That actually makes a lot of sense how they worded it.
yes thatâs exactly how it works - although back on Nostalrius, Seal of Command did in fact receive 100% of the +holy damage from Judgement of the Crusader so when you add that with all 6 ranks of JotC stacking, it certainly made for some fun times ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
Dear God, that is insane⌠sounds fun!
I never really payed attention to spell damage for the lower ranks, but I did pay attention to when I used JotC at lower levels and I even played around with it at higher levels. The level penalty was never applied for the JotC bonus. It would be really retarded that your 25 damage judgement fell to 16 wouldnât it (base is 15)
Some one should voice over the clip with âThe Lightâ when ever they say God just for use in paladin related topics.
Interesting little factoid. Itâs intended to be the same thing but because Blizzard doesnât want to support any single diety.
If you look at the original Beta itâs very evident by the spell took tips.
I donât think thatâs a reasonable assertion.
The Holy Light is a defined fantasy religion. Yes, it has a lot of similarity to real-world Judeo-Christian beliefs, but thatâs not the same as saying that itâs intended as a stand-in for them. It has similarities, and it also has differences.
Itâs just a cultural artifact that the Judeo-Christian mythos dominates Western religious thought, and so itâs common and expected that the writers (unconsciously or consciously) would draw inspiration from it.
You ought to have a look at the BETA combat res took tip.
Itâs rather specific. Obviously they changed this in 1.1.0 with a lot of the game, but itâs the genesis of the class.
http://www.regressionx.com/wow/paladin.htmI donât think a single tooltip typed out by a single person, in beta, on a single class, typed a long time after the Holy Light was already designed, is a good representation of design intent.
Itâs about a 700% chance that that was just a Freudian slip by an overworked employee who had to bang out some tooltips on a deadline.
(Also, I feel itâs worth noting that that doesnât reference any specific religion anyway, and trying to map it to a specific religion is projection at best.)
I never said that it was a reference to any specific religion, just that the light and God are suppose to be the same thing. And thatâs why the little video posted by Theloras is more or less in tune with the class fantasyâŚ
Ewww I just used Class fantasy⌠I feel dirty now, someone get me some bleachâŚ
So I like to go Holy/Ret personally. What I do is go Ret down to SOC And Pursuit of Justice which is only a 13 point investment. From there I go all Holy and become a healing goddess in dungeons. Run BOW and SOL while questing and typically have no downtime.
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Thatâs actually how I was thinking to build⌠I cant see the point in going any deeper into Retribution than Seal of Command for leveling⌠All the rest seems like PVE / PVP raid / dungeon options that I really donât need for Healing in a dungeon.
Seal of Command looks fun, primarily why I would like to use it⌠Also the burst (According to the math) indicates that Judgement of Command is king when you donât have gear.
This also still gives us access to all the other seals,⌠but I could be wrong.
When you use the word capital-g God, youâre referring to a specific religion or group of religions.
The video Theloras posted is associated with a specific religion.
Paladins are not associated with a specific religion and, indeed, the Holy Light is not an omnipotent creator deity.
Interesting, did not know that bit⌠Is that a religious thing?
I meanâŚyeah?
Itâs a Judeo-Christian thing. Capital-G God, as a name, is how modern Christians refer to their deity. It can be traced back to the Judeaic conceit of âDo not take the Lordâs name in vainâ that you still see in the Bible today.
(Islam, though derived from the same roots, did not keep this prohibition; if you just listen to the words, you might notice some similarities between Allah and Yahweh.)
In any case, it refers specifically to the creator deity of Abrahamic religions. Contrast with usages like Zeus or Vishna, deities from polytheistic religions that have their own names, or for a more Warcraft example consider Elune, an actual deity who is also always referred to with her own name.
Speaking of WoWâs stuff, itâs kinda funky how they blended all their stuff together⌠Some of it is kidna disjointed in a way if you go with the modern WoW interpretation of the lore.
Shame that the lore is so wack, because itâs plastered full of bandaid fixes for massive plot holes.
The modern interpretation especially suffers from that.
The original WoW lore only had to worry about plot holes from the Warcraft RTS games, and there wasnât a lot of plot in Warcraft 1 or 2, and War3 was recent enough that they didnât have a ton of problem working with it.
But the longer they went the bigger their pile of existing lore was and theyâŚdid not do a good job maintaining it. Even as early as BC, Outland looked nothing like Draenor did in Beyond the Dark Portal. (I guess at least Zangarmarsh had the giant mushrooms, but my recollection of BtDP is that the mushrooms were reddish to go with the land.)
As I remember it the Mushrooms in the WC RTS were also in dry areas as well⌠We harvested them instead of treesâŚ
(talking WC2 Beyond the dark portal) Thatâs been 23+ years so⌠take that memory with a grain of saltâŚ
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Plus the Black Temple used to be the Black Citadel and was in Hellfire Peninsula.
There was also something called Fortress Shadowmoon where Black Temple is now, but it doesnât fully line up with being the Black Temple.
Outland is a strange place.
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