wow Warrior Class Changes in Dragonflight Alpha Build 44895

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Finally, we've summarized the new Warrior changes that went live on the Dragonflight Alpha.

Warrior

Warriors have been reworked on the Dragonflight Alpha. Many abilities that were class or specialization-specific have been moved to the Warrior class tree or spec trees. Blizzard also introduced some new talents and class tuning that we outline below.

Baseline

• Battle-Scared Veteran (new talent) - When your health is brought below 35%, you take 100% less damage for until cancelled and healing you receive is increased by 100%. Cannot occur more than once every 60 sec sec.
• Condemn  - Generates 20 40 Rage.

Arms

• Execute renamed to Improved Execute.
• Defensive Stance cooldown reduced to 3 seconds (down from 6).

Fury

• Improved Whirlwind - Whirlwind causes your next 2 single-target attacks to strike up to 4 additional targets for 45% damage. Whirlwind no longer costs Rage. Instead it generates 3 Rage, plus an additional 1 per target hit. Maximum 8 Rage. 
• Meat Cleaver - Whirlwind deals 25% 15% more damage and now affects your next 4 3 single-target melee attacks, instead of the next 2 attacks.

Protection

• Shield Wall's now on a 3.5 min recharge (was 4).
• Vanguard - Hardened by battle, all damage taken is reduced by 15%, your Stamina is increased by 45% 65% and your Armor is increased by 100% 140% of your Strength.
• Thunder Clap Prot Hidden - Reduce the rage cost of Thunder Clap by 250 and Thunder Clap generates 50 rage.
• Improved Shield Block removed.

New Warrior Talents

Warriors have been reworked and received the following new talents in Build 44895.

• Battle Stance - TBD / WIP - A balanced combat state that increases the critical strike chance of your abilities by 3% and reduces the effectiveness of movement impairing effects on you by 15%.
• Berserker Stance - TBD / WIP - An aggressive combat state that increases the damage of your auto- attacks by 5% and reduces the effectiveness of Fear, Sap and Incapacitate effects on you by 15%.
• Defensive Stance - TBD / WIP - A defensive combat state that reduces all damage you take by 20%, and all damage you deal by 10%. Lasts until canceled.
• Elysian Might - Spear of Bastion's duration is increased by 4 sec. While you remain within Spear of Bastion's area your critical strike damage is increased by 25%.

New Arms Warrior Talents

• Improved Heroic Throw - Heroic Throw inflicts Deep Wounds.
• Fracture - When Skullsplitter damages an opponent it causes your Deep Wounds and Rend effects to expire 200% faster.
• Battlelord - Your Overpower has a 40% chance to reset the cooldown of Mortal Strike and reduce the Rage cost of your next Mortal Strike by 15.
• Exploiter - Execute causes the target to take 50% more damage from your next Mortal Strike, stacking up to 2 times.
• Unhinged - While Bladestorm is active, you automatically cast a total of 2 Mortal Strikes at random nearby enemies.
• Battlelord - Your Overpower has a 40% chance to reset the cooldown of Mortal Strike and reduce the Rage cost of your next Mortal Strike by 15.

New Fury Warrior Talents

• Wrath and Fury - Damage of Raging Blow increased by 10%.
• Annihilator - Your auto attacks with one-handed weapons deal an additional [ 22.1% of Attack Power ] Physical damage.
• Thunderous Roar - TEST - Roar explosively in a 16 yard frontal cone, causing 0 Physical damage and causing enemies to bleed for 0 physical damage over until cancelled sec.

New Protection Warrior Talents

• Shield Charge - Charge to an enemy with your shield, dealing [ 200% of Attack Power ] Physical damage to it and [ 50% of Attack Power ] Physical damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Also stuns the primary target for 4 sec. Generates 20 Rage.
• Improved Shield Charge - Not Implemented - Shield Charge grants you Shield Block for 4 sec, Revenge!, and generates 30 Rage.
• Spiked Shield - Blocking an attack deals [ 20% of Attack Power ] Physical damage to the attacker.
• Heavy Repercussions - Shield Slam generates 3 more Rage and extends the duration of Shield Block by 1.0 sec.
• Spell Block - You are able to block spells cast against you for 14 sec.
• Enduring Defenses - Shield Block lasts 2 sec longer.
• Brace For Impact - Using Shield Slam increases your Block value by 10% and the damage of your Shield Slam by 10% for 9 sec. Multiple applications of this effect may overlap.
• Improved Challenging Shout - Taunts all enemies within 12 yds to attack you for 6 sec and interrupts all spellcasting within 12 yds and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 6 sec.
• Champion's Bulwark - Shield Charge grants you Shield Block for until cancelled , Revenge!, and generates an additional 300 Rage.
• Seeing Red - Consuming 30 rage grants a stack of Seeing Red, which transforms at 1 stacks into Outburst, causing your next Shield Slam or Thunder Clap to be 200% more effective and grant Ignore Pain.
• Outburst - Consuming 30 rage grants a stack of Seeing Red, which transforms at 1 stacks into Outburst, causing your next Shield Slam or Thunder Clap to be 200% more effective and grant Ignore Pain.

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Shield Wall's now on a 3.5 min recharge (was 4).

Vanguard - Hardened by battle, all damage taken is reduced by 15%, your Stamina is increased by 45% 65% and your Armor is increased by 100% 140% of your Strength.

Thunder Clap Prot Hidden - Reduce the rage cost of Thunder Clap by 250 and Thunder Clap generates 50 rage.

Improved Shield Block removed.

 

Damn they really don't want prot to suck this expansion