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Comment by Mikezila

This is your "OH SHI---" cooldown for when you're tanking and you eat a string of unlucky critical/crushing blows and know that your heals aren't coming fast enough, or that you're about to eat something too big to swallow.

In general, this is used when you're taking more damage than your healers anticipated, and you need to give them a window to catch up. Combined with Last Stand, this can be a lifesaver.

Comment by 49541

Its not a dumb spec at all. I have all my OTs spec that way. They DPS good and can pick up a boss after a MT goes down on a bad enrage gives healers over 20 seconds of easy healing and gives our dps time to nuke the boss down.

Comment by Thottbot

Unlike Recklessness and Retaliation where you have to be close, this is great against Mages, Hunters, Druids and Priests, who sometimes you can't reach. Shield Wall allows you to drop most of the damage you take from physical hits and spells.

This is the best defense against being kited (+ Intercept.)

Comment by Thottbot

It's what you use when your healer(s) is (are) nearly out of mana and the mob is at like 20% (preferably some key encounter in the instance, ie the end boss).

It has a 30 minute cooldown which is also linked with Retaliation and Recklessness. HF owning casters twice each hour. ^^

Comment by Thottbot

a piercing howl and this makes it easy to run away from lvl ? mobs

Comment by Thottbot

In BC, u can upgrade this talent to become completely imba. If u put talent points in both improved shield wall (protection tree) and in improved disciplines (arms tree) u can make this ability last for 21 secs and have a 20 min CD...

That's pretty nice, considering u can both get Concussion Blow and Mortal Strike as well...

Comment by Thottbot

I'm a level 60 Warrior and in WSG I'll always get the flag when the CD on the 3 wondefull skills are ready.

When I got the flag I'll change to 1H + Shield and defensive stance (just less damage gained) ^_^
Most of the runs to your own base will be filled with 5-10 Enemies chasing you, so I'll just use a 16 sec Shield Wall (talents) and won't die. And in before you know it... I"m in our own base and getting overhealed, muhahaha! Point Our Team ! =D

60 Warrior - Daggerspine

Comment by Allakhazam

best to use it when in raid and you drop below 10% and healing is incoming (read: nef fase 1 ->2)

Comment by Allakhazam

Not sure of the exact viability of this, but I can give some examples of what I have seen it do and possible uses of it.

First and most importantly, the ten second duration makes it a tricky timing dance. Should I use it at the beginning of a hard fight and wait for the mob to get situated in a room, let any adds be pulled off of me while I keep the named, or wait till the heal chains get situated and I don't die in the first few seconds and cause a wipe... Or maybe I should use it at the end when a monster has a possible amount of adds that spring up in the end or perhaps it goes beserk or some other nasty trick.

It is not certain when it should be used, but the dramatic power of it is very obvious. When I was lvl 49, using Defensive and Shield of course so I can use the ability, and having about 4600ac or so, I attacked that wandering dragon in Blasted Lands, something the Devourer I believe. I attempted this twice, once the first fight with nothing but a druid buff on and not using Shield Wall, but using my shield, not dual or 2h, I took straight hits, non critical, for 900s, 700s, 600s, an AE fire breath of 550s or so, and one crit for 1200 and then dead.

Trying again, with same buff on, I took hits of 200s, one crit of 300s, 100s, and never got hit by a fire blast before it wore off, but I think it would have been reduced just the same. As soon as the wall fell, damage went back to 800 and up and I died fast. So even fighting a skull, Boss designated dragon, shield wall had insane impact, all be that a short duration of such an impact.

So, there is some info about this spell, what I have observed thus far, and would like to see any other opionions and possible uses of this mentioned, some strats, whatever.

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Shield Wall

Shield Wall

Instant	30 min cooldown

Reduces the damage taken from melee attacks, ranged attacks and spells by 75% for 10 sec.

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Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

30 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Forms

Defensive Stance

Effect

Apply Aura: Mod % Damage Taken (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: -75%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
No AutoCast (AI)

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