Seriously what does this spell serve when it doesn’t provide absolute immunity (is nullified by certain boss spells, and even several classes like priests and warrior!), and the fact that it is potentially holding us back from better class tuning/adjustments?
Could we look into the potential of having it as a talent and the alternatives to be better utility or mobility options, really just anything to keep us up to pace with the other classes?
At minimum I’d love it if it would actually do as it was imagined: “Grants immunity to all damage and harmful effects.”
If we were to lose Divine Shield we would need a huge buff to defensives and mobility to balance that out. At this point there no way we’ll be getting that. Better to just ask for the doable - DP on a 1min CD, SoV and Steed off the GCD, and for them to revert all the nerfs to Ret’s procs so the rotation actually functions.
Same problem with Blessing of Freedom. It’s so dumb how inconsistent interactions are.
I used to joke, about how the list of things in raids the Freedom did work on was shorter than that of things it seemed like it should work on but didn’t. The same for Divine Shield in some tiers (often when Cloak of Shadows and/or Aspect of the Turtle did work on them).
My favorite is the lore behind a paladin was to serve as stronger warrior for priests and such… meanwhile the 2 can take the immunity down at the whim of a button
I mean, even Tirion died in bubble…
If only we had taken the hint in Legion!
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I haven’t checked the CD on the current beta build but really, with DS being a dispellable immunity, it really should be on a 2min or 3 min CD at base rank. I personally am annoyed at the talent tree and’s required talents and rets weak/pointless defensives. Especially as class that doesn’t exactly pump on enemies until you pump holy power. Such a slow builder compared to others. Fury is so quick in DF, Enh, Spriest, etc. All have better defensives/off heals/mobility imo. At least they play a lot easier to me. Warrior gets a spell reflect, 2 charges, 1 leap, 3 1 button heals, and one with a baked in damage reduction. (If memory serves right). Spriest can literally run now with Shield movement increase and feathers (almost 100% up-time), heals with damage, off heals, dispersion heals, etc. enhance can now pump/proc, better mobility depending on how you spec (still better bc ghost wolf), off heals with maelstrom, and heal outright, recovery at x% health, and totem. These 3 classes can still apply pressure while healing while ret suffers significantly if you are just spamming WoG on yourself. Our defensives need work if we have to be a stationary target (consecration focused now). Steed sucks, 3 sec of speed/2 charges 45sec CD, and the rest is dispellable. Defensives will get you to the target once or twice and then it’s F lol. Not to mention pally is free meat to casters. PvP is very likely to be rough with pally imo. Need more defensives/utility or mobility/utility. The procs rarely procced for me compared to both fury and enhance on the beta. This is all in the starter zone so I could be far from reality though…
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Oof… you got us on that one.