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Divine Storm

Divine Storm
3 Holy Power
Instant cast
Requires Paladin (Retribution)
Requires level 34

Requires Melee Weapon
Deals 65% Holy damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

Empowered Divine Storm (Level 92+)
Holy Power consumers have a 25% chance to make your next Divine Storm free and deal 50% more damage.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

3 Holy Power

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Max targets

255 - Default

Effect #1

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 65
Radius: 8 yards

Effect #2

Normalized Weapon Damage
Radius: 8 yards

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

Guides

Retribution Paladin Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Paladin Changes

Comments

Comment by Phr057

Judging by the contents in "Effect #1". The attack may do 100% weapon damage.

Comment by Spectacular66

This is definitely going into my damage rotation.

My usual rotation was SotC, Seal of Command, Crusader Strike, probably a proc from Command and then I'd stun and judge. Now I might throw in Divine Storm between Crusader Strike and the usual stun. This will help own faces in PvP as well, no doubt about it!

Comment by Sitrimid

Well they gave us a new instant attack with a short cooldown and they got from us Sanctify Aura.I mean for lord's shake they are joking on us???
This might be a trick to make most of the pallys to Turn to the Dark Side(if you know what i mean)

Aggre with the guy that said Palastyle whirlwind skill

Comment by Sitrimid

You think blizz gonna let us proc seals not on our main targer?

Comment by Skcornnelg

Looking forward to seeing this in action but 12% of base mana? Bit pricey no?

Comment by Magicmaster

Will you heal yourself by this as well as party members ?

Comment by Skullz

When i see this talent,the buff to Consacrate,and the possibility of Seal of Blood/the Martyr proccing on all nearby targets during Divine Storm,Paladin AOE dps suddenly comes to mind.

Comment by Zerole

Alright, this is probably borderline irrelevant but does anyone else find it odd that the icon for DS is a Sword but the actual animation is a Mace? I'm a bit of a Sword fanatic so I'm kinda hoping they fix this if only for aesthetics.

Comment by Athene

Am I getting this right?
- The spell does (weapon damage + (attack speed * (AP/14))) on each hit.
- It heals the paladin and 2 raid members each for ~7% of the total damage done (dmg per hit * targets hit), healing a total of 20% of the damage done.
- Additionally triggers seal on every target hit.
- The damage is really holy damage, it is not mitigated.

If I all this is true, then this truely is an immense spell.
A powerful AOE spell (not like the weak consecration) is the 1 thing that I've always missed while playing my retri, and now we're getting it.

I don't wanne get too happy before I'm sure of what is true though.

Comment by Morow

The Divine Storm heals up to 3 party or raid members totaling 20% of the damage caused.

This leads me to believe that the healing will be split for up to three targets, and I don't think that the paladin will necessarily be one of them. Sure it's possible, but it will likely be like chain heal, jumping to targets with low health.

So say you DS for 1500 damage. You would then take 300 (20%), and divide it between three people (100 each). Doesn't seem like much, but I'm sure it adds up.

Comment by etherealplain

I wonder if the Talent Sheath of light Will effect crits from this ability. And if so Righteous Vengeance should also effect this.

Comment by Oblivion537

i hope the healing does not heal you, i mean if it heals you then like said that will heal some of your damage from seal of blood and if your healing yourself you wont get mana :(

Comment by knightsydude

What does it mean by:

"An instant weapon attack that causes Holy damage to up to - 1 enemies within 8 yards."

So, is that 1 enemy now? Another Crusader Strike?

Comment by Zaan3

...perhaps the greatest addition to a retadin since Crusader Strike & the revamped Avenging Wrath

Comment by Erhios

This spell now says.. ´´Holy damage to up to - 1 enemies within 8 yards`` and the talent still says: ´´Holy damage to up to - 4 enemies within 8 yards``. What one is right?

Comment by camarouge

Heh, I would like to compare this to multishot, but, I really can't for two reasons:

Multishot is a flat amount of damage added to your auto-shot, but still physical.
Divine Storm heals.

Still might be useful to use in a pvp 1v1 situation, but only if you really need it; thats how I'll compare it to Multishot.

Overall though, very awesome skill for retribution, I was worried what we'd get but its all for the better... phew!

Comment by merlozulueta

This adds to the Retribution paladin combos and this is one of the reasons why people are complaining about this class in the forums.

It's the best if fighting against multiple players or mobs. It's fine to do this if dealing with solo, it will add the dps efficiently. You must have a hostile target when using this ability though, not like whirlwind that you can use it if you don't have a target.

Compare this to whirlwind: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=1680

DS has a range which is melee while this WW has none.

It's pretty good in PvE when one of your nearby mates are getting smashed by cleaves or AOE, this will surely help with healing them a bit. But make sure you're using it against an enemy target.

And always make sure you have a seal on to keep dps up if you want to kill faster. I recommend seal of light and judgement of light if you want more healing to your melee mates while you attack. Or Seal of Command or Seal of Blood/Martyr if you want to beserk (literally).

Comment by Quest

Its not confusing at all, and you explained it perfectly fine. People that dont understand it are dense/dont want to understand it.

For everyone that still doesnt understand, this is how you find out your BASE MANA;

Have 0 talent points spent
Take off ALL gear
Look at your int then do this Base Mana = Total Mana - (Intellect x 15)

Should come out to 4114. Round up.

Comment by frostitute

how much threat (if any) would the healing affect cause?....and would it be directed to u or the affected target?

also if u have SoC on can it proc only on one target or on all 4 cause if it can then ur talking bout a very OP spell rite here and even more so if everything crits!

Comment by shoelace

This might be a stupid question, but do anyone on the PTR/beta know if when you are in a group, and you use DS, will only ppl that have lost health be healed, or any random 3 ppl?

Comment by annerajb

they nerfed this already instead of doing holy damage is now physical was hotfixed.

Comment by username409

huge nerf on live - this ability now deals physical damage.

Comment by d3nyd

This ability is now Whirlwind for 51 talent points and a 300-500 heal tacked onto it.

Comment by Nyhon

All is good Divine Storm change was a good thing.i hope that's all they change.Cuz in US servers they did way too much.Now doing physical dmg,and still having same crit chance is good.I think it's not nefr,it was a necessary,cuz palas was WAY too much to handle.

Comment by Zanazua

Stupid overpowered thing. Sorry for bad comment. Just got a paladin down 10%. She used that divine storm and won me with her lil finger. Im warrior. Arms.

Comment by lfad

Remembers me the Blessed Hammer from the Paladin in Diablo 2

Comment by Draquel

Specing in Sheath of Light makes Divine Storm vastly superior to Crusader Strike

Comment by zyran

HOLY CRAP "An instant weapon attack that causes 110% of weapon damage to up to 4 enemies within 0 yards." wow wish i could get 0 yard attacks with my hunter!

Comment by hemek

Ohh look kids it the ability that made it easier for pallies to roll their faces on their keyboard.
And Satan said it was good and Blizzard made it so!

Comment by petar95

Retri Palas, Thank blizzard for giving us these whirling hammers which own everyone ^^

Comment by darkwraith007

***This is for Patch 3.1.3 on LIVE servers***
(Ignore the 3.1.2 thing that WoWhead put, its incorrect)

In instances, I've noticed that Divine Storm does heal the rest of us, as a group, but never heals the ret-pally themselves. When soloing, I've checked the combat log (with everything selected) and its confirmed that Divine Storm does NOT self-heal. When you read the curren tooltip on live servers (Patch 3.1.3), it says that it hits all enemies within zero yards (?) and heals up to 4 raid or party members for 20% of the damage caused. But if you aren't in raid/party, then it won't heal anyone.

My current tests while soloing do suggest that at some point a 'stealth nerf hotfix' was implemented to remove the self-healing ability of this and make it only heal nearby raid/party members. It doesn't heal me at all, and I always wondered why.

So, any word on the truth behind Divine Storm?

EDIT: Update, as of July-2-2009, Blizz decided to finally do a 'stealth hotfix' and correct this issue. Either it was my imagination, a combat log bug, or w/e. But its working fine now and healing as it should.

Comment by cyberbrest

Seal of the Martyr or Seal of Blood are triggered on attack?

Comment by Fallensun

Would the healing on this spell proc the Illumination talent? That would give pallies a nice little buff :)

Comment by Sarbiton

The visual effect is VERY reminiscent of the Diablo II's Blessed Hammer skill for Paladins. A nice shout out that I noticed when replaying the game!

Comment by hubbard

i think ill be leaving this talent out thanks to its low damage.

Comment by Badunkadunk

Anyone know if "Divine Storm" procs "Protector of the Innocent"?

Comment by Adalianar

does it share cooldown with Crusader Strike now?
4.5 sec cooldown makes me suspect..

Comment by cryogenics

As Adalianar, I would also like to know if the new Divine Storm shares it's cooldown with Crusader Strike. If not, I approve of the change. Wish I could try it out on the ptr... At 60% damage, I'd increase the healing to like 30 or 35 percent. Yanno, since our self-healing has been cut quite a bit. Even more so with the change.

Comment by Shadowreign

40% chance to generate Holy Power for each target hit.

For aoe on 3+ mobs that is going to be at least 1 HoPo, and more for larger groups. For only one or two mobs, why not just use Crusader Strike?

*That is IF Divine Purpose does in fact allow the generation of HoPo per target hit, which currently isn't specified on the tooltip for either the spell, or the talent. Can anyone confirm this?

Comment by JakkFrost

For the record, in case anyone was wondering like I was, as of patch 4.0.3 at least, Divine Storm does in fact share cooldown with Crusader Strike.

(I simply post that because it's not mentioned anywhere on this page or in it's comments.)

Comment by Dragoniel

I already regret taking it in a PvP build. Crisader Strike does twice as much damage and generates holy power. Divine storm only tickles the nearby targets and breaks all CC around you.

Gotta respec.

Comment by Every

You'll probably also notice the bug when the Ret Mastery ability procs (Hand of Light) Divine Storm lights up, although it no longer uses holy power, as opposed to when it used holy power before, but didn't light up.

Comment by Coryenne

In the upcoming 4.1 patch:
Divine Storm now generates 1 point of Holy Power if it hits (i.e. successfully lands on) 4 or more targets.

Making this a very useful ability once again. Even pre-4.1 this is a very solid ability that allows paladins to solo a few places with large amount of mobs that don't hit impossibly hard (like Magtheridon's Lair). If you have about 8 or so enemies, a Divine Storm can heal you for 20% of your health in heroic gear.

Comment by Filipse

Nah... in the end... its actualy kinda effective in PVP atleast in AV :P

Comment by Katalo

I believe that people miss the true beauty of this ability in PvP. This is an incredibly cheap AoE. For all the uses that this has, hitting someone slightly out of your range, breaking stealth or camouflage or invisibility, killing pets (particularly snake traps), a little boost of healing, spreading out damage to confuse healers and numerous other uses including stopping flag cappers, this ability is just useful. Yes, it does less single damage than crusader strike, but it will do more damage than crusader strike overall as long as you hit more than 1 person. This is an ability for hitting multiple people, getting your holy power if you hit enough, a chance to proc Divine Purpose (which crusader strike lacks!) and a little heal on the side while you're at it. I can't imagine limiting my utility by not spending a talent point on it!

Comment by brudarek

fyi whoever said that it doesn't self heal is wrong, it does. I use it a ton when solo'ing old content where you're pulling rooms or wings full of mobs at once.

I also swear that from tues-fri this week it stopped healing, I found myself dying to massive old content pulls I do every week and DS wasn't moving my HP at all.

Comment by PriestessAur

In Mists, Divine Storm is no longer a talent but is a trainable spell. It uses holy power and the healing component of Divine Storm has been removed. It can be glyphed Charred Glyph to receive healing up to 5% of max hp.

OLD: Divine Storm
5% of base mana
An instant attack that causes 100% weapon damage to all enemies within 8 yards. The Divine Storm heals up to 3 party or raid members totaling 25% of the damage caused, and will grant a charge of Holy Power if it hits 4 or more targets.

NEW: Divine Storm
3 Holy Power
An area attack that consumes 3 charges of Holy Power to cause 120% weapon damage as Holy damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

Comment by pjammers

Would have been great if Glyph of Bladed Judgement modified the default graphics in your Divine Storm.

Cosmetically, I'm bored with a tornado of holy hammers now that we've tasted some swords and axes in our judgements. It's especially jarring to see your judgements do one weapon type, and then see your divine storm go back to hammers.

Glowing swords or axes swirling around you? Yeah, give me some of that. Just pull the same graphics from the modified judgements and put them in the Divine Storm.

One can hope in a future content update. Hell, I'm fine with them being separate glyphs.

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