WoW Forever Warrior builds, the most popular from 10,439 planned here

4,145 of the 10,439 Warrior builds with 41 or more points planned here (40%) lead in Fury, 3,789 in Protection and 2,505 in Arms. Weighted by what people did with each build (made, viewed, opened by link, shared or saved), Protection has 41%, Fury 36% and Arms 23%, the split the Warrior calculator's spec bar shows. Protection is the shield tree Warriors tank with: Defiance raises threat in Defensive Stance while a shield is equipped, and Vanguard lets Charge work in Defensive Stance. Arms is the two-handed tree and Fury the dual-wield tree, the two damage trees. At the level 30 cap the most made 21-point build also leads in Fury. 52.6% of the Warrior leveling orders people recorded lead in Protection. Every build below opens in the Warrior calculator, and the Warrior leveling order shows the order people place these points in.

Counted on 7 Oct 2026, recounted a few times a day.

• Fury 40%
• Protection 36%
• Arms 24%

WoW Forever Fury Warrior build

4,145 of the 10,439 Warrior builds with 41 or more points (40%) lead in Fury; the most used is 17/32/2 (#4), going to Bloodthirst. Open it in the calculator.

WoW Forever Protection Warrior build

3,789 of the 10,439 Warrior builds with 41 or more points (36%) lead in Protection; the most used is 7/5/39 (#1), going to Shield Slam. Open it in the calculator.

WoW Forever Arms Warrior build

2,505 of the 10,439 Warrior builds with 41 or more points (24%) lead in Arms; the most used is 37/11/0 (#2), going to Mortal Strike. Open it in the calculator.

The 5 most popular level 60 Warrior builds Arms / Fury / Protection points

Builds of 46 points or more of the 51 a level 60 Warrior has.

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   Protection Warrior 7/5/39

   #1 by what people did with it since the Oct 2 hotfixes Arms 7 / Fury 5 / Protection 39 0.6% of every Warrior share, save and link open since 13 Sep · shared 33 · saved 93 · opened 442 · across 54 close builds Takes Improved Shield Wall 2/2, Concussion Blow, Focused Rage 3/3, Bastion 5/5 and Shield Slam. Maxes Deflection, Improved Charge, Cruelty, Improved Bloodrage, Shield Specialization, Anticipation and 11 more. Takes Defiance, the shield threat talent Warriors tank with.
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   Arms Warrior 37/11/0

   #2 by what people did with it since the Oct 2 hotfixes Arms 37 / Fury 11 / Protection 0 2.8% of every Warrior share, save and link open since 13 Sep · shared 85 · saved 218 · opened 2,400 · across 66 close builds Takes Bloodthrill 5/5, Sweeping Strikes, Weaponmaster 5/5, Improved Slam 2/2 and Mortal Strike. Maxes Improved Heroic Strike, Improved Rend, Improved Tactical Mastery, Improved Overpower, Anger Management, Deep Wounds and 11 more.
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   Protection Warrior 5/5/36

   #3 by what people did with it since the Oct 2 hotfixes Arms 5 / Fury 5 / Protection 36 1.8% of every Warrior share, save and link open since 13 Sep · shared 57 · saved 106 · opened 1,567 · across 49 close builds Takes Improved Shield Wall 2/2, Concussion Blow, Focused Rage 3/3, Bastion 5/5 and Shield Slam. Maxes Deflection, Cruelty, Improved Bloodrage, Shield Specialization, Anticipation, Improved Revenge and 9 more. Takes Defiance, the shield threat talent Warriors tank with.
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   Fury Warrior 17/32/2

   #4 by what people did with it since the Oct 2 hotfixes Arms 17 / Fury 32 / Protection 2 0.1% of every Warrior share, save and link open since 13 Sep · shared 10 · saved 29 · opened 89 · across 68 close builds Takes Improved Berserker Rage 2/2, Death Wish, Flurry 5/5 and Bloodthirst. Maxes Improved Heroic Strike, Improved Rend, Improved Tactical Mastery, Anger Management, Deep Wounds, Impale and 11 more.
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   Fury Warrior 17/34/0

   #5 by what people did with it since the Oct 2 hotfixes Arms 17 / Fury 34 / Protection 0 0.1% of every Warrior share, save and link open since 13 Sep · shared 3 · saved 31 · opened 75 · across 75 close builds Takes Death Wish, Flurry 5/5 and Bloodthirst. Maxes Improved Heroic Strike, Improved Rend, Improved Tactical Mastery, Anger Management, Deep Wounds, Impale and 9 more.
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Builds within a few points of each other count as one family, shown by its most used member. The rows and the spec split come from the 10,439 Warrior builds with 41 or more points planned here since the Oct 2 hotfixes to build 70170, ranked by what people did with each family since then: a share or a save weighs 5, a link open 3, making the build 2 and a view 1. The shared, saved and opened counts run from 13 Sep, before the beta: a row's share is its family's shares, saves and link opens over every Warrior build's (3,301 shares, 6,513 saves, 87,825 link opens since 13 Sep), so a row can hold a larger share than one ranked above it.

The Warrior calculator's 62,062 builds and 12,748 with all 51 points count every Warrior build made, shared, saved or opened here since 13 Sep, those today's trees no longer allow included; this list counts the 10,439 with 41 or more points that today's trees allow, since the Oct 2 hotfixes to build 70170.

This is a count of what people plan on this site, not a tier list. When a beta build moves, adds, removes or renames a Warrior talent or changes what it needs first, the count starts again from the day after that build and shows once 1,000 builds with 41 or more points are made on the new trees, as it did after the Oct 2 hotfixes to build 70170.

Warrior talents by pick rate, most and least taken

Most taken: Cruelty 91% (Fury), Unbridled Wrath 60% (Fury), Deflection 58% (Arms), Improved Rend 56% (Arms), Improved Tactical Mastery 52% (Arms). Least taken: Improved Disarm 5% (Protection), Improved Hamstring 6% (Arms), Improved Intercept 11% (Fury), Improved Shield Bash 11% (Protection), Improved Slam 12% (Arms). Share of Warrior builds with 41 or more points that have a point in the talent.

Warrior builds at level 30, the beta cap 21 points

The beta cap rose to level 30 on 1 Oct, so 21 points. These are the 21-point Warrior builds people set at level 30 most often between 1 and 6 Oct 2026, counted once per visitor per day on builds somebody made, shared or saved here (261 in all; builds within four points count as one, and a family is shown once it has five or more people-days and its most-made build was made, shared or saved by at least two people on one day and three people-days in all).

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   Level 30 Fury Warrior build, 21 points

   Arms 0 / Fury 21 / Protection 0 3.4% of the level 30 Warrior builds in the window · 9 people-days · across 5 close builds Maxes Cruelty, Unbridled Wrath, Furious Precision, Dual Wield Specialization, Raging Blows.
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No Arms 21-point build has reached the floor yet (89 people-days in the window).

No Protection 21-point build at level 30 has reached the floor yet (117 people-days in the window), though 52.6% of Warrior leveling builds lead in Protection (31,193 of 59,258, 18 Sep to 6 Oct 2026). The Protection leveling order's first 21 points are Shield Specialization 5/5, Improved Thunder Clap 3/3, Improved Bloodrage 2/2, Master of Defense 2/2, Improved Revenge 3/3, Last Stand, Defiance 3/3, Vanguard and Concussion Blow. That is the path held most often at each step: 10,958 of 31,193 Protection builds hold its levels 10 to 19 and 3,524 of 10,536 hold its levels 20 to 29. Open it at level 30, or see the whole Protection leveling order.

Each spec's first 21 points, as the leveling orders place them: Protection 0/0/21, from 31,193 Protection orders; Fury 0/21/0, from 11,217. Recorded 18 Sep to 6 Oct 2026; the Warrior leveling order has every bracket.

Questions

Which Warrior spec do people build most in WoW Forever?

4,145 of the 10,439 Warrior builds with 41 or more points planned here (40%) lead in Fury, 3,789 in Protection and 2,505 in Arms, counted since the Oct 2 hotfixes to build 70170. Weighted by what people did with each build (made, viewed, opened by link, shared or saved), Protection has 41%, Fury 36% and Arms 23%. At the level 30 cap the most made 21-point build also leads in Fury. 52.6% of the Warrior leveling orders people recorded lead in Protection.

What is the most popular Warrior build at level 30, the beta cap?

Fury 0/21/0: 3.4% of the 261 level 30 Warrior builds counted between 1 and 6 Oct 2026 (9 people-days), maxing Cruelty, Unbridled Wrath, Furious Precision, Dual Wield Specialization and Raging Blows.

What is the most popular Warrior build at level 60?

Protection Warrior 7/5/39, ranked first by what people did with each build since the Oct 2 hotfixes (a share or a save weighs 5, a link open 3, making the build 2, a view 1). It holds 0.6% of every Warrior share, save and link open counted here since 13 Sep (shared 33, saved 93, opened 442).

Which Warrior talents are taken most and least?

Most taken: Cruelty (91%), Unbridled Wrath (60%) and Deflection (58%). Least taken: Improved Disarm (5%), Improved Hamstring (6%) and Improved Intercept (11%). The percentages are the share of Warrior builds with 41 or more points that have at least one point in the talent, weighted by what people did with each build.

Which Warrior tree is the tank tree in WoW Forever?

Protection. Defiance, Protection row 3, at 3/3: Increases all threat generated in Defensive stance by an additional 15% while a shield is equipped. Vanguard, row 4: Your Charge ability is now usable while in Defensive Stance. Protection also leads 52.6% of the Warrior leveling orders recorded here, so not every Protection build is a tank build.

Is there a Warrior raid, dungeon or PvP build in WoW Forever yet?

Not one counted for that purpose: this site's counter records the points in each build, not what the build is for. The beta runs from 17 September 2026 to 21 October 2026 with characters capped at level 30 (21 points), and the game launches 4 November 2026, so the level 60 builds above are plans made while no beta character can reach 60.

Is this a Warrior tier list?

No. The builds are ranked by what people did with them on this site (shared, saved, opened by link, made or viewed), not by how strong they are.

Where do these Warrior build numbers come from?

From this site's own counter, which keeps counts only and no identities: every Warrior build planned in the calculator, and how often each was shared, saved or opened by link. Builds within a few points of each other count as one family, shown by its most used member, and every spec gets at least one row. The list is rebuilt a few times a day, last on 7 Oct 2026.

Also for Warriors: the leveling order, every talent in words, what changed since Classic, the abilities, new and changed, the races and their racials, questions answered from the data, and the Warrior calculator. The most popular builds of every class.