Vanguard

Warrior · Protection · opens at 15 points spent · 1 rank

Vanguard does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Vanguard ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Your Charge ability is now usable while in Defensive Stance.

Filled the question-mark placeholder with the WotLK Warbringer icon (Charge usable in any stance).

Where Vanguard sits in the Protection tree

Vanguard is a Protection talent for Warrior. You need 15 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Improved Sunder Armor, Improved Disarm

How often people take Vanguard

46 of the 159 public Warrior builds saved here — 29% — put at least one point in Vanguard. 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

New in Forever.

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Classic Era client tables