Skullsplitter

This article is about the warrior ability. For the troll tribe, see Skullsplitter tribe. For the axe, see  [Skullsplitter].

Skullsplitter
Skullsplitter Row 6 Arms warrior talent Melee range 21 sec cooldown Instant Requires Melee Weapon Bash an enemy's skull, dealing (120% of Attack power) Physical damage. Skullsplitter causes your Deep Wounds to expire instantly. Generates 15 Rage.
Properties
Class	Warrior
School	Physical
Cooldown	21 seconds
Talents
Talent required	[Tactician]
Improvements	[Tide of Blood]

Skullsplitter is a tier 6 Arms warrior talent.

Notes

Though the tooltip does not make it clear, this ability causes Deep Wounds to deal its full remaining damage all at once when you hit.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2023-05-15): Now causes expired bleeds to deal 65% damage (was 100%) in PvP Combat.
  
• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24):
  • Now causes [Mastery: Deep Wounds] to expire instantly.
  • Skullsplitter and [Tide of Blood] now work on absorb shields.
    
• Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Skullsplitter now generates 15 Rage (was 20) and cooldown reduced to 21 seconds to better align with Rend (was 30 seconds).
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 Arms talent (was a level 15 Arms talent).
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Added.
  

External links

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• WoWDB