Fury Warrior PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / Patch 9.2.5)

Because of the Fury Warrior 4-Piece and Fury Warrior 2-Piece bonuses, you will have a lot of uptime on Recklessness. The talent Reckless Abandon has gained a lot of value because of this, and is the new superior talent in the final row.

The nerf to Death Sentence does not matter for Fury Warrior that much, as Execute already has a cooldown of its own and you rarely get to pick this talent.

Level	Choices
15	✘ War Machine	✔ Sudden Death	? Fresh Meat
25	✔ Double Time	✔ Impending Victory	✔ Storm Bolt
30	✔ Massacre	✔ Frenzy	✘ Onslaught
35	✘ Furious Charge	? Bounding Stride	✔ Warpaint
40	✘ Seethe	✘ Frothing Berserker	✔ Cruelty
45	✘ Meat Cleaver	✘ Dragon Roar	✔ Bladestorm
50	✘ Anger Management	✔ Reckless Abandon	✘ Siegebreaker

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Sudden Death provides you the most pressure in this row.

Fresh Meat makes it easier to stay enraged and allows you a stronger opener; recommended for newer players.

War Machine does not benefit you unless enemies are dying.

Storm Bolt gives warrior a much-needed on-demand ranged stun, which is incredibly powerful both offensively and defensively. Storm Bolt is generally the answer to most situations, but depending on both your team composition and the enemy's, it can be swapped out for another option.

Double Time is seeing higher viability in conjunction with Warbringer. This talent is a great answer to enemies that have either more or more frequent mobility cooldowns than you do, or Mage that play with Blink.

Impending Victory help to further amplify Fury's healing potential, and with the buffs to this ability, it can heal quite a large amount. However, it cannot compare to the power of having an on-demand stun, which is far more flexible offensively and defensively, in addition to potentially being stronger defensively if used to shut down large amounts of damage, such as Combustion. It is recommended to pick up this talent if your team composition has an excess amount of stuns, and you are in need of additional survivability.

Massacre provides decent finishing power and amplifies your sustained damage significantly on targets above 80% if you are playing with Condemn because of the reduced cooldown.

Frenzy is the most beneficial talent you can pick, if you can stay on one target. You can still cleave with Whirlwind without losing your stacks. If you suspect that you will be switching targets a lot, then stick with Massacre.

Onslaught is currently not worth considering.

Warpaint gives you a 10% damage reduction while enraged. Because of Enduring Rage, you will be enraged almost permanently. This makes this talent very strong and should be used almost always.

Bounding Stride can be good to pick up against targets that are difficult to reach, or have mobility cooldowns you can match with the reduced cooldown. As a Fury Warrior, your uptime on targets is vital and generally outweighs having to sustain a bit more damage, if it means the difference between you doing drastically less damage or not.

Furious Charge is mostly a fun ability that you can use in battlegrounds for self-healing. Do not use this talent for rated PvP.

Cruelty is the best talent for overall pressure.

Frothing Berserker and Seethe should not be picked.

Bladestorm is efficient for its burst damage and versatility. The ability is multifunctional, being good offensively and defensively to block or break abilities such as Kidney Shot and Frost Nova.

Dragon Roar can be strong, but favours a Critical Strike build, and as a Fury Warrior this is not the stat you wish to build.

Meat Cleaver does not compete with the other choices in burst nor sustained damage.

Reckless Abandon has become the new superior choice because of the tier set in Patch 9.2. You will see a lot of extra uptime and damage output with this talent, but the Fury Warrior 4-Piece bonus will not proc the 50 Rage from this talent.

Siegebreaker and Anger Management are good options too, but generally do not compete with Reckless Abandon at present as they do not synergize nearly as well with the tier set.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. As Fury Warrior, your choices are limited as you will be running the mandatory PvP talent almost every match.

Enduring Rage should never be switched out. This talent is what makes Warpaint so strong and keeps your damage output high. Maximizing Enrage uptime is essential for Fury Warrior.

Slaughterhouse gives Fury Warrior its own healing reduction effect. It can be difficult to stack up the effect 8 times without the usage of cooldowns, but once stacked up it is very difficult for the enemy team to heal through your damage output. This ability counts as a Mortal Wounds effect, and because the game only uses the highest value, other effects in this category will overwrite it, such as Mortal Strike and Wound Poison from other classes.

Other healing reductions effects that fall out of this category do not, however, like Fel Fissure or Necrotic Wound.

Bloodrage lets you have higher uptime on enemies than most other melee specializations. This ability will give you a much easier time sticking to targets, with only a small negative effect tied to it.

Battle Trance provides you great sustained healing and extra Rage to work toward more Rampage attacks. This ability is currently bugged, and will not proc from Crushing Blow when Reckless Abandon is talented.

Warbringer is an all-out offensive choice, which pairs well with Double Time. The ability itself can hit rather hard, especially during stat boosters like Conqueror's Banner, so be sure to include Charge for your burst window if you choose this.

Disarm has a short cooldown and can completely ruin the damage of weapon-based classes like Frost DK or Subtlety Rogue. This ability can even be used offensively vs specializations that require weapons for their defensives, such as stopping an Arms Warrior from using Die by the Sword or a Death Knight from using Death Strike.

Death Sentence can be picked for increased uptime, but it can be difficult to find a good time and place to slot in this PvP talent. In most cases, Bloodrage will give you more uptime than this choice.