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Improved Shield Block
Ability defend
  • Improved Shield Block (1 rank)
  • Protection, Tier 3
  • Allows your Shield Block ability to block an additional attack and increases the duration by 1 second.
Requirements
Class Warrior
Tree Protection
Points required 10
Talent required Shield Specialization
Properties
Affects Ability defend [Shield Block]

Improved Shield Block extends the Ability defend [Shield Block] ability to block attacks, reducing the total damage taken by the Warrior.

Functionality[]

Ability defend [Shield Block] normally lasts 5 seconds, or 1 hit (whichever comes first). Improved Shield Block extends this to 6 seconds or 2 hits (whichever comes first). There is only one rank of this talent.

Notes[]

This talent is highly important for an endgame tanking Warrior. According to combat parsing, it's been more or less proven that achieving very high block rates pushes crushing blows off of the combat table. (See [1].) And this talent effectively doubles the number of hits that will be blocked. Spamming Ability defend [Shield Block] with this talent means that almost all attacks will be misses, dodges, parries, or blocks, except with very low attack speed mobs.

Patch changes[]

  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Now has 2 ranks and reduces cooldown of Shield Block by 5/10 secs. It no longer increases the number of blocks.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.6.1 (2005-08-02): Fixed a bug where Rank 3 of the talent was not granting the extra block.
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