Hammer Time - The new Hammer of the Righteous

[Nuronv]

As you have probably already seen HotR has been changed

Hammer the current target and up to 2 additional nearby targets, causing 3 times your main hand damage per second as Holy damage.

I'm trying to get my head round the wording on this. On first sight it looks like a 3x Damage increase from the ability (up from 120% weapon damage as Holy damage) but then what is the last section about?

"main hand damage per second as Holy damage"

This suggests to me either there is a one second weapon speed normalisation on it, have worded it strangely by accident or something completely different that i haven't thought of

[Zotek]

When i read it i thought of it as a holy DoT, would seem like something they would add.

[SFuglsang]

Depends on your weapons DPS; with caster wep atm:
41,1 dps * 3 = 123,3 damg
I think it is this way :P

[Mayhem]

yup think so too, sounds like its scales with the weapons dps, gz

[Dalthadar]

The way I interpereted it is the same as SFuglsang above me, you look at the dps of your main hand weap and x3 and thats what hits all 3 targets, probably has an AP or SD co-efficient too. seems like a buff to me.

[WarDaft]

It didn't actually change at all.

The tooltip now accurately reflects what the spell does, and did.


It has no SP coefficient, and no AP coefficient beyond 3 times your listed DPS.

[Lepa]

Seems like a speed normalization, and that's good as all *tanking* weapons are generally fast, the 3x per second would indicate a slight buff aswell. Cus the slowest weapon you could get so far was 2.6 speed,and this type of normalization would treat all weapons as 3.0speed

Hope it still scales with AP, otherwise its a nerf

[lepact]

It was normalised to 2.5 weapon speed and 120% weapon damage.

2.5 x 1.2 = 3, same as before, no buff.

[Nuronv]

Thats It then, Thread Closed

Move along, nothing to see here