Conviction
Paladin · Retribution · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks
Conviction works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Conviction ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 2%.
- Rank 2 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 4%.
- Rank 3 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 6%.
What Conviction does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.
- Rank 1 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 3%.
Where Conviction sits in the Retribution tree
Conviction is a Retribution talent for Paladin. You need 5 points in Retribution before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Improved Judgement, Sanctified Judgement
How often people take Conviction
115 of the 207 public Paladin builds saved here (56%) put at least one point in Conviction. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Conviction
8 of the public Paladin builds written up here spend points on Conviction.
- Paladin Retribution 5/0/30 · 3/3 , 30 up
- Paladin Retribution 11/5/14 · 3/3 , 15 up
- Paladin Retribution 8/3/31 · 3/3 , 10 up
- Paladin Retribution 7/8/31 · 3/3 , 3 up
- Paladin Protection 0/14/13 · 3/3 , 2 up
- Paladin Retribution 0/5/14 · 1/3
- Paladin Retribution 2/7/10 · 1/3
- Paladin Retribution 5/0/23 · 3/3
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)