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Sword of Light

Sword of Light
Requires Paladin (Retribution)
Requires level 10

Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 25%.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Override Spell Power By AP % (All)
Value: 100%

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Total Power Regen % (Mana)
Value: 6% every 2 seconds

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 60%
Affected Spells:

	Word of Glory		Word of Glory		Eternal Flame

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost (14)
Value: -80%
Affected Spells:

	Crusader Strike

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 100%
Affected Spells:

	Flash of Light

Effect #6

Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost (14)
Value: -40%
Affected Spells:

	Judgment

Effect #7

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
Affected Spells:

	Word of Glory		Word of Glory		Eternal Flame

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Comment by YJMark

Why is this so deep in the Ret tree? This spell would be great for Holy Paladins too. Much better than the lvl 51 Holy talent.

Comment by quader46

im going 48/0/23 no doubt

i dotn care about the spell damage !@#$, but the HoT is great, being as im usually always healing the MT, so i dont need the 51 point holy talent. an aditional HoT would make my life so much easier. ome Wotlk im sure a 15-20k heal wont be odd, so thats an additional ~7k healed! F*&% spell damage i want HoT's

Comment by frmorrison

In Wrath raids, you want a 51/20 healer and no healer with this talent.

This talent is a large dps increase for Ret.

Comment by Slideshow

being a retadin myself, this talent is perfect for fights where every1 takes A LOT of damage. When WoLK comes out, my talent build will be this: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sZxZVfzthruAIsguAo

Comment by Hiroshi

I expect to see something like this build for arena healbots:

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sxAbxhzhVuMxMbZVf0xhbzh

This gives you the opportunity to emergency heal someone with a Divine Favor Holy Shock (+HOT from Sheath of Light) followed by an instant cast Holy Light (due to Infusion of Light), and God help the other team if that Holy Light crits (probably overwriting the first HOT with the newer, bigger one). Sounds like a reset.

With this build you also have the opportunity to switch between Concentration Aura for casters or Retribution Aura for melee (assuming the new Ret Aura with a spell bonus isn't worthless like the old one). If Ret Aura doesn't pan out you can also swap out for Eye for and Eye and put the single point almost anywhere else. You may even want Eye for Eye over ret aura talents regardless.

Comment by fantom106

Will this proc off of divine storm?
The healing from divine storm is 20% so i was wondering if it always was 20% or if the healing effect could crit.
I was thinking about this because seal of command says it does 70% weapon damage but it can crit.

Comment by Dawnsun

Shockadins are back! screw BoW . If ur a smart shockadin grab this talent, and ur regular Bom spell gives u a flat 80 sp. And as some1 said earlier we'll have like 5xx base ap. thats a $%^& load of extra sp stacked with the 35% of int talent.

Comment by jeddic

By jeddic 24 days ago (Patch 2.4.3)
I think that as it is this talent will be good for Holy paladins, but it blizzard sees alot of them getting this, they will probably change it to make it less desirable for them, as it is really intended only for retribution paladins.
This talent has been moved to the 41 point talent, making it impossible for a holy paladin to grab. This was the move I was expecting from blizzard, and I'm glad they did it as giving this ability to holy paladins would make ridiculously overpowered heals.

Comment by jeddic

Anyone have any idea how this will work with FoL crits while you have a Glyph of Flash of Light active? I'm thinking that the Sheath of Light HoT will be based on the total amount of your FoL heal including the HoT, but I'm not sure.
Any help would be appreciated.

Comment by Primalfury

I would imagine blizz gave this to the ret tree so that in a pinch ret pallies could throw on healing gear and off heal like shamans and druids. Also so they could heal themselves in PvP.

Pallies
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53503
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=20045

Druids
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=17003
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=33872

Shamans
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=30812
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=51883
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=17485

but if a healing pally really wanted it. It could lead to an intresting build. Losts of mana regen, and at lvl 71 you could get http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=20216 for the guarenteed crit. However, seems like you would be gimping your dps and your high end healing.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sxA0xZZVfbt0hufMsr0h

and maybe at 80

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sxA0xGzZZVfbt0hufMsruh

Comment by Kaumar

Sheath of Light: Now correctly benefits Judgements of Command, Blood, and The Martyr.

Can some one please explain what that means and how is will affect Sheath of Light. Thanks

Comment by toastmaster7727

This isn't just a PvP talent or a talent to improve your heals. This is mainly meant to increase your overall damage and healing of ALL of your spells. Seal of command, Hammer of Wrath, Judgement effects, and all heals benefit from spell power although it is sometimes lower than the bonuses given from attack power. The hot is considered icing on the cake in my eyes. Spec this 3/3 no matter what you are doing with your character or you will get roundhouse kicked by Chuck Norris

Comment by anubiteofosiris

Amazingly enough, This works incredibly well for a paladin geared for healing!
buffs are great right? so now you can get more benefit from BoM Battle shout, and mark of the wild

speccing right this can actually prove to be possibly the most mana effecient ability in-game.

Combine this with the crit you can get from ret, and sanctified light, divine favor, and Illumination and healing light, and of course, good to great healing gear, you can crit high, and heal even more AFTER it, a holy light crit after this not only would give a near full health bar at 80, coupled with HoT you wont need to heal much those 12 seconds

Now, I'm not saying this is good in raids, havent tried it, but its great in 5 mans, pretty much easy button

Comment by Xebenatros

Is this talent suppose to help keep Ret Pallys alive longer or is it a waste for those who seek to maximize their DPS. I haven't really used Flash Of Light all that much even with Art Of War in effect.

Comment by Parlzdort

if "sheath of light" gives a moded spell hit of 8% does that mean you still need to stack % for physical

Comment by perculia

From Ghostcrawler on 5.2 PTR Changes: Sword of Light now reads +30% Word of Glory and +100% Flash of Light. We wanted to reward Flash of Light more, because it's harder and riskier to use.

Comment by Arinee

As well as what is mentioned by Perculia

Currently this has been increased from 10% to 15% damage when using a 2h weapon for patch 5.2

Hopefully in combination with the reduced cooldown on Avenging Wrath, this will help our overall dps for the longer fights

- Accurate only as of 2013/02/26 and due to the patch not being out yet anything is subject to change

Comment by Vortalex

Hotfix. Now does 60% up from 30%.
https://twitter.com/Rygarius/status/466396382614806528

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