Reflective Shield

Reflective Shield is a 4th Tier Discipline priest talent. It causes 22/45% of the damage absorbed by Power Word: Shield on behalf of the casting priest to be reflected back at the attacker.

Tips

 * The usefulness of this talent depends largely on how much damage the priest herself is expecting to take, since only damage absorbed on the priest's behalf will be reflected. It also depends on the priest's emphasis on damage dealing.
 * This talent potentially produces a significant increase in the priest's damage output, but priests may prefer to spend points in other talents to instead improve healing, mana efficiency or survivability.
 * In PvE:
 * In groups this is of limited use, since the priest will usually be taking a relatively small amount of damage, and will often heal himself using Binding Heal or AoE heals rather than with Power Word: Shield.
 * When soloing this talent can be very useful, as all attacks are directed at the priest.
 * In PvP:
 * This is a very useful talent for PvP, especially in organised PvP such as arena or rated battlegrounds, where skilled players will often be focusing their attacks upon the priest. In such situations Reflective Shield can contribute a significant amount of damage.
 * By reflecting DoT damage, Reflective Shield can be an effective way of preventing opponents from leaving combat in order to drink or resurrect, as the regular reflected damage will keep them in combat, regardless of distance or line of sight.
 * This is arguably most effective against ranged opponents, whose lighter armor is compensated for by their increased ability to evade most attacks.
 * Priests with Reflective Shield will want to make the most of it by having Power Word: Shield up as much of the time as possible. Improved Power Word: Shield, Strength of Soul (priest ability) and the Discipline mastery Mastery: Shield Discipline all help with this.
 * Probably the best (and perhaps only) defence against Reflective Shield is to dispel the priest's Power Word: Shield.