arthoriuss wrote:
There are ways around giving another pally a greater blessing then changing your greater blessing. It involves buffing the other pally then running around a wall (LoSing the other pally) or out of range and rebuffing yourself. IMO Shorter blessing may sound like a pain but they are the easiest way around it. Now that we have lost BoL and BoSalv our choices have somewhat become limited in blessings (4 max).
You have the choice of a:
1. tanking blessing
2. mana return blessing
3. increase in AP blessing
4. flat 10% increase in stats blessing
Blessing 4 is deep in Prot so this leaves you at 3 blessings to choose from (if your not prot). If you dont spec into Kings because your sacrificing utility for either extra heals or dps, that leaves you with blessings 2 and 3.
For raiding I think that Rets are probably the better choice for taking Kings as it will benefit them more now if there happens to be a dps warrior in the group/raid (BoM and Battle shout dont stack anymore). From what I have seen postpatch, it seems that more Holy and Prot paladins talent into it though.
I am liking the change of BoSalv to HoSalv though. Gives Ret pallies a feint type of aggro management without having to sacrifice a buff to dps! Same with HoProtection. I always found it annoying that I'd have to rebuff someone after bubbling them as the old blessing of protection would overwrite the previous blessing they had on themselves! My compliments to the devs for that one!
Blessing 4 is no longer deep in prot, it just takes 5 points in prot to get it (the full 10%), and most prots are ignoring it so they can better spend the now 5 points it takes for this in MUCH better places. If I am doing a heroic or raid, I basically hope the Holy Pally or the Ret Pally put 5 points into Kings, because as the tank, I don't even have this anymore. BoSanc is deep enough in Prot that only the Prot is going to take it, and it is what the tank is going to use now.
My preference in almost any group now (be it 5, 10, or 25-man) is to have myself, a Holy Pally and a Ret Pally so I can have BoSanc, BoW or BoM, and BoK on myself at all times. A Prot with 3/4 or all 4 of these blessings now is INSANE!
Edited, Oct 28th 2008 11:55am by jeromesimina