WoW Forever Warrior

Arms. Two-handed hits with Rend and Overpower kill fastest on your own, and Sweeping Strikes at 30 lets you take on two or three enemies at once. Also good: Protection.

Fury. The October 1 rework made Fury a pack spec: Whirlwind always hits with both weapons, Bloodthirst scales with 45% of attack power, and Gore Drinker heals you a little after each Enrage or Bloodthirst. That is why it moves from B to A.

Arms. Mortal Strike halves the healing on your target for 10 sec, which is why a battleground group still wants one Arms Warrior next to its healer. Alone it is a different story: Rage runs dry, there is no self heal, and every class that can kite keeps you out of melee range.

Night Elf for the Alliance, Orc for the Horde, Human for PvP. Night Elf: The strongest Alliance pick for damage. Elune's Light adds 10% crit for 15 sec, and Rend and Deep Wounds can crit in Forever. Races that can play it: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Skyborne, Orc, Undead, Tauren and Troll.

Daggers, Fist Weapons, One-Handed Axes, One-Handed Maces, One-Handed Swords, Two-Handed Axes, Two-Handed Maces, Two-Handed Swords, Polearms, Staves, Bows, Crossbows, Guns, Thrown. In the beta you buy the weapon skills you do not have yet from a Weapon Master in the capitals: Stormwind, Ironforge and Darnassus for the Alliance, Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff and Undercity for the Horde. Your skill with a weapon goes up as you fight with it.

Every capital has warrior trainers. Skyborne warriors of both factions start with Blademaster Ren in Thendal Village on Zephras Isle.

Weaponmaster replaces the old weapon specialization talents with one talent that holds the bonuses of all of them, Blizzard says. The Weapon Masters in the capitals are NPCs who sell weapon skills, they have nothing to do with the talent.

For example Arms at level 60: open with Charge, Rend, Mortal Strike, Spearing Strike, Slam. Then your main buttons are Rend, Mortal Strike, Overpower and Spearing Strike, and Execute once the target is under 20%. The Rotation Trainer shows every button with the reason behind it and lets you play it yourself.

The Warrior is medium to start with. Your buttons are simple, but Rage starts empty and the first levels are slow until you find a good weapon.

11 of 52 talents are new and 35 changed. Rage comes from your weapon speed instead of the damage you deal. Since October 1 a critical hit with a basic attack gives 100% more Rage, so crit chance on your gear speeds up your Rage as well. Since October 8 the hits you take give more Rage too: Stamina gear no longer lowers it, critical hits and crushing blows count in full, and damage a shield absorbs still gives Rage.