Comments on: When to use Divine Sacrifice in ICC

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:08:10 +0000

If you turn off Divine Sacrifice immediately you won’t take any damage. There is literally no downside to using a macro to put up the Divine Guardian effect.

By: Hairy

Hairy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:56:57 +0000

What about the risk of taking big raid AOE hit exactly between the on/off switching of the divine sacrifice? Considering possible lag, or high latency and the small 6 second window of effectiveness. As it only stops at 20% health, it sounds like this could get you killed by the first following (melee) hit, or perhaps your own part of the AOE hit, if not very well timed. Though I’m assuming you didn’t have any problems with that yourself, unpredicatble things like the exploding ghosts sound risky.

By: I Can Haz QQburger « Bubble Hearth

I Can Haz QQburger « Bubble Hearth — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:46:48 +0000

[...] good tankadin should know when to use Divine Sacrifice. A good tankadin does not macro his rotation, so that he can adjust the priority as necessary and [...]

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:25:38 +0000

Oh woops, I meant Divine Guardian. That’d require 17 points in the prot tree, which I bet is a tall order for a ret pally.

By: Vorian87

Vorian87 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:17 +0000

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Medivh&n=vorianloken

i am not sacrificing any dps talents to get DivSac in my ret spec :)

the only thing i arguably drop is the AP debuff but i rarely raid as dps so it’s not a concern for me

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:23:03 +0000

We’re not really concerned about Divine Sacrifice except as a means to an end. Don’t worry about having to bubble and use DivSac, we’re just turning that on (and immediately off) to activate Divine Guardian. Divine Guardian will stay up even when Divine Sacrifice is off–ignore the description, I have logs to prove it stays up.

Every tank should have Divine Sacrifice. It’s a 20% damage reduction cooldown on a 2 minute timer. And it doesn’t just work for you, but for the entire raid.

It’s probably impossible to get for raiding Ret pallies as they’d have to suffer a dps hit to get that far down into the prot tree. It’s more amenable to “bubble spec” Holy paladins.

By: Hairy

Hairy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:45:04 +0000

I never specced devine sacrifice, because I’m still living by the idea that it’s better in the hands of a ret-paladin, combined with devine shield, which I’ll of course could never pop (well not for longer then a fraction anyway in very rare occasions, like when feared or something).

Anyway, can you explain this a bit more? The way you describe it it almost sounds like an exploid: the raid get’s the reduction, but you don’t get the damage, or am I misinterpreting it now? Because it does sound incredibly useful now.

The description states that the effect only works “when divine sacrifice is active”, so I would assume that the effect will be gone if you cancel that aura. So if it does work, that text has been a bit misleading.