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Vigilance
Vigilance 30 yd range None cooldown Instant Focus your protective gaze on a group or raid target, reducing their damage taken by 3% and transfers 10% of the threat they cause to you. In addition, each time they are hit by an attack your Taunt cooldown is refreshed. Lasts 30 min. This effect can only be on one target at a time.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Physical
Cooldown	None
Talents
Talented	Yes
Talent tree	Protection
Points required	30
Other information
Ranks	1
Related buff
Vigilance Damage taken reduced by 3% and 10% of all threat transferred to warrior. Duration: 30 minutes

• Vigilance
• 30 yd range
• Instant
• Focus your protective gaze on a group or raid target, reducing their damage taken by 3% and transfers 10% of the threat they cause to you. In addition, each time they are hit by an attack your Taunt cooldown is refreshed. Lasts 30 min. This effect can only be on one target at a time.

Vigilance is the new 30-point talent in the Protection talent tree for warriors introduced with Patch 3.0.2. It replaced Shield Slam, which became a standard warrior ability. It is a buff, applied much like a spellcaster buff such as Mark of the Wild or Power Word: Fortitude. Unlike these buffs, however, the warrior cannot cast Vigilance on him/herself.

Tips and Tactics

Vigilance is best put on either the healer or a DPS class which produces the most threat. It helps to have Omen (or a similar threat-tracking addon) or, if the party members don't have Omen, a damage meter addon so you can determine which party or raid member is producing the most threat. This will make it so that they lose a good chunk of the threat they cause, and you gain whatever they lose. The cooldown refresh on Taunt is useful as well, as it allows you to immediately take the mob off of the party/raid member should you lose aggro, even if you've already used Taunt in the past 6 seconds. Any tanking warrior should keep this on one party or raid member at all times.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): This talent and [Blessing of Sanctuary] will now both be able to be cast on the same target without sometimes overwriting each other. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): [Glyph of Vigilance] added to improved Vigilance. 
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (04-Nov-2008): Now properly transfers threat generated by heals. 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Added. Now transfers 10% of target threat to the warrior. 
  

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