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Source If LoH is gonna cause forbearance...

Vesstair		Make Divine Protec-shieldwall-tion not. No other tank has any restriction on using their cooldowns (other than the actual cooldown part)... ESPECIALLY not where ANOTHER PLAYER can make them unable to shield wall. The way it is currently is at least workable, since nobody is going to HoP a tank other than something like debuff-clearing for beasts, but there is no reason whatsoever a holy or ret paladin using a normal spell in the course of a normal fight should take away a pallytank's ONLY cooldown which can be activated on demand.


I can see how just straight taking it off forbearance might be a balance problem for PVP as other specs... if that is the problem, make it talented deep in the tree:

Guarded by the light
Reduces spell damage taken by 3/6% and gives a 50/100% chance to refresh the duration of your divine plea when you hit an enemy. In addition, your Divine Plea spell is 100% less likely to be dispelled and Divine Protection no longer is affected by or causes Forbearance.


I don't care what you have to do to make prothealing in arenas not OP with the change (TbtL causes crit heals to apply a stacking -10% resil debuff?), but taking away pallytanks' ability to reliably use their ONLY cooldown when THEY choose is not a good solution.
Ghostcrawler
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# 23 - November 5, 2009, 12:50 pm
The change we're thinking about now is that LoH only causes Forbearance if you cast it on yourself. A paladin healing a paladin tank wouldn't run into the Forbearance problem.

We don't think the paladin tank needs to be able to stack both tools at once. If you know big damage is coming you can use Divine Protection. If you managed to take the big damage, you can use Lay on Hands.
Ghostcrawler
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