Bone Shield

Bone Shield
Bone Shield (1 rank) Death knight ability 1 Unholy Rune 1 min cooldown Instant The Death Knight is surrounded by 3 whirling bones. While at least 1 bone remains, <he/she> takes 20% less damage from all sources and deals 2% more damage with all attacks, spells and abilities. Each damaging attack that lands consumes 1 bone. Lasts 5 min.
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Nature
Cooldown	1 min
Talents
Talent tree	Blood, Tier 3
Related buff
Bone Shield Damage reduced by 20%. Duration: 5 min

[[Category:death knight abilities]][[Category:death knight abilities]]

Bone Shield is a Death knight ability that allows the death knight to protect himself with whirling bones.

AoE's, DoT ticks, auras and bleeds do not consume bones.

Bone Shield is multiplicative with [Icebound Fortitude].

Glyphs

20

• Glyph of Bone Shield
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Increases your movement speed by 15% while Bone Shield is active. This does not stack with other movement-speed increasing effects.
• Classes: Death Knight
• Requires Level 55
• Sell Price: 1

Source

This item is created with Inscription (265).

Materials needed

3x [Shimmering Ink]

1x [Heavy Parchment]

Notes

DPS specs would not find this glyph very useful because they typically do not take damaging attacks during raid encounters.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed. Existing glyphs converted to  [Glyph of Icebound Fortitude].
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): This glyph now increases movement speed by 15% while Bone Shield is active (previously added an extra charge to Bone Shield). Now requires 3x Shimmering Ink (up from 1).
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Now updates the number of charges in the Bone Shield tooltip.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Additional charges decreased back to 1.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Additional charges increased from 1 to 2.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): moved from Unholy Tree to Blood Tree.
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Reduced to 3 bones from 4 and duration increased to 5 minutes. Tooltip corrected to indicate the player has the correct number of bones.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Cooldown and duration reduced to 1 min, and number of charges reduced to 3.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): The cooldown has been increased from 1 min to 2 min.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): The mitigation has been reduced from 40% to 20%.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB