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Avenging Wrath

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Avenging Wrath

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Properties
Class Paladin
School Holy
Cooldown 2 minutes
Talents
Talent required HolyHoly
[Breaking Dawn] or [Divine Revelations] or [Divine Glimpse]

ProtectionProtection
[Bulwark of Order] or [Improved Ardent Defender]/ [Blessing of Spellwarding] or [Light of the Titans]/ [Tirion's Devotion]

RetributionRetribution
[Light's Celerity]/ [Guided Prayer]

Other information
Improvements [Blessing of the Forge], [Divine Wrath], [Radiant Glory], [Righteous Protector], [Rising Sunlight], [Sanctified Wrath], [Sentinel], [Sun's Avatar]
Related buff

  • Avenging Wrath
  • Damage, healing, and critical strike chance increased by 20%.
  • Duration: 20 seconds
"Evil shows no mercy, nor is it shown any by the Light."[1]

Avenging Wrath is a paladin talent that appears in all three specialization trees.

It is an exclusive choice node with [Avenging Crusader] for Holy, [Sentinel] for Protection, and [Crusade] for Retribution.

Notes

Tips and tactics

  • This ability essentially places the Paladin at a higher DPS bracket for the duration. It suits Retribution Paladins best due to their already relatively heightened damage abilities, but is useful in PvP and PvE alike as a way of causing huge burst damage in a small amount of time. This spell itself does not trigger the Global Cooldown, but unlike Judgement, is affected by it.
  • Avenging Wrath is dispellable and easily recognized by enemy players due to the giant golden wings protruding from the Paladin's back, and thus should be used with caution around Shamans ( [Purge]), Priests ( [Dispel Magic] or even [Mass Dispel]), Warlock's Felhunters ( [Devour Magic]), Hunters [Tranquilizing Shot], and worst of all, Mages (whose [Spellsteal] can give them the great benefits of this spell, making them even more powerful). Therefore, think before you use this spell, and time it correctly. If you are fighting a Shaman, Mage or Priest one-on-one, make sure you cast it the right time (could be when the target is affected by [Hammer of Justice] or [Fist of Justice]). Make sure the target has used any stunbreaking cooldowns or trinkets etc. The result, when timed right, can be deadly.
  • Because of its powerful boost and well-known visual effect, Avenging Wrath is often simply referred to as a paladin's "wings". For example; "he used his wings, so the other guy was killed in two seconds".

Trivia

Patch changes

  • TheWarWithin-Petopia-Logo.png Patch 11.0.5 (2024-10-22):
    • Now increases Critical Strike chance by default.
    • Now a row 8 Holy, row 6 Protection, and row 5 Retribution talent (was a row 5 class talent).
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Now increases healing and damage by 15% for Holy (was 20%).
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2023-04-10): Now increases damage and healing by 10% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2023-03-27): Fixed an issue that caused Avenging Wrath's 75% PvP multiplier to not function for Retribution Paladins.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Fixed an issue where Avenging Wrath's damage increase was not affecting [Eye of Tyr] or [Tyr's Enforcer].
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 class talent (was a level 37 ability). Ranks 2 and 3 removed.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
    • Now learned at level 37 (was 72). No longer has a global cooldown.
    • Rank 2 added at level 43: Cooldown reduced by 60 sec.
    • Rank 3 added at level 48: Effects increased 10%.
  • BattleForAzeroth-Logo-Small.png Patch 8.1.5 (2019-03-12): Avenging Wrath now causes your next   [Holy Shock],   [Light of the Protector],   [Templar's Verdict], or   [Divine Storm] to critically strike.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now available to all specializations and can no longer be dispelled. Healing bonus for Holy reduced from 100% to 35%, and no longer increases haste or damage. Damage and healing bonus for Retribution and Protection increased from 20% to 35%.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • No longer available to Protection paladins.
    • Now also increases all of the paladin's healing by 20% for its duration.
  • Mists-Logo-Small.png Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now has a cooldown of 2 minutes for Retribution Paladins (was 3 minutes). The cooldown remains unchanged for Holy and Protection Paladins.
  • Mists-Logo-Small.png Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Mana cost removed.
  • Cata-Logo-Small.png Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 72 (was 70).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): [Divine Shield], [Divine Protection], and Avenging Wrath cannot be used within 30 seconds of each other anymore.  [Forbearance] removed from Avenging Wrath.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2008-10-31): Once more causes Forbearance.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): No longer causes Forbearance, damage increase reduced to 20% (from 30), now increases healing done by 20%.

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