TBC Classic Fury Warrior Guide

Warriors are melee fighters, heavily trained in the art of combat. They rely on their strength and incredible toughness to guide them through the thick of battle. Warriors are less flexible than other classes, but are tougher and capable of dealing devastating damage to their enemies much more quickly.

Fury remains the top DPS spec for Warriors, focusing on dual-wielding rather than Two-Handed weapons. While the overall strength of DPS Warriors is reduced from that of Classic WoW, with proper gear and group, a Fury Warrior remains one of the best AoE classes in the game, and arguably the strongest cleave DPS overall.

Strengths

• Very high cleave damage potential
• Does not have a limited resource like Mana

Weaknesses

• Extremely gear-dependent
• Weak in early content
• Only contributes damage to a raid

Fury Warriors in TBC are one of the top DPS classes, especially when facing multiple enemies at once and utilizing Cleave. While they are nerfed a bit compared to their "Vanilla WoW" version at level 60, they still remain a very solid DPS choice once they're sufficiently geared. They do however, require a full group dedicated to supporting them, making them a rather limited class during this expansion.

Rage is a Warrior's main resource, which is gained by damage dealt and damage taken, causing Warriors to overflow on resources when using high end gear. As a DPS, the majority of your Rage will come from damage dealt, which is why Critical Strike Rating is so highly desirable as a Warrior. With low gear it is possible to go on a "Rage-starvation", where your attacks either don't crit or miss, and you lack the Rage to use abilities for several global cooldowns in a row. Rage is one the main reasons why DPS Warriors scale so well throughout the expansion as they continually improve their gear.

Blacksmithing is highly recommended for Fury Warriors as the crafted weapons will last you until the later phases of Burning Crusade. Any Warrior looking to put out the highest damage possible will want to get this profession.

Engineering is the recommended second profession. It offers no benefit to your main spec, but does however offer you many other benefits. Aside from the many different gadgets and gizmos offered, such as Rocket Boots Xtreme, you will be able to make Stamina trinkets for tanking. Goblin Rocket Launcher and Gnomish Poultryizer are both amazing tanking trinkets, lasting through most of the content. Having the utility to tank dungeons, heroics and Karazhan will greatly improve how frequently you get into groups.

Leatherworking is a decent option if you have no one else in the party able to use Drums of Battle. You can craft some gear early on as an extra bonus, but this is replaced quickly.

Enchanting gives you +8 all stats through Enchant Ring - Stats, giving you a bit of health, Attack Power, and Critical Strike Rating.

Jewelcrafting offers Crimson Sun and Stone of Blades, giving you a bit more stats than standard gems.

If you would like to learn more about how your profession of choice can be used to supplement your goldmaking, along with a variety of other means to bolster your income, see our full goldmaking guide linked below: