Judgement (Classic)

Judgement may refer to:

• [Judgement of Light]
• [Judgement of Wisdom]
• [Judgement of Justice]

Chance to Miss with a Judgement

Although a Judgement cannot be dodged, parried, blocked, or "deflected", it has the same chance to miss its target as a melee attack. It may be resolved internally as a ranged attack, which also shares a melee attack's base miss chance. Thus, if you have enough Hit Rating so that you never miss with a melee attack, you will also never miss with a Judgement.

This Miss chance uses an effective weapon skill equal to your level * 5, regardless of what weapon you're actually wielding. In other words, if your Weapon Skill with the weapon you're wielding isn't fully trained up to your level * 5, this won't increase the Miss chance of your Judgements.

Talents directly improving Judgements

• You can decrease the cooldown by 2 seconds of Judgement with Improved Judgements (2 ranks, 1 second per rank) in the Retribution Tree.
• [Judgements of the Wise] (3 ranks) gives a 33%/66%/100% chance of granting 33% of the Paladin's base mana, and cause [Replenishment] to 10 party or raid members.
• The Retribution tier 8 talent [Fanaticism] increases the critical strike chance of any Judgement that is capable of critical hits by 5%/10%/15%/20%/25%; this would include Righteousness, Command, Vengeance and Blood.

Talents directly improving specific Judgements

• The Retribution tier 2 talent [Heart of the Crusader] increases the critical strike chance of all attacks and spells made against a target affected by Judgement of the Crusader by 1%/2%/3%.
• The Holy tier 2 talent [Seals of the Pure] increases the damage of Seal and Judgement of Righteousness by 3%/6%/9%/12%/15%.
• The Retribution tier 3 talent [Seal of Command] is a more damaging Judgement than Righteousness and deals double damage if the target is stunned or incapacitated.

Related Equipment

• The Tier 2 Paladin armor set is called Judgement Armor and includes an 8-piece set bonus that inflicts 60-66 additional Holy damage to the target a Paladin is Judging.
  • The set also offers a distinct and fitting look for Paladins and many Paladin-centric armor pieces in the Burning Crusade expansion have used variations of the Judgement set, normally a different color theme.
• [Libram of Avengement] will cause Judgements to increase the Paladin's Critical Strike Rating by 53 for 5 seconds.
• [Libram of Saints Departed] will cause Judgements to heal the Paladin for 41 to 49.
• The Retribution-centric Tier 5 Paladin Armor set Crystalforge Battlegear has two set bonuses, both related to Judgement:
  • Two-piece set bonus that reduces the mana cost of Judgements by 35.
  • Four-piece set bonus that, for each Judgement cast, grants a chance to heal nearby party members for 244 to 256.