Furrow
03-23-2008, 08:36
Well, this won't be much help to many people. Some will probably even say it's common sense, but I figured I'd post it anyway.
So as you probably know, protection is all that and a bag of chips for leveling now. You get holy shield, a shield spike, retribution aura, and blessing of sanctuary up and you do lots of tasty damage with a block.
EXCEPT when you get those ANNOYING ranged mobs.
Well I dunno about you, but I never noticed that you could block arrows and bullets before. Maybe because shield spikes, BoS, nor ret aura do any damage from a ranged attack! Today while grinding in Feralas leveling however, I noticed that Holy Shield does in fact do the damage. You still also get the 30% block rate increase against them, obviously.
Also you can see how this would be handy in pvp - while it won't be devastating, every little bit counts when you're prot.
Hope this helped some of you leveling up your pallies
So as you probably know, protection is all that and a bag of chips for leveling now. You get holy shield, a shield spike, retribution aura, and blessing of sanctuary up and you do lots of tasty damage with a block.
EXCEPT when you get those ANNOYING ranged mobs.
Well I dunno about you, but I never noticed that you could block arrows and bullets before. Maybe because shield spikes, BoS, nor ret aura do any damage from a ranged attack! Today while grinding in Feralas leveling however, I noticed that Holy Shield does in fact do the damage. You still also get the 30% block rate increase against them, obviously.
Also you can see how this would be handy in pvp - while it won't be devastating, every little bit counts when you're prot.
Hope this helped some of you leveling up your pallies