Consecration

Consecration
Consecration (8 ranks) Paladin ability Self yd range Mana 8 sec cooldown Instant Consecrates the land beneath the Paladin, doing X Holy damage over 8 sec to enemies who enter the area.
Properties
Class	Paladin
School	Holy
Cooldown	8 sec

"My church is the field of battle." — Uther Lightbringer.

The paladin's only baseline AoE spell without a target requirement ( [Holy Wrath]), Consecrate temporarily infuses the ground with holy power, damaging all hostile creatures who tread upon it.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Mana Cost	Damage	Cost
1	20	120	64	36
2	30	205	120	99
3	40	290	192	1 80
4	50	390	280	2 52
5	60	505	384	4 14
6	70	660	512	11 70

Talent improvement

[Purifying Power] reduces the mana cost of Cleanse and Consecration spells by 5% per rank up to 10%.

 [Benediction] reduces the mana cost of all instant casts including Consecrate by 2% per rank up to 10%

Glyphs

20

• Glyph of Consecration
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  You can now target Consecration anywhere within 25 yards.
• Classes: Paladin
• Requires Level 25
• Sell Price: 1

Source

This item is created with Inscription (205).

Materials required:

3x [Celestial Ink]

1x [Light Parchment]

Patch changes

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Updated.

  Previous version: Increases the duration and cooldown of Consecration by 20%.
  

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Increase is now 20% instead of 2 sec.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

Coefficient

• Consecration deals 32% of bonus spell damage, and 32% of Attack Power, distributed evenly among 8 seconds.
• The damage done can be increased by up to 10 % with the protection talent One-Handed Weapon Specialization.

Notes

• Consecration used to be a talent in Holy tree. It has since become a baseline skill. [Aura Mastery] has taken its place in the talent tree.
• Spell hit does affect this spell meaningfully. This is a reversal of consecrates independence from spell hit Pre-3.0. New tests from Elitist Jerks shows that Consecrate ticks can miss. If the first tick misses, it will show up as a Miss in the floating combat text, but subsequent misses will not show up in the combat log. In the event of a miss or misses you will see fewer than 8 ticks during the time consecrate is active.

Related equipment

• [Libram of the Eternal Rest] - Increases the damage of Consecration by up to 47.
• The Paladin Dungeon Set 3, Righteous Armor, includes a 2-piece set bonus that reduces the mana cost of Consecration by 15%.
• The Protection-centric Tier 6 Paladin Armor Set Lightbringer Armor includes a 4-piece set bonus that increases all damage done by Consecration by 10%.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Now scales with attack power and spell power.
  
• Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Now properly hits large creatures.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Corrected a tooltip typo. Low ranks of this ability being cast by high-level players are now being properly penalized.
  
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External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB