Fury Warrior DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Last updated on Jan 19, 2026 at 18:00 by Archimtiros 84 comments
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In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Fury Warrior in World of Warcraft — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0).

1.

Fury Warrior Mythic+ Guide for Midnight Pre-Patch

In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Warrior in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities in the most optimal way.

2.

Fury Warrior in The War Within Mythic+

Between Bladestorm Icon Bladestorm, Ravager Icon Ravager, Thunderous Roar Icon Thunderous Roar, Champion's Spear Icon Champion's Spear, and Thunder Blast Icon Thunder Blast, Fury Warrior has an inordinate amount of multi-target tools available on a relatively short cooldown, as well as generally strong personal survivability, and several abilities to lock down enemies.

Note: Tuning is still in a state of flux during the Midnight Pre-Patch, especially as several meaningful Beta changes have not yet been deployed onto live servers, so expect some refinement over time.

  • Mountain Thane is the main Mythic+ build, offering much stronger sustained cleave than Slayer, combined with better survivability bonuses in higher level keys.
  • Slayer brings a lot of burst damage, but drops off after cooldowns end, due to the most of the rest of its damage being limited to just five targets. Despite this, it still performs perfectly well, but does not reach the same high point, especially when making continually larger pulls.
3.

Best Mythic+ Talents for Fury Warrior in The War Within

Slayer and Mountain Thane use different class and spec talents, though their talent builds do not change based on dungeon or key level. However, there are still some supplementary choices that can be made, such as dropping a small amount of self-healing for more movement speed.

These choices are largely personal and do not change on a key-to-key basis. Please reference the builds below, or visit our dedicated Talents page for a more general overview of Fury Warrior talents.

4.

Best Mythic+ Talent Builds for Fury Warrior

Mountain Thane Mythic+ Talent Build Slayer Mythic+ Talent Build

The multi-target Mountain Thane build effectively replaces Whirlwind with Thunder Clap Icon Thunder Clap and focuses on Bloodthirst to transform it into the more powerful Thunder Blast Icon Thunder Blast, offering a significant multi-target damage increase while automatically cleaving the single target rotation.

4.1.

Flexible Talents

Pre-Patch talent builds are currently very limited, due to lacking the extra talent points available at Level 90, therefore there are not many meaningful talent swaps. Leveling up in the expansion will open up significantly more room for customization.

  • Enraged Regeneration Icon Enraged Regeneration remains a strong defensive bonus, though comes at the cost of a throughput talent. With good use of Defensive Stance Icon Defensive Stance it should not be needed.

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

The current multi-target Slayer build continues to revolve around Raging Blow, as Beta changes to Reap the Storm Icon Reap the Storm have not yet made their way to live severs. It therefore plays very similarly to raid builds, simply cleaving its primary rotation.

4.2.

Flexible Talents

Pre-Patch talent builds are currently very limited, due to lacking the extra talent points available at Level 90, therefore there are not many meaningful talent swaps. Leveling up in the expansion will open up significantly more room for customization.

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

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Mythic+ Utility for Fury Warrior in Midnight Pre-Patch

This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Warrior Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.

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Utility of Fury Warrior in The War Within

Interrupts, Stuns, Stops, and Slows Other Utility
6.1.

Interrupts, Stuns, Stops, and Slows

Pummel Icon Pummel is the Warrior version of kick, frequently used in Mythic+ to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially the tank. Because it is sometimes necessary to interrupt targets other than the one you are actively attacking, it is highly recommended to use a focus or mouseover macro.

Slayer has the unique ability to use Pummel during Bladestorm Icon Bladestorm, which normally cannot be done.

  • /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Pummel

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your primary target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

  • /focus [@mouseover]

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Not technically an interrupt, Spell Reflection Icon Spell Reflection is an incredibly powerful personal tool, which can deflect or reflect the damage and negative effect of many enemy spells, but only when they are cast on the Warrior.

New in Midnight, Wrecking Throw Icon Wrecking Throw now provides a ranged silence when paired with Javelineer Icon Javelineer!

6.2.

Stuns, "Stops" and Slows

Storm Bolt Icon Storm Bolt and Shockwave Icon Shockwave are single and multi-target stuns, often called "stops" due to their use in stopping enemy actions. Easier to talent into than the past; these are core talents in any Mythic+ build.

Intimidating Shout Icon Intimidating Shout is another AoE stop, fearing targets instead of stunning them. This has several limitations, causing targets to run away and potentially call allies, some targets being immune to the condition outright, and competing with Piercing Howl. Because of this, the talent is not always taken in Mythic+ builds, but can be added as desired.

Piercing Howl Icon Piercing Howl and Crackling Thunder Icon Crackling Thunder can both be used as AoE slows, though this is not something that is regularly needed in most content. Hamstring Icon Hamstring is the non-talented, single-target alternative, which is typically enough to cover any slowing needs. New in Midnight, Piercing Howl also provides a minor speed buff to allies, which is not particularly important for countering mechanics, but can speed up downtime between pulls.

6.3.

Other Utility

Battle Shout Icon Battle Shout increases the damage output of all melee classes and Hunters by 5% and should always be active.

Rallying Cry Icon Rallying Cry is a group-wide defensive cooldown, useful in helping yourself or allies survive incoming damage. New in Midnight, its effect is now increased by 50% in small group content.

Berserker Rage Icon Berserker Rage and Berserker Shout Icon Berserker Shout removes fear and disorient effects, which are not very common in the modern game. The shout version applies to allies but suffers several limitations: requiring an extra talent point, having a very limited range that often misses casters, and only able to be used reactively after the fear effect has been applied rather than pre-emptively immuning it. As a result, it is rarely used, though the new Fearless Icon Fearless talent can be situationally useful.

7.

Dungeon Tips and Tricks for Fury Warrior for Midnight Pre-Patch

Unlike many classes, Warriors have very few specialized tricks to handle various mechanics, being mainly focused on personal damage and defense. Most of the tips and tricks for Warriors constitute negating or reflecting incoming spell damage using Spell Reflection Icon Spell Reflection.

Rather than trying to memorize a list of spells, it is highly recommended to simply use the Spell Reflect Essentials WeakAura to track them for you.

9.

Affix Tips, Tricks and Management for Fury Warrior in Midnight Pre-Patch

Unlike many classes, Warriors have very few specialized tricks to handle various mechanics, being mainly focused on personal damage and defense, so they do not have any unique capability when it comes to handling various affixes of Mythic+. For general guides covering each of Dungeon or Mythic+ content in general, check out our dedicated page below.

10.

Affix Guide for Fury Warrior in The War Within

Affix: Ascendant Affix: Devour Affix: Voidbound Affix: Pulsar
10.1.

Ascendant Affix Management for Fury Warrior

Shockwave Icon Shockwave with Rumbling Earth Icon Rumbling Earth should be available frequently enough to handle this mechanic, with backup Pummel Icon Pummel or Storm Bolt Icon Storm Bolt as needed. Intimidating Shout Icon Intimidating Shout can be taken as well, but should not be necessary and may not reliably affect the correct targets in larger pulls.

10.2.

Devour Affix Management for Fury Warrior

Simply using Impending Victory Icon Impending Victory may not remove the effect outright, but will help reduce the healing burden enough for healers to catch up.

10.3.

Voidbound Affix Management for Fury Warrior

There is no particular trick here; simply kill the mob as quickly as possible to gain its buff!

10.4.

Pulsar Affix Management for Fury Warrior

There is no particular trick here; simply soak the orb of another player to gain a mastery and leech buff!

11.

How To Sim Mythic+ for Fury Warrior

11.1.

MDT Sim

MDT Sim is the best way to sim Mythic+ for Fury Warrior. It allows you to sim an entire dungeon, pull-by-pull, with appropriate HP amounts and so on. In this way, you get a full picture within a single sim, of various target counts and durations. I have created a route that I feel is a good "average" of all dungeons that you can use. Drop the contents of the Pastebin into your Raidbots > SimC Expert Mode at the bottom > 'Footer'. Detailed instructions and more info on MDT Sim can be found on the MDT Sim Wago page.

On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for Fury Warrior that also apply to Mythic+.

12.

Changelog

  • 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
  • 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
  • 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
  • 06 Sep. 2025: Updated for unannounced hotfix.
  • 10 Aug. 2025: Clarified explanation regarding talent choices.
  • 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
  • 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
  • 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
  • 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
  • 15 Dec. 2024: Tagged recommended builds and validated for Patch 11.0.7.
  • 21 Oct. 2024: Updated Mountain Thane Mythic+ build description and dungeon affix recommendations.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1 launch.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Minor update to introduction.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Updated talent and rotation recommendations for Season 4.
  • 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Feb. 2024: Fixed broken spell link with the Champion's Spear formerly of Bastion.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2 and Season 3.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
  • 12 Jul. 2023: Minor formatting updates.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5, to include Shockwave as a recommended talent.
  • 01 May 2023: Updated with better Onslaught build.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Updated build for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 18 Nov. 2022: Updated Reckless Abandon and Titanic Rage use and descriptions.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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