Fury Warrior PvP Guide — 12.1

Season 2 brings with it many changes to Warrior, primarily for how Rend operates. Many passive or permanent uptime slows in the game have been adjusted down to a more baseline value, so 70% slows like Chains of Ice have been reduced to 50% or Curse of Exhaustion from 50% to 30%. This is a major buff to Warrior in general, as Hamstring has retained its power, which makes the playing field a lot more even now.

• Rend is now an Arms only ability, and costs 10 Rage to use.
• Storm of Blood applies Rend through Whirlwind and Thunder Clap if you are Mountain Thane.
• Whirlwind now generates 3 Rage.
• Carving Blades is a new talent sharing a position with Meat Cleaver, increasing the damage of Whirlwind when striking a single target.
• Rampaging Ruin now deals Area of Effect damage if you have Improved Whirlwind active.
• Hack and Slash now has a 75% chance to refund a charge of Raging Blow and increases the damage of the next one by 20%.
• Thunder Blast damage increased by 40%.
• Crashing Thunder damage increase reduced to 10% from 30%.
• Piercing Howl has been reduced to 50% slow in PvP.

Midnight is here and with it, a whole bunch of changes to Fury Warrior. Midnight has aimed to reduce the amount of button bloat across most classes in the game, and Fury Warrior is no different, but also hardly affected by it. At most, you will notice utility changes, but the core rotation remains pretty much the same, with the removal of Onslaught being the main prune.

Fundamentally, Fury Warrior remains the same, still having access to the same CC, utility, mobility and rotational buttons, with only a few button bloat removals like Thunderous Roar. Additionally, the hero specializations Slayer and Mountain Thane function almost the same, but have a new branch of talents that you will fill out as you level.

Important Note

Midnight also introduces Apex talents, with Fury Warrior getting Rampaging Berserker, a buff which improves Rampage and gives you a main stat buff with each usage.