Improved Righteous Fury
Paladin · Protection · opens at 15 points spent · 3 ranks
Improved Righteous Fury works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Improved Righteous Fury ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 3%.
- Rank 2 While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 6%.
- Rank 3 While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 9%.
What Improved Righteous Fury does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases the amount of threat generated by your Righteous Fury spell by 16%.
- Rank 2 Increases the amount of threat generated by your Righteous Fury spell by 33%.
- Rank 3 Increases the amount of threat generated by your Righteous Fury spell by 50%.
Where Improved Righteous Fury sits in the Protection tree
Improved Righteous Fury is a Protection talent for Paladin. You need 15 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Swift Judgement, Anticipation
How often people take Improved Righteous Fury
33 of the 207 public Paladin builds saved here (16%) put at least one point in Improved Righteous Fury. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Improved Righteous Fury
3 of the public Paladin builds written up here spend points on Improved Righteous Fury.
- Paladin Protection 0/23/8 · 3/3
- Paladin Protection 0/29/7 · 3/3
- Paladin Protection 0/19/15 · 3/3
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)