Martyrdom

Priest · Discipline · opens at 5 points spent · 2 ranks

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

Martyrdom ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Gives you a 50% chance to gain Focused Casting for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage and increases your resistance to Interrupt effects by 20%.
Rank 2 Gives you a 100% chance to gain Focused Casting for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage and increases your resistance to Interrupt effects by 20%.

What Martyrdom 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.

Rank 1 Gives you a 50% chance to gain the Focused Casting effect that lasts for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage and increases resistance to Interrupt effects by 10%.
Rank 2 Gives you a 100% chance to gain the Focused Casting effect that lasts for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage and increases resistance to Interrupt effects by 20%.

Where Martyrdom sits in the Discipline tree

Martyrdom is a Discipline talent for Priest. You need 5 points in Discipline before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Silent Resolve, Holy Precision, Improved Power Word: Shield

How often people take Martyrdom

131 of the 179 public Priest builds saved here — 73% — put at least one point in Martyrdom. 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 Martyrdom

6 of the public Priest builds written up here spend points on Martyrdom.

Priest Discipline 19/19/0 — 2/2 , 59 up
Priest Shadow Magic 11/3/34 — 2/2 , 35 up
Priest Discipline 19/18/0 — 2/2 , 4 up
Priest Discipline 31/20/0 — 2/2
Priest Discipline 32/19/0 — 2/2
Priest Discipline 33/13/5 — 1/2

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.69893