Sacred Shield

Sacred Shield, a Paladin Holy ability, is unchanged in WoW Forever: the client ships the same tooltip as Classic Era. Its tooltip reads: "Each time the target takes damage they gain a Sacred Shield, absorbing level-scaled damage and increasing the Paladin's chance to critically hit with Flash of Light by 50% for up to 6 sec. In addition, causes your Flash of Light to heal targets with Sacred Shield for an additional 100% over 12 sec. They cannot gain this effect more than once every 6 sec. Lasts 1 min. This spell cannot be on more than one target at any one time." 12% of base mana, 40 yd range, instant cast.

Sacred Shield tooltip, the same in Classic Era and WoW Forever

The same tooltip in both clients: every line the Forever client ships matches Classic Era.

Forever Oct 22, 2026 (same as Classic Era Sep 29, 2026)

Sacred Shield

Holy school

12% of base mana · 40 yd range · Instant

Each time the target takes damage they gain a Sacred Shield, absorbing level-scaled damage and increasing the Paladin's chance to critically hit with Flash of Light by 50% for up to 6 sec. In addition, causes your Flash of Light to heal targets with Sacred Shield for an additional 100% over 12 sec. They cannot gain this effect more than once every 6 sec. Lasts 1 min. This spell cannot be on more than one target at any one time.

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Each time the target takes damage they gain a Sacred Shield, absorbing level-scaled damage and increasing the Paladin's chance to critically hit with Flash of Light by 50%. The target cannot gain this effect more than once every 6 sec.

Related to Sacred Shield

Other client rows named Sacred Shield

The game client ships one more row named Sacred Shield (a creature's copy or an internal duplicate, not something a player casts). This page is the player ability; the other keeps its own page.

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