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- For other uses of Doomhammer, see Doomhammer (disambiguation).
Doomhammer is an epic shaman weapon card, from the Legacy set.
Other versions
How to get
| Type | Source | Quality | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card packs | The Regular version can be opened from any of these packs:  | Regular | 1~2 (random) |
| Card packs | The Golden version can be opened from any of these packs:  | Golden | 1~2 (random) |
| Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 400  | Regular | 1 |
| Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 1600 | Golden | 1 |
Notes
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- If the shaman equips this weapon when having already attacked that turn, they will be able to attack one more time that turn, due to Doomhammer's Windfury.
Lore
Doomhammer is a legendary weapon from Draenor, homeworld of the orcs.
This section uses content from the Warcraft Wiki.- Despite its name, Doomhammer is a weapon of good, bringing doom to enemies and upholding the family's honor. The weapon can be traced to Telkar Doomhammer, father of Orgrim.
- Young Orgrim came to admire the hammer, knowing one day it would be his own. In a meeting between Orgrim, Durotan, and prophet Velen, Orgrim told of a prophecy about the Doomhammer saying that "The last of the Doomhammer line will use it to bring first salvation and then doom to the orc people. Then it will pass into the hands of one who is not of the Blackrock clan, all will change again, and it will once again be used in the cause of justice."
- As is the nature of such prophecies, the orcs did indeed fall, all due to the manipulations of
Gul'dan and Kil'jaeden. Orgrim, last of the Doomhammer line, passed the weapon on to his protégé Thrall, the one who redeemed the orcish race and completed the prophecy.
- Through blood the weapon shall pass, as surely as night begets day,
- Until the elements cry unheard, and pride turns to unbridled rage.
- The last of the line shall deliver salvation and doom upon his kind.
- Honor will be undone and all will be lost, before it is found again.
- A stranger will raise the hammer high, and with it justice shall reign.
- All of the Doomhammer bloodline's successors bore this ominous prophecy on their great shoulders, divined long ago by the Blackrock clan's elder shaman. Yet for generations, these tidings of doom went unfulfilled. The legendary Doomhammer weapon became a standard of pride and honor, its immense black stone as indomitable as the orcs' fierce spirit.
- When the heirloom passed to Orgrim Doomhammer and the mighty orcish Horde rose to power, the weapon met no equal in battle. Innumerable foes suffered its wrath, the warhammer even shattering Sir Anduin Lothar's fabled rune-etched Blade of Stormwind before crushing the human's skull.
- Only too late did Orgrim realize that he was the harbinger of doom prophesied by his clan's ancestral shaman. Although he had slain the power-hungry Horde warchief Blackhand and many of the depraved warlocks who had destroyed the orcs' culture, Orgrim's people were ultimately defeated, and most of them were rounded up in human internment camps to live out their days in shame and lethargy.
- The prophecy, however, had not yet run its course. So it was that Orgrim, mortally wounded while fighting to free his people from imprisonment, bestowed the Doomhammer on one who was not of his clan or bloodline: Thrall. Wielding the hammer as a symbol of hope, the young orc liberated his race and rekindled the pride and heritage that the orcs had abandoned as the bloodthirsty Horde.
- The image of a wolf was later added onto the Doomhammer to denote Thrall's hereditary ties to the Frostwolf clan, but little else has changed about the weapon. Through war and peace, the hammer has remained at Thrall's side, an embodiment of his race's strength as it was in ancient times, and a symbol of doom to the enemies who would dare threaten the orcs' freedom and honor.
Gallery
Doomhammer, full art
Patch changes
Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
Patch 2.0.0.7234 (2014-12-04):
- Artist is now John Polidora (previously: John "JP" Polidora).
Patch 1.0.0.3890 (Closed beta, 2013-10-02):
- Flavor text now reads: "Orgrim Doomhammer gave this legendary weapon to Thrall. His name is a total coincidence." (previously: no flavor text).
- Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.
- Now reads: "Windfury, Overload: (2)" (previously: "Windfury, Recall (2)")