Recklessness

Recklessness
Recklessness 3 min cooldown Instant Requires Battle Stance Grants your special attacks an additional 15% chance to critically strike and increases your critical strike damage by 10%. Lasts 10 sec. Using this ability in Defensive Stance activates Battle Stance. Improved Recklessness (Level 92+) Increases your critical strike chance while Recklessness is active by an additional 15%.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Casting time	Instant
Cooldown	3 min
Talents
Specialization	Arms, Fury
Level required	87
Other information
Requirements	Requires Battle Stance
Related buff
Recklessness Critical chance of special attacks increased by 15%, and critical strike damage increased by 10%. Duration: 10 seconds
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• Recklessness
• Instant
• Grants your special attacks an additional 15% chance to critically strike and increases your critical strike damage by 10%. Lasts 10 sec. Using this ability in Defensive Stance activates Battle Stance.
  
  Improved Recklessness (Level 92+)
  Increases your critical strike chance while Recklessness is active by an additional 15%.

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This is all the defense you could muster? - Fillet, Kneecapper Extraordinaire (TCG Scourgewar)

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Recklessness is a warrior ability learned at level 87 for those with the Arms or Fury specialization. It is a self-buff ability that costs no Rage. It increases the warrior's critical strike damage and chance to critically strike for a short period of time.

Modified by

• Glyph of Recklessness

Talents

• Anger Management

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Recklessness is now available only to Fury and Arms Warriors.; Recklessness now requires Battle Stance.; Recklessness now increases Critical Strike chance by 15% (down from 30%) and increases Critical Strike damage by 10% (up from 0%).
  
• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Recklessness and Deadly Calm can no longer be used at the same time. One cannot be used while the other is active, but using one does not put the other on its full cooldown.; Retaliation, Recklessness and Shield Wall no longer have stance requirements.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Recklessness now increases special critical strike chance by 50%, down from 100%, but lasts the full 12 seconds instead of allowing only 3 charges.
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Heroic Throw and Shattering Throw will now benefit from this ability and consume charges of this ability. In addition, Recklessness now behaves correctly as an Enrage effect when interacting with the Enraged Regeneration ability.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Recklessness now increases the critical hit chance of the next 3 special ability attacks by 100%, lasts 12 seconds, cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (13-Sep-2005): Recklessness will no longer be canceled if you switch stances while the effect is active.
  

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