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Icy Talons
Spell deathknight icytalons
  • Icy Talons (2 ranks)
  • Row 9 death knight talent
  • Passive
  • Your Runic Power spending abilities increase your melee attack speed by 3/6% for 10 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Properties
Class Death knight
Talents
Talent required Ability racial wardoftheloafrost [Insidious Chill] or Inv artifact bloodoftheassassinated [Blood Draw]
Related buff
Spell deathknight icytalons
  • Icy Talons
  • Attack speed increased 3/6%.
  • Duration: 10 seconds
  • Max stacks: 3

Icy Talons is a death knight class talent.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-19): Duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 9 class talent (was a level 15 Frost talent). Now increases attack speed by 3/6% (was 5%).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now available at level 15 (was 56).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now triggers from all Runic Power spending abilities (was only Frost Strike) and increases melee attack speed by 5% (was 12%) per stack.
  • Legion Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29): Attack speed bonus increased to 12% (was 10%).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now a level 56 talent (was a level 55 passive ability). Redesigned: Spell deathknight empowerruneblade2 [Frost Strike] now grants a stacking attack speed bonus.
    Previous effect: Your attack speed is increased by 20%, your Haste is increased by 10%, and you gain 20% more of the Haste stat from all sources.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-01-12): Now causes the Death Knight to gain 20% (was 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now increases attack speed by 20% (was 45%). Additionally, now serves as the secondary stat attunement for Frost, increasing Haste by 10% and causing the death knight to gain 5% more of the Haste stat from all sources.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2014-01-06): Now increases melee attack speed by 45% (was 30%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-03-05): Now increases attack speed by 30% (was 25%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now increases attack speed by 25% (was 20%).
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a passive Frost specialization bonus (was a tier 3 talent in the Frost tree). Redesigned: now grants a flat increase to attack speed.
    Previous effect: You leech heat from victims of your Frost Fever, so that when their melee attack speed is reduced, yours increases by 4/6/12/16/20% for the next 20 sec.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): The personal haste benefit provided by this talent is no longer exclusive with other sources of melee haste. This will allow death knights to always swing 4/6/12/16/20% faster when Frost Fever is applied. Spell nature windfury [Windfury Totem] and the party/raid component of Spell deathknight icytalons [Improved Icy Talons] still do not stack.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now has a new icon (previously used Spell nature ravenform.)
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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