Isn't a weapon ability only applicable to skills you would choose from the actual weapon lines? AKA rending slashes, flurry etc.

Put on red mountain set (or way of fire). If ZoS stays consistent (no guarantee) then if light attacks proc that set they should proc this passive.

As of right now they seem to function as weapon abilities for proccing gear sets such as Shadow of the Red Mountain. I did some testing as I was curious about that too and the volcanos do appear to spawn sometimes after using either Claws of Life or Howl of Agony. Unless there are some internal changes werewolves should be able to make use of the orc racial passive.

Redguard werewolves also face the same massive handicap: "Exhilaration: 9% Stamina Recovery → Martial Training: Reduces the cost of your Weapon abilities by 8%."

As written in the announcement, staff skills should count for these passives as resto and destro staffs are in the Weapon section of your skills but werewolf skills will not benefit as they are in World. But there might be some internal coding which means werewolf skills count as weapon skills for various effects, e.g. if claws or howl procs Red Mountain (but even if they do proc the set there's no guarantee they also count as weapon skills for other calculations).

I really hope the skill descriptions of the Redguard and Orc passives (and the High Elf class ability passive) are changed to explicitly include werewolf skills. There is something similar in the description of Physical Weapons Expert in Champion Points, which clearly says increase damage of light attacks of 2H, 1H&Sh, DW, bow and when in werewolf form. If it remains as currently described, the two purest melee fighting races are unable to effectively play the purest melee role.

Uhm, does not the loght attacks counts as weapon abilities? Maybe the bleed from them too?

So.... my nord can’t get ulti in werewolf form.

So from what i know about were's the light and heavy attacks dmg you do is based of whatever weapon you have equipped.
and they should proc as if you are using your weapon. this is because of how it coded on the back end side of things.
And the WW skills do proc as weapon skills.

So you lot should breath a lil easier.

And WW has never generated ulti while in wolf form (since the WW change, i duno about before that i didn't play wolf then.) This is because you should use the devour skill to stay in WW and it should not be that you can stay in WW forever. And yes there was drama over that back then but in the end it was a balance thing.