Just an update to let you guys know more about this - I've traded a few private messages with Nano who is the head of the Nostalrius IsVV team here (aka bug reporting) and here is what he had to say regarding multiple ranks of the same Judgement on a single target:
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Sent: Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:04 pm
by Nano
I don't think I'd consider it "exploiting" but it would be considered abusing bugs if done consistently and intentionally.
I can't find any evidence to suggest that any different ranked judgements stacked on retail vanilla so it would be considered a bug.
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Sent: Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:43 pm
From: Nano
To: Theloras
Nostalrius is based on a 1.12 server and all the class talents, spells and abilities that are also 1.12. The only things that change are content available and itemization. This means quests, raids, item stats, items availability.
If it's not something that was possible during 1.12, it should be made impossible on Nostalrius. I know it seems screwy to have spells in one patch and items in another but it's the decision of the server made long ago and one we will stick by. For example, the Warlock spec of DS / MD / Ruin was fixed as that spec was fixed in 1.12 and we fixed that on Nostalrius as well.
If you can find an example or something that points to multiple judgements being allowed around the 1.12 timeframe, it's something we'll obviously allow. Without that, it seems odd that we would have different judgements allowed but not different ranked curses for example.
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The most pertinent part of what he said is in that last sentence, "
It seems odd that we would have different judgements allowed but not different ranked curses for example." which is a fair comparison to make.
Ie: Judgement of the Crusader functions in a similar fashion to Curse of the Elements/Shadow
With that being said, I spent the past few hours watching old vanilla WoW videos to see if I could spot multiple ranks of the same Judgement up and I'm afraid to say that I wasn't able to find anything to back it up.
Pre Patch 1.9, I do believe you could have multiple Judgements up as the Allakhazam link I put up in the first post of this thread would dictate - given the fact that the author of that post talks about Seal of Fury and the multiple JoW procs which would trigger off of the phantom melee swings that that Seal would initiate.
From my own firsthand experience in retail Vanilla WoW, I can verify that that's how Seal of Fury worked - whether or not multiple ranks of the same Judgement worked post patch 1.9 though, I can't remember.
So, unless anyone else has or can find evidence from the 1.12.1 era of Vanilla WoW showing multiple ranks of the same Judgement being on the same target (and as much fun as it is to have uber +Holy dmg debuts up), I would not recommend doing this here on Nostalrius as it would open you up for a potential suspension/ban.
Cheers,
Theloras
PS The only thing that comes close is this video - which shows how multiple Stormstrike debuffs could stack on a single target:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghu7cBG_cQA