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Howling Blast

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Howling Blast
  • Howling Blast
  • Instant
  • 20 yd range
  • 1 Unholy Rune, 1 Frost Rune
  • Blasts the target with a frigid win dealing X to Y frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards.
Usable by
ClassDeath knight
Properties
TypeOffensive, AoE
SchoolFrost
Cooldown8 secs
Talents
TalentedYes
Talent treeFrost, Tier 11
Talent requiredNone
Other information
Ranks5

Howling Blast is a Death knight ability that allows the death knight to blast several targets around them for frost damage. While the tooltip damage may seem low, it benefits from your Attack Power (dealing about 1000 damage to targets inflicted with Frost Fever with 1500 AP, Glacier Rot and Black Ice).

Contents

Rank table

Rank Level Damage Training Cost
1 55 99 - 107 Talent
2 60 117 - 127 58s
3 70 162 - 176 65s
4 75 221 - 239 1g
5 80 259 - 281 1g

Improvements

Talents

  • Glacier Rot increases damage by 20% against diseased enemies.
  • Black Ice increases damage by 10%.
  • Deathchill makes your next Howling Blast, Icy Touch, Frost Strike or Obliterate a critical if used within 30 seconds.
  • Killing Machine have a chance to make your next Howling Blast, Icy Touch or Frost Strike critical if used within 30 seconds.
  • Merciless Combat increases damage by 12% against targets with less than 35% health.
  • Guile of Gorefiend increases the critical strike damage bonus by 45%, resulting in critical hits doing 222.5% damage.
  • Dark Conviction increases critical strike chance by 5%.
  • Rime makes Icy Touch to have a 5/10% chance to cause your next Howling Blast consume no runes and resets the cooldown on Howling Blast.

Glyphs

2020

Patch changes

  • Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Base damage and scaling doubled.This ability no longer deals bonus damage to targets with Frost Fever. 8-second cooldown. Swapped positions with Hungering Cold in the talent tree.
  • Patch 3.0.8a (2009-01-27): The 5 second cooldown will now display correctly.
  • Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): 5 second Cooldown.

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