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Comment by radeox

Spellsteal

Comment by 48535

This spell can be taken off your action bars once you get Divine Shield. Divine Shield is a direct replacement of this ability much like purify is replaced by cleanse.

Comment by 181029

ty blizzard for this... tanking is begining to look the way it should.

Comment by Chronalis

This (WotLK Version) + Ardent Defender = 80% Damage Reduction for 12 seconds WHILE below 35% HP. Suddenly that 8000 Corrupting Strike from Sathrovarr becomes a 1400 Corrupting Strike.

And think of the crit happy mage in AV. Suddenly when they try to pyro you for 6K, putting up fire res aura too, you're getting hit for 1200 maximum and that's before fire res kicks in ;). And what do you do after? Run up to them, Avengers shield from afar, slam their face with a Hammer of the Righteous shortly followed by a Shield of the Righteous. And don't forget your judgement, and the fact you're still in your damage reduction bubble.

How the tables have turned.

Comment by toddiuszho

But will my threat fall to zero when I use this?

Comment by 185310

blood elf tankadins can use Arcane torrent to interrupt spells, but I'm getting what yer saying

Comment by 212392

Let me just ask the few questions a Paladin Tank should want to know...

Does this temporarily nullify agro like Divine Shield? (assuming so)

Does this remove debuffs now? (doubting)

Has Forbearance really been extended to 3 minutes? (meaning if this doesn't remove debuffs I need to be -very- careful and not use whenever up)

Comment by 224426

this was KILLED by blizzard.

Comment by Chronalis

Situation: WSG Flag Carrier, You vs 5 chasing (3 of which are Mages).
Divine Protection + Hand of Freedom = Winwin!

Comment by 123609

While it's all good and fun that we've got this fantastic damage reduction, has anyone checked out Icebound Fortitude?

50% damage reduction, no attack speed slow down (this isn't so noticable for us tanks, as we'll be specced for it, but still...), immunity to stun effects, lasts up to 18 seconds (with Guile of the Gorefiend talent) and a 1 min CD. I think Pallies and warriors just got screwed.

Comment by zapiks44

This ability should require a shield, IMO. It's clearly meant to be a paladin's version of Shield Wall, but it seems unfair to me that ret pallys can use it in PVP while they keep banging on you with their 2hander, while warriors have to equip a shield to use theirs.

Comment by Syladind

Somewhat of an improved, but gimped, Barkskin. Improved, because of 50% reduce, gimped, because of slowed ATK Speed, and 5 minute CD, opposed to one minute barkskin CD. Also, Barkskin stops spell pushback. Personally, more situational, like in Patchwerks soft enrage. Still useful, I'd suggest you save it for when times get tough. I saw my guilds Protadin use it on Thaddius enrage, we lasted an extra 10 seconds, and beat him. Our healers we frantically spamming heals, and using instants to keep him up, heh.

Comment by 96306

does this move reset threat?

Comment by guatafu

This is a great "filler" ability for retribution for those times where you are being kited and waiting for one of the main abilites to finish cd.

Comment by shadowaninja

I find that most people often forget that this even exists. Not only that but they don't realize that it no longer causes forebearance and it's available to all Paladins regardless of spec.

I myself didn't even realize this spell was useful to me (a holy paladin) until Nefarian. Holy paladins actually can talent this to reduce it's cooldown by 20 seconds. This made it incredibly useful for negating a decent portion of Nefarians crackle ability.

In fact this spell can be incredibly useful for partially negating boss damage that comes in predictable cycles, or just when you've already exhausted DS/HoP/LoH and whatever else you have in your toolbox to stay alive.

Bottom line: This can be very useful for non-prot Paladins, don't forget you have it!

Comment by 360879

This becomes more useful in Arena cos it is undispellable after 4.1

Comment by 486455

Patch 4.2 PTR Notes:
Speed of Light now increases movement speed when Holy Radiance or Divine Protection are cast.

Comment by Cakekun

4.3 PTR Change: Paragon of Virtue now reduces the cooldown of Divine Protection by 15/30 seconds, up from 10/20. This is to replace the missing spot when Holy Radiance was changed into a 3.0 second cast, no cooldown.

Comment by brucek2

Another perk: it doesn't trigger the global cooldown.

All in all a super low cost spell (no time, barely any mana) with a nice benefit and short cooldown. New paladins, I'd suggest getting into the habit of "over-using" this to start -- give it a convenient keybind (I use R) and try popping it as soon as you get agro.

You can get more strategic with it later, but for many players I bet the biggest risk is simply falling into the habit of not using it at all. Which is a shame.

Comment by 867901

when glyphed, it gives %40 magic damage reduce. You can dance with cd-opened frost mage with Resistance Aura+Aura Mastery+This. Very very useful in both pve and pvp. Ragnaros's magma traps, seeds, Nefarian's crackle, magma pool etc..

Comment by 994317

no one ever uses this spell anyhow should be removed , I cant get a pally tank to use it or ever seen anyone use i, pressing a button is hard

Comment by PriestessAur

In Mists of Pandaria this spell has changed. Basically the spell and glyph have been flip-flopped. The baseline spell now provides 40% magic reduction but can be glyphed to 20% magic\20% physical. This is the reverse of how the spell and glyph have functioned prior to MoP.

OLD: Divine Protection - Reduces all damage taken by 20% for 10 sec.
Glyph of Divine Protection - Removes the physical damage reduction of your Divine Protection, but increases the magical damage reduction by 20%.

NEW: Divine Protection - Reduces magical damage taken by 40% for 10 sec.
Glyph of Divine Protection - Reduces the magical damage reduction of your Divine Protection to 20% but adds 20% physical damage reduction.

Comment by BladestormTank

5.3 made a very nice change to this spell. Source

Divine Protection is now usable while stunned.

Comment by Thottbot

ZOMG BUBBLEHEARTH.

Comment by Thottbot

lol silly newbz flag autodrops when u shield

Comment by Thottbot

I am a paladin.
Being a paladin isnt a lot of fun.
Put yourself in my shoes. All I am good at is staying alive. In every other area someone is better than me. Warriors/druids out tank me, mages/rogues/almost everyone out damages me, priest/druid out heal me.
All anyone wants me to do in raids or pvp is to sit back and be the heal/buff *!@#$.
The truth is, ive pvp'd paladins on warriors, mages, rogues, priests, shamans, warlocks, druids, and hunters, and despite the insane survivability (bubble/lay/heals) I can always come out on top. If you think that paladins cant die, then think again.

By the way, you cant just chain bubbles as a previous poster suggested. Theres a thing called forbearance, which prevents you from becoming invincible for some time after you bubble up.

Also, keep in mind that paladins are NOT the grandmasters of running away with the flag. Mages with blink, rogues with dash, warriors with charge/intercept, shamans with ghost wolf, druids with cat form, hunters with aspect of the cheeta can outrun us, and we have little or no ranged capability with which to catch them.

Comment by Thottbot

Try to catch one with the shield on cooldown...not that that hard since it's a 5 minutes cooldown...and he cannot sprint out

A paladin can beat another character once every 5 minutes...not that overpowered...in truth a tad underpowered...and you can disengage once you see him use it and restart the fight thereafter, a mage can polymorph the paladin and restart the battle alltogether, now a paladin without a shield...

Comment by Thottbot

Shaman totems dont stack! they have different kinds like earth and air and fire you cant have two of the same kind but you can have all of different kinds soo yeah not earth and earth but like earth and fire or something :)

Comment by Thottbot

Of course mostly everyone knows this by now but... If you're a pally and are holding a WSG flag,you lose it when you use this so only use this if you especially NEED it!

Comment by Thottbot

Im a pally brave and stout. This is my sword, this is my mount. When Im in trouble, I pop a bubble and HS out!

Comment by Thottbot

U have completely missed the point twice now. I never said that bubbles and LoH was the only thing to a paladin. I was explaining to those who think this is cheap. Mages can spellsteal and shammies can purge blessing of protection, and preists can mass dispel any of the bubbles. That removes some of the power our bubbles once had.
There is a lot more to pallies than bubble and LoH. I win 90% of my duels and 1 vs 1 pvp. The only time I really use the bubbles are when its me vs a whole group of 70's. Then i might bubble hearth, but i never really use the bubbles in pvp, and i still kick major ass. got nad, u are a nub, go play a pally higher that lvl 8. Then u can talk, until then, STFU.

Comment by Thottbot

Spellsteal and purge can get rid of Blessing of Protection because BoP doesn't protect against spells. The other 2 bubbles make u immune to spells, so purge and spellsteal wont work. Mass Dispel can destroy any of the bubbles

Comment by Thottbot

this spell cant be purged

Comment by Thottbot

scissors, paper, rock

Comment by Thottbot

Divine Protection and Divine Shield are on the same cooldown if anyone cares.

Comment by Thottbot

grats Sheday, u were the first to asctually say something smart under this spell thread oO no, rly

Comment by Thottbot

delete all posts excepts shadeys. hes the only one posting things that are important here...

All this bunch of little children whining because of a skill in a game should get out and get a freaking life...

post infos about spells here and ur experiences, dont start flamce wars about classes and ur "bad experiences" in pvp, cause thats what its all about.

U cant win everytime so just accept it. If you dont youre just making a bigger fool out of youreselves with that endless childish whining

Comment by Thottbot

is there any that can cancle out this spell. cuz im a lvl 66 undead rouge and allways get pissed when a lvl 60 pally sheilds up then heal, is there any way to beat this so i can get to them...?

Comment by Thottbot

nope...atleast i dont think so lol cause there immune to everything and its an instant cast so mages cant dispell so i dont think so

Comment by Thottbot

A priests mass dispell can cancel any bubble. Purge and spellsteal only work on blessing of protection

Comment by Thottbot

Question: Can a pally thats used this Heal other players?

i remember someone saying that oncve a pally has bubbled they can only heal themselves?

Comment by Thottbot

You all fail in wow.
This is the starting bubble we get. (lvl 6)

After a while we get Divine Shield, which every palla is using. No high lvl pallas (except noobs, or ppls with others on CD) use this bubble. With this shield you cannot attack at all. This only last for 8 sec, at max rank. You cant even HS out.

PWND!

Comment by Thottbot

Hello! There's been alot of negative talk about Paladins in this thread so i would like to point some things out. First thing, heealing. Paladins actually make great healers because if specced right, they dont lose mana very fast because if said pally has 5 points in illumination (holy tree line) their healing criticals have a 100% chance to return 60% of the spells base mana. Also with that comes Divine Favor (holy tree line) which makes their next Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Holy Shock, have a 100% chance to critically hit so there's your mana back. Another thing, Light's Grace (holy tree line) with three points in it, is going to let every Holy Light spell you cast have a 100% chance to make your next Holy Light spell have it's casting time reduced by 0.5 so that's a 2 second cast Holy Light every time. Next, tanking. In the Protection spec, pallys right off the bat get bonuses to their armor and shield. Also, paladins are GREAT at holding threat, IF they have alot of spell damage. Why should paladins have spell damage? because their seals and consecration USE spell dmg, so if said pally has alot of spell dmg, their attacks will do alot more dmg which means they generate more threat =). Lastly, dps. Paladins in the retribution line are expected to have a hard hitting 2hander so they can dish out some nice dmg. The retribution spec helps dps pallys in many ways. First their seals get bonuses like reduced mana, increased critical chance and such. Another thing is vinidcation. With all three points in vindication the target said pally is attacking has a 15% reduction to all stats i.e. stamina,int, etc.. Another thing is that retriubution pallys get reall nice bonuses to regular and holy damage in this line (or maybe it's just holy ^.-). So there you go, Paladins can be great at healing, tanking, and dps. =) Oh shoot i should've just put this in the paladin forums...oh well, im not typing all of this all over again lol.

Comment by Thottbot

I have to say this is the one spell you will use the most lvl 10-16. Its the perfect way to escape, heal, or pass the agro on to someone else.

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Divine Protection

Divine Protection
3.5% of base mana

Instant	1 min cooldown

Reduces magical damage taken by 40% [Glyph of Divine Protection: and physical damage taken by 0%] for 10 sec.

Buff

Divine Protection

Magical damage taken reduced by 40%.
[Physical damage taken reduced by 0%.]
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

3.5% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod % Damage Taken (All)
Value: -40%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod % Damage Taken (Physical)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Dummy
Value: -100
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Fail on all targets immune
Remove Entering Arena
Aura Points On Client
Allow While Stunned by Stun Mechanic

Divine Protection

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