Sweeping Strikes
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| Sweeping Strikes | |
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| Properties | |
| Class | Warrior |
| School | Physical |
| Cooldown | 30 seconds |
| Other information | |
| Level learned | 10 |
| Improvements |
 [Collateral Damage] |
| Related buff | |
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Sweeping Strikes is an Arms warrior ability.
Patch changes
- Retail
Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Now a level 10 Arms ability (was a row 6 Arms talent). - Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 Arms talent (was a level 22 Arms ability). Duration increased to 15 seconds (was 12).
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now an active ability that makes all single-target abilities strike an additional target for 12 seconds. Now baseline for Arms at level 22 (was a level 15 Arms talent).
- Old: Mortal Strike and Execute hit a second nearby target.
- Old: Mortal Strike and Execute hit a second nearby target.
Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Makes 
[Mortal Strike] and 
[Execute] hit 2 additional nearby targets (was 1). - Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned into a passive level 15 talent. Now causes Mortal Strike and Execute to hit a second nearby target.
- Old: Your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent for 50% damage. Lasts 10 sec. Using this ability in Defensive Stance activates Battle Stance.
- Old: Your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent for 50% damage. Lasts 10 sec. Using this ability in Defensive Stance activates Battle Stance.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now requires Battle Stance. 
Hotfix (2014-01-21): Resolved an issue that resulted in damage being calculated incorrectly when used against targets with a greater than 75% reduction to damage from armor. - Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Damage to secondary targets should no longer be affected by Resilience or PvP Power if the primary target was a player as both had already been factored in for the initial damage calculation.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Can now be used in any stance. Cooldown reduced from 1 minute to 10 seconds. Now a level 60 Arms ability (was a tier 3 Arms talent).
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now affects all attacks within 10 seconds instead of affecting your next 5 melee attacks. Cooldown increased to 1 minute (was 30 sec). Moved to tier 3 (was tier 5). 
Hotfix (2009-12-17): Sweeping Strikes will now only trigger once per whirlwind rotation of Bladestorm. - Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Corrected inaccurate information in combat log tooltip.
- Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14):
[Death Wish] and Sweeping Strikes have swapped locations in their respective talent trees. 
Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets. - Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13):
- Sweeping Strikes and Death Wish have swapped locations in the talent trees.
- Sweeping Strikes now lasts 10 seconds and affects your next 10 swings.
- This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.
- Before the patch, the number of swings was 5.
- Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): This ability will no longer be modified erroneously on additional targets by percent modifiers to your damage.
Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Sweeping Strikes will now ignore dead targets, and will ignore PvP enabled targets if you are not PvP enabled. - Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Sweeping Strikes bug fixed. It will hit more reliably and show up in combat log correctly.
- Classic
- Patch 5.5.1 (2025-09-23): Damage increase from patch 5.5.0 decreased to 0% (was 10%).
- Patch 5.5.0 (2025-07-01):
- No longer double dips % damage taken modifiers on the additional target struck.
- Now deals 60% of the attack's damage to 1 additional target (was 50%).
See also
- Sweeping Strikes, TCG card
Other versions
Classic
Sweeping Strikes 
- Sweeping Strikes
- Tier 5 Arms warrior talent
- 30 Rage
- 30 sec cooldown
- Instant
- Requires Battle Stance
- Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
Properties Class Warrior School Physical Cooldown 30 seconds Related buff - Sweeping Strikes
- Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
- Duration: 20 seconds
BC Classic
Sweeping Strikes - Sweeping Strikes
- Tier 5 Fury warrior talent
- 30 Rage
- 30 sec cooldown
- Instant
- Requires Battle Stance
- Your next 10 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
Properties Class Warrior School Physical Cooldown 30 seconds Related buff - Sweeping Strikes
- Your next 10 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
- Duration: 10 seconds
Wrath Classic
Sweeping Strikes - Sweeping Strikes
- Tier 5 Arms warrior talent
- 30 Rage
- 30 sec cooldown
- Instant
- Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance
- Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
Properties Class Warrior School Physical Cooldown 30 seconds Glyphs 
[Glyph of Sweeping Strikes]Related buff - Sweeping Strikes
- Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
- Duration: 30 seconds
Cataclysm Classic
Sweeping Strikes - Sweeping Strikes
- Tier 3 Arms warrior talent
- 30 Rage
- 1 min cooldown
- Instant
- Requires Battle Stance, Berserker Stance
- Your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent. Lasts 10 sec.
Properties Class Warrior School Physical Cooldown 1 minute Glyphs [Glyph of Sweeping Strikes]Related buff - Sweeping Strikes
- Your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
- Duration: 10 seconds
MoP Classic
Sweeping Strikes - Sweeping Strikes
- Level 60 Arms warrior ability
- 30 Rage
- 10 sec cooldown
- Instant
- Your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent for 50% damage. Lasts 10 sec.
Properties Class Warrior School Physical Cooldown 10 seconds Other information Level learned 60 Glyphs [Glyph of Sweeping Strikes]Related buff - Sweeping Strikes
- Your melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
- Duration: 10 seconds
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