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Comment by 144159

This may seem extremely overpowered, but you have to keep in mind that this ability is yet to be seen on ptr, and ofcourse you will have to expect a cooldown similar to Kidney Shot or Hammer of Justice.

Comment by Ganbantein

here's a cool macro:

/cast Throwdown
/yell I THREW IT ON THE GROUND

use it and you will feel like Andy Samberg

Comment by ShadowRaver

Sounds like a great ability to totally slaughter someone using blade storm.

Comment by martzianu999

yeah.. if u stun a rogue with this..u can crush him with lolstorm without getting any dodge ...

Comment by AG007

What's the cooldown? any1 know?

Comment by Floude

well, this ability will be nerfed after first month of cataclysm. that's the what they did to hunters after wotlk's first month (tnt talent)

Comment by Septimus

Could be used in conjunction with some other abilities to give Arms an extremely strong opener in PvP.

Pop Deadly Calm, Charge, Colossus Smash, Mortal Strike (Hopefully critting). This should leave you with enough rage for a Throwdown/Piercing Howl-Bladestorm Combo.

Comment by 583111

Hoedown Throwdown!

Comment by 195264

A knock-down and a stun in one spell-simply OP.

Comment by 175315

Because you have to remember that Fury has an interrupt

Aaaaand... WHO DOESN´T? Yes, the have their own interrupt, pummel, but Arms and Prot have an ability called Shield Bash... Yes, you need the shield, but as far as I know, it can be switched in combat and you cen use it anytime you want with macro like this:
/equip Shieldname
/cast Shield Bash
/equip Yournormalweaponname

Comment by 549667

Hmm, I'm curious if this shares a deminishing return (DR) with charge.

To my knowledge charge has a normal DR with most stuns, for instance intercept, and the DR internal cooldown is ~20 seconds. Blizz is (finally) putting cheap shot and kidney shot on the same DR (no clue whatsoever why it wasn't from the beginning). As such one could expect charge to share the DR with throwdown. However, charge is only a 1.5s stun, which is indeed enough to interrupt, but the actual reasoning behind the stun isn't the stun so much as it is keeping the target in the same place once you get there, rather than charging to the point where they were 2 seconds ago, which would be pointless. Throwdown is a 5s stun with a 45s cooldown, rather powerful, but still a long CD. If the DR is shared then you would either have to wait ~20 seconds after charging to use it(often times you'd be using another charge at this point), not charge the target but actually chase them down (lol, yeah right), or simply accept that it's really a 2.5s stun with a 45s cooldown, which just seems alot like false advertising.

So if it isn't on a DR with charge, it is a rather powerful skill, but I think still balanced and somewhat needed. If it is on a DR with charge, then more often than not it's actually a 2.5s stun, which is still useful, but really not as powerful as it seems. In fact, it may be even less useful on account of further deminishing intercept's stun, making it rather situational and require alot of foresight to determine whether or not to use it.

Comment by Chesco

Love the spell, it has the animation of you backhanding someone. Makes me think of this every time I use it POW RIGHT IN THE KISSER! Great spell though, got to love to stun a rogue stunning you. XD

Comment by 690412

I actually think that it's kinda funny how the Retribution Paladins come out and complain about this.

If not only here, then absolutely everywhere on my server...like, really?

Comment by 550302

This ability needs exactly one nerf - remove the knock down effect completely. It's not only graphic, it makes trinketing have no effect until you are standing up again. Not only warriors, but nobody needs to have 3 secs of completely untrinketable cc, especially come cata where people die in 6 - 10 seconds. Throwdown, free 3 secs no matter what the opponent does. Blizzard's doing silly stuff just to have an animation for this.

If you disagree with this you obviously have no clue about pvp. The whole stun duration it has now can stay, no problem, just remove the silly knock down.

Comment by Superchief

Guaranteed to miss, dodge, parried in pvp.

Comment by akrees

This ! Is ! SPARTA!

Comment by ChickNourish

I can't help but laugh every time I see this in action, and it was one of the reasons I loved warriors back in Cata so much. !@#$% slapping someone to the ground complete with a funny and badass sound effect was just... so satisfying. I don't even care what happened after that. I would even knock down a mage even though he'd just blink out and kite me to death. I was the real victor and he knows it. He might have the HK, but I have the last laugh. Cause that $%^& is so damn funny.

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Throwdown

Talent

15 Rage	Melee Range

Instant cast	45 sec cooldown

Knocks the target to the ground and stuns it for 5 sec.

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Spell Details

Duration

5 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

Stunned

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

15 Rage

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

45 seconds

GCD

1.5 seconds

Forms

Battle Stance

Effect

Apply Aura: Stun
Value: 1
Mechanic: Stunned
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Initiates Combat (Enabled Auto-Attack)
Discount Power On Miss
Requires main hand weapon
Not In Spellbook Until Learned

Throwdown

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