Warrior

Last Updated: 10/27/08 (9138)

Notes on listed Abilities/Talents: Abilities and Talent description may not match WoWHead tooltips. All information listed here is based on the very latest updates to Blizzard's official talent calculators and patch notes, which are more up-to-date than the in-game builds from which WoWHead draws its data. We are not responsible for discrepancies in WoWHead's database.

New Trained Abilities

	Ability	Rank	Level	School	Description
	Bloodbath (Retired ability)	Rank 01	60	Arms	Wound up to 5 enemy targets within 8 yards, causing 244 to 256 damage and causing them to Bleed for 250 damage over 15 seconds. If the target becomes Enraged, the Bloodbath bleed effect causes four times the normal damage. (15 Rage, Instant, 5 yd Range)
	Heroic Throw	Rank 01	80	Arms	Throws your weapon at the enemy causing [1 + AP * 0.50] damage (based on attack power). This ability causes high threat. (Instant, 0.5 sec cast, 20 sec cooldown, 30 yd range)
	Enraged Regeneration	Rank 01	75	Fury	You regenerate 30% of your total health over 10 sec. This ability requires an Enrage effect, consumes all Enrage effects and prevents any from affecting you for the full duration. (15 rage, 3 min cooldown)
	Shield Break (Retired ability)	Rank 01	75	Protection	Break down the enemy's defenses, disarming any shield they have equipped or reducing the chance the enemy will block by 3% for 10 sec. (15 Rage, Instant, 1 min Cooldown, 5 yd Range)

New Talents

	Talent	Tier	Tree	Description
	Taste for Blood	04 (15 Pt Req)	Arms	Whenever your Rend ability causes damage, you have a 10/20/30% chance of allowing the use of your Overpower ability for 5 secs. 1 charge. (3 Ranks)
	Trauma	06 (25 Pt Req)	Arms	Your melee critical strikes increase the effectiveness of Bleed effects on the target by 15/30% for 15 seconds. (2 Ranks)
	Strength of Arms	07 (30 Pt Req)	Arms	Increases your total Strength and Stamina by 2/4% and your Expertise by 2/4. (2 Ranks)
	Unrelenting Assault	07 (30 Pt Req)	Arms	Reduces the cooldown of your Overpower and Revenge abilities by 2/4 seconds. (2 Ranks)
	Sudden Death	09 (40 Pt Req)	Arms	Your melee hits have a 3/6/9% chance of allowing the use of Execute regardless of the target's health state. In addition, you keep 3/7/10 rage after using Execute. (3 Ranks)
	Wrecking Crew	10 (45 Pt Req)	Arms	Your melee critical hits Enrage you, increasing all damage caused by 2/4/6/8/10% for 12 sec. (5 Ranks)
	Bladestorm	11 (50 Pt Req)	Arms	Instantly Whirlwind all nearby targets and for the next 6 sec you will perform a whirlwind attack every 1 sec seconds. While under the effects of Bladestorm, you can move but cannot perform any other abilities but you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed. (1 Rank)
	Armored to the Teeth	01 (00 Pt Req)	Fury	Increases your attack power by 1/2/3 for every 180 armor value you have. (3 Ranks)
	Death Wish	05 (20 Pt Req)	Fury	When activated, increases your physical damage by 20% but increases all damage taken by 5%. Lasts 30 seconds. (Replaces Sweeping Strikes). (1 Rank)
	Furious Attacks	08 (35 Pt Req)	Fury	Your normal melee attacks have a chance to reduce all healing done to the target by 25% for 8 sec. This can stack up to 2 times. (Rank 2 is more effective than Rank 1.) (2 Ranks)
	Intensify Rage	08 (35 Pt Req)	Fury	Reduces the cooldown of your Bloodrage, Berserker Rage, Recklessness and Death Wish abilities by 11/22/33%. (3 Ranks)
	Bloodsurge	09 (40 Pt Req)	Fury	Your Bloodthirst critical hits have a 33/66/100% chance of reducing the swing time of your next Slam by 100% for 5 seconds. (3 Ranks)
	Heroic Fury	09 (40 Pt Req)	Fury	Removes any Immobilization effects and refreshes the cooldown of your Intercept ability. (1 Rank) (Instant, 45 sec Cooldown
	Unending Fury	10 (45 Pt Req)	Fury	Increases the damage done by your Slam, Whirlwind and Bloodthirst abilities by 2/4/6/8/10%. (5 Ranks)
	Titan's Grip	11 (50 Pt Req)	Fury	Allows you to equip two-handed axes, maces and swords in one hand. Also reduces your chance to hit with damage-dealing abilities that require a weapon by 5%. (1 Rank)
	Incite	02 (5 Pt Req)	Protection	Increases the critical strike chance of your Heroic Strike, Thunder Clap and Cleave abilities by 5%/10%/15%. (3 Ranks)
	Improved Spell Reflection	04 (15 Pt Req)	Protection	Reduces the chance you'll be hit by spells by 2/4% and when the ability is used it will reflect the first spell cast against the 2/4 closest party members. No longer reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflection. (2 Ranks)
	Safeguard	07 (30 Pt Req)	Protection	Reduces damage taken by the target of your Intervene ability by 15/30% for 6 sec. (2 Ranks)
	Vigilance	07 (30 Pt Req)	Protection	Focus your protective gaze on a group or raid target, reducing their damage taken by 3% and transfers 10% of the threat they cause to you. In addition, each time they are hit by an attack your Taunt cooldown is refreshed. Lasts 30 min. This effect can only be on one target at a time. (Replaces Shield Slam). (1 Rank) (Instant, 30 yd Range
	Warbringer	09 (40 Pt Req)	Protection	Your Charge ability is now usable while in combat and in any stance. In addition, your Charge, Intercept and Intervene abilities will remove all movement impairing effects. (1 Rank)
	Critical Block	09 (40 Pt Req)	Protection	Your successful blocks have a 10/20/30% chance to block double the normal amount and increases your chance to critically hit with your Shield Slam ability by an additional 5/10/15%. (3 Ranks)
	Sword and Board	10 (45 Pt Req)	Protection	Increases the critical strike chance of your Devastate ability by 5/10/15% and when your Devastate or Revenge ability deals damage it has a 10/20/30% chance of refreshing the cooldown of your Shield Slam ability and reducing its cost by 100% for 5 sec. (3 Ranks)
	Damage Shield	10 (45 Pt Req)	Protection	Whenever you take damage from or block a melee attack you cause damage equal to 10/20% of your block value. (2 Ranks)
	Shockwave	11 (50 Pt Req)	Protection	Sends a wave of force in front of the warrior, causing [0.75*AP] damage (based on attack power) and stunning all enemy targets within 10 yards in a frontal cone for 4 seconds. (1 Rank)

General

• Recklessness, Retaliation, and Shield wall No Long Share a Cooldown.

Arms

Abilities

• Heroic Strike: Now increases melee damage by 10% instead of doing an additional set amount of damage. (Old Version: (Heroic Strike)
• Mocking Blow: Only one Rank, Causes Weapon Damage. Cooldown changed to 1 minute, now usable in defensive stance. (Old Version: Mocking Blow)
• Overpower: Now only has one rank. Bonus damage removed. (Old Version: Overpower)
• Rend: Duration reduced. Base damaged increased. If used while your target is above 75% health, Rend does 35% more damage. Additional damage now scales better: [1.0 * MWB + mwb / 2.0 + AP / 14.0 * MWS] up from [0.29999998 * MWB + mwb / 2.0 + AP / 14.0 * MWS].
• Retaliation: now a 5 minute Cooldown. Instantly counterattack any enemy that strikes you in melee for 12 sec. Melee attacks made from behind cannot be counterattacked. A maximum of 20 attacks will cause retaliation. (Old version: Retaliation)
• Thunder Clap: Damage now scales with Attack Power. Cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds. No longer has a target limit. (Old Version: Thunder Clap)

Talents

• Anger Management: "while in combat" removed from description.
• Blood Frenzy moved from Tier 7 to Tier 9. Now makes your Rend and Deep Wounds abilities also increase all physical damage caused to that target by 1/2%. (down from 2/4/%) Now also increases your attack speed by 6%.
• Bloodletting renamed Improved Rend: No longer effects Bloodbath. Now increases the bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 10/20% (down from 25/50%).
• Deep Wounds changed to make your critical strikes cause the opponent to bleed, dealing 16/32/48% of your melee weapon's average damage over 6 seconds. (Old Version: Deep Wounds)
• Deflection: Now increases your Parry chance by 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%
• Impale is now a Tier 3 talent and is required for Deep Wounds.
• Improved Charge now increases the amount of rage generated by your charge ability by 5/10 (was 3/6).
• Improved Slam: Now decreases swing time of Slam instead of casting time.
• Improved Thunder Clap: Moved to Tier 1 Protection.
• Mace Specialization now ignores 3/6/9/12/15% of target’s armor instead of generating extra rage.
• Improved Disciplines: REMOVED
• Bloodletting. Now increases bleed damage from Rend and Bloodbath by 25/50%. (Old Version: Improved Rend)
• Improved Mortal Strike: Reduced from 5 to 3 points. Now increases the damage caused by your Mortal Strike ability by 3/6/10% and reduces the cooldown by .33/.67/1 sec.
• Improved Slam has been moved to the Arms tree.
• Iron Will: Now reduces the duration of Stun and Charm effects on you by 7/14/20% (down from 10/20/30%) instead of giving you a chance to resist these effects.
• Poleaxe Specialization. Now also increases the damage your critical strikes with Polearms and Axes do by 1% per point in addition to it's old effect. (Polearm and Axe Specializations Combined)
• Sweeping Strikes: Now only affects the next 5 strikes.
• Sword Specialization: "This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds." added to the description.
• Tactical Mastery - Moved to Tier 2 (Swapped places with Thunderclap).
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization - Reduced from 5 to 3 points. Now increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3/4/5%.

Fury

Abilities

• Battle Shout now affects your raid members. Now increases attack power instead of melee attack power.
• Challenging Shout: Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (Down from 10 Minutes).
• Cleave: Bonus damage increased.
• Commanding Shout: Now buffs the raid.
• Execute damage has been slightly reduced, though it is now affected by AP.
• Recklessness: Now a 5 Minute Cooldown. Your next 0 special ability attacks have an additional 100% to critically hit but all damage taken is increased by 20%. Lasts 12 sec.
• Whirlwind: Description changed from 'Attacks nearby enemies in a whirlwind of steel that lasts [DURATION] and inflicts 100% of normal damage on each spin.' to 'Attacks nearby enemies in a whirlwind of steel that lasts [DURATION] and inflicts 80% of normal damage on each spin.'

Talents

• Blood Craze: Now regenerates 2/4/6% of your health after being the victim of a critical strike.
• Bloodthirst: Damage coefficient increased to 150% (up from 45%). Now recovers 0.6% of max health (down from 1.5%) of your max health per hit. Now has only one rank. Cooldown reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
• Booming Voice - Reduced from 5 to 2 points. Now increases the area of effect and duration of your Battle Shout, Demoralizing Shout and Commanding Shout by 25/50%.
• Enrage: Now gives you a 30% chance to receive a 2/4/6/8/10% damage bonus for 12 sec after being the victim of a damaging attack.
• Improved Slam Moved to arms.
• Improved Whirlwind now increases damage of Whirlwind by 10/20%, no longer reduces cooldown.
• Precision moved to tier 5 from tier 8
• Rampage completely changed: Now increases Ranged and Melee critical hit chance to all party and raid members within 45 yards by 5% Lasts 10 sec.
• Sweeping Strikes: Moved to the Arms tree (Tier 5). Replaced by Death Wish

Protection

Abilities

• Defensive Stance: Now increases threat by 45% (up from 30%).
• Disarm cost changed from 20 rage to 15 rage.
• Intervene - Now also reduces the target's total threat by 10%.
• Revenge: Damage has been increased for all ranks and it is now affected by AP. No longer causes a high amount of threat.
• Shield Bash: This ability is no longer affected by the global cooldown but it does not deal damage anymore.
• Shield Block: Increases your chance to block and the amount blocked by 100% for 10 sec (up from 5 sec), but will only block 1 attack. 30 sec cooldown. (Old Version: Shield Block)
• Shield Wall: Now a 5 Minute Cooldown. Reduces all damage taken by 60% (up from 50%) for 12 sec. (Old Version: Shield Wall)
• Sunder Armor: Threat now scales with attack power.
• Taunt cooldown changed from 10 to 8 seconds. Now has a 20 yard range (up from 5).

Talents

• Anticipation: Now increases your chance to dodge by 1% per point, instead of increasing your defense skill. Now requires 5 points in the Protection tree. (Old Version: Anticipation)
• Concussion Blow: Now causes damage equal to 75% (up from 25%) of your attack power and has had it's cooldown reduced to 30 seconds. No longer causes a high amount of threat.
• Defiance: Removed. Extra 15% threat now default for defensive stance. Replaced with Incite.
• Devastate: Now causes 50% of weapon damage plus 101 (up from 83) for each application of Sunder Armor on the target.
• Improved Bloodrage: Now increases rage generated by 25/50%. (Old Version: Blood Rage)
• Improved Defensive Stance reduced to 2 ranks, now reduces spell damage taken by 3/6% and any block/parry/dodge has a 50/100% chance to enrage the warrior causing 5/10% more damage for 12 sec.
• Improved Disarm: Reduced to 2 ranks. Now reduces the cooldown of Disarm by 10/20 sec (up from 5/10) and increases damage taken by disarmed targets by 5/10% (Old Version: Improved Disarm)
• Improved Revenge: Reduced to 2 ranks. Now increases damage of your Revenge ability by 10/20% (up from 8/16%) and gives a 25/50% (up from 10/20%) chance to stun the target for 3 sec. (Old Version: Improved Revenge)
• Improved Shield Bash: Now gives your Shield Bash ability a 50/100% chance to silence the target for [DURATION] and increases the damage of your Shield Slam ability by 5/10%.'
• Improved Thunderclap - Moved to Tier 1 Protection. Now reduces the rage cost of Thunderclap by 1/2/3, increases slowing effect by 4/7/10%, and increases damage by 10/20/30% (down from 40/70/100%).
• Improved Shield Block: Removed.
• Improved Shield Wall renamed to Improved Disciplines and revamped: Now reduces the cooldown of your Shield Wall, Retaliation and Recklessness abilities by 60 sec instead of increasing the damage reduction of your Shield Wall ability by an additional 10% and reducing the cooldown by 60 sec.
• Improved Taunt: Removed.
• Improved Toughness: First rank now properly reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 10%. (Old - 20%)
• Improved Sunder Armor renamed to Puncture.
• Last Stand: Now has a 5 minutes cooldown (Down from 8 Minute).
• Shield Block now Increases your chance to block and block value by 100% for 5 sec. Cooldown changed from 30 seconds to 1 minute.
• Shield Mastery: Moved from Tier 6 to Tier 3. Changed from 3 to 2 ranks. Changed to increase block value by 15/30% and reduce the cooldown of your Shield Block ability by 10/20 sec.
• Shield Slam: Now trainable. Replaced by Vigilance. Damage increased for all ranks.
• Shield Specialization: Moved to Tier 1.
• Shield Wall damage reduction increased from 50% to 60%.
• Spell Reflection: Now costs 15 rage.
• Toughness: Moved to Tier 3. Now Increases your armor value from items by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 6/12/18/24/30% (down from 10/20/30/40/50%).
• Vitality: Now increases your Expertise by 2/4/6, as well as your total Strength and Stamina by 2/4/6%.

Notes on listed Abilities/Talents: Abilities and Talent description may not match WoWHead tooltips. All information listed here is based on the very latest updates to Blizzard's official talent calculators and patch notes, which are more up-to-date than the in-game builds from which WoWHead draws its data. We are not responsible for discrepancies in WoWHead's database.

New Ranks for All Abilities

	Ability	Rank	Level	School	Description
	Bladestorm	Rank 01	60	Arms	Instantly Whirlwind all nearby targets and for the next 6 sec you will perform a whirlwind attack every 1 sec seconds. While under the effects of Bladestorm, you can move but cannot perform any other abilities but you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed. (Talent: Tier 11) (25 Rage, Instant, 1.5 min Cooldown)
	Bloodbath	Rank 01	60	Arms	Wound up to 5 enemy targets within 8 yards, causing 244 to 256 damage and causing them to Bleed for 250 damage over 15 seconds. If the target becomes Enraged, the Bloodbath bleed effect causes four times the normal damage. (15 Rage, Instant, 5 yd Range)
	Heroic Strike	Rank 12	72	Arms	A strong attack that increases melee damage by 10% and causes a high amount of threat. Causes 151 additional damage against Dazed targets. (15 Rage, Next melee attack, 5 yd Range)
	Heroic Strike	Rank 13	76	Arms	A strong attack that increases melee damage by 10% and causes a high amount of threat. Causes 173 additional damage against Dazed targets. (15 Rage, Next melee attack, 5 yd Range)
	Heroic Throw	Rank 01	80	Arms	Throws your weapon at the enemy causing [1 + AP * 0.50] damage (based on attack power). This ability causes high threat. (Instant, 0.5 sec cast, 20 sec cooldown, 30 yd range)
	Mortal Strike	Rank 07	75	Arms	A vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 320 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 sec. (30 Rage, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Mortal Strike	Rank 08	75	Arms	A vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 380 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 sec. (30 Rage, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Rend	Rank 09	71	Arms	Wounds the target causing them to bleed for 375 damage plus an additional [0.3 * ((MWB + mwb) / 2 + AP / 14 * MWS)] (based on weapon damage) over 15 sec. If the target becomes Enraged, Rend causes four times the normal damage. (10 Rage, Instant, 5 yd Range)
	Rend	Rank 10	76	Arms	Wounds the target causing them to bleed for 450 damage plus an additional [0.3 * ((MWB + mwb) / 2 + AP / 14 * MWS)] (based on weapon damage) over 15 sec. If the target becomes Enraged, Rend causes four times the normal damage. (10 Rage, Instant, 5 yd Range)
	Thunder Clap	Rank 08	73	Arms	Blasts nearby enemies increasing the time between their attacks by 10% for 30 sec and doing 247 damage to them. Damage increased by attack power. This ability causes additional threat. (20 Rage, Instant, 4 sec Cooldown)
	Thunder Clap	Rank 09	78	Arms	Blasts nearby enemies increasing the time between their attacks by 10% for 30 sec and doing 300 damage to them. Damage increased by attack power. This ability causes additional threat. (20 Rage, Instant, 4 sec Cooldown)
	Battle Shout	Rank 09	78	Fury	The warrior shouts, increasing the attack power of all party or raid members within 20 yards by 548. Lasts 2 min. (10 Rage, Instant)
	Cleave	Rank 07	72	Fury	A sweeping attack that does your weapon damage plus 189 to the target and his nearest ally. (20 Rage, Next melee attack, 5 yd Range)
	Cleave	Rank 08	77	Fury	A sweeping attack that does your weapon damage plus 222 to the target and his nearest ally. (20 Rage, Next melee attack, 5 yd Range)
	Commanding Shout	Rank 02	74	Fury	Increases maximum health of all party and raid members within 20 yards by 1855. Lasts 2 min. (10 Rage, Instant)
	Commanding Shout	Rank 03	80	Fury	Increases maximum health of all party and raid members within 20 yards by 2255. (10 Rage, Instant)
	Demoralizing Shout	Rank 08	79	Fury	Reduces the melee attack power of all enemies within 10 yards by 410 for 30 sec. (10 Rage, Instant)
	Enraged Regeneration	Rank 01	75	Fury	You regenerate 30% of your total health over 10 sec. This ability requires an Enrage effect, consumes all Enrage effects and prevents any from affecting you for the full duration. (15 rage, 3 min cooldown)
	Execute	Rank 08	73	Fury	Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing [1142 + AP * 0.2] damage and converting each extra point of rage into 30 additional damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health. (15 Rage, Instant, 5 yd Range)
	Execute	Rank 09	80	Fury	Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing [1456 + AP * 0.2] damage and converting each extra point of rage into 38 additional damage. Only usable on enemies that have less than 20% health. (15 Rage, Instant, 5 yd Range)
	Heroic Fury	Rank 01	50	Fury	Removes any Immobilization effects and refreshes the cooldown of your Intercept ability. (Talent: Tier 9) (Instant, 45 sec Cooldown)
	Slam	Rank 07	74	Fury	Slams the opponent, causing weapon damage plus 220. (15 Rage, 1.5 sec Cast, 5 yd Range)
	Slam	Rank 08	79	Fury	Slams the opponent, causing weapon damage plus 250. (15 Rage, 1.5 sec Cast, 5 yd Range)
	Devastate	Rank 04	75	Protection	Sunder the target's armor causing the Sunder Armor effect. In addition, causes 50% of weapon damage plus 53 for each application of Sunder Armor on the target. The Sunder Armor effect can stack up to 5 times. (15 Rage, Instant, 5 yd range)
	Devastate	Rank 05	80	Protection	Sunder the target's armor causing the Sunder Armor effect. In addition, causes 50% of weapon damage plus 63 for each application of Sunder Armor on the target. The Sunder Armor effect can stack up to 5 times. (15 Rage, Instant, 5 yd range)
	Revenge	Rank 09	80	Protection	Instantly counterattack an enemy for [1454 + AP * 0.207] to [1776 + AP * 0.207] damage. Revenge is only usable after the warrior blocks, dodges or parries an attack. (5 Rage, Instant, 5 sec Cooldown, 5 yd range)
	Shield Break	Rank 01	75	Protection	Break down the enemy's defenses, disarming any shield they have equipped or reducing the chance the enemy will block by 3% for 10 sec. (15 Rage, Instant, 1 min Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Shield Slam	Rank 07	75	Protection	Slam the target with your shield, causing 837 to 879 damage, modified by your shield block value, and dispels 1 magic effect on the target. Also causes a high amount of threat. (20 Rage, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Shield Slam	Rank 08	80	Protection	Slam the target with your shield, causing 990 to 1040 damage, modified by your shield block value, and dispels 1 magic effect on the target. Also causes a high amount of threat. (20 Rage, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Shockwave	Rank 01	60	Protection	Sends a wave of force in front of the warrior, causing [0.75*AP] damage (based on attack power) and stunning all enemy targets within 10 yards in a frontal cone for 4 seconds. (Talent: Tier 11) (15 Rage, Instant, 20 sec Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Sunder Armor	Rank 07	77	Protection	Sunders the target's armor, reducing it by 785 per Sunder Armor and causes a high amount of threat. Threat increased by attack power. Can be applied up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec. (20 Rage, Instant, 6 sec Cooldown, 5 yd Range)
	Vigilance	Rank 01	40	Protection	Focus your protective gaze on a group or raid target, reducing their damage taken by 3% and transfers 10% of the threat they cause to you. In addition, each time they are hit by an attack your Taunt cooldown is refreshed. Lasts 30 min. This effect can only be on one target at a time. (Talent: Tier 7) (Instant, 30 yd Range)

Animations

Shockwave

Bladestorm

Heroic Leap and Titan's Grip

3.0.2.9138 (October 25 2008)

Fury

• Bloodthirst - Damage increased to [AP * 50.0 / 100.0] from [AP * 45.0 / 100.0].
• Titan's Grip - Miss chance lowered to 5% from 12%.

3.0.2.9095 (October 18 2008)

Arms

• Improved Rend - Now increases the bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 10/20%. Down from 25/50%.
• Sudden Death - Proc chance reduced to 3/6/9% on melee hits. Changed from 10/20/30% on crits.
• Rend - All ranks saw a slight damage reduction. If used while your target is above 75% health, Rend does 35% more damage. Additional damage now scales better [1.0 * MWB + mwb / 2.0 + AP / 14.0 * MWS] up from [0.29999998 * MWB + mwb / 2.0 + AP / 14.0 * MWS].

Fury

• Bloodthirst - Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds, down from 6.
• Titan's Grip - Chance to miss decreased to 12% from 15%.

3.0.2.9038 (October 3 2008)

Arms

• Strength of Arms - Increases your total Strength and Stamina by 2/4% and your Expertise by 2/4.
• Sudden Death - In addition, you keep 3/7/10 rage after using Execute, was added to the description.

Fury

• Unending Fury - Increases the damage done by your Slam, Whirlwind and Bloodthirst abilities by 2/4/6/8/10%. Changed from reducing rage cost.
• Execute - All ranks had a slight damage increase. Max rank: Attempt to finish off a wounded foe, causing [1456.0 + AP * 0.2] damage. Up from [1266.0 + AP * 0.2].

Protection

• Taunt - Now has a 20 yard range. Up from 5.

3.0.2.9014 (September 30 2008)

Arms

• Thunder Clap - No longer has a target limit.
• Sword Specialization - This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds.

Fury

• Battle Shout - Now increases attack power by 548 (down from 550).
• Armored to the Teeth - Attack Power instead of Strength armor value require lowered. (Now 1/2/3 AP for every 180 armor.) (Old 1/2/3 strength for every 400 armor)

Protection

• Thunder Clap - Maximum targets removed.
• Revenge - Damage increased (Now Rank 9 - [1454.0 + AP * 0.207] to [1776.0 + AP * 0.207]) (Old Rank 9 - [652.0 + AP * 0.093] to [796.0 + AP * 0.093]). No longer causes a high amout of threat.
• Sword and Board - Now also effects Revenge.
• Shield Slam - Damage increased (Now Rank 8 - 990 to 1040 damage) (Old Rank 8 - 756 to 794 Damage)
• Vigilance - Now transfers 10% of the target's threat to the warrior (instead of reducing the target's threat).

3.0.2.8982 (September 24 2008)

Fury

• Titan's Grip - now reduces your chance to hit with damage-dealing ability that require a weapon by 15%.

Protection

• Vigilance - Now reduces the damage taken by the group or raid target by 3%.

3.0.2.8970 (September 19 2008)

Arms

• Blood Frenzy - Now also increases your attack speed by 6%.
• Improved Mortal Strike - Now increases the damage caused by your Mortal Strike ability by 3/6/10% and reduces the cooldown by .33/.67/1 sec.
• Bladestorm - Changed from "you can move but cannot perform any other attacks or abilities" to "you can move but cannot perform any other abilities".
• Taste for Blood - Now has one charge.
• Rend - Base damaged increased from 300 to 450 for max rank.

Fury

• Battle Shout - Now increases attack power instead of melee attack power.

Protection

• Devastate - Reduced to 50% of weapon damage from 80%.

3.0.2.8962 (September 18 2008)

Arms

• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization - Reduced from 5 to 3 points. Now increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3/4/5%.
• Iron Will - Now reduces the duration of all Stun and Charm effects used against you by 7/14/20% (down from 10/20/30%).
• Tactical Mastery - Moved to Tier 2 (Swapped places with Thunderclap).
• Trauma: Now affects all melee critical strikes.
• Justified Killing: Removed.
• Improved Thunder Clap: Moved to Tier 1 Protection.

Fury

• Booming Voice - Reduced from 5 to 2 points. Now increases area of effect and duration by 25/50%.
• Armored to the Teeth (NEW TIER 1 TALENT): Increases Strength by 1/2/3 for every 400 armor value you have.
• Heroic Leap - Removed. Replaced with Heroic Fury.
• Heroic Fury (NEW TIER 9 TALENT) - Removes any Immobilization effects and refreshes the cooldown of your Intercept ability. (45 Sec Cooldown)
• Booming Voice - Increases the area of effect and duration of your Battle Shout, Demoralizing Shout and Commanding Shout by 25/50%, up from 10/20/30/40/50%.
• Bloodthirst - Now restores 0.6% of max health, down from 1.5%.
• Rampage - Now also increases Ranged critical hit chance by 5%.
• Unending Fury - Now reduces the rage cost of your Slam, Whirlwind and Bloodthirst abilities by 1. No longer affects Enraged Assault.
• Armored to the Teeth - Increases your Strength by 1/2/3 for every 400 armor value you have.
• Titan's Grip - Allows you to equip two-handed axes, maces and swords in one hand. Also reduces your chance to hit with damage-dealing abilities that require a weapon by 15% (instead of all melee abilities).

Protection

• Intervene - Now also reduces the target's total threat by 10%.
• Improved Thunderclap - Moved to Tier 1 Protection. Now reduces the rage cost of Thunderclap by 1/2/3, increases slowing effect by 4/7/10%, and increases damage by 10/20/30% (down from 40/70/100%).
• Toughness - Now reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 6/12/18/24/30% (down from 10/20/30/40/50%).
• Safeguard - Reduces damage taken by the target of your Intervene ability by 15/30% for 6 sec, down from 30/60%.
• Vigilance - Now each time they are hit by an attack your Taunt cooldown is refreshed. Up from max of 3 times.
• Improved Spell Reflection - Reduces the chance you'll be hit by spells by 2/4% and when the ability is used it will reflect the first spell cast against the 2/4 closest party members. No longer reduces the cooldown of Spell Reflection.
• Warbringer - Now also your Charge, Intercept and Intervene abilities will remove all movement impairing effects.
• Safeguard - Removed "your Charge, Intercept and Intervene abilities have a 50% chance to remove all movement impairing effects when used" from description.

3.0.2.8926 (September 10 2008)

Arms

• Wrecking Crew - Now your melee critical hits Enrage you, increasing all damage caused by 2/4/6/8/10% for 12 sec.

Fury

• Enraged Regeneration - Now requires an enrage effect to consume.
• Commanding Shout - Now buffs the raid.
• Rampage - Now increases ranged critical hit chance.
• Titan's Grip - Now also reduces your chance to hit with melee abilities that require weapons by 15%.
• Enrage: Now gives you a 30% chance to receive a 2/4/6/8/10% damage bonus for 12 sec after being the victim of a damaging attack.

Protection

• Improved Spell Reflection (NEW TIER 4 TALENT) - Reduces the chance you'll be hit by spells by 2/4%, reduces the cooldown of your Spell Reflection ability by 2/5 sec and when the ability is used it will reflect the first spell cast against the 2/4 closest party members.
• Devastate - Now causes 80% (up from 50%) of weapon damage plus 101 (up from 83) for each application of Sunder Armor on the target.

3.0.2.8905 (September 05 2008)

Arms

• Bladestorm: Now you will perform a whirlwind attack every 1 sec (down from 1.5 sec).
• Mace Specialization - Your attacks with maces ignore up to 3/6/9/12/15% of your opponent's armor
• Thunder Clap - Slight increase in the static damage for all ranks (approx 50%).
• Weapon Throw renamed to Heroic Throw: Now deals 50% of AP + 1 damage (instead of 100% of AP). Cast time changed from 0.5 sec to instant. Cooldown changed from 20 seconds to 1 minute.
• Gag Order - Heroic Throw (formerly Weapon Throw) now also silences
• Deflection - Now increases your Parry chance by 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%
• Improved Mortal Strike - No longer gives your Enraged Assault ability a 30% chance to refresh the cooldown of Mortal Strike

Fury

• Enraged Regeneration revamped: Now "You regenerate 30% of your total health over 10 sec. This ability consumes all Enrage effects and prevents any from affecting you for the full duration." (Previously: A furious assault that consumes an Enrage effect on the warrior and attacks with all weapons.)
• Furious Attacks: Now your normal melee attacks have a chance (instead of a flat 50/100% chance) to reduce all healing done to the target by 25%.
• Improved Whirlwind - Now increases the damage of your Whirlwind ability by 10/20%.

Protection

• Concussion Blow now deals [75% of AP] damage (up from 25%) but doesn't cause a high amount of threat anymore.
• Taunt cooldown changed from 10 to 8 seconds.
• Last Stand cooldown reduced from 6 minutes to 5 minutes.
• Damage Shield (NEW TALENT) (Tier 10): Whenever you take damage from or block a melee attack you cause damage equal to 10/20% of your block value.
• Warbringer (NEW TALENT): Your Charge ability is now usable while in combat and in any stance.
• Shockwave: Damage caused is now equal to 75% of AP (up from 50%). No longer causes a high amount of threat.
• Puncture: Rank 3 has been added back in.
• Improved Taunt: Removed.
• Improved Shield Block: Removed.
• Improved Toughness: First rank now properly reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 10%. (Old - 20%)
• Sword and Board revamped: Changed to 3 ranks. Now increases the critical strike chance of your Devastate ability by 5/10/15% and when your Devastate ability deals damage it has a 10/20/30% chance of refreshing the cooldown of your Shield Slam ability and reducing its cost by 100% for [DURATION]. (Previously: When your Devastate ability deals damage it has a 3/6/9% chance of refreshing the cooldown of your Shield Slam ability and reducing its cost by 100% for [DURATION].)
• Shield Wall - Reduces all damage taken by 60% up from 50%
• Improved Shield Wall renamed to Improved Disciplines - Now reduces the cooldown of your Shield Wall, Retaliation and Recklessness abilities by 60 sec instead of increasing the damage reduction of your Shield Wall ability by an additional 10% and reducing the cooldown by 60 sec
• Improved Disarm - No longer lowers the cooldown of Shield Break
• Shield Mastery - Moved from Tier 6 to Tier 3. Now increases your block value by 15/30% and reduces the cooldown of your Shield Block ability by 10/20 sec.
• Vitality - Now increases your Expertise by 2/4/6, as well as your total Strength and Stamina by 2/4/6%.

Warrior Update (September 03 2008)

(Source)

Arms

• Improved Charge now generates 5/10 rage.
• Mace Specialization now ignores 3/6/9/12/15% of target’s armor.
• Sudden Death and Trauma swapped locations.
• Bladestorm now lasts 6 seconds, causing a whirlwind every second.

Fury

• Slam – We’re working to change this ability to suspend the swing timer when you are using the ability. In other words, if you’re .5 sec away from swinging your weapon when you start using Slam you’ll be .5 sec from swinging your weapon after Slam goes off.
• Enraged Assault redesigned, now Enraged Regeneration: You regenerate 30% of your total health over 10 sec. This ability consumes all Enrage effects and prevents any from affecting you for the full duration. Must be enraged to use. Cost 15 rage, 3 min cooldown.
• Intensify Rage and Precision swapped locations.
• Enrage now increases damage done by 3/6/9/12/15%, limitation on number of attacks removed.
• Improved Whirlwind now increases damage of Whirlwind by 10/20%, no longer reduces cooldown.
• Furious Attacks changed to use PPM (procs per minute) to make it trigger at the same rate regardless of weapon speed. Note that dual-wielding and haste still improve your chances.

Protection

• Toughness now also reduces duration of movement slowing effects by 10/20/30/40/50%.
• Improved Sunder Armor renamed Puncture, reduced to 2 ranks for 1/2 rage cost reduction.
• Improved Disarm reduced to 2 ranks, now reduces the cooldown of Disarm by 10/20 sec and increases damage taken by disarmed targets by 5/10%.
• Improved Defensive Stance reduced to 2 ranks, now reduces spell damage taken by 3/6% and any block/parry/dodge has a 50/100% chance to enrage the warrior causing 5/10% more damage for 12 sec.
• Vigilance will soon transfer the 10% threat lost to the warrior. It will also have 3 charges to curb using it on targets that are being hit constantly. We’re still polishing this element to get it to feel right.
• (NEW) Warbringer is a new one point talent on Tier 9 that allows Charge to be used in combat. Did I mention the change to Improved Charge?
• Critical Block now also increases your chance to critically hit with your Shield Slam by 5/10/15%.
• Sword and Board no longer triggers when Shield Slam is used, but the chance to trigger has increased to 3/6/9/12/15%. Note these are not final numbers.

3.0.2.8885 (August 29 2008)

Arms

• Thunder Clap: Blasts nearby enemies increasing the time between their attacks by 20% for 30 sec and doing 200 damage to them. Damage increased by attack power. This ability causes additional threat and will affect up to 0 targets.
• Weapon Throw (NEW): Throws your weapon at the enemy causing [ 100% of AP + 1 ] damage (based on attack power). This ability causes high threat. 30 yd range, 0.5 sec cast, 20 sec cooldown
• Execute damage has been slightly reduced, it is now affected by AP. (Rank 9 went from 1665 damage to [ 20% of AP + 1266 ] damage, rank 8 from 1315 to [ 20% of AP + 993 ], etc ... Rank 9 added for level 80 [ 9.3% of AP + 652 ])
• Battle Shout now affects your raid members.
• Trauma has been moved from Tier 9 to Tier 6
• Strength of Arms has been moved from Tier 8 to Tier 7
• Sudden Death has been moved from Tier 6 to Tier 9.
• Improved Battle Shout: Description changed from 'Your Battle Shout ability grants an additional 70 attack power.' to 'Your Battle Shout ability grants up to 70 additional attack power.'
• Improved Slam (Rank 2): Description changed from 'Decreases the casting time of your Slam ability by $/1000;S1 sec.' to 'Decreases the swing time of your Slam ability by $/1000;S1 sec.'
• Heroic Strike: A strong attack that increases melee damage by 10% and causes a high amount of threat.

Fury

• Commanding Shout: Description changed from 'Breaks all nearby allies out of sleep, cham and fear.' to 'Breaks all nearby allies out of sleep, charm and fear.'
• Bloodthirst: Instantly attack the target causing ${AP*142/100} damage. In addition, the next 5 successful melee attacks will restore 1.5% of max health. This effect lasts 8 sec. Damage is based on your attack power.
• Rampage now affects all party and raid members within 45 yards. (Up from 20 yards)
• Precision has been moved from Tier 7 to Tier 5
• Heroic Leap: Description changed from 'Leap through the air and slam down on all enemies within [RADIUS] yards of the target area, causing 50% weapon damage and stunning them for [DURATION].' to 'Leap through the air and slam down on all enemies within [RADIUS] yards of the target area, causing 0% weapon damage and stunning them for [DURATION].'
• Whirlwind: Description changed from 'Attacks nearby enemies in a whirlwind of steel that lasts [DURATION] and inflicts 100% of normal damage on each spin.' to 'Attacks nearby enemies in a whirlwind of steel that lasts [DURATION] and inflicts 80% of normal damage on each spin.'
• Improved Whirlwind (Rank 2): Description changed from 'Reduces the cooldown of your Whirlwind ability by 2000 sec.' to 'Increases the damage of your Whirlwind ability by 20 sec.'
• Intensify Rage (Rank 3): Description changed from 'Reduces the cooldown of your Bloodrage, Berserker Rage, Recklessness and Deathwish abilities by 33%.' to 'Reduces the cooldown of your Bloodrage, Berserker Rage, Recklessness and Death Wish abilities by 33%.'

Protection

• Concussion Blow: Description changed from 'Stuns the opponent for [DURATION] and deals [0.25 * AP] damage (based on attack power). High threat ability.' to 'Stuns the opponent for [DURATION] and deals [0.25 * AP] damage (based on attack power). This ability causes high threat.'
• Devastate: Sunder the target's armor causing the Sunder Armor effect. In addition, causes 50% of weapon damage plus 20 for each application of Sunder Armor on the target. The Sunder Armor effect can stack up to 0 times.
• Revenge damage has been slightly reduced, it is now affected by AP. (Rank 8 went from 454-554 damage to [ 9.3% of AP + 382 ], Rank 7 from 374-456 to [ 9.3% of AP + 314 ], etc ...)
• Shield Wall damage reduction has been changed from 60% to 50%.
• Disarm cost changed from 20 rage to 15 rage.
• Shield Block duration increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
• Shockwave now deals damage equal to 50% of the AP of the Warrior, up from 25%.
• Sword and Board has been changed - When your Devastate and Shield Slam abilities deal damage they have a 3/6/9/12/15% (Up from 2/4/6/8/10%) chance of refreshing the cooldown of your Shield Slam ability and reducing its cost by 100% for 5 sec.
• Safeguard has been moved from Tier 8 to Tier 7 and 3rd rank has been removed, now Reduces damage taken by the target of your Intervene ability by 30/60% (Old - 20/40/60%) for 6 sec. In addition, your Charge, Intercept and Intervene abilities have a 50/100% (Old - 33/66/100%) chance to remove all movement impairing effects when used.
• Critical Block changed with a critical strike bonus on Shield Slam - Your successful blocks have a 10/20/30% chance to block double the normal amount and increases your chance to critically hit with your Shield Slam ability by an additional 5/10/15%.
• Improved Defensive Stance changed to a 2 points talent and enraged bonus added - While in Defensive Stance all spell damage is reduced by 3/6% and when you Block, Parry or Dodge an attack you have a 50/100% chance to become Enraged, increasing melee damage caused by 5/10% for 12 sec.
• Vigilance taunt refresh now applies to the next 3 attacks and now lasts 30 minutes.
• Improved Shield Wall now Increases the damage reduction of your Shield Wall ability by an additional 5/10% and reduces the cooldown by 30/60 secs.
• Puncture 3rd rank has been removed, bonus value of rank 1 and 2 remains unchanged.
• Improved Disarm' changed to a 2 point talent (down from 3) and now Reduces the cooldown of your Disarm and Shield Break abilities by 10/20 secs (Old - 5/10 secs) and causes the target to take an additional 5/10% (Old - 4/7%) damage while disarmed.
• Improved Revenge changed to a 2 point talent (down from 3) and now Increases damage of your Revenge ability by 10/20% (Old - 8/16%) and gives a 25/50% (Old - 10/20%) chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
• Toughness now Increases your armor value from items by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the duration of all movement slowing effects by 20/20/30/40/50%.
• Improved Shield Bash (Rank 2): Description changed from 'Increases damage of your Shield Slam ability by 10% and gives your Shield Bash ability a 100% chance to silence the target for [DURATION].' to 'Gives your Shield Bash ability a 100% chance to silence the target for [DURATION] and increases the damage of your Shield Slam ability by 10%.'

3.0.1.8820 (August 21 2008)

Arms

• Thunderclap cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
• Bladestorm now lasts 6 seconds instead of 4.5 seconds.
• Strength of Arms moved from tier 10 to tier 8. Changed to a 2 point talent and now increases your total strength and total health by 2/4% (was 1/2/3/4/5%)
• New talent - Wrecking Crew (Tier 10) - Your melee critical hits have a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to Enrage you, increasing all damage caused by 3% for 12 sec.
• Blood Frenzy now makes your Rend and Deep Wounds abilities also increase all physical damage caused to that target by 1/2%. (was 2/4/%)
• New talent - Bull Rush (Tier 9) - Increases the duration of the Stun effect of your Charge and Intercept abilities by 0.4/0.7/1 seconds.
• Improved Mortal Strike now increases the damage caused by your Mortal Strike ability by 2/4/6/8/10% and gives your Enraged Assault ability a 6/12/18/24/30% chance to refresh the cooldown of Mortal Strike.
• Trauma has been moved from tier 8 to tier 9.
• Unrelenting Assault now reduces the cooldown of your Overpower and Revenge by 2/4 seconds. (was 1/2 seconds)
• Mace Specialization changed, it now gives your melee attacks a chance to generate 10 rage when using a Mace.
• Improved Charge now increases the amount of rage generated by your charge ability by 5/10 (was 3/6).
• Bloodletting has been renamed to Improved Rend once again, and doesn't affect Bloodbath anymore.
• Improved Slam (Tier 7) has been moved to the Arms tree.
• New talent - Taste for Blood (Tier 4) - Whenever your Rend ability causes damage, you have a 10/20/30% chance of allowing the use of your Overpower ability for 5 secs.
• New talent - Justified Killing (Tier 4) - You gain 6 rage every time you parry an attack.

Fury

• Heroic Leap moved from Tier 11 to Tier 9.
• Titan's Grip moved from Tier 10 to Tier 11. It is now 1 rank and Allows you to equip two-handed axes, maces and swords in one hand. No speed penalty anymore.
• Furious Resolve (Tier 9) removed.
• New Talent - Furious Attacks (Tier 8 ) - Your normal melee attacks have a 50/100% chance to reduce all healing done to the target by 25% for 8 sec. This can stack up to 2 times.
• Rampage (Tier 9) completely changed: Your melee critical hits cause you to go on a rampage, increasing melee critical hit chance of all party and raid members within 20 yds by 5%. Lasts 10 sec.
• Intensify Rage moved to Tier 5 and completely changed: Reduces the cooldown of your Bloodrage, Berserker Rage, Recklessness and Deathwish abilities by 11/22/33%.
• Improved Slam (Tier 5) Moved to arms.
• Death Wish is (Tier 5) now flagged as an Enrage.
• Enrage (Tier 4) now gives you 3/6/9/12/15% increased damage after being the victim of a critical strike. It now works on all attacks for 12 sec. (Previously 5/10/15/20/25% and lasted for 12 swings)
• New talent - Unending Fury (Tier 10) - Reduces the rage cost of your Cleave, Whirlwind and Bloodthirst abilities by 1 and gives your Enraged Assault ability a 6/12/18/24/30% chance to refresh the cooldown of Bloodthirst.

Protection

• Shield Wall damage reduction increased from 50% to 60%.
• Shield Block now Increases your chance to block and block value by 100% for 5 sec. Cooldown changed from 30 seconds to 1 minute.
• Stalwart Protector (Tier 8 ) has been removed.
• Shield Mastery (Tier 6) Changed to increase block value by 10/20/30%.
• Improved Sunder Armor (Tier 4) renamed to Puncture.
• Improved Shield Block (Tier 3) Reduces the cooldown of Shield Block by 10/20 sec. (Previously 5/10 sec)

3.0.1.8770 (August 08 2008)

Arms

• Retaliation cooldown changed from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. Duration changed from 15 seconds to 12 seconds. Now affects a maximum of 20 attacks instead of 30.
• Bloodletting changed to 2 ranks and increases bleed damage from Rend and Bloodbath by 25/50%.
• Impale is now a Tier 3 talent and is required for Deep Wounds.
• Deep Wounds changed to make your critical strikes cause the opponent to bleed, dealing 16/32/48% of your melee weapon's average damage over 6 seconds. (Previously was 20/40/60% over 12 secs)
• Blood Frenzy moved from Tier 7 to Tier 9.
• Unrelenting Assault moved from Tier 9 to Tier 7.

Fury

• Recklessness cooldown changed from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. Duration changed from 15 seconds to 12 seconds. Changed to "Your next 0 (not yet defined) special ability attacks have an additional 100% to critically hit but all damage taken is increased by 20%. Lasts 12 sec."

Protection

• Improved Shield Wall now reduces the cooldown by 30/60 secs. (Previously increased duration by 3/5 secs)
• Shield Wall damage reduction decreased from 75% for 10 seconds to 50% for 12 seconds. Cooldown changed from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.

3.0.1.8681 (July 28 2008)

Fury

• Pummel: This ability is no longer affected by the global cooldown.

Protection

• Shield Bash: This ability is no longer affected by the global cooldown but it does not deal damage anymore.

Talent Changes (July 25 2008)

See: MMO-Champion
See Also: Official Calculator Updates

Arms

• Bloodletting has been renamed to Improved Rend once again and doesn't increase the amount of damage caused by Bloodbath anymore.
• Fixed a typo in Second Wind, Stun or Immobilize effects generate 10/20 rage. (Old version ... 100/200 ^^)

Protection

• 'Shield Specialization now gives you a chance to generate 1 rage when a block occurs. (Old version : 2 Rage)

3.0.1.8634 (July 17 2008)

Arms

• Hamstring now only has one rank and no longer causes damage.
• Iron Will now has only 3 ranks, reducing the duration of Stun and Charm effects by 10/20/30%.
• Mace Specialization can no longer trigger more than once per 6 seconds.
• Mocking Blow now only has one rank and causes weapon damage, cooldown reduced to 1 min and can now be used in Defensive Stance.
• Overpower now only has one rank and no longer causes any bonus damage (i.e. weapon damage only).
• Poleaxe Specialization now also increases critical damage done by Axes and Polearms by 1/2/3/4/5%.
• Sword Specialization can no longer trigger more than once per 6 seconds.

Fury

• Challenging Shout cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
• Death Wish no longer makes you immune to Fear effects.
• Death Wish and Sweeping Strikes have swapped locations in their respective talent trees.
• Pummel now only has one rank and no longer causes damage.

Protection

• Anticipation now increases chance to dodge by 1/2/3/4/5%, moved to tier 2.
• Defensive Stance now increases threat by 45%.
• Defiance removed, replaced by Incite and moved to a new location on tier 2.
• Improved Bloodrage now increases rage generation of both the instant and over-time effects by 25/50%.
• Improved Disarm now reduces the cooldown of Disarm and Shield Break by 5/10/15 seconds and increases damage taken by disarmed targets by 4/7/10%.
• Improved Shield Block now has 2 ranks and reduces cooldown of Shield Block by 5/10 secs. It no longer increases the number of blocks.
• Last Stand cooldown reduced to 6 minutes.
• Shield Bash now only has one rank and will cause damage based on a % of AP.
• Shield Block now increases chance to block and amount blocked by 100% for the next attack. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
• Shield Slam is now available to all warriors, starting at level 40.
• Shield Specialization moved to Tier 1, now increases rage by 2 on a successful block.
• Toughness moved to tier 3.

Worldwide Invitational Information (June 28-29 2008)

(From WoWInsider's coverage)

• Wanted to make the class feel more like Warcraft III. Put in Bladestorm and Shockwave, and tweaked Arms and Protection.
• Titan's Grip: Confirmed to allow the wielding of two handed weapons in both hands (rather than two handed in the main hand and one handed in the off hand).
• Shockwave added to help with Prot damage problem.

3.0.1.8471 (June 12 2008)

Arms

• Sword Specialization: "This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds." added to the description.

Fury

• Heroic Leap: Daze effect changed to Stun.

3.0.1.8391 (May 30 2008)

Arms

• Anger Management: "while in combat" removed from description.
• Mocking Blow: Cooldown changed to 1 minute, now usable in defensive stance.
• Sudden Death (new): Your melee critical hits have a 10%/20/30% chance of allowing the use of Execute regardless of the target's health state.
• Sweeping Strikes: Now only affects the next 5 strikes.

Protection

• Defensive Stance: Now increases threat by 45% (up from 30%).
• Improved Disarm: Bonus damage against disarmed targets 4/7/10% (down from 5-15%)
• Improved Shield Block: Reduces the cooldown of your Shield Block ability by 5/10 sec.
• Shield Specialization: Changed from 1 rage per block to 2.
• Shield Block: Increases your chance to block and the amount blocked by 100% for 5 sec, but will only block 1 attack. 30 sec cooldown.
• Last Stand: Now has a 6 minutes cooldown.
• Incite (new): Increases the critical strike chance of your Heroic Strike, Thunder Clap and Cleave abilities by 5%/10%/15%.
• Vigilance (new): Focus your protective gaze on a friendly target, increasing their chance to dodge by 5%. In addition, any time they are hit by an attack your Taunt cooldown is refreshed. Lasts until cancelled. This effect can only be on one target at a time.
• Shield Slam: Replaced with Vigilance (now trainable).
• Defiance: Replaced with Incite. Extra 15% threat now default for defensive stance.

3.0.1.8334 (2008)

• Shield Bash now deals damage equal to 20% of Attack Power
• Thunder Clap's damage increases as you get more Attack Power.
• Rend's Scaling with weapon damage has been improved.
• Sunder Armor's threat now scales with attack power.
• Rend has had it's duration reduced. Total damage dealt is unchanged.
• Challenging Shout cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
• Revenge's tooltip has been clarified.
• The bonus damage dealt by Cleave and Heroic Strike has been increased.
• There is now only one rank of the Overpower ability. Bonus damage removed.
• Spell Reflection now costs 15 rage
• The stun from Mace Specialization now has a 6 second cooldown.
• Improved Rend's name changed to Bloodletting, it now also affects the Bloodbath skill.
• Death Wish no longer grants fear immunity.
• Deathwish and Sweeping Strikes have once again switched places.
• Anticipation now increases your chance to dodge by 1% per point, instead of increasing your defense skill.
• Iron Will now reduces the duration of Stun and Charm effects on you by 10/20/30% instead of giving you a chance to resist these effects.
• Improved Bloodrage now increases rage generated by 25/50%.
• Improved Shield Bash now also increases your Shield Slam damage by 5/10%.
• Improved Disarm now reduces the cooldown on your Disarm and Shield Break abilities by 5/10/15 seconds, and additionally will cause any targets you've disarmed to take 5/10/15% extra damage.
• The amount of charges on Sweeping Strikes has been reduced to 3.
• Polearm Specialization now also increases the damage your critical strikes with Polearms and Axes do by 1% per point in addition to it's old effect.

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