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Comment by Xarthat

This ability is going to be a killer in PvP. Just aim it at that pesky rogue (who probably has less health than you) or mage and they essentially nuke themselves down if they're not careful.

Comment by 175315

I hope the 3 min mages will exist in MoP...

Comment by kgurnhill

I wonder, could this be used as a pre-taunt damage boost on a boss? :)
Would be nice, Windwalker runs toward boss, and uses Expel Harm to get the 2 Chi needed, and then as hes about to aggro the boss he pops this, the boss bashes the monk a little, while the tank is in hot pursuit, right behind the Monk and taunts the second he sees the Windwalker taking any damage.

Would require coordination though, and an attentive tank... deffinately NOT for LFR/LFG :P

Comment by ShiroRX

Unequivocally I can say this is the strongest ability on the Windwalker, period. Almost for the Monk as a whole, but Mistwalker's anti-stun passive is just too laughably broken not to be no.1.

Anyway, this is absolutely ridiculous. It's only limited by your max hp, I've seen it ticking for over 60k. It's an integral part of what makes the WW probably the strongest melee combatant in the game atm. People will chastise me, saying we're weak, but they're incapable of leveraging the monk's power.

Comment by Genoso

Just my own two cents, but this also works on AoE damage from bosses, with laughable results in level 20 shadowfang, had a monk pop it just before aphyxiate from ashbury to see his health not drop at all then to randomly hit 1 hp remaining and ashbury getting nuked, as well as the monk popped it and stood in pistol barrage at the end again with the same results minus the randomly hitting 1 hp part

Comment by Mormolyce

Stop hitting yourself!

Comment by 582292

Silly question: Total health=Max Health?

Comment by Griffmstr

What does the symbol mean in the icon? it doesn't seem to be the Chinese character for Karma, just as the Touch of Death one is not death either. Also, Guard has a symbol/character I'm curious to know about.

Comment by dpatchen1229

Does not transfer falling damage for an otherwise hilarious midair gank.

In other news, SPLAT!

Comment by gbalkam

I see a nerf bat coming for this soon. Seriously, a dot (at my rogues level, doing 500 dmg) per tick?

People cried because locks chaos bolts were working as intended and hitting hard, so that spell got nerfed (again, never mind death knights that easily hit multiple times for 300k+ with out having to stand still for nearly 3 seconds).

I could see 20% of the dmg being returned, the same as a priests power word shield glyph (I think it is still in game... maybe) but a full 100% return of dmg is way to OP for any class.

My solution.. is nature protection potion, to absorb a large part of that damage, since the spell deals damage back in the form of nature damage, it will give my rogue a lot more survivability vs monks that cast this spell.

Edit... so nature protection pots do work, had a monk pop this on me, my pot absorbed enough dmg to keep me alive, down to half health, but the monk died, guess 10 seconds wasn't enough. lol

Comment by yourmehstake

The biggest pain in the ass in Random Battlegrounds. You may notice the debuff on yourself and stop attacking but that doesn't mean the idiots that surround you will. This most likely means you're going to see a 60k tick float over you every second until your dead. I don't even bother attack WW monks with my melee toons due to this, ring of pos, and fists of fury.

Comment by 749635

obviously there is no way to steal this spell, since it is an instant cast (and shouldn't be), but is there a way to reflect damage back; for instance using warriors spell reflect?

Comment by 749635

another thing I was thinking is that since it is about karma, there should be a transference of damage. For example monk's (and others) damage to target is transferred to the monk. That would be fair and require the monk to stop dps on that character also. It would be 10 seconds that they could hug and make love (not that it usually take a whole 10 seconds).

Comment by theultimateend

This is my favorite move to use in raids. It looks like just about anything can be negated with this and result in you hitting the boss for an incredible amount of damage each second.

So far, presuming the tooltip isn't lying, I've hit nearly 200K damage per second in Siege of Orgrimmar by just standing in pools (or similar effects) while this is active. It is astoundingly satisfying and it even helps healers because they have one less sucker to heal.

I hope this never goes away.

Edit: Holy cow! Against the iron juggernaught activate this and touch the mines it drops. You'll be pumping out 300K or more a second...

Comment by echospazz

You can apply this to a enemy Healer and have a strong DPS beat on you and the damage you take from the DPS will be redirected onto your karma target (Healer in this case).

In other words, ALL (except falling) damage you take while this is active will be redirected on to your Karma target as a DoT.

P.S. The DoT itself can be dispelled, NOT the Karma effect.

Comment by bartsachs

Time to start farming nature resistance gear!

Comment by SoooWhoCares

All damage dealt to the Monk is redirected to you as Nature damage over 6 sec.
>lasts 10s

I don't unterstand this. Why is the debuff up for 10s when I will only receive damage for a total of 6s ?

Comment by 267546

It's too OP enough said.
It's a Paladin bubble with a shorter cooldown, a longer duration, no resource cost, the monk still retain all his damage output and it is the only ability in the game that can reflect 100% of damage taken. Beyond that, malicious friendly characters can get you killed with it, thus that wouldn't be the first time drama started with Touch of Karma. Drama is all what a Mmo needs.

Abilities like these just show how World of Warcraft is balanced. Some random soup with no real studies behind it.

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Touch of Karma

Touch of Karma
Melee Range

Instant	1.5 min cooldown

All damage you take is redirected to the enemy target as Nature damage over 6 sec instead of you. Damage cannot exceed your total health. Lasts for 10 sec.

Buff

Touch of Karma

All damage dealt to the Monk is redirected to you as Nature damage over 6 sec.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1.5 minutes

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Absorb Damage (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Cannot be dodged, parried or blocked
Initiates Combat (Enabled Auto-Attack)
Discount Power On Miss
Cannot crit
Requires main hand weapon
No Partial Resists
No Caster Aura Icon
Absorb Cannot Be Ignore
Ignore Caster Damage Modifiers

Touch of Karma

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