Reckoning
Paladin · Protection · opens at 20 points spent · 5 ranks
Reckoning works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Reckoning ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Gives you a 8% chance after Blocking and a 20% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Cannot occur from Blocks more than once every 1.5 sec.
- Rank 2 Gives you a 16% chance after Blocking and a 40% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Cannot occur from Blocks more than once every 1.5 sec.
- Rank 3 Gives you a 24% chance after Blocking and a 60% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Cannot occur from Blocks more than once every 1.5 sec.
- Rank 4 Gives you a 32% chance after Blocking and a 80% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Cannot occur from Blocks more than once every 1.5 sec.
- Rank 5 Gives you a 40% chance after Blocking and a 100% chance after receiving a non-periodic critical strike to gain an extra attack. Stores up to 4 extra attacks. Cannot occur from Blocks more than once every 1.5 sec.
What Reckoning 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.
- Rank 1 Gives you a 20% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike.
- Rank 2 Gives you a 40% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike.
- Rank 3 Gives you a 60% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike.
- Rank 4 Gives you a 80% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike.
- Rank 5 Gives you a 100% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a critical strike.
Where Reckoning sits in the Protection tree
Reckoning is a Protection talent for Paladin. You need 20 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Stoicism, Holy Shield
How often people take Reckoning
26 of the 207 public Paladin builds saved here (13%) put at least one point in Reckoning. 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 Reckoning
One of the public Paladin builds written up here spends points on Reckoning.
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)