Cleave

Cleave
	Cleave; Row 6 Arms warrior talent; Melee range; 20 Rage; 6 sec cooldown; Instant; Requires Two-Handed Melee Weapon; Strikes all enemies in front of you for (73.5% of Attack power) Physical damage, inflicting Deep Wounds. Cleave will consume your Overpower effect to deal increased damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.;
Properties
Class	Warrior
School	Physical
Cooldown	6 seconds
Radius	8 yd
Talents
Talent required	[Impale]
Improvements	[Battlelord], [Exhilarating Blows], [Fatality], [Frothing Berserker], [Reaping Swings], [Sharpened Blades]

For other uses, see Cleave (disambiguation).

In the TCG.

Two bodies are better than one.^[1]

Cleave is an Arms warrior melee ability that deals damage all enemies in front of the warrior. It is not affected by the global cooldown.

Notes and trivia

Cleave is also used by many high-level bosses that use mainly physical attacks.
Cleave is a basic Warrior spell in Hearthstone. The flavor text reads: "Hey you two...could you stand next to each other for a second..."

Hotfix (2024-01-22): Damage increased by 10%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Damage increased by 5%.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 Arms talent (was a level 40 Arms talent).
Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Cleave is no longer maximum target capped and instead deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now available at level 40 (was 75). Now consumes the Overpower effect to deal increased damage.
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 75 Arms talent (was a level 22 Arms ability). Now inflicts Deep Wounds instead of increasing Whirlwind's damage.
Hotfix (2017-06-13): Cleave damage reverted to 7.2.0 values.
Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Cleave damage increased by 20%.
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added and only available to Arms. Now increases damage by the next [Whirlwind] by 20% for each target hit, up to 5.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now deals 82% weapon damage. Cooldown reduced from 3 to 1.5 sec.
Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Moved to level 20, available in all Stances, damage reduced.
Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Damage reduced.
Patch 0.6 (2004-04-13): Damage increased.