The Naked Fear

There are people reporting on ElitistJerks forums that as long as you Divine Shield before casting Divine Sacrifice, that there is no HP cap on the Divine Sacrifice, and there are reports of greater than 200000 (two hundred thousand) damage being absorbed within 10 seconds during high raid damage abilities like Hodir's Frozen Blows and XT's Tympanic Tantrum. This type of raid-wide ability, either by its self or in combination with other sources of damage, are the single most effective attempt-killers we've seen to-date.

Considering we usually have at least 2 paladins in our 10-mans and 5 in our 25-mans, I think we need to have our specs (ret, especially) accomodate this easily attainable protection talent. It will be especially important to mitigate damage for difficult hard-mode encounters (especially Phase 2 Mimiron hard-mode), and even progression encounters (25-man Hodir, the last 10 seconds of exploding flowers on Freya, etc). Being able to get Divine Guardian as well is a definite plus.

Just as an extreme example, if we had 12 paladins in a 25-man raid, on a DS/ImpDS rotation, basically that's all damage almost cut in half, non-stop, for the total cost of 1/2 of a single person's DPS/Healing.

Thoughts? --Reference--

Thats been a known "trick" for some time, though I thought they nerfed it, glad to see it's resurfaced

Ahh, I wasn't aware until I just started browsing the paladin board today. It looks like it definitely still works (including 3.2 PTR), and could be handy, even if we just have 2 paladins in a 25-man raid, for 1 DS/DS per minute.

This seems to have worked really well on Hodir, and was on a 5 minute CD because of Divine Shield. Basically with 2 paladins it trivialized 4 of the Frozen Blows per attempt.

Any fight with physical AE (like XT tantrum) we can use Divine Shield and Hand of Protection for twice the hax!