Absorbs such as Power Word: Shield no longer prevent Blood Power from being gained when damage is dealt by Saurfang. Casting Power Word: Shield is not a bad thing to do as the ability will absorb the damage dealt. This was an intentional 3.3.2 change. We also removed the ability to knockback the Blood Beasts off the platform and the removed of Blood Power gain from Mark of the Fallen Champion damage. We unfortunately missed getting these changes into the patch notes.
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Nothing from my old post apply since with this change, so ignore it.
People ar saying that parcial absorbtion doesn’t work (as intended) but… a fully absorbed tick will prevent blood power gained. Will need to be tested further on since might be a key for heroic version.
Small update – 24.12.2009
Last night I applied everything I worked for past day considering mechanics in this fight. I know they are not totally accurate but idea is that we went with 2 disc priests, splinting raid in 2 and the result was amazing: only 2 marks and 32 BP when he died.
I am still working on knowing exactly how much BP abilities gives and witch absorption work or not.
And… as a final note, I did also a 10 man last night: 2 healers: 1 holy and 1 disc (i was). The boss died at 37 BP gained and the most of it was from rune of blood because we had a tank lagging. As a test I was putting some heals on people with boiling blood and weakened debuff on… and, the boss didn’t gain BP even from that small partial absorption that Divine Aegis did. The damage was still on people with debuff, partial ofc but it didn’t give BP. Continue Reading