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Description

 
Power Word: Shield (Rank 12)
600 Mana, 40 yd range
Instant cast, 4 sec cooldown
Draws on the soul of the party member to shield them, absorbing 1265 damage. Lasts 30 sec. While the shield holds, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage. Once shielded, the target cannot be shielded again for 15 sec.

Power Word: Shield is a nice utility spell that can be used on many occasions. It will not heal, but rather prevent a sizeable amount of damage taken by the target. It helps to ease out spiky damage, protects low-armoured allies from being smeared by frenzied hordes of adds and helps you solo mobs without getting interrupted on every swing.

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Hi there, I just wrote up the Spell Focus: Fade article, only to realize that I killed the Spell Focus: Power Word: Shield a few seconds after putting it online. Gaaah!

Whatever… I don’t have the time to write it up again right now, so I’m posting some links and news from the top of my head. Hopefully, it’ll be of some value to you.

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Description

 
Fade
330 Mana
Instant cast, 30 sec cooldown
Fade out, discouraging enemies from attacking you for 10 sec.  More effective than Fade (Rank 6).

Fade is one of the most useful spells a priest will ever use. However, the wording above is not very informative and needs a bit of elaboration.

When you fade, the spell will reduce your threat with every target that has you on it’s hate list by 1500. This value is not divided, it’s applied as a static "penalty" to all mobs. You may cast Fade preemptively. While you cannot go below 0 threat, it will apply to all threat accumulated during it’s 10 second duration, too. So, you may fade and then run into a mob group (already in combat but not necessarily tagged) and shackle one of those mobs without fearing swift retribution from it’s friends.

Additionally, Fade becomes better the more mobs you are fighting. Because of it’s static application of 1500 negative hate to each mob, it will scale well with large groups of mobs.

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In a Nutshell

Terestian Illhoof is an optional boss that only controls a very small amount of trash respawn inside Karazhan. He resides inside the library near the Shade of Aran. You will find him in a room that is hidden behind a suspicious bookshelf inside a room that is filled with Shadow Pillagers and Homunculi.

Illhoof himself is a very add-lasting encounter without phases, however there are a few twists that define the course of the battle. The key to the fight is to control the swarming adds and to reduce uptime of the Demon Chains to a minimum.

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I’m back!

Ok, I was not really gone, but there were a lot of things going on the needed attention, and sometimes I just don’t find the time to blog besides all this stuff.

So, what has been going on?

Well, I have married. The whole day was very beautiful/fun/stressful/unique. We really enjoyed it, but we were also very happy when we finally could get some sleep.

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