Possible WotLK Warrior Talents

surfing the forums at work, i found a link to supposed leaked warrior talents. At first i dismissed them as fakes, and i just kept going with my routine, until i came back from lunch to find the talents had been posted on WoWInsider, and then removed at the request of Blizzard. Apparently, Blizz’s PR department sent an email threatening sites to deny them press access to Blizzcon unless they pulled the information.

That, right there, pretty much convinced me that there has to be something true about the leaked stuff. Since i have no chance to go to Blizzcon, much less with press access, i am happy to present to you the leaked data, courtesy of this wiki.

• Titan’s Grip – Allows you to equip two-handed axes, maces and swords in one hand, but you attack 28/26/24/22/20% slower then normal (fury)
• Strength of Arms – Increases your Strength and total health by 1/2/3/4/5%. (arms)
• Shockwave – “Sends a wave of force in front of the warrior, causing ${$m3/100*$AP} damage (based on attack power) and stunning all enemy targets within 10 yards in a frontal cone for 4 sec. This ability causes a high amount of threat.” [20 rage, 45 sec cooldown] (prot)
• Sword and Board – When your Devastate and Shield Slam abilities deal damage they have a 2/4/6/8/10% chance of refreshing the cooldown of your Shield Slam ability and reducing its cost by 100% for 5 sec. (prot)
• Safeguard – ,”Reduces damage taken by the target of your Intervene ability by 20/40/60% for 6 sec. In addition, your Charge, Intercept and Intervene abilities have a 33%/66%/100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects when used.” (prot)
• Trauma – “Your normal melee critical strikes increase the effectiveness of Bleed effects on the target by 15/30% for 15 sec.”
• _Bladestorm – Instantly Whirlwind all nearby targets and for the next 4.5 sec you will perform a whirlwind attack every 1.5 seconds. While under the effects of Bladestorm, you can move but cannot perform any other attacks or abilities but you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed. [25 rage, cooldown: 90 sec] (arms)
• Stalwart Protector – You gain 1/2 rage every time you parry or dodge an attack.
• Furious Resolve – Reduces threat caused by attacks in Battle and Berserker Stance by 4/7/10% and increases your total Stamina by 1/3/5%. (fury)
• Mighty Blow – Inflicts normal damage plus $s1 to an enemy, knocking it back.
• Bull Rush – Increases the duration of the Stun effect of your Charge and Intercept abilities by [?] seconds. (arms)
• Unrelenting Assault – Reduces the cooldown of your Overpower and Revenge abilities by [?] seconds. (arms)
• Bloodsurge – Your Bloodthirst critical hits have a [?]% chance of reducing the swing time of your next Slam by [?] for [?]. (fury)
• Critical Block – Your successful blocks have a [?]% chance to block double the normal amount. (prot)

There’s also a mock up talent tree here.

Personally, i think prot got the best end of the stick, but overall the new talents are underwhelming, so i foresee a lot of warriors, especially DPS, using hybrid builds, since mostof the deep talents seem to not be worth not getting some mid tier talents.

~ by Kuroyume on May 20, 2008.