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Comment by kgurnhill

This is the monks interrupt ability.
Just like Rebuke for Paladins, Pummel for Warriors or Skull Bash for Druids (you get the idea)

Comment by 1001432

GET OVER HERE!

Comment by belkrast

Just a heads up, the silence is independent from the interrupt. Even if you don't interrupt your foe, you can still silence them.

Comment by sidhebane

and at 30% of our base resources, this is the worst interrupt in-game.

Comment by Ciel

On the 5.1 PTR the cost of this ability has been reduced to 10 energy, making it less obnoxious to use for non-brewmaster monks.

Comment by NightmareMJ

This ability frequently gets blocked vs caster mobs(that are in the middle of casting) and the silencing portion will also not apply. This can be pretty annoying when a key spell to interrupt to save a group from dying, and your spear hand strike gets blocked :/

Also notable the oracles and hexers in Mogu vaults excessively frequently block this ability as well. (including the hexars blocking it twice now from behind)

I also frequently see Prot warriors, and holy or prot paladins frequently block this in pvp. (and yes silencing warriors shuts down a fair amount of their abilities so pretty key to killing a prot warrior 1v1 :/ or 10v1 for that matter)

Comment by Lordplatypus

Look at which finger's the one in the center of the spear.

Ayup, that's pretty crude.

Comment by stickshift

This jab is reminiscent of one of the quietly perfect moments from The Matrix.

Comment by 1209494

Is the sound effect that of a person choking or is it just a ''woosh''? Both make sense

Comment by xexok

Are you here wondering why as a Mistweaver monk one of your training quests asks you to kill a master that heals themselves and to use this skill to interrupt them? Mistweaver used to have this skill but Blizzard has never bothered to update the quest that you get as Mistweaver. It's been posted a ton of times on the forums, they will likely never fix this. Paralysis does NOT work and she blocks any other interrupt or stun or whatever I try. If you want to just complete it then switch to Brewmaster or Windwalker, they can interrupt her now. You can't get out of combat with her as Mistweaver but all I did was Zen Pilgrimage home and then back to the monk place. She will not interrupt you, funnily enough.

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Spear Hand Strike

Spear Hand Strike

Talent

Melee Range

Instant	15 sec cooldown

Jabs the target in the throat, interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell from that school of magic from being cast for 3 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

3 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

15 seconds

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Interrupt Cast
Value: 1
Mechanic: Interrupted
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Initiates Combat (Enabled Auto-Attack)
Completely Blocked
Taps immediately
No Attack Miss
Allow Class Ability Procs
Interrupts Current Cast

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