Sep 17, 01:11 AM: Hand of God

I’ve been reading some of the new paladin spells for Wrath of the Lich King and I found a change that some of you may be very alarmed about.

When the new spell/talent go into effect there is be no more ‘Blessing of Salvation’ (the threat reduction buff)!

They have taken the blessing spells and divided them into two groups. Many of them will stay blessings and work exactly as they do now Might, Wisdom, Kings, Sanctuary but the rest of them will become hand spells, Protection, Freedom, Salvation, Sacrifice. This is a major change in that a target can have a blessing spell and a hand spell on him at the same time. This is a great improvement.

The problem with blessing like Freedom, Sacrifice that to use them you have to remove the blessing that is already on the target so in a lot of cases it would do more harm than good. Now I know you could argue that it just take a little coordination on the part of the pally to put the first blessing back up but between the time and the extra mana it’s just not gonna happen.

The only real drawback to these changes is that we are loosing Blessing of Salvation and I think this is going to be a huge handicap for a while. The blessing reduced all threat generated by 30% while it was on and you could put it on everyone. The individual blessing lasted 10 minutes and the greater lasted 30 minutes. The Hand Spell reduces the targets total treat by 2% per second for 10 seconds and each pally can only hit one part or raid member once every 2 minutes.

I’m thinking about just stopping the use of the blessing now so people get used to it. That way I would still have it if there was someone in the raid that just had no ability at all to control their agro. If we wait until they make the change then it will be gone and it will be do or die with the agro.

BTW – the new spells and talents will be introduced before the expansion is released.

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