Fury Warrior DPS Easy Mode — 12.1

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The single-target Slayer raid build is recommended for all encounters which do not feature secondary targets.

Without the need for stuns, virtually all desirable talents are already taken, so there is not much need for swaps outside of specific circumstance:

• Wrecking Throw can be taken in place of Fearless or Field Dressing any time there are shielded targets. Taking Javelineer instead of Stance Mastery may also be worthwhile, trading some defensive benefit for a ranged interrupt.
• Second Wind is not particularly useful in group content, as periodic damage is common enough to stop the heal over time, though it does occasionally ignore certain mechanics.
• If facing two targets with any degree of frequency, swap Enraged Regeneration for Improved Whirlwind.

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The multi-target Slayer build is less powerful and less consistent, depending on getting the right number of Sudden Death procs to ensure Bladestorm lines up with other cooldowns and Reap the Storm procs to supplement its multitarget damage. Rampaging Ruin does make its sustained multi-target much more powerful, but requires regularly hitting 6+ targets to be worthwhile.

Due to the need to take stuns, there is less room for talent customization:

• Wrecking Throw can be taken in place of Fearless or Field Dressing any time there are shielded targets. Taking Javelineer instead of Stance Mastery may also be worthwhile, trading some defensive benefit for a ranged interrupt.
• Enraged Regeneration remains a strong defensive bonus, though it is difficult to fit into the build without losing damage. Best case, drop either one point from Spite or Focus in Chaos, but smart use of Defensive Stance should make it unnecessary in most situations.
• Stance Mastery has amazing defensive potential as long as Defensive Stance is actively used, though its offensive benefit is lackluster at best.

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The simplified rotation outlined below encompasses both single and multiple target situations using our suggested talents. Although some classes use different abilities between single or multiple targets, Fury Warriors have the advantage of cleaving all their single-target attacks using Improved Whirlwind, so ensure that the buff is always active when faced with extra targets.

• Cast Whirlwind whenever its buff is not active while facing multiple targets.
• Cast Recklessness and Avatar on cooldown or whenever burst damage is needed.
• Cast Rampage whenever possible.
• Cast Execute whenever possible.
• Cast Raging Blow to fill the rotation.
• Cast Odyn's Fury on cooldown.
• Cast Bloodthirst on cooldown.
• Cast Whirlwind if nothing else is available.

Unlike Mountain Thane, Slayer uses Raging Blow as its main attack, though all builds follow the same principle of converting Rage into damage with Rampage and maintaining Enrage. Other talents add extra abilities and capabilities, such as extending the Execute phase, all of which is covered in more details in the advanced sections of this guide.

The new Midnight Season 2 tier set bonuses enhances the effects of Recklessness, though it requires using both Bloodthirst and Raging Blow, when most builds focus on one or the other. For Slayer, this is very easy, since Unhinged automatically casts Bloodthirst while it uses Raging Blow manually. Mountain Thane is more complicated though, since it focuses on Bloodthirst, but still needs to find space in the rotation to use Raging Blow three times during each cooldown cycle.

• Warrior Fury 12.1 Class Set 2pc - Raging Blow damage increased by 15%. During Recklessness Raging Blow extends the duration of Recklessness by 2 sec, up to 6 sec.
• Warrior Fury 12.1 Class Set 4pc - Bloodthirst damage increased by 10%. During Recklessness Bloodthirst increases the critical strike bonus of Recklessness by 5%, up to 10%.

The Fury Warrior Apex Talent, Rampaging Berserker, is very straightforward, passively increasing the value of Recklessness and Rampage in three parts.

• The first point triggers the Berserk buff every time Rampage is cast, passively increasing strength. While this buff stacks, each has its own duration, resulting in the buff constantly stacking and decaying, making it easy to treat passively and ignore.
• The second and third points passively increase the damage of Rampage and reduce its Rage cost during Recklessness. This allows the powerful attack to be used much more frequently and stack the Berserk buff much higher during the cooldown window.
• The final point increases the duration of Recklessness and grants three stacks of Berserk whenever the cooldown is used, further enhancing its damage potential.

Fury Warriors have several defensive abilities which can be used individually or layered for stronger damage mitigation. Although lacking any immunity or cheat death, this can make them very capable at surviving predictable incoming damage.

• Enraged Regeneration is the main defensive cooldown, reducing damage and increasing the amount of healing done by Bloodthirst. It is much harder to take in multitarget builds, though can be swapped with Warpaint or Massacre for only a small performance loss.
• Spell Reflection is a very powerful tool that not only reduces incoming magic damage, but can deflect or even reflect spells entirely. While not all spells will be reflected to deal damage to the attacker, simply deflecting their application can be significantly reduce damage, if not trivialize many dangerous abilities outright.
• Defensive Stance is one of the most reliable cooldowns in the game, featuring an extremely short 3-second cooldown, though mitigated by the associated reduction in damage. While this makes it somewhat unpopular, smart use of the ability can dramatically increase survivability.
• Warpaint is a very powerful passive damage reduction, which is almost always active in sustained combat, thanks to high uptime on Enrage.
• Impending Victory a powerful on-demand heal on a short cooldown that resets when an enemy is killed. This makes it regularly available and an important reactionary tool that should be used regularly.
• Second Wind, Pain and Gain, and Bloodthirst are extra healing effects which trigger passively and do not need to be micromanaged, but all contribute to increased self-sustain.

The general stat priority for a Fury Warrior is seen below. This is very much a rough guideline, and is designed for players who do not wish to sim their character. If you are simming your character, please disregard this stat priority completely and follow your sim! For more information on what's presented on this page, check out our main Stat Priority page.

Fury has an early emphasis on Haste, quickly transitioning to Mastery after a good amount has been acquired. Haste is still useful due to increasing auto-attack speed and reducing the time between ability casts, both of which lead to increased Rage generation and Enrage uptime, while Mastery increases damage done during that buff. Critical Strikes deal double damage, while Versatility is a flat increase to damage done and reduces damage taken by half as much.

Combat Assistant, added in Patch 11.1.7, is comprised of two options meant to help players with combat rotations and gameplay.

The first is Assisted Highlight, which recommends the next rotational ability that players should use, in order to help them learn how to better play their specialization. While not a perfectly min-maxed rotation, it is perfectly serviceable, losing an average of around 5% compared to more complicated manual ones. However, it does not attempt to recommend offensive cooldowns, defensives, utility abilities, or other off-GCD abilities such as Charge, so players must be mindful to use these on their own.

The second option is the Single-Button Assistant, which is a new button placed on the action bar which automatically cycles through each ability in the rotation when pressed. Using the same rotation as the Assisted Highlight, it is serviceable, though an additional 25% penalty is placed on the global cooldown to keep this from being an easily competitive option, resulting in a roughly ~20-25% loss in performance. Therefore, it is only recommended for brand new players, players in trivial content, or those who are otherwise unable to keep up with regular gameplay.

In both cases, using cooldowns such as Recklessness and Avatar can be as easy as macroing them to the Single-Button Assistant or a common ability like Odyn's Fury or Bladestorm, though players may also opt to continue using them manually, as described in the rotation section.