Another week, another batch of changes has been added to The War Within Beta as the devs are constantly adjusting and fine-tuning the many changes that will come with the new expansion. World of Warcraft players are excited to see how the new Hero Talents will affect gameplay as each class is getting huge updates to their identity and kit, offering a more fun and intuitive way of conquering PvP or PvE content.
With that in mind, we will take a look at all of the Warrior changes that were implemented for players to test and provide feedback to ensure that The War Within is a balanced and amazing experience for everyone both old and new. This time around, the dev team has made some minor changes to the Slayer (Fury/Arms) Hero Talents as well as the Arms, and Fury class specs.
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The War Within Beta Warrior Hero Talent Changes
Slayer (Fury/Arms)
- Fierce Followthrough now grants 10% additional damage to your next Mortal Strike/Bloodthirst (was 15%).
Developer’s note: Please note that the entirety of this change will be applied with next week’s Beta deploy but will be present in this week’s PTR build.
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The War Within Beta Warrior Spec Changes
Arms
- Blademaster’s Torment now grants 8 seconds of Sweeping Strikes instead of the full duration, however, this 8 seconds will be added to any existing Sweeping Strikes (and vice-versa) similar to the other Warrior Torment talents.
- The tooltip will not reflect this change until a later patch.
Fury
- Rampage damage increased by 15%.
- Raging Blow damage increased by 10%.
- Improved Raging Blow’s chance for Raging Blow to reset its own cooldown increased to 25% (was 20%).
- Bloodthirst damage reduced by 10%.
- Odyn’s Fury damage reduced by 15%.
- Crushing Force now gives 2/4% Bloodthirst critical strike chance (was 5/10%).
- Fixed an issue that caused Crushing Force to increase Bloodthirst’s damage by 10/20% instead of the listed 5/10%.
- Reckless Abandon’s Bloodbath damage reduced by 26% and Crushing Blow damage reduced by 3%.
Developer’s note: Please note that the entirety of these changes will be applied with next week’s Beta deploy but will be present in this week’s PTR build.
And that covers all of the beta changes that were added to The War Within build. Although the official release of the expansion is slated for August 26, 2024, the community is already brimming with anticipation to get their hands on the final version of the game and try out the many new systems, content, and class changes. You can check out the official development notes, here.
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