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Heart Strike
Inv weapon shortblade 40
  • Heart Strike
  • Row 1 Blood death knight talent
  • Replaces Spell deathknight darkconviction [Rune Strike]
  • Melee range
  • 1 Rune
  • Instant
  • Requires Melee Weapon
  • Instantly strike the target and 1 other nearby enemy, causing (41.308% of Attack power) Physical damage, and reducing enemies' movement speed by 20% for 8 sec.

    Generates 5 bonus Runic Power.
Properties
Class Death knight
School Physical
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Improvements Ability ironmaidens bloodritual [Blood for Blood], Spell deathknight deathstrike [Heartbreaker], Inv weapon shortblade 40 [Heartrend], Inv weapon shortblade 40 [Improved Heart Strike], Ability deathwing bloodcorruption death [Leeching Strike]
Related debuff
Inv weapon shortblade 40
  • Heart Strike
  • Movement speed reduced by 20%.
  • Duration: 8 seconds

Heart Strike is a Blood death knight ability.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-02-06): Heart Strike damage increased by 15%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 Blood talent (was a level 10 Blood ability). Rank 2 made default. Rank 3 removed.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2020-12-14): Damage increased by 15%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 3 added at level 52: Increases damage done by 20%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 10 (was 55). Rank 2 added at level 23: Generates an additional 5 Runic Power.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now reduces movement speed by 20% (was 50%).
  • Legion Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Heart Strike damage increased by 10%.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-16): Most abilities used by Tank specializations have had their damage reduced by 10%.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-08-16): Heart Strike damage reduced by 20%, but PvP mult removed (net increase of 7% in PvP).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added and redesigned: Instantly strike the target and 1 other nearby enemy, causing 185% Physical damage, and reducing enemies' movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.
    Old: Instantly strike the target and up to two additional nearby enemies, causing 105% weapon damage plus X on the primary target, with each additional enemy struck taking 50% less damage than the previous target. Damage dealt to each target is increased by an additional 15% for each of your diseases present.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2012-10-12): Now deals 8.5% less damage.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Weapon damage reduced from 175% to 115%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now deals 175% weapon damage plus 15% per disease, up from 120% plus 10% per disease.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Redesdigned as a level 60 Blood specialization ability (was a tier 9 Blood talent).
    Old: Instantly strike the target and his nearest ally, causing 50% weapon damage plus X, total damage increased by 10% for each of your diseases on the target
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Secondary targets of Heart Strike now take half as much damage.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Bonus damage for diseases is now a multiplier rather than a flat bonus. No longer affected by Inv glyph majordeathknight [Glyph of Blood Strike].
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): No longer has a haste debuff but will now be able to strike two targets.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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