Fury Warrior DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Recommended	Other Options
Slayer	Mountain Thane
Avatar	Bladestorm	Odyn's Fury	Champion's Spear

1. Recklessness on cooldown or whenever burst damage is needed
2. Avatar simultaneously with Recklessness
3. Rampage if Enrage is not active
4. Thunder Blast while Enraged
5. Bladestorm while Enraged
6. Execute
7. Rampage over 110 Rage
8. Raging Blow
9. Bloodthirst
10. Execute
11. Raging Blow
12. Odyn's Fury
13. Champion's Spear while Enraged
14. Thunder Clap
15. Rampage
16. Whirlwind to fill the rotation

In simple terms, the Fury Warrior rotation revolves around building Rage and spending it on Rampage in order to trigger and maintain Enrage. While not complex, the rotation is generally fast-paced while making use of several procs and cooldowns. This makes the relatively simple rotation deceptively engaging.

• Slayer makes more frequent use of Execute, lowering the cooldown of Bladestorm in turn.
• Mountain Thane effectively replaces Whirlwind with Thunder Clap, and its higher priority Thunder Blast proc. While otherwise similar to Slayer, the rotation does not make as much use of Execute and focuses primarily on Bloodthirst rather than Raging Blow.

Because Charge is off the global cooldown, opening combat with Recklessness followed immediately by Charge will lead to a net increase in Rage generation on the pull with little to no additional downtime, however, it is crucial to ensure that the target will not be moving substantially, or else you will easily find yourself moving to the former location, and wasting precious buff time trying to reposition.

Odyn's Fury and Fresh Meat can both be used to jumpstart Enrage when Recklessness is not available to use on a fresh pull, though when opening with Rampage, Odyn's Fury should be saved until after the first Bloodthirst to benefit from its increased bleed bonus damage.

Whether due to the target being below 20% (35% with Massacre talented) health or Sudden Death proc, Execute usage does not heavily change the priorities listed above. While it deals respectable damage, the main benefit is generating extra Rage in order to use Rampage again that much sooner.

Multi-target rotations are overall very similar to single target ones, with the added step of prioritizing Thunder Clap (Thane) or Whirlwind (Slayer) to apply their buff and enable single-target attacks to cleave.

Recommended	Other Options
Slayer	Mountain Thane
Odyn's Fury	Champion's Spear

1. Recklessness
2. Avatar simultaneously with Recklessness
3. Whirlwind if the Meat Cleaver buff is not active
4. Thunder Clap if the Meat Cleaver buff is not active
5. Rampage if Enrage is not active
6. Thunder Blast while Enraged
7. Bladestorm while Enraged
8. Odyn's Fury
9. Champion's Spear while Enraged
10. Rampage with more than 110 Rage
11. Execute
12. Bloodthirst
13. Execute
14. Thunder Clap
15. Raging Blow
16. Raging Blow
17. Bloodthirst
18. Rampage
19. Whirlwind as a filler

Slayer uses Execute to reduce the cooldown of Bladestorm, though Reap the Storm is not used during the pre-patch, resulting in Bloodthirst having a low priority.

Mountain Thane replaces Whirlwind with Thunder Clap, focusing on using Bloodthirst regularly to trigger Thunder Blast.

The goal of the Fury rotation is a continual feedback loop of generating Rage, spending it on Rampage to trigger Enrage, which increases damage of follow-on abilities while they generate more Rage to repeat the process. Because it can be such a powerful buff, routinely in the 30-50% range, maintaining a high uptime is paramount to success as a Fury Warrior.

While Recklessness increases the amount of Rage generated in order to use Rampage more quickly, both Odyn's Fury and Fresh Meat automatically trigger Enrage, helping jumpstart the rotation when other cooldowns are not available. Fresh Meat in particular can be gamed by carefully keeping track of which enemies have not yet been hit by the ability, allowing it to be chained from target to target to continually trigger the effect again.

Applicable to most classes, though particularly relevant to Fury Warriors, due to the the high emphasis on stacking haste for more attacks with which to generate Rage. Any time spent off target is lost damage, with minimal means to recoup lost resources, unlike energy-based classes which will continue regenerating their resource up to its cap.

Due to the high mobility innate to the Warrior class, it is possible to play around boss mechanics and minimize downtime. If the boss is casting an area effect which requires players to run a certain distance away, a Warrior can instead continue attacking until the last few seconds, Heroic Leap away and immediately Charge back as soon as the danger has passed.

Fury should never have any free global cooldowns, due to Whirlwind always being available. This should not be depended on, however, as Whirlwind does not generate Rage unless Improved Whirlwind is talented. Instead, repeated use of Raging Blow and weaved Bloodthirsts make up the bulk of the rotation, while Rampage is often delayed beyond its 80 Rage cost, so long as Enrage does not run out. Delaying the use of Rampage this way allows a small amount of extra Rage to be pooled, thus requiring less than another full 80 Rage to be generated before the next Rampage is cast a few seconds later.

A small optimization can be made by moving out of range of the target and using Charge to generate extra Rage during your rotation. Care should be taken to do this between auto-attack swings when Colossus Smash is not active. Heroic Leap can also be used to create enough room to Charge for bosses with large hitboxes, which is sometimes more specifically referred to as Heroic Charge.

The main cooldown for Fury Warriors provides a moderate burst window and enhanced Rage generation, allowing Rampage to be used more frequently. Talenting Reckless Abandon also transforming Bloodthirst and Raging Blow into their more powerful Bloodbath and Crushing Blow forms.

Rampage is not as high priority during the pre-patch, so it will remain a somewhat priority despite the ability to use it more often during Recklessness.

Now on a choice node with Bladestorm, Avatar is necessary for the proper function of Mountain Thane, creating an easy choice between the two. Although berefit of its follow-on talents, Avatar has great synergy with the rest of the Mountain Thane bonuses, especially Storm Surge.

The signature Slayer ability is not the high-burst powerhouse it used to be, but continues to provide a reasonable amount of damage, with its single target value increased by Unhinged. Care should be taken to always be enraged before using the ability, preferably immediately after a fresh Rampage, and although it does generate Rage, having either Fresh Meat or Deft Experience will help maintain Enrage during and after the channel ends.

Keep in mind that the automatic Bloodthirst caused by Unhinged can also trigger their own effects, such as Enrage or Reap the Storm.

Despite three stacks of Imminent Demise causing the button to glow, this is not an indicator of when Bladestorm should be used. It should almost always be used either on cooldown, or timed with groups of adds.

Fairly low value during the pre-patch, Odyn's Fury provides another way to immediately trigger Enrage, as well as its own sudden burst of damage... although its ability to apply Improved Whirlwind is sorely missed. Ideally, it should be used after Bloodthirst in order to benefit from Bloodborne, when it will hit multiple targets.