Mastery: Blood Shield

Mastery: Blood Shield
Mastery: Blood Shield Level 10 Blood death knight ability Passive Each time you heal yourself with Death Strike, you gain 16.0% of the amount healed as a Physical damage absorption shield. Also increases your attack power by 8.0%.
Properties
Class	Death knight
Other information
Level learned	10
Improvements	[Bloodshot], [Iron Heart]

Mastery: Blood Shield is the Blood death knight Mastery. Its effect is increased by the mastery secondary stat.

Trivia

• This ability was mentioned in the April Fools' Day patch 6.1.4 Evil Patch Notes: "Mastery: Blood Shield has been renamed to Mastery: Health Shield, because ew."

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 10 (was 78).
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Absorption amount increased to 16% (was 12%).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19):
  • [Blood Presence] removed from the requirements.
  • Amount gained from Death Strike reduced to 12% (was 16%).
    
• Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Physical damage absorption shield from [Death Strike] now also counts as having an active mitigation effect active.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now also passively increases Attack Power by 8% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now only works while in Blood Presence.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

External links

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