Comments on: Sacred Shield: Fact vs Fiction

By: Xanderith

Xanderith — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:59:26 +0000

@GK “Fiancee has 774 sp. I have 1968.” the SP difference between a prot and a holy paladin means that even with the divine protection talent 774 SP is a 1296 procced shield. In a two tank fight 1296 is better than nothing but if there is only one then use the holy paladins SS

By: GK

GK — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:06:37 +0000

Wanted to add a bit about my heal style to help illustrate how using a prot pallys SS helps.

On fights with a lot of damage to both tanks (toc) I beacon the mt, let him shield himself, put a fol hot on him, the SS the warrior OT and put up his fol hot, then heal as needed while refrehing SS and bots as necessary.

By: GK

GK — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:56:15 +0000

Good discussion. I commented on the previous post a bit late, and correct me of I wrong, but assuming 51/5/15, and a Pally tank that has gone into Divine Sacrifice to get the 20% mitigation bonus, why would you want to overwrite his SS?

By: UncySpam

UncySpam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:57:52 +0000

glad to see I added confusion, rather than clarity
and yes both of the above comments are good corrections to your post – only one lot of damage is mitigated, not multiples. The spell effectively works the same a Power Word:Shield, of course for a smaller ammount and via a different mechanic.

but the mititgation, and the little HoT it also gives is too good to not use. In most cases I find myself BoL, SS the FoL, then healing every other player but that tank until 30 seconds is up, then repeat

and just in case you are wondering the healing from the FoL HoT is not beaconed… so don’t think that casting the shield elsewhere to get the HoT up before changing the SS to the tank is worth it – IMHO its not.
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By: Xanderith

Xanderith — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:37:03 +0000

the SS bubble will last until:
1) Jeffo is correct a total of 1976 damage is absorbed in one or multiple hits
2) the six second timer runs out
You can re-apply your SS while the bubble is up with no effect on it, if your SS wears off while your bubble is still up due to a late proc the bubble will stay up until until condition 1 or 2 is met

The Divine Sacrifice talent not only increases the duration of your SS to 1 minute but it also increases the duration of your shield from 6 seconds to 12 without any effect on the icd of the bubble proc in addition to increasing the absorb amount to 600 + 90% SP which in your gear would be about 2371 per proc for an increase of 395

By: jeffo

jeffo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:13:35 +0000

Great post, but one problem that I see: You say ‘That’s ~1976 off of every hit over 6 seconds. ‘ but that’s not the case. When the tank takes his first damaging hit, he’ll gain the shield. That shield will remain on him until either of the following happens:
1. the shield absorbs a total of 1976 damage, which could occur in one hit, or over multiple hits, or
2. the actual buff wears off (i.e., 30 seconds after you cast SS on him), or
3. you, or someone else overwrites SS.
If the shield absorbs the full 1976, the ‘bubble’ will fall off, and can’t reactivate for six seconds. The wording on the tooltip is a little funny, because you have the buff, Sacred Shield, that you’re casting; and then there’s the actual Shield that does the absorption.

I agree, by the way, this is a great ability, and if you go into the Divine Sacrifice build the buff will last for a minute. Any damage prevented is that much less for me to heal!