Cruelty ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 3%.
- Rank 4 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 4%.
- Rank 5 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons 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.
- Rank 1 Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 1%.
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.
- Same row: Booming Voice
How often people take Cruelty
125 of the 159 public Warrior builds saved here — 79% — put at least one point in Cruelty. 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
Same as Classic (verified).
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage