Avenger's Shield

For the Season of Discovery rune, see [Avenger's Shield].

Avenger's Shield
Avenger's Shield Row 1 Protection paladin talent 30 yd range 15 sec cooldown Instant Requires Shields Hurls your shield at an enemy target, dealing (75.3523% of Attack power) Holy damage, interrupting and silencing the non-Player target for 3 sec, and then jumping to 2 additional nearby enemies. Deals (8.042% of Attack power) additional damage to all enemies within 5 yards of each target hit.
Properties
Class	Paladin
School	Holy
Cooldown	15 seconds
Other information
Improvements	[Barricade of Faith], [Bulwark of Order], [Bulwark of Righteous Fury], [Crusader's Resolve], [Ferren Marcus's Fervor], [Focused Enmity], [Gift of the Golden Val'kyr], [Soaring Shield], [Strength in Adversity], [Tyr's Enforcer]
Related debuff
Magic Avenger's Shield Silenced. Duration: 3 seconds

In the TCG

Those who oppose the shield must yield.

Avenger's Shield is a Protection paladin talent. It is a ranged attack that will jump to an additional nearby target, interrupting and silencing them for a short duration.

Trivia

• Avenger's Shield is a reference to the famous shield wielded by the Marvel Comics superhero Captain America, who is a member of the Avengers.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2023-02-06): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-21): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 Protection talent (was a level 10 Protection ability).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): No longer increases the effects of your next Shield of the Righteous and now generates 1 Holy Power.
  
• Hotfix (2018-07-23): Avenger's Shield will correctly interrupt or silence only one target, regardless of effects that add damage targets.
  
• Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29): Damage increased by 8%.
  
• Hotfix (2017-07-24): Increased the damage done by 4%.
  
• Hotfix (2016-11-01): Silencing an enemy with Avenger's Shield now activates Sephuz's Secret.
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-16): Most abilities used by Tank specializations have had their damage reduced by 10%.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer silences player targets. Damage increased by 159%.
  
• Hotfix (2015-07-20): Avenger's Shield damage increased by 30%.
  
• Hotfix (2012-10-01): Avenger's Shield now deals 50% more damage.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Can no longer be blocked.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a level 10 specialization ability for Protection (was a tier 9 Protection talent). 3 sec silence effect is now baseline. Now costs 6% of base mana, down from 26% of base mana. Cooldown lowered from 30 sec to 24 sec.
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Once again does not strike secondary targets affected by [Repentance].
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Base damage and scaling factor increased by 30%.
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Bounce distance has been reduced to 10 yards (from 15).
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Cast time reduced to .5 seconds, duration increased to 10 seconds.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25):
  • Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
  • This ability will no longer jump to secondary targets which are under the effect of crowd-control spells that break on taking damage. I.e. [Polymorph], [Sap], etc.
    
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22):
  • No longer has a minimum range. It may be used on any target within 30 yards.
  • The damage portion of this ability will now be applied even if the victim is immune to snare.
    
• Patch 2.0.10 (2007-03-06): The slowing affect from Avenger's Shield is now considered a snare, so snare removal and immunity affects will now work on it.
  
• Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.
  

See also

• Avenger's Shield, TCG card

Other versions

• BC Classic

  Avenger's Shield
  Avenger's Shield (3 ranks) Tier 9 Protection paladin talent 30 yd range 500 Mana 30 sec cooldown Instant Requires Shields Hurls a holy shield at the enemy, dealing 270 to 330 Holy damage, Dazing them and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets. Lasts 6 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Paladin
  School	Holy
  Cooldown	30 seconds
  Talents
  Talent required	[Holy Shield]
  Related debuff
  Magic Avenger's Shield Dazed. Duration: 6 seconds

• Wrath Classic

  Avenger's Shield
  Avenger's Shield (5 ranks) Tier 9 Protection paladin talent 30 yd range 26% of base mana 30 sec cooldown Instant Requires Shields Hurls a holy shield at the enemy, dealing (7% of Spell power + 7% of Attack power + 440 to 536) Holy damage, Dazing them and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets. Lasts 10 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Paladin
  School	Holy
  Cooldown	30 seconds
  Talents
  Talent required	[Holy Shield]
  Other information
  Improvements	[Shield of the Templar]
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Avenger's Shield]
  Related debuff
  Magic Avenger's Shield Dazed. Duration: 10 seconds

• Cataclysm Classic

  Avenger's Shield
  Avenger's Shield Level 10 Protection paladin ability 30 yd range 6% of base mana 15 sec cooldown Instant Requires Shields Hurls a holy shield at the enemy, dealing 2674 Holy damage, silencing and interrupting spellcasting for 3 sec, and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets.
  Properties
  Class	Paladin
  School	Holy
  Cooldown	15 seconds
  Other information
  Level learned	10
  Improvements	[Sacred Duty]
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Dazing Shield],  [Glyph of Focused Shield]
  Related debuff
  Magic Avenger's Shield Silenced. Duration: 3 seconds

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