Death Wish

Death Wish
Death Wish Level 20 Fury warrior PvP talent 4 sec cooldown Instant Increases your damage taken and done by 10% for 15 sec at the cost of 10% of your health. Stacks up to 5 times.
Properties
Class	Warrior
School	Physical
Cooldown	4 seconds
Other information
Level available	20
Related buff
Death Wish Damage increased by 10%. Damage taken increased by 10%. Duration: 15 seconds Max stacks: 5

"I'd rather fight and die than spend the rest of my days stewing in my cowardice!"
—Boarguts the Impaler

Death Wish is a Fury warrior PvP talent that temporarily increases damage dealt by 5% at the cost of 10% of health. Stacks up to 5 times.

Notes and trivia

• Death Wish was an epic Warrior spell in the alpha of Hearthstone, but was removed prior to the game's release.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02):
  • Now has a 4 second cooldown (was 5 seconds), increases damage dealt and taken by 10%, and health cost increased to 10% (was 5%). Stacks up to 5 times (was 10).
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Death Wish from affecting sources of damage that were not Warrior ability or auto-attack damage.
    
• Hotfix (2018-10-04): Death Wish can no longer be cancelled. This was your wish.
  
• Hotfix (2018-09-26): Fixed a bug that caused Death Wish to only increase damage taken from Physical abilities, instead of all damage as intended.
  
• Hotfix (2018-08-06): Fixed a bug that caused Death Wish to reduce the cooldown of [Recklessness] when talented into [Anger Management].
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Converted from a rank 46 honor talent to a PvP talent.
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now has a 15 second cooldown, and stacks up to 15 times (was 5).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added as a Fury honor talent and redesigned. Increases damage done by 5% at the cost of 10% of total health. Stacks up to 5 times.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Replaced by [Bloodbath].
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a Tier 3 talent, down from Tier 5.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14):
  • No longer makes you immune to Fear effects.
  • Death Wish and [Sweeping Strikes] have swapped locations in their respective talent trees.
    
• Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Moved this talent from Fury to Arms.
  
• Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): Changed the effect of this talent from a debuff to a buff.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Death Wish and Enrage effects no longer stack.
  
• Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Death Wish and Enrage no longer stack.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Is now usable while under a Fear effect, which will also remove the Fear effect.
  

See also

• Death Wish, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB