Colossus Smash

Colossus Smash
Colossus Smash Row 5 Arms warrior talent 45 sec cooldown Instant Requires Melee Weapon Smash the ground and shatter the armor of all enemies within 10 yds, dealing (306.263% of Attack Power) Physical damage and increasing damage you deal to them by 30% for 10 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Properties
Class	Warrior
School	Physical
Cooldown	45 seconds
Talents
Talent required	[Improved Overpower] or [Improved Execute]
Other information
Improvements	[Anger Management], [Sharpen Blade]
Related debuff
Colossus Smash Taking 30% additional damage from the Warrior. Duration: 10 seconds

Colossus Smash is an Arms warrior talent that deals damage and places a debuff on the target causing the warrior's attacks to deal 30% more damage for 10 seconds.

Trivia

Colossus Smash is one of Varian's Heroic Abilities in Heroes of the Storm. It also makes him hold his sword, Shalamayne, in two hands.

Patch changes

• Patch 12.0.0 (2025-01-20): Updated with the effects from [Warbreaker] – Smash the ground and shatter the armor of all enemies within 10 yards, dealing Physical damage and increasing damage you deal to them by 30% for 10 seconds. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. Icon updated from

  Old: Smashes the enemy's armor, dealing (306.26% of Attack power) Physical damage, and increasing damage you deal to them by 30% for 10 sec.
  

• Hotfix (2025-04-30): Can no longer be parried.
  
• Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25): Now has new visuals.
  
• Hotfix (2024-10-29): Damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2023-08-21): Warbreaker and Colossus Smash now increase damage taken by the target by 20% in PvP (was 30%).
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 Arms talent (was a level 19 Arms ability).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now available at level 19 (was 50).
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Has been redesigned as a major cooldown.
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Colossus Smash cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds), and damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-13): Colossus Smash's cooldown reduced to 30s.
  

Developers' Notes: The cooldown on Colossus Smash serves as bad luck protection against long streaks of [Tactician] not activating. At 45 seconds, the worst case scenario of actually waiting for the full cooldown to elapse was a rare occurrence that was particularly noticeable (and frustrating) when it happened. At 30 seconds, the majority of the time Colossus Smash will still reset before its cooldown elapses, but those unlucky streaks should feel a little better.

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now increases damage taken by the target instead of bypassing armor, and lasts for 8 seconds (up from 6 seconds). Rage cost removed, damage increased by 34.67%.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • Now available only to Arms warriors. Now requires Battle Stance. Now costs 20 Rage, deals 225% increased damage, and no longer increases the damage of Slam.
  • No longer causes Physical Vulnerability.
    
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Rage cost removed. Causes the  [Physical Vulnerability] effect on the target. Can now be used in any stance. No longer available to Protection specialization.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Colossus Smash now uses a new character attack animation.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now ignores 50% of a hostile player's armor (PvP), but continues to ignore 100% of a non-player character's armor (PvE).
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

Other versions

• Cataclysm Classic

  Colossus Smash
  Colossus Smash Level 81 warrior ability Melee range 20 sec cooldown Instant Requires Melee Weapon Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance Smashes a target for 150% weapon damage plus 120 and weakens their defenses, allowing your attacks to entirely bypass 100% of their armor for 6 sec. Bypasses less armor on players.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	20 seconds
  Other information
  Level learned	81
  Improvements	[Sudden Death]
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Colossus Smash]
  Related debuff
  Colossus Smash Defenses weakened, allowing the warrior's attacks to bypass 100% of their armor. Duration: 6 seconds

• MoP Classic

  Colossus Smash
  Colossus Smash Level 81 Arms warrior ability Level 81 Fury warrior ability Melee range 20 Rage 20 sec cooldown Instant Requires Melee Weapon Smashes a target for 175% weapon damage plus 2218 and weakens their defenses, allowing your attacks to bypass 100% of their armor for 6 sec, and causes the Physical Vulnerability effect on the target. Bypasses less armor on players. Physical Vulnerability Weakens the constitution of an enemy target, increasing their physical damage taken by 4% for 30 sec.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	20 seconds
  Other information
  Level learned	81
  Improvements	[Enrage]
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Colossus Smash]
  Related debuffs
  Colossus Smash Defenses weakened, allowing the Warrior's attacks to bypass 100% of armor. Duration: 6 seconds Physical Vulnerability Increases physical damage taken by 4%. Duration: 30 seconds

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