Consecration Coefficients

[Vallion]

So, last night when I was trying to find the coefficients for the various ranks of consecration to better get a feel on mana conservation in heroics, I think I encountered something very odd. I swapped my Continuum Blade out for my healing mace to get my spell damage to 0 when short of inventory space, and for some reason my consecration numbers were all off. I took off the healing mace and my consecration numbers fixed themselves.

Furthermore, I was able to calculate that max rank consecration receives an 8.730769231% coefficient from +healing. Is this new, or am I just the last to know? I'm a snooping forums since Dec of 04, and haven't ever seen knowledge of a healing coefficient on consecration. Bug, or really neat feature?

[Ignus]

perhaps some other temporary buff? +healing makes really no sense at all, my guess is that you ran across something else that was giving you more damage at the time. could be a pvp zone buff or anything really

[Vallion]

That's what I thought too, but stripped myself of any buffs and checked myself against Bloodmaul Ogres just south/southeast of Sylvanaar about five times, with the only equipment difference being switching myself from unarmed to http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27538. I made sure I didn't have any set bonuses active, though I didn't try it completely naked vs. just the hammer. I removed all +damage gear I had on, to the point my paper doll's spell section listed 0 damage, 227 healing.

Unarmed, my consecration listed a normal 64/s, which adds up to the right amount of 512 over 8s. With the healing hammer, I was ticking for 67 throughout, which adds up to a 536 total. I repeated this around four more times, and checked each individual piece of gear, again only switching to from unarmed to the hammer, and once with a mining pick (which listed the normal 64/s).

It's not as if the Healing coefficient, if it exists, is going to cause a rethinking of gear, but it's interesting nonetheless. Probably just a bug introduced in a recent patch.

[Ignus]

hm. odd.

[jere]

That's what I thought too, but stripped myself of any buffs and checked myself against Bloodmaul Ogres just south/southeast of Sylvanaar about five times, with the only equipment difference being switching myself from unarmed to http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27538. I made sure I didn't have any set bonuses active, though I didn't try it completely naked vs. just the hammer. I removed all +damage gear I had on, to the point my paper doll's spell section listed 0 damage, 227 healing.

Unarmed, my consecration listed a normal 64/s, which adds up to the right amount of 512 over 8s. With the healing hammer, I was ticking for 67 throughout, which adds up to a 536 total. I repeated this around four more times, and checked each individual piece of gear, again only switching to from unarmed to the hammer, and once with a mining pick (which listed the normal 64/s).

It's not as if the Healing coefficient, if it exists, is going to cause a rethinking of gear, but it's interesting nonetheless. Probably just a bug introduced in a recent patch.

This will happen if you have 1H weapon spec talented as 1.05*64 = 67.2. Unequipping your weapon removes the extra 5% damage.

[Vallion]

Ahhhh, gotcha. Thanks for the explanation.

[Bosutei]

Yeah, this also confused me with the 27/28 Ret Aura hits, then I remembered about the nifty 1H spec talent.