Blessing

A blessing is a powerful raid wide buff that can be applied to friendly players and some non-player characters (NPCs). Blessings are unique to the Paladin class and along with Auras, Hands, and Judgement provide the main utility of the Paladin class.

Blessings can be applied to most friendly targets, drastically increasing their combat abilities. Blessings last for 60 minutes. There can only be one blessing per paladin at a time, meaning a single paladin can only cast one type of blessing on the party/raid. Casting the same blessing from multiple paladins do not stack.

Available Blessings
There are two blessings available to Paladins. The available blessings are as follows:

Hands
Paladin Hand spells are short-term Paladin spells that give their target a powerful effect before fading shortly after. These were originally known as blessings.

Usage
Different classes tend to favor certain blessings. Tanks will usually prefer Blessing of Kings for the additional health while healers will request Blessing of Might for the additional mana regeneration. In a raid it is common to have multiple Paladins, allowing the use of both Blessings in the raid.

It is possible to use Drums of Forgotten Kings for a slightly less effective version of Blessing of Kings if only one paladin is present.

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.

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