Increases the damage of your Judgement, Crusader Strike and Divine Storm abilities by 5/10% and when your melee attacks critically hit the cast time of your next Flash of Light or Exorcism is reduced by 0.75 sec/becomes instant cast.
The cast time of your next Flash of Light or Exorcism is reduced by 0.75 sec/instant cast.
Duration: 15 seconds
The Art of War is a passive specialization ability for Retribution paladins, available at level 50. It gives your autoattacks a chance to reset the cooldown of [Exorcism]
Patch changes[]
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed. Effects have been merged into baseline Exorcism.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Redesigned as a level 50 Retribution ability (was a tier 3 Retribution talent). Your autoattacks have a 20% chance of resetting the cooldown of your Exorcism.
Old: Your autoattacks have a 7/14/20% chance to make your next Exorcism instant, free and cause 100% additional damage.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Redesigned as a 3-rank, tier 3 talent (was a 2-rank, tier 7 talent). Now gives your autoattacks a 7/14/20% chance to make the paladin's next Exorcism instant, free and cause additional 100% damage.
Old: Increases the damage of your Judgement, Crusader Strike and Divine Storm abilities by 5/10% and when your melee attacks critically hit the cast time of your next Flash of Light or Exorcism is reduced by 0.75 sec/becomes instant cast.
Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Now only applies to melee critical hits, but will make your next Flash of Light or Exorcism instant. In addition, this talent now provides notification in the floating combat text when it activates.