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Blade Flurry
Ability warrior punishingblow
  • Blade Flurry
  • Row 1 Outlaw rogue talent
  • 15 Energy
  • 30 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon
  • Strikes up to 5 nearby targets for (40% of Attack power) Physical damage, and causes your single target attacks to also strike up to 4 additional nearby enemies for 50% of normal damage for 10 sec.
Properties
Class Rogue
School Physical
Cooldown 30 seconds
Radius 8 yd
Improvements Inv glove cloth oribosdungeon c 01 [Ambidexterity], Ability warrior punishingblow [Dancing Steel], Spell warrior wildstrike [Deft Maneuvers], Ability warrior punishingblow [Precise Cuts], Ability rogue restlessblades [Restless Blades]
Related buff
Ability warrior punishingblow
  • Blade Flurry
  • Attacks striking nearby enemies.
  • Duration: 10 seconds

Blade Flurry is an Outlaw rogue ta;emt. While active, all of the rogue's attacks strike all nearby enemies within 8 yards for 30% damage, but the rogue's energy regenerates 20% more slowly. Blade Flurry is one of the few area of effect abilities available to Outlaw rogues.

This effect has no fixed duration but can be toggled on and off. After being cancelled, it goes into a 10 second cooldown (similar to Ability stealth [Stealth]).

Notes[]

Blade Flurry TCG

In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

  • Does not break Ability stealth [Stealth].
  • Only 30% of the direct damage of attacks is transferred through Blade Flurry; DoTs and other effects such as stuns will not be applied to additional targets.
  • Targets must be within 8 yards and in the rogue's line of sight to be hit by Blade Flurry.

Tips and tactics[]

  • Only use this when fighting more than one foe. It provides no benefit against single targets, and the reduced energy regeneration is disadvantageous.
  • Ability rogue murderspree [Killing Spree] works with Blade Flurry, so popping both can give multiple large hits on two nearby enemies each, and as such is very useful when fighting multiple mobs.
  • Not recommended for use in tight places where fragile crowd control is in effect (Ability sap [Sap], Spell nature polymorph [Polymorph], etc).
  • In dungeons and raids, ensure that tanks have adequate threat on all mobs in range before using this, or you may get aggro.

Trivia[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-22): Fixed an issue that prevented Blade Flurry from being correctly affected by Spell shadow shadowworddominate [Adrenaline Rush]'s reduced global cooldown modifier.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 Outlaw talent (was a level 19 Outlaw ability). Rank 2 effects are now baseline.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2022-08-03): Fixed an issue that could cause Blade Flurry damage to break Ability vanish [Vanish] under certain conditions.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.2.5 (2022-05-31): Blade Flurry damage increased to 60% of single target damage (was 50%). This change does not apply to PvP.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2022-03-28): Now strikes nearby enemies for 50% of normal damage (was 40%).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage transferred from single target attacks increased by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added at level 52: Blade Flurry now instantly strikes up to nearby 5 targets for Physical damage.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
    • Normal damage increased to 40% (was 30%), no longer has 2 charges and now has a 30 second cooldown (was 25 second recharge). Additionally, all secondary hits from Blade Flurry with a weapon coated in Ability poisons [Instant Poison], Ability poisonsting [Crippling Poison], or Inv misc herb 16 [Wound Poison] will now apply the Poison to the targets.
    • Now capped at 4 additional targets.
    • Now learned at level 19 (was 63).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now an activated ability with a 12-second duration instead of a toggle. No longer reduces energy regeneration.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage to secondary targets reduced to 30% (was 35%).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 63 (was 48).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer has a target cap. Now learned at level 48 (was 10).
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-01-13): Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-12-15): Blade Flurry now also strikes up to 4 additional nearby opponents for 35% of normal damage (up from 30%).
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Can now trigger poisons, and now deals 30% damage (down from 40%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Fixed an issue where certain conditions can cause Blade Flurry to not deal damage to additional nearby opponents.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2014-01-21): Resolved an issue for the following abilities that resulted in damage being calculated incorrectly when used against targets with a greater than 75% reduction to damage from armor.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-09-18): Killing Spree's range is no longer being incorrectly modified by Blade Flurry.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Damage to secondary targets should no longer be affected by Resilience or PvP Power if the primary target was a player as both had already been factored in for the initial damage calculation.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-03-29): Blade Flurry now has a range of 8 yards, up from 5 yards, and will only hit targets that are within the Rogue's line-of-sight.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now strikes up to 4 additional nearby targets for 40% of normal damage.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Energy regeneration reduction reduced from 30% to 20%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Changed from fixed duration to a toggle. In addition, the cooldown has been reduced to 30 seconds and the energy regeneration penalty has been increased to 30%
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Blade Flurry now is learned immediately when you specialize in the Combat tree (was a tier 5 talent). Now costs no energy (was 25 energy), has a cooldown of 30 seconds (was 2 minutes), has an energy regeneration penalty of 20% (was none), and no longer increases attack speed by 20%.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): This ability will now do damage to secondary targets when the primary target takes no damage due to a damage shield (such as Power Word: Shield).
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Preparation no longer resets the cooldown of Blade Flurry.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): The additional attacks generated by this ability will now properly take into account the armor of the second target.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.8.0 (2005-10-10): This ability will now trigger correctly off of special attacks such as Sinister Strike and Kick.

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