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Demoralizing Shout
Inv misc questionmark
  • Demoralizing Shout (7 ranks)
  • Warrior ability
  • 10 Rage
  • Instant
  • Reduces the melee attack power of all enemies within X yards by 35 for 30 sec.
Properties
Class Warrior
School Physical
Cooldown None
Radius 10 yards
Improvements Ability warrior commandingshout [Booming Voice], Ability warrior warcry [Improved Demoralizing Shout], Ability warrior focusedrage [Focused Rage]
Related debuff
Inv misc questionmark
  • Demoralizing Shout
  • Reduces melee attack power by X.
  • Duration: 30 seconds

[[Category:warrior abilities]][[Category:warrior abilities]]

The orc's mighty bellow could unnerve even the bravest of foes.[1]

Demoralizing shout is a flat rate attack power reduction shout. It it the opposite of Ability warrior battleshout [Battle Shout], essentially.

Functionality

Demoralizing Shout is a 10 Rage ability that reduces attack power by a certain amount in a 10 yard radius. Demoralizing shout will pull non-hostile monsters and will put you into PvP mode if it hits nearby hostile players while in your own territory, so be careful with it.

Rank Table

AP Reduction Level Cost
Rank 1 35 14 12s
Rank 2 55 24 53s
Rank 3 70 34 1g 30s
Rank 4 105 44 3g 30s
Rank 5 140 54 4g 40s
Rank 6 220 62 5g 85s Bc icon
Rank 7 300 70 5g 85s Bc icon

Talents

Notes

  • Your opponent's Attack Power can not be reduced below zero.
  • It is strongly advised to debuff the enemy AP for the mobs/bosses that rely on heavy melee damage.

Many players do not realize that NPCs use different AP scales than players. While players gain 1 DPS per 14 AP at all levels, NPCs do not. Lv60 elites have been tested to gain about 1 DPS per 2 AP; this means NPCs are affected much more strongly by changes to their AP. For stronger encounters (such as raid bosses), the testing indicates that they have a similar amount of AP, but their damage scales up significantly faster! When you consider many bosses have attacks that deal a multiple of their normal damage, then the stacking effect of AP becomes very apparent.

For example:

  • Magmadar: Normal: 1867 - 2476 damage. W/ demo: 1512 - 2121 damage. (-16.3%)
  • Maexxna: Normal: 5491 - 7281 damage. With demo: 4448 - 6238 damage. (-16.3%)

For most level 60 encounters, the observed AP value appears to be ~300 AP. Also, the damage contribution from that AP is ~30% of the NPC's total melee damage. This implies that reducing the NPC's Attack Power to zero will reduce their melee damage by ~30%. So on those encounters, you should apply Inv misc questionmark [Demoralizing Shout] and Peticon-beast Ability deathknight summongargoyle [Screech], to fully debuff the target's AP.

For more information: http://elitistjerks.com/showthread.php?t=7058


For level 70 encounters, preliminary testing has shown that the AP value has not increased drastically (~340 AP). However, the damage contribution appears to have decreased, to around 15% of the NPC's total melee damage.
Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=102782410
This range is consistent with Beast Lore results for testing the effects of modifying the AP of NPCs:
Source: http://elitistjerks.com/showthread.php?t=10509

Tips and Tactics

  • Usually useful while tanking, as you want to die slowly.
  • Brings stealthed units out of stealth if it hits them.
  • Obviously this skill should be used when fighting multiple mobs where its effects are multiplied. However it is even worth using against a single enemy, even one that is slightly inferior. The damage reduction is noticeable and it is cheap to apply. For solo grinding on melee mobs, many warriors start off with a charge followed by demoralizing shout.
  • Be aware if there are neutral mobs nearby using demoralizing shout (or any other debuff) will cause them to turn hostile.
  • Does not break crowd control.
  • Does not stack with the warlock spell Warlock curse weakness [Curse of Weakness], and neither with the similar druid bear form skill Ability druid challangingroar [Demoralizing Roar]. The curse is generally the strongest, but can be overwritten by a talented shout. An untalented shout can be overwritten by a talented roar.
  1. ^ TCGHoA, #140
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