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Comment by 114933

Before it was called the possibility of two tanks warriors each using that talent in the other. Then came the reduction of threat.

For useful in my view.
5% of dodge for those who have on average 4.47% does not seem much.
Remember that need not always be used ho healer. Perhaps a offtank have enough time to generate threat even with this reduction of 10%.
Or perhaps that bookin flat

Comment by MeanMachine

Who needs threat on a tauntable boss? Imagine 2 warriors fighting for aggro - taunt, taunt, taunt, taunt, taunt, taunt .... you get the picture.

Comment by 1262

It seems like this spell will be cast by the tank on a high threat melee dps raid or group member, so if they overaggro the tank can more easily get it back

Comment by Archdmon

This is useful on raid members who are known to have aggro issues.

However it trully shines in 5 mans more.

Comment by Romith

I can see this skill being very useful for Tank transition fights like Black Temples Bloodboil.

Cast Vigilance on current tank. The 10% threat reduction will allow you to catch up and the 5% dodge will help keep them alive.

The taunt cooldown is not the important part of the skill the 10% threat reduction is.

Comment by 73562

Whoever argues this is a worthy 31 pointer and a good PvE talent for prot warriors, congratulations you have the IQ of a toaster.
The talent will be removed/changed before beta goes live.

Comment by 73142

I personally love this ability and am glad that it is utterly useless against another prot warrior bouncing his Vigiliance off of you and yours on him. Seemed really cheap and too much of a give away. We got 5% dodge from talents finally, and we all know how the designers hate to give out percentage based talents period. 10% was overdone, 5% just right and, as this is the last likely permanent source of threat reduction (excluding others' talents), the choice on who it is applied to should rightfully exist with the warrior tank.

No one else notices as much of the pulling of "de aggroz" as the tank who is in pursuit of the thing currently chasing some overzealous dps class. So it is now in our full power to fix that problem. Sure it's only one person in the 25 people of the raid, but I've never seen a situation where 2 dps classes recklessly pull threat like it's cool.

P.s. Recommend it on your ranged dps only, a melee dpser would either die in the time span that you realized the mob wasn't on you or would live an attack and you'd be able to taunt the mob in question anyway.

Comment by Greyson

For five-mans, I think this ability will have a lot of potential. Given that you may only have one healer, this virtually guarantees that they (or your over zealous DPS class) will never be long with a target on them. Even if they have a group of targets on them, you can chain taunt them off.

Comment by 78102

"Focus your protective gaze on a group or raid target..."
What does the "group" portion of this spell refer to since "This effect can only be on one target at a time"?

Comment by 152066

It will be good to put on the aggro wh0re in your party, or the healer in grp pulls

Comment by Benderbot

It's like a "Get head out of ass, free!" card for your 5 man pugs.

Comment by 172710

i just don't get it.

what is changing in WotLK that is going to make keeping threat so difficult that one would need this many taunts?

Comment by Korasoff

This ability has been changed to reduce all damage taken by the target by 3% (yay) and now transfers 10% of threat generated to the Warrior, which is pretty amazing. If you've got a smart DPSer who knows how to ride the aggro line he can actually help you do your job as a tank! Or just pop it on a Hunter who can Feign Death to wipe his own aggro...

The Taunt refresh is just icing on the cake. :)

Comment by Tamika

If you like running heroics bind this somewhere close to your fingers. Best used with improved intervene/Shockwave.

Melee class aggroes several mobs off you: Put vigilance, start taunting, if his/her HP goes low throw Shockwave
Caster Class aggroes several: Intervene (30% less dmg), vigilance, start taunting, if his/her HP goes low throw Challenging Shout

Comment by 172710

you could also use it to switch tanks.

say there's an untauntable boss you have to have use a tank rotation on. tank A starts off, while tank B rides fairly close behind. just a bit before it's time to switch, tank B uses Vigilance on Tank A and starts using everything he's got to boost his theat. viola! with tank A no longer producing 10% of his threat, and tank B gaining it instead, switches should be cake.

Comment by cromer

Why is there no emote, sound, or animation of any kind when you buff somebody with this?

It's a great buff to put on your healer or whoever, but they never know you did anything unless you tell them. Show some pizazz will ya Blizzard?

Comment by 233740

The tool tip says, "Focus your protective gaze on a group or raid target,..." So how do you focus on a group?

Comment by 57642

Does this work for pvp damage?

I asume it does, so it would be worth it to cast on party just for the 3% reduction.

Comment by 91451

The official tooltip on Blizzard's talent calculator is different.

Now gives 5% dodge and 10% less threat to the person its applied on. Kind of 'meh' now.

Comment by 15086

I prefer when the protected target being hit, generates rage instead of refresh taunt cooldown.

It helps the weakness of protection warrior which is not being hit.

Comment by BioAndroid

Absolutely loved this talent last night.

I play a shadow priest and we were doing Malygos last night, our tank was having serious trouble keeping up threat due to the fight's mechanics.

He remembered he had this buff and placed it on me, it was wonderful since s.priests still don't have a permanent threat reduction ability like mages/hunters/warlocks, it kept my threat in check and put him quite a ways in the lead.

Definitely a good talent to place on your high threat classes, especially shadow priests, who have no permanent threat loss abilities as it will really help both of you do your jobs better.

Comment by Korasoff

I hadn't heard this, can anyone confirm if the threat transfered to the warrior is also left with the target that Vigilance is on?

Drajanuma said that it isn't a simple aggro loss anymore, meaning that when two Warriors use Vigilance on each other, the threat transfers going both ways cancel each other out (assuming the two are generating roughly the same TPS) -- had it still been an aggro loss instead of a transfer, then the Warriors would have just nerfed each other's threat by 10% by casting Vigilance on each other.

However, when Vigilance is used on anyone else, it is still -10% threat for that person, and the threat removed is granted to the Warrior.

Comment by holydeadpenguins

So many warrior tanks I've run into pop this on the healer, even when the dps is pulling aggro constantly. Simply putting this on the top dpser would solve all the problems.

Comment by jblase03

If you are another tank and you don't want this on you, simply right click the buff twice and its gone.
Sadly I have found several warriors who think the druid main tank should be generating less agro.

Comment by andrwarrior

Confirmed that this does *NOT* stack with the 3% dmg reduction on Blessing of Sanctuary, Vigilance will overwrite it.

Comment by VerasGunn

As of Patch 3.0.8 this spell now has an animation when casted on a targed. It will show several shields revolving around the target that gets it, similar to the Lavanthor's Talisman trinket.

Comment by smiley001

As a druid MT I'm loving this :)

I consider myself quite predicate when it comes to classes I dont play myself, although I seem to have totally missed this little gem making its way into the prot. tree!

At first glance I thought "huh, what the? hey! thats my threat! :(", but after giving it some thought I came to the conclusion that both the 3% dmg reduction as well as the 10% threat transfer account for a win-win situation.

With the huge innate threat bonus tanks got since WotLK, threat is never really an issue as MT, if you know what you're doing. The 3% damage reduction is a true blessing considering the total damage a tank takes (you could even argue that the 3% less damage slightly reduces healer aggro due to less healing needed)

But also the 10% threat transfer can be a great help to make sure the OT manages to stay second on an aggro list, even more so when the boss at hand can wipe all aggro.

Comment by 34511

This talent now has an animation, shields poping up and turning around the target. Also note that it will make people stand up when buffed. So if you wanna have fun with mages and priest or whoever needs to regen, just keep buffing them around ;)
Remember that if they are eating crafted food, and they didn't get their buff yet, the food will be lost ;)

Anyway, back to the serious stuff, this talent would have been awesome for some fights like ebonroc in BWL.

This talent is very powerfull for those who know how and when to use it. Depending on the situation you can use it as a aggressive tanking tool, or as a defensive tanking buff.

I usually buff my top DPS with it, ensuring that they can DPS even more due to the extra aggro I get from them. But there are some fights where you really want to protect someone that will grab aggro. I can remember the panther aspect from zul gurub where it would have been awesome to have this talent ;)

For those who feel like it, you can create a macro that will send a whisper to the protected target ;)

Comment by DSitC

This spell is absolutely golden if you are tanking multiple adds as an off tank. Sartharion + Drakes is a great example for this.

Simply buff your maintank with Vigilance and you'll be able to enjoy your Taunts without cooldown. Just perfect for keeping those adds focused on you. ;-)

Comment by 110805

Does anyone know it you can apply this during a fight?

Last night our OT (tankadin) took agro with one of his spells and I was unable to taunt/mocking blow the boss off of him. So I tried to put Vigilance on him during the fight. But my taunt still had a CD. Can anyone confirm this please.
-cummins-

Comment by 151626

It's key to remember that this talent has THREE components to it. It's actually pretty versatile. By default I usually stick it on a dps, often a pesky mage for the threat. However there are times when threat isn't the problem, damage is. At these times I'm more likely to put it on a melee dps who may take a lot of damage if they don't get away enough. Would I put it on a healer? Absolutely. Take Culling of Strathlome for example. Tones of annoying small things that continuously mob your healer. Refreshing your taunt allows you to pull these things off of them at range while continuing to tank the bigger stuff.

I'm not sure why people just stick this on one person and leave it. I'm putting it on different people all the time depending on the context of the next pull.

Comment by Nzall

this is also a great aid for warriors tanking the small adds (whelps/fire elementals) on sartharion0/1/2/3. just pop it on your sarth tank. he will get hit often (especially if he is a druid tank), refreshing your taunt every single time, effectively giving unlimited taunts.

this also can help on things like add tanking on razorscale, mimiron, thorim arena and kologarn. just slap it on a tank you know will be hit often.

Comment by flopfaint

In 3.3 it says it transfer -10% of the threat they cause to you

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Vigilance

Vigilance

Talent

30 yd range
Instant

Focus your protective gaze on a party or raid member. Each time they are hit by an attack, your Taunt cooldown is refreshed and you gain Vengeance as if 20% of the damage was done to you. Lasts 30 min. This effect can only be on one target at a time.

Buff

Vigilance

Refreshes Taunt and grants Vengeance to the caster when the target takes damage.
30 minutes remaining

Spell Details

Duration

30 minutes

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Proc Trigger Spell
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

	Vigilance

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 21
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #3

Dummy
Value: -9
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 1 every 6 seconds
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Exclude Caster
The aura can only affect one target
Vehicle Immunity Category
Not In Spellbook Until Learned

Vigilance

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