Blessing of Protection

Blessing of Protection
Blessing of Protection Row 6 paladin talent 40 yd range 15% of base mana 5 min cooldown Instant Blesses a party or raid member, granting immunity to Physical damage and harmful effects for 10 sec. Cannot be used on a target with Forbearance. Causes Forbearance for 30 sec. Shares a cooldown with Blessing of Spellwarding.
Properties
Class	Paladin
School	Holy
Cooldown	5 minutes
Talents
Talent required	[Avenging Wrath] or [Justification]
Other information
Improvements	[Blessed Hands], [Echoing Blessings], [Improved Blessing of Protection], [Sacred Duty], [Uther's Counsel]
Related buff
Magic Blessing of Protection Immune to physical attacks. Duration: 10 seconds
Related debuff
Magic Forbearance Cannot be affected by Divine Shield, Hand of Protection or Lay on Hands. Duration: 30 seconds

In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Blessing of Protection is a paladin class talent. Using it causes [Forbearance] on the target.

Notes

• Commonly referred to as "BoP" in raids. As in "Bop that Warlock, he's Hellfiring!"
• Using [Divine Shield] or Blessing of Protection will afflict the protected character with the [Forbearance] debuff, which lasts one minute and prevents any of those four abilities from being used again while it is active.
• This does NOT protect the target from spell damage. This should not be used as a last minute protection if the target is being hit by spells (such as anyone running from a Mage in PvP).
• Against rogues, if they have any stacks of deadly poison on the target you BoP, a rogue can still use Envenom to damage the target because it is a Nature damage attack, not physical (its a rare thing but it can interrupt something like a bandage or be potentially lethal if you aren't careful.)

Improvements

• [Blessed Hands] (Holy honor talent)
• [Sacred Duty] (Protection honor talent)

Tips and tricks

• People protected by Blessing of Protection can still cast spells.
• While this skill is effective in PvP against warriors, rogues, and hunters, they all have abilities that can hit through the shield. Those abilities include [Kick], [Thunder Clap], [Pummel], etc.
• Players protected by Blessing of Protection lose aggro while under its duration. Tanking paladins can use this as a last resort method of aggro management, or because of a player's inability to perform melee actions through the shield, an effective way to reign in a melee DPS class who is unable to control their own aggro. The threat reduction only lasts for the duration of the blessing however, so a tanking paladin needs to make sure they are able to generate enough threat to keep aggro when the blessing expires.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 class talent (was a level 32 ability).
  
• Hotfix (2020-10-22): Now learned at level 32 (was level 41).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 41 (was 48).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added at level 48 (was level 10). No longer prevents the target from attacking or using physical abilities.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Removed, replaced by [Hand of Protection].
  
• Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): This spell can no longer be cast on others when stunned. It can only be cast on self (to break the stun) under those circumstances.
  
• Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03): [Divine Protection], [Divine Shield], Blessing of Protection - Targets of these spells will now receive the " [Forbearance]" effect, preventing another of these three spells from being applied to that target for one minute.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Fixed a bug where a Hunter's magic shots were missing too frequently when used on a target with Blessing of Protection active.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Now castable on all raid targets.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Moved to level 10.
  

See also

• Blessing of Protection, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB