Paladin Rotation Helper

Paladin Rotation Helper is a lightweight, seal-and-Judgement-aware PvE priority advisor for Retribution Paladins in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Anniversary.

It follows the real Retribution mechanics instead of treating the Paladin like a normal cooldown-only class. At max level it tracks your melee swing and guides one-way Rank 1 Command into Blood/Martyr seal twists:

Crusader Strike under Blood/Martyr → Judgement before Command prep → Rank 1 Command → Blood/Martyr in the final 0.4 seconds

The addon only recommends actions. It never casts abilities, changes equipment, targets enemies, or automates player input.

Features

• Clean icon-first combat display with a large primary recommendation.
• Full ability reason, mana, target mode, and seal details available by hovering the primary icon.
• Seal maintenance that accounts for the real live-verified ~30 second Seal duration, refreshing a few seconds early instead of only after it has already lapsed.
• Swing-timed Seal of Command into Seal of Blood/Seal of the Martyr twisting, enabled by default when both required seals are known.
• Judgement and Crusader Strike core priority, with Judgement correctly gated on an active Seal.
• Exorcism and Holy Wrath restricted to Undead/Demon targets.
• Hammer of Wrath excluded during twisting because it resets the swing timer; it remains available in the non-twisting fallback rotation.
• Consecration as the core AoE tool, plus an optional single-target filler toggle.
• Automatic single-target and multi-target profiles, plus manual overrides (/rrh mode auto|single|aoe).
• Action-button highlighting for Blizzard bars, Bartender4, and Dominos.
• Compact cooldown icons for Avenging Wrath, Divine Favor, and trinkets.
• In-game settings under Escape → Options → AddOns, or /rrh.
• Built-in 35-scenario priority self-test.
• Privacy-safe 60-second diagnostic report for useful bug reports.

Max-level twist priority

1. Maximize auto-attacks with Blood/Martyr active.
2. Crusader Strike on cooldown with Blood/Martyr active.
3. If Crusader Strike is not ready, judge Blood/Martyr before preparing Rank 1 Command.
4. Twist back into Blood/Martyr during the final 0.4 seconds of the swing.
5. Use Exorcism or Consecration only when there is not enough time to twist.

Disable seal twisting in settings to use the assigned-seal leveling and utility fallback.

AoE / cleave priority

Retribution has no real cleave ability in TBC (Divine Storm does not exist yet), so AoE mode centers on Consecration as the core multi-target tool:

AoE preserves the same twist timing, using Consecration only when the current swing does not have enough time for a twist.

Automatic enemy counting uses recent combat-log interactions. If it cannot see an unengaged nearby enemy, force the profile with /rrh mode aoe.

Commands and testing

• /rrh or /paladinhelper — open settings.
• /rrh sim check — run all 35 deterministic priority checks.
• /rrh mode auto|single|aoe — select target-count behavior.
• /rrh record — record up to 60 seconds of anonymous decision data.
• /rrh report — open the selected, copyable diagnostic report.

If a recommendation looks wrong, please include the complete /rrh report in the Paladin channel on Discord. It contains no account, character, realm, or target names; no chat, GUIDs, or item links.

Bug reports, suggestions, and addon updates: https://discord.gg/qUtGNF6ZEq

Scope

Aura and self-Blessing maintenance are intentionally out of scope - those are a "set it and forget it, yourself" concern with a much longer/indefinite duration, not something a combat rotation advisor needs to weigh in on every global cooldown.

The rotation is based on TBC Retribution Paladin mechanics and has been checked with a deterministic offline self-check suite. The author does not currently have a max-level Retribution Paladin, so player feedback from mid-level and level-70 content will drive the next updates.