Originally Posted by Juli
Dispel doesn't skip the seal if you have 100% resistance from the talent. When I first leveled my mage I kept getting failed spellsteals on ret paladins with blessing of freedom, and thought to myself "there is NO WAY that's just stoicism and I'm that unlucky". So I checked combat logs and armory for talents and I was in fact hitting the seal with spellsteal, and they did in fact have the talent maxed out.
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AFAIK, dispel skips the seal when the seal is the only magic buff left to dispel. Getting 2/3 Sanct. Seals would make it so that people would continue to see the seal as "dispellable" (when it's the only buff), even though 2/3 Sanct. Seals + Stoicism = 96~% dispel resist.
Smarter players will recognize that you can't dispel a Ret paladin seal, but back before Blizzard changed it, I would regularly notice opponents trying to overcome 100% resist by spamming purge.