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Comment by Mikezila

This is a great move to use against caster more than it is melee, oddly enough.

If I charge at a caster, I'm either stuck or feared, and I stay that way from 100% to 0%. I don't do enough damage between that brief moment of me being in their grill and me being cc'd in some way. With this, and lucky timing of my instant attacks and a heavy two-hander, sometimes I can kill them before I get pwned with deathcoil/fear or frostnova and pyroblast.

Not to say it doesn't work well on Rogues/Hunters/Paladin/etc.

Comment by 7999

This is one of the most devastating technique, both to the attackers and the warriors themselves. Make sure that there is a healer nearby, in case if the mobs/players overpower you (since you take 20% more damage). Use this spell in combination with whirlwind and cleave, in order to do maximum damage and to end the fight quickly.

Comment by 33684

You best make sure that you're either gonna end the fight quickly (for PvP) or that you don't get aggro (for PvE), because this stacked with zerker stance means you're taking 30% more damage than you would by default, and that's from all sources.

Comment by 47772

Though this is a leet-hax-pwnzorz move you pay survivability for damage.
If you pop all you have being a fury warrior (Deathwish, bloodrage, recklessness, etc.) Then in zerker stance you are taking tons of dmgz.

However, when you see the damage and crits you'll forget the fact that you are at 10% of health and about to die...

Oh well, atleast you killed the mage with the satisfation of knowing that you pwned him =D.

If you have the arms talent "impale" and use the fury talent "death wish" along with the Beserker power up in AV and WSG with "sweeping strikes" you should be able to get some pretty hard blows once you hit that recklessness key. whirlwind is key to this ability in pvp also.

But remmeber add all these power ups and you get a devistating 45% increase in damage done to you.

Comment by Ledynn

20% dmg taken doesnt matter if ur doing raidbosses, u will die anyway, the reason not to use it might be that u havent got enough threat reduction and u get aggro and you die. If your going to use this agains bosses, atleast wait until the tank has alot of aggro, maybe do it when the boss is at 20% and u start using execute. And it is also important that you have 100 rage when u activate recklessness so that u do the most damage possible in those 15 secs.

In pvp 20% doesnt matter, the thing that matters is that u get your target down fast, agains mages for example, u dont get alot of hits before ur dead, beacause he can easily cc u so u better get him down fast.

Comment by 117276

if you are being ganked by 4 mobs. switch to berserker stance. then activate this then use whirlwind, after that do a few cleaves and 1 more whirlwind before recklessness wears off. and you can serouisly damage those 4 mobs. and recklessness also gives 100% crit chance, plus the 3% from berserker stance plus the crit chance of your default character and you can end up with 113% cri chance :)

Comment by shockwaver

This should have lesser cooldown by default. Still it gives warriors pure enjoyment every 30 minutes. ;)

Comment by 133573

It has too long cooldown but still is very usefull sometimes in pvp. For example i did it in coombitation with blood fury and Battle shout against an priest. He was dead in seconds not even had time to heal himself ( he was probably disc, with no CoH )

Comment by 99119

People tend to regard Improved Disciplines as useless, but, as PvE, I find it excellent, because it allows me to use this ability on every boss fight, or on something like Gruul every other attempt. Combined with the 6 sec duration increase (to 21 sec) and Death Wish, it allows me to cause a massive amount of damage in very little time.

Comment by cheesepizza

Simply this is a face wrecking ability, a healer is recommended but it does win WSG games, if your sick of being stuck on 2 caps and they're turtling get some people go in and pop this and win the game.

Comment by 160603

Also a very nice tool to make sure your oponent knows your sick of them. If someone messes with me too much in a BG... well i rush in and pop this bad boy and see if I can't knock them out in 2 shots.

/sigh that'll all change though come 70 =/

Comment by 161863

This, from a warrior's stand point, is an improvement. Its a sixth of the cooldown, only draw back is that it effects secial attacks too. To be noted, this WILL procc Bloodsurge if you use Bloodthirst (% chance to reduce casting time of slam by 100%), and your Slam will crit too. Will also help you procc Rampage

Comment by 200633

i think they will buff the recklessness again beacause at the moment it is too inferior to other similar abilities (shield wall/retalliation)
3 yellow crits every 3.5 mins (fury specced) is really too little of a buff.
consider that you will have more than 30% crit already, so it is like giving you 2 yellow crits (you would have crit 1 attack out of 3 without using recklessnes eitherway)
and damage taken is increased by 20%?

really atm its nothing compared to shield wall and retalliation...

Comment by clavarnway

A tank popping this, then using Thunder Clap, then Shockwave, then another Thunder Clap, means he has MASSIVE aoe threat, since all 3 crit.

(You have to shift to Zerker Stance to pop Reck, then go back to Defensive)

Comment by 213288

how long is CD of Recklessness with imp. disciplines + intensify.rage?

Comment by 1779

Does the 20% damage modifier persist after 3 special attacks are made? If so, is this a buff (such that it can be removed by right-clicking the icon)?

In other words, do you take 20% additional damage for the whole 12 seconds, or does the additional damage taken expire upon reaching 3 special attacks?

Comment by Anarchy

Recklessness states that it increases your chance to critically hit with all special abilities (yellow), but it has no effect on heroic throw.

Comment by 182958

Would it be smart NOT to pop it when the boss is at about 30-50% hp and wait till the boss is at >20, so my executes do crits? I usually poped it mid boss fight pre-WotLK, but I'm wondering if it would be better to wait.

Comment by 41041

I'm not sure if this is a recent change, but Recklessness actually works better than what the tooltip states.

If you have the buff active, it will only consume charges on special attacks that would not otherwise be crits.

So you get the three guaranteed crit special attacks, plus whatever crits you would normally get.

Example:

Warrior casts Recklessness
Uses Bloodthirst - crit - 1 charge consumed
Uses Whirlwind - double crit - 1 charge consumed
Uses Bloodthirst - crit - no charge consumed (this was 'rolled' as a crit therefore the last remaining recklessness charge was not used)

It's obvious that the mechanics involved are more complex as previous iterations of the skill, as old recklessness used to simply add 100% to crit chance on the character screen (current version does not).

This effect can have negative consequences in PVP, as if you activate reck then go on a 'normal' crit streak, the buff (and the +20% damage taken debuff) can be active for longer than you would like.

Comment by makron

Effect #3 Apply Aura: Immune Mechanic (5)

Oddly enough, it still have fear immunity in the effect list.

Comment by JustAnt

Does this trigger global cooldown?

Edit: Just tested it and now know that infact it does trigger the GCD. So much to macroing this skill with Mortal Strike/Blood Thirst for a fast crit button!

Comment by 201822

You know, I never really paid attention to what the icon was, until I came across a 2 years old thread in the randomness forum (don't ask me why).

If you look on opposite sides of the red. And look closely, it's actually a blade splitting someone in half.

Pretty nasty picture compared to the rest of the game...

Comment by 173482

Also causes next three Bladestorm hits to crit, three 1.5k Bladestorm crits on 60 warrior its amazing. Bladestorm and recklessness press to kill everything within melee range :D

Comment by 194672

In 4.0.6 PTR patch notes it is said that Recklessness will be changed to increase critical strike chance by 50% for 12 seconds instead of giving three quaranteed criticals.

Comment by 435177

v4.0.6: Recklessness is really lethal in arms pvp now. It has no global cooldown, so you can macro it to Bladestorm (just make sure you are in Berserker Stance first)... along with Sweeping Strikes you'll get a TON of 150% weapon damage crits (helps to have at least 2 targets so that Sweeping Strikes works). Just remember that you will go down easily since you are taking 20% more damage for 12 seconds (sometimes it's better to just right-click the buff to turn it off if you are taking too much damage).

Comment by 534473

In regards to PvE, fury warriors will probably not forget to use this (and time it with cooldowns). Arms however, may forget, despite this being a huge dps cooldown, increasing dps by possibly 60/70% for its duration due to the value of crit for arms warriors. With good timing, you can switch to beserker stance, use this, and switch back again, within a global cooldown to avoid delaying your rotation (or even just use an ability in beserker stance while you're there).

Depending on fight duration, you may only get to use this once, or possibly twice. Time it accordingly. Ideally, you want to use this once at the start with other cooldowns, and once during the execute phase, preferably with deadly calm, trinket procs, potions, enrage, and collosus smash to spam 100k+ execute crits.

Comment by 363599

This ability, is at the very core of Warrior burst in PvP right now. This is what allows Warrior's to disintegrate their foes, this is the most important piece of the "One Shot Macro". Blizzard is mistaken thinking that it's Colossus Smash, but no, it's Recklessness. Recklessness combined with a +STR Trinket and Colossus Smash, makes for ungodly burst, even against high Resil targets.

Comment by Auriga

Currently on the PTR for 4.2 Recklessness (as well as Shield Wall and Retaliation) have no more stance requirement. I imagine it'll work well alongside Deadly Calm.

Comment by Zaalbeth

Patch 4.2.0:
Recklessness and Deadly Calm can no longer be used at the same time. One cannot be used while the other is active, but using one does not put the other on its full cooldown.
Retaliation, Recklessness and Shield Wall no longer have stance requirements.

Comment by 863867

Interesting strategy I'd like to share when facing a warrior using this in PvP:

If you have a disarm ability, use it immediately on the warrior when they activate this, making him unable to capitalize on this ability and YOU get the benefit of 20% extra damage :)

Worked very well for me last night as i fought a very well geared fury warrior one on one in Arena. Hope this gives some insight!

Comment by PerfeCisolation

This used to have a 1 HOUR cooldown a testament to how powerful it is :D

Comment by Thottbot

hehe.. imagine Recklessness with 2 fast 1handed weapons... caused about 7500-8000 dmg to Baron Rivendare with that combination... its just awesome..

Comment by Thottbot

basicly you turn into a rogue for 15 seconds

Comment by Thottbot

The damage intake doesn't matter because there is a reason for a defensive warrior tanking not DPS ones. DPS warriors can tank but don't use this when you do as you will go down quickly. The only good time to use this is when you are not tanking. Also the damage intake is not compareable to the crit. Crit is basically like 200% more damage sometimes and only 30% more damage from enemies.

Comment by Thottbot

A well-placed Goblin Sapper Charge during Recklessness can be devastating.

Comment by Thottbot

Umm no... sweeping does not fade when you change stances... i use sweeping strikes + whirlwind all the time...

Comment by Thottbot

1.warriors have more ap than rogues
2.the constant crits makes ur rage constant 100 almost so.

dinged lvl 50 today popped recklessness on ? hunter he died pretty darn fast. moment of love :)
cant hit so i gotta crit :)

Comment by Thottbot

If you pop Retaliation, ShieldWall or Recklessness & change stance you will KEEP them.

Just tried it now just to be sure. Hit Retallation & changed stances to zerk & def, it stayed no matter how many times I changed or what I changed to.

Comment by Thottbot

the percentage of crits is 100% =] so u crit with all attacks

Comment by Thottbot

Want to have some real fun?

Deathwish + Sweeping Strikes + Recklessness + WW

AoE warrior indeed. Just be careful about doing this alone because you will take 35% more damage if you stay in zerker stance after the whirlwind.

Comment by Thottbot

wow ur dumb
you gotta be lvl 70 to get into an arena team and get points and it will take like 3 months to get enough points

Comment by Thottbot

You see this is actually a furry warriors greatest weapon

Im a troll fury/arms
when i activate this + recklesness + beserking (and if your smart the trinket you got a macro to cast with it) throw in flurry it can devestate almost anything. you barely have to use rage dumpers (blood thirst, slam, HS)

the problem is too many class can retaliate to this

Lock-death coil
Paladin-Bub
Mage- freeze my goddamn feets
rogue-blind
hunter-ice trap
priest- divine sheild
shamans- not much if they try to kite you just peircing howl their ass
druid- roots

and during this time were open to a huge amount of dmg
i dont recomend this for pvp
the other two are much better
this is a nice way to take down a five pull tho
if you throw sweeping strikes in

Comment by Thottbot

Don't forget mind control. this makes you immune to fear, but not mind control from a priest or and engineer.

Comment by Thottbot

im an arms warrior
big pvper
tbh i never use this in BG
yeh the crits are nice but 20% damage taken ?
you hit the seck like a sack of $%^&

Comment by Thottbot

good spell. heroic strike > whirlwind > execute = corpse

Comment by Thottbot

I'm not going to say the following is the only use, strictly because I mean this for questing/grinding (PVE purposes).

What if, You get into Zerk stance, Bloodrage (10 rage) cast Recklessness and cast intercept.

If intercept does not count as one of the moves that automatically crits, you have 3 charges left. IF you are fury, and atleast level 53 you have the following : A Bloodthirst crit, Which has resulted in a Rampage (The reason why you want to use this spell) And instant cast Slam which will crit as well, and a Whirlwind, which will crit.

This may be "GREAT DAMAGE" for some, but maybe not for others, you might need to generate more rage before using this. The reason as for using intercept instead of charge is simply because:
1- You're in berserker stance from the beginning of the fight (To use recklessness and slam and bloodthirst and whirlwind).
2- You're in berserker stance and thus taking 10% extra damage plus 20% from Recklessness, and the 3 second stun would result in you maybe not taking as much damage.

The whole reason I posted, was in order to get rampage up (5% crit) Which requires fury spec.

While I was writing I realized this works for Arms, maybe with a Mortal Strike, Whirlwind, and who knows, since you got about 4 hits on, x 9% = Sudden death had a 36% chance to proc. So you may have a Execute crit in there.

BTW if you're not good with numbers or estimating, what you CAN do is the following:

Suppose a spell or ability has a 20% chance to proc.

/Roll and see out of how many times you get the numbers 1-20. If you get it on the first try you might want to do it again till you get 10 /rolls in.

For lower numbers, you might want to do it more, like 20 times. Seeing as you may get it later on, or first.

This works for calculating % of procs per hits. (Sword spec = 5%, or once every 20 hits)

(That is something you CAN do, just to give yourself an idea)

Comment by Thottbot

You see this is actually a furry warriors greatest weapon
Furry warriors are nice and soft. What you REALLY gotta watch out for is dem Fury warriors!

Comment by Allakhazam

So that you'd crit on all your return strikes? Just imagining the damage return on that. Even with the cooldown...
:P *evil grin*

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Recklessness

Recklessness

Instant	5 min cooldown

Grants your special attacks an additional 50% chance to critically hit, but increases all damage taken by 20%. Lasts 12 sec.

Buff

Recklessness

Critical chance of special attacks increased by 50%.
All damage taken increased by 20%.
12 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

12 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

5 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Modifies Critical Strike Chance (7)
Value: 51
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Heroic Strike	Cleave	Slam
	Whirlwind	Execute	Thunder Clap
	Heroic Leap	Revenge	Overpower
	Victory Rush	Heroic Leap	Heroic Throw
	Shattering Throw	Raging Blow Off-Hand	Colossus Smash
	Strike	Raging Blow	Mortal Strike
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	Concussion Blow	Devastate	Bloodthirst
	Shield Slam	Bladestorm	Shockwave
	Raging Blow

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod % Damage Taken (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 21%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Fleeing)
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

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Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Can Proc From Procs
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Recklessness

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