Rend

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Overview

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Rend is a damage over time ability. It is an instant cast, so it doesn't replace a normal attack. It is also one of the few warrior attacks that isn't mitigated by enemy armor.

Even without investing in talents to improve it, Rend is a very rage-efficient attack. Investments in [Improved Rend] and [Blood Frenzy] makes it shine even brighter. It's disadvantages are partly that only one Rend per player can be active on a target at any time, and partly that it loses efficiency if the target dies before the Rend has completed it's duration. Also, Rend can not be used in Berserker Stance.

Use

• Cast Cost: 10 Rage
• Cast Time: Instant
• Duration: 9-21 seconds (varies with rank)
• School and Damage Type: Physical (Bleed)
• Targets/Positioning: Single target/front
• Range: 5 yards (Melee)
• Cooldown: Global
• Stances: [Battle Stance], [Defensive Stance]
• Requires a melee weapon

Talents

[Improved Rend] (Increases added weapon based damage by up to 75%)
[Blood Frenzy]

Rank Table

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Additional damage

In addition to the base damage, Rend will deliver extra damage depending on how hard the weapon hits. The formula looks a bit complicated, but it basically calculates the average weapon damage modified for attack power and takes a fraction of this:

                 Weapon Speed x Attack Power                                          743  
Extra damage = ( --------------------------- + Average Weapon Damage ) x Duration x ------
                             14                                                     300000

Note, The DPS of the weapon isn't the most important factor. It's much more important that the weapon is slow.

Example: Wally the Warrior has an attack power of 1400, and he uses a Rend with a duration of 21 seconds. When he uses  [The Unstoppable Force] (Speed 3.8, average damage 233½) his rends will do 32 points additional damage. When he uses  [Widow's Remorse] (Speed 1.6, average damage 100½) his rends will only do 13 points of additional damage, even though Widow's Remorse has a slightly higher DPS-rating than the Unstoppable Force.

Tips and Tactics

This is also a good skill to use in PvP against Rogues, as it makes it more difficult (but not impossible) for them to use [Vanish] and an additional opener such as [Cheap Shot] or [Ambush].

As with other bleeding effects, elementals and skeletal undead are immune to Rend.

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