Fury Warrior DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Shadowlands 9.1

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 Easy Mode page which outlines a close-to-optimal rotation in simpler terms.

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

Covenant	Talents
Venthyr	Onslaught
Night Fae	Dragon Roar
Necrolord	Bladestorm
Kyrian	Siegebreaker
	Reckless Abandon

1. Cast Recklessness on cooldown, or whenever burst is needed. Note that Bloodthirst is replaced by Bloodbath and Raging Blow is replaced by Crushing Blow during the cooldown, though their use remains unchanged.
2. Cast Recklessness on cooldown, or whenever burst is needed.
3. Cast Siegebreaker during Recklessness or inbetween its cooldown.
4. Cast Rampage if Enrage is not active, or at >90 Rage.
5. Cast Condemn if available.
6. Cast Ancient Aftershock during the Recklessness buff.
7. Cast Spear of Bastion during the Enrage buff.
8. Cast Execute if available.
9. Cast Bladestorm during the Enrage buff.
10. Cast Bloodthirst if Enrage is not active.
11. Cast Raging Blow when two charges are off cooldown.
12. Cast Dragon Roar during Enrage.
13. Cast Onslaught during Enrage.
14. Cast Bloodthirst on cooldown.
15. Cast Raging Blow for Rage.
16. Cast Whirlwind as a filler.

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

When Condemn is taken as part of the Venthyr covenant, the Execute phase is also active between 100% and 80% of the target health.

Because Charge is off the global cooldown, opening combat with 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 substansially, or else you will easily find yourself moving to the bosses former location, and wasting precious buff time trying to reposition. An exception is made when talenting Reckless Abandon, as it generates enough Rage alongside Charge to open with Rampage anyway.

After Recklessness, the rotation proceeds as normal. Because the cooldown doubles 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 to cleave, and care should be taken to avoid ever overcapping Rage.

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. Open with Charge whenever possible
2. Whirlwind when the buff is not active
3. Bloodthirst or Rampage
4. Recklessness
5. Spear of Bastion
7. Bladestorm
8. Ancient Aftershock during the last seconds of First Strike
9. Rampage
10. Whirlwind
11. Raging Blow
12. Rampage
13. Whirlwind
14. Raging Blow

This priority will change slightly depending on whether you have enough Rage to open with Rampage, and whether you are taking extra time to place Spear of Bastion or Ancient Aftershock. The important part is ensuring the Whirlwind buff is maintained after every two single-target attacks to ensure abilities continue to cleave, and that a fresh Enrage is active for Bladestorm.

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, since it can throw off the abilities' natural alignment.

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.

Due to Dragon Roar now dealing reduced damage to secondary targets, Bladestorm is now the dedicated multitarget ability nearly any time there are several enemy targets. When only two or three targets are present for long periods of time, Meat Cleaver is surprisingly effective.

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.

Most legendary items are passive bonuses that do not need to be managed. However, a few can be optimized to improve performance slightly:

• When using Signet of Tormented Kings, ensure your cooldowns Recklessness and Bladestorm are desynced enough to not waste potential procs.
• When using Judgment of the Arbiter with a partner also wearing the effect, the AoE projectile will bounce between Judgment wearing players. This means proper positioning is key to ensure that the wave of damage actually hits the targets you are in combat with.

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

Rampage can be delayed slightly if Enrage is already active, but care should be taken to avoid wasting Rage due to overcapping. Normally this delay should be no more than one extra GCD.

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.

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.

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.

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.