Blessing of Sacrifice

Blessing of Sacrifice
	Blessing of Sacrifice; Row 6 paladin talent; 40 yd range; 7% of base mana; 2 min recharge; Instant; Blesses a party or raid member, reducing their damage taken by 20%, but you suffer 100% of damage prevented.; ; Last 12 sec, or until transferred damage would cause you to fall below 20% health.;
Properties
Class	Paladin
School	Holy
Recharge	2 minutes
Talents
Talent required	[Holy Aegis] or [Avenging Wrath]
Improvements	[Blessed Hands], [Echoing Blessings], [Recompense], [Sacred Duty], [Sacrifice of the Just], [Ultimate Sacrifice]
Related buffs
	; Blessing of Sacrifice ; Taking 20% of damage taken by target ally. ; Duration: 12 seconds ; ; ; Blessing of Sacrifice ; Damage taken reduced by 30%. ; Duration: 12 seconds ;

A true hero is willing to bear the burdens of others.^[1]

In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Blessing of Sacrifice is a paladin class talent.

Tips and tricks

Blessing of Sacrifice can be used to avoid being the victim of Crowd Control in PvP. Bless a person who is quite likely to draw enemy fire. This way, if you're afflicted by [Polymorph], [Sap], [Repentance] or any other of incapacitating effect, the damage transferred to you would break Crowd Control.
Blessing of Sacrifice can be useful in PvE when tanking mobs that fear in 5-man instances, such as the Fel Overseer in Shadow Labyrinth. If you put Blessing of Sacrifice on a party member you know will not get feared, them getting hit will break your own fear.
Blessing of Sacrifice can be very helpful when tanking Blackheart the Inciter, especially during his 'incite chaos' spell to take damage away from all party members, and also for picking him up after his 'incite chaos' spell wears off. NOTE: This will probably be less feasible with the 2.2 patch changes to Blessing of Protection.
Critical during the Maiden of Virtue fight in Karazhan, allowing paladin healers to be awake during the Maiden's Repentance. All of the paladin healers should keep Blessing of Sacrifice activated on the tank and melee DPS. Decide before the fight on who to bless whom, as it cannot be cast on the same player by two paladins.
Note that using Blessing of Sacrifice may make it difficult for the healer to heal. Normally, the healer would only need to heal one target. Under Blessing of Sacrifice, both you and the player you blessed would take damage. Be sure to communicate this to the main healer, and do try to heal yourself from your own mana pool if it is feasible.

Patch changes

Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Now splits 20% of all damage (was 30%).
Hotfix (2023-04-10): Now transfers 20% of damage taken in PvP Combat (was 30%).
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 class talent (was a level 41 ability). Rank 2 removed.
Hotfix (2021-11-04): Blessing of Sacrifice has been updated to have its cooldown reset when a raid boss encounter ends.
Hotfix (2021-03-22): Now properly displayed on Raid Frames when talented into [Ultimate Sacrifice].
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned by all paladins at level 41 (was 56 for Holy and Protection only). Rank 2 now learned at level 47 (was 85).
Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29): Blessing of Sacrifice should now robustly prevent against reducing the casting Paladin below 20% health.
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added as a level 56 ability (was 46). No longer available to Retribution. Rank 2 added at level 85: Reduces the damage you take from Blessing of Sacrifice by 25%.
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Replaced with [Hand of Sacrifice].
Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Now has a 1-minute cooldown.
Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): This Blessing can no longer be used to prevent the death of a target that is supposed to die for a spell effect (e.g.: [Sacrifice], [Demonic Sacrifice], [Divine Intervention], [Ritual of Doom]).
Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Blessing of Sacrifice no longer shares damage with dead Paladins (You can no longer kill Paladin Ghosts).
Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Blessing of Sacrifice is no longer cancelled when you enter an instance, but will not have any effect unless the caster is in the instance with you.
Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Blessing of Sacrifice only transfers the damage dealt, up to the maximum listed in the tooltip.
Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Now castable on all raid targets.
Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Moved to level 46, now transfers a flat amount of damage per hit, and has replacements.