Bastion
Warrior · Protection · opens at 20 points spent · 5 ranks
Bastion works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Bastion ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases all damage you deal by 2% while a shield is equipped.
- Rank 2 Increases all damage you deal by 4% while a shield is equipped.
- Rank 3 Increases all damage you deal by 6% while a shield is equipped.
- Rank 4 Increases all damage you deal by 8% while a shield is equipped.
- Rank 5 Increases all damage you deal by 10% while a shield is equipped.
What Bastion 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 Increases the damage you deal with One-Handed Melee weapons by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage you deal with One-Handed Melee weapons by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases the damage you deal with One-Handed Melee weapons by 6%.
- Rank 4 Increases the damage you deal with One-Handed Melee weapons by 8%.
- Rank 5 Increases the damage you deal with One-Handed Melee weapons by 10%.
Where Bastion sits in the Protection tree
Bastion is a Protection talent for Warrior. You need 20 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Improved Shield Wall, Concussion Blow, Improved Shield Bash
How often people take Bastion
43 of the 151 public Warrior builds saved here — 28% — put at least one point in Bastion. 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 Bastion
3 of the public Warrior builds written up here spend points on Bastion.
- Warrior Protection 13/0/31 — 5/5 , 3 up
- Warrior Protection 13/0/33 — 5/5
- Warrior Protection 18/0/28 — 2/5
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.69893