Seal of Blood/Martyr 3.1 and Weapon Speeds

SoB is an unnormalized attack because it procs on "next swing." Since it is not by definition an instant attack, the damage it deals is directly related to your weapon's speed. This makes faster but higher DPS weapons marginal upgrades at best, since Seal damage has been buffed to be the primary damage dealer instead of the judgement. Remember that this seal applies to crusader strike AND divine storm. This unnormalized damage, when attached to normalized instants, creates a damage disparity that makes a significant number of weapon upgrades unattractive or sidegrade at best.

A paladin with a Sword of Justice and 10000 attack power will only be a little over 2% behind in DPS than a Paladin wielding Rune Edge with the same stats. This is perhaps an unrealistic gear level in this current content patch(it is likely achievable with a few trinket procs, though). The fact that a very slow Blue weapon can even compare to a Faster high end Epic due to Blood not being normalized is absurd. Given 30% armor mitigation, you expect a Crusader Strike to deal 3800 damage with the Rune Edge, and 3622 with the Sword of Justice(noncrit). However, their blood hits will amount to 2073 and 2163 respectively. The totals? 5873 for Rune, 5785 for Sword of Justice. That is an extremely small difference given the ilvl difference of the two. If sword of justice were 3.4, the damage difference would be over 400 for a crusader strike+blood hit.

The issue here is that a normalization of all SoB damage would reduce the effectiveness of haste/haste effects for Paladins, haste being a fairly low priority stat to begin with. This comparison is understandably skewed, but even standard situations such as Sword of Justice Naxx10 weapons become sidegrades, such as Demise vs Sword of Justice. The heroic HoL axe becomes a downgrade. This is a huge problem with itemization as it may end up forcing Paladins to wait on extremely low drop rates of the slowest two handers, as the others simply cannot compare. It would be a repeat of the 1.0 MS warrior and the arcanite reaper.