imp consc auraFollow

quick question, does the improved consc aura talent mean the consescration spell? the aoe you lay on the ground? theres no aura after the spell so im not sure.

tryin to whittle down the points in prot so i can put 10 in ret for benedition and parry

I just had to lol at this >.<

PvP: Completely invaluable.

PvE: Good on some fights, useless on others. Anywhere you're going to see silences, it's quite handy.

My vote is "indispensable" as well. Holy Pally, PvE, meager PvP.

When soloing, it allows for AOE grinding, much more effectively than having Ret Aura up. A lot of mobs need to bang on you if any of them are to successfully interrupt a Flash of Light.

In raids, the clothies I'm grouped with often howl for Devotion Aura, preferably Improved Devotion Aura, but my argument is that if they'd just stop stealing aggro from the tank, they wouldn't be getting hit by melee. They like feeling the pseudo-security that that ~5% mitigation provides them. Improved Concentration Aura on the other hand won't win you any friends. The casters will get silenced and they'll shriek over vent "I'M SILENCED!!! oh wait, no I'm not" and just assume they had some magic silence-halving resistance that had absolutely nothing to do with the aura the pally has up. I don't think many can explain why the casters in one raid group aren't silenced while those in the other groups are.

In 5v5 and BGs, it's my default aura. There are just too many Horde with a silence ability. You can't afford to have the heals stop for longer than they have to.

You know, that's a good point. For prot, it's a decent talent in instances and a rather good one for soloing.. I was thinking holy for some reason.

Edited, May 7th 2008 9:27am by Poldaran

I wouldn't take it for Protection. Tanking or grinding.

Healing (if any) comes from Seal/Judgement of Light while grinding -- If you HAVE to cast a spell/bandage you should be bubbling. No Block/Dodge/Parry while casting will destroy all that HP you just healed.

Go for parry.

You realize that anyone with Spiritual Focus can already do this without the talent, yes? So getting it to make your own heals resist pushback is pretty pointless. Unless you are Prot or Ret where you'll be using some other Aura anyway, thus have to spend a GCD to swap Auras for a chance to get a heal off. Ret should kill fast enough usually and Prot just doesn't die, so still not a great advantage to have. The spell pushback resist DOES help other classes though, so it's a nice talent for group play.

And there's the reduction to silence effects. That imo would be the reason to take this talent. Kind of like the Sacred Duty talent: you take it for the stamina, but the other effects are gravy on the side for "just in case" scenarios.

That said as a tank there really aren't enough points to make picking this up worthwhile, not to mention that your other Auras will be much better suited to what you are doing. As Ret ... You'd already be sacrificing too much, again imo, to get that far anyway. I wouldn't take it in a Ret build at all. And as Holy, take it for PvP builds. PvE, if you want go for it, but I'm not sure it's a "must-have" most of the time.