Warrior Class Guide — Class Guides · WoW Forever
A plate-wearing melee fighter who builds Rage by dealing and taking damage and spends it on attacks, shouts and stances. Warriors tank with a shield in Defensive Stance or deal melee damage with two-handed or dual-wielded weapons.
- Roles
- Damage, Tank
- Specializations
- 3
- Popular builds
- 4
- Version
- WoW Forever
How the warrior plays
Warriors in WoW Forever keep Classic's Rage, stances and level 60 cap, with a reworked set of talents. Critical strikes now give more Rage, Victory Rush heals you after a kill from level 20, and Slam is trained rather than a talent tweak.
Arms replaces the four weapon specializations with Weaponmaster, a single talent whose bonus depends on the weapon in your hands: crit for axes and polearms, armour penetration for maces and staves, extra attacks for swords. Protection gains Bastion, which raises all your damage while a shield is equipped, and Vanguard, which lets you Charge in Defensive Stance.
Warriors still can't heal themselves much or drink mid-fight, so they rely on healers, bandages and food, and they remain the group's natural tank and its strongest melee damage.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- Victory Rush and Gore Drinker give warriors more healing of their own than in Classic.
- Strong melee damage that grows with gear.
- Protection is a full tank with Shield Wall, Last Stand and Taunt.
- Charge, Intercept and Hamstring keep you on a target.
Weaknesses
- Still gear-dependent: low gear means little Rage.
- Casters can kite you.
- Changing stance costs Rage.
Specializations
The specs compared
Each spec rated from 1 to 5 at what it does in WoW Forever. Single and several targets mean damage for damage specs, healing for healers and threat for tanks; a spec's own guide names its ratings for its role.
| Rating |  Arms |  Fury |  Protection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single target | |||
| Several targets | |||
| Survivability | |||
| Utility | |||
| Solo and leveling | |||
| Ease of play |
- Arms
Damage · 2 builds
Two-handed weapon damage built around Mortal Strike, which also reduces the healing its target receives. The usual leveling and player-versus-player tree.
Top talent:
Arms guide
Mortal Strike - Fury
Damage · 1 build
Dual-wield damage from Bloodthirst, Flurry and a deeper Rage pool: a raid damage tree.
Top talent:
Fury guide
Bloodthirst - Protection
Tank · 1 build
The tanking tree: more armour, block and threat from Shield Slam, plus abilities that hold several enemies.
Top talent:
Protection guide
Shield Slam
Gear
- Mail until level 40, then plate.
- Choose your weapon type with Arms' Weaponmaster in mind: axes and polearms for crit, maces and staves for armour penetration, swords for extra attacks.
- Hit until your special attacks stop missing bosses, then Strength and crit.
- Stamina, defense and avoidance for tanking, with a shield for Bastion's damage bonus.
Each spec guide ranks its stats and says what to look for on its gear.
What WoW Forever changed
Against Classic Era, the warrior in WoW Forever has these changes. New spells: 2. Changed spells: 21. Spells no longer trained: 0. Talents that Classic Era doesn't have: 12. Each spec guide lists its own. The spell list shows every change.
Warrior class quests
The quests that unlock class abilities, by the level each route starts at.