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Comment by 355194

What exactly could this be, hopefully a new spell that works like Crusader Strike or Divine Storm, that would be nice.

Comment by 175315

1 How does this stack with Avegning wrath?
2 "Exclusive with Holy Shield" means that they cant be cast together, or that taking HS unlearns this?

Downrate question is easier than answer, isn?t it?
Downrating goes on! If you think my question is so trivial/irrelevant, try to answer, don?t try to be funny

Comment by werobetel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A

no one really expects the inquisition

Comment by Ronark

On the current build, this lasts for 4 sec per Holy Power.

For Prot, it also procs Holy Shield for 15% block for 20 sec, regardless of how long this buff lasts.
For Ret, there is a talent to allow it to last up to 10 sec instead per Holy Power.

Comment by 146568

NOBODY expects it!

Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, suprise, ruthless efficiency, and incredible amounts of holy damage!

Now I want a red uniform on my paladin...

Comment by 634464

Does x1000 damage who contradicts your belif's

jk

Comment by FlayOnDarkIron

For all intents and purposes this is a return to 30 second seals. One small step to Cata and a giant leap backwards for paladins.

And, no, its not really a damage buff because the class is going to be balanced assuming a 100% uptime for this ability.

Comment by 660395

I would really like to see Inquisition increase healing power for Holy Paladins. As far as I know, their only Holy Power dump is Word of Power. I like Word of Power and its potential for a medium power, mana free, instant heal, but it seems like it would get old. Besides, getting to choose between a short healing buff and a direct, single-target heal seems like it would help Holy Paladins adapt to different healing needs.

Comment by 417037

No one expects the Tauren Inquisition!

Comment by Lavafrost

"I'll rip the secrets from your flesh!"

Comment by 693377

Wow! The Spanish Inquisition was most famous, in a general sense, for persecution/violent conversion of Jews and Muslims; you're not even right about the King of Spain's reasons so I totally agree with your first comment getting /facepalmed (so much so that I joined wowhead to tell you so). Roman Catholics are Christians and the Pope is also Roman Catholic and Christian, so I am still trying to wipe the /facepalm off my face trying to figure out what your point was. As to your second statement in defense of your first, I am pretty sure the ITALIAN who came to the Americas funded by the King and Queen of Spain did so in search of a shorter route to the Indies for riches and spices, capturing slaves and forcing Roman Catholicism on the indigenous population was a consolation prize. The Spanish Inquisitions purpose was two fold: convert Jews and Muslims to Christianity, enforce the orthodoxy of the converts, and subvert the power of the Medieval Inquisition which was under papal control ... crap three fold. THREE FOLD! It was Puritans, Quakers, and others who left England and the constraints of the Church of England in search of religious freedom, not the Spanish. There may have been Protestants and Lutherans subjected to the vileness of the Inquisitions, but as I understand it the papacy was content with just excommunicating those heretics and thus a tense peace was achieved between Christians. Protestants and Lutherans were definitely not the main focus of any Inquisition. Also, last time I checked I am free to worship/not worship whatever god or idol or God I choose, so don't bring politics and religion to a forum board about a game when people are just trying to be funny by bringing up a (i.m.o.) hilarious Monty Python reference. Furthermore, I can tell you are coming from some kind of evangelical/baptist point of view because I know a great many Catholics who would take it as a personal offense that you think they are idolaters being that idolatry is a major no no in all forms of Judeo/Christian beliefs and might even be against ... what were those things Moses had? ... oh yeah, the Ten Commandments.

/stepdownoffsoapbox

Back to serious game talk: I am liking the Inquisition ability and the new Pally changes; I must admit I wasn't around for Vanilla and BC, but I like what I see coming for Cata. Really enjoy hunter changes too (don't know how that got started on the Inquisition thread, but hey I luv my hunter and I'll throw my 2 copper in), I will miss Volley but 'meh' it could be worse. Trap Launcher has been fun, it is a bit tricky at first but I am sure will Blizz will change it a bit so I am not going to QQ about it till they make it useless or something. Back to the pertinent thread: does any one know when/why Inquisition should be used in the rotation over SotR? I assume when you have a large mob on you that doesn't get burned down right after initial pull to increase dmg/threat of Consecration or Holy Wrath, but I am interested in more experienced tanker's input as I am used to playing dps roles. It seems to me that SotR would be more useful against single targets like bosses, but I am curious to find out what experienced tanks are finding so I can learn to tank in Cata.

Comment by jafar

Modified by: Sun Cured Vest

Comment by 670067

I could see this being quite good for PvP as a holy paladin seeing as the only damage output of a holy paladin is all holy damage i.e. holy shock, judgement and exorcism.

Comment by wayfarer86

This gives Protection Paladins the potential to do some devastating burst damage with the following talents and glyphs:

Shield of the Righteous
Glyph of Shield of the Righteous
Sacred Duty
Shield of the Templar
Avenging Wrath
Inquisition

The idea is to build up 3 Holy Power, Judgement, If Sacred Duty procs; activate Inquisition and Avenging Wrath, activate Divine Plea (for instant 3 Holy Power), Shield of the Righteous. /train

Comment by sr7olsniper

what I want to know is... is this attack worth the cost of Holy Power in pvp? I can use it in PvE no problem but it seems a bit of a big cost in pvp dont you think?

Comment by 505931

This is really good for paladin multi-target threat whilst tanking. I'm never too concerned about single target threat, and a full stack of Censure and judgements are more than enough to hold threat when all the dps are bombing one target. Popping this will enhance all my AoE threat, and I'm not sure if I'm doing more or less threat overall, but threat is definitely spread more thoroughly amongst my targets and it improves paladin tanking even more.

Comment by 679811

its good for the Prot pally cleave vs groups as follows:

- 3 points in Shield of the Templar talent.

- Activate Divine Plea for +3 HP
- Inquisition and Avenging Wrath, they DO stack.
- Judge
- Hammer of the Righteous
- Consecrate
- Avenging Wrath
- with first tick of new HP trigger Holy Shield I prefer to use WoG here.

Enter rotation and keep Inquisition on CD, pwn it all.

I save Avengers Shield in case I need to silence and pull in a caster or two. Opening with it is fine also, obviously depends on what the groups against you looks like and the terrain.

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The DPS HOLY Paladin is the one that can use this to its full potential in the following spec as one example:

https://www.wowhead.com/mop-classic/talent#srhrdbduubb0bZfob:ca0MRzVcm

Holy spec generates HP so fast with CS and Blessed Life that they have HP to spare. Keeping Inquisition on CD or popping it with Av Wrath and Divine Favor can unload MASSIVE burst damage with Exorcism and Holy Shock. With my Holy healer I enter meele range to apply CS and catch some enemy cleave for Blessed Life. Makes the mana pool last much much longer, only the most intensive damage periods where I'm healing non stop does my mana get pulled down. Holy healer was meant to close in and fight!

Retribution gets the obvious benefit of 10 seconds per HP tick and and potential of another 10 seconds with gear for 40 seconds of Inquisition per app. wowza. Couple it with Selfless Healer and stacking Mastery vs Strength and the Ret Pally can keep 3 HP for most of any fight.

But IMO, Holy is the stealth pvp killer. Taking one down 1 on 1 is pure hell. They can heal their raid and WHOOP someones unsuspecting backside at the same time. owie.

Comment by Geles

For protection paladins inquisition is really useful in the pvp and especially arenas, u can try it even as shield of righteous is holy dmg, ok try that gather 3 holy power with crusader strike after that pop judgement and wait for sacred duty to pop after it pops then turn on inquisition (good that with the new patch notes 4.0.6. it's not dispellable anymore) and then turn on divine plea (which gives u 3 holy power if u talented it from ur talents) +wings and trinket if u got with str., this can crit really nasty with such crits I am usually taking down mages really easy. try it and u will not sorry for all pvp prot paladins.

Comment by Pane

Yikes; when was this nerfed so badly?
Also; WHY was this nerfed?

Comment by JohnyXD

I've been wondering, does this spell add to overall damage or the intial damage? I meen for the talent Crusade(Rank 3) for example, does it add another 30% plus the already 30% which makes 160% total damage
or does it increase the damage after the effects of Crusade(Rank 3) which makes 169% total damage
I can see that the difference is 9% with Inquisition only (if it's the same with Avenging Wrath it goes up to 202,8% instead of 180% and that's a total of 22.8% difference)
I'm sorry if the answer is obvious or if my comment is confusing
thank you

Comment by Thander

Inquisition only affects certain Ret pally abilities.

Abilities boosted by Inquisition:
Hammer of Wrath
Consecration
Exorcism

Judgment
Seal of Truth
Mastery: Hand of Light (Hand of Light)*
Denounce

Abilities not boosted by Inquisition:
Crusader Strike
Divine Storm
Templar's Verdict

After looking at the tooltips Blizzard has a pretty good convention to tell which ones get the bonus damage. If the ability has "x% weapon damage", it is physical damage and not boosted. If the ability has "x Holy damage" it is obviously Holy damage and get's the bonus.

*Some of the weapon damage abilities get bonus Holy damage from the Ret Pally mastery. This bonus damage being Holy also gets the 30% boost.

Comment by JohnyXD

It's also modified by Inquiry of Faith right?
...yes, you all know that but it's not mentioned in the spell description

Comment by TheMuffinMan

A Paladins chief weapon is his hammer. And his shield. His shield and his hammer.
A Paladins TWO chief weapons are his hammer, his shield, and holy damage. His THREE chief weapons are his hammer, his shield, his holy damage, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Light...a Paladins FOUR...No, AMONG A Paladins chief weapons are his hammer, his shield, holy damage...I'll come in again.

Comment by 271275

Holy Paladins will have 3 abilities that use Holy Power same amount as Protection Paladins. Word of Glory, Inquisition and Light of Dawn. Two for healing and one for damage.

Cause holy pallies sure do love their +damage abilities.

Comment by Ronark

Censure is Holy damage, and is affected by Inquisition.

Seal of Truth (Seal hits) are Holy damage, and deal 3% weapon damage in the form of holy damage per stack of Censure on the target.

The Ret mastery Hand of Light is also boosted by Inquisition.

Comment by 629499

Whilst soloing as a ret, you may find that if you kill something with a HoW, you've got 6 seconds of free TV, WoG and Inquisition. If your health is topped up, i suggest you use this as it has a 36 second(talented) duration, giving you that wee boost in killing.

Comment by Syllvos

As of 5.04 this spell has brought back Ret's glowy hands (formerly from Conviction, which was then given to holy pallys).

ALL HAIL THE GLOWY HANDS!

Comment by Discokoopa

Coming in Patch 5.4, Inquisition will last 20 seconds instead of 10 per Holy Power consumed. This could change, but since it is less of a buff and more of a quality of life change, it's likely to stay.

Comment by 790704

WARNING: According to the beta patch notes for the upcoming "Warlords of Draenor" expansion, Inquisition is being removed entirely.

Comment by 1082746

Inquisition is removed entirely once the patch hits before WoD release. I play on Public Test Realm and there is no Inquisition at all anymore.

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Inquisition

Inquisition
1 Holy Power
Instant cast

Consumes up to 3 Holy Power to increase your Holy Damage by 30% and critical strike chance by 10%. Lasts 20 sec per charge of Holy Power consumed.

Buff

Inquisition

Increases Holy damage done by 30%.
Increases critical strike chance by 10%.
20 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

20 seconds

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

1 Holy Power

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Damage Done % (Holy)
Value: 30%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Interval: 2 seconds
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Crit Chance % - All
Value: 10%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Aura Points On Client

Inquisition

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