Since protection talents are actually viable right now, the nerf to Hammer of the Righteous doesn’t make sense.
- We already lose 25% damage from not having Sanctity Aura and Vengeance since we were forced to play retribution talents as protection. On top of that, reducing the damage by 50% on Hammer of the Righteous means a total 75% damage nerf. – If we bring it back as it was, it will hit for 300 damage without Sanctity Aura and Vengeance (since we play protection now). Maybe reduce the damage to 3x to the AoE targets and keep 4x for the main target, and make it not work with vengeance so protection paladins play protection instead of retribution. But something has to be done because right now, this damage is absurd at 152 per hit. -.- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8vTnl6jxdE