Talk:Symbol of Wrath

I wish this skill did what the icon shows. 'Launch a holy bomb at target foe. When this hits, target foe and all nearby foes take Holy damage and is knocked down.' Epic win. Halogod35 18:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Only if it has an activation time of three seconds:
 * "...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy..." --SoraMitsukai 19:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Woo for The holy hand grenade.
 * Or, it could also do this, Cause a nuclear bomb explosion at your location, killing everything within the map. Halogod35 19:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * "Three shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three." -  Vik 08:29, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * well, it would be much better as a ranged aoe spell.--71.67.243.230 02:02, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Long Recharge
30 seconds recharge for a spell that lasts 5 seconds, takes 2 seconds to cast, and only hits enemies who are standing right next to you seems pretty harsh. - Elder Angelus 14:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeh, Pretty crappy. Izzy doesn't realize his smiting spells are the sucks when competing anywhere. this would be great if AI didn't make them run from AoE damage. SKILL SUGGESTION. This skill deals Holy damage per second for 5 seconds to nearby foes. 5 En. 2 Cast 15 Rec. Fair?

Phill Gaston 12:24, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I think it is meant to stave off any monk haters in melee range. AI or otherwise.--AtzaMan 08:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

20s or 15s recharge instead of 30s would make more sense in my opinion. And lowering the tick count to 3 (every 1s) with more damage/tick would be great in PvE (no more wasted ticks due to mobs scattering from AOE.) --Teisei 08:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Skill change
This skill or its counterpart should have it's function changed to make smiting monks in both PvP and PvE more effective/popular. An example would be to make it a ranged aoe targeting spell, so that monks now could have an aoe spell. Every other caster class has one, why not monks? Ex-nay Balthizar's Aura, it's huge energy cost and requirement of casting it on an ally is a different function all together. the change described would be just like an elementalist with breath of fire.--71.67.243.230 02:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, Symbol of Wrath and its duplicate should be improved, I like the suggestion to make it a ranged AoE.--24.203.202.67 20:13, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

The reason they dont like powerful or even useful smite skills is because monks have powerful healing. If it was ranged peeps would run things like Divine/Smite monks (which has happened before) using builds with "the new" Symbol of wrath and Blessed light for healing/condition/hex. Drop both Wrath copies on target foes and laugh as you are able to do 3 things in one with Blessed light. My take on this skill,
 * 10e 2cast 20recharge
 * 5-15-25dmg every second for 5seconds
 * The re-created non-elite for the new RoJ. BUT THIS ONE DOES CAUSE SCATTER!--Justice 18:58, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Double Damage
Since this skills describtion is differant form Kirin's Wrath arn't they not Duplicates even though they do the same thing because this has a bug? Yay Killing Charr talk 18:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Nah we just call it duplicates due to them doing the same thing in-game, Not the writing, but nice spotting o.o-- Nei l2250  ,    Render Lord User Neil2250 sig icon6.png 18:04, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Add knockdown (see the icon)
If you watch closely the icon of this skill, you can see people being blown away by the blast of SoW beam. I suggest this skill does AOE knockdown either when initially cast (unconditional), or every second (on moving targets). This would justify the 30 second recharge and 2 second cast, as foes wouldn't be able to run away from this spell so easily. This change would make this skill a bit more useful, and the effect would be closer to that in the icon. Also, I'd like to see a PvE/PvP split on this spell since the usage is very different in PvE and PvP. --Teisei 「ページ」 「会話」 06:55, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Acquisition
I cannot purchase it in Lion's Arch, but I can in Ascalon City. I can port back and forth between Lion's Arch and Ascalon City to verify this. I already had Kirin's Wrath if that matters.