Bone Shield

For the retail buff, see [Marrowrend].

Bone Shield
Bone Shield Tier 8 Unholy death knight talent 1 Unholy Rune Instant The Death Knight is surrounded by 3 whirling bones. While at least 1 bone remains, he takes 20% less damage from all sources and deals 2% more damage with all attacks, spells and abilities. Each damaging attack that lands consumes 1 bone. Lasts 5 min.
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Related buff
Bone Shield Damage reduced by 20%. Duration: 5 minutes Max stacks: 3

"Macabre, but effective." ‒ Darris Leafshade

Bone Shield is a death knight talent in the Unholy tree.

Notes and trivia

• AoE's, DoT ticks, auras and bleeds do not consume bones.
• Bone Shield is multiplicative with [Icebound Fortitude].
• This ability was mentioned in the April Fools' Day patch 6.1.4 Evil Patch Notes: "Bone Shield: now with 50% more calcium!"

Patch changes

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned into a buff caused by [Marrowrend].
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Charges can now be consumed at a rate of once per second (up from once every 2 seconds).
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer causes the death knight to deal more damage when active. No longer cost an Unholy Rune.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Now has 6 charges, up from 4.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Bone Shield now has 4 charges, up from 3.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved from tier 8 Unholy to tier 3 Blood.
  
• 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%.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

See also

• Bone Shield (Betrayal of the Guardian), TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

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