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Divine Aegis

Divine Aegis

Requires Priest (Discipline)
Requires level 24

Critical heals and their multistrikes create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 100% of the amount healed, instead of healing for twice as much. Lasts 15 sec.

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School

Physical

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n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 100
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Amount Healed by Critical Heals % (127)
Value: -100%

Flags

Passive spell
Cast time is hidden

Guides

Healing Priest Guide (Disc/Holy)

Warlords of Draenor
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Comments

Comment by PriestessAv

This ability is extremely good and adds benefit to critical heals, function with Rapture, and benefit from overhealing.

It's also like having double Scarab Brooch on all the time, but only for crit heals.

Comment by dupeguy

In regards to spell crit, it seems to me as if priests will have more items available to them. Spellpower is the primary reason, and disci priests may well choose items with high spellpower spellcrit and intellect rather than the currently typical +heal spirit and intellect focused gear. I.e. typical dps spellcaster gear.

The tactic would be to rely on high healing values per spell, as well as divine aegis procs, to return mana due to the rapture talent, extending the priest's mana pool considerably. Even overhealing counts as it is currently implemented. With TBC's lvl 70 values, a greater heal crit would restore a decently well geared priest's mana for almost as much as the spell cost, provided the divine aegis is beaten down rather than expiring or being dispelled.

This should also be excellent for impeding enemy warrior's rage generation, just like PW:S already does.

Comment by arkstok

i've been looking the priest sets that will be in wotlk and almost al healers sets are Spellpower + Critical, while dps gear is more like spellpower + hit + haste.

so yeah healers are gettin a lot of crit this time

Comment by Heaven

Let's say a disc priest crits a greater heal for 6k and 4 seconds later (s)he crits a flash heal for 3k. Does the later crit (shield) replace the older "better shield"? Or do they stack? Or do you keep the "better" shield but its timer is reset to 12sec?

Comment by razzem

Divine Aegis does not proc from the heals from glyphs of Dispel or PW:S

Interestingly, it does proc from Holy Nova, along with Flash Heal and Co. Each tick of Penance has a separate chance to proc it as well.

I have not seen my Prayer of Mending proc it yet, but it might not last long enough being a smaller heal on the tank for me to see. Can anyone confirm PoM proccing DA yet?

Comment by Lonkeroinen

Two divine aegis buffs can stack if they come from two different players.

Comment by duckydoug

Does anyone know whether a single cast of penance's crits will stack divine aegis procs or just replace one another? just replacing them would be quite a downer 8( but make sense..

edit: grammar

Comment by danton83

It does stack and it adds to the damage to be absorbed. example gheal lands for 6k and then flash heals for 3k total is 9k thus 30% of 9k will be absorbed minus any damage already absorbed. This is true if 2 priests are healing one person and both get the buff . It also refreshes the duration to the full time. I have never seen it stack past 2 however.

Example:
6k crit landed shielded for 1800 damage. Tank absorbs 300 damage leaving shield with 1500 and 4 seconds. Flash heal landed and crit for 3k. The duration is now back up to 12 seconds and the amount to be absorbed is set to 1500+900 = 2600 to be absorbed.

Comment by Jinxed

When healing Naxx today I noticed this proc doesn't seem to absorb dmg from certain poison dots. This means there are some types of dmg this shield won't absorb (although it does absorb fall damage).
Anyone else notice this?

Comment by Porcelain

I don't know if I missed that but... does Divine Aegis effect the tank's threat at all?
Pre-Wotlk none of the tanks I met wanted to be shielded by PW:Shield. It increased my own aggro by a lot and reduced the tank's threat because of the "the more damage I take, the more threat I cause" rule.

Comment by Saaidh

Divine Aegis is one of the many things that make Discipline Priest popular. It procs from EVERY crit so stack on it and Spell Power for more powerful shields.

P.S. The animation of it shows a bubble. Cast Levitate and heal yourself until it procs. Then jump off a cliff to have a Priest floating off, trapped in the bubble. It looks awesome.

Comment by mddubinII

does the "amount healed" include overheals or just the actual amount of hp replaced? playing on my druid, I have noticed that living seed - which is based only on actual heals, typically ends up way down the list of my top healing spells. it is almost an entire waste of points. it is harder to determine with this spell because it doesnt show up on meters. priests will typically be running more crit, so its possible that it is active more of the time - but with improved regrowth a living seed proc also should not be uncommon. has anyone tested the overall effectiveness of this spell?

Comment by sylancer

Divine Aegis is the Priest version of

Druid's Living Seed and
Shaman's Ancestral Awakening.

Comment by d00m8r1ng3r

Not so handy for PvP disc priests, as we tend to have very low crit ratings.

Comment by Afoxi

HAMSTER BALL

Comment by sofos87

so when u say it stacks u mean that we see 2 buffs from DA at the buff icon or ....?

Comment by sgottolo

This talent introduces the FIRST ever "+critical heal bonus" ever.

This is not true, in TBC shamans got Ancestral Awakening, which granted a sort of "critical heal bonus" to your heals.

The first real critical heal bonus effect introduced is Touched by the Light for paladins, in the protection tree.

Now 30% of our crit heal is added as a heal.

This is also not true, 30% of crit heals are added as a shield, not heal.

in PvE there is really no difference, but in PvP things change a lot.

In fact heals are reduced by effects like mortal strike, shield aren't.
In this case with divine aegis it's the same, cause it will still reduce the amount healed by the initial heal causing the shield from this talent to be lower.

On the other hand, shields are dispellable, heals, of course, are not.

And last but not least, Chaos Bolt ignores shields, so having your heal crit for 30% more will still heal your target, shielding your target will not prevent its damage.

Comment by Emythrel

since 3.3.3 this now procs off all crit heals, including Glyph of Power Word: Shield crits and Althor's Abacus, Trauma etc. In the 1 raid i have done since the patch arrived, DA actually did more absorbs overall than PW:S.... it used to do about 20% less in total. Great change, huge buff for disco!

Comment by Nicodemas

I love DA. Combined with Glyph of PW: S and a high crit rating, it procs often. In fact, sometimes I spam Holy Nova before a fight to send the tank off feeling a little safer or to give the group some extra absorption. At a negligible mana cost, the whole group gets shiny bubbles!

Comment by somerandomhobo

Absorbs DO NOT interfere with vengeance.

Source

Comment by ShirokenUrsin

This also procs from Renew tick crits. I like to keep Renew up on the tanks, as the absorption bubble gets burned down, Renew's tick crits, and bubble is refreshed without any action from me. May not be as big of a bubble as say from a Flash/Greater Heal or PoM, but with a good crit rating (mine's 35% under raid buffs), the cumulative amounts from the Renew refreshes is about equal.

Comment by cucumberzr4chump

Firstly with divine aegis, when you critically heal with any relevant spell, 30% of that heal with be added as a shield that lasts for 12 seconds as said in the tooltip. However if you critically heal again whilst divine aegis is still active it will both renew the duration of the buff and strengthen it by the amount.

E.g. you flash heal and it critically heals for 1000 which = 300 damage absorption then you cast another critical flash heal for 1000, the duration of divine aegis will be refreshed to 12 seconds and will now provide 600 damage absorption up from 300.

HOWEVER there is a hidden absorption cap equal to 20% of your maximum health which I found out through spam healing myself and tested multiple times with varying health/mana to get accurate calculations.

(Using my above example) If you critically heal twice with flash heal for 1000 each, normally this would provide 600 damage absorption but if you had 2500 health there would be a hidden damage absorption cap of 500 (2500x20%) meaning you will only provide 500 points of absorption instead of 600.

Please not that this is your MAXIMUM health not BASE health that this cap is based off, meaning that with Power Word: Fortitude active you will be able to provide a stronger shield as well as if you have gear that is strong in stamina, etc.

Hope this helps =]

Comment by Malpriest

~~This does NOT proc off of Atonement critical heals, unfortunately. Tested in the Temple of Atal'hakkar on my 52 Forsaken Disc priest.~~

Derp. Um. Apparently it only likes to proc when I'm questing and Smiting.

Comment by Dungrath

I can't figure this one out. It seems to be triggering off... well, just about everything. Shadow Word: Pain. Reflective Shield crits. It's definitely triggering off more than just critical heals. I do damage, or something dies near me, I often get a divine aegis shield. I've reviewed the combat log, it doesn't make any sense.

Comment by Shaidov

This now procs off of prayer of healing non criticals... That's just awesome. I know what spell I'll be using more of as disc in Cata.

Comment by Wineblood

On 4.0.6, the talent is :

Divine Aegis (Rank 3) : Critical heals and all heals from Prayer of Healing create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 30% of the amount healed. Lasts 12 sec.

It seems that criticals from prayer of healing proc this twice, as my divine aegis shields me for 60% of the crit heal.

Crit heal? Yes. ---> add 30% absorb
PoH heal? Yes. ---> add another 30% absorb

Comment by Meggie

These 3 talent points make up 11% to 12% of my effective healing. And I hardly understand how it works. Now that's overpowered!

Comment by BoldError

Quick question: Does Divine Aegis take into consideration the 20% additional HoT from a glyphed Prayer of Healing? Or is it goin' off of the initial heal amount?

Comment by Feranda

in 4.1.0 checked in-game and Divine Aegis does not generate any threat when creating absorb effect, neither when absorb is "used" when getting hit.

Comment by DrDVS1

WHAR MY SOPE BOBBLES AT!

Edit: geez guys take a joke. Meaning in above comment.

Comment by Stonehearth

Oh sweet round bubbles come back to me :(

Comment by suffacate

WHAT. THE. HELL.

Why are divine aegis and power word: shield bubbles the same now? :'( It used to be so pretty.
wooooow.

Comment by Tdaa

v4.2.0 Priest 67 lvl, 3 tal on divine aegis
hp 8329(buff only fortitude), 579 stam == shield from aegis 3331(cast on me)
hp 7519(full unbuff), 498 stam == shield from aegis 3007(cast on me)

==>

324 shield / 81 stam = 4 (1 stam = 4 shield)
3331 shield / 579 stam = 5.75
3007 / 498 = 6.03
3331 / 8329 = 0.39999
3007 / 7519 = 0.39999

===>>>

2.5hp = 1shield

tank with 250k HP can be shielded from aegis on 100k

if max shield = 125*lvl to 85 lvl can be shield max on 10625, but im stack 46k on 85 lvl war with 115k hp

Comment by Kolin

It works correctly on Baleroc?
Or absorbs ~ 50k?

Comment by Terrassen

It might just look like we'll have the old shield back in 4.3!

Aegis

Comment by Staalsy

Caps at 55,978 Damage for my priest. 375.

Comment by DemoraX

will proc from Gift of the Naaru for draenei priests :-3
and as stated by someone else, will also proc from atonement crits!

Comment by Selusar

Spell description on Wowhead is currently outdated.

Silent hotfix (5 nov 2012) has buffed Divine Aegisto create a shield of 50% of the healed amount.

Comment by perculia

Ghostcrawler on Patch 5.2 developments:

Divine Aegis now works differently. It causes any critical heal to proc a bubble for 100% of the heal instead of doubling the heal. In other words, a crit for Holy is a 200% heal. A crit for Disc is a 100% heal + a 100% bubble. The bubble however benefits from mastery, so it's more likely a 100% heal + a 130% bubble.

Thread: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7811342046

Comment by Manamama

Further crits while the buff is up will add more absorption to the buff, up to a cap of something around 250k, does anybody know what that cap is based on?

Comment by icausewipes

And on the seventh day God created Disc Priest. Anyone competing against one for sh-ts and giggles will see this at the top of most HPS charts. Like Ric Flair always says "You can like it...or not like it...but you better learn to love it, cause it's STILL the best thing goin' today. WOOO!".

Comment by Malvenue

I just had this spell cast on me while fighting a vermin on my farm with my warrior. How the heck does that happen?

Comment by jjuls

There has to be something wrong, because my shaman was on her farm taking care of a wild plant and all of a sudden divine aegis.

Comment by Simonmon

Just a trivial little thing I noticed: I was in Darkmoon Faire doing the quest "Putting the Carnies Back Together Again." I healed the first injured carnie with the Darkmoon Bandage provided by the quest, and this bubble suddenly popped onto my priest.

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