Improved Shield Bash

Improved Shield Bash
Improved Shield Bash (2 ranks) Tier 5 Protection warrior talent Passive Increases damage of your Shield Slam ability by 5/10% and gives your Shield Bash ability a 50/100% chance to silence the target for 3 sec.
Properties
Class	Warrior
Other information
Affects	[Shield Bash]
Related debuff
Magic Shield Bash - Silenced Silenced. Duration: 3 seconds

Improved Shield Bash is very useful for both PvP and PvE encounters where spellcasters are involved. Additionally, it is an effective pull-skill and a threat generator.

Functionality

Improved Shield Bash adds a chance to silence the target after a successful Shield Bash.

Notes

Improved [Shield Bash]'s usefullness at first glance is to prevent spellcasters from casting for a short while, thus reducing damage or preventing harmful effects to you and your party. The same applies for PvP encounters, for example preventing a mage from Blinking after a [Frost Nova]. At the same time, it is the best way for a protection warrior to pull a spellcaster back to the main party, since by silencing a spellcaster you force him to switch to melee mode.

Additionally, Improved Shield Bash is one of the most effective threat generators for a protection warrior. The threat caused superceeds that of [Sunder Armor], for example, while the rage cost is even lower than [Improved Sunder Armor]. The only thing that prevents the spamming of Shield Bash on spellcasters and non-spellcasters alike, is its 12 second cooldown.

Shield Bash is a nice combo with [Bloodrage], since the 10 rage generated is just enough to make a great opener in threat generation.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Replaced with [Gag Order].
  

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