, Two-Handed Axes, Two-Handed Maces, Two-Handed Swords . Read off the class data, with the level each skill is learned.
  • Top 3 per slot. A slot with nothing that scores is left out. Two records that read as one item count once.
  • Not scored: equip effects, set bonuses, resistances and any stat without a weight above. They show in the tooltip.
  • Uncommon, Rare and Epic count alongside Common; Poor does not.

Weights: Strength 1, Agility 0.5, Stamina 0.4, Intellect 0.2, Attack Power 0.5, Crit Rating 0.6, Hit Rating 0.7, Melee weapon DPS 3.

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