Making the most of Commanding Shout

Increases maximum health of all party members within 20 yards by 2255. Lasts 2 min.

As usual, Veneritio is right in the comments. I was sure this worked on Gluth, but obviously I was wrong. Lessen learned: Do not post without really actually trying stuff once more, no matter how sure you are. Thanks Veneritio for the correction, sorry everyone else for any confusion caused.

There’s however one little detail the tooltip doesn’t mention: Not only is the maximum health raised, the padding is also filled with precious hp. So if you’re at 30,000/30,000 health and apply Commanding Shout, you’re at 32,255/32,255 health.

This is a healing potion. Instant. With no cooldown.

In a fight where your healthpool isn’t a problem, remove your own commanding shout. When things get close, reapply. When topped off again, remove. You have 1 healing potion. One soulstone. An infinite number of Commanding Shouts.

I first started to do this when we were working on Gluth. During phase 1 health isn’t an issue, just when he decimates the raid, those extra 2,255 health are very convenient to have.

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4 Responses to “Making the most of Commanding Shout”

  1. Rurjaos (July 6th, 2009 at 10:52 am ):

    Theoretically, isn’t it?
    Warlock in raid, and this isn’t a very rare situation and this won’t work?!

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  2. endlessk (July 6th, 2009 at 4:23 pm ):

    wtf, this was fixed in TBC long ago, wasnt it?! When i shout at 15k/30k i get 15k/32k and not 17/32? O_O gonna test it tonight

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  3. endlessk (July 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm ):

    nvm, testet it, works, awesome :D

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  4. Veneretio (July 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pm ):

    My understanding of how they patched this long ago was that you gain a percentage of the health Commanding Shout health relative to your health when it’s applied. So, after a decimate, you’ll gain 5% of the CS health gain (since you’ll be at 5% health) whereas if you’re at full health you’ll still gain the full amount.

    Basically, it’s never worth removing your own CS as when you reapply it, you’ll get exactly the same amount of health back. There’s still some small value to applying it in times of trouble if you’re forced to juggle Battle and Commanding shout, but if having it always active is an option, that’s the route you should go.

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