Improved Rend

Warrior · Arms · available from the first tier · 3 ranks

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

Improved Rend ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the Bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 12%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 25%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 35%.

What Improved Rend 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 the bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 15%.

Where Improved Rend sits in the Arms tree

Improved Rend is a Arms talent for Warrior. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away. Taking it opens Deep Wounds.

How often people take Improved Rend

125 of the 159 public Warrior builds saved here — 79% — put at least one point in Improved Rend. 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