My Holy-Foe-Reck build! (super secret)

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First things first, I’m sooooo excited to play classic again, and I get to use my fav build :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :expressionless: :expressionless: :frowning: :frowning: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

BUT! this was the one build that I loved playing back in vanilla, and I thought I’d share it with everyone so they can see if its a play style that they’d like (or like to die from :wink: ) Now obviously it’s not for everyone, and it will take a long time to get the key ingredient (and no its not love!) but its super fun all around.

Its centered around PvP with the ability to heal raids, and its such a beautiful spec lol. The whole premise is to heal in pvp, BUT when inevitably get attacked it gives you the opportunity to do some really mean damage back. You’ll be healing somewhere in a bg or Wpvp and some sneaky sneaker will try and drop you while the dps are focused on something… usually butterflies or daffodils :wink:
Once someone starts attacking you, unless they have 0 crit chance, you will be getting critted, and thats your bread and butter because you’ll start building reckoning stacks.
Now once you build 4 stacks you’re ready to be Mr/Mrs mean healer lol. use your seal of righteous and then attack them, you’ll do 5 regular attacks and 5 seal attacks (main attack + 4 recks) which will do some serious damage. And after all you need to do is get back to healing, either yourself or others, and as soon as the dps start wailing on you, you just do it again lol. It can start stacking fast so the more someone crits you the faster you can drop them.

The best way to run this build is with either thrash blade (proc 1 extra attack) or Ironfoe (proc 2 extra attack) which is a very rare weapon from brd, But reckoning can and will proc them so you could do either 1 or 2 extra attacks! The other beautiful part, is that i can proc more than once (unless they changed it) you have 5 chances to proc it per reck bomb!! I have had it proc twice in one reck bomb, giving me 7 or 9 total hits (depending on weapon). In theroy it could proc on each reckoning hit (obviously RNGezus would be on your side) but most i’ve seen is it procing twice, add your seal on this and it WILL do significant damage!

Those are the main weapons that I prefer, you can use any weapon, but I found those ones, especially Ironfoe does the best damage!

You’ll need to search for a classic talent calculator, blizz wont let me post links :frowning:
My build!
24/27/0

Holy … … … … Prot

  • 0/5 … … …0/5
  • 5/0 … … … 3/2/1
  • 3/1/0/2 … 1/0/3/0
  • 5/2 … … … 3/3
  • 1/0 … … … 1/5
  • 0 … … … … 0
  • 0 … … … …0

Gear will come in time for sure, PvP I tried to use mostly Plate for the best damage reduction, I usually went 1/2 ret gear just for the reck smacks

The reason I chose those talents other than the obvious reasons:

  • unyielding fury - it may seem small but 10% is quite a lot for character control loss
  • Imp BoW - your raid (either PvP or PvE) will appreciate any extra mp5 they get
  • Toughness - just an extra point, put it wherever, you just need one to get reckoning
  • imp concentration arua - this one is nice for the extra 15% silence and interrupt spells, most things want you to not cast if your a healer, and 15% might just save your but! not to mention any other class that casts loves that 50% casting interrupt buff

mess around with the talents if you want, this is just the version that I found the most helpful in both PvP and PvE and It worked for me for years, at least until you get way better gear lol.

One MAJOR note - Seal of command does NOT! work with reckoning, you’ll only get one SoComm from your first/main attack, it will not proc off of any reckoning, so its pointless to use it. however any other seal will work, if you’re low on mana, just use seal of wisdom, I think it gives back 70 ish mana per proc, and it could proc every time, its definitively a nice choice.

I’m not sure if they’re using the new macro code or the old one, so if you really want to do damage you could cast something like :slight_smile:

/cast seal of crusader
/stopattack

which would let you judge them without attacking, saving your recks and placing a debuff that increases the amount of hold damage they take by x (140 at 60), then righteous seal back up and start swinging lol, you’ll do AMAZING damage!

anywho, this is my 2 cents, if you like let me know and I’ll see you in classic!!

P.S its super secret shhhh…

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I dont mean to burst your bubble but i think reck bomb specs have been well known for at least the last thirteen years.

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yes, but new to classic players won’t know to many builds, plus back then most healers ran full holy with some prot/ret talents, and not too many used ironfoe with any build other then full prot. mine is basically built around heals with the ability to actually do significant damage to enemies.

plus i haven’t played vanilla in 10 years so im excited :slight_smile:

AND NO ONE BURSTS MAH BUBBLE! its not dispellable!

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There is a reason healers didnt run with trash blade or foes. It’s because mainhand weapons have more healing on them than any other slot. What you forgot to take into effect was what if those people critting you are hitting really hard you will do 1/3 of their health with your weak rek-bomb, then just get interrupted and killed or forced to bubble.