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Comment by GryphonMD

So... what does this seal do when used to judge? The tooltip says nothing.

Comment by Evaikyr

Tauren Paladins are too big, the spell effect doesn't go over their heads, it ends in them :P

Comment by 411596

Old formula's of WotLK:

Proc:
0.022 * AP + 0.044 * SP * Weapon Speed

Judgement:
0.22 * AP + 0.32 * SP + 1

Comment by 360879

At least in AOE situations, this will become Ret's seal of choice after 4.2 patch, if currently proposed buffs go live:

1. Seal of Righteousness – now can be proc’d by any melee ability, not just single target melee abilities. This adds Hammer of the Righteous (the physical component) and Divine Storm to the list of abilities that can proc it. In addition, Seal of Righteousness procs can now crit.
2. Seals of Command: This talent now makes Seal of Righteousness hit an unlimited number of melee targets, instead of only 2 additional targets.
3. Glyph of Seal of Truth: The expertise bonus granted by this glyph now also works when Seal of Righteousness is active.

Waw!

Comment by 629499

This does ~10% of your average weapon damage ((WMax+WMin)/2)

Comment by 340239

Seeing as how there is no comment here that goes into what seal would really be used as a PvP ret, let me lay down a few points.

Yeah, Seal of Truth does have a DoT component which is nice and yes, it is vastly easier to stack up now then it's WotLK brother. However, Seal of Truth is not the end all be all of PvP Ret seals. Seal of Truth WILL do more damage if you plan on being on the same target for longer then 20 seconds. That amount of time I figure is enough to stack it and get a good enough number of attacks for it to be more worth it. If you plan on switching targets or like the AoE component for things like snake traps, pets or clumped up players, I would probably go with Righteousness.
Overall, the big beefy 'whirlwind' effect of the seal is a definite buff and does a lot for the seal's viability, however you should keep it mind that it will break CC, and for this reason this seal may not be so good to run with in arenas unless of course there are no CCs to break. Against rogues I would use Seal of Truth period because unless you have another means of keeping a DoT on them, they will be able to simply vanish away from you and recover to full from either their recuperate or a healer.

tl;dr Truth for long fights, Righteousness for switching, keep rogues DoTed and Righteousness cleave can break CC!

Comment by Kefra

And now, for some Seal of Righteousness trivia...

This ability was bugged for a little while after the 4.3.2 patch. Any melee attack with this seal active had a very high chance to trigger the seal's damage more than once. A lot more than once. With a Retribution build, it would hit every target in melee range multiple times per swing. It effectively turned every white hit into a Shaman's Windfury Weapon proc grafted onto Divine Storm on hyper-crack. Running into a group of 5 enemy players and being able to auto-attack them a couple of times usually meant 5 honor kills. Unless one of them was a paladin, of course.

Some paladins even tried soloing raids, faction bosses, etc., although not with much success. It didn't do that much additional damage.

Blizzard hotfixed this at around 3 AM Pacific time in the wee hours of February 2, 2012. The patch had been out for one day and some change.

Just a story to tell the grandchildren some day, assuming the monitor radiation hasn't rendered us sterile.

Comment by brudarek

So am I missing something or did this get massively nerfed in 5.0.4?

It used to hit all targets, now it only hits them for 6% of the damage? I mean 2 very low level mobs standing on top of each other, the untargeted one barely gets hit.

Comment by Allakhazam

Does anyone know what exactly the "chance" for this spell to do damage is? From my experience, it looks to be around 50/50; but I was wondering if there was a clearer way to tell.

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Seal of Righteousness

Seal of Righteousness
16.4% of base mana
Instant

Fills you with Holy Light, causing melee attacks to deal 9% weapon damage to all targets within 8 yards.

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n/a

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

16.4% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect

Apply Aura: Dummy
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Seal of Righteousness

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