Fury Warrior DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents (Legion 7.2.5)

Table of Contents

• +Introduction
  • 1. Class Overview
  • 2. Patch 7.2.5 Changes
  • 3. Patch 7.2 Changes
  • 4. Strengths
  • 5. Weaknesses
  • 6. Viability in the Current Patch
  • 7. Contents
  • 8. ChangeLog
• +Easy Mode
  • 1. The Basics
  • 2. Talent Choice
  • 3. Stat Choice
  • 4. Basic Rotation
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Spell Summary
  • 1. Spell Summary
  • 2. Main Resource
  • 3. Basic Abilities
  • 4. Important Procs
  • 5. Offensive Cooldowns
  • 6. ChangeLog
• ×Builds and Talents
  • 1. Talent Choices
  • 2. Talent Cheat Sheet
    • 2.1. Open World, Levelling and Questing
    • 2.2. Dungeons and Raids
  • 3. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
  • 4. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents
  • 5. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents
  • 6. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents
  • 7. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents
  • 8. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents
  • 9. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents
  • 10. ChangeLog
• +Artifact Traits and Relics
  • 1. Artifact Progression
    • 1.1. Early Progression
    • 1.2. Patch 7.2 Post 35 Trait Path
  • 2. Artifact Ability
  • 3. Relic Choice
  • 4. ChangeLog
• +Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
  • 1. Single-Target Rotation
    • 1.1. Execute Usage
      • 1.1.1. With Tier 19 4-piece Bonus
      • 1.1.2. With Tier 20 4-piece Bonus
    • 1.2. Juggling Frothing Berserker during Execute
    • 1.3. Using Massacre with Soul of the Battlelord.
    • 1.4. Cooldown Rotation during Battle Cry
    • 1.5. Opening Rotation
  • 2. Multiple-Target Rotation
    • 2.1. Execute in Multiple-Target Situations
  • 3. Important Notes
    • 3.1. Tier 1 Talents
    • 3.2. Cooldowns
      • 3.2.1. Usage Order
      • 3.2.2. Battle Cry
      • 3.2.3. Bladestorm
      • 3.2.4. Odyn's Fury
  • 4. Mastering your Fury Warrior
    • 4.1. Rage Management
    • 4.2. Enrage
    • 4.3. Movement and Mobility
    • 4.4. Sustain and Defense
  • 5. Tier 19 Set Bonuses
    • 5.1. Tier 19 Trinkets
  • 6. Tier 20 Set Bonuses
    • 6.1. Tier 20 Trinket Optimization
  • 7. ChangeLog
• +Stat Priority
  • 1. Basics
    • 1.1. Getting a Better Understanding
    • 1.2. Statistics
    • 1.3. Breakpoints
  • 2. ChangeLog
• +Gems, Enchants, and Consumables
  • 1. Gems
  • 2. Enchants
  • 3. Consumables
  • 4. ChangeLog
• +Macros and Addons
  • 1. Macros
    • 1.1. Generic Macros for Warriors
      • 1.1.1. Bladestorm Cancelaura Macro
      • 1.1.2. Pummel Macro
      • 1.1.3. Heroic Leap Spam
    • 1.2. Specific Macros for Fury Warriors
      • 1.2.1. Bladestorm / Berserker Rage Macro
      • 1.2.2. Offensive Cooldown Macro
  • 2. Addons
    • 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
  • 3. ChangeLog
• +Gear, Legendaries, and Best in Slot
  • 1. Best in Slot List
    • 1.1. Extra Notes
    • 1.2. Trinkets
    • 1.3. Tier 19 & 20 Bonus Combinations
    • 1.4. Evaluating Upgrades with dynamic Item Levels
  • 2. Racial Bonuses
  • 3. Legendary Items
    • 3.1. 7.1.5 Legendaries
    • 3.2. 7.2 Legendaries
    • 3.3. 7.2.5 Legendaries
    • 3.4. Recommended Choices
  • 4. Loot Competition
  • 5. ChangeLog

General Information

On this page, we present the viable talent choices for Fury Warriors in World of Warcraft Legion 7.2.5. We detail what each of the talents do and in which situations they should be taken.

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

About Our Author and Reviewer

This guide has been written by Wordup, a frequent theorycrafter involved in a number of class communities. He is also an experienced player who has been in the world top 100 since the days of Sunwell, currently raiding in Echoes. You can also follow him on Twitter.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Archimtiros, one of the best DPS Warriors in the world, who raids in Infinity. You can follow him on Twitter.

1. Talent Choices

Level	Choices
15	✔ War Machine	✔ Endless Rage	✘ Fresh Meat
30	? Shockwave	? Storm Bolt	✔ Double Time
45	✔ Wrecking Ball	✘ Outburst	✔ Avatar
60	? Furious Charge	? Bounding Stride	✔ Warpaint
75	? Massacre	✔ Frothing Berserker	✘ Carnage
90	✘ Bloodbath	? Frenzy	✔ Inner Rage
100	✘ Bladestorm	✔ Reckless Abandon	✘ Dragon Roar

Talents can be freely changed when out of combat and in a rested XP area (such as an inn or a capital city). Moreover, Tome of the Tranquil Mind and Codex of the Tranquil Mind can be used to temporarily allow players to change talents anywhere, as long as they are out of combat.

2. Talent Cheat Sheet

Whilst tailoring your selections based on the situation and desired content is recommended with the new talents, the following builds are a great starting point and will generally cover most aspects of gameplay well.

2.1. Open World, Levelling and Questing

This provides the best increase to open world situations, and can be customised further for extra burst or on-demand AoE if you feel that is needed.

• Level 15: War Machine/ Endless Rage
• Level 30: Double Time
• Level 45: Wrecking Ball
• Level 60: Furious Charge
• Level 75: Frothing Berserker/ Carnage
• level 90: Inner Rage
• Level 100: Reckless Abandon/ Bladestorm

2.2. Dungeons and Raids

This will provide you with the ideal choices to perform in extended encounters that are present in Dungeons and Raids.

• Level 15: Endless Rage/ War Machine
• Level 30: Double Time
• Level 45: Avatar
• Level 60: Warpaint/ Bounding Stride
• Level 75: Frothing Berserker
• Level 90: Inner Rage
• Level 100: Reckless Abandon

3. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents

✔ War Machine

✔ Endless Rage

✘ Fresh Meat

Tier 1 talents provide different situational enhancements.

• War Machine causes killing blows to grant 30% increased Haste and movement speed for 15 seconds.
• Endless Rage causes all Rage generated by auto attacks to be increased by 30%.
• Fresh Meat grants Bloodthirst an additional 60% critical strike chance against targets above 80% health.

Endless Rage allows for higher rage generation than and is the best, most consistent choice on average. War Machine is the best choice by far however if there are extra targets dying frequently enough to maintain the effect semi-consistently. It is important to note that it does not require the killing blow, only having dealt damage to the target within a second of it dying.

Fresh Meat is uncompetitive due to the small window and low impact effect.

4. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents

? Shockwave

? Storm Bolt

✔ Double Time

Tier 2 talents provide additional control and mobility options.

• Shockwave is an active ability with a 40-second cooldown. It is a frontal cone attack that deals low Physical damage to enemies within 10 yards, and stuns them for 3 seconds. Its cooldown is reduced by 20 seconds if it strikes at least 3 targets.
• Storm Bolt is an active ability with a 20-yard range and a 30-second cooldown. It deals low Physical damage to the target, stunning them for 4 seconds.
• Double Time increases the maximum charges of Charge by 1, and reduces its cooldown and recharge time by 3 seconds (down to 17 seconds.)

Double Time is the go to choice in this tier when there is no extra crowd control needed, as it is a significant increase to mobility.

Shockwave is only used in specific situations that require extra AoE stuns and is a good choice in dungeons.

Storm Bolt is only used for specific situations that require extra single-target stuns, but is generally a poor choice.

5. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents

✔ Wrecking Ball

✘ Outburst

✔ Avatar

Tier 3 talents provide situational offensive tools.

• Wrecking Ball causes your attacks to have a chance to increase the damage of your next Whirlwind to deal 250% increased damage.
• Outburst causes Berserker Rage to trigger Enrage when activated and reduces the cooldown by 15 seconds.
• Avatar is an active ability with a 90-second cooldown. You deal 20% increased damage for Avatar's 20-second duration, and activating Avatar removes all roots and snares.

Avatar is the go to choice for single target or burst AoE fights that can make use of the increased damage effect's duration.

Wrecking Ball is a good choice when constantly using Whirlwind against multiple targets, particularly in dungeons.

Outburst is currently too weak to be considered.

6. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents

? Furious Charge

? Bounding Stride

✔ Warpaint

Tier 4 talents provide additional defensive and mobility effects.

• Furious Charge causes Charge to increase the healing provided by your next Bloodthirst cast by 300%.
• Bounding Stride passively reduces the cooldown of Heroic Leap by 15 seconds, and also causes Heroic Leap to grant you a 70% movement speed increase for 3 seconds.
• Warpaint reduces the damage taken increase from Enrage to 15% down from 20%.

Warpaint is the go to pick in raiding and group content as it provides damage reduction by lessening the negative effects of Enrage.

Bounding Stride provides a good increase to mobility and is a great choice in raid encounters that require that but have no targets to Charge to.

Furious Charge is a poor choice in raids, but a great choice in open world content for sustaining health.

7. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents

? Massacre

✔ Frothing Berserker

✘ Carnage

Tier 5 talents provide situational damage increases related to Rage.

• Massacre causes Execute critical strikes to reduce the Rage cost of your next Rampage by 100%.
• Frothing Berserker causes you to deal 15% increased damage and gain 30% increased movement speed for 6 seconds when you reach 100 Rage.
• Carnage reduces the Rage cost of Rampage to 70, from 85.

Frothing Berserker synergizes extremely well with the level 100 talent Reckless Abandon and the Nighthold trinket Convergence of Fates, making it a great choice for single target encounters that do not benefit from significant Execute phases.

Massacre is only powerful during in single target fights with extended Execute phases, increasing the uptime of your Enrage effect during these periods, so generally is not used.

Carnage is a simpler choice for multiple targets, but is weaker comparative to the alternatives. It allows for more frequent uses of Rampage, increasing the overall uptime of Enrage and enhancing your use of Meat Cleaver. This only sees relevant use in Open World content currently.

8. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents

✘ Bloodbath

? Frenzy

✔ Inner Rage

Tier 6 talents grant situational offensive enhancements.

• Bloodbath grants an additional active ability, causing all melee abilities and attacks to deal an additional 40% Bleed damage over 6 seconds, lasting 8 seconds. This has a 30-second cooldown.
• Frenzy causes Furious Slash to increase your haste by 4% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
• Inner Rage removes the Enrage requirement from Raging Blow, and increases its damage by 100%, but it now has a 4.5-second cooldown.

Inner Rage is the go to talent, allowing for consistent and more powerful Raging Blow uses by removing the Enrage requirement and intensifying the damage per cast significantly.

Bloodbath is powerful on encounters with frequent extended multi-target periods, if targets die too quickly and the full 14 seconds of the effect is lost, it becomes much weaker.

Frenzy is less competitive with Tier 20 bonuses than Inner Rage, but is still usable. This due to the amount of Global cooldowns required on weak Furious Slash casts to maintain the effect.

9. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents

✘ Bladestorm

✔ Reckless Abandon

✘ Dragon Roar

Tier 7 talents provide significant situational damage increases.

• Bladestorm grants an additional active ability that deals massive Physical damage to all targets within 8 yards. While active you cannot use other offensive abilities, but are immune to all crowd control abilities, can continue to avoid attacks and cast defensive abilities. This has a 1.5-minute cooldown.
• Reckless Abandon causes Battle Cry to generate 100 Rage when activated, and increases its duration by 2 seconds.
• Dragon Roar grants an additional active ability that deals moderate Physical damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and increases damage dealt by 16% for 6 seconds. This damage ignores all armor, always critically strikes, and has a 25-second cooldown.

Reckless Abandon is the best choice for Fury due to how strong Battle Cry is, synergizing extremely well with Frothing Berserker allowing for a guaranteed activation when used. Works best in almost all situations.

Bladestorm is very powerful in predictable periods of burst AoE, but only if they are more frequent than Odyn's Fury allows, which makes it far too specific to really be considered.

Dragon Roar still adds strong burst to the toolkit, but is now outclassed by the alternative Reckless Abandon in terms of power when coupled with other talents available.

10. ChangeLog

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• 13 Jun. 2017: Updated talent changes, but no significant alterations to selections in Patch 7.2.5.
• 27 Mar. 2017: No changes needed for Patch 7.2.
• 10 Jan. 2017: Updated for 7.1.5 talent changes.
• 25 Oct. 2016: Updated description of Warpaint. It now reduces the damage taken increase from Enrage to 15%.
• 29 Aug. 2016: Updated for Legion's launch.
• 19 Jul. 2016: Updated for the Legion pre-patch.