Fury Warrior DPS Spell Summary — Shadowlands 9.2
On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as a Fury Warrior in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.
If you were looking for WoW Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Fury Warrior spells.
Spell Summary of Fury Warrior
If you are new to Fury, this is a great place to start to get an understanding of how the spec works. In this section, we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used for, and how they interact with each other. If you have prior experience with Fury, or are already comfortable with the spec in Shadowlands, it is recommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.
Unlocking Abilities
Note that this page simply lists all the different abilities, assuming you are at max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated Warrior Leveling page, which has detailed information on when you unlock all of these abilities.
Main Resource for Fury Warrior
Warriors use a unique resource called Rage, which works very similar to Hunter Focus and Rogue Energy, except Rage does not regenerate on its own. It always starts at zero and is built up during combat through auto attacks and certain abilty casts, with important damaging abilities consuming the resource. Outside of combat, Rage slowly depreciatates back down to zero.
Warrior Rage has a default maximum capacity of 100,
although this can be modified by unique talents. While the resource is only
generated in combat, there are certain abilities such as Charge
which will help jumpstart that flow of incoming Rage, while other talents and
abilities can increase your Rage generation further.
As a general rule, you should want to both avoid Rage starving or overcapping the resource, so that you do not find yourself in situations where you are either unable to cast important abilities on cooldown, or waste resource generation due to maximum capacity.
Rage is the Warrior resource, generated through autoattacks, special
abilities, and spent on the powerful attack Rampage, which also
triggers
Enrage. Maximizing rage generation through ability casts in
order to cast Rampage as frequently as possible, and therefore maximize Enrage
uptime, is the central goal of the rotation.
For more information on how to use these abilities together in your rotation, please read our rotation page.
Basic Abilities of a Fury Warrior
These are your innate skills that are available regardless of talents, which form the foundation of the specialization's gameplay.
Bloodthirst provides Rage, self-healing, and a 30% chance to
trigger
Enrage. Its cooldown is haste-locked, so you will always fit two
global cooldowns in between each cast, which sets the pace of the rotation.
Rampage is your Rage spender and highest damage attack, which
also guarantees
Enrage on use. Everything else in the rotation
builds up to it, and maximizing Rampage use is central to both dealing damage
and maintaining Enrage.
Raging Blow is a burst Rage generator with two charges. Due to the
longer cooldown, it is best used sparingly, keeping one charge on cooldown and
saving the other for periods of Rage starvation. The built-in chance to reset
its own cooldown makes the rotation more dynamic and less predictable.
Whirlwind is your main filler ability, typically used when
nothing else is available. It also applies a two-stack buff, which allows any
other single target ability to cleave. This allows Fury to deal passive
multitarget damage, without reducing single target output, at the cost of simply
ensuring the buff remains active.
Execute speeds up Rage generation and Rampage use when the
target is below 20% health. The combined effect of using Rampage more often,
increasing Enrage uptime, and dealing high damage on its own makes Fury Warriors
much more potent during the Execute phase.
Slam serves as an extra filler attack, but because it has a Rage
cost, Fury Warriors will virtually never use it. A handful of Anima Powers in
Torghast do buff it to the point of being usable, but that is currently the
only case it will ever be considered.
Shield Slam is a filler ability which requires wearing a Shield.
While it has no Rage cost, it makes a rather poor filler and should best be
avoided in the vast majority of cases.
Important Procs for a Fury Warrior
Enrage is Fury's central mechanic, guaranteed from casting
Rampage, and with a 30% chance on
Bloodthirst. Its
damage bonus is based on
Mastery: Unshackled Fury, making it an important
part of the specialization's overall damage output.
Whirlwind is a two-stack buff which causes all single
target abilities to also damage up to 4 additional targets in range for half
damage. Each cast of
Whirlwind refreshes the buff back to two
stacks, so it only needs to be used every third global cooldown in order to
ensure all of your attacks hit multiple targets.
Offensive Cooldowns of a Fury Warrior
Recklessness doubles Rage generated from all autoattacks, special
abilities, and talents. While it is not a large damage buff in of itself, it
allows
Rampage to be used much more frequently, increasing overall
burst damage as a result.
Defensive Cooldowns of a Fury Warrior
Enraged Regeneration is the primary defensive ability, reducing damage
taken and increasing the healing done by
Bloodthirstfor a short
time, making it very useful for dealing with high incoming damage.
Ignore Pain absorbs damage taken, albeit with a notable Rage cost
which prohibits using it too frequently. Still, it serves an important
purpose in high damage situations, as when used correctly in combination with
other defensive abilities, it can allow the Warrior to survive great bursts
of incoming damage.
Spell Reflection is a very powerful defensive ability which either
reduces spell damage taken, or reflects a spell outright, effectively
immuning the effect and dealing damage back to the target. Due to having no
cost and a low cooldown, it is incredibly effective and should be used as
frequently as possible.
Rallying Cry is a raid-wide cooldown which increases current and
maximum health for a short time, very useful for mitigating incoming raid-wide
damage, although it can also be used as a personal cooldown when the need
arises.
Shield Block blocks incoming attacks at the expense of requiring a
shield, which significantly reduces offensive output. Because only direct
Physical attacks can be blocked, however, it is rarely worth using outside of
some PvP situations.
Mobility Abilities of Fury Warrior
Charge is a combat initiator and mobility tool, which generates
Rage to help enable the rotation and roots the target to prevent escape.
Use it to start combat, stay on target, and close gaps whenever necessary.
Intervene fills a similar role as Charge, except targeting allies,
and intercepting attacks against them rather than generating Rage.
Heroic Leap is a targeted movement ability which sends the Warrior
through the air, landing in the selected space. A very useful ability for
getting into or out of trouble, it does not require a target, making it much
more flexible than Charge or Intervene. Keep in mind, however, that it is not a
teleport or blink spell, which means you can still take damage from passing
through enemy spell effects.
Additional Utility Spells of Fury Warrior
Hamstring is the primary snare, reducing the targets movement
speed. Because it has a Rage cost, it does come at the cost of damage,
although the benefits of keeping a target within reach typically outweigh the
drawbacks.
Piercing Howl is the AoE version of Hamstring, trading out the
Rage cost in favor of a cooldown.
Shattering Throw is mainly used to break immunities in PvP, but
has some niche PvE applications as well, particularly due to the bonus damage
against absorption shields, which are fairly common. The cast time does pause
the rotation though, so care should be taken to use it at the right time.
Taunt forces the target to focus their attacks on you. While that
is not something you normally want happening as a DPS player, it can be
beneficial in a variety of situations, even if it is just used to pull
enemies in from range.
Challenging Shout is an AoE taunt on a longer cooldown. While it
is not something which will be used regularly, it can sometimes be used to save
dungeon groups from wipes, although Fury Warriors have no strong tanking skills
or damage immunities.
Talented DPS Abilities of Fury Warrior
Impending Victory replaces
Victory Rush with a more reliable
heal that does not require killing a target first. As it competes with
Rampage for Rage and is on the same tier as
Double Time, it
is not very efficient for Fury, but can still be useful in high damage
situations.
Storm Bolt is a ranged stun, very useful for PvP or Mythic+,
although it does not see a whole lot of use outside of those situations.
Onslaught is an extra attack which deals moderate damage and
generates Rage, but can only be used while Enraged. It does not have a very
strong place in the rotation, but it synergizes very well with
Fresh Meat for respectable opening burst even when there is not
enough Rage to use
Rampage.
Dragon Roar is a short cooldown burst multitarget ability, which
also serves as a single target filler. While the base damage is decent, it
deals triple damage on critical strikes, which works very well alongside
Recklessness.
Bladestorm is the opposite of
Dragon Roar, dealing
burstier damage on a longer cooldown more suited for individual periods of
multitarget damage rather than sustained waves of adds. Like Dragon Roar, it
can also be used on single target, as it generates a good amount of Rage.
Siegebreaker is a short cooldown which increases the targets
damage taken. It can be cleaved with
Whirlwind, making it potent
on both single and multitarget.
For more information on the best combination of talents and how to use them, please read our talent page.
Changelog
- 21 Feb. 2022: Page reviewed and approved for Patch 9.2.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.5.
- 05 Jul. 2021: Removed a mention of Die by the Sword as Fury does not have it.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 23 Nov. 2020: Added Shield Slam, Shield Block, Taunt, and Challenging Shout.
- 19 Oct. 2020: Added Rallying Cry and Enraged Regeneration, removed reference to Die by the Sword.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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