Vengeance
Paladin · Retribution · opens at 20 points spent · 3 ranks
Vengeance works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes
Vengeance ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 1% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times.
- Rank 2 Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 2% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times.
- Rank 3 Increases your Physical and Holy damage dealt by 3% for 30 sec after landing a non-periodic critical strike. Stacks up to 5 times.
What Vengeance 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 Gives you a 3% bonus to Physical and Holy damage you deal for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability.
- Rank 2 Gives you a 6% bonus to Physical and Holy damage you deal for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability.
- Rank 3 Gives you a 9% bonus to Physical and Holy damage you deal for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability.
Where Vengeance sits in the Retribution tree
Vengeance is a Retribution talent for Paladin. You need 20 points in Retribution before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Seal of Command first.
- Requires: Seal of Command
- Same row: Turn Evil, Repentance
How often people take Vengeance
46 of the 207 public Paladin builds saved here (22%) put at least one point in Vengeance. 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 Vengeance
6 of the public Paladin builds written up here spend points on Vengeance.
- Paladin Retribution 5/0/30 · 3/3 , 30 up
- Paladin Retribution 8/3/31 · 3/3 , 10 up
- Paladin Retribution 7/8/31 · 3/3 , 3 up
- Paladin Retribution 5/0/23 · 2/3
- Paladin Retribution 5/0/28 · 2/3
- Paladin Retribution 8/3/29 · 2/3
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)