Blade of Justice Hate Thread!

I hate Blade of Justice & Blizzard needs to replace it back with Exorcism because:

(1) Exorcism had an iconic spell icon
(2) Exorcism had amazing visual & sound effects
(3) Exorcism was RANGED

Just bring it back Blizz. Make Blade of Justice a glyph for the few people who actually like it (if they exist).

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I like both. :blush:

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I like both as well. The sound effect is cool and if I lose my character visually the sight of her raising her arm to cast it helps me find her lol.

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Lorewise the BoJ ability doesn’t actually make that much sense. just a pointless thing to throw in as “Filler” I would actually like to have seen it be a “weapon throw” doing a boomerang kind of thing returning back to that player doing a piercing cleave type of damage in a straight line.

and Neither does Wake of Ashes, That was specifically The Ashbringer’s enchantment to leave Wakes of Ash, upon slaying anything Unholy.

I would like Mass Exorcism over Wake of Ashes, and probably Denounce/Holy Wrath to make it’s return as a 10-20 yrd instant cast or cone ability scorching the target causing a debuff (Not the unable to crit one) that would pair well with Exorcism.

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I’d much rather keep BoJ and drop Crusader Strike.

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they need to put blessing of kings back to buff. they removed that ability years ago.

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Yes

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Yes.

Ok lets not lie to ourselves here.
The spell fx of Exorcism was pretty bad

I always expected much more coming from the spell

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Signed.
Love exorcism.
Do not like BoJ for Paladins.

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exorcism
old judgement animation
old divine storm animation

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Yeah, Blade of Justice is just one of those silly damned spells. I really wish they would go back to Paladins being warcraft’s warriors with priest’s training instead of Crusaders from Diablo.

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I like the simple “holy blast” effect of the spell.

That’s even worse. I don’t want to be a Warrior or a Priest. Nor a bad diablo copycat.

I want to be a PALADIN again.
Righteous vengeful crusader and smiter of all evils and undeads. Along with a huge thematic on Law and Justice. Thats what a Paladin has always been, but we’ve never felt that justice essence since the Legion rework, we became a poor warrior with yellow animation. A stripped boring knight.

I wish we could have cool Law spells that’s utility for us, for our group but also denying enemies in certain ways.

Also more emphasizism on Justice and smiter of evils and undead aesthetic, flavor and spells.
Exorcism could just replace the current animation of BoJ we have, but with a better animation, something like as we raise our weapon upward like current BoJ does, we exorcism the demon of the target sucking the demon into our blade in the air with a flash of holy particles once it has been sucked in.

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nah man i hate the animation where you raise the sword in the air lol. looks so corny. old exorcism animation and sound were way better

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Like I said, you swap the sound and spell to exorcism, you can keep it 12yards for design purpose.

And keep the upward weapon and just make a soul sucking animation from the target to your weapon. It would be sick.

Way better than a sword from the ground :confused:

Shouldn’t the demon be dispersed by the Light or something? The way you describe it sounds like some DK runeblade action.

12 yards is a stupid range… just bring it back to 30 again.

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BoJ dmg needs to be buffed for sure

They need to “re-skin” the Crucible of Flame to be yellow/red/orange and use this animation/vfx for Exorcism.

Exorcism - 20 yard range (Rank2)

Blast forth a wave of Holy Fire, causing 5,000 Holy damage to all enemies hit and generating 2 Holy Power.

Always crits on Undead and Demons.

*Art of War procs now reset Exorcism.

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honestly both are fine, i can live with or without exorcism. the only thing it really provided was range.

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It might not be a big deal to everyone but one of the things I loved about Exorcism was that it was instant. Even though I enjoyed the crucible animation from BfA, giving Exorcism travel time would be a downgrade.

When Exorcism hit, back in the day, there was a small holy energy animation on the target. I’d prefer if they kept it as an instant hit with that animation and just emphasized it more or came up with a new animation that’s along the same lines.

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