Impale

Impale
Talent Impale {{{cast_time}}} sec cast Requires Warrior Increase the critical strike damage bonus of Mortal Strike, Slam and Overpower by X%.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	N/A
School	N/A
Casting time	Unknown sec cast
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Requirements
Location	N/A
Level required	10

• Talent
• Impale
• {{{cast_time}}} sec cast
• Requires Warrior
• Increase the critical strike damage bonus of Mortal Strike, Slam and Overpower by X%.

Impale is a Tier 3 talent in the Warrior's Arms tree. It increases the damage bonus of critical strikes with special attacks. Impale does not affect auto-attacks ("white damage").

Rank table

Rank	Increase
1	10%
2	20%

Notes

Impale increases your critical damage for special attacks by an additive 20%. Essentially, a critical strike with any special ability (such as Heroic Strike, Mortal Strike, Slam, etc.) will do 220% damage. This is an excellent talent for any crit-oriented warrior. It is important to note that this does not affect "regular" critical strikes, also known as white critical strikes that result from auto-attacks and not special abilities.

Example 1 (without Impale)

Your Heroic Strike hits for 500.

• Without having talent points in Impale, the critical strike bonus would be (500*200%) = 1000.
• With one talent point in Impale, the critical strike bonus would be (500*210%) = 1050.
• With two talent points in Impale, the critical strike bonus would be (500*220%) = 1100.

Example 2 (with Impale)

If your Bloodthirst hits for 600,

• Without having talent points in Impale, your Bloodthirst critical strike would be (600*200%) = 1200.
• With one talent point in Impale, your Bloodthirst critical strike would be (600*210%) = 1260.
• With two talent points in Impale, your Bloodthirst critical strike would be (600*220%) = 1320.

Patch changes

• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Requires 3 points in Deep Wounds
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): moved to Tier 3, no longer requires Deep Wounds.
  

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