Blessed Resilience

Blessed Resilience
Blessed Resilience (3 ranks) Increases the effectiveness of your healing spells by X%, and critical hits made against you have a X% chance to prevent you from being critically hit again for 6 sec.
Requirements
Class	Priest
Talent required	None
Properties
Affects	Critical hit chance, healing effectiveness
Related buff
Magic Blessed Resilience Prevents you from being critically hit. Duration: 6 seconds

Blessed Resilience is a holy priest talent with a maximum of 3 ranks. It gives the priest a chance of 20% per skill point spent from being critically struck by attackers after being critically hit once. It also increases the effectiveness of healing spells by 1% per skill point spent.

Rank table

Rank	Chance	Effectiveness
1	20%	1%
2	40%	2%
3	60%	3%

Analysis

This talent is interesting both for pvp and pve talent specializations. For pvp this is a no-brainer. While the buff "Blessed Resilience" is active, it is impossible for you to be critically hit, which greatly increases you chances to survive if your are attacked by a class that relies on critical hits for damage. The buff overrides the 100% crit effects of a rogue's [Cold Blood] and a warrior's [Recklessness]. However, since the talent is quite deep down in the holy-tree, any pvp healing priest would have to forego [Penance] and [Pain Suppression], which would be unacceptable.

However, Blessed Resilience also increases all you healing done by 1% per skill rang. This alone makes it an interesting talent for PvE-healing. Of course, it is not as good as [Spiritual Healing], which increases all healing done by 2% per skill rank, but depending on your play style it might be better than [Empowered Healing] or [Divine Providence].

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Now properly triggered by periodic critical strikes.
  

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