Spearing Strike new · Arms
A brutal attack that deals 75% weapon damage. Deals an additional 75% weapon damage against Giants, Dragonkin, and mounted targets. Mounted targets are dismounted.
EXPLORE THE WARRIOR TALENTS
WoW Forever Warrior Talents
Plan your WoW Forever Warrior talents across Arms, Fury, Protection. Check the changes vs Classic, requirements and recorded ranks before sharing a build.
YOUR CHARACTER
Warrior talent trees
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Arms
0 / 51 Improved Heroic Strike Reduces the cost of your Heroic Strike ability by 1 Rage.
Deflection Increases your Parry chance by 1%.
Improved Rend Increases the Bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 12%.
Improved Charge Increases the Rage generated by your Charge ability by 3.
Improved Tactical Mastery Tactical Mastery lets you retain up to an additional 5 Rage when you change stances.
Improved Overpower Increases the critical strike chance of your Overpower ability by 25%.
Anger Management Generates 1 Rage every 3 sec while in combat, and reduces Rage loss while out of combat by 30%.
Deep Wounds Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
Spearing Strike A brutal attack that deals 75% weapon damage. Deals an additional 75% weapon damage against Giants, Dragonkin, and mounted targets. Mounted targets are dismounted.
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 2%.
Impale Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities by 10%.
Bloodthrill Grants your Main Hand melee attacks against enemies afflicted by your Rend a 10% chance to allow an activation of Overpower.
Sweeping Strikes Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
Weaponmaster Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. Axe/Polearm: Increases your critical strike chance by 1%. Mace/Staff: Your attacks ignore 3% of your target's armor. Sword: Your successful melee attacks have a 1% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target.
Improved Slam Reduces the cooldown of your Slam ability by 2.5 sec, the cast time and global cooldown by 0.25 sec, and Slam no longer interrupts or delays your melee swing.
Improved Hamstring Gives your Hamstring ability a 5% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Mortal Strike A vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 85 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 sec.
Fury
0 / 51 Booming Voice Increases the area of effect of your Shouts by 10% and reduces the Rage cost by of your Shouts and Howls by 5%.
Cruelty Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 1%.
Lingering Rage Increases the time before your Rage begins to decay after leaving combat by 2 sec.
Unbridled Wrath Gives you a 12% chance to generate 1 additional Rage when you deal melee damage with a weapon.
Furious Precision Increases your chance to hit with off-hand attacks by 4%.
Piercing Howl Causes all enemies within 10 yds to be Dazed, reducing movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
Blood Craze Regenerates 1% of your total Health over 6 sec after being the victim of a critical strike or suffering more than 20% of your maximum Health from a single attack.
Enrage Gives you a 30% chance to deal 2% increased Physical damage for 12 sec after being the victim of any damaging attack.
Dual Wield Specialization Increases the damage done by your off-hand weapon by 5% and the Rage generated by your off-hand attacks by 10%.
Reckless Swings Your next 4 melee attacks generate 5 additional Rage. Lasts 8 sec.
Improved Execute Reduces the Rage cost of your Execute ability by 3.
Improved Berserker Rage Your Berserker Rage ability will instantly generate 5 Rage and has a 50% chance to remove all movement impairing effects when activated.
Death Wish When activated, increases your Physical damage done by 20% and makes you immune to Fear effects, but increases all damage you take by 5%. Lasts 30 sec.
Gore Drinker Your Enrage, Berserker Rage, Bloodrage, Death Wish, and Bloodthirst abilities cause your next 3 melee attacks to restore 0.5% of your maximum Health.
Improved Intercept Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.
Improved Whirlwind Reduces the cooldown of your Whirlwind ability by 1 sec and increases the damage it deals to the closest enemy by 15%.
Flurry Increases your melee attack speed by 10% for your next 3 swings after dealing a melee critical strike.
Bloodthirst Instantly attack the target causing damage equal to 45% of your Attack Power plus 30 and increasing your movement speed by 10% for 10 sec.
Protection
0 / 51 Improved Bloodrage Increases all the Rage generated by your Bloodrage ability by 25%.
Shield Specialization Increases your chance to Block attacks with your shield by 1% and grants you a 20% chance to generate 5 Rage when you Block.
Iron Will Reduces the duration of Stun and Fear effects inflicted on you by 3%.
Anticipation Increases your Defense Skill by 4.
Improved Revenge Increases damage dealt by your Revenge ability by 20%.
Improved Thunder Clap Reduces the Rage cost of your Thunder Clap ability by 2.
Last Stand When activated, this ability temporarily grants you 30% of your maximum health for 20 sec. After the effect expires, the health is lost.
Master of Defense Grants you a 50% chance to generate 5 Rage when you Dodge or Parry while a shield is equipped.
Improved Disarm Reduces the cooldown of your Disarm ability by 7 secs.
Defiance Increases all threat generated in Defensive stance by an additional 7% while a shield is equipped.
Improved Sunder Armor Reduces the Rage cost of your Sunder Armor ability by 1.
Vanguard Your Charge ability is now usable while in Defensive Stance.
Improved Shield Bash Gives your Shield Bash ability a 50% chance to Silence the target for 3 sec.
Improved Shield Wall Reduces the cooldown of your Shield Wall ability by 5.5 min.
Concussion Blow Stuns the target for 5 sec.
Focused Rage Reduces the Rage cost of your offensive abilities by 1.
Bastion Increases all damage you deal by 2% while a shield is equipped.
Shield Slam Slam the target with your shield, causing 421 to 439 damage, increased by your Block Value, and has a 50% chance of dispelling 1 magic effect on the target. Causes a very high amount of threat.
RECOMMENDED
Starter Warrior builds
Editorial picks from the live trees —
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Solo Leveling — Arms 41 / Fury 10
Mortal Strike at level 40 with two-handers. Take Improved Rend and Deep Wounds early, weave Improved Slam between swings, cap Deflection for parry insurance, let Bloodthrill feed your rage, ride Sweeping Strikes for two-mob pulls, finish with Cruelty and Unbridled Wrath in Fury.
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Dungeon Tank — Protection 45 / Fury 6
Shield Slam plus the reworked Bastion talent for mitigation scaling. Defiance holds aggro in dungeons; Master of Defense and Focused Rage spend the points the old Shield Block and Taunt talents used to. Cruelty and Booming Voice smooth out the downtime.
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Dual-Wield Fury DPS — Fury 43 / Arms 8
Bloodthirst core with Flurry uptime from Dual Wield Specialization. Furious Precision sharpens the dual-wield hits; Gore Drinker — now gated behind Blood Craze — turns Death Wish windows into self-healing.
PLANNING NOTES
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CLASSIC DIFF
Warrior talent changes11 new · 35 changed · 2 moved
Compared against Classic Era
build 1.15.9.69722.
Bloodthrill new · Arms
Grants your Main Hand melee attacks against enemies afflicted by your Rend a 10% chance to allow an activation of Overpower.
Weaponmaster new · Arms
Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. Axe/Polearm: Increases your critical strike chance by 1%. Mace/Staff: Your attacks ignore 3% of your target's armor. Sword: Your successful melee attacks have a 1% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target.
Lingering Rage new · Fury
Increases the time before your Rage begins to decay after leaving combat by 2 sec.
Furious Precision new · Fury
Increases your chance to hit with off-hand attacks by 4%.
Reckless Swings new · Fury
Your next 4 melee attacks generate 5 additional Rage. Lasts 8 sec.
Changed talents
Improved Heroic Strike changed · Arms
Reduces the cost of your Heroic Strike ability by 1 Rage.
Improved Rend changed · Arms
Increases the Bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 12%.
Improved Charge changed · Arms
Increases the Rage generated by your Charge ability by 3.
Improved Tactical Mastery changed · Arms
Tactical Mastery lets you retain up to an additional 5 Rage when you change stances.
Anger Management changed · Arms
Generates 1 Rage every 3 sec while in combat, and reduces Rage loss while out of combat by 30%.
Deep Wounds changed · Arms
Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
+ 29 more changed Warrior talents in the live data — every one is visible in the calculator above with its live text.
10 Classic Warrior talents did not make it into the Forever trees — the full list is on the class changes page, and each tree footer in the calculator notes what that tree lost.
QUESTIONS
Warrior talent FAQ
Rules, data provenance and what Forever changed for your class. More on the Data Sources page.
How many talent points does a Warrior get in WoW Forever? +
Like every class: one point per level from 10, for 51 points at level 60. Tree tiers unlock at level 10 + 5 per row and need 5 points per row already spent in that tree.
What is new for Warrior in WoW Forever compared to Classic? +
The live trees carry 11 brand-new Warrior talents (Spearing Strike, Bloodthrill, Weaponmaster, Lingering Rage, …), 35 changed, 2 moved and 5 unchanged across your Arms / Fury / Protection trees, plus 10 Classic talents retired from the trees. See the change list above for details.
Do Warrior talent rules change in WoW Forever? +
The framework is pure Classic: 51 points, tier gates at 5 points per row, prerequisites must be filled before points go in, and dependent talents block removal. This calculator enforces all of it.
Where does this Warrior talent data come from? +
Extracted from the WoW Forever client (build 1.60.1.70755), with the tree layout synced against the live client export, and diffed against Classic Era (build 1.15.9.69722). Values shown are rank-1 live values. Details and known gaps on the Data Sources page.
What is the Warrior rotation in WoW Forever? +
WoW Forever keeps the Warrior close to Classic: Arms runs Mortal Strike on cooldown with Overpower procs and a Slam weave, Fury pairs Bloodthirst with Whirlwind and dumps spare rage into Heroic Strike, and Protection holds threat with Shield Slam, Revenge and Sunder Armor. Forever’s rework nudges it — Bloodthrill re-arms Overpower against Rend targets, and Bastion pays you for staying in Defensive Stance with a shield. Warrior rotation
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