Warrior overview
The warrior is the plate-wearing melee class: the main tank of most groups and one of the strongest damage dealers once geared. It is also the class that depends most on its gear and on having a healer nearby.
At a glance
| Roles | Tank, melee damage |
| Resource | Rage, built by dealing and taking damage |
| Armor | Mail, plate from level 40 |
| Difficulty | Hard to level alone, rewarding in groups |
| Talent calculator | Warrior talents |
Who can be a warrior
Every race in Forever can play a warrior: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf and Gnome for the Alliance, Orc, Undead, Tauren and Troll for the Horde, and both Skyborne lines (High Order for the Alliance, Windshaper for the Horde).
How rage works
Warriors start every fight with an empty bar. Rage comes from hitting and from being hit, and it drains slowly out of combat. That shapes the whole class: you cannot open a fight at full power, slow weapons give more rage per hit, and long downtime between pulls is normal while leveling. Abilities are split across three stances (Battle, Defensive, Berserker), and switching stances costs most of your rage, so you learn which buttons belong to which stance early.
Talent trees
Arms is the two-handed weapon tree and the usual leveling choice. It ends in 
Mortal Strike, a heavy hit that also cuts the target’s healing, which makes Arms the PvP tree as well.
Fury is the dual-wield damage tree for dungeons and raids. Its top talent is 
Bloodthirst, which in Forever also gives a short burst of movement speed. 
Flurry after critical strikes is the other key piece.
Protection is the tanking tree: more armor, more block, and threat tools. It ends in 
Shield Slam, which scales with block value and can strip a magic effect from the target. 
Bastion, one tier below, raises your damage while a shield is equipped.
Leveling
Level as Arms with the best two-handed weapon you can find. Weapon upgrades matter more for a warrior than for any other class, so check quest rewards and the auction house every few levels. Pull one target at a time, eat between fights, and use bandages from First Aid. Grouping with a healer or a second damage dealer turns the warrior from the slowest leveler into one of the fastest.
In a group
A geared warrior is the default main tank. Learn Taunt, Sunder Armor and Demoralizing Shout early even if you level as Arms: groups will ask you to tank. As damage, Fury warriors gain a lot from a priest or shaman keeping them alive and from buffs from the rest of the raid.
Strengths and weaknesses
- Strong: best tank for most content, very high damage with gear, plate armor.
- Weak: slow and gear-hungry when leveling alone, no self-healing outside potions and bandages, rage starts empty.
Races and talents come from the Forever client files (build 1.60.1.70790); play advice follows the original game and will be checked against Forever’s changes.