Divine Aegis

For the Season of Discovery rune, see [Divine Aegis].

Divine Aegis
Divine Aegis Row 9 Discipline priest talent Passive Direct critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 30% of the amount healed. Lasts 15 sec.
Properties
Class	Priest
Talents
Talent required	[Inner Focus]
Related buff
Divine Aegis Absorbs X damage. Duration: 15 seconds

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

Retail

• Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25):
  • No longer triggers from periodic healing or [Atonement] or causes [Power Word: Shield] critical heals to be stronger. Absorption increased to 30% (was 5%).
  • Now displays on raid frames.
    
• 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).
  
• Hotfix (2011-12-06): Now triggers properly based on pre-absorb healing, even if the triggering heal is fully absorbed.
  
• 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.
  

Classic

• Patch 5.5.0 (2025-07-01): Shielding decreased to 90% of the critical Heal's value (was 100%).
  

Other versions

• Wrath Classic

  Divine Aegis
  Divine Aegis (3 ranks) Tier 9 Discipline priest talent Passive Critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 10/20/30% of the amount healed. Lasts 12 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Priest
  Related buff
  Magic Divine Aegis Absorbs X damage. Duration: 12 seconds

• Cataclysm Classic

  Divine Aegis
  Divine Aegis (3 ranks) Tier 5 Discipline priest talent Passive Critical heals and all heals from Prayer of Healing create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 10/20/30% of the amount healed. Lasts 15 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Priest
  Other information
  Affects	[Prayer of Healing]
  Related buff
  Magic Divine Aegis Absorbs X damage. Duration: 12 seconds

• MoP Classic

  Divine Aegis
  Divine Aegis Level 24 Discipline priest ability Passive Critical heals create a protective shield on the target, absorbing 90% of the amount healed (100% in Arenas and Battlegrounds), 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.
  Properties
  Class	Priest
  Other information
  Level learned	24
  Affects	[Power Word: Shield]
  Related buff
  Magic Divine Aegis Absorbs X damage. Duration: 15 seconds

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