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Spell glossary: Paladin

The spells and talents of a sustained single-target Paladin rotation at level 20, with their real values sourced from WoW: Forever's own Wowhead tooltips.

Abilities

Ability	Required level	Cost	Cooldown	Cast	Effect	Source
Holy Strike	20	12 Mana	12s	Instant	30% weapon dmg	Wowhead tooltip
Judgement	4	6% Mana	10s	Instant	Deals whatever damage/effect the currently active Seal's own "Judgement effect" specifies -- see the active Seal's own ability entry.	Wowhead tooltip
Seal of Righteousness	18	60 Mana	None	Instant	scales with weapon speed: slower weapons get more bonus damage per swing When Judgement is cast while this Seal is active	Wowhead tooltip

Talents

Ability	Tree	Max rank	Effect	DPS relevant?
Improved Holy Strike	Holy	2	—	Yes
Deflection	Retribution	5	+Parry chance per rank; Parries also speed up the next auto-attack ("Parry Haste"), per Icy Veins' text -- a small real DPS side-effect of what's primarily a defensive talent	Yes
Benediction	Retribution	5	—	Not checked
Improved Judgement	Retribution	2	—	Yes
Conviction	Retribution	5	—	Yes
Seal of Command	Retribution	1	—	Yes

What's still missing

This class isn't complete yet: here's precisely what hasn't been sourced yet, rather than leaving it silent.

Icy Veins presents TWO real level-20 builds with no single one called definitively best: the PRIMARY build (catalogued here) trades a Retribution talent for 2 points in the Holy tree (Improved Holy Strike) plus a defensive Retribution pick (Deflection); an ALTERNATIVE all-Retribution build instead takes Benediction 5/5 + Conviction 3/5 + Seal of Command 1/1 (dropping Improved Holy Strike and Deflection entirely) to reach Seal of Command, described as dealing "slightly more damage" especially with Judgement on stunned targets. Seal of Command and Benediction's real values are NOT sourced in this pass -- only the primary build's pieces are.
Seal of the Crusader (used situationally per the real rotation, to apply a Judgement-amplifying debuff on long fights before switching back to Seal of Righteousness) not looked up.
Exorcism (situational vs Undead/Demons), Consecration (AoE, explicitly out of scope for single-target), Hammer of Justice, Blessing of Might/Kings, Devotion Aura, Holy Light not looked up.
"talents.holy" only includes the 1 talent actually taken in the primary build (Improved Holy Strike) -- the rest of that tree, and all of Protection, are not catalogued.
Improved Judgement and Conviction's exact numeric per-rank effects not looked up (only names/point allocation confirmed from the real build).

See also: the DPS simulator and character optimizer use this same data.

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