Howling Blast
Howling Blast 20 yards range Global cooldown 1 Frost Rune Instant Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing ((X + Y / 2) + AP * 0.48)) Frost damage to that foe, and ((0.5 * (((X + Y / 2) + (AP * 0.48)))) Frost damage to all other enemies within 0 yards.)
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
Type	Offensive, AoE
School	Frost
Cooldown	Global
Talents
Talented	Yes
Talent tree	Frost, Tier 7
Improvement talents	Chill of the Grave, Glyph of Howling Blast, Icy Reach, Merciless Combat, Rime
Other information
Ranks	1

• Howling Blast
• 20 yards range
• 1 Frost Rune
• Instant
• Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing ((X + Y / 2) + AP * 0.48)) Frost damage to that foe, and ((0.5 * (((X + Y / 2) + (AP * 0.48)))) Frost damage to all other enemies within 0 yards.)

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.

Improvements

Talents

• Chill of the Grave
• Icy Reach
• Merciless Combat
• Rime

Glyphs

2020

• Glyph of Howling Blast
• Item Level 45Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Death Knight
• Requires Level 60
• Use: Your Howling Blast ability now infects your targets with Frost Fever.
• Sell Price: 1

Patch changes

• Patch 4.1.0 (26-Apr-2011): Damage has been increased by 20%. To compensate, the area-of-effect splash now does 50% of the single-target damage, down from 60%. The net result of this change leaves the area-of-effect damage roughly the same as 4.0.6 numbers. In addition, Howling Blast now has a facing requirement. 
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Cost reduced to one frost rune, down from one frost and one unholy. 
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): 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. 
  

External links

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• WoWDB

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