Dancing Rune Weapon
Dancing Rune Weapon 30 yd range 1.5 min cooldown 60 Runic Power Instant cast Requires Melee Weapon Summons a second rune weapon that fights on its own for 12 sec, mirroring the Death Knight's attacks. The rune weapon also assists in defense of its master, granting an additional 20% parry chance while active.
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
Type	Offensive, Utility
School	Physical
Cooldown	1.5 min
Talents
Specialization	Blood
Level required	74
Other information
Requirements	Requires Melee Weapon
Related buff
Dancing Rune Weapon Parry chance increased by 20%. Duration: 12 seconds
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• Dancing Rune Weapon
• 30 yd range
• 60 Runic Power
• Instant cast
• Summons a second rune weapon that fights on its own for 12 sec, mirroring the Death Knight's attacks. The rune weapon also assists in defense of its master, granting an additional 20% parry chance while active.

Dancing Rune Weapon is a death knight ability learned at level 74 for death knights with the blood specialization. It allows the death knight to summon a rune weapon to fight with them.

Modified by

2020

• Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon
• Item Level 25Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Death Knight (Blood)
• Requires Level 25
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  Increases your threat generation by 100% while your Dancing Rune Weapon is active, but reduces its damage dealt by 25%.
• Sell Price: 1

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009):
  • This ability now has a fixed duration of 12 seconds (which can still be modified by its glyph) and a fixed cost of 60 runic power.
  • The rune weapon will no longer cast Corpse Explosion. 
    
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Damage done by, and duration of this pet is reduced by 50%, but the cooldown is reduced to 90 seconds. Attack speed of pet increased from 2.0 to 3.5. Fixed a bug making it trigger an unusual number of effects from the weapon equipped by the death knight. In addition, it will now only echo death knight spells whose primary purpose is dealing damage. This pet will no longer break stealth on nearby targets and attack them. Also corrected a bug making the effect last 8 seconds longer than intended. 
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): The weapon no longer echoes the Raise Dead and Army of the Dead spells. In addition it will now more closely match the master's damage and will cast Rune Strike when its master does. Costs 40 Runic Power - (Old 50) 
  

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