Fury Warrior DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within (11.1.7)

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 you have not already, please read the Spell Summary page. Knowing how each spell/ability works in detail will greatly increase your understanding of the topics discussed on this page.

The Fury 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! Note that the same toggles are used for both the single and multitarget rotations.

3.

Fury Warrior Rotation

Single-Target Rotation Notes on Opening and Execute Multi-Target Rotation

2.1.

Single Target Ability Priority List for Fury Warriors

Recommended	Other Options
Slayer	Mountain Thane
Thunderous Roar	Champion's Spear
Bladestorm	Ravager
Anger Management	Reckless Abandon
Odyn's Fury	Onslaught

1. Thunder Blast to spend any stacks immediately before using Avatar
2. Recklessness on cooldown or whenever burst damage is needed.
3. Avatar simultaneously with Recklessness
4. Ravager
5. Thunder Blast while Enraged
6. Champion's Spear while Enraged
7. Thunderous Roar while Enraged
8. Bladestorm while Enraged
9. Avatar while Enraged or with Titanic Rage
10. Execute with 2 stacks of Sudden Death or less than 3 stacks of Imminent Demise
11. Onslaught
12. Rampage if Enrage is not active
13. Crushing Blow during Recklessness
14. Execute with 3 stacks of Marked for Execution
15. Bloodbath during Recklessness
16. Raging Blow with Brutal Finish active and less than 5 stacks of Slaughtering Strikes
17. Rampage with more than 100 Rage
18. Bloodthirst with Vicious Contempt or 4+ stacks of Bloodcraze active
19. Raging Blow
20. Bloodthirst
21. Execute
22. Thunder Clap
23. Whirlwind with Improved Whirlwind talented
24. Slam

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.

• Slayer will follow the normal rotation, working in more frequent casts of Execute and cooldown reduction for Bladestorm. Despite this focus on Execute however, the build cares more about Sudden Death and Marked for Execution than the actual execute phase.
• Mountain Thane replaces Slam and Whirlwind with the much more powerful Thunder Clap, and its higher priority Thunder Blast proc. While similar to normal Fury gameplay, the rotation can become very busy, particularly during cooldowns, when Rage is abundant and multiple procs overlap. The value of Execute is also greatly diminished, serving as more of a backup rage generator than a focus of the rotation.

2.2.

Notes on Opening and Execute

2.3.

Opening as a Fury Warrior

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 substantially, or else you will easily find yourself moving to the boss's former location, and wasting precious buff time trying to reposition.

Although Berserker's Torment causes Recklessness and Avatar to activate one another, using Recklessness first will result in more overall Rage generation. Therefore, Recklessness should always be used before Avatar in order to cast Rampage immediately on the pull, though their order throughout the rest of the encounter does not matter.

2.4.

Fury Warrior Execute

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. This is true even as Slayer, as its bonuses are tied to Sudden Death and Marked for Execution, rather than the actual Execute phase.

2.5.

Multi-Target Ability Priority List for Fury Warriors

Multitarget rotations are overall very similar to single target ones, with the added step of prioritizing Thunder Clap (Thane) or Whirlwind (Slayer) to apply their buff and enable single-target attacks to cleave.

Recommended	Other Options
Mountain Thane	Slayer
Thunderous Roar	Champion's Spear
Ravager	Bladestorm
Anger Management	Reckless Abandon
Odyn's Fury	Onslaught

1. Thunder Blast to spend stacks immediately before using Avatar
2. Recklessness
3. Avatar simultaneously with Recklessness
4. Avatar while Enraged or with Titanic Rage talented
5. Rampage if Enrage is not active
6. Thunder Blast while Enraged
7. Thunder Clap if the Meat Cleaver buff is not active
8. Thunderous Roar while Enraged
9. Ravager
10. Champion's Spear while Enraged
11. Odyn's Fury while Enraged or with Titanic Rage talented
12. Whirlwind if the Meat Cleaver buff is not active
13. Execute to apply or refresh Ashen Juggernaut with less than 2s remaining
14. Bladestorm while Enraged
15. Rampage
16. Bloodbath with Vicious Contempt or 4+ stacks of Bloodcraze active
17. Crushing Blow during Recklessness
18. Onslaught
19. Bloodbath during Recklessness
20. Rampage
21. Execute
22. Bloodthirst
23. Thunder Clap as a filler
24. Raging Blow
25. Execute with Sudden Death
26. Bloodthirst
27. Whirlwind as a filler

New in Patch 11.1.7 is the Combat Assistant, comprised of two options meant to help players with combat rotations and gameplay.

The first is Assisted Highlight, which recommends the next rotational ability that players should use, in order to help them learn how to better play their specialization. While not a perfectly min-maxed rotation, it is perfectly servicable, losing an average of around 5% compared to manual ones. However, it does not attempt to recommend offensive cooldowns, defensives, utility abilities, or other off-GCD abilities such as Charge, so players must be mindful to use these on their own.

The second option is the Single-Button Assistant, which is a new button placed on the action bar which automatically cycles through each ability in the rotation when pressed. Using the same rotation as the Assisted Highlight, it is serviceable, though an additional 25% penalty is placed on the global cooldown to keep this from being an easily competitive option, resulting in a roughly ~20-25% loss in performance. Therefore, it is only recommended for brand new players, players in trivial content, or those who are otherwise unable to keep up with regular gameplay.

In both cases, using cooldowns such as Recklessness and Avatar can be as easy as macroing them to the Single-Button Assistant or a common ability like Colossus Smash, though players may also opt to continue using them manually, in the same manner as prescribed above.

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 Slayer hero talent, Unrelenting Onslaught.

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 Torment 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 provides a decent single target buff, Dancing Blades. It will most often be used in multitarget, jumpstarting the rotation by applying Enrage and the Whirlwind buff when Titanic Rage is talented.

Bladestorm and Ravager are both strong AoE cooldowns, which generate a high amount of Rage and even contribute meaningful single target damage through Unhinged. The choice between them is largely dictated by Hero Talent choice, with Slayer requiring Bladestorm, and Mountain Thane favoring Ravager for more potential Thunder Blast procs.

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.