Piercing Howl
Piercing Howl 10 Rage Instant Snares all enemies within 15 yards, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Radius	15 yards
Talents
Talented	Yes
Level required	45
Related debuff
Piercing Howl Movement slowed by 50%. Duration: 15 seconds
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• Piercing Howl
• 10 Rage
• Instant
• Snares all enemies within 15 yards, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.

Piercing Howl is a warrior talent available at level 45. It is an AoE Shout debuff that costs 10 Rage. It snares nearby enemies (50% Movement Speed) for 15 seconds and is unaffected by diminishing returns.

Tips and tactics

• An extremely useful ability, and well worth the talent spend. It provides a rudimentary method of dealing with runners, as unlike Hamstring, it does not require a successful melee hit and, unlike Hamstring, can be used in defensive stance which is particularly helpful for tanks. It also offers a useful method of escaping from a fight gone bad, slowing all pursuers enough for the Warrior to get a decent head start.

• Note that the only effect this has is on enemy movement. It does not do damage, or debuff enemy combat ability at all, so is of no real use during a hectic melee furball. Instead, use Thunder Clap, which affects attack speeds as well.

• Piercing Howl is safe to use around any crowd controled opponents, precisely because it does no damage, although it is a hostile act, so will aggro any neutral mobs in range.

• Available for use in all 3 different stances and does not have any weapon requirements.

• Ability also detects stealth just like Demoralizing Shout, Thunder Clap, and Shockwave.

• While this ability was meant for PvP combat, it does have some PvE uses such as: keeping ghouls away during the quest The Sacred and the Corrupt, cc'ing Blood Beasts in the fight against Deathbringer Saurfang, and delaying the ghouls in the 2nd phase of the Black Knight (in Trial of the Champion).

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (28 August 2012): Updated. 
  
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): The daze portion of "Piercing Howl" will now still land even if the target is already snared. 
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): No longer has a prerequisite (Improved Demoralizing Shout). 
  

External links

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