Welcome to the Fury Warrior Raid guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!
Overview
Hero Talents
- Slayer is significantly stronger on single target. While Mountain Thane is competitive in AoE, the difference in single-target damage is big enough that you rarely play Mountain Thane in raid. Therefore this guide is mainly on Slayer Fury Warrior.
- Slayer's Dominance
- Your attacks have a chance to trigger Slayer's Strike which does damage and applies Marked for Execution.
- Unrelenting Onslaught
- Consuming Marked for Execution reduces the cooldown of Bladestorm.
- You can use Storm Bolt while channeling Bladestorm because of this talent, and since Storm Bolt does some damage it is a DPS increase.
- Overwhelming Blades
- Consuming Marked for Execution, getting a Reap the Storm proc or using Bladestorm applies Overwhelmed.
- Imminent Demise
- Increases the amount of Sudden Death you get. This Sudden Death that procs from Imminent Demise does not need you to have the talent Sudden Death selected.
- Normally as a Fury Warrior Bladestorm strikes 5 times, and so an increase to 8 strikes is a very significant increase.
- Opportunist
- Raging Blow and the empowered version Crushing Blow are your most frequently used abilities. With Improved Raging Blow and Wrath and Fury talented you have a 35% chance for Raging Blow to reset its cooldown, and do significantly more damage.
- Reap the Storm
- Greatly increases the value of Bloodthirst in AoE situations. Great synergy with Imminent Demise paired with Unhinged, quickly getting up to 4 Bloodthirst casts during your cooldowns that can proc Reap the Storm.
- Lightning Strikes
- Your Lightning Strikes deal a significant part of your damage, and have a chance to proc Burst of Power.
- Burst of Power
- A low chance on Lightning Strikes to get a significant Bloodthirst buff, and temporarily remove the cooldown of the ability.
- Crashing Thunder
- Thunder Clap is with this trait a significantly stronger way to apply Improved Whirlwind and enable cleave, compared to Whirlwind.
- With Thunder Clap being so strong, you barely lose single-target damage while cleaving, which is something Slayer struggles with in comparison to Mountain Thane.
- Thunder Blast
- Transforms your Thunder Clap into Thunder Blast, dealing Stormstrike damage that ignores armor.
- Has a chance to proc from Bloodthirst.
- Avatar of the Storm
- A reliable way to get Thunder Blast.
Talents
Gameplay Altering Talents
Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.
Spec Tree
- Reckless Abandon
- The empowered version of the abilities are called Bloodbath and Crushing Blow.
- Bladestorm
- When paired with Unhinged it is a strong cooldown for both single-target and AoE. These automatic Bloodthirst from Unhinged also have a great interaction with Slayer hero talent Reap the Storm to further buff your burst AoE.
- Ashen Juggernaut
- A significant damage increase in the Execute Phase.
- If a boss has forced downtime in the Execute Phase, then you should finish off with an Execute when the boss leaves and open with an Execute when it comes back if it is possible to keep it up.
- Bloodcraze
- Stacking critical strike chance for Bloodthirst that has great synergy with Cold Steel, Hot Blood.
Class Tree
- Champion's Spear
- With both Champion's Might and Piercing Challenge.
- Same length cooldown as Avatar, being used together and amplifying each other.
- Avatar
- Your primary big DPS cooldown to plan around.
Talent Adjustments
Listing all the changes within the Class and Spec tree compared to the default build.
Spec Tree
- Added
- Improved Whirlwind
- Meat Cleaver
- Bloodborne
- Deft Experience
- Odyn's Fury
- Titanic Rage
- Powerful Enrage
- Removed
- 2x Swift Strikes
- 2x Vicious Contempt
- Ashen Juggernaut
- Sudden Death
- Frenzied Enrage
Class Tree
Spec Tree
- Added
- Thunderous Roar
- Thunderous Words
- Titan's Torment
- Cruel Strikes
- Thunderous Roar
- Removed
- Champion's Spear
- Champion's Might
- Piercing Challenge
- Berserker's Torment
- Champion's Spear
Rotation
Tier Set
- Season 4 (2pc):Bloodthirst increases the damage of your next Rampage by 10%.
- Season 3 (2pc): When Raging Blow resets its own cooldown, the damage of your next Bloodthirst is increased by 10%, stacking up to 2 times.
Single-Target
Opener Rotation
- Your goal in the opener is to quickly get Enrage and use your cooldowns.
Priority List
This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.
- Use Rampage when you do not have Enrage active or it is about to run out within a Global Cooldown.
- Use Execute if you have any of the following:
- 3 stacks of Marked for Execution.
- Ashen Juggernaut is about to fall off.
- 2x Sudden Death is active, or Sudden Death is about to fall off.
- Use Bloodbath if it has more than 85% chance to critical strike.
- Use Crushing Blow on cooldown.
- Use Bloodbath on cooldown if the target is below 35%.
- Use Rampage when 115+ rage or Recklessness is active.
- Use Bloodbath on cooldown if the target is above 35%.
- Use Execute on cooldown.
- Use Raging Blow on cooldown.
- Use Rampage.
- Use Bloodthirst on cooldown.
- Use Slam.
Multi Target
Opener Rotation
- Your goal in the opener is to quickly get Enrage and use your cooldowns.
- Avatar with Titanic Rage triggers Enrage.
- Titan's Torment gives you the first Whirlwind. Reapply Whirlwind with Odyn's Fury when needed.
Priority List for Multi Target
This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.
- Use Odyn's Fury or Whirlwind if needed to apply Whirlwind.
- Use Rampage when you do not have Enrage active or it is about to run out within a Global Cooldown. :
- Use Bloodbath on cooldown.
- Use Execute if you have any Marked for Execution applied to your target.
- Use Crushing Blow on cooldown.
- Use Bloodthirst on cooldown when fighting 6 or more targets.
- Use Rampage when 115+ rage or Recklessness is active.
- Use Bloodthirst on cooldown when fighting 2-5 targets.
- Use Execute on cooldown.
- Use Raging Blow on cooldown.
- Use Rampage.
- Use Whirlwind.
Deep Dive
Cooldown Usage for Slayer Fury Warrior
- As a priority list:
- Use Thunderous Roar (Cleave Talents) on cooldown.
- Use Recklessness on cooldown.
- Use Avatar on cooldown.
- Use Champion's Spear (Single-Target Talents) on cooldown.
- Use Odyn's Fury if needed to enable Whirlwind for AoE.
- Use Bladestorm except save it if Avatar is just about to get ready within 10 seconds.
- Use Odyn's Fury (Cleave Talents) on cooldown but do not refresh Odyn's Fury debuff that you applied from Titan's Torment.
Single-Target
Multi-Target
- Shown below is a typical AoE cooldown window, but the Odyn's Fury can move to a later position if you did not have 3x Imminent Demise when you cast Bladestorm.
- For AoE you can use Avatar before Thunderous Roar instead of after.
Delay Rampage
- You delay Rampage in your rotation, it is only the highest priority when it is needed to enable Enrage.
- The empowered Crushing Blow and Execute with Ashen Juggernaut deal higher damage than Rampage, and so are a higher priority even if you are rage-capping.
- When you are not at risk of hitting the rage cap, it is beneficial to collect more rage and spend Raging Blow charges, since this should reduce the amount of Slams to cast over time.
- If you play Anger Management, there is a great value in spending rage itself, in order to get higher uptime of your cooldowns. You can still delay Rampage, but not if you risk hitting the rage-cap.
Ravager and Unhinged interaction
Ravager is a rare talent pick for now, but is likely to make a comeback with tuning updates.
- The automatic Bloodthirst being cast by Unhinged can consume Bloodbath, which is an opportunity to instead cast other high priority abilities, such as Crushing Blow and Odyn's Fury.
- A typical Ravager AoE cooldown window is shown below.
Understanding Mechanics
Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.
Nerub-ar Palace
The following tips are mainly applicable to Heroic Bosses. Mythic tips are released after our progression concludes.
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Offensive Cooldown Usage
- If your team is struggling with AoE in intermission make sure to save Bladestorm and Avatar for it. In the timeline the cooldowns are used to maximize single-target damage.
Boss Tips
- You can immune Stalker Netting (Normal + Heroic Difficulty) or Hardened Netting (Mythic) with Bladestorm. It is helpful to clear those pools sometimes to help your raid group being able to move freely.
- The boss has a quick frontal cast in Brutal Crush so don't stand on the tanks.
Offensive Cooldown Usage
If you're assigned to Group 1:
If you're assigned to Group 2:
- The time between Gruesome Disgorge casts does not have your cooldowns line up well. If your group is struggling with the adds, disregard these timelines and simply save Avatar for when you are assigned to soak Gruesome Disgorge, and accept that you lose a use of it.
Defensive Cooldown Usage
- Use Enraged Regeneration when you soak Gruesome Disgorge.
- Use Spell Reflection when you get Bloodcurdle.
Boss Tips
- If you have Heroic Leap ready use it to get out of Goresplatter last second, that way you get increased uptime.
Offensive Cooldown Usage
Boss Tips
- Use Spell Reflection if you get Decimate or high stacks of Cosmic Shards.
- Use Enraged Regeneration or Defensive Stance when targeted by Phase Blades.
Offensive Cooldown Usage
- Use Bladestorm on pull, and then save Bladestorm for AoE unless the Infested Spawn are trivial for your raid.
- If you want more single-target damage you can use Avatar on cooldown instead of what is on this timeline, then only using it for AoE once when it naturally lines up at 4:30.
Boss Tips
- Use Enraged Regeneration if you have an overlap with any other mechanic while Lingering Erosion is up.
- Use Spell Reflection with Spinneret's Strands.
- You can pick Piercing Howl for a strong AoE slow on the Blood Parasites.
Offensive Cooldown Usage
- This timeline is not entirely reliable, since the amount of CDR you get on Bladestorm is a bit random, it depends on how many Marked for Execution procs you get.
Boss Tips
- You can immune Unstable Web with Bladestorm and Avatar, which can result in you triggering the explosion in melee. Keep an eye on BigWigs / DBM timers when using your cooldowns.
- Focus on interrupting Poison Burst from the Voracious Worms.
Offensive Cooldown Usage
- In this timeline you are holding your third Avatar for when the boss hits 35%, that way you get 2 cooldown uses with the boss below 35% and you benefitting from Vicious Contempt.
- Depending on your kill time you could have more success simply using Avatar on cooldown.
Boss Tips
- Use Enraged Regeneration as an emergency button. For example, if you get hit by multiple Twilight Massacres.
- Go in Defensive Stance when you get targeted by Assassination or Twilight Massacre.
- The main thing to keep an eye out for on this boss is the position of each Nether Rift. Their placement dictates how much you get pulled towards them. Try to position yourself in a way that each Nether Rift is at a similar distance to you.
- Use Slayer Fury Warrior Cleave talents, except drop Bitter Immunity in order to pick up Wrecking Throw.
Offensive Cooldown Usage
Defensive Cooldown Usage
Boss Tips
- Use Enraged Regeneration as an emergency cooldown if things go bad, you can cover a lot of expected damage events with Spell Reflection as shown on the timeline above.
- The adds from Call of the Swarm fixate the closest target, so if an add is spawning near you then stay close to it, let it fixate and follow you into melee range of the boss.
Stat Priority
Understand your stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Raid boss fights as a Fury Warrior. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.
Higher Item level items are better in most scenarios. For an accurate representation of what item to equip you should use Simcraft! A static "Stat Priority" is just a starting point and can easily shift depending on your individual gear.
- All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!
Tertiary
- Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
- Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing. The damage of your pets does not heal you thus Leech is a great tertiary for you since most of your damage is coming from your own spells.
- Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.
Gear
Slot | Item | Location |
---|---|---|
Head | Warsculptor's Barbute | The Silken Court / Catalyst |
Neck | Sureki Zealot's Insignia | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
Shoulder | Warsculptor's Horned Spaulders | Rasha'nan / Catalyst |
Cloak | Royal Emblem of Nerub-ar | Ulgrax the Devourer |
Chest | Warsculptor's Furred Plastron | Broodtwister Ovi'nax / Catalyst |
Wrist | Everforged Vambraces | Blacksmithing |
Gloves | Warsculptor's Crushers | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki / Catalyst |
Belt | Fused Bone Greatbelt | The Necrotic Wake |
Legs | Legplates of the Irontide Raider | Siege of Boralus |
Boots | Ichor-Stained Sollerets | City of Threads |
Ring 1 | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
Ring 2 | Writhing Ringworm | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
Trinket 1 | Treacherous Transmitter | Nexus-Princess Ky'veza |
Trinket 2 | Mad Queen's Mandate | Queen Ansurek |
Weapon | Wild Hammer | Grim Batol |
Weapon Off-Hand | Everforged Greataxe | Blacksmithing |
Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.
Slot | Item | Location |
---|---|---|
Head | Wrathbark Greathelm | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Neck | "Emergency Stop" Keychain | The Stonevault |
Shoulder | Earthshape Pauldrons | Grim Batol |
Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | The Stonevault |
Chest | Experimental Goresilk Chestguard | Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Wrist | Bracers of Umbral Mending | Grim Batol |
Gloves | Fogweaver Gauntlets | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Belt | Fused Bone Greatbelt | The Necrotic Wake |
Legs | Gormshell Greaves | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
Boots | Ichor-Stained Sollerets | City of Threads |
Ring 1 | Umbriss Band | Grim Batol |
Ring 2 | Circle of Bone | Grim Batol |
Trinket 1 | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Trinket 2 | Mark of Khardros | Grim Batol |
Weapon | Wild Hammer | Grim Batol |
Weapon Off-Hand | Wild Hammer | Grim Batol |
Trinkets
Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the raid boss.
Active Trinket alternatives
- Mark of Khardros
- Farmable active alternative at 626 ilvl. It can also be used instead of Treacherous Transmitter if you don't want to deal with the task.
- Skarmorak Shard
- Almost equal to Mark of Khardros.
- Treacherous Transmitter
- The tasks you have to complete can be annoying during boss fights.
Passive Trinket alternatives
- Ara-Kara Sacbrood
- If you don't want to deal with the tasks from Treacherous Transmitter then this trinket is BiS together with Mad Queen's Mandate.
Embellishments
- Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension
- This can only be crafted on weapon.
and
- Writhing Armor Banding
- Ideally craft this on Wrist.
Remaining Sparks
- Crafted items are 636 item level and regular items are 639 on max item level, therefore, it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.
Simcraft
To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.
Consumables
- Phials
- Flask of Alchemical Chaos
- Food
- Feast of the Divine Day -- Primary stat food is the best option if you have low item level gear.
- Feast of the Midnight Masquerade -- Primary stat food is the best option if you have low item level gear.
- Outsider's Provisions -- With high item level gear secondaries start to become competitive with or superior to Strength.
- Combat Potion
- Tempered Potion
- Health Potion
- Algari Healing Potion
- Weapon Temporary Enchant
- Algari Mana Oil -- Generally the best option, but the attack power enchants are close to this in value.
- Ironclaw Whetstone -- If you have a bladed weapon.
- Ironclaw Weightstone-- If you have a blunt weapon.
- Augment Rune
- Crystallized Augment Rune
- Sockets
- Quick Onyx
- Culminating Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem color to enhance your Culminating Blasphemite.
- Masterful Emerald
- Masterful Ruby
- Masterful Sapphire
Enchantments
Head | Nerubian Gemweaver |
Neck | Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x |
Cloak | Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace |
Chest | Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance |
Wrist | Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance Nerubian Gemweaver |
Waist | Nerubian Gemweaver |
Legs | Defender's Armor Kit |
Boots | Enchant Boots - Scout's March |
Ring 1 | Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x |
Ring 2 | Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x |
Weapon | Enchant Weapon - Authority of the Depths |
Weapon Off-Hand | Enchant Weapon - Authority of the Depths |
You buy Nerubian Gemweaver from the Great Vault Vendor to add sockets to your Helm, Wrists & Waist.
Races
For min-maxing a Fury Warrior in raiding, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your character. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.
- Escape Artist -- Gnome
- Root and Snare dispel.
- Shadowmeld -- Night Elf
- Drop combat in order to avoid spells being targeted at you.
- Stoneform -- Dwarf
- Removes all Poison, Disease, Curse, Magic, and Bleed simultaneously.
- Arcane Torrent -- Blood Elf
- Dispels 1 beneficial effect from all nearby enemies at the same time.
- Spatial Rift -- Void Elf
- Activate to spawn a shadow traveling in the direction you are facing. Activate again to teleport to it.
- Maximum range of 100 yards.
Recommendation
If you prioritize the highest DPS then you should go with the best simming racial, but if your priority is in progression raiding then you should consider the the utility of different racials. For example: The Stoneform racial made Dwarf the best pick for Fyrakk the Blazing in the latest Race to World First.
Macros
Discover recommended macros for Fury Warriors during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.
Cursor Macros
Bladestorm and Ravager Macro --- If you have Ravager talented then you use Ravager on your cursor, if not then you Bladestorm.
/cast [known:228920,@cursor] Ravager; Bladestorm
Thunderous Roar and Champion's Spear Macro --- If you have both abilities talented then Champion's Spear is prioritized, and if you have Champion's Spear talented it is cast on your cursor.
/cast [known:376079,@cursor] Champion's Spear; Thunderous Roar
Heroic Leap Macro --- Leap on your cursor without the extra mouse click.
/cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap
Mouseover Macros
Convenience Macros
Addons
Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Fury Warrior, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Raids to make your life easier.
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Addons
WeakAuras
Changes this Patch
Patch 11.0.2
Patch 11.0
FAQ
Q: Why is my Recklessness uptime low with Anger Management?
Credits
Written By: Revvez
Reviewed By: Clickz