An Overview of Warrior Class Changes in the War Within Patch 11.1

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• Reinforced Plates is now a 2-point talent that grants 5% Stamina and 5% Armor per point.
• Overwhelming Rage is now a 1-point talent that increases maximum Rage by 30.
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization (Arms) is now a 2-point talent that grants 3% damage and 2% reduction of damage from area-of-effect attacks while wielding a two-handed weapon per point.
• Dual Wield Specialization (Fury) is now a 2-point talent that grants 3% damage and 2% movement speed while dual-wielding per point.
• One-Handed Weapon Specialization (Protection) is now a 2-point talent that grants 3% damage and 2% Leech per point.
• Thunderous Words increases your Bleed damage by 20% on affected targets (was 30%).
• Cruel Strikes, Wild Strikes, and the Weapon Specialization nodes have changed positions in the tree.
• Endurance Training has been removed.

• All ability damage reduced by 5%.
• Mortal Strike damage increased by 66%.
• Cleave damage increased by 26%.
• Overpower damage increased by 44%.
• Dreadnaught damage increased by 44%.
• Execute damage increased by 32%.
• Slam damage increased by 45%.
• Whirlwind damage increased by 40%.
• Martial Prowess’ Overpower now increases the damage of your next Mortal Strike or Cleave by 15% per stack, up to 2 (was 30%).
• Bloodborne increases Bleed effect damage by 5/10% (was 7.5/15%).
• Bloodsurge now causes damage from Mastery: Deep Wounds to have a chance to generate 5 Rage.
• Colossus Smash and Warbreaker have new visuals.
• Warbreaker’s area of effect is now centered around a point slightly in front of the Warrior to better align with the new visuals.
• Hero Talents — Colossus:
  • Demolish damage increased by 30%.
  • Practiced Strikes increases Mortal Strike and Cleave damage by 20% (was 15%).
  • Arterial Bleed increases Rend and Deep Wounds damage by 5% per stack of Colossal Might (was 3%).
  • Colossal Might is no longer applied by Execute.
  • Fixed an issue causing Demolish’s animation to not correctly play sometimes.
• Hero Talents — Slayer:
  • Opportunist increases the damage and critical strike damage of your next Overpower by 25% (was 20%).
  • Cleave will only trigger Reap the Storm if 3 or more targets are hit.
  • Imminent Demise and Death Drive now correctly require the Sudden Death talent to be taken to function.

• Titan's Torment has been redesigned — While Avatar is active, Rampage’s cost is reduced by 20 and Bloodthirst’s cooldown is reduced by 1.5 seconds.
• Reckless Abandon has been redesigned — Activating Recklessness generates 50 Rage, and while Recklessness is active, Raging Blow and Bloodthirst are replaced by Crushing Blow and Bloodbath.
• Crushing Blow — A powerful dual-weapon strike that deals 20% increased Critical Strike damage.
• Bloodbath — A powerful attack that applies a Bleed to the target, extended by its full duration when reapplied.
• All ability damage reduced by 5%.
• Bloodthirst damage increased by 38%.
• Bloodbath instant damage increased by 38%.
• Raging Blow damage increased by 44%.
• Crushing Blow damage increased by 44%.
• Rampage damage increased by 44%.
• Odyn's Fury damage increased by 15%.
• Onslaught damage increased by 30%.
• Whirlwind damage increased by 30%.
• Hero Talents — Slayer:
  • Imminent Demise and Death Drive now correctly require the Sudden Death talent to be taken to function.
• Hero Talents — Mountain Thane:
  • Thunder Blast damage increased by 25%.
  • Strength of the Mountain increases Bloodthirst and Rampage damage by 25% (was 30%).

• All ability damage increased by 26%.
• Shield Slam damage increased by 20%.
• Execute damage increased by 10%.
• Brace for Impact now stacks up to 3 times (was 5), and grants 10% Shield Slam damage and 5% shield block value (was 5% Shield Slam damage and 3% shield block value).
• Punish reduces the damage the punished target deals to you by 3% (was 2%).
• Bloodsurge now causes damage from Mastery: Deep Wounds to have a chance to generate 5 Rage.
• Instigate causes Devastator to generate 2 Rage (was 1).
• Chance to reset the cooldown of Shield Slam from Devastator and Strategist reduced to 25% (was 30%).
• Impenetrable Wall no longer increases Rage generated by Shield Slam.
• Booming Voice causes Demoralizing Shout to generate 20 Rage (was 30).
• Champion's Bulwark no longer increases the Rage generated by Shield Charge.
• Violent Outburst has been rebuilt to be easier to understand and track progress towards the next Outburst. Additional Rage generated from Violent Outburst reduced to 50% (was 100%).
• Shield Wall cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 3.5 minutes).
• The amount of damage ignored from each use of Ignore Pain increased by 30%.
• Ignore Pain’s icon now displays the remaining absorb amount as a percentage of the maximum absorb amount.
• Barbaric Training no longer increases the Rage cost of Revenge.
• Frothing Berserker now has a chance to refund 50% of the Rage spent on Revenge (was 25%).
• Hero Talents — Colossus:
  • Practiced Strikes increases Rage generated by Shield Slam by 3.
  • Colossal Might is no longer applied by Execute.
  • Fixed an issue causing Demolish’s animation to not correctly play sometimes.
• Hero Talents — Mountain Thane:
  • Thunder Blast damage increased by 10%.
  • Avatar of the Storm now has a chance to grant 6 seconds of Avatar (was 4 seconds).

• New PvP Talent: Berserker Roar — Go berserk, removing and granting immunity to Fear, Sap, and Incapacitate effects for 6 seconds. Also reduces the duration of the next crowd control effect within 15 seconds by 50% on group members within 40 yards. Replaces Berserker Shout.
• Dragon Charge (PvP Talent) has been redesigned — You can now move slightly left and right during its effect. Cooldown increased to 45 seconds (was 20 seconds). Now available to all Warrior specializations and overrides Heroic Leap.
• Dragon Charge can no longer be cast while rooted and may be double-tapped to cancel early.
• Rebound (PvP Talent) now increases the damage of reflected spells by 100% (was 50%).
• Rallying Cry is now 100% more effective in PvP combat.
• Warbringer (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Sharpen Blade (PvP Talent) has been redesigned — Now empowers your next Mortal Strike after you cast Colossus Smash or Warbreaker.
• Storm of Destruction (PvP Talent) now additionally functions with Demolish.
• Master and Commander no longer increases the effectiveness of Rallying Cry by 10%.
• The following PvP talents have been removed:
  • Shadow of the Colossus
  • War Banner
• Death Wish now causes you to grow in size with each stack.
• The following PvP talents have been removed:
  • Barbarian
  • Battle Trance
  • Warpath (PvP Talent)

You can find other Patch 11.1 class changes linked below.