- For the Pet Battle ability, see
[Lightning Shield].
| Lightning Shield |
- Lightning Shield
- Level 8 shaman ability
- Instant cast
- The caster is surrounded by a reactive lightning barrier. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, the attacker will be struck for X Nature damage. This effect may only occur once every few seconds. Lasts 1 hour.
Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
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| Usable by |
| Class |
Shaman |
| Properties |
| Type |
Offensive |
| School |
Nature |
| Cooldown |
None/Global Cooldown |
| Other information |
| Level learned |
8 |
| Improvements |
 [Fulmination],  [Rolling Thunder],  [Static Shock] |
| Related buff |
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Lightning Shield is a nature-based buff, available at level 8. When getting attacked, it does direct damage to the attacker. It can only proc every few seconds.
Notes
- Being an elemental shield, Lightning Shield cannot be used at the same time as
[Earth Shield] or 
[Water Shield]. It is however possible to use Water Shield or Lightning Shield on yourself while Earth Shield is up on another target.
- It uses the lightning animation instead of the normal nature animation.
- Each charge receives 38.8% of spell damage.
- The damage caused is considered direct damage, though it cannot crit.
Improvements
An orc shaman Lightning Shield in art.
Tips and tactics
- Lightning Shield is a good alternative to Water Shield for solo play or PvP, especially if mana is not a problem (either because you have enough mana anyway or because you expect fights to be quick).
Patches and hotfixes
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer has charges and lasts for 1 hour, up from 10 minutes.
- Hotfix (2010-12-07): "Lightning Shield again properly deals damage while the shaman is casting other spells."
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Mana cost removed.
Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): Tooltip updated to reflect actual functionality.
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