Hand of Reckoning
Hand of Reckoning 30 yards range 8 seconds cooldown 3% of base mana Instant cast Taunts the target to attack you. If the target is not currently targeting you, causes [1 + 0.5* AP] Holy damage.
Usable by
Class	Paladin
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Holy
Cooldown	8 seconds
Related debuff
Hand of Reckoning Taunted. Duration: 3 seconds

• Hand of Reckoning
• 30 yards range
• 3% of base mana
• Instant cast
• Taunts the target to attack you. If the target is not currently targeting you, causes [1 + 0.5* AP] Holy damage.

Hand of Reckoning is both a taunt and a pulling tool, available from trainers at level 16. It has a 30-yard range and deals Holy damage.

This is the single-target taunt for Paladins, widely-requested due to the somewhat complicated use of Righteous Defense, and it does not use the global cooldown.

Glyphs

2020

• Glyph of Righteous Defense
• Item Level 19Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Paladin
• Requires Level 15
• Use: Increases the chance for your Righteous Defense and Hand of Reckoning abilities to work successfully by 8% on each target.
• Sell Price: 37 50

Note

• Hand of Reckoning does not count as a Hand spell.

• Hand of Reckoning is a spell. It can't be cast when silenced, but based off testing on Growl and Dark Command, no longer suffers from miss chance when cast by a level 80 vs a boss-quality mob. Prior to Patch 4.0.1, it had a 17% chance to miss raid bosses (in contrast to the 8% chance to miss boss mobs for melee attacks). Prior to Patch 4.0.1, even if you were melee hit-capped (263 hit rating at level 80), Hand of Reckoning's chance to miss was still 7.0%. This gap was covered with [Glyph of Righteous Defense] (removed in Patch 4.0.1).

Patch changes

• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Removed miss chance of this effect. (Untested, based of testing on Growl and Dark Command) 
  
•  Hotfix (2009-08-08): "Hand of Reckoning is no longer able to be used on targets that are immune to taunt, including players."
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Redesigned. Now does damage only when the target does not currently have the caster targeted, but damage done increased to 50% of attack power, occurring after the taunt effect is applied. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Now affected by Benediction. 
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Added. 
  

External links

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