Thunder Clap

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Thunder Clap
Spell nature thunderclap.png
  • Thunder Clap
  • Row 4 warrior talent
  • 20 Rage
  • 6 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Blasts all enemies within 8 yards for (49.1% of Attack power) Physical damage and reduces their movement speed by 20% for 10 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

    If you have Rend, Thunder Clap affects 5 nearby targets with Rend.
Properties
Class Warrior
School Physical
Cooldown 6 seconds
Radius 8 yd
Talents
Talent required [Intervene] or [Storm Bolt]
Other information
Improvements [Crackling Thunder], [Crashing Thunder], [Lightning Strikes], [Strategist], [Thunderlord], [Thunderstruck], [Violent Outburst]
Related buff
  • Thunder Clap
  • Movement speed reduced by 20%.
  • Duration: 10 seconds

Thunder Clap is a warrior class talent that deals Physical damage and applies a debuff to targets reducing their movement speed. This is the warrior's main AoE tanking ability.

Notes

  • Thunder Clap creates threat equal to 1.75x damage done.
  • Thunder Clap's damage is physical and is mitigated by the armor of the opponent.

Tips and tactics

  • Thunder Clap is useful for tanking when a warrior needs to multi-tank a large number of mobs.
  • Be careful using this ability around crowd controlled mobs, as the damage it inflicts will likely break the crowd control effect. If possible it is best to apply Thunder Clap before crowd control, or to pull the mobs you wish to Thunder Clap away from the crowd controlled mobs.
  • Its AoE effect against opponents makes it especially useful in large battles.

Trivia

  • Thunder Clap was first used by Murgen Hammerfall.
  • Thunder Clap dealt Nature damage when the game was first released. This was quickly changed.

Patch changes

  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30) and now applies [Rend] by default if it is known.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Damage increased by 30%.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Thunder Clap damage reduced by 10%.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 4 class talent (was a level 19 Protection ability).
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Damage increased by 20%.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 19 (was 14). Now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
  • BattleForAzeroth-Logo-Small.png Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Can no longer be cast while the caster is pacified.
  • BattleForAzeroth-Logo-Small.png Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now reduces movement speed by 20% (was 50%).
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2017-01-17): Damage reduced by 14%.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now generates 5 Rage, and its damage has been increased.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2016-09-16): Most abilities used by Tank specializations have had their damage reduced by 10%.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2016-08-11): Thunder Clap will now more reliably hit targets near the edge of its radius.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer available to Arms. Damage increased by 48.8%.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.1.0 (2015-02-24): Snare effect now lasts for 10 seconds or 8 seconds while in PvP combat (up from 6 seconds).
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2015-01-12): Thunder Clap's damage has been increased by 40%.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): No longer available to Fury warriors. Now costs 10 Rage, and also reduces the movement speed of nearby enemies by 50% for 6 sec. No longer applies the Weakened Blows effect.
  • Mists-Logo-Small.png Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer increases time between attacks of affected targets. Now applies  [Weakened Blows].
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): This ability now counts as a ranged attack, granting it double damage on critical strikes instead of 150% and ranged miss chance, and still cannot be dodged or parried.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Damage increased, cooldown increased, will now affect all targets within a range.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22): This ability was left at 10% despite the haste effect changes. This means its potency has been reduced slightly.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): Visual and animation changed.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Now causes Physical damage instead of Nature damage; damage increased; duration increased with each new rank.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Damage increased.
  • Test-inline.png Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Damaged increased. Now deals nature damage instead of physical damage.

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