Blessing
A blessing is a powerful buff that can be applied to friendly players and some non-player characters (NPCs). Blessings are unique to the paladin class.
Blessings can be applied to most friendly targets, drastically increasing their combat abilities.
Available blessings
Blessings
Blessings are short-term spells that give their target a powerful effect before fading shortly after. These were previously known as hands.
Blessing | Level | Spec | Description |
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Level 32 | All | Places a blessing on a party or raid member, protecting them from all physical attacks for 10 sec. Causes Forbearance for 30 sec. |
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Level 22 | All | Places a blessing on a party or raid member, granting immunity to movement impairing effects for 8 sec. |
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Level 41 | All | Blesses a party or raid member, reducing their damage taken by 30%, but you suffer 100% of damage prevented. Last 12 sec, or until transferred damage would cause you to fall below 20% health. |
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Honor Level 25 | Retribution | Instantly removes all stun, silence, fear and horror effects from the friendly target and reduces the duration of future such effects by 60% for 5 sec. |
Greater Blessings
Greater Blessings last for 60 minutes and are only available Retribution. There can only be three Greater Blessings active at one time per paladin, meaning a single paladin can only cast a total three Greater Blessings on friendly targets. Casting the same Greater Blessing from multiple paladins do not stack, and applying a Greater Blessing on a fourth target removes the first one cast.
Blessing | Level | Description |
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Level 42 | Places a blessing on an ally that gives their attacks a 10% chance to deal 30% additional damage as Holy. |
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Level 44 | Places a blessing on an ally that grants them an absorption shield. It absorbs up to (180% of Spell power) damage, and will be refreshed to full strength every 6 sec, even if fully consumed. |
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Level 46 | Places a blessing on an ally that causes them to regenerate 1% of maximum health and mana per 3 sec. |
History
- Many blessings have been scrapped, such as
[Blessing of Light].
- Originally all blessings lasted for only 5 minutes. If you wanted to buff a whole 40-man raid, by the time you ended the buffing, first members had only 2-3 minutes left on their blessings, making paladins more like walking buff machines than efficient healers or DPSers.
Patch changes
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19):
- Blessings are now known as Greater Blessings, only available to Retribution and redesigned.
[Blessing of Kings] and
[Blessing of Might] have been replaced by
[Greater Blessing of Kings] and
[Greater Blessing of Might].
- Hands are now known as Blessings.
- Blessings are now known as Greater Blessings, only available to Retribution and redesigned.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12):
- The functionality of Greater Blessings has replaced the single-target Blessings, making all Blessings last for 1 hour and apply to all same-class members of your raid or group as your target.
[Symbol of Kings] no longer required.
[Blessing of Sanctuary] became
[Sanctuary], a passive effect for the protection paladin, instead of a buff.
[Blessing of Kings] does not stack with a Druid's
[Mark of the Wild] buff.
- MP5 from
[Blessing of Wisdom] merged into
[Blessing of Might]. Blessing of Wisdom removed.
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14):
[Blessing of Freedom],
[Blessing of Protection],
[Blessing of Sacrifice] and
[Blessing of Salvation] have become short-term blessings known as Hand spells.
[Blessing of Light] removed.
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