Hurls your shield at an enemy target, dealing (66.31% of Attack power) Holy damage, interrupting and silencing the non-Player target for 3 sec, and then jumping to 2 additional nearby enemies.
Deals (7.077% of Attack power) additional damage to all enemies within 5 yards of each target hit.
Avenger's Shield is a Protection paladin talent. It is a ranged attack that will jump to an additional nearby target, interrupting and silencing them for a short duration.
Hotfix (2017-07-24):Increased the damage done by 4%.
Hotfix (2016-11-01):Silencing an enemy with Avenger's Shield now activates Sephuz's Secret.
Hotfix (2016-09-16):Most abilities used by Tank specializations have had their damage reduced by 10%.
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer silences player targets. Damage increased by 159%.
Hotfix (2015-07-20):Avenger's Shield damage increased by 30%.
Hotfix (2012-10-01):Avenger's Shield now deals 50% more damage.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Can no longer be blocked.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a level 10 specialization ability for Protection (was a tier 9 Protection talent). 3 sec silence effect is now baseline. Now costs 6% of base mana, down from 26% of base mana. Cooldown lowered from 30 sec to 24 sec.
Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Once again does not strike secondary targets affected by [Repentance].
Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Base damage and scaling factor increased by 30%.
Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Bounce distance has been reduced to 10 yards (from 15).
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Cast time reduced to .5 seconds, duration increased to 10 seconds.
Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
This ability will no longer jump to secondary targets which are under the effect of crowd-control spells that break on taking damage. I.e. [Polymorph], [Sap], etc.
No longer has a minimum range. It may be used on any target within 30 yards.
The damage portion of this ability will now be applied even if the victim is immune to snare.
Patch 2.0.10 (2007-03-06): The slowing affect from Avenger's Shield is now considered a snare, so snare removal and immunity affects will now work on it.