Anticipation
Warrior · Protection · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Anticipation works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Anticipation ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your Defense Skill by 4.
- Rank 2 Rank 2 values not yet captured from footage.
- Rank 3 Increases your Defense skill by 6.
- Rank 4 Increases your Defense skill by 8.
- Rank 5 Increases your Defense skill by 10.
What Anticipation 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 your Defense skill by 2.
- Rank 2 Increases your Defense skill by 4.
Where Anticipation sits in the Protection tree
Anticipation is a Protection talent for Warrior. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Shield Specialization
How often people take Anticipation
34 of the 159 public Warrior builds saved here — 21% — put at least one point in Anticipation. 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.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage