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Blessing of Sacrifice
Spell holy sealofsacrifice
  • Blessing of Sacrifice
  • Row 6 paladin talent
  • 40 yd range
  • 7% of base mana
  • 2 min recharge
  • Instant
  • Blesses a party or raid member, reducing their damage taken by 30%, but you suffer 100% of damage prevented.

    Last 12 sec, or until transferred damage would cause you to fall below 20% health.
Properties
Class Paladin
School Holy
Recharge 2 minutes
Talents
Talent required Ability paladin touchedbylight [Holy Aegis] or Spell holy avenginewrath [Avenging Wrath]
Improvements Ability paladin blessedhands [Blessed Hands], Achievement dungeon heroic gloryoftheraider [Echoing Blessings], Ability racial foregedinflames [Recompense], Spell holy sealofprotection [Sacred Duty], Spell holy sealofsacrifice [Sacrifice of the Just], Spell holy sealofsacrifice [Ultimate Sacrifice]
Related buffs
Spell holy sealofsacrifice
  • Blessing of Sacrifice
  • Taking 30% of damage taken by target ally.
  • Duration: 12 seconds

Spell holy sealofsacrifice
  • Blessing of Sacrifice
  • Damage taken reduced by 30%.
  • Duration: 12 seconds
A true hero is willing to bear the burdens of others.[1]
Blessing of Sacrifice TCG

In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Blessing of Sacrifice is a paladin class talent.

Tips and tricks[]

  • Blessing of Sacrifice can be used to avoid being the victim of Crowd Control in PvP. Bless a person who is quite likely to draw enemy fire. This way, if you're afflicted by Spell nature polymorph [Polymorph], Ability sap [Sap], Spell holy prayerofhealing [Repentance] or any other of incapacitating effect, the damage transferred to you would break Crowd Control.
  • Blessing of Sacrifice can be useful in PvE when tanking mobs that fear in 5-man instances, such as the Fel Overseer in Shadow Labyrinth. If you put Blessing of Sacrifice on a party member you know will not get feared, them getting hit will break your own fear.
  • Blessing of Sacrifice can be very helpful when tanking Blackheart the Inciter, especially during his 'incite chaos' spell to take damage away from all party members, and also for picking him up after his 'incite chaos' spell wears off. NOTE: This will probably be less feasible with the 2.2 patch changes to Blessing of Protection.
  • Critical during the Maiden of Virtue fight in Karazhan, allowing paladin healers to be awake during the Maiden's Repentance. All of the paladin healers should keep Blessing of Sacrifice activated on the tank and melee DPS. Decide before the fight on who to bless whom, as it cannot be cast on the same player by two paladins.
  • Note that using Blessing of Sacrifice may make it difficult for the healer to heal. Normally, the healer would only need to heal one target. Under Blessing of Sacrifice, both you and the player you blessed would take damage. Be sure to communicate this to the main healer, and do try to heal yourself from your own mana pool if it is feasible.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-04-10): Now transfers 20% of damage taken in PvP Combat (was 30%).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 class talent (was a level 41 ability). Rank 2 removed.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2021-11-04): Blessing of Sacrifice has been updated to have its cooldown reset when a raid boss encounter ends.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2021-03-22): Now properly displayed on Raid Frames when talented into Spell holy sealofsacrifice [Ultimate Sacrifice].
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned by all paladins at level 41 (was 56 for Holy and Protection only). Rank 2 now learned at level 47 (was 85).
  • Legion Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29): Blessing of Sacrifice should now robustly prevent against reducing the casting Paladin below 20% health.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added as a level 56 ability (was 46). No longer available to Retribution. Rank 2 added at level 85: Reduces the damage you take from Blessing of Sacrifice by 25%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Replaced with Spell holy sealofsacrifice [Hand of Sacrifice].
  • Bc icon Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Now has a 1-minute cooldown.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): This Blessing can no longer be used to prevent the death of a target that is supposed to die for a spell effect (e.g.: Spell shadow sacrificialshield [Sacrifice], Spell shadow psychicscream [Demonic Sacrifice], Spell nature timestop [Divine Intervention], Warlock sacrificial pact [Ritual of Doom]).
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Blessing of Sacrifice no longer shares damage with dead Paladins (You can no longer kill Paladin Ghosts).
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Blessing of Sacrifice is no longer cancelled when you enter an instance, but will not have any effect unless the caster is in the instance with you.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Blessing of Sacrifice only transfers the damage dealt, up to the maximum listed in the tooltip.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Now castable on all raid targets.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Moved to level 46, now transfers a flat amount of damage per hit, and has replacements.

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