Deterrence

Deterrence
Deterrence 2 min cooldown Instant cast When activated, causes you to deflect melee attacks, ranged attacks, and spells, and reduces all damage taken by 30%. While Deterrence is active, you cannot attack. Lasts 5 sec.
Usable by
Class	Hunter
Properties
Type	Defensive
School	Physical
Cooldown	2 min
Talents
Improvement talents	[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera], [Mirrored Blades]
Other information
Training cost	20 40
Modified by	[Glyph of Deterrence]
Related buff
Deterrence Deflecting melee attacks, ranged attacks, and spells. Damage taken reduced by 30%. Duration: 5 seconds

Deterrence is a hunter ability, learned at level 78 for 20 40. It decreases attackers' chance to hit the hunter and increases the hunter's chance to deflect spells and ranged attacks by 100%, for 5 seconds, but makes the hunter unable to attack for the duration.

Improvements

Talents

• [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera] (Beast Mastery, Tier 5): Whenever you are hit by a melee attack, the cooldown of your [Disengage] is instantly reduced by 2 sec. Whenever you are hit by a ranged attack or spell, the cooldown of your Deterrence is instantly reduced by 4 sec. These effects have a 2 sec cooldown.
• [Mirrored Blades] (Survival, Tier 4): When attacked by a spell while in Deterrence, you have a X% chance to reflect it back at the attacker.

Glyphs

20

20

• Glyph of Deterrence
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Hunter
• Requires Level 78
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Decreases the cooldown of Deterrence by 10 sec.
• Sell Price: 1

Notes

• This ability can help a hunter to survive in melee combat.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.3.2 (2012-01-31): Now also reduces damage taken by 30% while active.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Deterrence no longer requires a melee weapon to be equipped.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now provides 100% chance for melee attacks to miss instead of 100% parry chance. This means that attacks that cannot be parried, notably some rogue abilities, can now be prevented by Deterrence, and the hunter will gain the benefit of Deterrence even if disarmed.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Is now available at level 78, up from level 36, and has had its training cost updated.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer a talent, now available to all hunters.
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08):
  • Now also increases the chance for ranged attacks to miss the hunter by 100% while under its effect.
  • This ability now allows the hunter to parry spells and attacks from behind as well as in front. Now has a new visual spell effect.
    
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Design changed to grant 100% parry and 100% chance to "deflect" spells coming from the front, but prevents the Hunter from attacking. Lasts 5 sec. 60 sec. cooldown.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, and now also increases your chance to resist spells by 60%. Now has a new spell effect.
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-22): Will now increase parry chance when using Fist Weapons.
  

External links

• Wowhead