From what I can glean from this post in the Beta forums the Seal/Judgment system is changing in Wrath of the Lich King. A basic breakdown of the Changes:-Judgment is now broken up into three spells, Judgment of Wisdom (JoW), Judgment of Light (JoL), and Judgment of Justice (JoS).

-Now when one of those three Judgment spells is used the Judgment debuff plus Holy Damage is done based on the active seal, assuming Seal of Righteousness, Seal of Vengeance/Corruption, Seal of Blood/Martyr, and Seal of Command. The current seal still remains after the Judgment is used. Seals still last 30 seconds.

-The current seals are staying as is, though there is speculation that Seal of Wisdom, Seal of Light, and Seal of Justice may be going away.

-Seal of the Crusader is now gone and the 210 Holy Damage has been rolled into all abilities that could make use of the spell. This is a buff.

Speculation:

-Currently it seems that both the Judgment of the Seal and the Debuff are doing damage, meaning that Judgment of Wisdom causes holy damage and then the Seal Judgment also causes holy damage; I am not sure if this is intended.

-Paladin damaging spells may be affected by Attack power, just like Deathknights.

-There seems to be confusion on if our abilities are affected by both Attack Power and Spell Damage. If it is both I think this will make our abilities too good since our spell damage, assuming Tier 5+ geared protection paladin should approach 1000 spell damage in current gear with the new talents.

Video of New Seal/Judgment System.

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