WoW Forever · Experimental setup

Fury / Protection Warrior

Fury / Protection explores Fury damage talents while retaining a one-handed weapon and shield. Decide which defensive and threat tools remain in the actual allocation before treating the label as a complete tank setup. Attack-speed and damage windows do not remove the need to position enemies and answer the next dangerous hit.

Current beta play is capped at level 30. Level 60 reference models and deeper talents are identified as later planning. Client descriptions and server updates can differ.

In this guide

What this build asks you to do

MythicSim publishes this as a future mixed-tree damage reference. Death Wish illustrates the essential tradeoff: its damage benefit also increases damage taken. A tank who uses it is choosing additional risk, not receiving a free defensive cooldown. The tank damage board is not a survival or threat ranking, and a stance change used in one model is not automatically appropriate for your dungeon pull.

The experiment tests a damage package alongside a shield.
Damage windows can increase incoming risk; mixed points give up deeper Protection tools.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.
Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.

Choose the next action

Begin with the shield and learned tanking tools. A mixed-tree label does not grant the deep talents omitted by its actual allocation.
Choose Death Wish only when the incoming damage and group control allow its increased-damage-taken trade. The damage gain is a risk decision rather than free tank mitigation.
Use the damage window while the enemy and usable contact justify it, retaining Rage for a needed control or defensive action.
The saved model deliberately changes to Berserker near the end. Inspect that conditional late-fight choice instead of applying the same stance change to every real tank pull.
Return to control or a learned defense when the pull becomes dangerous. A tank damage board does not evaluate whether that stance or cooldown choice was safe for your group.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.
Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.

Death Wish is a tanking risk decision

Click through an illustrative sequence. Conditional effects require the named spells and talents; this is not a damage, resource, threat or timing simulation.

Keep the shield setup: Begin with the actual shield and learned tanking tools; the hybrid label grants no missing spell.
Choose Death Wish: When learned, deliberately accept its increased-damage-taken tradeoff for the damage window.
Use the damage opportunity: Attack only while the pull and usable contact justify the risk; the scene does not calculate tank output.
Reassess incoming danger: Choose a learned defense or stop the risky sequence when necessary. Damage rankings do not make that decision for you.

Inspect the interaction

The scene explains this named mechanic. The saved level 60 priority reference, where present, is separate.

Death Wish is a tanking risk decision Later planning · requires deeper spells or talents

Death Wish is a tanking risk decision

Click through an illustrative sequence. Conditional effects require the named spells and talents; this is not a damage, resource, threat or timing simulation.

This scene illustrates a named interaction. Playback does not simulate combat timing, damage, resource costs or enemy behaviour.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.
Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.

Build the toolkit

Learn the stance, shield and tanking toolkit before copying mixed-tree priorities. The complete 0/31/20 allocation is level 60 planning; the ordinary current beta can only explore legal parts of the package, not all of the saved report’s buttons.

Build the toolkit
Level	Decision or milestone	Scope
30	Death Wish is a Fury-row choice.	Current beta
60	The full mixed-tree reference is future planning.	Later planning

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.
Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.

Understand the upgrade

A larger damage result does not establish sufficient health, mitigation or threat for the next pull.

Only learned Fury and Protection ranks apply; the build cannot include every deep talent from both trees.

These examples isolate attribute relationships. They are not a prediction of full ability DPS, threat, pet damage or survivability.

Understand the upgrade
Comparison	Meaning
+7 Strength	+14 baseline melee AP before modifiers. Using the declared ordinary weapon-tooltip model, that is +1 nominal weapon DPS.
A 3.5-second ordinary swing	That AP contribution adds +3.5 nominal damage per swing before hit outcomes, mitigation and other effects.
+10 Agility	About +0.962 percentage points of weapon crit at level 30; it is not a fixed conversion at every level.

Sources for this section

Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

Questing and group play

Test the hybrid on controlled encounters after understanding ordinary Protection responsibilities. A party tank still needs to secure loose enemies and answer dangerous casts while evaluating a Fury damage window. For solo quests, a shield hybrid and a full damage allocation are separate equipment and recovery questions, not interchangeable reference labels.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.
Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.

Choose useful equipment

Compare a usable one-handed weapon and shield with health, useful defense and the offensive stats supporting the learned Fury package. The 0/31/20 reference gives up deep Protection, so its damage result cannot prove a defensive upgrade or universal tank BiS.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.
Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.
Forever item reference: build 70205 Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Item names and requirements; client presence does not establish a drop source or current access.

Level 60 reference priorities

Undead; saved 0/31/20 talent split; level 60; 10,000 iterations; one level 63 target; nominal 120 seconds with ±15 seconds variation.

Level 60 reference priorities
Action	Condition in this saved model
Death Wish	(fight time remaining ≤ 30s OR fight time remaining ≥ 211.5s)
Execute	model execute phase (20%)
Bloodthirst	No additional priority test
Revenge	No additional priority test
Thunder Clap	remaining effect time: Thunder Clap on target ≤ 1.5s
Sunder Armor	stacks: Sunder Armor on target < 5
Heroic Strike	Rage ≥ 45
Sunder Armor	No additional priority test
Bloodrage	Rage < 90
Defensive Stance	(NOT (active effect: Defensive Stance) AND fight time remaining > 20s)

Sources for this section

MythicSim: Fury-prot Experimental Warrior Model documentation · 2026-10-05
Saved level 60 reference, inspected October 5, 2026. Engine forever-f43215d07e51fc228c2e32366d7563b03d76fec8. Its priorities and events describe this model, not tested live gameplay.

Inspect the saved opening

These timestamps show selected events from one recorded model opening. A row can be a triggered event; it is not automatically another button press. Negative times are preparation before the encounter.

Saved endgame model · later planning

Saved level 60 reference

Inspect events from this saved setup.

Level 60 single-target damage reference · later planning

Inspect the saved opening

These rows are events from one model timeline. A triggered hit or effect is not automatically an extra player cast.

Saved model event · 0 sMighty Rage Potion

These are the visible core spell decisions in this saved model’s effective rotation, in source priority order. Check the first usable higher-priority action; later entries can be skipped. Item, racial and other auxiliary management remains in the full report, and execute-phase percentages are encounter settings rather than proc chances. The preset uses fixed gear and buffs. It does not prove an optimized BiS set or current beta access. This tank example compares damage while attacked; it does not establish safe survival or sufficient threat.

Inspect the original setup and full report →

Sources for this section

MythicSim: Fury-prot Experimental Warrior Model documentation · 2026-10-05
Saved level 60 reference, inspected October 5, 2026. Engine forever-f43215d07e51fc228c2e32366d7563b03d76fec8. Its priorities and events describe this model, not tested live gameplay.

Equipment in this reference

The publisher describes these sets as primarily dungeon and crafted equipment, rather than optimized BiS. The Survival and Holy / Protection references have beta-gear exceptions. This is an item sample without inferred inventory slots.

Equipment in this reference
Reference item	How to use this comparison
Lionheart Helm	Fixed reference item; verify your level, source and current access.

Sources for this section

MythicSim: Fury-prot Experimental Warrior Model documentation · 2026-10-05
Saved level 60 reference, inspected October 5, 2026. Engine forever-f43215d07e51fc228c2e32366d7563b03d76fec8. Its priorities and events describe this model, not tested live gameplay.
Forever item reference: build 70205 Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Item names and requirements; client presence does not establish a drop source or current access.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.