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Bone Shield
  • Bone Shield
  • Instant
  • 1 Unholy Rune
  • 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.
Usable by
ClassDeath knight
Properties
TypeDefensive
SchoolNature
Cooldown1 min
Talents
TalentedYes
Talent treeUnholy, Tier 8
Other information
Ranks1
Related buff
  • Bone Shield
  • Damage reduced by 20%.
  • Duration: 5 min

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

2020

Patch changes

  • 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%.

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