Warrior: Forever against Classic

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New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Arms	Improved Tactical Mastery Retains even more rage when switching stances.
Arms	Spearing Strike A thrusting strike that pierces the target’s armor.
Arms	Bloodthrill Main-hand hits against targets bleeding from your Rend can enable Overpower.
Arms	Weaponmaster Increases the effect of all weapon specializations.
Fury	Lingering Rage After combat your rage lasts longer before it starts to decay.
Fury	Furious Precision Increases the hit chance of your off-hand attacks.
Fury	Reckless Swings Costs a share of your health: your next four melee attacks generate extra rage.
Fury	Gore Drinker After rage abilities such as Bloodthirst or Death Wish, your next melee hits heal you a little.
Fury	Improved Whirlwind Whirlwind comes back sooner and hits the nearest enemy harder.
Protection	Master of Defense Permanently reduces damage taken.
Protection	Vanguard Increases threat and steadiness on the front line.
Protection	Focused Rage Reduces the rage cost of your offensive abilities.
Protection	Bastion Sharply reduces damage taken for a short time.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the Forever client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Arms	Tactical Mastery You retain up to 5 of your rage points when you change stances.
Arms	Axe Specialization Increases your chance to get a critical strike with Axes by 1%.
Arms	Mace Specialization Gives you a 1% chance to stun your target for 3 sec with a Mace.
Arms	Sword Specialization Gives you a 1% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword.
Arms	Polearm Specialization Increases your chance to get a critical strike with Polearms by 1%.
Fury	Improved Demoralizing Shout Increases the melee attack power reduction of your Demoralizing Shout by 8%.
Fury	Improved Cleave Increases the bonus damage done by your Cleave ability by 40%.
Fury	Improved Battle Shout Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Battle Shout by 5%.
Protection	Toughness Increases your armor value from items by 2%.
Protection	Improved Shield Block Allows your Shield Block ability to block an additional attack and increases the duration by 0.5 second.
Protection	Improved Taunt Reduces the cooldown of your Taunt ability by 1 sec.
Protection	One-Handed Weapon Specialization Increases the damage you deal with one-handed melee weapons by 2%.

Moved to another tree

The talent is still there, in a different tree - which means different points and often a different build.

Protection	Improved Thunder Clap from Arms to Protection
Arms	Improved Slam from Fury to Arms

Moved within its tree

Same tree, different row. A row is a price: from row 2 to row 5 the talent costs 25 points in the tree instead of 10.

Arms	Improved Overpower from 10 points in the tree to 5
Fury	Improved Execute a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Fury	Enrage from 15 points in the tree to 10
Fury	Improved Berserker Rage from 25 points in the tree to 20
Protection	Anticipation from 0 points in the tree to 5
Protection	Improved Bloodrage from 5 points in the tree to 0
Protection	Iron Will from 5 points in the tree to 0
Protection	Improved Revenge from 10 points in the tree to 5
Protection	Improved Disarm from 15 points in the tree to 10
Protection	Improved Shield Bash from 20 points in the tree to 15

A different number of ranks

The talent exists in both, with a different number of ranks.

Arms	Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Fury	Flurry 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Protection	Defiance 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever

What changed since BlizzCon

27 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the launch client.

gone	Fury	Boundless Rage Raises the cap on accumulated rage.
gone	Fury	Precision Increases melee chance to hit.
gone	Protection	Toughness Increases armor gained from items.
gone	Protection	Vitality Increases Stamina and Strength.
new	Fury	Lingering Rage After combat your rage lasts longer before it starts to decay.
new	Fury	Gore Drinker After rage abilities such as Bloodthirst or Death Wish, your next melee hits heal you a little.
new	Fury	Improved Whirlwind Whirlwind comes back sooner and hits the nearest enemy harder.
replaced	Fury	Improved Cleave → Furious Precision Increases the hit chance of your off-hand attacks.
replaced	Fury	Raging Blows → Reckless Swings Costs a share of your health: your next four melee attacks generate extra rage.
moved	Fury	Enrage Taking a hit can briefly raise your physical damage.
moved	Fury	Improved Berserker Rage Berserker Rage also generates rage.
moved	Protection	Anticipation Increases defense skill.
moved	Protection	Improved Bloodrage Bloodrage generates additional rage.
moved	Protection	Improved Revenge Revenge gains a chance to stun.
moved	Protection	Improved Disarm Disarm lasts longer.
moved	Protection	Vanguard Increases threat and steadiness on the front line.
moved	Protection	Improved Shield Bash Shield Bash briefly prevents casting.
moved	Protection	Focused Rage Reduces the rage cost of your offensive abilities.
site.betabuilds.diff.retree	Protection	Iron Will Resistance to stun and charm effects.
ranks	Arms	Improved Tactical Mastery Retains even more rage when switching stances.
ranks	Arms	Bloodthrill Main-hand hits against targets bleeding from your Rend can enable Overpower.
ranks	Fury	Flurry Critical hits briefly increase attack speed.
reworded	Arms	Bloodthrill Main-hand hits against targets bleeding from your Rend can enable Overpower.
reworded	Arms	Improved Slam Slam casts faster, no longer holds up your swing and comes back sooner.
reworded	Fury	Booming Voice Shouts reach further and cost less rage, and so does Piercing Howl.
reworded	Fury	Bloodthirst An attack scaling with attack power that also makes you run faster for a short time.
reworded	Protection	Defiance More threat in Defensive Stance while you carry a shield.

Two independent Classic 1.12 talent datasets, compared against each other: maladr0it/classic-talent-calculator and hseager/Classic-WoW-Talent-Planner. All 431 talents they share sit at identical positions in both. Names and positions are taken from the second, which is the complete one; the first is missing Faerie Fire (Feral).