Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings

• Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings
• Binds when picked up
• Mace
• Main Hand
• Speed 1.80
• 93 - 298 Damage
• (108.8 damage per second)
• +52 Stamina
  +54 Intellect
• Durability 125 / 125
• Requires Level 80
• Item Level 239Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Equip: Increases spell power by 587.
  Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 47.
  Equip: Improves haste rating by 46.
  Equip: Your healing spells have a chance to cause Blessing of Ancient Kings for 15 seconds allowing your heals to shield the target absorbing damage equal to 15% of the amount healed.
• "The power of creation courses through this weapon."
• Sell Price: 35 51 46

Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings is assembled by collecting thirty [Fragment of Val'anyr], then combining them into [Shattered Fragments of Val'anyr], and completing the questline below.

Val'anyr is the first purely-healing legendary ([Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] was either healer or damage-caster, depending on the class that wielded it), and is thus restricted to the Priest, Paladin, Shaman, and Druid classes.

It was first attained by Snuggleme on the realm Kil'jaeden US on June 8 2009.

Source

This item is a reward from  [80] Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings.

Proc

Val'anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings | 2009-05-04 17:20 |  Bornakk

We have received many questions about how the proc works on Val’anyr, the Hammer of the Ancient Kings. While we originally intended for this effect to be a mystery, we realize that guilds now know what the tooltip on the proc says without necessarily knowing the details on how it works. This leads to situations where a healer may not know if assembling the hammer is worth it for them (hint: it is), and perhaps even worse, a misinformed leader may not think you deserve the hammer (hint: you do).

Players also wonder if the proc makes the item deserving of its legendary status given that the stat allocation is normal for items of its item level (Hint: it does).

The effect reads “Your healing spells have a chance to cause Blessing of Ancient Kings for 15 seconds allowing your heals to shield the target absorbing damage equal to 15% of the amount healed.”

The way this works is that when the proc happens (which is a 10% chance whenever a hot or direct spell heals, with a 45 sec internal cooldown) you gain a buff (the Blessing) on yourself. Now all of your heals for the next 15 sec cause an 8 sec damage shield. The shield stacks with itself. It includes healing done by subsequent ticks of existing hots on the target. Note that the spell has to actually heal, so hots ticking on a fully-healed target cannot cause the proc. However the shield is based on the size of the heal itself, not the amount healed – i.e. 100% overhealing will not proc the Blessing on the healer, but the shield itself includes overhealing once the Blessing is active. The shield can grow to a maximum size of 20,000 damage absorbed.

Example 1: A paladin casts Holy Light for 10K on the tank, which partially heals her. The Blessing procs, so the paladin’s Holy Light immediately causes a shield on the tank which will now absorb 1500 damage. The tank dodges the next two hits, so no damage is absorbed. The paladin then casts another heal for 8K, but only heals the tank for 600 before she is at full health. The shield is now at 2700 damage absorbed (1500 + 1200) for 8 sec.

Example 2: A druid casts Rejuv on the tank, healing her. The Blessing procs on the druid on the second tick. A shield is applied to the tank which absorbs 15% of the amount healed by that tick and each remaining tick of the Rejuv. If the druid also gets Lifebloom and Regrowth on the tank while the Blessing is up, then those ticks also contribute to the shield. If the shield goes down because the 8 sec duration expires or it absorbs that much damage, it can go up again as long as the Blessing lasts, which is 15 sec.

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