Fury Warrior PvP Rotation and Playstyle (BfA / Patch 8.3)

The Fury Warrior has one role when in an Arena: do damage. Fury Warriors lack crowd control and the ability to peel for teammates. Players should focus on maximizing their damage as much as they can. Warriors lack mobility, that is why when you get to the enemy you should deal as much damage as you can to them. Warriors have the ability to single-handedly force cooldowns (trinkets and defensive spells) from enemy players. They have great sustained damage and very short burst cooldowns.

Have a plan for who you will be mainly using your crowd control on. Although Fury Warriors do lack crowd control, they still have Intimidating Shout and Storm Bolt. Stormbolt is great for setting up crowd control on an enemy healer. For example, you can use Stormbolt and your Mage can cast a Polymorph after that.

You should also use Battle Shout to increase the attack power of all of your teammates.

The opener refers to your team's opening crowd control chain and damage done as soon as you get out of the gates. The main goal in the opener is to force your enemies to use their cooldowns.

If the enemy healer uses their trinket in the opener, they are in trouble. In the opener, Fury Warriors should focus on sticking to an enemy and dealing large amounts of damage to the target. Also make sure that if you are swapping or attacking someone with more than 80% health and using the Breath of the Dying Major essence, you should use that first to get the cooldown reduction on it.

This is the rotation you should use on your target at the beginning of the game.

1. Use Charge to close the gap between you and the target.
2. Use Piercing Howl to keep the enemies slowed.
3. Use Siegebreaker off cooldown.
4. Use Reaping Flames if you are using this Major essence and the enemy is above 80% health.
5. Use Rampage if Enrage is not active.
6. Use Execute if you get a Sudden Death proc.
7. Use Bloodthirst to gain Enrage.
   • There is only a chance to gain Enrage after using Bloodthirst.
8. Use Raging Blow.
9. Use Raging Blow.
   • This will give you the Battle Trance buff as long as you used both Raging Blows on the same target.
10. Use Bloodthirst off cooldown.
    • With the Thirst for Battle PvP talent, this will also clear all of your snares.
11. Get crowd control on the enemy healer (you can use Intimidating Shout, Stormbolt, or have a teammate do this).
12. Use your burst rotation.

When you have the enemy healer in crowd control and you are trying to kill an enemy, you use your burst damage.

Try to be at 100 Rage before using your burst cooldowns. It is not necessary, but for maximum damage, it is recommended.

1. Use Charge to close the gap between you and the enemy.
2. Use Recklessness.
3. Use Reaping Flames if you are using this Major essence and the enemy is above 80% health.
4. Use Blood of the Enemy if the enemy team is stacked and you are using this Major Essence.
5. Use Rampage.
6. Use Siegebreaker.
7. Use Bladestorm.
8. Use Raging Blow.
9. Use Raging Blow.
   • This will give you the Battle Trance buff as long as you used both Raging Blows on the same target.
10. Use Execute if you get a Sudden Death proc.
11. Use Execute if your enemy is at low health.

While you are using your burst rotation, you want to always maintain Enrage with Rampage or Bloodthirst. Use Recklessness to drastically increase your damage output. Use Bladestorm to avoid incoming crowd control. After this, you want to make sure you are using Raging Blow and Siegebreaker as often as you can. Use Bloodthirst off cooldown. Use Execute if you get a Sudden Death proc or if an enemy is at low health. Also make sure that if you are swapping or attacking someone with more than 80% health and using the Breath of the Dying Major essence, you should use that first to get the cooldown reduction on it.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are not available.

1. Use Charge to close the gap between you and the target.
2. Use Piercing Howl to keep the enemies slowed.
3. Use Siegebreaker off cooldown.
4. Use Reaping Flames if you are using this Major essence and the enemy is above 80% health or below 20% health.
5. Use Rampage if Enrage is not active.
6. Use Execute if you get a Sudden Death proc.
7. Use Bloodthirst off cooldown to gain Enrage.
   • There is only a chance to gain Enrage after using Bloodthirst. This is why you want to use Bloodthirst as often as you can.
8. Use Raging Blow two times in a row on the same target to gain the Battle Trance buff. This is a PvP talent.
9. Use Bloodthirst off cooldown.
   • With the Thirst for Battle PvP talent, this will also clear all of your snares.
10. If the enemy team is stacked, use Whirlwind.
    • This helps with spread damage, but most importantly can generate a lot of Rage.
    • You will also gain the Whirlwind buff. This helps you hit multiple targets with any of your single target spells. You will normally want to use Execute or Raging Blow.

Enraged Regeneration is your main defensive ability. Use this when you are low on health and your healer is in crowd control. The Honor Talent Slaughterhouse works well with this ability. If you are being focused and you are attacking an enemy at low health, use this and start using Bloodthirst to quickly heal yourself.

Intimidating Shout is one of the strongest Warrior cooldowns that does not deal damage. This ability should be usually used on a healer to try to get a kill on an enemy. The other use for this is to peel for yourself or your teammates. This is a strong AoE fear that can easily help your team stabilize when under pressure.

Heroic Leap will mostly be used to run down enemies. However, there will be times where having to survive is more important than getting a kill. If you are being focused, you can use Heroic Leap to leap to your healer and away from the enemy team.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.