Damage Shield

Damage Shield
Talent Damage Shield {{{cast_time}}} sec cast Requires Warrior Whenever you take damage from or block a melee attack you cause damage equal to 20% of your block value.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	N/A
School	N/A
Casting time	Unknown sec cast
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Requirements
Location	N/A
Level required	45

• Talent
• Damage Shield
• {{{cast_time}}} sec cast
• Requires Warrior
• Whenever you take damage from or block a melee attack you cause damage equal to 20% of your block value.

Damage Shield is a protection warrior talent which causes normal and blocked melee hits taken to reflect damage equal to 10/20% of the warrior's block value.

Rank table

Rank	Percent of block value reflected
1	10%
2	20%

Notes

• Staple for AoE tanking/farming. Reflected damage can crit and is affected by abilities/buffs which increase damage by percentage.
• Synergizes with [Glyph of Blocking] that increases block value.

Patch changes

• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Removed.
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): This ability will no longer trigger any chance-on-hit effects from the warrior or the opponent it damages.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Fixed a bug which caused this ability to benefit from Recklessness.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Rank 1 of this ability now works properly.
  

External links

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