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Aidan Moon explains a Warrior Dual Wield bug that skewed rage tests, and Blizzard raises crit Rage to 100%

The Warrior Fury talent tree painting from the WoW Forever client

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Game designer Aidan Moon said on X, as reported by Wowhead, that a Dual Wield Specialization bug threw off Blizzard's rage tests for Warriors. Blizzard's Warrior notes on October 2 confirmed the bug fix and raised the extra Rage from critical strikes to 100% (was 75%).

Fury Warriors on the beta have been arguing about rage since the big rework. On October 1 Aidan "Zirene" Moon, a game designer on the WoW Classic and Forever team, posted an update on X, and Wowhead reported it. Blizzard's own Warrior notes followed on October 2 and confirmed the fix.

Aidan Moon's words reach us only through Wowhead's report of his X post, which we couldn't check word for word, so we give them in our own words below. These are beta values and can still change.

What Aidan Moon said, as reported by Wowhead

According to Wowhead's report, Moon said a bug in the Dual Wield Specialization talent was giving Warriors 10% hit chance on all their attacks, not just off-hand ones. Because of it, Blizzard's practical tests of how much Rage critical strikes generate were off, and a fix was on the way.

Wowhead reported the post-fix numbers Moon gave as +100% Rage on critical strikes and +50% off-hand Rage from the Dual Wield talent.

What Blizzard's notes confirm

Later on October 2, Kaivax posted Warrior Updates in Today's Beta Build, additions to the development notes for that day's build:

Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (was 75%). Fixed a bug that was causing Dual Wield Specialization to grant its increase to Hit Chance to both weapons. Kaivax, Community Manager
Because of the above bug, our tests needed some correcting, so we did another pass on Fury Warrior. Developers’ notes, posted by Kaivax (Community Manager)

That matches Moon's explanation and his 100% figure. It also moves on from the Priest and Warrior class deep dive of September 30, which set the critical strike bonus lower:

In the launch beta, we gave no additional Rage for dealing critical strikes. We are re-adding that. Critical strike will now give 75% more Rage than non-critical strikes. Developers’ notes, World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Priest and Warrior

The +50% off-hand Rage figure isn't in Blizzard's notes. The October 1 notes removed the talent's off-hand Rage bonus:

Dual Wield Specialization no longer provides a 20/40/60/80/100% increase to your Off-Hand weapon’s Rage generation. Developers’ notes, posted by Kaivax (Community Manager)

The same October 2 notes go further than that bug fix, in a line of their own: "Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants hit to your off-hand attacks." A new Fury talent, Furious Precision, gives off-hand hit chance instead.

Update, October 4: the +50% off-hand Rage figure is in the client. Since build 1.60.1.70170, Dual Wield Specialization's tooltip gives 10% more off-hand Rage per rank, 50% at rank 5, which matches the figure Wowhead reported from Moon. What the October 1 notes removed was the older 20/40/60/80/100% bonus. Rage generation itself is still worked out on Blizzard's servers, so the tooltip shows the intended value, not how the server applies it.

In the client files

In the beta client (build 1.60.1.70170, unchanged in 1.60.1.70205) the Forever talent tree's Dual Wield Specialization, Dual Wield Specialization, reads "Increases the damage done by your off-hand weapon by 5% and the Rage generated by your off-hand attacks by 10%" per rank, up to 25% damage and 50% Rage at rank 5. Its tooltip no longer mentions hit chance; in build 1.60.1.70124 it still gave 2% hit per rank. (The old Classic rank spell Dual Wield Specialization, which still says 10% hit, is left over in the client but isn't used by the Forever tree.) The new Fury talents from the October 2 notes are in the client: Furious Precision Furious Precision (4% off-hand hit chance at rank 1), Lingering Rage Lingering Rage and Gore Drinker Gore Drinker.

For every Warrior change in that build, see Level 30 build goes live, and the Warrior class page.

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