Comments on: Who should we use Sacred Shield on in Patch 3.2?

By: ClayMask

ClayMask — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:04:07 +0000

I would definitely go with the option of casting both BoL and ss on the main tank. If you put beacon on the main tank and sacred shield on the offtank, you can’t do any healing on the offtank except a FoL to refresh the HoT (if you want to keep the HoT ticking), which sounds risky.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:56:04 +0000

How it currently works on the PTR is that if multiple paladins cast Flash of Light on a tank with any paladin’s sacred shield on it, the tank will get a HoT for each paladin’s Flash of Light. So, you can stack multiple HoTs on the tank with multiple paladins. Also, you don’t have to cast FoL on the tank with “your” Sacred Shield. The HoT is applied to anyone with Sacred Shield, even other paladin’s Sacred Shield. So, you can have multiple HoTs of your own running on multiple people, one for each Sacred Shield that’s up. So, if you have 4 paladins in the raid, you could have 4 HoTs on 4 different people at the same time (a total of 16 HoTs).

If healers are slacking or healers die, then it is much more likely that the tank will die. I believe that is working as intended.

By: Eldarill

Eldarill — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:16:32 +0000

And though this may be very efficient, the question is: will it be viable, powerful enough in hardmodes? I thought that all the other healers kept their HoTs on the tank already, and with 30k white non-crits, how is Flash of Light going to fill the gap that Holy Light did when it was efficient enough for people to spam? It SOUNDS ideal that everyone contribues, and if one person slacks, it still doesn’t have to matter, but let’s get real, if one person slacks, it probably means that most of everyone is slacking, and if you are slacking enough, the Tank can get crit for over the rest of his life (which doesn’t matter if its a Protadin, but that’s besides the point), then that isn’t ideal, is it? Or even if healers die due to aoe damage that wasn’t expected, or unknown until the healers died (i.e. healers standing in the blue flame in Razorscale and dying) and you are put into a situation where Flash of Light isn’t going to cut it, and it will take more than just the time of Divine Illumination + maybe 5 more Holy Lights to keep up the tank, because its a long fight?

By: Eldarill

Eldarill — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:02:31 +0000

Does it not stack with other Holy Pallies HoTs on the target?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:32:34 +0000

The HoT does happen anytime the SS buff is on the target, not just the proc. If the HoT is already on the target, it will refresh.

By: Valorous

Valorous — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:35:34 +0000

I only moonlight as holy once in a while, so forgive me if this question is considered old news, but regarding the FoL Sacred Shield HoT, is it confirmed that the HoT will be applied to anyone with the Sacred Shield buff on them, or only if the Sacred Shield absorption effect is currently proc’ed on them when FoL is cast, as is required for FoL to receive the +50% crit chance. I figured it was the latter but your post leads me to believe only the buff needs to be cast on the target before FoL gets the additional HoT effect. This would of course make it much more beneficial than I had originally thought. Thanks for the input!