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Threat of Thassarian
Ability dualwieldspecialization
  • Threat of Thassarian (3 ranks)
  • Frost, Tier 8
  • When dual-wielding, your Death Strikes, Obliterates, Plague Strikes, Rune Strikes, Blood Strikes and Frost Strikes have a 30/60/100% chance to also deal damage with your offhand weapon.
Requirements
Class Death knight
Tree Frost
Points required 35
Properties
Affects Spell deathknight butcher2 [Death Strike], Spell deathknight classicon [Obliterate], Spell deathknight empowerruneblade [Plague Strike], Spell deathknight darkconviction [Rune Strike], Spell deathknight deathstrike [Blood Strike], Spell deathknight empowerruneblade2 [Frost Strike]

Threat of Thassarian is a death knight talent.

This is a key passive that makes dual wielding viable for death knights. Normally only the main hand weapon is taken in to account for abilities that deal damage based on weapon damage, such as Spell deathknight empowerruneblade2 [Frost Strike] and Spell deathknight classicon [Obliterate], severely reducing their damage when dual wielding instead of using a 2-hander. This passive 'fixes' that problem for frost death knights.

Trivia[]

This talent refers to Thassarian, the first death knight to rejoin the Alliance.

Patch changes[]

  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed. Effects merged into Inv sword 120 [Might of the Frozen Wastes].
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-03-05): Threat of Thassarian now increases the damage of Frost Strike by 50% (was 40%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now given automatically to Frost death knights at level 74 (was a tier 6 Frost talent). No longer affects Rune Strike or Blood Strike, and causes Frost Strike to deal an additional 50% damage when dual wielding.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved from tier 8 to tier 6.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Threat of Thassarian now also causes Rune Strike to use both weapons when dual-wielding.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Added.

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