Deflection

Hunter · Survival · available from the first tier · 5 ranks

Deflection works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Deflection ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases your Parry chance by 2%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases your Parry chance by 4%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases your Parry chance by 6%.
  4. Rank 4 Increases your Parry chance by 8%.
  5. Rank 5 Increases your Parry chance by 10%.

What Deflection does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

  1. Rank 1 Increases your Parry chance by 1%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases your Parry chance by 2%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases your Parry chance by 3%.
  4. Rank 4 Increases your Parry chance by 4%.
  5. Rank 5 Increases your Parry chance by 5%.

Where Deflection sits in the Survival tree

Deflection is a Survival talent for Hunter. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

How often people take Deflection

25 of the 130 public Hunter builds saved here — 19% — put at least one point in Deflection. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Deflection

One of the public Hunter builds written up here spends points on Deflection.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893