Mists of Pandaria Classic Fury Warrior Spell Summary
On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as a Fury Warrior in Mists of Pandaria Classic.
Fury Warrior Spells, Cooldowns and Abilities
Fury Warrior has a
moderate amount of spells available to them; knowing your important spells and
when they are best suited to be used is a key part of performing well in any
environment. The sections below aim to show you your most important spells by
each category and give you a brief example of what each spell does.
Fury Warrior Stances
Warriors have three different stances, each having unique functions that are needed in certain situations. In Mists of Pandaria, all spells can be used in any stance, meaning you should only choose a stance based on your needs at the time.
Battle Stance — Grants you high Rage when you deal melee damage. Since all abilities can be used in any stance, you will use
Battle Stance most of the time.
Defensive Stance — Decreases damage taken by 25% and significantly increases threat generation, but you generate no Rage from damage taken or damage dealt. Use this only to reduce the damage of major raid abilities.
Berserker Stance — Grants some Rage from melee damage, less than
Battle Stance generates, but also grants Rage from damage taken. Use this whenever there is high raid-wide damage going out.
Buffs and Debuffs
Buffs and debuffs are an important part of any party or raid group as they greatly increase your groups ability to tank, heal and deal damage as a whole. Make sure you keep your buffs and debuffs up at all times to ensure the highest chance of success in whatever content you are in.
Buffs
Battle Shout — Increases Attack Power of all nearby raid and party members.
Commanding Shout — Increases the Stamina of all nearby raid and party members.
Debuffs
Commanding Shout — Applies
Physical Vulnerability to the target, increasing all Physical damage taken by 4%.
Sunder Armor — Applies the
Weakened Armor effect, reducing the targets' armor by 4% per application, stacking up to 3 times.
Wild Strike — Applies
Mortal Wounds to the target, reducing their healing received by 25%.
Thunder Clap — Applies the
Weakened Blows effect, reducing targets physical damage dealt by 10%.
Core Rotational Abilities
These are your core damaging abilities that you will use frequently, either while leveling or at max level.
Bloodthirst — Now generates Rage, rather than spending it, and
Enrages you. This makes it one of your most important abilities as
Fury.
Colossus Smash — Smashs the target for high damage and causes all of your attacks to bypass 100% of the enemies armor for 6 seconds. Never use
Colossus Smash while the debuff is still on the target, always wait for it to fall off first so you get the most up-time of the debuff as possible. This is the main ability you will play your rotation around as you want to get in as much damage as possible while the debuff is applied.
Wild Strike — New to Mists of Pandaria for
Fury, this instantly deals moderate damage with your off-hand weapon and applies
Mortal Wounds to the target.
Bloodsurge procs will make the next three
Wild Strikes free and only trigger a 1-second global cooldown, making this a high priority spell during
Bloodsurge procs.
Raging Blow — This can only be used while enraged by either
Enrage or
Berserker Rage. Every time you become Enraged, you gain a charge of
Raging Blow; this means that the more often you can trigger
Enrage, the more charges of
Raging Blow you can acquire. You can only have a maximum of two charges at once. Can hit multiple targets at once in an AoE situation if you have stacks of
Meat Cleaver via
Whirlwind use.
Whirlwind — No longer has a cooldown, but instead only costs 30 Rage; and now hits all nearby enemies. You will only be using this during AoE packs as its single-target power has fallen off greatly.
Whirlwind grants a stack of
Meat Cleaver, increasing the number of targets that
Raging Blow hits by 1, stacking up to 3 times; using
Raging Blow will consume the stacks.
Execute — Requires the target to below 20% health before you can use this. No longer consumes additional Rage to deal additional damage, instead this will cost a fixed amount of Rage while still dealing very high damage. This will become a top priority spell once the target reaches 20% health.
Heroic Strike — Instantly deals damage to the target. This spell was one a core part of our rotation, but is only used now to dump Rage if you are getting close to cap.
Cleave — Instant attack that deals damage to target and an additional nearby enemy. Similar to
Heroic Strike, this is essentially just a filler in an AoE situation if your Rage is nearing 100.
Victory Rush — Deals damage and heals you for 20% of your maximum life. This can only be used after you get the killing blow on an enemy that is a similar level to you. You can not get this proc by killing low level enemies, such as critters. It is rare to be able to use this ability (in raids at least) as it requires you to get the killing blow to activate it, but be sure to use it if you can.
Cooldowns
Fury Warriors has a number
of personal cooldowns and a few raid-wide cooldowns for both offensive and
defensive purposes.
Offensive Cooldowns
Berserker Rage — 30-second cooldown, triggers
Enrage. Use this to help with
Enrage up-time.
Recklessness — 3-minute cooldown, gives 30% increased crit chance. Use this in combination with other offensive cooldowns.
Shattering Throw — 5-minute cooldown, reduces targets armor by 20%. Use this in combination with other offensive cooldowns.
Skull Banner — 3-minute cooldown, increases the critical damage of all nearby allies by 20%. Use this in combination with other offensive cooldowns.
Defensive Cooldowns
Rallying Cry — 3-minute cooldown, grants you and all nearby allies 20% increased max health. Coordinate this with your raid to help the group survive raid mechanics.
Die by the Sword — 2-minute cooldown, Increases your parry chance by 100% and reduces damage taken by 20% for 8 seconds. New defensive added in Mists of Pandaria, use it as needed.
Shield Wall — 3-minute cooldown, 40% damage reduction. Can be used in any stance and no longer requires a shield to use. Great for surviving major raid abilities.
Vigilance — 2-minute cooldown, 30% damage reduction to targeted player. This is your Tier 5 talent and is an amazing defensive cooldown to use on your tanks.
Demoralizing Banner — 3-minute cooldown, Throws down a banner than decreases the damage dealt by all nearby enemies by 10% for 15 seconds.
Enraged Regeneration — 1-minute cooldown, instantly heals you for 10% of your max health, and an additional 10% over 5 seconds; this healing is doubled if you use this while
Enraged. Great for personal survival if you ever find yourself low health in a bad position.
Utility Spells
In addition to your main spells and cooldowns, you also have many utility spells that can be game-changing when used in the proper scenario. Make sure you understand each of the spells listed below to fully take advantage of your entire spellbook.
Charge — Quickly rush to an enemy, stunning them and generating some Rage. With the
Juggernaut talent, you can use this ability every 12 seconds for Rage, improved further by
Glyph of Bull Rush.
Intervene — Rush to an allies location, causing the next melee or ranged attack made against them to be redirected to you instead. Also reduces their threat by 10%. You may need to use this from time to time for mobility or to escape a lethal area.
Pummel — Interrupts the target, preventing them from casting for 4 seconds. This is an important spell that you should be making use of whenever possible, especially on trash pulls. This spell is not on the global cooldown, letting you cast it freely.
Disarm — Removes your target's melee and ranged weapons for 10 seconds, greatly reducing the damage they deal, and may prevent them from using certain abilities. Mainly useful on certain trash mobs that use abilities similar to
Whirlwind.
Intimidating Shout — Fears up to 6 nearby enemies for a short duration. Can be useful if you are in danger or surrounded by enemies, but will typically only be used in PvP as using it in PvE situations can cause trash mobs to run in bad directions and pull additional packs of enemies.
Heroic Leap — Jump to the targeted location, dealing damage to all nearby enemies. This is useful for either dealing a bit more damage on AoE pulls, but will most likely be used as a movement ability to close the gap on your enemy.
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