Execute

Execute
Execute Level 10 warrior ability Melee range 20 to 40 Rage 6 sec cooldown Instant Requires Melee Weapon Attempts to finish off a foe, causing up to (504.428% of Attack Power) Physical damage based on Rage spent. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
Properties
Class	Warrior
School	Physical
Cooldown	6 seconds
Other information
Level learned	10
Improvements	[Critical Thinking], [Cruel Strikes], [Executioner's Precision], [Heavy Handed], [Improved Execute], [Lightning Strikes], [Massacre], [Sharpened Blades], [Strategist], [Sudden Death], [Thorim's Might], [Unrelenting Onslaught]
Glyphs	[Glyph of Hawk Feast]

Showing weakness to a Warrior is a death sentence.

In the TCG.

Execute is a level 10 warrior ability. It's a heavy-damage ability that can only be used on targets with less than 20% of their health left.

Notes and trivia

• Execute is a basic Warrior spell in Hearthstone. The flavor text reads: "It's okay, he deserved it."

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2025-05-27): Damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2025-03-25): Damage increased by 25% in PvP combat.
  
• Hotfix (2025-03-04):
  • Damage reduced by 15%.
  • Damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
    
• Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25): Damage increased by 32%.
  
• Hotfix (2024-10-29): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2024-10-08): Damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13):
  • Damage increased by 50%.
  • Damage is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    
• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Hotfix (2024-05-07): Fury: Damage is now increased by 80% in PvP combat (was 65%).
  
• Hotfix (2024-03-12):
  • Arms: Damage increased by 25% in PvP (was 15%).
  • Fury: Damage increased by 65% in PvP (was 50%).
    
• Hotfix (2023-12-05): Now deals 50% additional damage in PvP combat (was 40%).
  
• Hotfix (2023-08-21):
  • Damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Fury damage is increased by 40% in PvP (was 25%).
    
• Hotfix (2023-07-24): Fury damage is now increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 10%).
  
• Hotfix (2023-02-27): Fury damage increased by 10% in PvP. Arms and Protection damage unchanged.
  
• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): damage increased by 15%.
  
• Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15):
  • Fixed an issue causing Execute to sometimes incur a cooldown if you had [Improved Execute] talented on a different specialization.
  • Execute damage reduced by 7%.
  • Execute no longer deals 13% reduced damage in PvP combat.
    
• Hotfix (2022-10-31): Fixed an issue where Execute would be on cooldown when talented into Improved Execute.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Additional ranks removed. No longer refunds Rage in Arms spec.
  
• Patch 9.2.5 (2022-05-31): (Arms/Protection) Execute damage increased by 15%. This change does not apply to PvP.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now requires level 10 (was 8). Now available to all warrior specializations (was Arms and Fury only).
  
• Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): (Arms) Rank 2 now refunds 20% rage, down from 30%.
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): (Arms) Rage cost increased to 20, Rank 2 (Arms Level 28) added with effect: Execute now refunds 30% of its rage cost if target survives.
  
• Hotfix (2017-06-13): Extra Executes from Sweeping Strikes now correctly benefit from the [Precise Strikes] Artifact Trait.
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): (Arms) Execute damage increased by 25%. If the target does not die, 30% of the Rage spent on Execute is refunded.
  
• Hotfix (2016-10-25): Execute now deals 15% more damage in PvP situations.
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 8%.
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-23): Execute (Fury) damage increased by 5%.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer available to Protection warriors. Damage for Arms increased by 20%. Damage for Fury increased by 32.8%.
  
• Hotfix (2016-03-03): Now deals 10% less damage against another player.
  
• Patch 6.1.0 (2015-02-24): Damage decreased by 11.4%.
  
• Hotfix (2014-12-08): Fury damage has increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2014-10-14): Resolved an issue where Execute could incorrectly cause the Warrior to receive 100 Rage.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • Arms: Now costs 10 Rage, and consumes up to 30 additional Rage to deal additional damage. Sudden Death causes auto-attack hits to have a 10% chance to make the next Execute free and useable on any target, regardless of health level. These Executes do not consume additional Rage to deal additional damage.
  • Fury: Crazed Berserker now also causes Execute to hit with the off-hand weapon.
    
• Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now deals 15% less damage.
  
• Hotfix (2012-09-25): Damage has been decreased by 7%.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Can now be used in any stance and costs 30 Rage, up from 10. No longer consumes additional Rage for more damage.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 17%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 16 (was 24).
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): This ability now never costs more than a total of 30 rage. The tooltip for [Sudden Death] has been revised to remove reference to that maximum, since the ability now behaves that way even when untalented.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): When used with [Sweeping Strikes], ranks 6 and 7 of this ability will no longer cause full damage to secondary targets who are not wounded.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Full rage is no longer consumed when the ability does not hit.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Added.
  

See also

• Execute, TCG card

Other versions

• Classic

  Execute
  Execute (5 ranks) Level 24 warrior ability Melee range 15 Rage Instant Requires Melee Weapon Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing 125 damage and converting each extra point of rage into 3 additional damage. Only usable on enemies that have 20% or less health.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	24
  Improvements	[Improved Execute]

• BC Classic

  Execute
  Execute (7 ranks) Level 24 warrior ability Melee range 15 Rage Instant Requires Melee Weapon Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing 125 damage and converting each extra point of rage into 3 additional damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	24
  Improvements	[Improved Execute]

• Wrath Classic

  Execute
  Execute (9 ranks) Level 24 warrior ability Melee range 15 Rage Instant Requires Melee Weapon Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing (93 + 20% of Attack power) damage and converting each extra point of rage into 3 additional damage (up to a maximum cost of 30 rage). Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	24
  Improvements	[Improved Execute], [Sudden Death]
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Execution]

• Cataclysm Classic

  Execute
  Execute Level 16 warrior ability Melee range 10 Rage Instant Requires Melee Weapon Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing (10 + 43.7% of Attack power) physical damage and consumes up to 20 additional Rage to deal up to (87.4% of Attack power) additional damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	16
  Improvements	[Executioner], [Sudden Death]

• MoP Classic

  Execute
  Execute Level 7 warrior ability Melee range 30 Rage Instant Requires Melee Weapon Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing 6886 physical damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health.
  Properties
  Class	Warrior
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	7
  Glyphs	[Glyph of Crow Feast],  [Glyph of Executor]

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