Mastery: Divine Bulwark

Mastery: Divine Bulwark
Mastery: Divine Bulwark Level 10 Protection paladin ability Passive Increases your chance to block melee attacks by 8.0%. While inside your Consecration, your damage taken is reduced by 5.0% and you have a chance equal to your block chance to reduce your damage taken from harmful periodic effects. Also increases your attack power by 8.0%.
Properties
Class	Paladin
Other information
Level learned	10

Mastery: Divine Bulwark is the Protection paladin Mastery, improved by the mastery secondary stat. It increases the chance to block incoming attacks, and reduces damage taken while standing inside [Consecration]. It also increases attack power.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): The damage reduction effect while standing in Consecrate is reduced by 20%.
  
• Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Divine Bulwark to trigger incorrectly.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Rank 2 effects are now baseline.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 10 (was 78). Damage reduction while inside Consecration moved to Rank 2 at level 19.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer affects Bastion of Glory. Now learned at level 78 (was 80).
  
• Hotfix (2015-07-20): Mastery: Divine Bulwark now adds 8% to Bastion of Glory (up from 6%).
  
• Hotfix (2014-11-25): Now increases Shield of the Righteous' damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • Now increases damage reduction from [Shield of the Righteous] by 6% (scaling with Mastery, down from starting at 8%), and causes Bastion of Glory to increase healing received from [Word of Glory] by 6% (scaling with Mastery, down from starting at 8%).
  • Now also passively increases Attack Power by 8% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
    
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Renamed from Divine Bulwark.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Now grants 2.25% more block chance per point of Mastery, up from 2%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

Other versions

• Cataclysm Classic

  Divine Bulwark
  Divine Bulwark Level 80 Protection paladin ability Passive Increases your chance to block melee attacks by 18%. Each point of Mastery increases block chance by an additional 2.25%.
  Properties
  Class	Paladin
  Other information
  Level learned	80

• MoP Classic

  Mastery: Divine Bulwark
  Mastery: Divine Bulwark Level 80 Protection paladin ability Passive Increases the damage reduction of your Shield of the Righteous by 8%, adds 8% to your Bastion of Glory, and increases your chance to block melee attacks by 8%.
  Properties
  Class	Paladin
  Other information
  Level learned	80

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