Reckoning

Reckoning ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Gives you a 8% chance to gain an extra attack after Blocking a melee attack and a 20% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a non-periodic critical strike.
2. Rank 2 Gives you a 16% chance to gain an extra attack after Blocking a melee attack and a 40% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a non-periodic critical strike.
3. Rank 3 Gives you a 24% chance to gain an extra attack after Blocking a melee attack and a 60% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a non-periodic critical strike.
4. Rank 4 Gives you a 32% chance to gain an extra attack after Blocking a melee attack and a 80% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a non-periodic critical strike.
5. Rank 5 Gives you a 40% chance to gain an extra attack after Blocking a melee attack and a 100% chance to gain an extra attack after being the victim of a non-periodic critical strike.

Rank 5 verified on the BlizzCon slide; ranks 2-4 from a secondary source.

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: Templar's Bulwark

How often people take Reckoning

70 of the 212 public Paladin builds saved here — 33% — 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.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
• BlizzCon 2026 'Paladin Class Change' talent slides (Rank 5/5 tooltip)