Warrior Abilities
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Warriors are rage-fuelled melee fighters that excel as tanks or two-handed/dual-wield damage dealers. Forever makes Tactical Mastery baseline so stance dancing keeps rage, reworks Slam into a 15 sec cooldown strike (Improved Slam, an Arms tier 6 talent, shortens the cooldown and stops Slam delaying your swing), and adds Spearing Strike, an Arms talent for dismounting and hitting giants.
Arms (Melee DPS)
Arms is a two-handed spec built around Mortal Strike, Overpower and big crits via Impale and Deep Wounds. A single Weaponmaster talent rewards whatever you wield: axes and polearms get crit, maces and staves ignore armor, swords get extra attacks. Bloodthrill lets main-hand hits on a target with your Rend enable Overpower without a dodge, and with baseline Tactical Mastery you can dance into Battle Stance for Overpower without dumping all your rage.
Fury (Melee DPS)
Fury is the dual-wield raid spec, stacking Cruelty, Flurry and Enrage while Bloodthirst and Whirlwind do the heavy lifting. Since the 1 October build (level 30), per Blizzard's Warrior notes, Whirlwind always strikes with both weapons, without a talent point. The 4 November build replaced Raging Blows with Improved Whirlwind, a tier 6 talent that takes 2 sec off Whirlwind's cooldown and adds 30% damage to the closest enemy. Improved Slam is an Arms talent in Forever's tree, so Fury's Slam keeps its cast delay. Heroic Strike queuing is your rage dump.
Protection (Tank)
Protection warriors tank with shield in Defensive Stance, using Shield Slam, Revenge and Sunder Armor for threat. Forever's Bastion talent adds 10% damage with a shield equipped, making sword-and-board threat much stronger than in Classic. Shield Block keeps Revenge and Shield Specialization rage flowing.
Best in slot gear at any level: Arms, Fury, Protection
Warrior abilities
- Improved Intimidating Shout
- Long Daze
- Battle Shout (level 1)
- Battle Stance (level 1)
- Heroic Strike (level 1)
- Charge (level 4)
- Rend (level 4)
- Thunder Clap (level 6)
- Hamstring (level 8)
- Bloodrage (level 10)
- Defensive Stance (level 10, from the Classic class quest Path of Defense)
- Sunder Armor (level 10, from the Classic class quest Path of Defense (rank 1))
- Taunt (level 10, from the Classic class quest Path of Defense)
- Overpower (level 12)
- Shield Bash (level 12)
- Demoralizing Shout (level 14)
- Revenge (level 14)
- Tactical Mastery (level 14)
- Mocking Blow (level 16)
- Shield Block (level 16)
- Disarm (level 18)
- Cleave (level 20)
- Retaliation (level 20)
- Slam (level 20)
- Victory Rush (level 20)
- Intimidating Shout (level 22)
- Execute (level 24)
- Challenging Shout (level 26)
- Shield Wall (level 28)
- Berserker Rage (level 30)
- Berserker Stance (level 30, from the Classic class quest The Affray)
- Intercept (level 30, from the Classic class quest The Affray (rank 1))
- Whirlwind (level 36)
- Pummel (level 38)
- Recklessness (level 50)
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