- This article is about the Death Knight ability. For the Pet Battle ability, see
[Howling Blast]. For the trading card, see Howling Blast. For the glyph, see 
[Glyph of Howling Blast].
| Howling Blast | |
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| Properties | |
| Class | Death knight |
| School | Frost |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Talents | |
| Talent required |
 [Frost Strike] |
| Improvements |
 [Avalanche],  [Delirium],  [Icebreaker],  [Improved Rime],  [Invigorating Freeze],  [Obliteration],  [Rage of the Frozen Champion] |
| Related debuff | |
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Howling Blast is a Frost death Knight ability that allows the death knight to blast several targets around them for frost damage, and applies Frost Fever to multiple targets.
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Patch changes[]
- Hotfix (2023-08-21): Frost Fever damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
- Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Damage is now increased by 30% in PvP combat.
- Hotfix (2023-05-15):
- Howling Blast damage increased by 6%.
- Frost Fever damage increased by 12%.
- Hotfix (2023-02-06): Frost Fever damage increased by 15%.
- Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Frost talent (was a level 10 Frost ability).
- Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Level reduced from 55 to 10. Now deals reduced damage on secondary targets.
- Hotfix (2017-03-29): Howling Blast will now correctly deal its area damage if it kills the primary target.
- Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 50%.
- Hotfix (2016-09-23): Howling Blast damage increased by 10%.
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19):
- Direct damage reduced by 50%, AoE damage reduced by 57.5%.
- Frost Fever damage increased by 111%. Now also has a chance to grant the Death Knight 5 Runic Power each time it deals damage.
- Patch 6.2.3 (2015-11-17): Damage has been increased by 10%.
- Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now deals 20% more damage.
- Hotfix (2013-10-03): Howling Blast should no longer incorrectly grant a radius bonus when cast while the Death Knight is moving.
- Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now deals 15% more damage.
- Hotfix (2013-03-12): Howling Blast had its area-of-effect splash damage equal to 50% of the damage taken by the primary target (down from 65%).
- Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now deals 8% more damage to the primary target. Damage to other enemies in the area-of-effect remains unchanged.
- Hotfix (2012-10-01): Howling Blast and Unholy Blight now properly spread their diseases to the primary target as well as other targets within range.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 55 Frost ability (was a tier 7 Frost talent). Range increased from 20 to 30 yd. Now also infects all targets with Frost Fever.
- Hotfix (2011-05-19): Damage has been reduced by approxomately 8-9%.
- Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Damage has been increased by 20%. To compensate, the area-of-effect splash now does 50% of the single-target damage, down from 60%. The net result of this change leaves the area-of-effect damage roughly the same as 4.0.6 numbers. In addition, Howling Blast now has a facing requirement.
- Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now deals 40% less damage to all targets other than the primary target of the spell.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Cost reduced to one frost rune, down from one frost and one unholy. Moved from tier 11 to tier 7.
- Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Base damage and scaling doubled. This ability no longer deals bonus damage to targets with Frost Fever. 8-second cooldown. Swapped positions with [Hungering Cold] in the talent tree.
- Patch 3.0.8a (2009-01-27): The 5 second cooldown will now display correctly.
- Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Now has a 5 second Cooldown.
- Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
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