Improved Cleave ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the Rage cost of your Cleave ability by 1.
- Rank 2 Reduces the Rage cost of your Cleave ability by 2.
- Rank 3 Reduces the Rage cost of your Cleave ability by 3.
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 Improved Cleave 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 bonus damage done by your Cleave ability by 40%.
- Rank 2 Increases the bonus damage done by your Cleave ability by 80%.
- Rank 3 Increases the bonus damage done by your Cleave ability by 120%.
Where Improved Cleave sits in the Fury tree
Improved Cleave is a Fury talent for Warrior. You need 10 points in Fury before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Piercing Howl, Blood Craze, Boundless Rage
How often people take Improved Cleave
68 of the 159 public Warrior builds saved here — 43% — put at least one point in Improved Cleave. 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
- Rank 1 from existing Forever footage overlay; later ranks were Classic leftovers and were scaled from rank 1 (linear, same method as Savage Strikes)