Seals and BlessingsFollow

O had a couple of questions; one on seals, and one on blessings. This may have been covered before, but I cannot find it...

1. When using seals, I have been told that I should use seal of light and seal of justice more, in PvE instances. However, looking at SoJ and SoL, the mana cost is more if I attach it to a mob than if I just continue to FoL or HoL, and it only lasts 20 seconds, as I usually turn my attention back to the healthbars of the tank and dps. Should I really be using those seals if I am not hitting the mob, and using my mana more efficently with heals?

2. Blessings: I usually attach a BoK or Bo light on the tank, Blessing of Salv on the dps (to keep the tank able to hold aggro (off me!)), and BoW or BoSalv on myself. I also BoS the pets, unless they are helping to OT. However, I am often asked for Kings by everyone except usually mages. What should I be doing?

By the way, this is my first char, so I am trying to take critiques so I can fix whatever bad habits I have, before I hit Kara and heroics. Thank you.

If you're not striking the mobs much and are keeping the tank up just fine without Judgement of Light, don't use it. As you said, it'll be a waste of your mana. Justice on the other hand is great for mobs that run away. Try Judging it when a mob is at about 30% health or so to prevent them from fleeing, unless you're not the only Paladin, then you can let the other deal with it ;)



Salv really shouldn't be necessary at all on pets, unless the Huntard forgot to trun its Growl off, and with a Lock they should generally be using a Phased Imp anyway. As far as yourself and the tank: always use Wisdom because your heals generate far less threat then a normal healer and if you should get soem aggro you can bubble it off or just take some hits till the mob can get under control. The tank: use Light, or if that's too much an addition to your healing, Kings which can give a slight increase to the threat the tank puts out.

DPS, no matter how much they cry, should get Salvation if you are the only Paladin in the group. This goes for everyone but Hunters who I will give Might instead since they can just build some hate, Feign Death, and go back to DPSing. Plus it's harder for a Hunter, Particularly if there's a Paladin tanking, to pull a target to the trap if their attacks are doing 30% less threat. Now, if they keep pulling aggro, they will get Might replaced by Salv end of story.

well, everything is situational.

For most stuff that is still new/challanging, i use mostly greater blessings, i'm too lazy to rebuff a raid every 5-10 minutes. My advise is coming from a RAIDING healing pally that is now prot pally. so if your request is geared more towards 5 man content, this might not be what ya looking for.

warriors: GBOL
dps arms warrior (if there one in raid): bos
Druids: GBOS or GBOW (i ask them and the majority rules)(btw, they mostly healers)
OFFTANKING feral druid: kings if nonpallies assigned as thier healer
BOL if pally assigned to heal them.
Rogues: GBOS (almost always, reguardless of situtation)
Hunters: GBOM (rare occations depending on their spec, BOW)
priest: GBOS on trash, GBOW on bosses (depends on specific boss)
Pallies: GBOW (always, unless multiple pallies)
mages: GBOS (almost always)
warlocks: gbos or kings (usually not very many locks in a raid, so depends on thier play style)
Shaman: GBOS/GBOW (not many in MY guild raiding, so would depend on if they are healers or dps enchancers)


If we are raiding something on farm status, gbos gets used less in favor of gbow or kings and kings on tanks.


some bosses salv is not ness, some have agro wipes, some the tank just tanks the hell out of.

if we have wiped multiple attempts on a single boss, we might mix buffs around to improve dps (for those dps race bosses).