Fury Warrior

Abilities

Rage

The Warrior has one resource which is called Rage. You gain rage by auto-attacking an enemy target while in Battle Stance, using Bloodthirst, and gaining an enrage proc via Bloodthirst or Berserker Rage.

Bloodthirst by default gives 10 rage, if it crits, you get an enrage proc which gives an extra 10 rage. Using Berserker Rage also gives an enrage proc (aka 10 rage).

We can hold up to 100 rage (120 with Glyph of Unending Rage) and going beyond that wastes the rage. Rage is expended via our four main abilities – Raging Blow, Wild Strike, Whirlwind and Execute. Raging Blow is a cheap way to expend your rage while Wild Strike is the expensive dump (45 rage, 20 with Furious Strikes) that you’ll use above 20% for single target and Whirlwind any time there is 2+ targets. Any time a boss is under 20%, Execute becomes the main spender. It’s important to realize that you’ll essentially weave your abilities together and there’s multiple ways to do it meaning it doesn’t matter if you Raging Blow before Wild Strike (and vice versa), as long as you used both in between Bloodthirst uses.

Passives

Enrage
This passive is the core of Fury. Enrage increases your damage by a base 10% (increases with Mastery).

Crazed Berserker
This is what allows you to be able to use 1-handers and 2-handers. It increases your 1-handed damage by 30% and your offhand gets an extra 50% increased damage. Your 2-handed offhand gets a 25% increase.

Meat Cleaver
This is what allows you to hit multiple targets with Raging Blow. Every time you Whirlwind, you gain two meatcleaver stacks which in turn allows Raging Blow to hit two extra targets (stacks to 4, aka two whirlwinds).

Draenor Perks

Improved Recklessness, Improved Die by the Sword, Enhanced Whirlwind, Empowered Execute

Core Abilities

Bloodthirst
A melee ability that does a small amount of damage via the main-hand. This is the main ability to use as Fury. This gives you 10 rage, Bloodsurge procs, an Enrage proc (if it crits) which in turn gives a Raging Blow proc.

Raging Blow
A melee strike ability that hits with both weapons. Gained from enrage procs. The ability is essentially a filler between Bloodthirsts and is used for aoeing via Meat Cleaver.

Wild Strike
A melee strike ability that only hits with the offhand. Has a .75 sec gcd (not affected by haste) and costs 45 rage (or 20 with Furious Strikes). This is our main rage dump.

Execute
A melee strike ability that hits with both weapons. This is our rage dump whenever the boss is below 20%. It lives up to its name by doing a massive amount of damage.

Whirlwind
AoE ability, generates Meat Cleaver procs.

Defensive Abilities

Defensive Stance

Die By the Sword

Rallying Cry

Spell Reflection

Utility

Pummel (along with Glyph of Rude Interruption)

Heroic Leap

Berserker Rage

Intervene

Intimidating Shout

The Fury Priority System

Single Target Ability Priority above 20%:

1. Sudden Death proc
2. Wild Strike if rage is higher than 100
3. Use Bloodsurge procs if rage is higher than 90
4. Bloodthirst if Enrage isn’t up
5. Raging Blow if at 2 stacks
6. Bloodthirst
7. Wild Strike or Raging Blow
8. Dragon Roar or Storm Bolt

So the typical rotation is Bloodthirst followed by these options:

1. 2 uses of: DR/SB/RB
2. 1 use of DR/SB/RB and 2 Wild Strikes
3. 4 Wild Strikes (if running Furious Strikes or if Bloodsurge procs)

It’s important to note that you will occasionally be rage starved and won’t fill your gcd’s because of this.

Execute Rotation

1. Bloodthirst if Enrage isn’t up
2. Execute
3. 60/100 Talent
4. Raging Blow

Make sure to pool rage before 20% for execute as well as saving cd’s for the execute phase. Try to line up your cd’s with trinket(s) if possible. Keep Bloodthirsting to help maintain rage and enrage. Execute over Bloodthirst if your cooldowns are going to wear off within the next gcd. Execute is worth ~2.5 Raging Blows so it is worth using if you’re below 15 rage and it won’t ultimately cost you an execute unless you’re able to get off 3 Raging Blows (in increments of 3, i.e. 6, 9 and so on).

Ability Priority for 2-3 targets:

1. Bloodthirst
2. Dragon Roar
3. Whirlwind
4. Raging Blow
5. Bloodsurge procs

For two targets, if one of the targets is below 20%, use execute rotation.

Ability Priority for 4+ targets:

1. Bloodthirst
2. Dragon Roar
3. Whirlwind x2
4. Raging Blow
5. Bloodsurge procs

Talents Cheat Sheet

Level 15: Double Time

Level 30: Enraged Regeneration

Level 45: Sudden Death

Level 60: Dragon Roar or Stormbolt

Level 75: Vigilance

Level 90: Avatar or Bloodbath for single target. Bladestorm for AoE.

Level 100: Anger Management or Siegebreaker for single target; AM for AoE

T45, 60, 90, and 100 are all personal preference on single target. AM and Siegebreaker are both good, however, if you want to run Siegebreaker then use Avatar with it.

Talents Advanced

Level 15: Juggernaut, Double Time, Warbringer

Juggernaut
Decreases Charge’s cooldown to 12 sec from 20 sec. It can be good if you’re consistently needing to charge around in the interval of 11-18 seconds.

Double Time
Gives two charges of Charge and typically you’ll have enough downtime on your target before needing to charge again in an encounter.

Warbringer
Charge now has a 1.5 sec stun. If you liked playing warrior before they nerfed Charge, this allows that. It has next to no place in PvE.

Level 30: Enraged Regeneration, Second Wind, Impending Victory

Enraged Regeneration
Instant 10% heal with an additional 20% over 5 sec. ER is a very strong cooldown when you don’t need to directly reduce damage taken due to its’ strong healing and low cooldown and it is off gcd.

Second Wind
When below 35% hp, you gain 25% leech. The only time this talent would ever be useful is if you were consistently below 35% which is never. It is however useful in old raid content.

Impending Victory
If for some reason you didn’t like Enraged Regeneration, IV is the alternative. However, it only heals for 15% hp and requires a gcd but it is only a 30 second cooldown.

Level 45: Furious Strikes, Sudden Death, Unquenchable Thirst

Furious Strikes
Allows you to run a “Wild Strike spam” spec that does just that – allows you to consistently dump rage into Wild Strike. The upside to Furious Strikes is damage consistency – you don’t have to deal with an rng proc. The first downfall to Furious Strikes is tied directly into Wild Strike  – the .75 sec gcd. If your latency isn’t godly low, you will ultimately lose gcd’s because of it. The second downfall to it is its’ uselessness on anything aoe related. And lastly, it creates an overwhelming feel because most of the time you aren’t able to expend your rage quick enough to not having enough gcd’s.

Sudden Death
Gives you a free execute whenever it procs. The upside to Sudden Death is that it is RPPM which means it will eventually proc within a time limit. The greater upside to it is that it is capable of proccing many times in a short period of time greatly inflating your damage. The downside is just the same…it’s capable of proccing as little as possible hurting your dps.

Unquenchable Thirst
Bloodthirst now has no cooldown. Overall, it’s a weak talent and should almost never be taken. Bloodthirst’s damage is miserably low and as your crit goes up, your enrage uptime becomes better and better which in turn makes your rage generation better which makes this talent even less effective.

Level 60: Storm Bolt, Shockwave, Dragon Roar

Storm Bolt
The damage is lackluster right now (barely more damage than a Raging Blow). When you’re getting a good flow of bloodthirst crits, you’re swapping out a gcd that could be used on a RB or two wild strikes for that Storm Bolt which only gives a small dps increase.

Shockwave
Shockwave is a cone aoe that stuns all mobs in the cone. This should only be used when you need a stun for the mobs or there is consistently 3+ targets. Combining the 3+ target cd reduction of Shockwave with AM is stronger than Dragon Roar.

Dragon Roar
The go-to talent for single target and aoe. Does damage to all mobs within 8 yds and is a guaranteed crit. With Dragon Roar being a guaranteed crit, it allows you to alleviate a gcd that would go to storm bolt and give it to an RB or two WS’s. This is increasingly useful during Recklessness for example where you wouldn’t Dragon Roar because it already has a guaranteed crit and giving that gcd to an RB/WS would be more useful.

Level 75: Mass Spell Reflection, Safeguard, Vigilance

Mass Spell Reflection
Gives your entire raid Spell Reflection. Not very useful in raids. The Developers make sure of that!

Safeguard
Replaces Intervene; 20% damage reduction to whoever you safeguard for 6 sec. It’s a decent talent, especially if you have another warrior in the raid where you can be safeguard buddies for an extra cd.

Vigilance
One of the reasons you’d be brought to a raid is another cd for tanks. 30% dmg reduction for 12 sec is very strong overall.

Level 90: Avatar, Bloodbath, Bladestorm

Avatar
Avatar makes you look awesome for 20 sec while increasing your damage done by 20% on a 1.5 min cd. This and Bloodbath are interchangeable; It comes down to whatever you prefer.

Bloodbath
Bloodbath is a straight 30% damage increase for 12 sec in the form of a bleed that does damage over 6 sec. The damage is added into the bleed as you do damage while Bloodbath is up. With the low cd, Bloodbath is easier to line up if you aren’t positive of the kill times on a boss to line cd’s up with 20%.

Bladestorm
The go-to talent for any aoe encounter. You cannot use anything else while Bladestorming except Enraged Regeneration.

Level 100: Anger Management, Ravager, Siegebreaker

Anger Management
Every 30 rage you spend, your cd’s of several abilities are reduced by 1 sec. AM is an interesting talent because it can allow you to get an extra Recklessness into a fight or allowing you to get another bladestorm off on an aoe pack.

Ravager
You place down a whirling axe that cannot move and lasts 10 sec. Ravager is a decent single target and aoe talent. Its’ downfall is when tanks drag the mobs out of it as well as when mobs die too quickly.

Siegebreaker
Just another ability to hit that does damage. It’s decent on single target and can be ran over its’ counterparts. I’d only recommend using it with Avatar because it does not line up with Bloodbath.

Glyphs

Major

Glyph of Unending Rage
Mandatory glyph because it allows you to pool more rage and helps alleviate the problems of rage capping.

Glyph of Enraged Speed
Adding extra mobility is huge for most encounters.

Glyph of Bull Rush
If you can consistently charge different targets, Bull Rush gives quite a bit of rage

Minor

Glyph of the Subtle Defender
Removes threat generation from defensive stance is really nice when needing to actually use defensive stance.

Situational

Glyph of Raging Wind
It can be a decent glyph if you’re consistently aoeing.

Glyph of Rude Interruption
Use this glyph any time you need to interrupt.

Glyph of Wind and Thunder
Sometimes stuff isn’t perfectly stacked up, this hugely helps with that.

Glyph of Heroic Leap
I personally love the sprint after heroic leaping.

Unused

Glyph of Recklessness
No.

Gear

Stats

Technical statweights:
Weapon DPS > Strength > Crit (<25%) > Haste (<12%) > Mastery > Crit (>25%) > Haste (12-18%) > Multistrike > Haste (>18%) > Versatility

This is ultimately what I’d recommend, however:
Weapon DPS > Strength > Crit > Mastery > Haste > Multistrike > Versatility

This will help alleviate the problems that occur via Bloodthirst not critting while maximizing your damage overall. The technical statweights are for if you’re consistently hitting a single target and does not take into account times where you’re going to be bladestorming for example which would make Mastery and Crit much, much stronger than haste.

Strength is a primary stat that provides 1 Attack Power (AP) per point. A majority of our abilities use a percentage of attack power to the damage they deal.

Mastery: Unshackled Fury further increases how much damage we deal via enrage.

Critical Strike increases the chance to critically hit with abilities and autoattacks.

Haste increases attack speed while simultaneously reducing our GCD and the cooldowns of all of our abilities except Wild Strike.

Versatility increases all damage and healing done, and decreases all damage taken.

Multistrike causes abilities to have a chance to hit a second and a third time, each dealing 30% of the initial damage. Bloodthirst multistrike crits do not proc enrage.

Enchants

Rings: Enchant Ring – Gift of Critical Strike
Cloak: Enchant Cloak – Gift of Critical Strike
Neck: Enchant Neck – Gift of Critical Strike
Weapon: Enchant Weapon – Mark of the Thunderlord
Gems: Greater Critical Strike Taladite

Consumables

Food: Pickled Eel
Potion: Draenic Strength Potion
Flask: Greater Draenic Strength Flask

AddOns

Weakauras

The best addon around for tracking cooldowns, buffs/debuffs, energy/focus/rage, trinket cooldowns, etc. WeakAuras are fantastic for tracking important boss abilities that would affect you allowing you to out-do any of the current boss mods out there.

Macros

Cancel Bladestorm
#showtooltip
/cancelaura Bladestorm

Bladestorm+Berserker Rage
#showtooltip
/cast Berserker Rage
/cast Bladestorm

Recklessness
/cast Recklessness
/cast Bloodbath
/cast Avatar
/use trinket name

T100
#showtooltip
/cast Ravager
/cast Siegebreaker
Heroic Leap
/cast !Heroic Leap

Weakauras

Warrior Defensive CDs

Warrior Offensive CDs

Warrior Timer Bars

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