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{{Infobox ability
 
|name=Heart Strike
 
|image=INV Weapon Shortblade 40.png
 
|description=A brutal attack that instantly strikes the enemy, causing 60% weapon damage plus 63 and an additional 31 bonous damage per disease. Hits a second nearby enemy.
 
|class=[[Death knight]]
 
|type=Offensive
 
|school=Physical
 
|target=Unfriendly
 
|cost=1
 
|costunit=Blood Rune
 
|range=5
 
|rangeunit=yd
 
|cast_time=Instant
 
|talented=Yes
 
|talent_tree=[[Blood]], Tier 9
 
|improvement=
 
|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.
 
 
==Theorycraft==
 
 
In contrast to the ingame help '''Heart Strike''' is presumed not to do a real 60% weapon damage with some addional 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:
 
 
 
[X damage done to target] = (([weapon-DPS] + [DPS gained by AP]) * 3.2 * 60%)) + [dmg based on rank (at lvl 80 it is 221)] + [number of own deseases on target] * [dmg per desease based on rank (it's 110 at lvl 80)]
 
 
 
The factor '3.2' is the speed normalization factor, which leads to a weapon's speed independent heart strike damage. The ingame help supposes, that the real weapon speed should be calculated here instead of this speed normalization factor.
 
 
 
==Patch changes==
 
* {{Patched|patch=3.0.8|note=No longer has a [[haste]] [[debuff]] but will now be able to strike two targets.}}
 
 
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