Fury Warrior Leveling

[positiv2 948]

This thread is for comments about our Fury Warrior Shadowlands Leveling Guide.

[Ylvanos 0]

I'm a bit confused. I haven't played in a couple of years and I'm not very skilled.

Created a new warrior a few days back, and heirlooms are really confusing. Does this guide mean that I should not use my Hellscream's Decapitators for example? I basically put on whatever heirlooms I've got. I also had no idea which one to pick when I have several for the same slot.

[Guest Skelia]

You need to update this. Some of the ability information is outdated or inaccurate (Whirlwind costing rage for example; it's free for Fury Warriors). Not to mention you won't be using the shield abilities as a Fury Warrior. It seems you copied and pasted some Prot info out of either laziness or efficiency.

[Archimtiros 8]

On 4/10/2021 at 11:15 AM, Guest Skelia said:

You need to update this. Some of the ability information is outdated or inaccurate (Whirlwind costing rage for example; it's free for Fury Warriors). Not to mention you won't be using the shield abilities as a Fury Warrior. It seems you copied and pasted some Prot info out of either laziness or efficiency.

Could you be more specific? I'm not really sure which guide page you're referring to.

The Fury Warrior Leveling Guide is correct.

• Whirlwind's tooltip shows a rage cost, but that's how the base spell works - the rank 2 removes the cost for Fury at level 22 and makes it generate rage instead. The guide is written correctly based on what level you have selected in the scroll bar (costing rage before 22 and generating it after).
• The only time the guide recommends using shield abilities is Shield Slam between level 3-9, before Bloodthirst is learned and when there is literally nothing else to press. After that, none of the abilities are in the rotation list.

[Guest woodshark]

What are your thoughts on Dual Wield for leveling?

[Archimtiros 8]

7 hours ago, Guest woodshark said:

What are your thoughts on Dual Wield for leveling?

If you're using heirlooms it works fine. In the past (pre-squish), it might have been a little harder to keep up with ilevel on two different weapons, but the difference between ilevel is so small now that it shouldn't be a concern. Personally I think Arms (or better yet, Protection) is a slightly better leveling spec in the very early game, with Fury picking up speed once it unlocks the extra ranks of Whirlwind at level 22 and 37, but the difference is extremely minimal.

[Antix 0]

A note after leveling a fury warrior in 9.1.5.  Slaughterhouse does not work as the tooltip indicated in the guide and is relatively terrible for leveling. I imagine Warbringer or Battle Trance would serve better.

[Archimtiros 8]

On 11/12/2021 at 12:33 AM, Antix said:

A note after leveling a fury warrior in 9.1.5.  Slaughterhouse does not work as the tooltip indicated in the guide and is relatively terrible for leveling. I imagine Warbringer or Battle Trance would serve better.

Good catch - yes, Slaughterhouse was changed and is no longer appropriate for PvE content. Warbringer is an ok choice, presuming you're frequently initiating combat with Charge.

Battle Trance is a bit contentious - leveling combat doesn't tend to be long enough to benefit from it outside of anything but the strongest elites, though it's not a bad choice.

Bloodrage is actually a great ability if you can stand the extra keybind - the burst rage is great for getting an immediate Rampage, while the snare removal is circumstantially useful, and the health loss is trivial. I'd probably recommend that as "best", followed by one of the others as a more passive approach.

[Alsurag 0]

Noticed a little error in the guide: you need to switch the Talents for Level 32 and Level 34, Sidearm isn't reachable without Barbaric Training. Other than that, very nice.

[Ruj 0]

Where is there a guide on which enchants to put on our heirlooms depending on whether we're leveing on fury or arms?

Knowing which enchants to put on my heirlooms is the most confusing part. Not which talents to pick.

[Guest Rubyu]

What is the point of the level slider if it is not adapted to the talent tree? The slider is totally pointless and serves no purpose.