Colossus Smash

Colossus Smash
Colossus Smash Level 81 Arms, Fury warrior ability Melee range 20 sec cooldown Instant Requires Melee Weapon Smashes a target for 175% weapon damage plus X and weakens their defenses, allowing your attacks to entirely bypass 100% of their armor for 6 sec, and causes the Physical Vulnerability effect on the target. Bypasses less armor on players.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Cooldown	20 seconds
Other information
Level learned	81
Modified by	[Glyph of Colossus Smash]
Improvements	[Sudden Death]
Related debuffs
Colossus Smash Defenses weakened, allowing the Warrior's attacks to bypass 100% of armor. Duration: 6 seconds Physical Vulnerability Increases physical damage taken by 4%. Duration: 30 seconds

Colossus Smash is a warrior ability that deals damage and places a debuff on the target causing the warrior's attacks to bypass 100% of their armor for 6 seconds. When used on other players, Colossus Smash only bypasses 50% of their armor.

Improvements

• [Sudden Death]: Your melee hits have a 20% chance of resetting the cooldown on your Colossus Smash.

• Glyph of Colossus Smash
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Your Colossus Smash also applies the Sunder Armor effect to your target.
• Classes: Warrior
• Requires Level 25
• Sell Price: 1

Tips and Tactics

Colossus Smash is the most important new DPS Warrior ability, bar none. Against heavily-armored targets like plate-wearers in PVP and raid bosses, the damage increase from this ability can be substantial. It is imperative that a good DPS warrior keep Colossus Smash up almost all the time.

Colossus Smash has a 20 second cooldown and lasts 6 seconds, which means using the ability at the right time is vitally important. Colossus Smash should not be wasted on AOE trash, as they will not likely live long enough nor pose enough of a threat to be worth the commitment. It should also not be used on regular enemies that are about to die, as this will trigger the cooldown and stop you from using Colossus Smash on the next target. The exception, of course, is bosses, who should have Colossus Smash on them every second that it's possible to do so. Colossus Smash shines especially bright during the [Execute] phase of a raid boss fight.

Arms warriors can get the passive [Sudden Death], which gives a chance for each melee attack to reset the cooldown on Colossus Smash. With luck, this can allow Arms warriors to apply Colossus Smash back-to-back, allowing for 12 or more seconds of massive damage. Arms warriors should be careful to check that they don't already have Colossus Smash applied to a target before they spend a second one on that target as soon as they see the spell alert; clipping the duration of your Colossus Smash is a huge mistake that can cost a lot of DPS. Effects that grant Arms Warriors extra attacks, particularly their [Strikes of Opportunity] mastery, can also grant extra Colossus Smashes and therefore a lot of burst DPS.

Using Colossus Smash followed immediately by [Bladestorm] can deal a lot of damage.

Although Colossus Smash's main debuff has only a 6-second duration, it also causes the Physical Vulnerability effect, increasing physical damage taken by 4%, with a duration of 30 seconds.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer available to Protection specialization. Rage cost removed. Causes the Physical Vulnerability effect on the target. Can be used in any stance.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Colossus Smash now uses a new character attack animation.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now ignores 50% of a hostile player's armor (PvP), but continues to ignore 100% of a non-player character's armor (PvE).
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
  

External links

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• WoWDB