Just curious, i spend literally 100% of my time using seal of insight, i've not tested any of the others at high vengeance as it seems like a noticeable hit to my survivability when i swap out of it.
In what situations do you swap seals if any?
Just curious, i spend literally 100% of my time using seal of insight, i've not tested any of the others at high vengeance as it seems like a noticeable hit to my survivability when i swap out of it.
In what situations do you swap seals if any?
SoR sometimes for trash, if bored.
You don't. They destroyed Seal of Truth and Seal of Righteousness.
Although, incoming buff to SoR to double the damage. Might be worthy in AoE situations in heroics, but doubtful.
Nah, no point really. SoR tickles like a down feather and the damage from Censure might as well be called "Censored" because it is practically non-existent.
If SoR actually scaled with Vengeance, maybe I'd use that for AoE. Even with the 5.2 damage buff, I don't see it as worth anything since we're tied to using a 1H weapon.
As for SoT, it's really not worth it since the nerfed it through the ground. I somehow ended up using it on Sha in LFR one week (I think it somehow activated when my cat decided to sit on my keyboard before the fight), a single tick of Censure crit for ~1500 damage. It's really sad to see the seal that Blizzard wants to be our 'DPS' option is so abysmally worthless at what they want it to be.
Bottom line, glyph Battle Healer and set your SoI to the 'on' position. It's not really worth it to do anything else.
Doubling, I'd go as far as to say even quadrupling the seal damage from Righteousness will not get me out of Insight. The scaling (esp with a 1H weapon, even if it is a 509) is just so piss-poor its not even worth using. 2 x 0 is still 0!
Insight for life (or until nerf).
I love topping the healing meters and the dps meters on high damage fights. SoI - I'm riding this train until it crashes.
Personally I think it's irresponsible of blizz to make the other seals available to prot. 99 times out of 100, anyone who uses it does so because they have no idea what they're doing.
Doesn't help that the prot-unique 80% damage reduction to SoT isn't detailed in the tooltip.
"Quack, quack, Mr. Bond."
I basically posted the same thing in one of my many rants in the PTR thread; considering they want this game to be more "friendly" to new players and avoid the so-called "trap" talents and abilities, giving Prot (and Holy) SOT and SOR is just kind of counter to their philosophy. Blue posts have STATED that SoI is to be THE tank seal.
Not sure why they don't just give us the seals as "stances" like monks have based on spec or something.
Sometimes though more an exception than a rule. Mostly to get WoL ranks on farm. Used on elegon hc sk hc and bladelord hc. Switched to soi for the burnnphase on all those fights!
Used SoT on our first Tsulong kill (used it at the beginning of the fight while still had wings + BL + potion up) and it was a nice dmg boost at the beginning (i'd say about 10k on dps)
But other than that never found a reason to use anything besides SoI
Since switching to Glyph of Battle Healer and only using SoI, lots of healers in 5man heroics complain that I heal the same, if not more than they do... mind you I also use WoG and LoH when required.
yeah i like the "passiv" heal when i was normal tanking. so SoI ftw