Despair

For other uses, see Despair (disambiguation).

• Despair
• Item Level 97
• Binds when picked up
• Sword
• Two-Hand
• Speed 3.60
• 30 – 52 Damage
• (11.4 damage per second)
• +20 Strength
• Chance on hit: Attempts to impale the target, causing 77 damage.
• Durability 120 / 120
• Requires Level 27
• Sell Price: 4 88 41

Despair.

Despair is an epic two-handed sword that drops from Romulo and Julianne in Karazhan.

Warrior testing regarding the Impale proc

• It IS modified by 2H talent, death wish, enrage, blood frenzy, rogue hemorrhage, world damage modifiers (stacking effects where applicable).
• It IS NOT affected by impale talent (for crits).
• It can miss, and be absorbed by shields.
• It can't be dodged, blocked, or parried, and is NOT affected by armor.
• It procs from white attacks, instants (that attack with your weapon), extra attacks, and can chainproc itself.
• Impale hit/crit is independent of the attack that caused it to proc, and its damage does not generate rage.
• Crit impale does not proc flurry.
• It looks like approximately 3% proc rate with no internal cooldown. (35 procs out of 1064 attacks = 35/1099 = 3%)
• In PvE it could make up 1-5% of your total raid damage because of the complete armor mitigation.
• In PvP it can provide good burst damage, especially coupled with sword spec, to make even hamstring a deadly weapon.
• Base: 600 Crit: 1200 e.g. 2H + Death Wish = 756 hit / 1512 crit
• 2H + 5% world bonus
• SS + WW + Impale

Paladin testing regarding the Impale proc

• With Seal of Righteousness active, Impale does not produce a second SoR - the most at once was White/SoR/Impale.

Trivia

While the name is generic, the rest of Julianne's loot explicitly references the play and the name does fit the theme of the doomed lovers.

Patch changes

• Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Added.
  

External links

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• WoWDB