Can someone explain the use of this to me? This ability is god awful.
I've tried it in every way I can think of, and I fail to see the value or purpose of this ability other than to take up some space in my spell book.
I was really excited to get this too. Hey it's my racial deal. It was special just to BE paladins I wanted to check it out. But when I take it out for a spin I have to wonder what they were thinking when they wrote up this ability.
Okay, so it adds on an extra 35% damage in holy, and does 10% damage back to me... Well if it has to hurt me to use it, it's got to be awsome right? Nope.
I pulled up a spreadsheet and started punching in the numbers.
In the end I came to this conclusion.
It is useless.
I when i compared it to seal of righteousness I found that SoR not only does more holy damage, but costs less mana. The only place where SoB won is in a bit more judgement damage, but taking the 33% completely cancled it out and put it into deficit.
I even went through the trouble of getting a 2 hander and grinding my skill up to par. I figured maybe they were gearing this toward the 2hander, but nope, SoR still beat it.
So it does less damage, costs more mana, and hurts you when you use it...
Can someone please explain this? I mean I could see it if it healed you for 10% instead of harming you. That would make some sense (in fact I've seen BE NPCs use a very similar ability and I wouldn't exactly call it unfair or tide turning) considering it would only end up giving me personally back 13-20 health back a swing.
Then in my angst my roomate (who plays alliance) logged on his paladin and showed me what they were given, SoV, which is infinitly more useful than this crap heap they threw to Blood Elves.
what the hell? If ANYONE can find a practical use for Seal of Blood, please share it so maybe my brain will stop hemmoraging from trying to figure out what was going through their heads.