Seal of the Crusader talent (Paladin class tree) is not scaling with ret paladin mastery (Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment).
Ret Paladin mastery does two things:
- Increases holy damage done by __%
- Judgment has a __% chance to deal an additional __ damage (we don’t care about this effect for this issue)
Seal of the Crusader (SotC) deals additional holy damage on auto attacks, so the expected result is that SotC damage is affected by mastery. It is not.
Per Wowhead, the “school” of Seal of the Crusader is listed as Physical instead of Holy. This might be the issue. https://www.wowhead.com/spell=385728/seal-of-the-crusader
Test setup:
I took off all my gear except for a weapon. I used two test weapons that were identical two-hand maces (548 ilvl), with the only difference being the secondary stats.
Weapon 1: 655 crit, 655 haste.
Weapon 2: 655 mastery, 655 haste.
So the only difference with my character during the test is with Weapon 1, I have 655 crit, and with Weapon 2, I have 655 mastery. Note that my versatility is 0 in both cases (to not affect damage numbers).
With Weapon 1, my mastery rating is 0 (18.0% mastery). With Weapon 2, my mastery rating is 655 (19.40% mastery).
I had rank 2 of Seal of the Crusader talent, which per the tooltip said I would deal 5476 damage with SotC. Note: I also tested this with Rank 1 of Seal of the Crusader, and results were the same as with rank 2 (with lower base SotC damage, of course).
I tested this with both the Crusading Strikes talent, and with it untalented. This seemed to not affect results (SotC will trigger both from Crusading Strikes and true auto attacks).
NOTE: I’m ignoring crit damage, since crit damage is not really relevant. I will only talk about non-crit damage numbers.
Results from hitting the target dummy:
With Weapon 1 (18.0% mastery) my SotC damage on the target dummy was 5476 (and occasionally 5477 … I assume my SotC damage is actually something like 5476.25).
With Weapon 2 (19.40% mastery), my SotC damage was the same (5476 or 5477 per event).
So with an increase in mastery, SotC damage did not change.