Warrior in WoW Forever

Last checked: 2026-11-12

A Warrior is the plate melee option that spends rage. Mobalytics splits the class into Arms, Fury and Protection, the same three trees Wowhead’s class index lists. Arms is the two-hand weapon line, Fury is the dual-wield line, and Protection is the shield tank. You pick the class at character creation. Nothing in the 10 Nov or 11 Nov hotfix posts names a Warrior ability, so I am not inventing a tuning note for this class. If a later hotfix adds one, it belongs on the patch-notes page first.

IGN’s race article is the only place I take a “best race” from. For Alliance that article points at Human, in the direction of sword specialization. For Horde it points at Orc or Tauren. I do not rank those two Horde options against each other, because the article lists both. Racial numbers beyond that sentence are not copied here. The keyword research file puts about 2,040 searches on Warrior build and leveling phrases in 28 days. That is why this page exists while Paladin stays a row on the class table.

Leveling is ordinary melee: you are in the fight, rage comes from being hit and from landing blows, and a Protection warrior can hold a dungeon group once the tank role is needed. I am not printing a 31-point talent string. Mobalytics has build pages I did not open line by line, and a half-remembered point allocation would be worse than a link. Use the Wowhead Warrior guide for points, and use the race table if you are still choosing Human, Orc or Tauren.