Shield Slam

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Shield Slam
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  • Shield Slam
  • Level 3 warrior ability
  • Melee range
  • 9 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Requires Shield
  • Slams the target with your shield, causing (120.27% of Attack power) Physical damage.

    Generates 15 Rage.
Properties
Class Warrior
School Physical
Cooldown 9 seconds
Other information
Level learned 3
Improvements [Brace For Impact], [Colossal Might], [Crushing Force], [Heavy Repercussions], [Impenetrable Wall], [Practiced Strikes], [Precise Might], [Punish], [Shield Bash], [Strength of the Mountain], [Thunder Blast], [Violent Outburst]

Shield Slam is a warrior ability. It is a powerful attack with a shield which causes a high amount of damage and generates Rage.

Trivia

  • Shield Slam is an epic Warrior spell in Hearthstone. The flavor text reads: ""What is a better weapon? The sharp one your enemies expect, or the blunt one they ignore?" - The Art of Warrior, Chapter 9"

Patch changes

  • The War Within Hotfix (2025-03-25): Damage reduced by 5%.
  • The War Within Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25): Damage increased by 20%.
  • The War Within Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13):
    • Damage increased by 8%.
    • Damage is no longer reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Additional ranks removed. Now generates 15 rage at baseline.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Level reduced to 3, Now available to all specializations, no longer generates Rage or resets cooldown by default. Rank 2 (Protection Level 10) re-adds Rage generation (now generates 15 Rage, down from 20), Rank 3 (Protection Level 28) re-adds cooldown reset (with addition of [Execute], Rank 4 (Protection Level 44) increases its damage by 20%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): [Devastate], [Thunder Clap], and [Revenge] now have a 30% chance to reset its cooldown.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-10-03): Now generates 20 Rage (was 10).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-23): Rage generation reduced to 10.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-16): Damage reduced by 10%.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now deals 20.7% more damage. Critical strike effect split to [Ultimatum].
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2.2 (2015-09-01): Now deals 6% more damage.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-01-12): Damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-12-15): Shield Slam modified by Glyph of Shield Slam now only dispels 1 magical effect while the Warrior is in Defensive Stance.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-11-25): Damage has been reduced by 20%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): [Ultimatum]'s effects have been merged into baseline Shield Slam.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Now receives a 50% bonus to attack damage from attack power (down from 100%) for Warriors below level 85.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-03-12): Nnow deals 25% more damage.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): The base damage has been increased by 150%, but now scale approximately 10% less efficiently with attack power.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Can now be used in any stance and cost no Rage, generating 15 Rage if used in Defensive Stance. No longer dispels magic effects.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by about 28% at level 15, with less, but still noticeable reductions at higher levels.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Contribution of attack power reduced to 60%, down from 75%, and base damage brought up so that a level 85 warrior in Heroic dungeon gear deals the same damage with no Vengeance, but Vengeance has less impact. In addition, Shield Slam no longer generates 30% bonus threat from its damage.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a level 10 Protection Specialization ability (was a level 40 ability for all warriors). The damage is now based on Attack Power.
  • Wrath of the Lich King Patch 3.3.2 (2010-02-01): The damage scaling from block value for this ability now diminishes faster and diminishes starting at a lower block value. The difference should be negligible for players in high-end tanking armor. In addition, the threat caused by Shield Slam has been increased by 30%.
  • Wrath of the Lich King Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The benefit from additional block value this ability gains is now subject to diminishing returns. Diminishing returns occur once block value exceeds 30 times the player's level and caps the maximum damage benefit from shield block value at 34.5 times the player's level.
  • Wrath of the Lich King Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Shield Slam is now available to all warriors, starting at level 40 and damage slightly increased (was a tier 7 Protection talent).
  • Burning Crusade Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Shield Slam now always tries to dispel one Magic effect on the target.
  • Burning Crusade Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Rank 3 of this ability no longer gets its cost reduced twice by the [Focused Rage] talent (Protection).
  • World of Warcraft Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22): This ability will sometimes no longer remove more than one beneficial effect from the target.
  • World of Warcraft Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Threat caused increased.
  • World of Warcraft Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Added.

See also

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External links

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