Fury Warrior DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within Pre-Patch

Welcome to our Rotation page for Fury Warriors. On this page, you will find everything you need to know about actually playing the spec in Raiding and Mythic+ scenarios.

If the rotations below seem overwhelming to you, you might benefit from visiting our Beginners page, which outlines a close-to-optimal rotation in simpler terms.

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The Arms rotation is a conditional priority list, which can change depending on talent choice. Use the checkboxes below to make the appropriate customizations and make sure that Berserker Stance is always toggled on!

Recommended	Other Options
Titan's Torment	Berserker's Torment
Champion's Spear	Thunderous Roar
Odyn's Fury	Onslaught
Ravager	Bladestorm
Reckless Abandon	Anger Management
2p Season 3 Set Bonus	4p Season 4 Set Bonus

1. Cast Recklessness on cooldown or whenever burst damage is needed.
2. Cast Avatar alongside Recklessness.
3. Cast Ravager as soon as the target is well positioned and not expected to move.
4. Cast Avatar while Enraged or with Titanic Rage talented.
5. Cast Champion's Spear during Recklessness and while Enraged.
6. Cast Thunderous Roar while Enraged.
7. Cast Rampage to spend Rage and maintain Enrage.
8. Cast Bloodthirst or Bloodbath when it has a 100% chance to crit through the Merciless Assault buff and Bloodcraze.
9. Cast Bloodbath to consume the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff.
10. Cast Odyn's Fury while Enraged or with Titanic Rage talented.
11. Cast Crushing Blow to consume the Recklesss Abandon buff.
12. Cast Bloodbath to consume the Reckless Abandon buff.
13. Cast Onslaught while Enraged or with Tenderize talented.
14. Cast Rampage to maintain Enrage and reapply the Reckless Abandon buffs.
15. Cast Execute whenever possible.
16. Cast Bloodthirst when the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff is not active to maximize its value with Bloodbath instead.
17. Cast Raging Blow while Enraged, delaying Bloodthirst to build more stacks.
18. Cast Bloodthirst to help maintain Enrage.
19. Cast Raging Blow to fill the rotation.
20. Cast Slam to fill the rotation when nothing else is available.

In simple terms, the Fury Warrior rotation revolves around building Rage and spending it on Rampage in order to trigger and maintain Enrage, with other attacks prioritized based on selected talents or tier-set bonuses. While not complex, the rotation is generally fast-paced while making use of several procs and cooldowns, which makes it deceptively engaging.

• When using the 4p Season 4 tier set, the Bloodthirst Crit Tracker WeakAura can help time Bloodthirst casts when they will have a 100% chance to crit and guarantee Cold Steel, Hot Blood, however due to rotational changes, it is much more likely that Bloodthirst will need to be used sooner in order to maintain Enrage.
• When using the 2p Season 3 tier set, prioritize consuming Frenzied Bloodthirst stacks on Bloodbath, delaying the use of Bloodthirst when the buff is active. Because the cooldown of Bloodthirst can no longer be reduced, this necessitates increased use of Raging Blow.

When using the legendary axe, Fyr'alath the Dream Render does not benefit from class buffs such as Avatar or Enrage, so it is best not to use it during major cooldowns. Using it either immediately on the pull after Charge or after the Avatar buff has worn off is acceptable, because it is more important to use the legendary when the three-second channel will not put you in danger of enemy mechanics.

Whether due to the target being below 20% (35% with Massacre talented) health or Sudden Death proc, Execute usage does not heavily change the priority listed above; it merely generates extra Rage in order to use Rampage that much sooner.

Because Charge is off the global cooldown, opening combat with Avatar and Recklessness followed immediately by Charge will lead to a net increase in Rage generation on the pull with no additional downtime, however, it is crucial to ensure that the target will not be moving substantially, or else you will easily find yourself moving to the boss's former location, and wasting precious buff time trying to reposition. As of Patch 10.2, Avatar no longer needs to be cast before Recklessness, and the two abilities can be macroed together in either order.

When talenting Reckless Abandon alongside the Season 3 set bonus, only Recklessness should be used before Charge on the pull, as the extra Rage generation will enable the use of Rampage immediately after. Odyn's Fury should then be used immediately after becoming Enraged, with Champion's Spear following it (if talented). Bloodbath and Rampage will then be rotated until the initial 4-second Avatar buff triggered by Odyn's Fury is falling off, at which point Avatar should be cast manually - this will prevent overwriting the current DoT effect while also maximizing Avatar uptime, and still fitting the automatic Odyn's Fury cast inside of Champion's Might or Thunderous Words buff windows.

Prioritize Whirlwind whenever the buff is not active, roughly every fifth global cooldown, in order to ensure single-target attacks continue to cleave. Otherwise, the rotation is very similar to single-target, with slightly more emphasis on layering cooldowns when hitting multiple targets instead of delaying them to fit into single-target buffs.

1. Cast Ravager on the pull or as soon as the target is well positioned and not expected to move.
2. Cast Recklessness.
3. Cast Avatar with Recklessness.
4. Cast Charge whenever out of range.
5. Cast Champion's Spear while Enraged.
6. Cast Avatar to trigger Odyn's Fury via Titan's Torment. When Titanic Rage is talented, delay until the initial Whirlwind buff stacks have fallen.
7. Cast Thunderous Roar while Enraged.
8. Cast Whirlwind when the buff is not active (unless using Titanic Rage to trigger it instead).
9. Cast Odyn's Fury while Enraged or with Titanic Rage.
10. Cast Rampage to spend Rage and maintain Enrage.
11. Cast Bloodthirst or Bloodbath when it has a 100% chance to crit through the Merciless Assault buff (generally 6 stacks with Recklessness).
12. Cast Bloodbath to consume the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff.
13. Cast Bloodbath to consume the Reckless Abandon buff and attempt to apply Cold Steel, Hot Blood to multiple targets.
14. Cast Crushing Blow to consume the Recklesss Abandon buff.
15. Cast Onslaught while Enraged or with Tenderize talented.
16. Cast Rampage to maintain Enrage and reapply the Reckless Abandon buffs.
17. Cast Execute whenever possible.
18. Cast Bloodthirst when the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff is not active to maximize its value with Bloodbath instead.
19. Cast Raging Blow while Enraged, delaying Bloodthirst to build more stacks.
20. Cast Bloodthirst to help maintain Enrage.
21. Cast Raging Blow to fill the rotation.
22. Cast Whirlwind to fill the rotation when nothing else is available.

Fury is a very cyclic and consistently damaging specialization, so there is not a lot of advantage in delaying Recklessness to align with other cooldowns as opposed to simply using it on cooldown as much as possible. In general, no cooldown should be delayed more than a few seconds for any other, outside of preparing for burst AoE (see the multitarget section above) or a timed damage phase, such as Heroism/Bloodlust or specific boss mechanics. This is particularly important when talenting Anger Management or gaining cooldown reduction from the Season 3 set bonus since it can throw off some abilities' natural alignment.

The moderate increase to critical strike strike from Recklessness is secondary to doubling Rage generation, which amounts to a much larger damage increase due to casting Rampage much more frequently. While the rotational priority does not change; the increased Rage generation also makes it much easier to overcap, so care should be taken when using high Rage generating abilities such as Onslaught or Ravager.

Avatar is a decent cooldown in its own right, but becomes extraordinarily more powerful in combination with the follow-on Tormented talents, triggering additional effects that synergize with other talent choices. It should almost always be used closely aligned with Recklessness.

Odyn's Fury is a powerful burst AoE ability, but it also does good work in single-target due to its extra talented buff, Dancing Blades. In single-target, it should be used on cooldown, though like other cooldowns, it should always be delayed to hit multiple targets whenever possible.

Ravager is used extensively with Anger Management builds, greatly increasing Rage generation and burst damage by way of Hurricane. Although its direct damage is relatively low, the very high amounts of Rage generated result in extremely frequent Rampage casts. It should always be used together with Recklessness.

Bladestorm has returned as a stronger and more compressed direct damage ability, making it the premier AoE cooldown, though Ravager is still preferred in single target due dealing damage passively.

The goal of the Fury rotation is a continual feedback loop of generating Rage, spending it on Rampage, and triggering Enrage, which increases Haste to allow more Rage to be generated, feeding back into the loop. Bloodthirst also helps this process, with a 30% chance to trigger Enrage, and it should be kept on cooldown to benefit from this chance as much as possible. All other special abilities generate Rage, making it important to fill global cooldowns in order to always be generating Rage.

Warriors have a great deal of active tools through Charge and Heroic Leap that allow for instant movement across large distances. Finding ways to maximize your uptime on a target through intelligent use of these is crucial, as downtime is extremely detrimental to the flow of Fury's rotation. The talents Double Time and Bounding Stride are particularly useful in any encounter that demands heavy movement.

Fury's defensive ability comes in the form of higher base stamina due to dual wielding two two-handed weapons and several defensive cooldowns in Enraged Regeneration, Spell Reflection, and Defensive Stance, and considerable self-healing through Bloodthirst, Enraged Regeneration, and Victory Rush, as well as various talents that improve those capabilities. The increased health and self-healing make Fury very tanky in sustained combat, although less able to deal with frequent bursts of high damage. In those cases, Enraged Regeneration is best used preemptively, with Bloodthirst cast as often as possible over its duration to benefit from its increased healing.

Warriors also have access to Rallying Cry, one of the few defensive group cooldowns in the game. It is typically used to help the group survive key encounter mechanics rather than as a personal cooldown. Keep in mind that it is on the global cooldown, so be ready to use it when needed.

Fury also brings Battle Shout, increasing all party and raid members Attack Power by 5%, which should be applied before combat begins.

For information about Mythic+ as a Fury Warrior and the rotation you need to use in this game mode, please refer to our Mythic+ page.

WeakAuras can have a tremendous effect on your performance, helping you track important buffs, debuffs, and cooldowns. Since this is a broad topic, we made a page dedicated to it.