Fury Warrior PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / Patch 9.0.2)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Fury Warrior and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Fury Warrior PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Fury Warriors
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15 |
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25 |
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30 |
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35 |
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40 |
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45 |
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50 |
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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.
Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
Sudden Death provides you the most pressure in this row.
Fresh Meat
is not needed as you will keep enrage up through
Enduring Rage and
War Machine
does not benefit you unless enemies are dying.
Tier 2 (Level 25) Talents
Storm Bolt gives warrior a much needed on-demand ranged stun, which
is incredibly powerful both offensively and defensively.
Storm Bolt is a big win
condition for the Warrior's team offensively, and is ideal for stopping enemy
attempts to kill you or your teammates. This talent is mandatory for competitive PvP.
Double Time is a very niche talent, which should only be used vs casters that
are very difficult to catch up to in 2v2. A good example is Affliction Warlock with the
permanent slow Legendary, where it can be more beneficial to play with extra mobility,
should you lack spells like
Blessing of Freedom on your team.
Impending Victory provides decent self-healing for Fury Warrior, but cannot
compare to the power of having an on-demand stun. When used well,
Storm Bolt can prevent more damage than
Impending Victory can heal back,
and also has its offensive value.
Tier 3 (Level 30) Talents
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.
Onslaught is a good option as well, giving you good sustained damage. I
recommend picking up this talent if you are a non-Venthyr Fury Warrior.
Frenzy has too big of a ramp up and provides you no benefit if you swap target,
which you will be doing often as Fury Warrior.
Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents
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 is a niche talent, which you can consider picking up against targets that can easily
kite you, such as Affliction Warlock.
Furious Charge is mostly a fun ability that you can use in battlegrounds for self-healing. Do not use
this talent for rated PvP.
Tier 5 (Level 40) Talents
Cruelty is the best talent for overall pressure.
Frothing Berserker and
Seethe should not be picked.
Tier 6 (Level 45) Talents
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.
The ability also works great with effects such as
Unhinged.
Dragon Roar is powerful with its low cooldown and x3 critical damage
modifier. Generally, this talent falls short because critical strike is not a
desired stat in PvP. If you are, however, running the
Reckless Defense
Legendary (see our page on Fury
Warrior PvP Covenants and Legendaries for more details), critical strike
becomes a lot more attractive. Picking this talent, will make you lose out on
the CC-immunity provided by
Bladestorm, and you should therefore only
pick up
Dragon Roar if you are not facing compositions where CC is their
win condition.
Meat Cleaver does not compete with the other choices in burst nor sustained damage.
Tier 7 (Level 50) Talents
Siegebreaker gives you the most sustained damage and amplifies your burst damage, very similar to
Colossus Smash from an Arms Warrior. This ability can be spread with
Whirlwind, and lines up
both
Dragon Roar and
Bladestorm.
The amplification provided by Siegebreaker, is enough to outweigh
Anger Management in sustained
damage and
Reckless Abandon in burst damage.
PvP Talents for Fury Warriors
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.
Mandatory PvP Talents
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.
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.
Situational PvP Talents
Battle Trance is a near mandatory talent. Your primary goal as Fury Warrior is to be ahead on
pressure, and more rage and sustained healing helps you with that. However, you may find yourself in situations
where you need to trade in this ability for more defensive options.
Master and Commander is the other near mandatory talent. This PvP talent is very strong when
combined with
Inspiring Presence and
Phial of Serenity. It is a great defensive PvP talent and
the decreased cooldown makes it come up and available before other classes' offensive cooldowns.
Disarm has a short cooldown and can completely ruin the damage of weapon based classes
like Retribution Paladins 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
Overwatch this is a new talent added in Shadowlands, allowing you to apply
Spell Reflection
to an ally with
Intervene. Not so useful vs consistent damaging coooldowns such as
Combustion,
but very strong against magic CC effects that often go onto your healer like
Polymorph or
Cyclone.
Changelog
- 25 Jan. 2021: Rewritten by Karanze for Shadowlands season 1.
- 05 Dec. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tier 5 Regular Talent.
- 22 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 1, 3, 5 and 7 Regular talents.
- Updated PvP talents.
- 17 Feb. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 27 Jan. 2020: Page added.
This guide has been written by Karanze, an experienced Gladiator Warrior player and Stormforged/trusted at the popular Warrior class discord Skyhold. You can watch his stream on Twitch.
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