Lacerate

This article is about the Druid ability. For the former hunter talent, see Lacerate (Hunter).

Lacerate
Lacerate Druid ability Melee range 15 Rage Instant Requires Bear Form Lacerates the enemy target, dealing (X + (AP * 0.0766)) damage and making them bleed for (5 * (Y + (AP * 0.00512))) damage over 15 sec, and causing a high amount of threat. Damage increased by attack power. This effect stacks up to 3 times on the same target.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Related debuff
Lacerate Suffering X damage every 3 sec. Duration: 15 seconds

[[Category:druid abilities]][[Category:druid abilities]]

Lacerate is a stacking bleed effect usable only in [Bear Form].

Notes

This ability is used similar to a warrior's [Sunder Armor], though it does not generate as much threat. However, Lacerate can crit, which increases the threat caused.

The damage over time is divided into 5 3-second ticks (one-fifth of the damage each tick). Reapplying Lacerate renews the DoT debuff to its full 15-second duration.

Tips and tactics

• Very good skill for single target tanking. The tanking rotation generating the most threat is: [Mangle] as often as possible; while Mangle is on cooldown, use Lacerate; if you still have excess rage, use [Maul] in parallel.
• When tanking multiple mobs at once, [Swipe] is usually a better choice than Lacerate.

Past changes

• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Bonus threat has been removed and replaced with increased initial damage done.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): This ability now deals additional damage based on the attack power of the Druid.

  Introduced attack power scaling: Every 20 Attack Power adds 1 damage, per stack, over 15 seconds. Mangle further enhances this value.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB