Raise your shield, blocking every melee attack against you for 6 sec.
Raise your shield, blocking every melee attack against you for 6 sec. These blocks can be critical blocks. Increases Shield Slam damage by 30% while active. Max 2 Charges
"My faith be my shield." —Mojo Mender Ja'nah "Mine be dis huge metal thing, mon."—Indalamar[1]
Shield Block is a level 6 warrior defensive ability that blocks all attacks for 6 seconds. While in Protection spec, it also increases [Shield Slam]'s damage by 30% and has 2 charges. It can only be used when the warrior has a shield equipped.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now regenerates a new charge every 12 seconds (up from every 9 seconds).
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Can now be used in any stance and cost 60 Rage, up from 10. Duration reduced from 10 to 6 sec, but blocks all attacks. Cooldown reduced from 1 min to 1.5 sec.
Hotfix (2011-01-18):A bug has been fixed where the Shield Block ability granted 25% more critical block chance than was intended for Protection warriors with very high total chance to avoid attacks.
Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): now only increases block chance by 25%, but excess block that pushes avoidance plus block to over 100% is now converted to critical block chance.