Best Juggernaut Paladin build in Diablo 4

The Paladin's Blessed Shield skill is insanely strong in Diablo 4 thanks to its ability to bounce around and damage multiple enemies in a single throw. It has a number of upgrades that significantly change how the skill works, and of the three options available for Blessed Shield, Shield of Retribution is arguably the most interesting.

Shield of Retribution removes the Blessed Shield's iconic bounce mechanic and turns it into a slow-moving, short-range grenade that explodes multiple times. This upgrade concentrates the Blessed Shield's famous AoE damage into a much smaller area of ​​effect, and with the many damage multipliers available for Juggernaut abilities, this can make for some seriously silly damage numbers in Diablo 4.

D4 Shield of Retribution Build

To play this build, use Arbiter of Justice and spam Evade while clearing maps. When you encounter a tough enemy or boss, use Clash and then cast Shield of Retribution manually. Enter Arbiter form and run around your target while doing this to maximize damage.

Shield of Retribution deals absurd amounts of damage with the right setup. It trades range for damage, meaning your overall clearance rate will be lower compared to other Blessed Shield upgrades. However, with the Argent Veil Ring and the Arbiter form, we will negate this weakness completely.

Aegis with the faith is my shield giving us both increased survivability and a massive 90% damage multiplier thanks to one of our paragon nodes. This should help you survive in the upper Torment levels while allowing you to shred bosses within seconds.

Fanaticism and Defiance Auras is good for getting passive stats, although the Weakness effect from the former is good for further buffing our damage through passive synergies, while the Unstoppable from the latter prevents us from being stunned.

You only need to max Blessed Shield and Arbiter of Justice for this build. Leave the rest at 1/5 if you don't get bonus ranks from items.

Passive

• A Guard

• Riposte

• Discipline

• The best offense

• Courage

• Thorns and thistles

• Iron sharpens Iron

• Break the line

• Heavyweight

• Press the advantage

• Master Craftwork

• Shining Armor

• Giant Slayer

• Arms

To sum up this setup, it will give you bonus damage and survivability, but with a particular focus on Blocking and Fortify. Block-related effects are a no-brainer for a Blessed Shield build, but Fortify will be more of an issue.

How do you get boosted with Paladin?

IN Diablo 4 Season 11 gives players access to Divine Gifts, which include the Essence of Lies from Belial. With this equipped, players will gain 1% of their maximum health as Fortify per second.

Off season buffs are your best bet to get Fortify use Fanaticism Aura – Rite of Redemption. You'll lose the crit damage and convenience of Rite of Vengeance, but you'll heal and buff for one percent of your health each time an enemy dies within your Aura's radius.

Paladin's Oath

Since Shield of Retribution is a Juggernaut skill, this build will use Juggernaut Oath to turbocharge Blessed Shield's damage while preventing us from losing Resolve stacks when hit by an attack. The build doesn't have much synergy (if any) with the other Oaths, making Juggernaut the best choice.

Equipment and Aspects

Gear is very important to this build, so we'll focus on the core points that make the build work.

The White Dove's Ward

This is a unique shield that multiplies Blessed Shield's damage twice. By default, it increases your damage by up to (x)177%, but if you roll another build, your next 3 Blessed Shield rolls get double this damage bonus, and they'll cost 7 Faith less.

If you combine Ward of the White Dove with all the other damage multipliers available to the Paladin, Blessed Shield's damage becomes astronomical. You can pair this with any legendary sword, but ideally you should use it with Griswold's Opus for bonus crit damage.

Argent Veil

Argent Veil is one of the best uniques for all Paladins using Core skills and Arbiter of Justice ultimate. This will automatically cast Shield of Retribution for you as long as you move while in Arbiter form, which you will constantly be in thanks to Arbiter of Justice.

You can still play the build without Argent Veil, but it won't be as fast and hands-free. If you don't have this ring yet, replace it with something that can help you maintain your faith (preferably Ring of Starless Skies).

Auriel's judgment

This amulet grants you all Arbiter of Justice upgrades for free while also gaining bonus damage and damage reduction for each skill rank you have for the skill. Judgment of Auriel isn't exactly mandatory, but it's a great quality of life upgrade that allows you to allocate more skill points for other abilities/passives.

Razorplate

A good portion of Shield of Retribution's damage is peeling off your Thorns, and with all the Thorns buffs we get from our abilities, we might as well use Razorplate as well. If you have a better Chest Armor like Shroud of False Death, use that instead.

Other legendary aspects and stats

When curing gear, try to get enough cooldown reduction and Arbiter Duration until the Arbiter form's duration meets or overlaps Arbiter of Justice's cooldown.

Paragon boards

As for most others Diablo 4 Paladin builds, the Paragon Board setup for this one is pretty simple. Grab ones with general damage and survival nodes; the fewer conditional buffs, the better. With that said, we recommend the following:

• Castle: Get bonus damage based on your armor
• Endure: Receive bonus damage when boosted
• Shield Bearer: Get bonus damage based on your block chance
• Sentencing: Deal (x)90% more damage to enemies marked with Judgment

And as for glyphs, use the following:

• Challenger to increase damage against Elites
• Apostle to increase damage against vulnerable enemies
• Arbitrator to increase your damage for every second you spend in Arbiter form
• Chips for more physical damage

These should fit in any of the Paragon Boards above, but if they don't, level up the Glyphs to extend their range.