In what context is it best to use each of these?
-Divine Shield
-Divine Protection
-Blessing of Protection
They are quite similar…
Blessing of protection: physical damage only, includes fall damage.
Divine Protection: prevents all damage and it’s long enough for a hearthstone cast.
Divine Shield: useless. shares CD with Divine protection. it is replaced by it.
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To add to Robo, BoP is great to give to others (especially casters) to drop their threat and protect them from a swarm of adds. Very useful for Mages in particular, but it also is good to use on anyone (even physical damage dealers who will be pacified) to be able to protect them and establish threat.
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not to drop their threat. but to make them immune to physical dmg which will make their attacker go to next-highest target. the distinction is… subtle but relevant 
similarly as a tank, you don’t want to Divine protection or the mobs will start hitting the next-highest threat.
EDIT: Divine protection also clears all debuffs, by the way. so a bubble-blink macro will be of great use.
similarly, Blessing of protection clears physical debuffs, like bleeds.
#showtooltip
/cancelaura Divine shield
/cast Divine shield
BoP is essentially your oh crap button for other players. Also really fun to troll your melee buddies with so you can beat them on the DPS meters 
Divine Protection replaces Divine Shield and is your oh crap button.
Both drop threat while up but it will immediately return once it is removed.
wait til wrath classic… BoP the tank. DI yourself. then giggle
can’t troll bad groups on your own server this way. but lfd. 
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That works in TBC. I did that as a healer because I had an ele shaman in the raid who kept pulling off the tank and would yell at me if they didn’t get healed right away. Took a second for the tank to realize what happened. By the time be clicked it off, she was dead. 
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RIP in peace, annoying shaman.
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Why is divine protection better divine shield?
Divine Shield lasts longer.
Rank two Divine Protection is 8 seconds but prevents you from doing any damage during its duration. Divine Shield at rank two is 12 seconds, and only hurts your attack speed but not any other damage.
I’m not sure who said DP was better, as… it’s not. The only use is if the rest is already on CD, especially if you’re jumping off the Aldor elevator.
EDIT: Oh, Robo. Yeah that was a mistake.
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