Shield of Deflection

I've tried Shield of Regen and it always has not wow-ed me since it costs 15 energy. Glyph of Lesser Energy got moved to Energy Storage, it is not really as effective either.

I've drafted up

Blessed shield of deflection
Monk/
Level: 20

Divine Favor: 13 (12+1)
Protection Prayers: 14 (12+2)

- Reversal of Fortune (Protection Prayers)
- Shield of Absorption (Protection Prayers) <--lasts 11 seconds, for 100% uptime
- Dismiss Condition (Protection Prayers)
- Protective Spirit (Protection Prayers)
- Shield of Deflection [Elite] (Protection Prayers) <-- lasts 10 seconds
- Blessed Aura (Divine Favor) <-- 1.32x normal duration of enchantments
- Deny Hexes (Divine Favor) <-- remove hexes
- Rebirth (Protection Prayers)

1.32*1.2= 1.584x the normal length of enchantment durations.

It's kind of heavy on the energy, but the only thing you can really take off is Rebirth...

EDIT: I didn't put in Gift of Health because that would require bumping down Divine Favor or Protection Prayers. You cannot really afford to lose seconds on the Shield of Deflection because it means you spend more time putting it back up

Without Blessed Aura, you can afford Gift:

Monk/Elementalist
Level: 20

Divine Favor: 11 (10+1)
Healing Prayers: 9 (8+1)
Protection Prayers: 14 (12+2)

- Reversal of Fortune (Protection Prayers)
- Gift of Health (Healing Prayers) <-- Gift is here.
- Shield of Deflection [Elite] (Protection Prayers)
- Protective Spirit (Protection Prayers)
- Glyph of Lesser Energy (Energy Storage)
- Dismiss Condition (Protection Prayers)
- Deny Hexes (Divine Favor)
- Rebirth (Protection Prayers)

Notes: Shield of Absorption (Protection Prayers) was dropped in addition to Blessed Aura (Divine Favor)

1.2*7seconds = 8.4 seconds Shield of Deflection

I run shield of deflection just fine without investing in blessed aura. Swap to a 20% enchant weapon while casting it and you're good to go. For me, SoD is a brief invulnerability button for a party member while I figure out what to do in a given situation. It doesn't need to last forever, just long enough to alleviate quite a bit of damage, and give you time to spike down whoever is ganking your target.

Bring a Divine scalp with Superior divine rune. If you put it on and cast Blessed you get +37%, then switch back to your prot scalp.

I have been using a Blessed Regen monk for a little while and it really does shine. Essentially the build is the same as yours except with Regen instead of Deflect. The nice thing is that it gives you somehting like 23 second Regen. It is tough to run without GoLE since you only have 3 pips and SoR is 15e.

The other thing that is nice to throw in there is Aegis. With blessed and a +20% mod, it works out to 18 seconds on a 30 second cooldown...not bad. It makes those shadow rangers and abyssals pussycats. Depending on the area and team, you could probably swap SoA, rebirth, or even PS for Aegis.

SoD is my favorite skill in game, aside from EoE. I swear by SoD lol...it's what to my monk Frenzy is to pvp warriors. As long as you use it with a 20% Enchanting weapon...i.e. totem axe...you're clear...it's several seconds of para-invincibility...cast it on whatever you like and you don't need to check up on them for another 15 seconds. In pvp it's a godsend.

I would like SoD a lot more if it didn't have one of the most distinctive animations in the game.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Snow Bunny SoD is my favorite skill in game, aside from EoE. I swear by SoD lol...it's what to my monk Frenzy is to pvp warriors. As long as you use it with a 20% Enchanting weapon...i.e. totem axe...you're clear...it's several seconds of para-invincibility...cast it on whatever you like and you don't need to check up on them for another 15 seconds. In pvp it's a godsend. 14 prot, 7 seconds, 20% enchants..how do you get 15 seconds?

Quote: I would like SoD a lot more if it didn't have one of the most distinctive animations in the game. all good prots have a very obvious skill animation, and SoD used to be kinda overpowered when the animation was bugged and it was displayed on the caster rather than the target. now targetswap is easier again.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mokone

I usually use SoD in Pvp to shield my self when i get targeted by many enemies.. its a good skill.. but i think Shield of Regeneration works better.. the lasting time is longer than the recharge time.. so it some how gives u a good protection

Shield of Regen is good untill you can get ZB but even then it is another good way of healing a mass spike.I mostly use Shield of defect.

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ah -- after the latest update, i have to say, both sor and sod are actually useless in PvE now. ;\

i tried SoD, even in NM i didn't get good results with it, i'm going back to guardian spam and sor is well..never been a fan of it anyways.

RiP sod, my best HM friend.

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the buffed guardian is almost the same as SoD and is non elite...
no point using SoD nowadays
when nightfall came out monks suddenly had all those nice elites to choose from, now after all the nerfs it comes down to ZB/LoD
even divert is no longer good enough as there are good enough monk and non monk hex removers...
and RC is just overkill when mending touch, draw conditions and heck even purge signet/conditions are on so many non monk bars... and dismiss is basically good enough on a monk...

There is alway ZB to fall back on instead of SoD although my Heros still have it on for NM aswell as myself.I don't use it to often over PoS just when I need to.

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Esspecialy since there is prolly going to be a shatter in there with the spike.