Is this now always the bad choice against taking holy prism? I like the visual of the big lighting hammer a lot more but looking at the numbers especially with the 4-piece bonus it seems to pale compared with prism. The tooltip says it’s capped at 6 healing targets so it’s probably not even better in raids.
I too prefer light’s hammer thematically, but I believe light’s hammer is going to be removed in The War Within (it’s in the current patch notes for alpha). So might as well start using holy prism now. Maybe we’ll get Ashen Hallow back in some form xD One can hope!
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Kinda dumb on their part to remove a cool looking spell and have you use a boring generic one instead but hey it’s not my game!
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Light’s Hammer is still played in raid. With the buffs to Light’s Hammer prior to season 4, Light’s Hammer pulled ahead of Holy Prism.
In the TWW Light’s Hammer has met an unfortunate fate. It has so much potential, but it’s been tossed in the trash.
The choice between Barrier of Faith and Holy Prism is kind of interesting in that it’s a choice between AoE and ST, however Barrier of Faith is very, very boring tbh.
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As was already stated, Light’s Hammer can pull its weight in raids, where it will heal its target cap of people, so long as you put it down during a phase of little/no movement. But Prism is up more frequently, and you can choose to heal everybody a little bit or one person a lot, giving it more flexibility without the need to stand still. Prism is a lot better in M+, and even in raids I think it’s usually easier to use, outside of specific encounters.
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That’s good it can still be viable in raids. I’m also looking at the holy power generation with the tier-bonus, seems prism gives 9 per minute vs I think 4 for light’s hammer.
The one complaint I have with prism is the HP it generates depends on how you use it. If you cast it on an enemy, it just generates 1 holy power, if you cast it on an ally, it generates 3 holy power.
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It’s so bad that they’re removing it in TWW
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Isn’t Light’s Hammer one of the spells empowered by set bonus armor?
At this point, whatever…
Light Hammer has one additional problem. Very few recognize it, unless they have played WoW for a very long time or play Holy Paladin. It’s a hammer giving off lighting which causes most player to move away from it. It would probably be better off as a DPS spell.