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Seal of the Martyr

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Seal of the Martyr

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  • Seal of the Martyr (1 rank)
  • Paladin ability
  • 14% of base mana
  • Instant
  • All melee attacks deal 27% additional Holy damage, but the Paladin loses health equal to 10% of the total damage inflicted. Lasts 30 min.

    Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy, instantly causing [.36* MW + .25* SP + .16* AP] Holy damage at the cost of health equal to 33% of the damage caused.

Properties
Class Paladin
Race(s) Human, Dwarf, Draenei
School Holy
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Related buff

  • Seal of the Martyr
  • Melee attacks deal additional Holy damage at the cost of health.
  • Duration: 30 minutes

Seal of the Martyr allowed a Paladin to deal a large amount of Holy damage with every strike, but had a backlash effect which would damage the Paladin. It was possible for Paladins to kill themselves when using Seal of the Martyr which probably lead to its removal from the game in patch 3.2.0.

[Seal of Blood] is the Horde version of this spell.

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

Notes

  • The Seal is based on the melee mechanics for hit and crit.
  • The seal only scales with weapon damage, not spell damage. It therefore heavily favors melee-geared Paladins (mostly Retribution Paladins), rather than spelldamage-geared Paladins. Note that the Judgement does scale with spell damage.
  • This seal is counted as a second melee strike in terms of game mechanics, meaning that the damage it deals can miss, be dodged, be blocked, and be parried. Since it deals non-physical damage, it can also be partially resisted when used against mobs that are higher level than the player. It will NOT activate [Judgement of Light] and [Judgement of Wisdom] nor any other weapon proc (fiery, mongoose, life steal procs, etc).
  • When using a fast 2-hander, this seal deals more DPS than [Seal of Command]. Also, the fact that it can crit makes it shine in a raid situation since [Vengeance] is similar to a fury warrior's Flurry (warrior talent) in terms of how it increases the paladin's DPS.
  • [Blessing of Sanctuary] will not mitigate backlash damage caused by this seal. Neither will [Divine Shield] make you immune to this damage. The proc effect from  [Uther's Strength] will absorb this damage, and it seems [Improved Righteous Fury] or [Spell Warding] might help mitigating this damage. Killing yourself with this damage counts as a suicide.
  • Seal of the Martyr's damage inflicted to the user is not capable of causing a [Reckoning] proc.
  • The Paladin Retribution talents [Sanctified Seals], [Vengeance], and [Crusade] all affect the damage dealt by this seal (prior to patch 2.1.2 there was a bug that would cause it to doubly affect the returned damage component of this seal, making the returned damage more than the 10% stated on this seal's tooltip).
  • In parses, the % crit may sometimes seem off. This is normally because of the backlash (self-damage), which cannot crit. Generally, in these cases you can double the posted crit rate to determine the actual crit rate.

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