Fury Warrior Midnight Changes World of Warcraft -

Midnight Changes for Fury Warrior

Fury Warrior Core Changes

While many talents have been added or removed, Fury Warrior’s core abilities remain largely intact and are even improved in Midnight. The Slayer and Thane rotations are expected to remain similar to The War Within, thanks to no changes in core abilities.

The biggest removal for Warriors is several talented abilities, which also reduces setup complexity for effective rotations. The biggest gains come in utility:

Piercing Howl and Battlefield Commander provide two Wind Rush-like speed increases.
Champion’s Spear has been redesigned as a mass grip.
Interpose now boosts mobility with a minor defensive effect.
Pummel has a reduced cooldown.

These improvements enhance group utility beyond raw damage and defense.

Warrior Class Changes

Developer Notes: Since Dragonflight, Warriors have been overloaded with cooldowns, primarily from the class tree. Midnight aims to make the Warrior class tree more interesting, with unique effects and utility options.

Key changes:

Thunderous Roar removed
Avatar moved to specialization tree (used by Mountain Thane)
Champion’s Spear reworked as a utility ability

New major additions:

Battlefield Commander (moved from PvP talents)
Last Stand as a passive emergency heal
Anger Management moved in from specialization tree

Talent updates:

Barbaric Training: Slam, Whirlwind, Thunder Clap damage +10% (was 20%), crit damage +5% (was 10%)
Champion’s Spear: Can be reactivated to leap to its location
Crushing Force: Now a 1-point talent
Honed Reflexes: Reduces cooldowns by 10% (was 5%). Interrupting an enemy increases damage dealt by 5% for 10 sec
Intimidating Shout: Causes target to cower, others flee at 70% reduced movement speed. Target cap removed
Piercing Howl: Also increases all allies’ movement speed by 30% for 4 sec within 12 yards
Rallying Cry: Health bonus +50% when not in a raid
Shattering Throw & Wrecking Throw: Range reduced to 25 yards (was 30)
Thunder Clap: Automatically applies Rend to 5 targets if talented

Removed talents:

Avatar, Berserker’s Torment, Blood and Thunder, Cacophonous Roar, Champion’s Might, Concussive Blows, Immovable Object, Menace, Piercing Challenge, Seismic Reverberation, Sidearm, Thunderous Roar, Thunderous Words, Titan’s Torment, Unstoppable Force, Uproar

Added talents:

Anger Management – Every 20 Rage spent reduces Recklessness and Avatar cooldown by 1 sec
Fearless – Berserker Rage cooldown -50%, removes movement-impairing effects
Field Dressing – Healing received +3%, self-healing +10%
Interpose – Run toward allies, absorb 30% of damage taken by allies for 8 sec or until you take 20% max HP
Javelineer – Certain abilities apply Hamstring, Heroic Throw silences non-player targets
Last Stand – Below 20% HP, increase max health +30%, instant heal, 4 min cooldown
Rend – Strike all targets within 8 yards for Physical damage, causes Bleed
Resonant Voice – Shout duration +20%
Retaliation – Chance to strike melee attacker for Physical damage
Battlefield Commander – Shouts have extra effects

Shout improvements:

Battle Shout: +3% attack power
Rallying Cry: +2% health, +3 sec duration
Piercing Howl: Radius doubled
Berserker Shout: Radius +8 yards
Intimidating Shout: Cooldown -15 sec

Fury Warrior Changes

Developer Notes: Midnight aims to refine Fury’s core builder/spender gameplay, simplify Sudden Death conditions, make Critical Strike more valuable, improve AOE talents, reinforce Bloodthirst, and simplify rotation conditions involving Enrage and major cooldowns like Bladestorm.

Removed abilities and talents:

Onslaught, Ravager, Unhinged, Titanic Rage, Ashen Juggernaut, Slaughtering Strikes, Single-Minded Fury (replaced by 2H → 1H weapon transmog)

Talent changes:

Bladestorm: Generates 5 Rage per strike (was 10)
Bloodborne: Targets struck by Bloodthirst take +20% Bleed damage for 8 sec
Bloodcraze: Increases next Bloodthirst crit damage
Critical Thinking: Raging Blow crit chance +5%/10%, crit damage +5%/10%
Cruelty: 2-point talent, Raging Blow damage +10% per point while Enraged
Deft Experience: Bloodthirst chance to Enrage +10%/20%, extends Enrage by 0.5/1 sec
Frenzy: Rampage increases Haste 1%/2% for 12 sec, stacks overlap
Improved Bloodthirst: 2-point, +5% damage and crit per point
Improved Whirlwind: Next 4 single-target attacks strike 4 extra targets (was 2)
Meat Cleaver : Whirlwind deals +100% damage when hitting 3+ targets and no Improved Whirlwind stacks
Odyn’s Fury: Now Enrages, generates 20 Rage (was 15)
Powerful Enrage: Enrage increases Mastery +15%, Leech +3%
Rampage: Replaces Slam
Recklessness: Rage generation +50% (was 100%)

Added Apex/Spec Talents:

Rampaging Berserker – During Recklessness, crits fuel strength +1% per stack, lasts 20 sec post Recklessness. Reduces Rampage cost by 15/30, damage +10/20%, extends duration +2 sec
Avatar – Transform, +20% damage, +5% speed for 20 sec
Deep Wounds – Execute inflicts high damage over 6 sec
Executioner’s Wrath – Execute generates +5 Rage, Rampage +10% damage for 4 sec
Kill or Be Killed – Cheat death effect for 8 sec on fatal damage, 5 min cooldown
Ragedrinker – Bloodthirst crit restores double health, Enrages 2 sec
Scent of Blood – Rampage increases next Bloodthirst damage +10%, stacks 2
Surge of Adrenaline – Raging Blow cooldown reset increases auto-attack damage and speed +30% for 6 sec
Unslaked Thirst – Bloodthirst crit increases Raging Blow damage +10% for 4 sec

Slayer Hero Talent Changes:

Overwhelming Blades: Max stacks 5 (was 10)
Slayer’s Dominance: 15% chance to trigger Slayer’s Strike, overlapping Executioner stacks
Slayer’s Malice: Increases Execute & Raging Blow damage +20%
Unrelenting Onslaught: Reduces Bladestorm cooldown per Executioner stack
Deadly Focus: Executioner duration +6 sec
Unhinged: Every 2 Bladestorm strikes cast Bloodthirst
Violent Euphoria: Bladestorm grants 15% Haste for 8 sec after stopping

Mountain Thane Hero Talent Changes:

Capacitance: During Avatar, Thunder Blast extends Avatar duration +2 sec
Conductivity: Lightning Strike damage +10%, crit damage +10%
Storm Surge: Avatar increases Thunder Clap damage +50%, cooldown -50%

Systems Changes

Midnight introduces:

3 new Hero Talents per tree
New tier sets
Stat squish (health/damage numbers scaled down from millions to thousands)

New Hero Talents for Slayer and Mountain Thane are not yet revealed.

Fury Warrior Tier Set in Midnight

Season 1 bonuses:

2-set: Rampage damage +10%, Odyn’s Fury damage +10%
4-set: Rampage reduces Odyn’s Fury cooldown by 1 sec, Odyn’s Fury damage +10%