Mastery: Critical Block

For the former warrior talent, see [Critical Block].

Mastery: Critical Block
Mastery: Critical Block Level 10 Protection warrior ability Passive Increases your chance to block by 4.0% and your chance to critically block (blocking twice the amount) by 12.0%. Also increases your attack power by 8.0%.
Properties
Class	Warrior
Other information
Level learned	10

Mastery: Critical Block is the Mastery of protection warriors, improved by the mastery secondary stat. It increases the warrior's chance to block and critically block incoming attacks.

Critical block chance is a subset of 'normal' block chance. If a warrior has 50% block chance and 30% critical block chance it means that 15% of all attacks will be critically blocked and 35% will be 'normally' blocked.

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 10 (was 78).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now learned at level 78 (was 80).
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • Now increases critical block chance by 12% (down from 17.6%).
  • Now also passively increases Attack Power by 8% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
    
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Now grants an equal amount of block chance and critical block chance (1.5% each per point of Mastery).
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

External links

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