Seal of Vengeance

Seal of Vengeance
Seal of Vengeance (1 rank) Paladin ability 250 Mana global cooldown Instant Fills the Paladin with holy power, causing attacks to apply Holy Vengeance which deals [.15 AP + .088 SP] additional holy damage over 15 seconds. Holy Vengeance can stack up to 5 times. Only one seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Last 30 Minutes Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing Holy damage per application of Holy Vengeance.
Properties
Class	Paladin
School	Holy
Cooldown	Global
Related buff
Seal of Vengeance Melee attacks cause Holy damage over 15 sec. Duration: 30 minutes
Related debuff
Magic Holy Vengeance Holy damage every 3 sec. Duration: 15 seconds

[[Category:paladin abilities]][[Category:paladin abilities]]

Seal of Vengeance is a Paladin seal obtained at 64, intended to replace [Seal of Righteousness] as the primary tanking seal. Initially it was only available to Alliance Paladins; post 3.0 Horde Paladins receive an equivalent at 66, [Seal of Corruption].

Rank	Level	Mana Cost	Cost
1	64	250 Mana	6 3

Functionality

While activated, the Paladin's melee swings apply a debuff on the target that causes holy damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The DoT stacks up to 5 times, with further swings doing a very small amount of direct holy damage and continuing to refresh the stack's duration. Furthermore, for every stack of Holy Vengeance on the target, Judgement's damage is increased by 10% (up to 50%).

Talents/Glyphs

• [Seals of the Pure] - Increases the damage done by your Seal of Righteousness, Seal of Vengeance and Seal of Corruption and their Judgement effects by 3%/6%/9%/12%/15%.
• [Judgements of the Pure] - Increases the damage done by your Seal and Judgement spells by 5%/10%/15%/20%/25%.
•  [Glyph of Seal of Vengeance] - Grants 10 expertise while Seal of Vengeance or Seal of Corruption is active.
•  [Benediction] - Decreases the mana cost by 2%/4%/6%/8%/10%.

Tips and Tricks

This is a valuable seal for Tankadins, as the full 5 stack will do more holy damage (and therefore threat) per second than [Seal of Righteousness]. Additionally, [Hammer of the Righteous] can be used to maintain the DoT on up to three targets at the same time.

It can also be useful in PVP against rogues who use [Vanish], as the Damage Over Time component will unstealth them.

This seal is listed as magic, not melee so it can not miss, but it can, however, be resisted.

Tips & Tactics

Primarily, it is meant as a tanking seal. It allows the paladin to put stacking, Damage Over Time threat on a target.

This is very useful while tanking as it allows the paladin to switch targets while still maintaining aggro, and it allows the paladin to generate instant threat in the event of a threat wipe.

It can also be useful in PvP against rogues who use [Vanish] as the Damage Over Time component will unstealth them.

Past Changes

• Patch 3.0.2 - Proc chance per melee swing raised to 100%, mana cost changed to % of base mana, damage now affected by attack and spell power.
• Patch 3.0.9 - The duration of all seals has been raised to 30 minutes.

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB