Deep Wounds, an Arms Warrior talent in WoW Forever

Deep Wounds is a passive talent in row 3 of the Arms tree. It needs 10 points in Arms, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Deep Wounds

3 ranks

Requires 10 points in Arms
Requires Improved Rend at 3/3

Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.

Every rank of Deep Wounds

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
Rank 2	Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 40% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
Rank 3	Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 60% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Arms tree

Needs

Improved Rend at 3/3

Unlocks

Impale

That talent needs Deep Wounds at 3/3.

Same row

Anger Management

Row above (row 2)

Row below (row 4)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Deep Wounds.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Your critical strikes cause the opponent to bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.

WoW Forever

Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.

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The other Warrior trees: Fury and Protection. Everything that changed for the Warrior since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.