Thunder Clap

Thunder Clap is a point blank Area of Effect ability that causes physical damage and slows up enemies' attacks (that is, negative Haste). This is the warriors main AOE tanking ability.

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Thunder Clap is available at level 9 for.

Tips and Tactics

 * By slowing the enemies' attacks it effectively decreases the damage they inflict on you. This makes it especially useful when tanking.


 * Thunder Clap is useful for tanking when a warrior needs to multi-tank a large number of mobs. Other than Challenging Shout (which is on a 3-minute cooldown) and Shockwave (the 51-point protection talent), the warrior has no other real abilities that cause threat on multiple enemies at once.


 * Certain warrior glyphs can also help Thunder Clap. Glyph of Thunder Clap, a minor glyph, can be used to increase the radius of TC by 2 yards. Glyph of Resonating Power reduces Thunder Clap rage cost by 5.
 * 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.  Also be careful of using this around a mob your group's hunter is trying to draw into a Freezing Trap, as it may make it more difficult for the hunter to establish aggro on the mob.


 * Thunder Clap can be useful against melee PvP opponents, as it reduces their ability to inflict damage. Its AoE effect against opponents makes it especially useful in large battles.