04-25-2005, 06:43 PM
A couple other points. Firstly, upon casting DI the paladin immediately dies. Part of the spell says "sacrifice yourself to...." This can often make DI even harder to use if the paladin is main-tanking, as the first sign of a wipe tends to be the main tank going down.
The other thing I wanted to note was that DI drops the target from the hate list immediately. For the rest of the 30 seconds, all DI does is prevent mobs from reacquiring him; most of the useful part occurs right at the start. An interesting tactic with DI in raid situations is to have a paladin DI a priest or another paladin, and have the DI'ed target immediately right-click the DI icon to cancel it and get free. Now you have a resurrector out of combat, and I don't think I need to explain how useful that can be. Remembering that you can right-click cancel out of it is useful also in a 5-man situation when you're DIed and a patrol is coming.
The other thing I wanted to note was that DI drops the target from the hate list immediately. For the rest of the 30 seconds, all DI does is prevent mobs from reacquiring him; most of the useful part occurs right at the start. An interesting tactic with DI in raid situations is to have a paladin DI a priest or another paladin, and have the DI'ed target immediately right-click the DI icon to cancel it and get free. Now you have a resurrector out of combat, and I don't think I need to explain how useful that can be. Remembering that you can right-click cancel out of it is useful also in a 5-man situation when you're DIed and a patrol is coming.