An Overview of Warrior Class Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch

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• Leeching Strikes now grants 3% Leech (was 5%).
• Seasoned Soldier now grants 5% Avoidance (was 10%).
• All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
• New Talent: Honed Reflexes — Cooldown of Die by the Sword, Enraged Regeneration, Shield Wall, Pummel, Intervene, Spell Reflection, and Storm Bolt reduced by 5%.
• Second Wind gains an additional effect — While you are below 35% health, restores 1.0% health every 1 second. The amount restored increases the closer you are to death (max 2%).
• Berserker Rage is now learned at level 12.
• Slam damage increased by 130%. Slam damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 75%).
• Bladestorm damage increased by 70%.
• Ravager damage decreased by 10%.
• Sudden Death can now stack 2 times.
• Thunder Clap Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30) and now applies Rend by default if it is known.
• Frothing Berserker now refunds 10% Rage for Arms and Fury, and 25% Rage for Protection.
• Shockwave no longer generates Rage on cast.
• Champion's Spear generates 10 Rage on cast (was 20).
• Thunderous Roar no longer generates Rage on cast.
• Thunderous Roar now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
• Thunderous Words now causes Thunderous Roar’s Bleed effect to increase damage targets take from all the Warrior’s bleed effects, rather than passively increasing it all the time.
• Odyn's Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
• Uproar now reduces the cooldown of Thunderous Roar by 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Champion's Might now causes you to deal 25% increased critical strike damage to targets chained to your Spear.
• Piercing Challenge now increases all damage dealt by Champion’s Spear (was only initial damage).
• The visual for Shockwave will now properly match its radius, both with and without the Rumbling Earth talent. Impact visual has also been updated.
• The visual for Thunderous Roar has been adjusted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Rallying Cry to increase maximum health by 15% instead of the intended 10%.
• The following talents have been removed:
• Titanic Throw
• Sonic Boom
• Blood and Thunder

• New Talent: Finishing Blows — Overpower generates 8 Rage when used on a target below 35% health.
• Barbaric Training has been redesigned for Arms — Now grants 10% damage and 10% critical damage to Slam, Cleave, and Whirlwind.
• Storm of Swords has been redesigned — Now grants Whirlwind or Cleave a 30% chance to make your next Whirlwind or Cleave cost 100% less Rage.
• Unhinged has been redesigned — Every other time Bladestorm or Ravager deal damage, you automatically cast a Mortal Strike at your target or random nearby enemy.
• Dance of Death has been redesigned — When an enemy dies while affected by your Bladestorm, all damage you deal is increased by 5% for the remainder of the Bladestorm and for 2 seconds afterwards. When an enemy dies while affected by your Ravager, its duration is extended by 2 seconds. These effects can trigger a maximum of 3 times per use of Bladestorm or Ravager.
• Blademaster's Torment has been redesigned — Activating Avatar grants 8 seconds of Sweeping Strikes and while Avatar is active the cooldown of Cleave is reduced by 1.5 seconds.
• Storm of Swords has been redesigned — Cleave and Whirlwind have a 30% chance to make your next Cleave or Whirlwind cost 100% less Rage.
• All ability damage increased by 43%.
• Execute damage increased by 15%.
• Slam damage increased by 20%.
• Cleave now replaces Whirlwind.
• Cleave cooldown reduced to 4.5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Cleave damage increased by 5%.
• Overpower damage increased by 55%.
• Rage generated from auto-attacks reduced by 16%.
• Whirlwind base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
• Whirlwind damage reduced by 33%.
• Rend base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
• Ignore Pain Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 40).
• Battlelord no longer increases damage dealt by Overpower.
• Fervor of Battle now also triggers from Cleave.
• Seismic Reverberation now also triggers from Cleave.
• Collateral Damage's damage bonus now applies to Cleave as well as Whirlwind.
• Warlord's Torment no longer triggers from Colossus Smash. Duration of Recklessness buff increased by 50% and bonus Rage generation reduced to 25% (was 100%).
• In For The Kill's Haste bonus now lasts as long as Colossus Smash does.
• Improved Overpower increases number of Overpower charges by 1.
• Dreadnaught no longer increases number of Overpower charges.
• Dreadnaught damage reduced by 58%.
• Strength of Arms no longer causes Overpower to generate 8 Rage when used on a target below 35% health.
• Strength of Arms now also increases Overpower damage by 15%.
• Tactician chance to reset cooldown of Overpower per Rage spent reduced to 1% (was 1.3%).
• Deft Experience increase to Tactician's chance to reset cooldown of Overpower per Rage spent reduced to 0.5% (was 0.6%).
• Valor in Victory's Versatility bonus increased to 2% (was 1%).
• Skullsplitter now accelerates Rend's Bleed baseline.
• Ravager is now a choice node with Bladestorm. All existing Bladestorm sub-talents have been updated to work with both Ravager and Bladestorm.
• Bladestorm no longer generates Rage on cast.
• Crushing Force now increases Mortal Strike damage by 5% and Mortal Strike critical strike damage by 5% per point (was Slam damage and critical strike chance).
• Critical Thinking now restores 10% of Rage spent on Execute per point (was 5%).
• Warlord’s Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
• The following talents have been removed:
• Tide of Blood has been removed, its effects have been added to Skullsplitter
• Reaping Swings
• Hurricane

• New Talent: Powerful Enrage — Enrage increases the damage your abilities deal by an additional 15% and Enrage's duration is increased by 1 second. On a choice node with Frenzied Enrage.
• Hurricane replaced with Unhinged — Every other time Bladestorm or Ravager deal damage, you cast a Bloodthirst at your target or a nearby enemy.
• Fury Warriors now learn Defensive Stance by default.
• All ability damage increased by 49%.
• Rampage damage increased by 26%.
• Bloodthirst damage increased by 29%.
• Odyn's Fury damage increased by 33%.
• Raging Blow damage increased by 10%.
• Improved Raging Blow's chance for Raging Blow to reset its own cooldown increased to 25% (was 20%).
• Reckless Abandon now buffs your next Bloodthirst and Raging Blow.
• Reckless Abandon's Bloodbath damage reduced by 26% and Crushing Blow damage reduced by 3%.
• Deft Experience now causes Bloodthirst to extend your Enrage effect by 0.5/1.0 sec if you are Enraged.
• Swift Strikes now also increases Bloodthirst’s Rage generated by 1.0/2.0 Rage.
• Crushing Force now increases the damage of Bloodthirst by 10/20% and critical strike chance of Bloodthirst by 2/4%.
• Slam's Rage cost removed.
• Wrath and Fury now increases the chance for Improved Raging Blow to reset Raging Blow's cooldown by 10% while Enraged.
• Deft Experience no longer reduces Bloodthirst's cooldown, instead it now increases Bloodthirst's chance to trigger Enrage by 2% per point.
• Tenderize no longer increases the duration of Enrage.
• Bloodcraze now triggers from Raging Blow instead of Bloodthirst.
• Bladestorm now generates 10 Rage per damage event for Fury (20 with Storm of Steel).
• Bladestorm is now a choice node with Ravager. All existing Ravager sub-talents have been updated to work with both Ravager and Bladestorm.
• Unbridled Ferocity no longer triggers from Onslaught and its chance to trigger is reduced to 6% (was 20%).
• Berserker’s Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
• Titan’s Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
• The following talents have been removed:
• Frenzied Flurry has been removed, its effects have been added to Single-Minded Fury.
• Raging Armaments
• Annihilator
• Storm of Swords

• New Talent: Fight Through the Flames — Defensive Stance additionally reduces magic damage you take by 5%.
• Battle-Scarred Veteran has been updated — When a damage event reduces your health below 30%, the portion of that damage event that would apply to the last 30% of your health is also reduced by 80%.
• Dance of Death has been redesigned — When an enemy dies while affected by your Ravager, its duration is extended by 2 seconds. This effect can trigger a maximum of 3 times per use of Ravager.
• Whirlwind base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
• Whirlwind damage reduced by 33%.
• Execute damage increased by 15%.
• Rend base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
• Defensive Stance no longer reduces damage dealt by Protection Warriors.
• Immovable Object tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
• Improved Heroic Throw has been removed.

• Master and Commander now reduces the cooldown of Rallying Cry by 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
• Battlefield Commander (PvP Talent) now increases the radius of Piercing Howl by 50% (was root targets for 2 seconds).
• Death Sentence (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Storm of Destruction has been redesigned — Now reduces healing on affected targets by 25% for 10 seconds (was reduce the cooldown of Bladestorm and Ravager).
• Duel (PvP Talent) duration increased to 12 seconds and its sound effect has been changed to be more noticeable.
• Enduring Rage (PvP Talent) can now activate Recklessness without Enrage active and the duration of the Recklessness granted has been increased by 1 second.
• Slaughterhouse now stacks its effect if another healing reduction effect is active and overrides its effect once its effectiveness would surpass the active healing reduction effect or the active healing reduction effect is removed.
• The following PvP talents have been removed:
• Bloodrage
• Storm of Destruction (Fury only)

You can find other War Within Pre-Patch class changes linked below.