Duct Tape and a Prayer » Divine Aegis: an update

April 16, 2009
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After some testing, I can say that Divine Aegis works thusly:

If you cast a critical heal on a target, they gain the Divine Aegis effect, which lasts for 12 seconds and absorbs 10/20/30% of the total (not effective!) heal amount. (I was using Flash Heal to test, so I was getting 1.5-2k DAs.)
If you or another Disc priest casts another critical heal on the same target, the Divine Aegis effect refreshes its duration (back up to 12 seconds), and 10/20/30% of the second critical heal is added to the remaining shield from the first crit heal. For example, I establish a 1.5k DA on the Tank, the Tank takes 1000 damage, and then I cast another crit heal on the Tank for another 2k shielding, which makes the total shielding 3.5k and the remaining shielding 2.5k (since the shield absorbed 1k damage between the first and second crit heal).
The maximum damage that a single DA can shield is the level of the target * 125. That’s 10k damage for a level 80 tank. If a DA reaches this amount through repeated application, and you cast further crit heals on the target, the DA’s duration will be refreshed but no additional shielding will be added.
When the DA buff wears off, the next crit heal starts the process over again.
You can have Divine Aegis going on more than one target at once. Each shield has its own independent shielding total and duration.

I hope that’s helpful!

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Comment by khaeli — April 16, 2009 @ 8:38 AM

Thanks for looking into this.

Can you write some more about how you tested this? I'm particularly interested in Bullet #2.

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Comment by Chris Anthony — April 16, 2009 @ 8:42 AM

I was killin' rhinos in Borean Tundra, actually. (I forgot to do yesterday's cooking daily, which was Mustard Dogs!, so I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone.) I was tagging the small rhinos (which do low enough damage that they wouldn't just blow away a DA) with a low-damage attack (usually my wand), then letting them attack and just healing myself. I had haste and crit buffs going so I could cast faster and increase my chances of getting the DA proc, and I kept track of how much the DA absorbed. (I actually managed to get one DA up to about 7k total absorption before it went away!)

Does that help?

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Comment by khaeli — April 16, 2009 @ 9:03 AM

That's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks. :)

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Comment by BobTurkey — April 16, 2009 @ 4:22 PM

Good post. That's pretty much exactly how i'd like DA to work.

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Comment by jedimax — April 17, 2009 @ 2:27 AM

Thanks, that sounds very good, but honestly i am only throwing pw:shield through the raid. thats annoying. want more to heal ^^

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