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Seal of Corruption

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Seal of Corruption

Spell holy sealofvengeance.png

  • Seal of Corruption
  • Level 64 paladin ability
  • 14% of base mana
  • Instant
  • Fills the Paladin with holy power, granting each melee attack a chance to apply Blood Corruption, which deals 150 additional Holy damage over 15 sec. Blood Corruption can stack up to 5 times. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Lasts 30 sec.

    Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing 120 Holy damage for each application of Blood Corruption on the target.

Properties
Class Paladin
Race Blood elf
School Holy
Cooldown None
Other information
Level learned 64
Improvements [Seals of the Pure]
Related buff

  • Magic
  • Seal of Corruption
  • Melee attacks cause Holy damage over 15 sec.
  • Duration: 2 minutes
Related debuff

  • Magic
  • Blood Corruption
  • Holy damage every 3 sec.
  • Duration: 15 seconds

The Seal of Corruption is the Horde equivalent of the Alliance's [Seal of Vengeance].

While the seal originally did not appear until Wrath of the Lich King, it was later added in Burning Crusade Classic.

Tips and 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.

The debuff will stack up to five times on the target and will last the full fifteen seconds, remaining even after a paladin (or multiple paladins) judges the Seal. If multiple paladins attack the same target with this Seal, it will only stack up to five with no further debuffs being applied, however, doing so will keep the stacks up allowing each of the paladins to each Judge for the full effect.

[Hammer of the Righteous] will apply a stack to all targets hit.

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

Since patch 3.2, it became the main DPS seal for Retribution Paladins against mobs with enough HP to not die before Seal of Corruption takes full effect, such as bosses. However [Seal of Command] should be used on mobs that die quickly.

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