Fury Warrior DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities (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
• +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
  • 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
• +Artifact Traits and Relics
  • 1. Artifact Changes in 8.0
• ×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
    • 3.2. Tier 1 Talents Rage Generation
    • 3.3. Tier 5 Talents Managing Rage with Rampage
    • 3.4. Enrage
    • 3.5. Movement and Mobility
    • 3.6. Sustain and Defense
    • 3.7. Group Buffs
  • 4. Tier 21 Set Bonuses for Fury Warrior
• +Common and Worst Mistakes
  • 1. Downtime
  • 2. Overcapping Rage
  • 3. Not Knowing How To Sim Yourself
  • 4. Analyzing Your Own Mistakes
• +Stat Priority
  • 1. The Basics of Stats for Fury Warrior
    • 1.1. Getting a Better Understanding
    • 1.2. Statistics
    • 1.3. Breakpoints
• +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, Legendaries, 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. Racial Bonuses for Fury Warrior
  • 3. Legendary Items for Fury Warrior
    • 3.1. Recommended Legendaries
  • 4. Loot Competition for Fury Warrior
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Simulations
  • 1. Disclaimer Page
  • 2. Fury Warrior Talent Comparisons
  • 3. Fury Warrior Legendary Comparisons
  • 4. Fury Warrior Racial Bonus Simulations
  • 5. Fury Warrior Stat Plots
  • 6. ChangeLog

General Information

On this page, we list your Fury Warrior core abilities and how they should be used together (rotation) in World of Warcraft BfA 8.0.1. We also explain when to use your various cooldowns. Then, we go deeper and present all the subtleties that you will need to know if you want to excel at playing a Fury Warrior.

The other pages of our Fury Warrior guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

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. Single-Target Rotation for Fury Warriors

The Fury rotation is a conditional priority list, which can change depending on talent choice. Use the checkboxes below to make the appropriate customizations.

• Furious Slash
• Dragon Roar
• Bladestorm
• Siegebreaker

1. Cast Charge if out of range of your target.
2. Cast Furious Slash if the buff has less than 3 stacks or 2 seconds remaining.
3. Cast Recklessness on cooldown, or whenever burst is needed.
4. Cast Siegebreaker during Recklessness or inbetween Recklessness's cooldown.
5. Cast Rampage if Enrage is not active, or at >95 Rage.
6. Cast Execute during Enrage.
7. Cast Bloodthirst if Enrage is not active.
8. Cast Raging Blow when at two charges.
9. Cast Bloodthirst on cooldown.
10. Cast Dragon Roar during Enrage.
11. Cast Bladestorm during Enrage.
12. Cast Raging Blow for Rage.
13. Cast Furious Slash as a filler.
14. Cast Whirlwind as a filler.

1.1. Execute Usage

Whether due to the target being below 20% (35% with Massacre talented) health or Sudden Death proc, Execute usage does not change.

1.2. Opening Rotation/During Recklessness

Due to Recklessness doubling Rage generation, Rampage will be cast much more frequently, potentially as often as every other global cooldown. For this reason, Rampage should not be delayed unless reapplying the Whirlwind buff, and care should be taken to avoid overcapping Rage.

A combat potion should always be used just before initiating raid combat.

2. Multiple-Target Rotation for Fury Warriors

Prioritize Whirlwind whenever the buff is not active, roughly every third global cooldown, in order to ensure single target single target attacks continue to cleave. Otherwise, continue to follow the normal rotation detailed above.

For maximum burst:

1. Cast Whirlwind for two stacks of its buff.
2. Cast Recklessness if able.
3. Cast Siegebreaker to debuff multiple targets.
4. Cast Rampage for Enrage.
5. Cast Bladestorm or Dragon Roar as appropriate.
6. Cast Whirlwind to refresh its buff.
7. Continue cleaving the single-target rotation.

3. Mastering your Fury Warrior

3.1. Aligning Cooldowns

Recklessness doesn't directly increase damage, so there's little advantage in aligning it with other talented cooldown abilities, although most will line up naturally regardless. 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, since it can throw off the abilities natural alignment.

3.1.1. Recklessness

The increased critical strike of Recklessness is relatively minor, while doubling Rage generation amounts to a larger damage increase, due to casting Rampage much more frequently. While the rotational priority does not change, the increased Rage generation makes it much easier to overcap, so care should be taken when using high Rage abilities such as Raging Blow.

3.1.2. Bladestorm vs Dragon Roar

While both are very competitive on signle target, the decision between Bladestorm and Dragon Roar on multitarget is dependent on frequency. Both deal high burst AoE damage, but Bladestorm's is more concentrated on a longer cooldown, making it ideal for large groups of enemies on minute long intervals, while Dragon Roar is better suited for more frequent spawns.

3.1.3. Siegebreaker

Maximizing Siegebreaker is dependent on getting as many Rampage casts inside the damage debuff as possible, such as pooling enough Rage to cast Rampage immediately after Siegebreaker.

3.2. Tier 1 Talents Rage Generation

On average, one target needs to die every 10 seconds for War Machine to keep up with Endless Rage in sustained combat. For this reason, it tends not to be practical in most raid encounters, and is better reserved for fast paced dungeons and open world content.

3.3. Tier 5 Talents Managing Rage with Rampage

With Carnage and Massacre talented, Rampage can be delayed slightly if Enrage is already active, but care should be taken to avoid wasting Rage due to overcapping.

3.4. Enrage

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 generating, 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.

3.5. Movement and Mobility

Warriors have a great deal of active tools through Charge and Heroic Leap that allow for instant movement across large distances. Finding ways to maximise 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 which demands heavy movement.

3.6. Sustain and Defense

Fury's defensive ability comes in the form of higher base stamina due to dualwiedling two two-handed weapons, and considerable self-healing through Bloodthirst, Enraged Regeneration, and Victory Rush, as well as various talents which improve those abilities. 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 the 8 second 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.

3.7. Group Buffs

Fury also brings Battle Shout, increasing all party and raid members Attack Power by 10%, which should be applied before combat begins.

4. Tier 21 Set Bonuses for Fury Warrior

Both bonuses passively increase the damage output of Rampage, and do not require tracking or management of any kind. Simply continue to prioritze Rampage damage as usual.

• 2-piece: Rampage causes the target to bleed for an additional 18% of the damage dealt over 4 seconds.
• 4-piece: Rampage deals an extra 15% damage.