Seal of Righteousness ( old ) < onlyinclude > < / onlyinclude > Seal of Righteousness is a base ability for the paladin that comes when the character is created . Using a Judgement when Seal of Righteous is active deals a high amount of Holy damage . A moderate amount of Holy damage is also applied on each weapon swing . The swing damage is added on Judgments as well , unlike Seal of Command and Seal of Vengeance . Table . Seal of Righteousness is available at level 3 for . Damage . Seal of Righteousness deals additional Holy damage on every swing to a single target . This damage scales with spell power , attack power and weapon speed . Due to normalization , seal damage over time is a constant independent of weapon speed . What is means is , that a 4 . 00 speed weapon will deal twice as much damage per hit as a 2 . 00 speed weapon , but since it swings twice as often , the effective damage over time is the same . For example , a character that has a weapon with 2 . 10 speed , 1200 attack power and 200 spell damage , will do : Usage . Seal of Righteousness is the default Seal of choice for lower levels until becomes available ( when chosen as a talent ) , but also for Holy paladins and for Protection paladins who do not spec into the Retribution tree and who are too low - level to use . SoR is best used with one - handed weapons and in situations where a single target needs to be targeted . The threat generated by its Holy damage is enhanced by and can thus be used to keep aggro against single targets . Seal of Righteousness is appropriately used when the fight or phase is short or where targets are switched so often that applying stacks of again every time would be impractical . Seal of Righteousness belongs to the Holy school . It benefits most from high spell power . As such , Holy paladins who do not wish to engage in melee , may use Seal of Righteousness to do additional damage while applying a Judgement - although applying a Judgement always initiates melee combat . This is aided by the high - tier Holy talents and , which increase the range and damage of Judgements , respectively , so that Holy paladins may cast Judgements from 25 yards . For Retribution paladins - those using two - handed weapons - Seal of Righteousness is outclassed by . SoC has a much higher Seal damage , causing the damage done by subsequent hits to outweigh the initial damage done by the opening Judgement , which is much lower than that of SoR ' s . When using a one - hander , the balance becomes more equal . Whether the initial Judgement begins to outweigh the added damage done by subsequent Seal hits , tends to depend on the amount of spell power available . As such , Seal of Command can rightly be called the Retribution Seal , while Seal of Righteousness belongs to the Holy school . As a Tankadin , you are left hanging in the middle . Some situations may call for the single target targetting of SoR , but when engaging multiple targets , SoC is clearly the superior choice , because it can hold aggro against multiple targets while also applying the debuff to all of these targets . Both Seal of Righteousness and Seal of Command are replaced by when it comes to long boss fights . It is good to remember that a Seal ' s power always depends on the situation . Skilled Paladins with good situation awareness will switch Seals to adapt to the situation , sometimes several times during a fight if necessary . Good examples of fights like this are Razorscale and Freya in Ulduar .