stupid-high shield slam specFollow

In my experience, things generally do exactly what they say. It would say "increases your shield block value by 30%" if that were the case.

anyone able to varify though?

Does it increase Shield Slam damage? How? Can you give me some numbers that pooves that this is a fact?

Shield Slam gains extra damage from Block Value. The amount of damage your shield absorbs with one block is modified by your Block Value. While the tooltip says "Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your shield by 10/20/30%." it really means "Increases your Block Value by 10/20/30%.".

While this, from one point of view, is exactly the same thing (due to block value being the number for the amount of damage blocked), it's slightly different when you factor in Shield Slam. Mainly because that too is affected by Block value, only damage-wise instead of absorption-wise.

The answer is simply: Yes, Shield Mastery does increase the damage of Shield Slam. Anyone arguing for the opposite has no idea about anything, least of all game mechanics.

Shield mastery DOES increase Shield Block Value. SBV directly increases Shield Slam damage values.

You can test this. Please do. I have.

Next time you are going to respec to prot. Go up the tree, get shield slam. Do not get Shield Mastery or One handed weapon mastery.

Then duel a friendly player. Use shield slam alot. Check your DPS reports for damage values.

Put a point into shield mastery, repeat. You'll do more damage per hit.

Same goes for one handed weapon mastery, it does apply to shield slam damage.

This is something I did not know. But now I do :D

Yep, they did Devious. If you open your defense panel and hover over block, it will say 'A successful block stops X damage.' There's your block value for you, in an easy to find spot. I was happy with this change, made it so I didn't have to add all the stats up anymore.