Cruelty

Warrior · Fury · available from the first tier · 5 ranks

Cruelty works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Cruelty ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 1%.
  2. Rank 2 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 2%.
  3. Rank 3 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3%.
  4. Rank 4 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 4%.
  5. Rank 5 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 5%.

What Cruelty 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.

  1. Rank 1 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 1%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 2%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 3%.
  4. Rank 4 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 4%.
  5. Rank 5 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 5%.

Where Cruelty sits in the Fury tree

Cruelty is a Fury talent for Warrior. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

How often people take Cruelty

124 of the 151 public Warrior builds saved here — 82% — put at least one point in Cruelty. Counted across the 1498 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 Cruelty

8 of the public Warrior builds written up here spend points on Cruelty.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893