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Mortal Strike

Mortal Strike

20 Rage	Melee Range

Instant cast	6 sec cooldown

Requires Warrior (Arms)
Requires level 10

Requires Melee Weapon
A vicious strike that deals 225% Physical damage and reduces the effectiveness of healing on the target for 10 sec.

Replaces Heroic Strike.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

20 Rage

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Trigger Spell

	Mortal Wounds

Effect #2

Normalized Weapon Damage
Value: 1

Effect #3

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 225

Effect #4

Give Power (Rage)

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Mod Healing Taken - % (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 10%

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Warlords of Draenor
Warrior Changes

Warrior DPS Guide (Arms/Fury)

Comments

Comment by kreghx

I like this talent , ultimate talent for a Two-Hander, You get instant hit with +dmg , and against shamans , paladins , Priests. if you are a two-hander i would say TAKE THIS ;) how slower weapon how better this talent. Cooldown not long , when cooldown gone you got another 30 rage good luck with it

Comment by fuzzworthiness

Ultimate healer gimper. If you're fighting a paladin who you know is about to use his divine shield to heal himself, use mortal strike immediately before he does so. This should cut back on the amount of HP he heals himself by a large amount (this also goes for any other healer, of course) and should give you a pretty neat advantage.

Comment by Eskamo

To get the most out of MS (ie the largest numbers) you'll be looking for a weapon with a very high maximum damage value. Good examples are the Whirlwind Axe, Kang the Decapitator, and pretty much all of the HWL 2hers, which are much more easily available.

Generally, that will be a big, slow 2-hand weapon.

Comment by squirrelybread

It can be said without exaggeration that this is one of the most powerful Arena abilities in-game. Also useful in Bg's, soloing, and raids. Really, one of the defining talents of a Warrior.

Comment by Titanax

Does this thing have an animation besides the blood flying squishy sound like rend?

Comment by razgriz

If you are going against the twin emperors in Ahn'Qiraj and they get to close too each other just spam this and that will greatly decrease their healing they got... So good especially in PvP

Comment by Psalomon91

I was surprised that there isn't much QQ about this ability on WoWhead.

Comment by xurxoham

I have a question:
Does its antiheal debuff stack with another warriors' mortal strike, or other classes antiheal debuffs, like Wound Poison?

Comment by essayegh

how to get the MS rank 1?

Comment by Titan

MORTAL STRIKE, HOOOOOOO!

Comment by Oakenshadow

Anyone know if this is modified by any melee damage?

Comment by Hairband

This description is for players at 85. What about scaling from level 10 and up? And does gear change the % and increase of damage by the X? Because my 85 warrior has different numbers (higher actually) altogether.

More information is needed on this spell at this time because I believe not even at 85 is Mortal Strike's damage a constant.

Comment by Falsesummer

I don't have a warrior so I can't answer your later questions, but as to scaling:

Look at the top of the page, where the skill is described. Just under the tooltip, there should be a slider bar. Simply drag this along, and the description will change level (all the way to the seemingly pointless description at level 1).

Comment by Orthis

No, it's still vague. And healers have great mana regen for every healing spec. So mana is never really a problem.
Ghostcrawler said:
We’ve been considering whether healing is too strong in PvP anyway. You may have noticed that we made the tooltips for Mortal Strike and equivalent debuffs intentionally vague for 4.1. As I write this, those debuffs are still at 10% healing, but we’re concerned that healing is too hard to counter and we might change that number. Changing it back to 50% would probably lead to the Mortal Strike debuff being mandatory for Arena comps again, but we never got much of a chance to see its effects at say 20%. A 20% Mortal Strike debuff could easily counter any excessive healing caused by 200% crits.
So yes, blizzard does think 10% is too low.

Comment by Kalimu

Does anyone know if these "reduce healing by 10%" effects now stack? since they got so nerfed...

Comment by WyvernVJ

Buffs and debuffs map (5.4.2)

Buffs

Stats
Effect: +5% Strength, Agility, and Intellect
Brought by: Any Druid (Mark of the Wild), any Monk (Legacy of the Emperor), and any Paladin (Blessing of Kings).

Stamina
Effect: +10% Stamina
Brought by: Any Priest (Power Word: Fortitude), any Warlock (Dark Intent), and any Warrior (Commanding Shout).

Attack Power
Effect: +10% melee and ranged attack power
Brought by: Any Death Knight (Horn of Winter), any Hunter (Trueshot Aura), and any Warrior (Battle Shout).

Spell Power
Effect: +10% spell power
Brought by: Any Mage (Arcane Brilliance/Dalaran Brilliance), any Shaman (), and any Warlock (Dark Intent).

Haste
Effect: +10% melee and ranged haste
Brought by: Frost and Unholy Death Knights (Unholy Aura), any Rogue (Swiftblade's Cunning), and Enhancement Shamans ().

Spell Haste
Effect: +5% spell haste
Brought by: Balance Druids (Moonkin Aura), Shadow Priest (Shadowform), and Elemental Shamans ().

Critical Strike
Effect: +5% ranged, melee, and spell critical chance
Brought by: Guardian and Feral Druids (Leader of the Pack), windwalker Monks (Legacy of the White Tiger) and any Mage (Arcane Brilliance/Dalaran Brilliance).

Mastery
Effect: +3000 mastery
Brought by: Any Paladin (Blessing of Might), and any Shaman (Grace of Air).

Debuffs

Weakened Armor
Effect: -12% armor
Brought by: Any Druid (Faerie Fire), any Rogue (), and any Warrior ().

Physical Vulnerability
Effect: +4% physical damage taken
Brought by: Frost and Unholy Death Knights ( and Ebon Plaguebringer), Retribution Paladins (), and Arms and Fury Warriors (Colossus Smash).

Magic Vulnerability
Effect: +5% spell damage taken
Brought by: Any Rogue (), and any Warlock ().

Weakened Blows
Effect: -10% physical damage done.
Brought by: Blood Death Knights (), Feral and Guardian Druids (Thrash and Thrash), Brewmaster Monks (Keg Smash), Protection or Retribution Paladins (Hammer of the Righteous), any Shaman (Earth Shock), any Warlock (), and any Warrior (Thunder Clap).

Slow Casting
Effect: -50% casting speed (-25% on players)
Brought by: Any Death Knight (), Arcane Mages (Slow), any Rogue (), and any Warlock ().

Mortal Wounds
Effect: -25% healing received
Brought by: Arms or Fury Warriors (Mortal Strike and Wild Strike), any Rogue (Wound Poison), any Hunter (), and Windwalker Monks (Rising Sun Kick).

Note: Buffs and debuffs provided by pets, profession perks, items and any other NPC are left out on purpose.

Comment by grimlin2

Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait... + 100% spell power... WHAT?

Comment by xXzCodProxXz

Pathetic. This is the "puny strike", not what a real warrior uses. Looks like many players couldn't cope with 50% healing reduction, so of course blizz had to step in and nerf it. I don't even want to play my warrior anymore, its like some sort of pseudo rogue class type with homogenized debuffs and abilities

Here is the old mortal strike what "real warriors" used. Funny how mobs still get to use it Mortal Strike

It still hits quite hard lol I just critted a mob on a level 14 draenei warrior no boa just a green mace http://us.battle.net/wow/en/item/4778#tab=vendors for 537 damage(WOW) but still not as much as its level 60 incarnation...that's what ya get for using the level 10 one lol

Comment by Zarac

Debuffs that share the same effect: -x% healing received

Warrior Arms | Fury
Mortal Strike | Wild Strike

Rogue
Wound Poison

Monk Windwalker
Rising Sun Kick

Warlock
Mortal Cleave/Legion Strike(10%)

Hunter
Crocolisk - Devilsaur - Riverbeast - Scorpid

See all Warlords of Draenor Buffs and Debuffs here.

Comment by joooson

In WOD Mortal Strike will now replace Heroic Strike for Arms Warriors.

Comment by NaAbPwNzOr420

If u dont know it hits harder with lot of strenght im writing this because friend.dont know today

Comment by noamchomsky

Your target's healing is reduced by 25%.

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