Empower Rune Weapon

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Empower Rune Weapon
Inv sword 62.png
Properties
Class Death knight
School Physical
Cooldown 2 minutes
Talents
Talent required [Frostscythe] or [Biting Cold]
Related buff
  • Empower Rune Weapon
  • Haste increased by 15%.
    Generating 1 Rune and 5 Runic Power every 5 sec.
  • Duration: 20 seconds

Empower Rune Weapon is a Frost death knight talent that allows the death knight to empower their rune weapon, increasing their haste and runic power generation. Frost death knights can take this talent twice to gain an extra charge.

Notes

  • Curiously, this ability does not require a melee weapon, unlike its name suggests.

Patch changes

  • TheWarWithin-Petopia-Logo.png Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Removed from the class tree. Moved to row 6 in the Frost tree (was row 7).
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Haste bonus is now 33% effective in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 10 class talent and a row 7 Frost talent (was a level 48 Frost ability). Rank 2 removed.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added: Reduces cooldown by 15 seconds.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 48 (was 57).
  • BattleForAzeroth-Logo-Small.png Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Cooldown decreased to 2 minutes (was 3). Redesigned: Empower your rune weapon, gaining 15% Haste and generating 1 Rune and 5 Runic Power instantly and every 5 sec for 20 sec.
    Old: Empower your rune weapon, immediately activating all your runes and generating 25 Runic Power.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2016-10-28): Both Empower Rune Weapon and Hungering Rune Weapon now have a 1 minute cooldown when the Overpowered Rune Weapon PvP talent is taken.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now only available to Frost.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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