Threat of Thassarian

Threat of Thassarian
Threat of Thassarian (Passive) Passive Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon When dual-wielding, your Death Strikes, Obliterates, Plague Strikes, and Frost Strikes also deal damage with your off-hand weapon, and your Frost Strike damage is increased by 50%.
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
School	Physical
Casting time	Passive
Talents
Specialization	Frost
Level required	74
Other information
Requirements	Requires One-Handed Melee Weapon

• Threat of Thassarian (Passive)
• Passive
• When dual-wielding, your Death Strikes, Obliterates, Plague Strikes, and Frost Strikes also deal damage with your off-hand weapon, and your Frost Strike damage is increased by 50%.

Threat of Thassarian is a passive death knight ability learned at level 74 for death knights with the frost specialization.

This is a key talent that makes dual wielding viable for death knights. Normally only the main hand weapon is taken in to account for abilities that deal damage based on weapon damage, such as Blood Strike and Obliterate, severely reducing their damage when dual wielding instead of using a 2-hander. This talent 'fixes' that problem for deep frost death knights.

Trivia

This talent refers to Thassarian, the first death knight to rejoin the Alliance.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (28-August-2012): Updated; changed from When dual-wielding, your Death Strikes, Obliterates, Plague Strikes, Rune Strikes, Blood Strikes and Frost Strikes have a X% chance to also deal damage with your off-hand weapon.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Threat of Thassarian now also causes Rune Strike to use both weapons when dual-wielding.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Added.
  

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