Divine Aegis

Divine Aegis
	Divine Aegis; Row 9 Discipline priest talent; Passive; Critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 5% of the amount healed. Lasts 15 sec.; ; Critical heals with Power Word: Shield absorb 10% additional damage.;
Properties
Class	Priest
Talents
Talent required	[Train of Thought]
Related buff
	; Divine Aegis ; Absorbs X damage. ; Duration: 15 seconds ;

For the Wrath of the Lich King Classic version, see [Divine Aegis]. For the Season of Discovery rune, see [Divine Aegis].

Divine Aegis is a Discipline priest talent.

Notes

In World of Warcraft

The Divine Aegis effect as seen on the Atonement card in the TCG.

Multiple Divine Aegis buffs generated by different priests can be active on a target.
If during that time another Divine Aegis from the same priest is granted to the target, a new Divine Aegis buff is created for the combined amount of both buffs, with a fresh 15-second duration. In this way a Divine Aegis can be repeatedly increased in size, and kept active indefinitely.
Divine Aegis will always absorb damage first, before effects such as [Power Word: Shield].
Similarly to Power Word: Shield, it will also prevent on-damage effects such as [Prayer of Mending] from proccing.
Divine Aegis can proc from [Atonement] critical strikes.

Patch changes

Hotfix (2023-11-14): Absorption reduced to 5% of healing done (was 10%).
Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Now a 1-rank talent (was 2).
Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Divine Aegis create a protective shield for 3%/6% of critical healing done (was 5%/10%).
Hotfix (2022-11-28): Fixed an issue causing Divine Aegis to consume damage buffs from [Twilight Equilibrium].
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Re-added and slightly redesigned as a row 9 Discipline talent (was a level 24 Discipline ability). Critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 3/6% of the amount healed. Lasts 15 sec. Critical heals with Power Word: Shield absorb 5/10% additional damage.
Old: Critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 100% of the amount healed, instead of healing for twice as much. Lasts 15 sec. Additionally, Power Word: Shield has a chance equal to your critical effect chance to absorb twice as much.
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
Hotfix (2015-09-01): Divine Aegis should no longer have its damage absorption reduced by an incorrect amount through Battle Fatigue.
Hotfix (2014-12-04): Should now correctly absorb only 50% as much in PvP.
Hotfix (2014-11-05): Should now correctly factor in the increase from [Might of the Mountain] racial passive.
Hotfix (2014-10-30): [Smite] critical hits should no longer incorrectly cause the target to be healed for a greater than intended amount through [Atonement] while also receiving a larger than intended damage shield that's granted through Divine Aegis.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): No longer grants [Power Word: Shield] a chance to critically strike.
Hotfix (2013-03-27): For Discipline Priests with Divine Aegis, Prayer of Healing criticals should now heal for the correct amount.
Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now causes critical heals to apply an absorb shield on the target for 100% of the amount healed instead of healing for twice as much. In addition, it grants Power Word: Shield a chance equal to the Priest's critical chance for the shield to absorb twice as much damage.
Hotfix (2012-11-06): The shield generated by Divine Aegis now absorbs 50% of the amount healed (was 30%).
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Divine Aegis no longer procs twice from Prayer of Healing crits. Now a level 24 Discipline specialization ability (was a tier 5 Discipline talent).
Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Divine Aegis has a new spell effect.
Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Now uses the same spell effect as Power Word: Shield.
Hotfix (2011-04-29): Divine Aegis will no longer produce a shield if the full heal that should cause it is absorbed by a death knight's Necrotic Strike.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Duration has been increased to 15 seconds, up from 12.
Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Critical effects from Prayer of Healing now award a bonus amount in addition to the default, always-proc Divine Aegis effect.
Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Is now always triggered by Prayer of Healing in addition to critical heals from all other spells.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved to tier 5 (was tier 9).
Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Ranks 1 and 2 now work with [Holy Nova].
Hotfix (2009-08-08): Prayer of Mending will now trigger Divine Aegis on the healed target and not the Priest who cast Prayer of Mending.
Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): This talent will now work properly if the Priest moves out of range of his or her target as the effect is resolving.
Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Divine Aegis effects will now stack, however the amount absorbed cannot exceed 125* level (of the target). It will also now take into account total healing including overhealing.
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.