Divine AuraFollow

When i memorized my divina aura spell it is still greyed out in the spell list?

I believe it's because it has a very long re-cast time, like 12 minutes or something.

Just at tip, but DA even pervents dispells from affecting you!

Found this out on a Terris Thule fight this weekend, just say no to AE dispell!!

Correct. You can't attack.

Hehe, I take it frogbot was not in the CH chain, Jarl? ;-)

Good question. I don't know much about clerics, but you'd think that DA should rather be an innate ability like LoH for a Pally or HT for a SK rather than a level 1 spell.

Honestly, the spell is just not that useful for paladins. It works wonderfully for clerics so that when they get agro from healing too much, they can protect themselves until someone pulls the mob off them. It's not so great for paladins.

The problem is that if you are tanking the mob, you *want* it to attack you. DA has such a long recast time that using it to reduce damage taken is pretty pointless. Also, DA will drop you on the agro list. The mob knows you are invulnerable, so he'll tend to turn on someone else. You probably want this if you are a cleric. You don't want this if you are the MT for your group. Also, spells can't land on you with DA on. So if I get low on health, and despertely hit my DA to keep from dying, no one can heal me while I'm DA'd anyway. Unless there's a second tank in the group who knows to taunt the mob off you in the event you use DA, this will cause more problems then it will ever solve. Clerics get really really pissed if they just spent 10 seconds casting CH on you, but it didn't land because you used DA.


Having said that, it's still a spell I keep up all the time (cause it's got such a long recast that if you don't have it up all the time, it's useless). I think I've used it more often for running through areas to a zoneline then anything else. If I find myself in FP (like I just dropped from PoA for some reason), it's pretty nice to charge through the gate guards using DA. I think I've used it a number of times to meet up with a ToV raid since it allows me to drop off the cliff down the the ZI area in WW without taking any damage.

I use it when I'm the "last man" in a group while keeping mobs occupied while everyone else runs to the zoneline. I can take the hits for awhile (especially if I've still got LoH loaded), give folks time to run, and then use DA to make it even if I'm down really low on health. This allows me to linger longer in an area where the group might otherwise wipe then pretty much any other class in the game.

Most of those are things you just don't need to do at level 1. Prior to that, I really don't need to worry about agro anyway. A paladin pretty much can't outdamage any other melee class. If I'm taking, I use spells to get agro. If I'm not, I don't get agro anyway. DA is just not needed during normal grouping.

heh and if you don't make evac, and are surrounded by like 50 mobs. Don't train them to the zone if your in a LDoN. Your group will NOT be happy lol.

lol i guess it depends on how dire the situation is. I've been in a ldon before where i went invunerable and the dumb druid evac'd w/o me(i was more then 3m just invun to let the tank get aggro back), where i had 3 mezzed mobs and one mob hitting on me, then they poofed and all of them broke mez(Also invun wore off) and i was running to the entrance, ***** em they left me to die....I'm their cleric i kept em alive throughout the ldon and instead of the druid patch healing me or the tank until tank got aggro he just freaked and evac'd w/o me...I survived and told them to zone out, /shrug...

The only times I've ever even used DA was when the guild was doing something in the Hole and we jumped down the hole to zone in.

Well, at least you know when Terris hits her AE. When planned correctly it causes less problems than a ranger who forgot to tag and kite one of the 4 Gargoyles during the end of the fight :)

All hail rogue tanking and cleric kiting. *laughs*