Rending Strike

General Information

• An active ability found on the first slot of Axes. It is unlocked at mastery level 1.

Rending Strike	Energy Cost	6	Attack the targeted enemy, dealing 189 physical damage. Applies one Rending Bleed Charge. Each Rending Bleed Charge deals 88 physical damage over 6s (stacks up to 3 times). If the maximum amount of stacks is reached, the affected enemies' Healing Received is reduced by 12% for 5s.
	Cast Time	Instant
	Range	3m
	Cooldown	2s

Note: numerical values are based on gear with 1060 item power. Affected values are in italic.

Equipment

Melee Weapon Elder's Battleaxe Elder's Bear Paws Elder's Carrioncaller Elder's Halberd Elder's Infernal Scythe Elder's Realmbreaker The Hand of Khor

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Related Patch Notes

Patch Link	Date	Patch Name	Patch Notes
Version 18.090.1	28 July 2021	Call to Arms Patch 9	Added four new icons to better represent the corresponding abilities: Blood Bandit (One-Handed Axe, E-slot) Protective Beam (Enigmatic Staff, E-slot) Arcane Orb (One-Handed Arcane Staff, E-slot) Ground Shaker (Maces, W-slot)
Version 18.000.1	17 March 2021	Call to Arms Update	Rending Strike (all Axes): Damage: 60.33 → 54 Rending Rage (all Axes): Time window until combo resets: 3s → 2.5s Damage: 50 → 62
Version 1.17.406.180488	2 December 2020	Rise of Avalon Patch 10 and Hotfix 10.1	Axes New Q-slot ability: Rending Rage (all Axes): Unleashes attacks hitting enemies up to 3 times in a cone in front of you. Each hit deals 50 physical damage. On the third hit, leap up to 9m forward and root enemies hit for 1s. After the third hit the ability goes on cooldown; waiting 3s between attacks causes Rage to time out and restart with the first hit. In this case, cooldown is cancelled. Rending Strike (all Axes): Standtime: 0.3s→ 0.2s Hit Delay: 0.2s→ 0.15s Vampiric Strike (Battleaxe): Cooldown: 15s→ 10s Hit Delay: 0.4s→ 0.3s Standtime: 0.8s→ 0.4s Energy cost: 18→ 12 Damage: 136.01→ 150 Auto-attack (Bear Paws): Auto-attacks per second: 0.8→ 1.4 Auto-attack Damage: 56→ 32 Aftershock (Realmbreaker): Cone no longer reduces Max Energy Instead it reduces enemy Max Health by 20% for 3s Debuff Duration: 3s→ 5s
Version 1.16.396.166567	19 May 2020	Queen Patch 12 (Season 9 Balance Patch) and Hotfix 12.1	Axes Rending Strike (all Axes): Energy Cost: 2 → 1.6 Raging Blades (all Axes): Energy Cost: 15 → 11 Morgana Raven (Carrioncaller): Projectile Range: 15m → 20m Projectile Speed: 13.68m/s → 20.00m/s Hit Delay: 0.2 → 0.3 Standtime: 1s → 0.6s Healing Reduction: 35% → 40%
Version 1.13.369.136513	20 February 2019	Nimue Balance Patch (Patch #7)	Axes Rending Strike (all Axes) Energy Cost: 3 → 2 Healing Reduction per stack: 7% → 5% Hit Delay: 0.4s → 0.2s Standtime: 0.4s → 0.3s Rending Swing (all Axes) Hit Delay: 0.2s → 0.3s Energy Cost: 2 → 3 Healing Reduction per stack: 7% → 5% Deadly Chop (all Axes) Damage: 174.04 → 152.00 Adrenaline Boost (all Axes) Movement Speed Increase: 40% → 50% Damage Increase: 20% → 25% Removed the ability Battle Frenzy (all Axes) Added the new ability: Battle Rush Charge toward a target (ally or enemy). Enemy Healing Received is reduced 20% for 4s in a 5m radius. Ally Healing Received is increased by 20% for 4s in a 5m radius.
Version 1.11.357.113403	12 March 2018	Lancelot Update	Axes: Rending Strike: Bleed Duration: 4s -> 5s Rending Swing: Bleed Duration: 4s -> 5s Radius: 5m -> 6m Razor Cut: Reduced the hit area size