Spinning Crane Kick
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| Spinning Crane Kick | |
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| Properties | |
| Class | Monk |
| School | Physical |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Radius | 8 yards |
| Other information | |
| Level learned | 7 |
| Improvements |
 [Celestial Flames],  [Charred Passions],  [Counterstrike],  [Crane Vortex], [Dance of Chi-Ji],  [Fast Feet],  [Jade Ignition], [Mark of the Crane],  [Shuffle],  [Widening Whirl] |
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Spinning Crane Kick, commonly abbreviated "SCK", is a monk ability. While channelled it deals physical damage every 0.5 seconds for 1.5 seconds (without any haste). This is the main area of effect attack for monk, meaning that this is the main ability that is used when facing against multiple enemies.
Notes
- This ability is used in all three monk specs. For Brewmaster it generates AOE aggro and retrieves Healing Spheres (created by eg
[Gift of the Ox]); for Mistweaver it converts to healing via 
[Awakened Jadefire]; for Windwalker it is a Chi spender and source of AOE damage, especially with the [Dance of Chi-Ji] proc. - In Windwalker specialization a small number will be displayed on the button indicating how many targets are currently affected by [Mark of the Crane].
Patch changes
Hotfix (2024-05-07): Damage reduced by 10%. - Hotfix (2023-12-19): Damage increased by 20%.
- Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Damage increased by 5%.
- Hotfix (2023-07-24): Damage reduced by 20%.
- Hotfix (2023-05-02): Fixed an issue causing Spinning Crane Kick to deal more damage than intended.
- Hotfix (2023-02-06): Brewmaster damage increased by 15%.
- Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Damage increased by 20%.
- Hotfix (2023-01-09): Mistweaver damage increased by 5%.
- Hotfix (2022-11-21): Mistweaver damage increased by 5%.
- Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Rank 2 converted into the [Mark of the Crane] talent.
Patch 9.2.5a (2022-08-02): Damage reduced by 5%. - Hotfix (2022-03-28): Mistweaver damage increased by 30%.
- Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02):
- No longer maximum target capped and now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
- Rank 2 now increases Spinning Crane Kick's damage by 18% (was 15%) for each unique target struck with Blackout Kick, Tiger Palm and Rising Sun Kick in the last 20 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times (was 6).
- Hotfix (2021-07-13): Fixed an interaction between
[Storm, Earth, and Fire] and Spinning Crane Kick that dealt more damage than intended. - Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Damage increased by 20%.
- Hotfix (2021-03-22): Resolved an issue with Spinning Crane Kick that prevented the ability from gaining benefit from
[Mastery: Combo Strikes]. - Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09):
- Fixed an issue that caused
[Tiger Palm] to grant an additional stack of Mark of the Crane when Storm, Earth and Fire is active. - Fixed an issue that allowed Mark of the Crane to be maintained permanently at maximum stacks while fighting a single target.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Spinning Crane Kick's damage to not be properly increased by Mark of the Crane if targets die with the Monk's mark active.
- Fixed an issue that caused
- Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
- All Monks can now use Spinning Crane Kick at level 7 (was level 40 for Mistweaver and Windwalker only). Now capped at 6 targets.
- Brewmaster: Spinning Crane Kick has an additional effect – Dealing damage with Spinning Crane Kick grants Shuffle for 1 second, and causes your Gift of the Ox healing spheres to travel towards your location.
- Windwaker: damage is increased by up to 6 Mark of the Crane debuffs inflicted upon targets (was 5).
- Mark of the Crane moved to Rank 2, learned at level 33 for Windwalker.
Hotfix (2020-02-20): Resolved an issue that prevented Spinning Crane Kick from tracking the correct number of targets with your Mark of the Crane active. - Patch 8.1.5 (2019-03-12): Fixed several issues with Storm, Earth, and Fire clones not correctly applying the Mark of the Crane debuff.
Hotfix (2017-12-01): Reapplying Mark of the Crane to a target will now properly increase Spinning Crane Kick's damage. - Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13):
- Damage increased by 14%.
- Spinning Crane Kick's Mark of the Crane's damage bonus per target reduced to 40% (was 50%) per target.
- Hotfix (2016-09-23): Spinning Crane Kick (Mistweaver) damage reduced by 25%.
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned. Now available at level 40 (was 46) but no longer to Brewmaster monks. Spin while kicking in the air, dealing (300% of attack power) damage over 1.5 sec to enemies within 8 yds. Windwalker: Spinning Crane Kick's damage is increased by 50% for each unique target you've struck in the last 15 sec with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, or Rising Sun Kick.
- Previous: You spin while kicking in the air, dealing damage to all nearby enemies every 0.75 sec, within 8 yards. Movement speed is reduced by 30%. Generates 1 Chi, if it hits at least 3 targets. Lasts 2.2 sec. During Spinning Crane Kick, you can continue to dodge and parry.
- Previous: You spin while kicking in the air, dealing damage to all nearby enemies every 0.75 sec, within 8 yards. Movement speed is reduced by 30%. Generates 1 Chi, if it hits at least 3 targets. Lasts 2.2 sec. During Spinning Crane Kick, you can continue to dodge and parry.
Hotfix (2014-10-17): Damage has been increased by 20%. - Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now always generates 1 Chi, and no longer reduces movement speed.
Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now functions like a smart heal, healing the 6 most injured friendly targets within range, and minor guardians are no longer targeted (Wild Imps, Bloodworms, Snakes from Snake Traps, etc.). There has been no change to the total amount of healing granted by the ability. - Hotfix (2012-11-29): Mana cost increased by 30%.
- Hotfix (2012-10-08): The healing generated by Spinning Crane Kick has been reduced by 30%.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.
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