Holy Shield

Holy Shield ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Increases chance to block by 20% for 10 sec, and deals 110 Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. Each block expends a charge. 4 charges.

150 Mana, instant, 10 sec cooldown, requires a shield. Capstone slot per a secondary source; text from your screenshot.

What Holy Shield does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

1. Rank 1 Increases chance to block by 30% for 10 sec, and deals 65 Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Damage caused by Holy Shield causes 20% additional threat. Each block expends a charge. 4 charges.

Where Holy Shield sits in the Protection tree

Holy Shield is a Protection talent for Paladin. You need 30 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Templar's Bulwark first.

• Requires: Templar's Bulwark

How often people take Holy Shield

68 of the 212 public Paladin builds saved here — 32% — put at least one point in Holy Shield. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor screenshot
• Joardee VOD 2872476433 @2:17:56 (rank 1 tooltip)