Protection

When you are struck, you gain a 12% chance per rank (up to 36%) to raise your guard, reducing damage taken by 15% for a few seconds.

Every blow you absorb fuels your wrath — taking damage has a 50% chance to grant a stack of Vengeance (+threat and +damage, stacks up to 5) and to fix the attacker's glare on you. While Last Stand holds, every blow you weather is hurled back as massive threat.

Shield Slam restores 1 rage per rank on a successful hit, at most once per second.

Taking damage restores 4 rage plus 1 per rank and generates 5 threat per rank, at most once every 0.5 seconds.

Cleave becomes Thunder Clap — slam the ground, damaging every nearby foe and slowing them by 40% for 3 seconds. The thunder generates high threat on every foe struck.

Shield Slam prepares 12% personal damage reduction for 4 seconds, at most once every 6 seconds.

A Challenge that pulls an enemy off another living ally, or a successful interrupt, grants up to 5 nearby allies 6% damage reduction for 3 seconds within 250 units. Shares a 6-second recovery.

Shield Slam grants 2% damage reduction per rank for 3 seconds and generates 12 extra threat per rank, at most once per second.

Your Shield Slam resounds — it now smashes up to 3 additional enemies around your target, snaring every foe struck.

Resolute Challenge grants 8% damage reduction for 3 seconds when its taunt pulls an enemy off another living ally.

Learn Guardian's Bulwark — a long-cooldown defensive that greatly increases your armor for 6 seconds.

CAPSTONE — plant your feet: for 8 seconds your health cannot fall below 20%, your threat is doubled, and every blow you weather while it holds is hurled back as massive threat, dominating your attackers.

Challenge restores 3 health per rank plus 10% of your Vitality when its taunt pulls an enemy off another living ally.

Challenge shortens Last Stand cooldown by 1 second per rank when its taunt pulls an enemy off another living ally.