Originally Posted by
econ21
If you need the protection or threat, yes. Otherwise, it can be good to wait until you have 5 Holy Power. That way you have 2 Holy Power in the bank, so to speak, and can quickly do a double sotr in an emergency.
If you are responsible for keeping up the weakened blows debuff, yes. [Something to track the debuff will be useful - you have to apply it about every 30 sec irrc. I've set up a weakaura for it]. Otherwise, just use CS on single target and HotR instead on multi-target.
They can be useful, although they are rather situational and advanced tactics rather than rotational. Hand of freedom is good against the stone debuff from MSV trash. Hand of sacrifice can be useful on your co-tank, when you are off tanking. Hand of salvation can be useful after a taunt switch, to stop your vengeance ripping threat from the active tank. Hand (blessing?) of protection can be useful with some specific fight mechanics, e.g. on the target of an unseen strike?