WoW Cataclysm Warrior Changes
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Warriors were heavily cheated last expansion when many cool new abilities were announced for their class, and then nerfed to the ground or even removed from the game.
Warriors in WoW Cataclysm definitely don’t want to see more of the same, and any annoucement that is made will be approached with cautious optimism. Blizzard must have had their past mistakes in mind, because this time around nothing major has been announced for Warriors in World of Wacraft: Cataclysm.
Here is the new additions to warrior class in Cataclysm so far:
- This is the big Warrior announcement that we have for WoW Cataclysm so far: Developers agree that Arms lost their iconic ability when Mortal Strike was given to more classes. They want to find a new ability to fill that niche or make Arms’ MS the “ultimate” mortal strike.
- Heroic Strike and other ‘next time you attack’ abilities will see a change, as Blizzard doesn’t like the way it works
- Warriors will not be affected greatly by itemization changes in WoW Cataclysm. Devs like the itemization of Warriors, and plan on making other classes more similar to Warriors in that respect.
- Blizzard will allow Fury Warriors with 1 handed weapons to be viable again.
- You will be able to have a Blood Elf Warrior in WoW Cataclysm if that is what you wished.
That’s it for now regarding Warrior Changes in WoW Cataclysm, be sure to stay tuned as this is obviously just scrathing the surface of new spells and abilities for warriors in WoW Cataclysm.
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“Blizzard will allow Fury Warriors with 1 handed weapons to be viable again” I would like to see how blizz will make 1 handed wp viable. Same dmg as two handed or new abilities fow 1 handed? This change Im very very waiting…
P.S. Me not spk english
I’m fairly happy with how my warrior plays, i’m not great at fury, but i know some who are, a return to one hand viability will be welcome news for some
As a tank its very slightly lagging behind some other classes, but its so much fun to play and is still very much a viable tank that this doesn’t matter.. Also it would upset me if i didn’t have to work a little to do the job… In regards the article i’m sorry to hear there hasn’t been much announced.. But fearnot… We know they,re looking into overhauling rage from their blue posts 
and theres sure to be many small changes to come 
Blizzard is once again full of crap with respect to Fury warriors.
i agree that it is fun to tank as a warrior, it actually takes skill to tank as a warrior, not just a simple DnD or Concerate, however i would really love to see a few more AoE moves, just to make it a bit easier to AoE aggro. Thunder clap–>Shockwave –> then spamming cleave while tabbing barely cuts it in the big raids, plus since new places like H ToC mobs are immune to taunt, i find it extremely difficult to tank, if u lose aggro its pretty much all over. I dont want a warriors version of a DnD… i would just like 1 or 2 low CD aoe moves to help out a bit. how about all you other warrior tanks out there? good idea or is it just me that sucks at aoe tanking haha.
I love my Prot/Furry warrior! Don’t take him away from me.
1handed fury!??! i though they said they were done nerfing warriors to the ground! now you say they are removing dual wielding 2handers… ya know what? you can just %#*@ off!!! we want heroic leap! we want titans grip! we want the 10% dmg nerf removed! we dont want to miss on 28% of all white attacks! we want to be savage barbarians! if blizzard is going to give all classes a new OP talent, we want a new OP talent too dammit and we dont want it to get nerfed 2 weeks after the release!!!!!!!!
they’re not taking away titan’s grip lol, they’re just making use of 1h weps to warriors, considering rogues are the only ones still using 1h dps weapons, i find it a good itea lol.
i love my arms warrior fury is crap from my aspect my warrior rocks and would liek to see fury with 2 2hrds and not 1 blizzard stuffed up again
I agree with rickrick, all the fury nerfs have destroyed the spec in pvp AND pve, so in my opinion arms is the way to go. i have a 2600 wow-heros gear score and ive found arms pulls exceptional DPS compared to fury, sure fury could be played by a retarded money with downsyndrome, in other words takes no concentration to play other then waiting for bloodsurge to proc wich u can get an addon for, but its just crappy since u miss have of ur hits above hit cap and u get destroyed in pvp. Arms on the other hand is more complex but its worth it, great pvp with MS and BS and awesome in pve, what ive found is Arms is for serious dps and fury is for people that want to show off the 2 badass weapons they have. Ill play fury again… just as long as they fix it in cataclysm. As for new attacks i wanna see an maybe an AOE that uses all the rage u have, looks like holy nova and aracane explosion, if u use with 10 rage it will hit less then if u use it with 100 rage, thatd be cool =)
i think this suck lock get new pet other people get upgreaded amour but worriors get nothing wooooow 1 move extra i think we should get a new amour to only our class with insane stats and ohn the tree to take away the side affect on tittans grip and we should be able to do bladestorm wile being a fury worrior and tittans grip for arms
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guys, they never said they woz removing the Titan’s Grip, just making 1h wep specs viable. Viable doesnt mean taking the other version away, it means making it actually reasonably decent by comparison to other specs. Personally, i think the change is gr8
Hey ARMS warrior,
i don’t think that is what rickrick was saying at all.
Also, what gives you the right to bash fury warrior so far as to make fun of the people who play them.
Just because you choose a different spec you are automatically smarted and more skilled than all the other fury warriors who just do it to ’show off’
You took it too far with the whole “retarded money with downsyndrome”
By the way, learn how to use a spell checker bro.
On a more related note, I don’t care if 1h weapons are viable or not, I think having 2 two-handers is freaking cool so I’m gonna do it either way
Tånked you just proved his point right by saying “I think having 2 two-handers is freaking cool so I’m gonna do it either way.”
He said “fury is for people that want to show off the 2 badass weapons they have.”
…. You literally just proved him 100% completely right by saying that, and than you say dont bash on us just cause we’re a different spec, basically you just told us “yes, im a retarted monkey who loves Fury cause it looks cool, even though arms, w/out a doubt, has more DPS”…. “Get a spell check bro”
He doesnt need a spell check when hes dealing with dumbass’s like you who prove him right either way.
But good try anyways… lmfao god i love people on the internet…..
@ Protwarrior
No, its just you. Our AoE Tanking is just as viable as other tanks. If not more viable, as we have two mobile AoE abilities, and cleave is amazing. Also, we have Vigilance, if you must, put it on your higheset AoE dps. I hope you’re using the right glyphs…if you’re struggling with AoE tanking, glyph of sunder armor hits 2 targets…Glyph of Vigilance is great if you struggle with threat. Hopefully you’re able to improve with the information I just gave you. Good luck!
if you guys wanna see a nice arms warrior look up hardhead on kil’jeaden he is my warrior and rocks pants i know other people have been saying i should go to fury as ai pull 7.5k dps in 25 man normal toc but arms FTW duel weild arms pve / arms pvp is ftw look him up muchly apricated
hate to break it to you guys but with weapons past 232 lvl fury becomes better DPS no matter how skilled the arms warrior is, with the same high lvled gear and if they both bust there rotation out perfectly fury will run about 1k more than fury (its been done, its been tested) personaly i loved 1-handed fury, i can see them doing some sort of “choose between 2 2-handers or 1-handers” tallent thing where titans grip is the same but 1-hander gets some sort of buff (haste, damage i dont know) but all in all im throughly enjoying the prospect of hitting small and fast
Fury spec VS Arms spec in DPS?rofl guys…
You can check forums (e.g elitistjerks.com) and all you are gonna discover is Fury is THE absolute warrior spec as DPS.Not “show-off” nor nothing.
Arms warrior lacks about 500-700DPS to Fury.Yes, Arms has a great rotation and must be more consertraded to your screen but all you have to do for DPS is waiting Bladestorm.The other abilities are just too slow.
Dual-wield is the secret to that.
Go fury then,in PvE spec.That’s all
Arms>Fury in PvP,
Im very curious to see how they will make warriors have the “Ultimate” mortal strike effect once again. As far as the dps chatter, as an arms warrior, I agree fury is the better PvE spec for dps. However, fury gets smoked by Arms in PvP even sporting 2 relentless 2h weapons, Arms still does wonders over fury in a PvP sense. What I would like to see is everyone’s MS effect get dropped to 30% and keep warriors MS at 50% because I dont see warriors MS effect going up to 65% although this would be really nice.
-side note, feral gets a pounce similar to the description of heroic leap and hunters get disengage which is almost the reverse effect, however blizzard claims they didnt have the mechanics to make heroic leap work?? I mean come on its basically a feral pounce with a shadowfury effect when you hit the ground geeez how hard is that?
All these changes, however, what blizzard really needs to fix is the Charge lag ( you know when you charge and the person skips 10 yards away and by the time you get to them the stun is down and your forced to intercept)might as well put a daze effect after the stun for 3 secs so we can actually catch up because we know its impossible to fix player to player lag.
@ Polution
Thanks a bunch for the tips! it actually helped out a lot, AoE tanking is actually much better and easier for me now, i absolutely see where you are coming from with the “two mobile tanking abilitys.”
Thanks Again, Happy Tanking
there will be nothing good for a warrior, unless they fix rage, rage problems for ever. and if 1h weapons viable again, TG will be useless, that the worst thing they wanna do with warrior, and i agree with most of u here, time for fury warrior is dead! arms warrior ? with bladestorm? now all classes have MS so i guess its bladestorm, well yeah its OK talent but not in pvp most of the time u push button with /cancelaura blade storm! just gief back enrage damage bonus
Hi…Warrior well only get 3-4new crap stuff and 100% nerfs after nerfs spam because blizzard hate it .
am not going to talk alot because i did and am done with it.
you be the judge.
895Resiliance+shield+Defance stance=i take 10k crits from casters my hp go below 40% after cheep shut and kidney shut.
now blizzard dont you think that warriors need something called[Reduce chance to get a crit or reduce damage we take?
WARLOCKSGET SOULBURN AND GOD KNOWS WHAT AND WE GET THE ABILITY TO HOLD TWO 1 HANDED WEAPONS (WAW!!) …IDIOTS STOP FIGHTING WE NED TO DO SOMETHING..
PS TO BLIZZARD ..I HAVE A MAGE AND I TAKEN THE 3 POINTS IN [IMPROVED BLIZZARD] BUT THE COMPANY STILL SUCKS WONDER WHY!!
OK so Fury>Arms Arms>Fury, trust me you get a skilled player with gear for both specs and you will see great numbers. The playing style is a bit different for both classes, though I am happy to see a work in for threat reduction coming for warriors because without vigilance I have to set the aggro warning to almost 70% to make certain I don’t pull aggro off the tank unless its a prot warrior stacking the vigilance glyph.
PVP Fury, yeah right, I will believe that when I see it. (Though if you look closely they have 2 talents in the fury tree for pvp, one for a healing debuff and the other a freedom movement one.)
So far I am very happy with both specs for pve and am impressed that Blizz has done decently making end game gear for fury actually pull some dps again. I was sad to go to arms into Ulduar but really enjoyed the mechanics of playing in and even grabbed a tanking set for pvp cause its annoying waiting on a tank for isle of conquest.
Thank you Blizzard for making a great game.
Not to be a necromancer about this, but since this discussion is still viable I wanted to add my thought.
Being a warrior should be fun, and Titan’s Grip is a pain in the butt to deal with! I think making 1H weapons viable is great because then we can use powerful 1H weapons that miss less and focus on less hit rating and more on something else like haste. In the end this could be a serious dps boost for the warrior. We are so gear dependent so perhaps they should allow us this option to specialize in 1H over 2H.
However if the change results in less dps then I really fail to see the point of this.
The fact that warriors are getting out dps’d by not one but several other classes is just sad. They need to boost our abilities dps and reduce reliance on gear. Heck I say let us have a talent point that we can use to get a 1/2 attack power boost per 1 agility.
well ive been playing wow for about 4yrs or so and sounds cool i like the idea of the one hander cause i was dualspec furry but a pain in ass to get the hit crit miss the old having furry and arms with the dual 1hander cant wait for us warriors to be what our class is intended to be for once not to get the short end of the wow tallent stick i guess its cause our class is such a pain in the rear ro develope or being such complex class in wow GO WARRIORS palis = op lamies
Well…this sucks…the warrior got enough Nerfs…NOW THIS?! i not sure if they will remove the Titans grip or not but we will juet get 2 – 3 new Sh**ty Items?
when i saw the trailer for Cataclysm…i went all freaky of new gear etc…now when i bumb into some sites saying wat will be in Cataclysm…i burst into tears…
I SAY AGAIN
We got Enough Nerfs!!!
but still…i Love WoW tho it will be a bit fucked up in Cataclysm i hope they will do something about it
and, i hope, they will sort things out with the warriors
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this is getting a bit to long =)
Fury, Arms and Prot warrios FTW
gosh…i need to L2 Spell :S
ok donno about your opinions but i am sick and tired of blizz…with any patch they put..any change they make…..all they do is nerf warriors..no matter spec no nothing…while they are fuking buffing shammys…stupid 10 year old class paladins…now srsly blizz consider giefing warriors some nice buffs or else