Fury Warrior DPS Guide in Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.0.1

Table of Contents

• ×Introduction
  • 1. Class Overview
  • 2. Battle for Azeroth 8.0.1 Pre-Patch Changes for Fury Warrior
    • 2.1. Core Mechanical Changes
    • 2.2. Baseline Abilities Changes
  • 3. Fury Warrior's Strengths
  • 4. Fury Warrior's Weaknesses
  • 5. Viability of Fury Warrior in the Battle for Azeroth Pre-Patch
  • 6. Contents
  • 7. ChangeLog
• +Easy Mode
  • 1. Foreword
  • 2. The Basics of Fury Warrior
  • 3. Talent Choices for Fury Warrior
  • 4. Stat Choices for Fury Warrior
  • 5. Basic Rotation for Fury Warrior
  • 6. ChangeLog
• +Spell Summary
  • 1. Spell Summary of Fury Warrior
  • 2. Fury Warrior's Main Resource
  • 3. Basic Abilities of a Fury Warrior
  • 4. Important Procs for a Fury Warrior
  • 5. Offensive Cooldowns of a Fury Warrior
• +Builds and Talents
  • 1. Talent Choices for Fury Warrior
  • 2. Talent Cheat Sheet for Fury Warrior
    • 2.1. Open World, Levelling and Questing
    • 2.2. Dungeons and Mythic Plus
    • 2.3. Single Target Raid Encounters
  • 3. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 4. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 5. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 6. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 7. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 8. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 9. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 10. PvP Talents (War Mode)
    • 10.1. Fury Warrior War Mode Talents
      • 10.1.1. General PvP Talents
      • 10.1.2. Fury Warrior PvP Talents
  • 11. ChangeLog
• +Azerite Traits and Armor
  • 1. Disclaimer
  • 2. Azerite Traits for Fury Warrior
    • 2.1. Outer Ring Traits
    • 2.2. Middle Ring Traits for Fury Warrior
    • 2.3. Inner Ring Traits for Fury Warrior
  • 3. Azerite Trait Ranking for Fury Warrior
    • 3.1. Outer Ring Single-Target
    • 3.2. Outer Ring Multi-Target (Mythic+, etc)
    • 3.3. Middle Ring Single-Target
    • 3.4. Middle Ring Multi-Target (Mythic+, etc)
  • 4. Find Azerite Armor By Trait/Power
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
  • 1. Single-Target Rotation for Fury Warriors
    • 1.1. Execute Usage
    • 1.2. Opening Rotation/During Recklessness
  • 2. Multiple-Target Rotation for Fury Warriors
  • 3. Mastering your Fury Warrior
    • 3.1. Aligning Cooldowns
      • 3.1.1. Recklessness
      • 3.1.2. Bladestorm vs Dragon Roar
      • 3.1.3. Siegebreaker
  • 4. Azerite Traits
    • 4.1. Tier 1 Talents Rage Generation
    • 4.2. Tier 5 Talents Managing Rage with Rampage
    • 4.3. Enrage
    • 4.4. Movement and Mobility
    • 4.5. Sustain and Defense
    • 4.6. Group Buffs
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Mythic+ Tips
  • 1. Disclaimer
    • 1.1. Fury Warrior in Mythic+
    • 1.2. Fury Warrior Utility
  • 2. Mythic+ Talents for Fury Warrior
  • 3. Mythic+ Affixes
    • 3.1. Tier One Affixes
    • 3.2. Tier Two Affixes
    • 3.3. Tier Three Affixes
    • 3.4. Seasonal Affix
  • 4. Mythic+ Azerite Traits
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Common and Worst Mistakes
  • 1. Downtime
  • 2. Overcapping Rage
  • 3. Not Knowing How To Sim Yourself
  • 4. Analyzing Your Own Mistakes
• +Frequently Asked Questions
  • 1. Battle for Azeroth Frequently Asked Questions
    • 1.1. Should I Worry About Rage?
    • 1.2. Should I Put My Highest Item Level Weapon in the Off-Hand?
    • 1.3. Should I Only Use Dragon Roar/Bladestorm During Recklessness?
    • 1.4. What Piece of Gear is Better?
    • 1.5. How Much of Each Stat Should I Have?
  • 2. ChangeLog
• +Boss by Boss Strategies
  • 1. ChangeLog
• +Stat Priority
  • 1. The Basics of Stats for Fury Warrior
    • 1.1. Getting a Better Understanding
    • 1.2. Statistics
    • 1.3. Breakpoints
  • 2. Racial Bonuses for Fury Warrior
  • 3. ChangeLog
• +Gems, Enchants, and Consumables
  • 1. Gems for Fury Warrior
  • 2. Enchants for Fury Warrior
  • 3. Consumables for Fury Warrior
• +Macros and Addons
  • 1. Macros for Fury Warriors
    • 1.1. Generic Macros for Warriors
      • 1.1.1. Furious Slash/Whirlwind Switch
      • 1.1.2. Bladestorm/Dragon Roar Switch
      • 1.1.3. Cancel Bladestorm Macro
      • 1.1.4. Pummel Macro
      • 1.1.5. Automatic Heroic Leap
      • 1.1.6. Heroic Leap Spam
    • 1.2. Specific Macros for Fury Warriors
      • 1.2.1. Offensive Cooldown Macro
  • 2. Addons recommended for Fury Warriors
    • 2.1. Generic Addons for Warriors
      • 2.1.1. ElvUI
      • 2.1.2. Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
      • 2.1.3. GTFO
      • 2.1.4. Parrot or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
      • 2.1.5. Weak Auras
      • 2.1.6. TellMeWhen
      • 2.1.7. Raeli's Spell Announcer
      • 2.1.8. Recount / Skada / Details!
      • 2.1.9. Omen Threat Meter
    • 2.2. Specific Addons for Fury Warriors
• +Gear and Best in Slot
  • 1. Raid Best in Slot List for Fury Warrior
    • 1.1. Trinkets
    • 1.2. Evaluating Upgrades with dynamic Item Levels
  • 2. ChangeLog
• +Simulations
  • 1. Disclaimer Page
  • 2. Fury Warrior Talent Comparisons
  • 3. Fury Warrior Racial Bonus Simulations
  • 4. Fury Warrior Stat Weights
  • 5. Fury Warrior Azerite Simulations
    • 5.1. Outer Ring Single-Target
    • 5.2. Outer Ring Multi-Target (Mythic+, etc)
    • 5.3. Middle Ring Single-Target
    • 5.4. Middle Ring Multi-Target (Mythic+, etc)
  • 6. ChangeLog

General Information

Welcome to our Fury Warrior DPS guide for World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.0.1. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Fury Warrior in a raid environment and in Mythic+ dungeons.

About Our Author

This guide has been written by Archimtiros, the Warrior class theorycrafter, and one of the best DPS Warriors in the world, who raids in Infinity. You can follow him on Twitter and you can watch his stream on Twitch.

1. Class Overview

Fury Warriors in Battle for Azeroth have recieved many improvements from Legion, particularly to talents, improving multitarget capabilities, and Execute. The amount of stackable cooldowns has been reduced, streamlining the rotation to make Rampage and Enrage the most important gameplay elements, while built-in Haste buffs make Fury one the fastest action specializations in the game. In additon to a well-rounded offensive toolkit, Fury boasts high mobility, strong self healing, and one of the few raid-wide defensive cooldowns in the game.

2. Battle for Azeroth 8.0.1 Pre-Patch Changes for Fury Warrior

Although the core of the rotation remains similar to Legion, several improvements have been made to talents, multitarget, and the Execute phase.

2.1. Core Mechanical Changes

• Recklessness (formerly Battle Cry) and Rallying Cry (formerly Commanding Shout) are now on the global cooldown. Charge incurs a shorter 0.5s global cooldown.
• Fury no longer takes increased damage while Enraged, but also no longer has a significantly higher health pool than other classes, although it does still have slightly higher stamina due to dualwielding two-handed weapons.
• Taking melee damage now generates 3 Rage per incoming attack, once per second.
• Rage generation from autoattacks and abilities has been increased significantly to account for the loss of legendaries and artifact traits.
• Ability damage uses a new formula including both attack power and weapon damage, whereas previously some abilities ignored weapon damage. As a result, strength is more important, and ability damage scales more consistently.
• Personal buffs and debuffs such as Enrage no longer increase the damage of trinkets or other non-class ability damage.

2.2. Baseline Abilities Changes

• Battle Shout is a new ability which increases party and raid Attack Power by 10%.
• Bladestorm now deals its damage quicker, at the expense of less ticks.
• Bloodthirst has a flat 30% chance to trigger Enrage, rather than based on critical strike.
• Enrage increases Haste by 25%, instead of autoattack speed.
• Execute generates 20 Rage on a 6-second cooldown, reduced by Haste.
• Raging Blow has two charges, a 20% chance to reset its own cooldown on use, and no longer requires Enrage.
• Rampage animation and global cooldown is reduced by Haste.
• Recklessness has become a resource cooldown, doubling Rage generation and increasing Critical Strike chance by 20% for 10 seconds.
• Victory Rush has been added back to Fury.
• Whirlwind now generates Rage and replaces Furious Slash in the base rotation. Its buff now causes the next two single-target abilities to cleave, including Execute.

Nearly every other ability has had its coefficients changed, but otherwise function as they did in Legion.

3. Fury Warrior's Strengths

• Innate Haste buffs allow for a fast and spammy play style.
• Deals multitarget damage without sacrificing single target damage.
• Strong burst AoE abilities which are also useful on single target.
• Short priority rotation that is easy to learn.

4. Fury Warrior's Weaknesses

• The Haste buff from Enrage creates feast or famine style gameplay, which may be unappealing to some.
• Ramp up time is needed in order to generate Rage for Rampage, made more difficult when not enraged.
• While there is some amount of customization, talents do not significantly change the core rotation.

5. Viability of Fury Warrior in the Battle for Azeroth Pre-Patch

Due to the influence of legendaries and tier bonuses that the specialization is no longer designed for, individual performance can vary greatly. In high end gear, Fury should out perform Arms on single target, although it has slightly lower burst AoE.

6. Contents

To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into 14 pages:

• Easy Mode: Simple breakdown and build for those just getting started;
• Spell Summary: see a summary of all your useful spells;
• Builds and Talents: learn how to choose your talents;
• Azerite Traits and Armor: discover your best azerite traits and the gear that sports them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: master your rotation and your cooldowns;
• Mythic+ Tips: learn how to adapt your playstyle for Mythic+;
• Common and Worst Mistakes: avoid making common mistakes;
• Frequently Asked Questions: find the answers to the most common questions for your spec;
• Boss by Boss Strategies: find out how to defeat current content bosses;
• Stat Priority: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Consumables: choose the best gems, enchantments, etc.;
• Macros and Addons: step up your game with useful macros and addons;
• Gear and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear;
• Simulations: if you are interested in simulations results from SimulationCraft.

7. ChangeLog

• 13 Aug. 2018 (azerite traits and gear page): Page added for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (simulations page): Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (easy mode page): Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (gear page): Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (stats page): Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (bosses page): Page added (empty for now).
• 13 Aug. 2018 (FAQ page): Page added for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (mythic+ page): Page added for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (rotation page): Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 13 Aug. 2018 (talents page): Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
• 20 Jul. 2018 (gear page): Updated Antorus trinket and racial bonus comparisons.
• 20 Jul. 2018 (simulations page): Updated racial bonus comparisons.
• 16 Jul. 2018 (this page): Updated for the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch.

+ show all entries - show only 10 entries