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WoW Forever Warrior

Arms, Fury, Protection · Alliance and Horde

Axe, Mace, Sword and Polearm Specialization are gone, and a single Weaponmaster talent grants a benefit per weapon type. In Classic, a Fury Warrior's best-in-slot list was really four lists depending on which specialisation they had picked; in Forever it is one list.

Specs simmed
4
New spells
1
New talents
5
Removed
5
Playable races
9

What changes for Warrior

Improved Battle Shout is baseline, which frees the points that every raiding Warrior spent on it. Spearing Strike is a new ability and Bloodthrill, Improved Slam, Vanguard and Improved Shield Wall are new talents split across the three trees.

Expertise replaces weapon skill for getting past dodge and parry. With racial weapon skills gone as well, Human and Orc lose the edge that made them the default raiding races, so race is now worth simming.

Specs

  • Arms WarriorDPS

    Weaponmaster replaces the four weapon specialisation talents, so a new weapon type never forces a respec.

  • Fury WarriorDPS

    Bloodthrill and Improved Slam add two new buttons to the dual-wield Bloodthirst and Whirlwind rotation.

  • Protection WarriorTank

    Vanguard and Improved Shield Wall are new tanking talents, so Protection relies less on damage talents borrowed from Fury.

Simmed reference builds

Each saved board sims a fixed Warrior reference character at level 60, against a raid-boss target for two minutes, full raid buffs and consumables, no world buffs. The DPS is the spec's trinket board baseline (both trinket slots empty) and the rank is its place on the Forever DPS tier list.

Engine build 931ae38, simmed 1 October 2026. Boards are re-simmed after engine updates.

Reference builds are a work in progress and will keep improving through the beta (see the changelog). Got a build you want simmed? Post it in the MythicSim Discord and we'll sim it. Any feedback is much appreciated.

New spells and talents

New spells

  • Spearing Strike

New talents

  • Weaponmaster
  • Bloodthrill
  • Improved Slam
  • Vanguard
  • Improved Shield Wall

Removed

  • Axe Specialization
  • Mace Specialization
  • Sword Specialization
  • Polearm Specialization
  • Improved Battle Shout (now baseline)

From the BlizzCon 2026 demo build via the community talent calculators. Beta will change some of this; the page is updated as it does.

Races

  • Human
  • Dwarf
  • Night Elf
  • Gnome
  • Orc
  • Undead
  • Tauren
  • Troll
  • SkyborneNew

Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Skyborne. The Skyborne can be Warriors on either faction. Racials are rebuilt so no two races share a passive, and weapon skill racials are gone. Race choice now changes your DPS in the sim.

Warrior race tier list

What the Warrior sim has to model

Beyond the engine-wide changes (unified hit and crit, Expertise, bonus healing as spell damage, periodic crits), these are the Warrior-specific pieces the Forever engine has to get right.

  • A single weapon-type-agnostic Weaponmaster proc model instead of four specialisation branches.
  • Expertise as a stat, replacing the weapon skill table, and a rotation built around Spearing Strike.
  • Unified melee hit and crit, so hit caps are shared with every other class.

Warrior trinket boards

One board per spec, ranking every trinket a Warrior can equip at 60 by simmed DPS gain, with where each one drops.

Other Forever classes

Common questions

Is there a WoW Forever Warrior sim?

Yes, at /wow-forever/sim. Export your character with the MythicSim addon, paste it and you get a DPS number for your Warrior on the new talent trees. It runs on a MythicSim-maintained fork of ElliotWood/Forever, built on wowsims/classic (both MIT licensed).

What new spells does Warrior get in WoW Forever?

Spearing Strike. New talents include Weaponmaster, Bloodthrill, Improved Slam, Vanguard, Improved Shield Wall.

Which races can be a Warrior in WoW Forever?

Warrior can be played by Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Skyborne in World of Warcraft: Forever. The new Skyborne race can be a Warrior on either faction.

What are the Warrior specs in WoW Forever?

Arms (DPS), Fury (DPS), Protection (Tank). Forever keeps the three Classic trees for every class and reworks their contents; there are no new specs.

Do I need a /simc string to sim a Forever Warrior?

No. Install MythicSim addon 0.3.0 or newer in Forever, click its minimap button or type /msim, then paste the JSON on the Forever sim page. Retail /simc strings use a different format.