Protection
A tank who owns terrain — your Holy Shield stance commands threat with every auto-attack, and enemies standing in your Consecration bank Protection Holy Charge (weathered blows bank it slower). At full charge the sanctified ground erupts in a holy blast of damage and threat. Vitality feeds your retaliation.
Talents
When you are struck, your faith gains a 12% chance per rank (up to 36%) to harden into a Bulwark of Light, reducing damage taken by 15% for a few seconds.
When you are struck, you have a 30% chance to raise a Holy Aegis (−12% damage taken) and rip a surge of threat onto your attacker.
Every blow you weather has a 25% chance per rank (up to 75%) to shorten Consecration's cooldown by 0.5 seconds (at most once per second) — weathering blows brings the sanctified ground back faster.
Consecration becomes Consecrated Ground — a persistent sanctified zone that sears and slows enemies who stand within, banking your Protection Holy Charge with every second they burn. This is the eruption vessel for Sanctified Eruption.
When you are struck, you gain a 15% chance per rank (up to 30%) to recover a STR-scaling amount of health.
Radiant Strikes becomes Bastion's Resolve — a passive +4 armor and +2 vitality.
When your Protection Holy Charge fills (6), your Consecration's next strike detonates it — heavy holy damage and a surge of threat (grows each rank) onto the struck foe. Fill the meter by owning the ground; the eruption follows.
Your melee hits gain a 12% chance per rank (up to 24%) to smite the target for bonus holy damage and rip extra threat onto it.
CAPSTONE — anchor yourself as an unbreakable bastion for 15s: gain heavy armor and vitality, an absorb shield, a healing tick, and command 3x threat so every nearby enemy turns its wrath onto you.
Talent points are earned one per level from level 3, for 18 in total. Tiers unlock on points already spent in this specialization.
Signature abilities
| Replaces | Becomes |
|---|---|
| Sacred Weapon | Consecrated Edge |
| Guardian's Bulwark |