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Hamstring

Hamstring

10 Rage	Melee Range

Instant cast	1 sec cooldown

Requires Warrior
Requires level 36

Requires Melee Weapon
Maims the enemy for 5% Physical damage, reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

15 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

10 Rage

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 second

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Decrease Run Speed %
Value: -50%
Mechanic: Snared

Effect #2

Normalized Weapon Damage

Effect #3

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 5

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Warlords of Draenor
Warrior Changes

Comments

Comment by Mekk

Mobs with shields seem to have an annoying habit to block this attack (and all other ranks of hamstring) too often to seem normal.

Comment by moonasha

aka "spamstring"

Comment by Persen

Anyone noticed if this is still blockable?

Comment by socratis

it can be blocked btw.

I have other problem how do u see that actually hamstring landed on the target player cept for the debuff on his nameplate, this is rediculios. There is no combat text that shows it. Is there a way to show on the combat text.

Comment by Spring

Works on most snakes and worms.

Comment by SoooWhoCares

Hamstring:
PVE debuff lasts 15s
PVP debuff lasts 8s

Can be improved by a 2/2 talent in arms tree:
1/2
2/2

Atm there is no other talent or glyph to buff this ability.
But the Warrior PVP set offers a bonus: Hamstring Rage Reduction on the gloves.
You might also want to take a look at Piercing Howl which requires no stance and can be used while being disarmed but lasts 2s less.

Comment by antrawr

Level requirement of 36 is proving a bit harsh when doing low level battlegrounds, everything just gets away from you.

Comment by Dubz

Seems to have 1.0 global cooldown talent (imp hamstring) built into it now in 5.0

Comment by sorsa

This used to be part of a Fury warriors single target rotation at lvl 60, no kidding.

1 handed Fury warriors used to have quite a long idle time between Bloodthirst and Whirlwind cooldowns (WW was also part of the single target rotation back then), 6s and 10s respectively.

High-end fury warriors had near infinite rage, so inbetween these 2 main attacks they would spam near non-stop Heroic Strikes as well as Hamstring - which back then dealt a tiny ammount of damage. The reason why hamstring was used as a filler attack was that any crit no matter how small would proc Deep Wounds (60% weapon damage over 12s) and Flurry (25% melee haste for the next 3 auto-attacks), for this reason "Spamstring" contributed significantly to a fury warriors Flurry uptime and also contributed to damage through Deep Wounds.

Just some useless history on Hamstring.

Comment by fang620

As of patch 5.4, Hamstring is off of the global cooldown.
No longer the worst snare in the game :D

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