Bone Shield
Bone Shield 1 min cooldown Instant Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones. The shield begins with 6 charges, and each damaging attack consumes a charge. While at least 1 charge remains, you take 20% less damage from all sources. Lasts 5 min.
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
Type	Defensive
School	Shadow
Cooldown	1 min
Talents
Specialization	Blood
Level required	78
Related buff
Bone Shield Damage taken reduced by 20%. Duration: 5 minutes

• Bone Shield
• Instant
• Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones. The shield begins with 6 charges, and each damaging attack consumes a charge. While at least 1 charge remains, you take 20% less damage from all sources. Lasts 5 min.

Bone Shield is a death knight ability learned at level 78 for death knights with the blood specialization. It grants the death knight protection via whirling bones.

Notes

• AoE's, DoT ticks, auras and bleeds do not consume bones.
• Bone Shield is multiplicative with [Icebound Fortitude].

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (28 August 2012): Updated. 
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (29-Nov-2011): Bone Shield now has 6 charges, up from 4. 
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Bone Shield now has 4 charges, up from 3. 
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Moved from Unholy Tree to Blood Tree. 
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): 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 (14-Apr-2009): 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

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