Warrior in WoW Forever: talents, builds and changes from Classic

Spearing Strike needs Battle Stance (Blizzard, 1 October). Use it on giants, dragonkin and mounted enemies, where it hits much harder.

#showtooltip Spearing Strike
/startattack
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; Spearing Strike

If you're not in Battle Stance, the first press switches to it and the second one charges. With Tactical Mastery (level 14) you keep some rage when you switch.

#showtooltip Charge
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; Charge

Needs the Vanguard talent, which lets you Charge in Defensive Stance: it only pulls you out of Berserker, so a tank goes in without changing stance.

#showtooltip Charge
/startattack
/cast [stance:3] Battle Stance; Charge

Rend can't be used in Berserker Stance in Classic: from there it puts you in Battle Stance; in Battle or Defensive it casts straight away.

#showtooltip Rend
/startattack
/cast [stance:3] Battle Stance; Rend

In Forever, Thunder Clap also works in Defensive Stance (up to 4 targets). It only changes your stance if you're in Berserker.

#showtooltip Thunder Clap
/cast [stance:3] Battle Stance; Thunder Clap

Pull back an enemy that went for someone else without leaving your target; if you're not in Defensive Stance, the first press switches to it.

#showtooltip Taunt
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Taunt

When the enemy dodges, it puts you in Battle Stance and the second press fires Overpower. Battle Stance only in Classic; nothing published says Forever changed it. Tactical Mastery keeps part of your rage.

#showtooltip Overpower
/startattack
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; Overpower

After a block, dodge or parry: puts you in Defensive Stance, then casts Revenge. Defensive only in Classic; nothing published says Forever changed it.

#showtooltip Revenge
/startattack
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; Revenge

The tank's backup taunt when Taunt is on cooldown. Switches you to Battle Stance, as in Classic; your Revenge or Taunt button takes you back to Defensive.

#showtooltip Mocking Blow
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Mocking Blow

Execute doesn't work in Defensive Stance in Classic (it does in Battle and Berserker). From Defensive it switches you to Battle and finishes on the next press; in the other two it just finishes.

#showtooltip Execute
/startattack
/cast [stance:2] Battle Stance; Execute

Puts you in Berserker Stance and charges mid-combat, when Charge no longer works. Berserker only in Classic; nothing published says Forever changed it. Hold Shift to Bloodrage first for the rage.

#showtooltip Intercept
/cast [mod:shift] Bloodrage
/startattack
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance; Intercept

Puts you in Berserker Stance and makes you immune to fear and incapacitates. Press it before the enemy's fear lands. Berserker only in Classic; nothing published says Forever changed it.

#showtooltip Berserker Rage
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance; Berserker Rage

Battle with no modifier, Defensive with Shift and Berserker with Ctrl. Tactical Mastery (level 14) keeps 10 rage when you switch (25 with the improved talent).

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Defensive Stance; [mod:ctrl] Berserker Stance; Battle Stance

After tanking, it swaps the shield for your two-hander and moves you to Berserker Stance with Bloodrage so you don't start empty. Put your two-hander on button 10 of the right bar.

#showtooltip Berserker Stance
/click [worn:Shields] MultiBarRightButton10
/cast [combat] Bloodrage
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance

Out of combat it switches to Battle and Charges; in combat it switches to Berserker and casts Intercept (level 30). One key to close the gap every time.

#showtooltip
/startattack
/cast [nocombat,nostance:1] Battle Stance; [nocombat] Charge; [nostance:3] Berserker Stance; Intercept

Puts you in Berserker Stance and hits everything around you with Whirlwind. Berserker only in Classic; nothing published says Forever changed it.

#showtooltip Whirlwind
/startattack
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance; Whirlwind

Starts your auto-attack if it was off and queues Heroic Strike on the next swing. Once you have Cleave (level 20), use it the same way when two enemies are together.

#showtooltip Heroic Strike
/startattack
/cast Heroic Strike

You charge the target and start swinging without pressing anything else.

#showtooltip Charge
/startattack
/cast Charge

The tank's threat builder that strips armour, always with auto-attack on. With your mouse over an enemy, it goes to that one.

#showtooltip Sunder Armor
/startattack
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Sunder Armor

If you have no target or it's dead, it grabs the nearest enemy and applies Sunder Armor. Handy to spread threat across a pack when tanking.

#showtooltip Sunder Armor
/cleartarget [dead]
/targetenemy [noharm][dead]
/startattack
/cast Sunder Armor

You have 20 s after a kill that gives experience or honour: hit the next one and heal 10% of your health. Works in any stance.

#showtooltip Victory Rush
/startattack
/cast Victory Rush

Left-click queues Heroic Strike; right-click queues Cleave for two enemies. The «!» keeps a second press from cancelling it.

#showtooltip
/startattack
/cast [btn:2] !Cleave; !Heroic Strike

Uses your top trinket (slot 13) in combat and casts Execute; from Defensive it switches to Battle. If your trinket has no on-use, drop that line.

#showtooltip Execute
/startattack
/use [combat] 13
/cast [stance:2] Battle Stance; Execute

+100% crit and fear immunity for 15 s, at the cost of taking more damage. Puts you in Berserker Stance, as in Classic. No longer shares a cooldown with Shield Wall.

#showtooltip Recklessness
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance; Recklessness

For your burst window: goes Berserker, uses both trinkets (13 and 14), Bloodrage and Recklessness. Press twice if you start in another stance.

#showtooltip Recklessness
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance
/use [stance:3] 13
/use [stance:3] 14
/cast [stance:3] Bloodrage
/cast [stance:3] Recklessness

Interrupts your focus (the enemy healer, say) without switching targets; with no focus, your target. Needs a shield and Battle or Defensive Stance.

#showtooltip Shield Bash
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Shield Bash

Pummel needs no shield. Puts you in Berserker Stance and the second press interrupts your focus or, with no focus, your target. Berserker only in Classic; nothing published says Forever changed it.

#showtooltip Pummel
/cast [nostance:3] Berserker Stance; [@focus,harm,nodead][] Pummel

One button: in Berserker, Pummel; in Battle or Defensive, Shield Bash (needs a shield). On your focus if you have one, otherwise your target.

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:3,@focus,harm,nodead][stance:3] Pummel; [@focus,harm,nodead][] Shield Bash

In Berserker it uses Pummel; in Battle or Defensive it equips your shield if needed and uses Shield Bash. On your focus if you have one. Shield on button 12 of the right bar.

#showtooltip
/click [nostance:3,noworn:Shields] MultiBarRightButton12
/cast [stance:3,@focus,harm,nodead][stance:3] Pummel; [@focus,harm,nodead][] Shield Bash

Slows the enemy by 50%; with your mouse over one, that one. From Defensive it switches you to Battle; in Classic it worked in Battle and Berserker.

#showtooltip Hamstring
/cast [stance:2] Battle Stance; [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Hamstring

Takes the enemy's weapon for 10 s. Puts you in Defensive Stance, as in Classic, and the second press disarms (your focus if you have one).

#showtooltip Disarm
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; [@focus,harm,nodead][] Disarm

Sends up to 5 nearby enemies fleeing. Stops your auto-attack so you don't break your target's fear by hitting it.

#showtooltip Intimidating Shout
/stopattack
/cast Intimidating Shout

Blocks the next two hits, which also enables Revenge. Puts you in Defensive Stance if you aren't, as in Classic.

#showtooltip Shield Block
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; Shield Block

If you have a two-hander on, it equips your one-hander and shield, goes Defensive and blocks. Put your one-hander on button 11 and your shield on button 12 of the right bar (MultiBarRight).

#showtooltip Shield Block
/startattack [combat,harm,nodead]
/click [noworn:Shields] MultiBarRightButton11
/click [noworn:Shields] MultiBarRightButton12
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; Shield Block

You counterattack everyone who hits you in melee for 15 s. Puts you in Battle Stance, as in Classic. Good when you're surrounded.

#showtooltip Retaliation
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; Retaliation

Sequence: Thunder Clap, Demoralizing Shout, then Cleave on each press; resets when you leave combat. From Berserker it switches to Battle (Thunder Clap doesn't work there).

#showtooltip
/startattack
/cast [stance:3] Battle Stance
/castsequence [nostance:3] reset=combat Thunder Clap, Demoralizing Shout, Cleave

−60% damage taken for 12 s. Puts you in Defensive Stance and the second press raises the wall. In Forever it no longer shares a cooldown with Recklessness or Retaliation.

#showtooltip Shield Wall
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; Shield Wall

For an emergency: equips one-hander and shield if needed, goes Defensive and casts Shield Wall. Same buttons as the Shield Block macro (11 weapon, 12 shield on the right bar).

#showtooltip Shield Wall
/click [noworn:Shields] MultiBarRightButton11
/click [noworn:Shields] MultiBarRightButton12
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; Shield Wall

One button for shouts: Battle Shout for the group and, holding Shift, Demoralizing Shout to lower nearby enemies' attack power.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Demoralizing Shout; Battle Shout

When the whole pack breaks loose: forces everything within 10 m to attack you for 6 s. Being in Defensive Stance builds threat while it lasts.

#showtooltip Challenging Shout
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; Challenging Shout