Challenging Shout

Challenging Shout is a Barbarian skill from the Defensive skill tree. Its features are:

Challenging Shout Cooldown: 25 seconds Taunt Nearby enemies and gain 40% Damage Reduction for 6.0 seconds. Tags: Defensive, Shout Tough as Nails Increase your Thorns by 3%[+]. When enemies hit you, they take an additional 15% of your Thorns as Bleeding damage over 5 seconds. Prerequisite: Can also reach Tough as Nails via Challenging Shout and Iron Skin.

Upgrades

Enhanced Challenging Shout While Challenging Shout is active, gain 20%[x] bonus Maximum Life.	Tactical Challenging Shout While Challenging Shout is active you gain 3 Fury each time you take damage.
	Strategic Challenging Shout While Challenging Shout is active, gain Thorns equal to 30% of your Maximum Life.

Other Skills that work with Challenging Shout

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Challenging Shout can exploit
• Exploit a condition Challenging Shout creates

Brawling Tree
Booming Voice Your Shout Skill effect durations are increased by 8%[x]. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Shout Skill
Raid Leader Your Shouts also Heal allies for 1% of their Maximum Life per second. Tags: Shout Prerequisite: Can also reach Raid Leader via War Cry. Skill
Guttural Yell Your Shout Skills cause enemies to deal 4% less damage for 5 seconds. Tags: Shout Prerequisite: Can also reach Raid Leader via War Cry. Skill

Items that work with Challenging Shout

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Challenging Shout
• Create a condition Challenging Shout can exploit
• Exploit a condition Challenging Shout creates

Legendary Aspects

There are no Legendary Aspects that affect Challenging Shout.

Unique Items

There are no Unique Items that affect Challenging Shout.

Changes to Challenging Shout

Patch 1.0.2d, June 4, 2023

• Damage Reduction gained from skill ranks reduced from 4% to 2%.