The subject of this article was removed from World of Warcraft in patch 4.0.1. This includes items and quests that can no longer be obtained. The in-game information in this article is kept purely for historical purposes and should probably not be under any other categories.

Damage Shield
Whenever you take damage from or block a melee attack you cause damage equal to 20% of your block value.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Location	Protection, Tier 10
Affects	Blocking with a shield
Ranks	2
Requirements
Points required	45
Spec specific	Yes
Talent required	None

• Whenever you take damage from or block a melee attack you cause damage equal to 20% of your block value.

Damage Shield is a protection warrior talent which causes normal and blocked melee hits taken to reflect damage equal to 10/20% of the warrior's block value.

Rank table

Notes

• Staple for AoE tanking/farming. Reflected damage can crit and is affected by armor and abilities/buffs which increase damage by percentage.
• Synergizes with [Glyph of Blocking] that increases block value.

Patch changes

• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Removed. 
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): This ability will no longer trigger any chance-on-hit effects from the warrior or the opponent it damages. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Fixed a bug which caused this ability to benefit from Recklessness. 
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Rank 1 of this ability now works properly. 
  

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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