Fury Warrior DPS Easy Mode — The War Within (11.1.7)

Although built for beginners, this build is capable of engaging in all forms of content, from open-world level, to dungeons and entry-level raids. While there may be better-performing builds for specific pieces of content, they are also more specialized. As you gear up, acquire tier bonuses, or plan to engage with specific forms of content, more specialized builds will become available.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

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.

• Cast Recklessness on cooldown or whenever burst damage is needed.
• Cast Avatar to automatically trigger Enrage, cast Odyn's Fury, and the Whirlwind buff.
• Cast Thunderous Roar while enraged.
• Cast Bladestorm following a fresh Enrage.
• Cast Rampage to maintain Enrage and activate Reckless Abandon.
• Cast Bloodthirst on cooldown.
• Cast Execute whenever possible.
• Cast Raging Blow to fill the rotation.
• Cast Whirlwind when nothing else is available.

While all builds focus on 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. These talents and their rotations are covered in more detail in the advanced sections of the guide.

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.
• 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.
• Bitter Immunity provides an on-demand heal and removal of certain afflictions, though its long cooldown makes it lackluster in most group content where a healer will typically cover those needs.

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!

1. Strength;
2. Mastery;
3. Haste;
4. Versatility;
5. Critical Strike.

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 autoattack 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. As is the case for most specializations, the specific values of these stats are largely determined by your individual gear, and more information can be found on the Stat Priority page.

While the stat priority for classes is normally the same for both the Easy Mode page and our full guide, subtle differences may still occur. If you want to see a full explanation of the stat priority, as well as the absolute top choices for the priority, head to our full stats page below.

New in Patch 11.1.7 is the Combat Assistant, 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 servicable, 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 Colossus Smash, though players may also opt to continue using them manually, in the same manner as prescribed in the rotation sections of this guide.