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Necrotic Strike
Inv axe 96
  • Necrotic Strike
  • Unholy death knight PvP talent
  • Melee range
  • 1 Rune
  • Instant
  • Requires Melee Weapon
  • A vicious strike that deals (30% of Attack power) Plague damage, and converts 1 Festering Wound into a Necrotic Wound, absorbing up to 6% of the target's maximum health in healing received.
Properties
Class Death knight
School Plague
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Affects Spell deathknight festering strike [Festering Strike]
Related debuff
Inv axe 96
  • Necrotic Wound
  • The next (6% of maximum health) healing received will be absorbed.
  • Duration: 18 seconds

Necrotic Strike is a Unholy death knight PvP talent. Though this talent is no longer available through the PvP talents interface, it's still granted by Spell azerite essence 17 [Conflict], the major power of the Spell azerite essence 17 [Conflict and Strife] Azerite essence. Equipping Conflict as an Unholy death knight grants both Necrotic Strike and its replacement, Ability racial aberration [Necrotic Wounds].

Necrotic Strike won't appear in the spellbook when granted by Conflict; to get it on your bars, you'll need to drag the Major Slot button from the Inv heartofazeroth [Heart of Azeroth] interface's center.

Notes[]

  • Targets with the Necrotic Wound debuff will not benefit from healing (including self-healing) until the debuff is fully absorbed or expires. It cannot be dispelled.
  • Although Necrotic Strike's damage can crit, the absorb effect is a fixed amount based on the target's maximum health and is not increased by critical strikes.
  • Applying Necrotic Wound to a target that already has your Necrotic Wound will refresh the duration and add the existing wound's absorb amount onto the new one. The absorb can be stacked this way repeatedly.

Tips and tactics[]

  • Healers playing against Unholy death knights should be particularly aware of Necrotic Strike, whether on themselves or their allies. One of the main dangers of the ability is that healers will leave healing until the last minute; with Necrotic Strike debuffs in place, this can spell disaster. The best answer to this is to be vigilant when facing death knights, and immediately heal targets in order to remove the debuff.

Patch changes[]

  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Removed from the PvP talents pane; replaced by Ability racial aberration [Necrotic Wounds].
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2021-02-08): Now absorbs up to 6% of the target's health (was 4%).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now requires level 30 (was 57).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Now applies a 4% max health healing absorb (was 5%).
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2019-08-13): Now absorbs 5% of the target's maximum health in healing (was 7%).
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2018-12-20): Now absorbs 7% of the target's maximum health in healing (was 8%).
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2018-12-12):
    • Fixed a bug that caused Necrotic Strike's initial damage to not be increased by Achievement zone westernplaguelands 01 [Mastery: Dreadblade].
    • Fixed a bug that could cause Necrotic Strike to apply too large of a healing absorb against non-player targets.
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2018-10-09): Converting a Festering Wound into a Necrotic Wound with Necrotic Strike will now correctly grant Spell yorsahj bloodboil purpleoil [Festermight].
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2018-08-10): Healing absorption reduced by 33%.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a PvP talent (was a rank 46 honor talent).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added as an honor talent. Now absorbs 100% more healing but no longer slows casting speed.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2014-01-10): Necrotic Strike now reduces player targets' casting speed by 10% (down from 25%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now deals 100% weapon damage (down from 150% weapon damage).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Healing absorption effect has been increased to 225% from attack power, up from 200%.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-04-29): Damage against players and pets should now be properly affected by base resilience and the amount of healing absorbed has been reduced.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Weapon damage increased from 100% to 150%, and healing absorbed increased from 70% to 100% of AP. Cast time reduction increased to 50% (25% on players) from 30%, and applied even if the healing is fully absorbed.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-05-19): AP coefficient reduced from 0.75 to 0.7.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Absorption effect is now reduced by the target's resilience. In addition, its debuff duration has been reduced to 10 seconds, down from 15.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-01-18): Necrotic Strike is now affected by resilience.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.

External links[]

Necrotic Strike Necrotic Wound
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