So hammer of light was a bug or intended?

[Beldain-lordaeron]

@Lyonidus-tarren-mill

If you don’t like the single usage because it is not “fun” then hey, don’t use it. Nobody forces you to use it, or just play something else.

@Beldain-lordaeron

I don’t want to play Ret Paladin in WWI like this. At least not for now.

you are absolutely right and I will not use it.

@Lyonidus-tarren-mill

This could be interpreted as both so I do not get this argument at all.

@Beldain-lordaeron

IMO for the single usage mechanic the tooltip should be like this:
“after using wake of washes, wake of ashes is replaced by holy hammer for one usage within 12 seconds” or something similar that makes clear that it is a single usage in a 12 seconds window.
but because this specification of “one single usage” is missing in the original tooltip. It describes a multi usage scenario because the skill doesn’t have a cooldown.

@Lyonidus-tarren-mill

No, this is very much a matter of design.

yea the tree should have been designed for multiuse from the beginning since the tooltip didn’t change since march.
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@Beldain-lordaeron

Since March when I saw the hero talent hammer of light the first time on wowhead beta talent calculator I was hyped to play this. The original tooltip said that “Wake of washed (WOA) is replaced with hammer of light for 12 seconds after it is cast”. I never expected that this actually means only 1 single use after WOA.

and no you can not interpret it as both. because non of the tooltip states that this is supposed to happen:

@Linxy

• Paladin
  • Fixed a bug that caused Hammer of Light to not go away as expected.

@Lyonidus-tarren-mill

The tree is very clearly designed around a one time use of HoL and not mutliple.

and i don’t see that the tree is clearly designed around one time use.
There is only the talent “hammerfall” that hints towards the single use but only if you expect hammerfall to be used inside burst window - and all other talents fit the multi usage. And even hammerfall is still valuable in multiusage because shake of the heavens will be refreshed with every use of HoL so you will have more emyrian hammers triggered by Hammerfall outside of the burst window.
→ I don’t see any reason why this design does not suite HoL multicast
on top of that it seems like the general consensus it that templar is underperforming compared to herald. So something did not go well on this tuning in combination with single usage.

@Lyonidus-tarren-mill

proc and were now forced to spend 2-4 gcds just building holy power to use HoL again.

I think you forgot about all the haste% loss that you have due to the gear / level 80scaling that will make the spec feel more clunky by default. There will be much more haste to get till you are at max item level so that building up 5hp shouldn’t be a problem.
I already argued that building up 5hp is no problem already now.
I don’t think its a problem to press 2-4 gcds on builders as long as you have builders to press. And with the new higher proc chances on the auto attack resets that shouldn’t be a big of a problem and it will further improve with the better gear.