Shield Block

Shield Block
Shield Block Warrior ability 10 Rage 1 min cooldown Instant Requires Shields Requires Defensive Stance Increases your chance to block by 25% for 10 sec. In addition, if your total chance to block or avoid an attack exceeds 100%, your chance to critically block is increased by the excess.
Properties
Class	Warrior
School	Physical
Cooldown	1 min
Improvements	[Shield Mastery]
Related buff
Shield Block Block chance increased by 25% and critical block chance increased by X%. Duration: 10 sec

[[Category:warrior abilities]][[Category:warrior abilities]]

"My faith be my shield."—Mojo Mender Ja'nah
"Mine be dis huge metal thing, mon."—Indalamar

Shield Block is a defensive Warrior ability that allows them to dramatically increase their chance to block. It can only be used when the warrior is in [Defensive Stance] and has a shield equipped.

It is learned at level 28 for 20.

Talent improvements

• [Shield Mastery]: Reduces the cooldown of your Shield Block by 10/20/30 sec, your Shield Wall by 60/120/180 sec and causes your Shield Block to also reduce magic damage taken by 7/14/20% for 6 sec.

Notes

This ability does not have a global cooldown.

Patch changes

• 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.
  

External links

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