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Comment by Stavan

Yet another CD-killer.

This spell should be extremely valuable in PvP, especially when you need to pull that last plague strike or obliterate off, or it could potentially save your life.

Comment by 178827

Okay so Obliterate costs one Unholy and one Frost rune. Specced into Annihilation your Obliterates don't eat diseases. Obliterate has no cooldown noted, so I'm guessing it doesn't have one.

So, you get to use FOUR consecutive Obliterates with this? Well, that's.... reassuring:))

It's not such a solid cooldown BTW, Ice Block has 5 mins CD and it's ultimately much more situational in PvE but a lot more desired in PvP.

Comment by 230590

basically Cold Snap, Readiness or Preparation for DKs

resets all runes (so they are available to use) and gives runic power, so helps in emergencies and allows some burst

Comment by 33064

A quick question. If you have runes on cooldown that will turn into death runes, will they refresh as death runes or as what they originally were?

Say I have Reaping. I IT, PS, SS, BS, BS, ERW. Do I have DDFFUU or BBFFUU?

Comment by 235419

Leet plan time.

Plauge Strike>Icy Touch>Scourge Strike>Blood Strike>Blood Strike>Empower Rune Weapon>Scourge Strike>Scourge Strike>Scourge Strike> You win!

Comment by 231753

Bearing in mind you want to use runes as soon as possible, and then use RP abilities when your runes are coming back, ERW can be a bit hard to fit in your cycle with maximum effect. Most of the RP generated from using 12 runes in a row (plus the 25 from ERW) is wasted.

However, Unholy DKs have an advantage - you can get maximize your DPS and get the full benefit of this ability if you use it when your gargoyle is keeping your runic power in check.

Comment by Treston323

It is very useful. On lots of fights with no adds, you want to pop Army of the Dead before the pull. Of course those runes take 10 seconds to regenerate, so using this is real nice to get into the fight right away

Comment by 212424

I find this useful on AoE pulls as Blood. PS, IT, Pestilence, D&D, and then pop this.

Comment by 388931

I've found this useful for when quick burst DPS is needed (as stated before, it's used similarly to cold snap and other CD-reducing abilities). It's also fairly useful for if you mess up your rotation somehow (either by a boss mechanic stunning you/forcing you to get away or simply through the player not paying enough attention) and diseases drop off the target while you have no runes left. This allows you to reset your rotation and re-stack your diseases with no penalty to DPS while waiting for your runes to recharge. Basically a little insurance to fall back on if you screw up.

Comment by 625643

I prefer to use this when a DPS race is on like Berserk timer is close etc.As most of the times,i know when hero will be cast, try to keep runes ready then after hero is cast, i burn them and immediattely use ERW to get at least 4 and many times 5 runes back so the DPS goes way up.I have gotten 1st in dps ffrom 4th position many times by using thiis.
Great spell on a balanced cooldown.

Comment by 643383

A very useful ability, allows you to improve dps in instances, or even prevent that pause between CD's in an intense PvP battle.

The only problem I tend to find that it is one of those abilities which just tend to slip ones mind while in the heat of battle.

Comment by 1358429

if you are dual-weilding and you draw your weapons and then use it and the try to sheath them only the off-hand weapon will be sheathed http://imgur.com/O8qL2d2

Comment by Phasha

As of the War Within (TWW) expansion, this Empower Rune Weapon has been removed for Blood DKs, and is now a Frost-DK-only talent.

For macro coding, you can add conditionals, such as these below, to avoid accidentally casting Empower Rune Weapon unintended. These would require that you either (a) target an enemy, or (b) are in combat, for the spell to be cast:
/cast Empower Rune Weapon

Comment by Nhuvasarim

Just a heads up for any Frost DKs using this post-patch 11.2, where it deals damage to targets upon use:
If you use this on legacy bosses and it one-shots them you will get NO LOOT.
The corpse does not sparkle and you will get nothing from the Postmaster later once you leave the instance.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon, but until then, it's better to stick to using other abilities like Frostwyrm's Fury when killing legacy bosses. GL;HF!

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Empower Rune Weapon

Empower Rune Weapon

Talent

30 yd range

Instant	30 sec recharge

2 Charges

Drain the will of your enemy to empower your rune weapon, dealing (200% of Attack Power) Shadowfrost damage and reduced damage to enemies nearby, gaining 40 Runic Power, and grants you Killing Machine.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Frost, Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Special

Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

750 milliseconds

Effect #1

Trigger Spell

	Empower Rune Weapon

Effect #2

School Damage (Frost, Shadow) (AP mod: 2)
Radius: 8 yards
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Does not require shapeshift
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter
Allow Class Ability Procs

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Frost Best in Slot Guide Frost Death Knight Rotation Guide Legion Death Knight Changes Raid and Class cooldown list [Archive] Unholy Death Knight PvP Guide (Gearing up, Pressure and Utility)

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