Repentance
Repentance 30 yd  range 15 sec cooldown 10.0% of base mana 1.7 sec cast Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 1 min. Any damage from sources other than Censure will awaken the target. Usable against Demons, Dragonkin, Giants, Humanoids and Undead.
Usable by
Class	Paladin
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Holy
Cooldown	15 sec (GCD 1.5 sec)
Talents
Talented	Yes
Level required	30
Related debuff
Magic Repentance Incapacitated. Duration: 1 minute
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• Repentance
• 30 yd  range
• 10.0% of base mana
• 1.7 sec cast
• Puts the enemy target in a state of meditation, incapacitating them for up to 1 min. Any damage from sources other than Censure will awaken the target. Usable against Demons, Dragonkin, Giants, Humanoids and Undead.

Repentance is a paladin talent available at level 30.

This is a second crowd control ability for Retribution Paladins (after Hammer of Justice), which is very useful in both PvP and PvE, as it allows two targets to be stunned/incapacitated at the same time (if the mob is not immune). However, note that damaging a target affected by Repentance will end the effect. Repentance is useful in duels, allowing time for a quick self-heal.

Tips

• Warriors can use Berserker Rage to break out of Repentance.
• Mages can not blink out of Repentance.
• With 1 minute duration and 1 minute cooldown, this talent has become a reliable crowd-control for PvE - particularly since it's instant-cast, and works with many races: Humanoids, Demons, Dragonkins, Giants, Undead.

See Paladin Talents for more details.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Repentance now has a cast time of 1.7 seconds (was 1.5 seconds). 
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (28 August 2012): Minor update. 
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Repentance is no longer broken from damage done by Censure (Seal of Truth).; Repentance tooltip now states that it does not break Censure damage. 
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): This ability now clears Righteous Vengeance from its target when cast. 
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): This crowd control effect will no longer break early from the damage done by Righteous Vengeance. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): No longer resets the Paladin's melee swing timer. 
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Avenger’s Shield no longer breaks Repentance, but unfortunately, Seal of Vengeance and Corruption damage will break it again. This will be corrected in a future patch. 
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (04-Nov-2008): Repentance PvP duration reduced to 6 sec. 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Mana cost changed to 9% of base, duration increased to 1 minute (10 second PvP duration), now usable against Demons, Dragonkin, Giants, Humanoids and Undead. 
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Duration changed from 6 seconds to up to 6 seconds. 
  

External links

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