QUOTE (Littlestorm @ Dec 8 2009, 03:02 PM)

The big change to DS in 3.3 was not the % damage reduction, it was the removal of the Divine Shield + redirect damage to Pally combo.
With Divine Guardian in 3.3, the duration is reduced (I believe) to 6 seconds and there is no redirection of damage to the Paladin, only a 20% decrease in damage taken by the raid. Looking at wowhead, Vortex does 30k damage over 5 seconds, ~6k a tick. (So we wouldn't need 4 Pallys, 2 should be able to DS the whole duration of two Vortex). With DG 3.3 up, that's 24k damage to players of the opposite color as opposed to zero damage with DG 3.2. With Aura Mastery it will still probably be doable. Heroic might be a different story though.
Yes it would be favorable for me and Khaster (rets) to do it now too and not loose DPS at all .