Class Tree Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Refactored all bleed effects to ensure they receive damage modifiers correctly and can critical strike correctly.
• Barbaric Training (Protection) — Revenge now deals 25% increased damage (was 20%).
• Avatar now appears on the personal resource bar when on cooldown.
• Avatar — Now grants 15 Rage (was 20).
• Seismic Reverberation (Arms / Fury) — The extra hit from Whirlwind now deals 30% of Whirlwind’s damage (was 50%).
• Barbaric Training (Arms) — Slam and Whirlwind’s damage bonus reduced to 30% (was 40%) and now increases the Rage cost by 10 (was 5).
• Thunderous Words — Damage bonus for Bleed effects reduced to 15% (was 20%).
• Heroic Throw (Protection) — Now has a cooldown of 1 second.
• Titanic Throw — Now has a cooldown of 3 seconds for Protection and 8 seconds for Arms and Fury.
• Wrenching Impact has been removed.
• Sidearm — Tooltip now matches the chance to trigger correctly.
• Shockwave (Protection) — Base damage increased by 50%.
• Bitter Immunity — No longer clears Bleeds.
• Battle Stance — Now reduces the effects of Root and Snares by 10% (was 15%).
• Berserker Stance — Now reduced the effects of incapacitating effects by 10% (was 15%).
• Inspiring Presence — Tooltip updated to make its effect clearer.
• Spear of Bastion — Now grants 20 Rage (was 25).
• Elysian Might — Now extends the duration of Spear of Bastion by 2 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Piercing Verdict — Damage and Rage bonus increased to 50% (was 30%).
• Endurance Training: Fury — Now increases Stamina by 5% and reduces the duration of moment impairing effects on you by 10%.
• Endurance Training: Arms and Protection — Now increases Stamina by 5% and reduces the duration of Fear, Sap and Incapacitate effects on you by 10%.
• Thunderous Roar — Now deals damage in a 12 yard radius (was a frontal cone) and also generates 10 Rage.
• Shockwave — Now generates 10 Rage.
• Crushing Force: Protection — Tooltip should now correctly update granting 5% increased critical damage per rank.
• Barbaric Training: Protection — Revenge damage reduced to 30% (was 40%).
• Cruel Strikes — Now increases Critical Strike chance by 1% and increases the critical strike damage of Execute by 5% per rank.
• Wild Strikes — Now increases Haste by 1% and your auto attack critical strikes increase your auto attack speed by 10% for 10 seconds per rank.
• Frothing Berserker: Arms Variant — Mortal Strike and Cleave have a 20% chance to immediately refund 20% of the Rage spent.
• Frothing Berserker: Fury Variant — Rampage has a 20% chance to immediately refund 20% of the Rage spent.
• Frothing Berserker: Protection Variant — Revenge has a 20% chance to immediately refund 50% of the Rage spent.
• Fast Footwork has returned to a 5% speed increase (was 10%).

Arms Warrior Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Storm of Swords — Damage bonus granted to Whirlwind reduced to 175% (was 200%).
• Seasoned Soldier — Grants 20% bonus Rage from crits (was 30%).
• Improved Overpower — Overpower deals 10% increased damage (was 5%).
• Critical Thinking — Now refunds 5% of the Rage spent on Execute per rank (was 10%).
• Skullsplitter — Cooldown is no longer modified by Haste.
• Bloodsurge — Chance to grant Rage reduced to 15% (was 20%).
• Storm Wall — Now has a lockout period of 1 second.
• Dance of Death — Clarified tooltip to make it clear you are not required to get the killing blow.
• Exploiter — No longer effects Cleave.
• Fracture — Updated tooltip to not reference Thunderous Roar.
• Bloodborne — No longer increased the damage of Rend’s initial strike.
• Exploit the Weakness — Removed from the talent tree.
• Deft Experience — Now grants 1% Mastery and increases Tactician’s chance to trigger by 0.5% per rank.
• Rend — The initial strike of Rend’s damage has been increased to 64% damage (was 32%).
• Massacre — Updated Massacre visuals.
• Valor in Victory is now 1% Versatility and a 15 second reduction to the cooldown of Die by the Sword per rank.
• Critical Thinking — Now increase your Critical Strike chance by 1% and Execute refunds 10% of Rage Spent per rank.
• Bloodborne — Now increases Mastery: Deep Wounds, Rend and Thunderous Roar’s Bleed effects by 7.5% and Rend’s direct damage is increased by 50% per rank.
• Test of Might reverted to 1% Strength per 10 Rage spent (was 5% per 30 Rage).
• Fracture no longer causes the Bleed effects of Thunderous Roar to expire to lower cooldown alignment and allow Thunderous Roar to be used more freely.
• Removed Skull Banner.
• Battlelord now reduces the cost of Mortal Strike and Cleave by 10 (was 15).

Arms Warrior Talent Tree in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

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Fury Warrior Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Berserker Stance — Now increases auto attack damage by 15% (was 10%).
• Improved Whirlwind — Multi target proc charges now appear in the personal resource bar.
• Meat Cleaver — Whirlwind damage bonus reduced to 20% (was 25%).
• Storm of Swords — Damage bonus of Whirlwind reduced to 70% (was 100%) and Whirlwind’s cooldown increased to 7 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Odyn’s Fury — Generates 15 Rage (was 20).
• Raging Blow damage has been increased by 8%.
• Crushing Blow damage has been increased by 3%.
• Annihilator now grants 3 Rage per hit (was 6).
• Annihilator — Can now be used with 2-handed weapons.
• Annihilator damage reduced to 10% (was 19%).
• Rampage — Damage reduced to 206% (was 227%).
• Storm of Steel — Now causes Ravager to generate 15 Rage per hit (was 10).
• Critical Thinking — Now grants 1% critical strike chance per rank (was 1.5%) and the tooltip now correctly states that it affects Annihilator.
• Annihilator, Slam, Thunderous Roar, Shockwave, and Odyn’s Fury should now gain extra Rage benefit from Recklessness.
• Massacre — Updated Massacre visuals.
• Wrath and Fury — Now increases Raging Blow’s damage by 10% (was 5%).
• Slaughtering Strikes — Auras now display correctly for both Raging Blow and Annihilator, and it can now be triggered via Crushing Blow.
• Bloodcraze — Can now be triggered via Bloodbath.
• Dancing Blades — Attack speed bonus reduced to 30% (was 50%).
• Deft Experience — Now increases Mastery by 1% and reduces the cooldown of Bloodthirst by 0.75 seconds per rank.
• Swift Strikes — Now increases Haste by 1% and Raging Blow and Annihilator generate and additional 1 Rage.
• Removed the Rage cost from the base version of Whirlwind.
• Bloodthirst’s Bloodcraze buff duration increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Removed Skull Banner.
• Cruelty no longer grants a chance to reset charges of Raging Blow.
• Cruelty now grants 15% increased damage to Raging Blow and 5% increased damage to Annihilator.
• Wrath and Fury in addition to increasing the damage of Raging Blow by 5%, now grants a 30% chance to reset charges of Raging Blow while Enraged.
• Slaughtering Strikes increases the damage of Rampage via Annihilator by 2% (was 3% per strike).
• Slam generates 10 Rage through Storm of Swords and its damage reduced to 150% (was 200%).
• Bloodborne damage bonus to periodic effects reduced to 15% (was 30%).

Fury Warrior Talent Tree in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

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Protection Warrior Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Violent Outburst — Now grants 100% increased Rage generation for Shield Slam and Thunder Clap and includes benefits any existing rage generation modifiers on those abilities. Its tooltip is now updated to correctly represent its functionality.
• Revenge — Damage reduced to 45% (was 53%).
• Thunderlord — Each enemy hit by Thunder Clap reduces the remaining cooldown of Demoralizing Shout by 1 second up to 3 seconds (was up to 4 seconds).
• Booming Voice — Generates 30 Rage (was 40).
• Champion’s Bulwark — Grants 20 bonus Rage (was 30).
• Violent Outburst — Now causes Shield Slam and Thunder Clap to generate 50% additional Rage, rather than 30 and 10 additional Rage.
• Impenetrable Wall — Now grants Shield Slam 3 extra Rage (was 5).
• Heavy Repercussions — Now grants Shield Slam 2 extra Rage (was 3).
• Champion’s Bulwark — No longer consumes a Charge of Shield Block or resets Shield Blocks cooldown.
• Dance of Death — Now applies to your current Ravager and any future Ravager casts within the next 2 minutes.
• Bloodsurge — Chance to grant Rage reduced to 15% (was 20%).
• Bloodborne — Damage bonus granted to Bleeds now 10% (was 15%).
• Heroic Throw / Titanic Throw — Now has a 3 second cooldown.
• Auto-attack damage reduced by 20%.
• New Talent: Dance of Death — If your Ravager helps kill an enemy your next Ravager lasts 2 seconds and deals 20% increased damage.
• Champion’s Bulwark — Should now add to existing Shield Block durations.
• Juggernaut — Has a maximum of 10 stacks for Protection specialization but last 20 seconds.
• Massacre — Updated Massacre visuals.
• Enduring Alacrity — Now grants 1% Haste per rank (was 2%).
• Focused Vigor — Now grants 1% critical chance per rank (was 2%).
• Vanguard — Increases your Stamina by 30% (was 45%), increases your Strength by 70% of your armor value (was 100%), and reduces damage you take by 5% (was 15%).
• Revenge — Damage reduced to 53% (was 63%).
• Shield Slam — Damage reduced to 80% (was 85%).
• Punish — Shield Slam deals 10% increased damage (was 20%).
• Best Served Cold — Revenge damage is now 10% (was 20%) and 30% when free (was 50%).
• Unnerving Focus — Now grants 50% rage generation (was 60%).
• Show of Force — Thunder Clap damage is now 20% (was 25%).
• Rend — Initial damage reduced to 32% (was 64%) and periodic damage reduced to 17% (was 23%).
• Execute — Damage reduced by 8%.
• Shield Charge no longer has a minimum range.
• Removed Skull Banner.

Fury Warrior Talent Tree in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

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Warrior PvP Changes in the Dragonflight Pre-Patch

• Rebound — Reflected spells now cause 50% extra damage back to the attacker (was 33%). Now available for all Warrior specializations (was Protection only).
• Battle Trance has been redesigned — You go into a trance causing you to regenerate 3% of your health and generate 3 Rage every 3 seconds for 18 seconds after using Raging Blow twice in a row on a target or striking a target with Annihilator 8 times. Striking a new target with Raging Blow or Annihilator will cancel this effect.
• Enduring Rage redesigned to also work with Annihilator:
  • Raging Blow functionality — Increases the duration of your Enrage effect by 1 second, and your Raging Blows extend the duration of your Enrage by 1.5 seconds.
  • Annihilator functionality — Increases the duration of your Enrage effect by 1 second, and your Annihilator damage extends the duration of your Enrage by 0.5 seconds.