Sunder Armor

Sunder Armor
Sunder Armor Melee range 15 Rage Instant Requires melee weapon Strikes at the defenses of your target, reducing their armor by 4%. Sunder Armor causes a large amount of threat, increased by attack power. Can be applied up to 3 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Usable by
Class	Warrior
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Physical
Talents
Improvement talents	Puncture, Focused Rage
Other information
Ranks	7
Requirements	Requires melee weapon
Related debuff
Sunder Armor Armor decreased by X%. Duration: 30 sec

• Sunder Armor
• Melee range
• 15 Rage
• Instant
• Strikes at the defenses of your target, reducing their armor by 4%. Sunder Armor causes a large amount of threat, increased by attack power. Can be applied up to 3 times. Lasts 30 sec.

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Sunder Armor is one of the warrior's basic threat generation abilities. It is an instant attack that decreases your opponent's armor by 4% each stack. Sundering generates a high amount of threat, making it especially useful for tanking. Not only will it help you keep your opponent focused on you instead of your teammates, it will also increase the amount of damage you and your party members deal.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Price	Bonus threat
1	18	27 85	Unknown

Talent improvements

• [Devastate]: Obtainable at level 39 for Protection warriors, applies Sunder effect plus extra damage.

Tips and tactics

• As well as the obvious, and significant, armor reduction effect, Sunder Armor is a powerful tool for establishing and holding aggro as a Main Tank. It causes a solid amount of threat, and is not situational, like Revenge, and has no extended cooldown, like Shield Slam, so can be used over and over repeatedly as long as there is enough rage. (Main Tanks usually have plenty of rage, due to the massive beatings they get.) However, an unimproved Sunder Armor remains a less efficient (per rage used) way of generating threat than an unmodified Shield Slam or Revenge.

• In Patch 2.3, the warrior 41-point Protection-tree talent Devastate was changed to essentially be a Sunder Armor that also causes damage. A successful Devastate will cause a Sunder Armor effect on the mob, will generate the additional threat that a Sunder Armor generates, and will also cause damage based on the number of Sunder Armor effects on the target and the DPS rating of the warrior's main-hand weapon. This ultimately means that a warrior with the Devastate ability will be able to use it in any situation where the Sunder Armor effect was previously used (although if they choose to use Sunder Armor this remains a distinct ability).

• The threat effect of Sunder Armor continues to occur even after the fifth stacked Sunder Armor debuff, so a tank can continue to reapply it after five sunders have stacked – it will still generate the same amount of threat, but will not stack past five debuffs. Reapplying Sunder Armor on a mob with a full stack of Sunder Armor effects will however reset the expiration timer for the Sunder Armor debuff stack.

• For a bear Druid, Faerie Fire (Feral) (for lower levels) and Lacerate (once available) fill a similar role to the Sunder Armor ability.

Notes

• Sunder armor does not stack with the rogue ability, Expose Armor. Since their armor reduction effect is higher, Sunder Armor will not be usable while Expose Armor is on the target, making protection Warriors unable to build threat from sundering. So, be sure to let rogues in your group know not to use Expose Armor.

Patch changes

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• Patch 1.6.0 (patch date:2005-07-12): Tooltip updated to indicate the additional threat caused by this ability. There have been no changes to the amount of threat caused. 
  

See also

• Glyph of Sunder Armor

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• DB MMO-Champion

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