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Vigilance

Vigilance
40 yd range

Instant	2 min cooldown

Requires Warrior
Requires level 75

Protect a party or raid member for 12 sec, reducing damage they take by 30% and allowing you to use Taunt with no cooldown.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

12 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

2 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod % Damage Taken (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: -30%

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Cooldown (11)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
Affected Spells:

	Taunt

Guides

Protection Warrior Guide [6.0.2]

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Warlords of Draenor
Warrior Changes

Comments

Comment by ir0npanda

awesome for PvP combined with Glyph of Enraged Speed

Comment by sorsa

Essentially Hand of Sacrifice, with the difference of having no limit to how much damage can be transferred and removing Taunt cooldown for it's duration.

Very strong in the hands of a raid OT who can pop it on the MT during a hairy moment, 30% damage reduction is nothing to scoff at. Also great for challenge mode dungeons, say when your tank pulled a little more than he can handle, Vigilance can take off the edge from some serious beating. The damage redirected to you is in most cases negligible/survivable, and certainly preferable to a dead tank.

Comment by DarmaniLink

#showtooltip
/cast Vigilance

This is the macro I use. Focus the target you will be using it on at the start.

Comment by iamleejn

Some interesting tanking possibilities with Taunt open up while this buff is active. For example, "multi-taunting" becomes possible. If you bind a macro such as the one below to, oh say, your mouse scroll...
#showtooltip
/targetenemy
/cast Taunt

...you can taunt dozens of mobs simultaneously. The macro effectively "tabs" to the nearest enemy and casts taunt on it. By pressing it very quickly (or using your mouse scroll), it will target and taunt multiple enemies in rapid succession (i.e. 10+ per second). It's like a miniature version of Mocking Banner: a shorter duration and cooldown with the added benefit of being mobile.

It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "taunt spam".

Comment by Breakfirst

Why @Focus, on Ot etc.? Am I the only 1 seeing this, as a 2nd ShieldWall?

I'm usually in the Party / Raid myself :P So why not target @self ? Unlike the old Vigilance, it now reduces damage, not transfer it to you..

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