Retribution paladins are amazing support characters, with a variety of buffs, lay on hands, blessing of protection, salvation, and auras their contribution is huge to the raid overall performance. Their DPS is still mid-high tier, however, some of it might be sacrificed in order to support the raid.

Stats for Retribution Paladin Wotlk

Stat priority

8% hit cap > 16 Expertise > Strength > Crit > Haste

Note: Races with weapon expertise increase require 5 less expertise and the itemization is different for BIS.

Retribution Paladin Stats Overview

Hit Cap

The melee hit cap is 8%, this is the amount required to never miss the boss.

Expertise

Expertise lowers the chance of getting dodged or parried. Has a melee class 26 expertise is the soft cap, with Glyph of Seal of Vengeance this amount is reduced by 10.

Strength

The best stat for retribution paladin, it increases the attack power and 30% of this amount increases spell power, most of the paladins spells gain from spell power.

Critical Strike

Retribution paladins critical chance is quite low compared to other DPS, so some items with agility are needed to increase the critical chance, this can or not increase DPS, depending on RNG.

Haste

Haste reduces the swing time between each attack,  increasing the speed of the attacks.

Stats Breakdown without increasing effects

33 hit rating ≈ 1% to hit

33 expertise rating ≈ 1 expertise

33 haste rating ≈ 1% haste

45 critical chance ≈ 1% critical

1 stamina ≈ 10 Health

1 intellect ≈ 15 mana

1 agility ≈ 1 attack power

1 strength ≈ 2 attack power

10 attack power ≈ 3 spell power

1 critical chance ≈ 84 agility

14 Armor Penetration ≈ 1% Armor ignore