The later Warrior supplement sets 100% extra crit Rage and revises Fury/Protection talents in the new build.Official
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WoW Forever Warrior October 1 Changes
Understand the updated Warrior crit Rage, Fury and Protection talent moves, hit changes and practical Beta checks, including the later official supplement.
Quick answer
The October 1 Warrior update and October 2 UTC supplement revise extra crit Rage to 100%, change Fury hit/Rage talents and rearrange Protection. Berserker Rage becomes available at 30. Recheck your current tree before using an older Beta build plan; these are official published changes, not a new best-spec ranking or complete live formula test.
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Why do the notes say both 75% and 100%?
The original 75% line remains visible in the cumulative notes, but the later Warrior supplement explicitly changes it to 100% extra Rage. Use that superseding Warrior statement. Bear Form's separate 75% line concerns Druids. The Rage mechanism guide explains normalization; this page focuses on the patch's practical tree changes.
Arms and shared behavior
Spearing Strike no longer requires a two-handed weapon but requires Battle Stance. Rend and Sunder Armor tap enemies immediately; that is a tagging change, not a claim that Sunder deals damage. Queuing Heroic Strike no longer improves off-hand hit chance. Do not reuse that old queue interaction as a current build recommendation.
Fury: where did off-hand hit move?
Furious Precision, in row 3, supplies 4/7/10% off-hand hit. Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants hit or its old off-hand Rage increase. The supplement reports correcting a bug that applied hit to both weapons. Compare your current talents rather than assuming the older Known Issues snapshot supersedes the newer correction.
Fury: Rage retention and utility
Lingering Rage in row 2 delays out-of-combat decay by 2 seconds per point, up to 10; it is not passive Rage generation. Booming Voice expands Shout area and reduces Rage costs. Unbridled Wrath loses the doubled two-handed gain, Unbridled Rage has a proc correction, and Improved Cleave/Boundless Rage are removed. These names describe different talents—do not collapse them into one effect.
Fury: later talent path
Whirlwind now always uses both weapons; Raging Blows reduces Cleave/Whirlwind cost by 3. Death Wish, rather than Enrage, leads to Flurry; Gore Drinker is a row-6 talent requiring Enrage. Improved Berserker Rage moves to row 5, Berserker Rage unlocks at 30 and Bloodthirst's Attack Power ratio rises to 45%. The current cap does not let you test every high-row combination.
Protection: what moved?
Iron Will and Improved Bloodrage are in row 1; Anticipation and Improved Revenge in row 2; Improved Disarm in row 3; Improved Shield Bash in row 4. Toughness is removed. Blizzard frames these moves as earlier utility and more accessible mid-tree choices, not proof of a final PvP or tanking optimum.
How to compare your updated Warrior
Record the client build, talents, weapon speed and main/off-hand setup. Compare non-crits and crits separately on the same target; then test tagging, hit behavior and out-of-combat decay separately. Keep damage-taken tests separate from outgoing swings. This editorial test checklist is not a Blizzard formula or an independently measured outcome.
Community questions and remaining limits
Players in the supplement thread debate Arms Rage pressure, talent costs and future level-60 scaling. Those are feedback, not official conclusions that a spec is best or ruined. Exact Rage equations, complete live interactions and optimal allocations remain unverified here.
Claim evidence
October 1 changes tagging, Heroic Strike queue behavior and Spearing Strike requirements.Official
The update establishes one best specialization or final level-60 gear scaling.Unverified
How evidence labels work
OfficialConfirmed by Blizzard or an official WoW channel.
Beta VerifiedSupported by multiple independent Beta reports.
Community ReportedReported by players, but not confirmed enough.
UnverifiedNot enough reliable evidence yet.
FixedVerified in the currently checked build.
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