Hammer of Wrath (Paladin) is treated as Physical Damage

[Xadras]

Originally reported by: Dreary (Bitbucket: DrearyYew, GitHub: Unknown)

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The Paladin ability Hammer of Wrath is incorrectly behaving as a physical attack when it is intended to be a magical attack since it is purely Holy damage. As such, it incorrectly damages Rogues in Cloak of Shadows, and does not affect enemies under the effect of a Paladin's Blessing of Protection.

I cannot 100% confirm this, but it also seems to be affected by armor damage reductions, and does not seem to benefit from Sanctity Aura, nor does it seem to benefit from Judgement of the Crusader. These issues are likely attributed to the fact that Hammer of Wrath is behaving as a physical damage ability.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/looking4group_b2tbc/looking4group/issue/2594

[Xadras]

Original comment by Dreary (Bitbucket: DrearyYew, GitHub: Unknown):

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HoW being 100% Holy Damage is straight from the tooltip, and has always been Holy damage since the ability was introduced in patch 1.7.0.

It's not an issue of HoW missing or resisting, it's that it goes straight through CoS (magic immune), and targets with BoP (physical immune) are completely Immune to HoW. This should be the other way around.

As for resists, Holy Spells are only subject to misses, not resists due to spell resist. Holy resistance has never existed in the history of the game, as effects that say "+x to all resistances" don't actually increase Holy resist, because holy resistance does not exist. Melee/holy abilities like Seal of Command are still subject to the glancing penalty, but the combat log interprets these glances as partial resists. As far as I am aware, Holy resistance, or the complete lack thereof, is working as intended.

wowwiki resist source: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Spell_penetration

ctrl-f Paladin

EDIT: Spell hit, yes, some spells like HoJ do require spell hit for the cap, and HoW is one of the few. Luckily, we get 3% spell and melee hit from the Precision talent, but that wasn't the problem with Hammer of Wrath. The problem is that it is being reduced by armor when it shouldn't since it is magic damage, deals damage to magic immune targets when it shouldn't, and doesn't deal damage to physical immune targets when it should.

[Xadras]

Original comment by Evolve (Bitbucket: Evolveuwotm9, GitHub: Unknown):

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a lot of paladin spells are in special melee-spell type of spells, they arent holy nor melee, thats why u actually need spell pene/spell hit to not resist with hammer of justice etc , there was an article about it on wowwiki

[Xadras]

Original comment by Anon X (Bitbucket: Anonx, GitHub: Anonx):

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Source for HoW to be Holy Dmg. This may have changed over time.

http://db.looking4group.eu/?spell=24275

http://db.looking4group.eu/?spell=24274

http://db.looking4group.eu/?spell=24239

http://db.looking4group.eu/?spell=27180

[AnonXS]

Set Spellschoolmask to Holy instead of Physical for it to be able to be cast on BoP Target and CoS Targets to be immune against it.

Also regarding Hammer of Wrath vs Blessing of Protection: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/934197-Hammer-of-Wrath-What-is-it-Magic-or-Melee?p=12168318&viewfull=1#post12168318

[tst12]

NO Holy resistance in game, it breaks spell not fix

SpellSchoolMask = 2 (SCHOOL_MASK_HOLY, SCHOOL_MASK_MAGIC, SCHOOL_MASK_ALL)
Effect 0:
Id: 2 (SPELL_EFFECT_SCHOOL_DAMAGE)

[AbaddonL4G]

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=24275/hammer-of-wrath#comments

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Hammer_of_Wrath?direction=next&oldid=1637420