Bone Shield

Bone Shield
Bone Shield 1 min cooldown 1 Unholy Rune Instant None Surrounds you with a barrier of whirling bones. The shield begins with 4 charges, and each damaging attack consumes a charge. While at least 1 charge remains, you take 20% less damage from all sources and deal 2% more damage with all attacks, spells and abilities. Lasts 5 min.
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
Type	Defensive
School	Nature
Cooldown	1 min
Talents
Talented	Yes
Talent tree	Blood Tree, Tier 3
Improvement talents	Glyph of Bone Shield
Other information
Ranks	1
Requirements	None
Related buff
Bone Shield Damage taken reduced by 20%. Damage dealt increased by 2%. 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 Edit

2020

Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Bone Shield now has 4 charges, up from 3.
/ 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%.

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