Cleave

Cleave

Release date	20 November 2012 (Update)
Members	No
Skill	Strength
Level	48
Type	Basic
Target	Area-target
Adrenaline	+8%
Equipment	Two-handed
Cooldown	7.2 seconds (12 ticks)
Description
Swipe your weapon in front of you. 37%-188% ability damage. Damage up to 9 targets in a cone in front of you.

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Cleave is a basic Strength ability. When activated the player deals up to 37.6-188% ability damage to all targets within a frontal cone.

Dragon Breath is considered the Magic equivalent of Cleave.

Monsters that use Cleave[edit | edit source]

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patch 22 November 2021 (Update):
- Fixed an issue where the Cleave and Sweep abilities were sharing the same cooldown.

patch 28 August 2018 (Update):
- Cleave's cooldown clock is now displayed correctly when activated by its shared cooldown with the dragon halberd special attack.

patch 13 November 2017 (Update):
- The Cleave ability can now be used by Revolution while action bar slot 6 has a queued ability.

patch 8 February 2016 (Update):
- The miss hitmark will no longer be delayed when using the cleave ability.

patch 26 May 2015 (Update):
- The Cleave ability will now work if the player needs to turn to face their target.

ninja 13 April 2015 (Update):
- The Cleave ability's cooldown has been lowered to match the Decimate ability.

Before this was fixed, Cleave suffered from a glitch causing it to create no hitsplat whatsoever if the player was not directly facing the target, even when the player had 100% accuracy.