Earthquake

Not to be confused with [Quake].

Earthquake
Earthquake Row 2 Elemental shaman talent 40 yd range 60 Maelstrom Instant Causes the earth within 8 yards of the target location to tremble and break, dealing (136.7% of Nature Spell Power) Physical damage over 6 sec and has a 5% chance to knock the enemy down. Multiple uses of Earthquake may overlap.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required	[Earth Shock]
Improvements	[Aftershock], [Eye of the Storm], [Further Beyond], [Mountains Will Fall], [Tumultuous Fissures], [Unrelenting Calamity], [Windspeaker's Lava Resurgence]
Related debuffs
Earthquake Suffering Physical damage every 1 sec with a chance to be knocked down. Earthquake Stunned. Duration: 1 second

Earthquake is an Elemental shaman talent.

Notes

• Earthquake is the primary AoE ability for elemental specced shaman. The knockdown is useful for trash fights in instances, and if enemy players can be made to stand in the effect, it can be useful in PvP as well.
• Earthquake's knockdown effect has a duration of 1 second, and is not affected by diminishing returns. It can only affect each target once per cast.
• The spell first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as the ultimate hero spell of orcish Far Seers.

Trivia

• Earthquake is the ultimate spell available to the Thrall and Far Seer hero units in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
• Earthquake is one of Thrall's Heroic abilities in Heroes of the Storm.
• Earthquake appears as a rare Shaman card in the Saviors of Uldum expansion for Hearthstone. Its flavor text reads: "Shake it, sh-sh-sh-shake it like a Kalimdor fissure."

Patch changes

• Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Tooltip now states that multiple Earthquakes can overlap.

  Developers' note: This is not a change in functionality, only a clarification on the spell's tooltip.
  

• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-01): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Elemental talent (was a level 38 Elemental ability).
  
• Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Damage increased by 70%.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 38 (was 48).
  
• Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): Range increased to 40 yards (was 35).
  
• Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29): Damage increased by 19%.
  
• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Earthquake damage increased by 30%, and no longer gains additional ticks with Haste.
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Duration is now 6 seconds (was 10 seconds) and damage per tick is now 50% (was 30%).
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Earthquake Totem has been renamed to Earthquake and no longer summons a totem. Now learned at level 48 (was 52).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Changed to Earthquake Totem. Now learned at level 52 (was 60).
  
• Hotfix (2014-11-19): Earthquake can now only Stun a target once per cast.
  
• Hotfix (2014-11-03): Earthquake's knock down effect is no longer affected by diminishing returns, but the knock down effect now only has a duration of 1.5 seconds.
  
• Hotfix (2014-10-30): Visuals are no longer visible for friendly players.
  
• Hotfix (2014-10-16): Resolved an issue where the first Earthquake would stop dealing damage when a second Earthquake was triggered by Echo of the Elements.
  
• Patch 6.0.3 (2014-10-28): Now costs 50% less mana.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Damage has been increased by 33%.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 60 Elemental ability (was a tier 7 Elemental Combat talent).
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Damage has been increased by roughly 75%.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): No longer a channeled spell. It now has a 2-second cast time, lasts for 10 seconds, and has a 10-second cooldown. Its damage has been reduced by 40% from its channeled version.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08):
  • Damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
  • Earthquake's mana cost is now correctly reduced by [Elemental Focus]' clearcasting proc.
    
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB