Impale ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities by 20%.
Rank 1 from footage. Ranks 2+ were still Classic text; rewritten from rank 1 with linear scaling. Rank 2+ values not yet seen on camera.
What Impale 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 critical strike damage bonus of your abilities in Battle, Defensive, and Berserker stance by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities in Battle, Defensive, and Berserker stance by 20%.
Where Impale sits in the Arms tree
Impale is a Arms talent for Warrior. You need 15 points in Arms before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Spearing Strike, Two-Handed Weapon Specialization
How often people take Impale
99 of the 159 public Warrior builds saved here — 62% — put at least one point in Impale. 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
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 (warrior tree overview frame, prerequisite arrows)
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 (warrior tree overview frame)
- Rank 1 from existing Forever footage overlay; later ranks were Classic leftovers and were scaled from rank 1 (linear, same method as Savage Strikes)