HELENA

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Role: Tank · Difficulty:
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Talents

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The Best Defense

Each time you Block an attack with your shield, you have a chance to reset the cooldown of Shield Throw and increase the damage of your next Shield Throw by 30%.
Passive: Your Threat Generation is increased by 10%.
Upgrade Cost: 2
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Shield Mastery

The cooldown of your Shields Up And Shield Throw abilities are reduced relative to the amount of damage you mitigate with Toughness.
Passive: Your chance to Block is increased by 10%.
Upgrade Cost: 2
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Sword & Board

Your Power Strike has a chance to make your next Shield Slam generate additional Toughness and have no combo points cost.
Passive: Your Power Strike and Shield Slam deal 15% increased damage.
Upgrade Cost: 2
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Aftershock

Enemies that take damage from your Shockwave ability deal 10% reduced damage for 9 seconds.
Passive: Your Shockwave cooldown is reduced by 20%
Upgrade Cost: 1
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Skull Cracker

Your Shield Throw deals 100% increased damage to the first target it hits.
Passive: Your Shield Throw's Critical Strike chance is increased by 10%.
Upgrade Cost: 1
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Front Line Defender

The efficiency of your Toughness mechanic is increased by 15%.
Passive: Your Movement Speed is increased by 10%.
Upgrade Cost: 1
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Second Wind

When your Toughness has reduced an amount of damage equal to 30% of your Maximum Health, you gain 20% increased Strength for 8 sec.
Passive: You take 10% less Magic damage.
Upgrade Cost: 3
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Greater Shockwave

Enemies that take damage from your Shockwave are stunned for 2 seconds.
Passive: Your Shockwave deals 40% increased damage.
Upgrade Cost: 3
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Gleaming Shield

While Shields up is active your Shield Slam deals 40% increased damage and all healing effects on you are increased by 20%.
Passive: Your Armor is increased by 20%.
Upgrade Cost: 3

Abilities

Leader's Conviction

Earned after dungeon rank: 0100 Spirit
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Your damage reduction from Toughness is shared with all allies for 12 seconds.
While Leader's Conviction is active you deal 15% increased damage.
SPIRIT ABILITY
When you activate your Spirit ability you gain Spirit of Heroism, granting +30% Haste for 20 sec.

Measured Strike

5yd range
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Deal 113% Strength damage to target enemy.
Generates 1 Combo Point.

Power Strike

5yd range5s Cooldown
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Deal 142% Strength damage to target.
Generates 2 Combo Points.

Shield Slam

5yd range3 Combo Points
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Deals 265% Strength damage to your target and 26.5% Strength damage to other enemies near your target.
Shield Slam generates 20% Toughness.
TOUGHNESS
Toughness is displayed as a bar to the right of your character. The more Toughness you have, the less damage you take.

Charge

20yd range
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Charge a target enemy, causing 120% Strength damage and Stunning them for 1.5 sec.

Taunt

40yd range8s Cooldown
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Taunt the target, forcing it to attack you for 6 sec.
Can be used during Global Cooldown

Bash

5yd range12s Cooldown
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Interrupt the target's spellcasting and prevent it from casting for 4 sec.
Must interrupt a spell, or it will have no effect.
Can be used during Global Cooldown

Shield Throw

30yd range15s Cooldown
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Throw your shield at target enemy dealing 207% Strength damage. The shield will bounce to up to 4 additional nearby enemies.
Generates 1 Combo Point per target hit.

Shields Up

2 charges
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Raise your shield, increasing your Toughness by 65% and increasing your Block chance by 25% for 8 sec.
Each time you succesfully Block an attack, you generate 4% Toughness.
TOUGHNESS
Toughness is displayed as a bar to the right of your character. The more Toughness you have, the less damage Helena takes.

Can be used during Global Cooldown

Shockwave

Earned after dungeon rank: 160s Cooldown
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Slam sword and shield together creating a shockwave, dealing 411% Strength damage and slowing their movement speed by 90%. The slow is reduced by 10% every 1 second for 9 seconds.

Sweeping Strike

Earned after dungeon rank: 33 Combo Points15s Cooldown
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Deals 133% Strength damage to your target and other nearby enemies.
Enemies hit by Sweeping Strike bleed for 162% Strength damage over 18 seconds.

Chain Pull

Earned after dungeon rank: 420yd range30s Cooldown
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Throw a chained spearhead at target enemy, dealing 100% Strength damage and pulling them to you.

Iron Wall

Earned after dungeon rank: 660s Cooldown
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Your Toughness can not be reduced for 8 seconds.
Can be used during Global Cooldown

Battle Command

Earned after dungeon rank: 840yd range30s Cooldown
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Your Movement Speed is increased by 50% for 6 seconds.
Nearby allies gain 25% Movement Speed.