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Arms Warrior
The classic tank and a hard-hitting melee fighter. Slow to level alone, but every group wants a good warrior.
Damage
- 10 characters on Party Tracker play Arms Warrior: 2 Alliance and 8 Horde.
- 62% of characters play a damage spec, and a dungeon group needs 20%.
- Leveling on your own
- PvP
- Farming gold
- Easy to pick up
Alliance: Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf, Skyborne (High Order)
Horde: Orc, Tauren, Troll, Undead, Skyborne (Windshaper)
What's changed in Forever
- Spearing Strike dismounts targets and hits mounted, Dragon and Giant enemies twice as hard; Slam no longer delays your swings.
- Blizzard says Warriors “remain the masters of melee combat”, wanted as a tank or a damage dealer.
- Rage from damage taken now ignores armor and absorbs, and Battle Shout is raid-wide.
From Blizzard: Class Deep Dives: Priest and Warrior (Sep 30) · Beta Development Notes, 16 October (Oct 16)
Class traits are what each class is known for, adjusted where Blizzard's Forever posts changed it. Blizzard's aim for Forever isn't perfect balance: it's for every class to feel valuable to the groups it joins. Talents can still change in hotfixes. Player numbers update about once an hour.