Empower Rune Weapon

Empower Rune Weapon
Empower Rune Weapon Level 57 Frost death knight ability 3 min cooldown Instant Empower your rune weapon, immediately activating all your runes and generating 25 Runic Power.
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
School	Physical
Cooldown	3 min
Other information
Level learned	57

Empower Rune Weapon is a level 57 Frost death knight ability that allows the death knight to empower their rune weapon, effectively resetting the cooldowns on almost all their abilities and enabling many Runic Power abilities as well. Predictably, this ability is not affected by, nor does it trigger the global cooldown.

Curiously, this ability does not require a melee weapon, unlike its name suggests.

Notes

This ability is seldom used in regular rotations, but do not forget about it - it is very powerful and can turn the tide of a battle if used properly.

Patches and hotfixes

• Hotfix (2016-10-28): "Both Empower Rune Weapon and Hungering Rune Weapon now have a 1 minute cooldown when the Overpowered Rune Weapon PvP talent is taken."
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now only available to Frost.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

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