Fury Warrior rebuilt again in WoW Forever: 100% rage from crits, three new talents, two removed

Warriors got the longest entry in the October 2 beta build. Blizzard published it separately as Warrior Updates in Today’s Beta Build, and the reason for the size is a bug.

Dual Wield Specialization was granting its hit chance to both weapons, which it should not have. That skewed the team’s own testing, so, in their words, they “did another pass on Fury Warrior”.

The headline change

Rage from critical strikes is now 100% increased, up from 75%. For a spec built on staying in combat and spending rage faster than it arrives, that is the single biggest line in the list.

New talents

Talent	Row	What it does
Lingering Rage	Fury row 2	Rage starts decaying 2/4/6/8/10 seconds later when you leave combat
Furious Precision	Fury row 3	+4/7/10% chance to hit with off-hand attacks
Gore Drinker	Fury row 6, needs Enrage	Enrage, Berserker Rage, Bloodrage, Death Wish and Bloodthirst make your next 3 melee attacks restore 0.5/1% of maximum health

Improved Cleave and Boundless Rage have been removed.

The rest of the Fury pass

• Whirlwind now always strikes with both weapons, with no talent point required, and Raging Blows no longer does that job. Instead, Raging Blows reduces the rage cost of Cleave and Whirlwind by 3.
• Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants hit to off-hand attacks — that role moved to the new Furious Precision.
• Enrage is no longer required to reach Flurry. Death Wish is the gate now.
• Unbridled Wrath no longer gives twice as much rage to two-handed weapons.
• Booming Voice becomes 10/20/30/40/50% increased area of effect on your shouts plus a 5/10/15/20/25% rage cost reduction.
• Blood Craze no longer activates from Bloodthirst casts.
• Improved Berserker Rage moved to row 5, and Berserker Rage is available at level 30 instead of 32.
• Bloodthirst’s attack power ratio increased to 45%.

Blizzard’s stated goal is to give Fury “more access to utility and meaningful choices early in the tree for leveling”, and to free up later points instead of forcing players through Enrage to reach Flurry.

What it means

Leveling Fury should feel less locked: the early rows now hold choices rather than tax points, and Whirlwind hitting with both weapons by default removes an old trap for new players. The rage changes cut both ways — more from crits, less from two-handers through Unbridled Wrath — so two-handed Fury leveling builds are worth re-testing before the cap rises again.

This arrives on top of the class changes in the level 30 build, which also halved the bonus experience from dungeon quests. Our Warrior talent builds and the beta changes list are being updated against the new tree.