Divine Hammer Bug

Divine Hammer duration appears to scale inversely with haste. If you pop it then it has a reduced CD based on your innate haste, meaning regular Divine Hammers will have a ~6 second duration. You can test it by fully stacking Crusade and popping it, its duration will be around 4 seconds instead of 8.

This doesn’t seem to be intended, as the proc rate seems to update with haste but the duration is a static 8 on the tooltip.

The ICD of 1 second causes issues with keeping it up, meaning you can’t circumvent the inverse haste scaling by spamming your spenders. Also, the holy power spending on Divine Hammers doesn’t give Crusade stacks, so it needs to be used outside of Crusade at all times, especially with the inverse haste scaling.

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Don’t think it is a bug. There are a few abilities that work like this. Phantom Singularity comes to mind.

Now should it work like this? No, of course not. Haste should not negatively affect an ability. But I would not expect it to change, since to my knowledge PS still works like this and has since forever.

Phantom Singularity is flagged with “Haste affects Duration” on its details. Divine Hammer does not have this, only “Melee Haste Affects Periodic”.

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Yeah this is clearly a bug. I’m seeing it myself. If it’s not, it absolutely needs to be made clear in the tool tip. At 20% haste I’m getting about 6 seconds when I pop it.

Ty for sharing. I hope they address this asap…

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Ahh, well then we can only pray it get fixed quickly.

Can confirm the bug still exist. I’m getting only 5 or 6 seconds myself.

Yay for paladins exiting ptr’s buggy!

Feel sorry for templars and ppl looking forward to DH.

Hope they fix it on the next class tuning (no paladin notes for march 4 tuning on GD)

I have 16% haste and it always starts at 8 secs. I see the duration in my weak auras. It isn’t scaling with haste for me. The longest I’ve kept hammers spinning has been 47 seconds.

Yes they just fixed it today.

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Just today? I’ll take another look because I’ve been seeing 8 secs all last week. It’s 8 second now, yes?

Correct, today is the first time we didn’t have haste affect the duration for the past week.