Improved Power Word: Shield

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Improved Power Word: Shield
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Properties
Class Priest
Other information
Affects [Power Word: Shield]

Improved Power Word: Shield is a Discipline priest talent which increases the damage absorbed by [Power Word: Shield].

Tips

This talent's usefulness depends on how often the priest makes use of [Power Word: Shield]:

  • For Discipline priests: This is an excellent talent for Discipline priests, improving one of their most important abilities.
  • For Holy priests: Less useful, although it may still be worthwhile depending on how often they use Power Word: Shield.
  • For Shadow priests: A very helpful talent to increase survivability, especially in PvP. Since many Shadow priests will choose to talent [Evangelism] and [Archangel], the choice is often between this talent and [Mental Agility], which improves mana efficiency.

By increasing the size of Power Word: Shield, this talent also increases the amount healed by  [Glyph of Power Word: Shield].

When combined with the Discipline mastery [Mastery: Shield Discipline], 2 points in this talent actually improves Power Word: Shield by at least 24%.

Patch changes

  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a first tier talent in the Discipline tree with only 2 ranks (was a tier 3 talent with 3 ranks).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Exchanged locations with [Meditation] (was tier 2).

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