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Warrior talent · row 6 of Arms, from level 35 (30 with Talented 5/5) · Physical

Improved Slam

Improved Slam

Reduces the global cooldown and cast time of your Slam ability by 0.25/0.5 sec. In addition, Slam no longer interrupts or delays your melee swing and Slam's cooldown is reduced by 3 sec.

Game files · build 1.60.1.70245Read from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70245.

Compared with Classic

Classic tooltip

Decreases the casting time of your Slam ability by 0.1 sec.

DataClassicForever
effect 2noneadded
effect 3noneadded
effect 4noneadded
effect 5noneadded
effect 6noneadded
effect 7noneadded
effect 8noneadded
effect 1 value-100-500

In Blizzard's notes

What Blizzard said about Improved Slam, each line checked against the files.

  • Partly

    Improved Slam now reduces the cooldown of Slam by 1.5/3 seconds.

    The files The client files agree with the note. The tooltip says 1.5/3 sec and build 70009 added a -1.5/-3 sec rank value for Slam's cooldown (12862). Blizzard's hotfix data captured on 70245 deletes that rank value, so the live numbers per rank aren't confirmed.

    Improved SlamSlamDevelopment Notes, September 24

  • Matches the files

    Improved Slam: Moved from Fury to row 6 of Arms and redesigned. Only 2 points. Reduces the cooldown, global cooldown, and cast time of Slam, and Slam no longer delays or interrupts your melee auto attack swing time.

    The files Classic Fury row 5 with 5 ranks; 70245 Arms row 6 with 2 ranks. The tooltip cuts GCD and cast time by 0.25/0.5 sec and the cooldown by 1.5/3 sec, with no swing delay (spell 12862); the 70245 hotfix deletes the per-rank values of the cooldown part, so rank 1's number is unclear.

    Improved SlamSlamClass deep dives: Priest and Warrior

History

  1. 70009 Sep 24
    • tooltip text reworded
    • effect 8 added: none to aura 332, value 1,310,200
    • aura (effect 3): aura 332 to aura 107
    • value (effect 3): 1,310,196 to -3,000
    • value (effect 4): 1,310,197 to 1,310,196
    • value (effect 5): 1,310,198 to 1,310,197
    • value (effect 6): 1,310,199 to 1,310,198
    • value (effect 7): 1,310,200 to 1,310,199
    • 6 internal settings the client doesn't explain
  2. 69876 Sep 16First beta build we archived