Blessing of Freedom Bugged?

Based on how I read the tooltip, Blessing of freedom seems a bit bugged if you have the unbound talent.

If you cast freedom on yourself, and you have the unbound freedom talent, it will cast it also on a nearby player, regardless if you targeted them or not, or if they’re even in raid or group.

This usually isn’t an issue and is kind of nice when doing a run back or a long run in raid, but it does not make sense for certain boss fights. Example: Ara Kara last boss, where people need to be rooted. Paladins can cheese that at least once with Divine shield, but if they’re in a bad place and need to freedom and Divine Shield, guess what, someone else’s root is gonna break too.

I also noticed while in Dornogal, I could freedom myself and random players around me (not in group) would also get the blessing. Usually it targets nearest to you.

I believe it’s supposed bless both if you target someone else. At least that’s how it seemed to work for me prior to the anniversary update.

To be clear, I don’t hate the behavior on any other instance except for that last boss in Ara’Kara. I would hate to have to remember to swap talents just for that fight, where as the rest of the dungeon it could be helpful.

Yeah they changed it to automatically cast on a friendly:

  • Unbound Freedom now additionally targets a nearby ally by default if you cast Blessing of Freedom on yourself.

Source: https://www.wowhead.com/news/updated-2-war-within-patch-11-0-5-patch-notes-20th-anniversary-celebration-348455

Example: Ara Kara last boss, where people need to be rooted. Paladins can cheese that at least once with Divine shield, but if they’re in a bad place and need to freedom and Divine Shield, guess what, someone else’s root is gonna break too.

This is a perfect example of why this kind of QoL change is actually harmful.

I am 100% more pissed they gave us “class trees” but holy doesnt have unbound freedom on their class tree…

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Removes skill cap from ret and makes ret more boring in pvp too.
It’s like making rogue step instantly kick for you. It’s not a big change but not having to make a choice of who you freedom and using macros removes skills required to be a top player.