Dragonflight Warrior Guide

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Dragonflight Warrior Overview

Warrior is a class that can choose between 2 available roles in the game. Playing Warrior, you can feel that ferocious power and unstoppable will of the class. Every spec has some interesting features that have been beloved by many players since Vanilla. No matter what spec you decide to play, you can enjoy the atmosphere of a fearless kill machine that chops frontline enemies with its weapons.

Dragonflight Warrior Spec Choice

The strengths and weaknesses of each class are purely subjective things. However, there are axioms with which most agree.

Dragonflight Warrior Changes

Most general changes Warrior face in Dragonflight:

• Tenderize now also causes Onslaught to grant you 3 stacks of Slaughtering Strikes;
• Titanic Rage now triggers Enrage before damage is dealt;
•   Reckless Abandon now makes Recklessness grant 50 Rage and Rampage greatly empowers your next 2 Bloodthirst and Raging Blow;
• Ashen Juggernaut now lasts 15 seconds (was 12 seconds);
• Hack and Slash chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 20%);
• Dancing Blades now also increases auto-attack damage;
• Bloodcraze now applies 1 stack when you Bloodthirst, it is no longer applied from chained attacks;
• Berserker’s Torment‘s activated Avatar and Recklessness now last 6 seconds.
• Enraged Regeneration now appears on the personal resource bar;
• Multiple instances of Dancing Blades now partially overlap;
• 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 — the 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 an 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 is reduced to 150% (was 200%);
• Bloodborne damage bonus to periodic effects reduced to 15% (was 30%);
• Odyn’s Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The bleed effect now shows up on enemy debuff bars;
• Titanic Rage now causes Odyn’s Fury to Enrage you, deal 10% increased damage, and grants you 2-4 stacks of Whirlwind. Titanic Rage also reduces the cooldown of Odyn’s Fury by 10 seconds;
• Onslaught now triggers Enrage before damage is dealt and generates 30 Rage (was 20).

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Dragonflight Warrior Talents

Arms Warrior

Arms Warriors specialize in ultimately strong but slow damage. The gameplay revolves around burst damage with Colossus Smash. They can do great Single Target, cleave, and AoE damage. You can choose the build depending on the content you prefer:

• This is a standard Arms Warrior Raid Talent Build;
• This is a standard Arms Warrior Mythic+ Talent Build.

Arms Warrior general changes:

• Executioner’s Precision now grants 35% increased damage per stack to Mortal Strike (was 30%);
• Bloodsurge now triggers 10% of the time (was 7%);
• Bladestorm damage increased to 60% (was 50%);
• Storm of Swords — damage bonus granted to Whirlwind reduced to 175% (was 200%);
• Rend‘s Bleed effect now correctly triggers from Sweeping Strikes;
• Tactician grants a 1.3% chance per Rage spent to reset Overpower (was 1.4%);
• Deft Experience grants a 0.5% increase to Tactician per rank (was 0.45%);
• War Machine now grants 5 Rage per enemy killed (was 10);
• Bladestorm now generates 20 Rage;
• 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 affects Cleave;
• 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;
• Test of Might reverted to 1% Strength per 10 Rage spent (was 5% per 30 Rage);
• Battlelord now reduces the cost of Mortal Strike and Cleave by 10 (was 15).

Fury Warrior

Fury Warrior gameplay is very fast. It has a straightforward rotation based on generating Rage and spending it on Rampage to maintain Enrage. Fury is easier to play in comparison to some classes. Moreover, Fury is highly mobile, sustainable, and has raid-wide defensive cooldowns. Fury Warrior builds also depend on content:

• This is a standard Fury Warrior Raid Talent Builds;
• This is a standard Fury Warrior Mythic+ Talent Builds.

Fury Warrior general changes:

• Onslaught now triggers Enrage before damage is dealt and generates 30 Rage (was 20);
• Tenderize now also causes Onslaught to grant you 3 stacks of Slaughtering Strikes;
• Titanic Rage now triggers Enrage before damage is dealt;
• Reckless Abandon now makes Recklessness grant 50 Rage and Rampage greatly empowers your next 2 Bloodthirst and Raging Blow;
• Ashen Juggernaut now lasts 15 seconds (was 12 seconds);
• Hack and Slash chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 20%);
• Dancing Blades now also increases auto-attack damage;
• Bloodcraze now applies 1 stack when you Bloodthirst, it is no longer applied from chained attacks;
• Berserker’s Torment‘s activated Avatar and Recklessness now last 6 seconds.
• Enraged Regeneration now appears on the personal resource bar;
• Multiple instances of Dancing Blades now partially overlap;
• 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 — the 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;
• Odyn’s Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The bleed effect now shows up on enemy debuff bars;
• Titanic Rage now causes Odyn’s Fury to Enrage you, deal 10% increased damage, and grant you 2-4 stacks of Whirlwind. Titanic Rage also reduces the cooldown of Odyn’s Fury by 10 seconds;
• 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 an 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 is reduced to 150% (was 200%);
• Bloodborne damage bonus to periodic effects reduced to 15% (was 30%)

Protection Warrior

Another time, for Mythic+ dungeons and raids we have various options:

• This is a standard Protection Warrior Raid Talent Build;
• This is a standard Protection Warrior Mythic+ Talent Build.

Protection Warrior general changes:

• Bloodsurge chance to trigger is now 10% (was 15%);
• New Talent: Defender’s Aegis — Shield Wall gains 1 additional charge, and its cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds;
• Unbreakable will has been removed;
• Battering Ram now also increases auto-attack damage by 20%;
• Violent Outburst — now grants 100% increased Rage generation for Shield Slam and Thunder Clap and includes benefits for 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 was 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 the 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.

Dragonflight Warrior Rotation

Arms Warrior

Raid rotation:

Mythic+ rotation:

Fury Warrior

Raid rotation:

Mythic+ rotation:

Protection Warrior

Note that this rotation may contain some optional spells and abilities that might not be a part of your talent tree build. If you see an ability or spell that is not included in your build, just skip it and proceed to the next step.

1. Always maintain Shield Block;
2. Impending Victory when you need healing;
3. Consume Violent Outburst with Shield Slam in ST/small AoE, or Thunder Clap against 5 or more targets;
4. Thunder Clap on cooldown;
5. Shield Slam on cooldown;
6. Execute to spend Rage offensively during the Execute phase;
7. Revenge to spend Rage offensively outside the Execute phase, or in AoE, or when it’s free.

Dragonflight Warrior Leveling

Warrior can handle two roles in the game, so the most efficient way to level up this class is to queue up for dungeons. That way of leveling will drastically save you time. Leveling in dungeons provides players with a lot of experience in one place, and they don’t need to run around the whole world to find quests and objectives. Nevertheless, sometimes dungeon leveling may be very inefficient. If your pug group is weak and they keep on wiping over and over again, it is a great idea to leave the group and complete some quests. There are two expansions that are considered to be the best for questing. Warlords of Draenor and Legion expansion zones are convenient because they have a lot of quests in the same area, which reduces your time for traveling from one objective to another.

Don’t hesitate to spend your gold on the following items, as each of them will ease your life drastically:

• Gunshoes – increase your movement speed on the ground;
• Goblin Glider Kit – having a few in your bags is always helpful;
• Light-Step Hoofplates & Comfortable Rider’s Barding – improve your ground mounts;
• Bear Tartare – killing monsters increases your speed;
• Drums of Deathly Ferocity – a Bloodlust effect;
• Spectral Flask of Power – The old flask will give you a pretty decent stat increase.

Dragonflight Warrior Stats

Arms Warrior

1. Strength is a primary stat. It increases your Attack Power and damage you deal;
2. Critical Strike – gives a chance to deal additional damage;
3. Haste – increases attack and casting speed. Decreases global cooldown;
4. Mastery – Mastery increases the damage taken debuff Deep Wounds;
5. Versatility – increases all the damage and healing you do and decreases all damage you take.

Fury Warrior

1. Strength is a primary stat. It increases your Attack Power and damage you deal;
2. Haste – increases attack and casting speed. Decreases global cooldown;
3. Mastery – increases the damage bonus provided by Mastery: Unshackled Fury boosting all damage dealt while Enrage is active;
4. Critical Strike – gives a chance to deal additional damage;
5. Versatility – increases all the damage and healing you do and decreases all damage you take.

Protection Warrior

1. Strength is a primary stat. It increases your Attack Power and damage you deal. The main value comes from the Armor increase you get via Vanguard;
2. Versatility – increases all the damage and healing you do and decreases all damage you take;
3. Haste – increases attack and casting speed. Decreases global cooldown;
4. Critical Strike – gives a chance to deal additional damage;
5. Mastery – increases your chance to block, your chance to critically block, and your Attack Power. Not only does it increase your overall damage reduction, but the increased attack power also increases the size of your Ignore Pain.

Dragonflight Warrior Consumables, Chants & Gems

Arms Warrior

Here is a chart of the best enchants to use for Arms Warrior in Dragonflight:

Phial:

• Phial of Tepid Versatility

Combat potions:

• Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power or Elemental Potion of Power as it is cheaper.

Weapon Buff:

• Buzzing Rune or Howling Rune

Food:

• Feast: Grand Banquet of the Kalu’ak or Hoard of Draconic Delicacies;
• Personal Food: Fated Fortune Cookie or Feisty Fish Sticks as alternatives.

Gems:

• Inscribed Illimited Diamond and Deadly Alexstraszite or Crafty Alexstraszite are the best gems.

Fury Warrior

Here is a chart of the best enchants to use for Fury Warrior in Dragonflight:

Phial:

• Phial of Tepid Versatility

Combat potions:

• Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power or Elemental Potion of Power as it is cheaper

Food: 

• Feast: Grand Banquet of the Kalu’ak or Hoard of Draconic Delicacies;
• Personal Food: Fated Fortune Cookie or Feisty Fish Sticks as alternatives.

Weapon:

• Buzzing Rune or Howling Rune

Gems:

• Skillful Illimited Diamond and Fractured Neltharite or Sensei’s Neltharite are the best gems.

Protection Warrior

Here is a chart of the best enchants to use for Protection Warrior in Dragonflight:

Phial:

• Phial of the Eye in the Storm for Mythic+;
• Phial of Static Empowerment for Raids/

Combat potions:

• Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power or Elemental Potion of Power as it is cheaper.

Food: 

• Feast: Grand Banquet of the Kalu’ak;
• Personal Food: Timely Demise or Aromatic Seafood Platter. 

Weapon:

• Howling Rune

Gems:

• Fierce Illimited Diamond, Quick Ysemerald, Energized Ysemerald, Energized Malygite.

Dragonflight Warrior Best Race

Nowadays, race choice doesn’t really affect your game. The difference race makes is so miserable that even pro players usually ignore it. 

Still, if you have decided to min-max your gameplay, we recommend playing Mechagnomes for Alliance. 

• Hyper Organic Light Originator: Summon 2 Organic Light duplicates to distract your foes. 3-minute cooldown.
• Combat Analysis: You gather and analyze combat data every 5 sec, increasing your primary stat by 4, stacking up to 8 times. The data decays while out of combat.
• Mastercraft: You function as a personal Blacksmithing Anvil, Cooking Fire, and Mining Forge. In addition, your limbs include every professional tool.
• Emergency Failsafe: When you fall below 20% health, heal for 15% of your maximum health. This effect cannot occur more than once every 2.5 min.
• Skeleton Pinkie: Allows the opening of locked chests and doors on a level similar to yours.

On the other hand, Highmountain Taurens are the best race for the Horde players due to their racials.

• Bull Rush Charges forward for 1 sec, knocking enemies down for 1.5 sec. 2 min CD.
• Pride of Ironhorn Mining skill increased by 15 and allows you to mine faster.
• Mountaineer Increases Versatility by 1%.
• Rugged Tenacity Reduces damage taken by (character level) * 3.

Waste Not, Want Not You have a chance to loot additional meat and fish.

Dragonflight Warrior Best Professions

As it was in the race choice part, we recommend picking professions that you like. Some professions are better in terms of quality of life, others provide stable gold income. Engineering is the best utility profession out of all. It allows you to craft battle resurrection devices like Disposable Spectrophasic Reanimator. There are no words to explain how to combat resurrection is important. Resuscitating your tank or healer at the right moment can make a difference between success and failure for the whole raid or M+ group.

Alchemy and Enchanting are the best choices for gold-making and stable income. Both of these professions provide players with major upgrades and resources that will be in high demand during all seasons of expansion on the Auction House. For more detailed information, check out our various in-depth Dragonflight profession guides.

Dragonflight Warrior Macro

Pummel Macro

#showtooltip Pummel
/cast [@focus, harm, exists][@target] Pummel

This macro uses Pummel against your focus target if you have one or against your current target if you have no focus target.

Automatic Heroic Leap

#showtooltip Heroic Leap
/cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap

This will cast Heroic Leap wherever your cursor is located without waiting for the targeting circle.

Charge and Intervene

#showtooltip
/cast @harm Charge
/cast @help Intervene

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