Deflect

Shield · active glyph

Deflect grants a chance to block an attack with a shield. Immediately after triggering the block the bonus will be large for a few seconds. Shield Specialization increases the duration of the large bonus.

Shield numbers are estimates

These formulas come from the community wiki and predate the game's overhaul. We check each school against the live game on a GM account; until Shield is checked, read the numbers as ballpark. A combat balance pass across 200+ skills is also still in progress, so every number is provisional. (ledger #59)

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Deflect levelGrandmaster is 100; skills keep levelling to 200 (ledger #17)Shield Specialization levelGives 100% school mastery (1.25% per level) while slotted (ledger #34)Shield is in one of my two specialization slotsSpecialization only pays out while slotted · ledger #1, #3

This skill's effects don't change with level in our data.

Focus cost	5
Cooldown	30 s
Combat Block Modifier	30.3for 4 seconds
Combat Block Modifier	10.1for 44.4 seconds
Shield Block Power	0.3%for 44.4 seconds

Specialization level has no number in this skill's formula.

Last verified against: sotawiki snapshot of 2026-10-26 (article last seen in release 109). Not yet checked in the live game. Wiki article. Rules used on this page: ledger #1, #3, #17, #34, #37, #59.