From WoWWiki
| Heart Strike |
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| Usable by |
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| Class | Death knight |
| Properties |
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| Type | Offensive |
| School | Physical |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Talents |
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| Talented | Yes |
| Talent tree | Blood, Tier 9 |
| Other information |
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| Ranks | 6 |
| Requirements | Requires melee weapon. |
"Your heartbeat is music to my ears." - Prince Taldaram
Heart Strike is a Death knight ability that damages targets and nearby allies of that target.
Rank table
| Rank | Level | Rune Cost | X Damage | Cost
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| 1 | 50 | 1 Blood | 125 |
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| 2 | 59 | 1 Blood | 142 | 59
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| 3 | 64 | 1 Blood | 167 | 32
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| 4 | 69 | 1 Blood | 197 | 34 50
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| 5 | 74 | 1 Blood | 300 | 1 80
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| 6 | 80 | 1 Blood | 368 | 1 80
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Theorycraft
In contrast to the ingame help Heart Strike is presumed not to do a real 60% weapon damage with some additional damage. According to some small ranged tests Heart Strike does some kind of a normalized weapon damage, treating all two-handed weapons as if they had an attack speed of 3.2.
The formula for calculating a Heart Strike's non critical damage to a target with no armor will look like:
[damage done to target] = ((([weapon-DPS] + [DPS gained by AP]) * 3.2 * 50%)) + [X dmg based on rank (at lvl 80 it's 368)]) + [10% per number of diseases on target]
The factor '3.2' is the speed normalization factor, which leads to a weapon's speed independent heart strike damage. The in-game help supposes, that the real weapon speed should be calculated here instead of this speed normalization factor.
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External links
2020
