Roar of Sacrifice

For the Wrath of the Lich King Classic pet ability, see [Roar of Sacrifice].

Roar of Sacrifice
Roar of Sacrifice Row 9 hunter talent 40 yd range 1 min cooldown Instant Instructs your pet to protect a friendly target from critical strikes, making attacks against that target unable to be critical strikes, but 10% of all damage taken by that target is also taken by the pet. Lasts 12 sec.
Properties
Class	Hunter
School	Nature
Cooldown	1 minute
Talents
Talent required	[Pathfinding]
Related buff
Roar of Sacrifice Immune to critical strikes, but damage transferred to the Hunter's pet. Duration: 12 seconds

Roar of Sacrifice is a hunter class talent.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Moved to row 9 (was row 7). No longer a choice node with [Hunter's Avoidance].
  
• Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Now a talent in the core tree as a choice node against [Hunter's Avoidance] (was a level 40 PvP talent).
  
• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Now deals 10% of damage the target suffers to the pet (was 20%).
  
• Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Can no longer be cast while the Hunter's pet is dead or crowd controlled.
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 40 PvP talent (was a Cunning pet ability).
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a Cunning pet ability (was a pet talent).
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Icon changed from
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Redesigned. Cooldown is now 1 minute (was 30 seconds). Damage transferred to pet is now considered Nature damage.

  Previous effect: Your pet absorbs damage from a party or raid member, transferring 30% damage taken to the pet. Lasts 12 sec.
  

• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Can be used on the hunter only.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Hotfix (2022-11-10): Fixed an interaction with Roar of Sacrifice and pets that would cause the pet to take significant damage, usually killing the pet.
  

External links

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