Warrior Talent Calculator
Rotations & Guide · Builds · Abilities · Talent Calculator · Changes vs Classic
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 an 18 sec cooldown strike (Improved Slam no longer resets your swing), and adds Spearing Strike 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. Three Weaponmaster talents reward axes/polearms (crit), maces/staves (armor ignore) or swords (extra attacks). 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. Forever's Slam plus Improved Slam gives Fury a faster extra strike that no longer interrupts auto attacks. 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.
Warrior abilities
- Improved Intimidating Shout
- Long Daze
- Battle Shout (level 1)
- Battle Stance (level 1)
- Heroic Strike (level 1)
- Improved Challenging Shout (level 1)
- Improved Pummel (level 1)
- Spearing Strike (level 1)
- Charge (level 4)
- Rend (level 4)
- Thunder Clap (level 6)
- Hamstring (level 8)
- Bloodrage (level 10)
- Defensive Stance (level 10)
- Sunder Armor (level 10)
- Taunt (level 10)
- 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)
- Intimidating Shout (level 22)
- Execute (level 24)
- Challenging Shout (level 26)
- Shield Wall (level 28)
- Berserker Stance (level 30)
- Intercept (level 30)
- Berserker Rage (level 32)
- Whirlwind (level 36)
- Pummel (level 38)
- Recklessness (level 50)