Fury Warrior Raid Guide

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!

Fury WarriorRaid

Single-Target

Average

AoE

Excellent

Utility

Average

Survivability

Excellent

Mobility

Strong

• 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.

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.

1. Use Rampage when you do not have Enrage active or it is about to run out within a Global Cooldown.
2. 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.
3. Use Bloodbath if it has more than 85% chance to critical strike.
4. Use Crushing Blow on cooldown.
5. Use Bloodbath on cooldown if the target is below 35%.
6. Use Rampage when 115+ rage or Recklessness is active.
7. Use Bloodbath on cooldown if the target is above 35%.
8. Use Execute on cooldown.
9. Use Raging Blow on cooldown.
10. Use Rampage.
11. Use Bloodthirst on cooldown.
12. 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.

1. Use Odyn's Fury or Whirlwind if needed to apply Whirlwind.
2. Use Rampage when you do not have Enrage active or it is about to run out within a Global Cooldown. :
3. Use Bloodbath on cooldown.
4. Use Execute if you have any Marked for Execution applied to your target.
5. Use Crushing Blow on cooldown.
6. Use Bloodthirst on cooldown when fighting 6 or more targets.
7. Use Rampage when 115+ rage or Recklessness is active.
8. Use Bloodthirst on cooldown when fighting 2-5 targets.
9. Use Execute on cooldown.
10. Use Raging Blow on cooldown.
11. Use Rampage.
12. Use Whirlwind.

Cooldown Usage for Slayer Fury Warrior

• As a priority list:

1. Use Thunderous Roar (Cleave Talents) on cooldown.
2. Use Recklessness on cooldown.
3. Use Avatar on cooldown.
4. Use Champion's Spear (Single-Target Talents) on cooldown.
5. Use Odyn's Fury if needed to enable Whirlwind for AoE.
6. Use Bladestorm except save it if Avatar is just about to get ready within 10 seconds.
7. 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.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

The following tips are mainly applicable to Heroic Bosses. Mythic tips are released after our progression concludes.

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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.

• 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.

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.

• 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

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.

Discover recommended macros for Fury Warriors during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

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

Execute Macro --- If your mouse is over an enemy then Execute it, otherwise Execute your target. This macro is useful to Execute a nearby low HP mob while still targeting the boss.

/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead][harm,nodead] Execute

Charge Macro --- Charge your target, unless your mouse is over another enemy, then it targets that enemy and uses Charge.

/target [@mouseover, harm, nodead]
/cast Charge

Convenience Macros

Defensive Stance and Berserker Stance Macro --- With this you can swap stances while using only 1 keybind.

/cast [stance:2] Defensive Stance; stance[:3] Berserker Stance

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.

Addons

• MRT -- Notes, Raid cooldowns, and more
  • Helpful addon for Raiders, especially for Raid leaders and officers.
• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• BigWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.
• Plater -- Advanced Nameplates
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.

WeakAuras

You can find a lot of WeakAuras made for Mythic+ and Fury Warriors at wago.io.

Bloodthirst Crit Chance

Shows your current critical strike chance with Bloodthirst. Useful when playing with Bloodcraze.

Patch 11.0.2

Warrior

• Shield Slam damage increased by 8%.
• Pain and Gain now heals for 2% of your max health (was 3.5%).

Fury

• Invigorating Fury now heals for 10% of maximum health (was 15%).

Patch 11.0

Warrior

• All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated. 
• Honed Reflexes has been redesigned – Cooldown of Die by the Sword, Enraged Regeneration, Shield Wall, Pummel, Intervene, Spell Reflection, and Storm Bolt reduced by 5%.
• Second Wind gains an additional effect – While you are below 35% health, restores 1.0% health every 1 second. The amount restored increases the closer you are to death (max 2%).
• Berserker Rage is now learned at level 12.
• Slam damage increased by 130%. Arms Slam damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 75%).
• Bladestorm damage increased by 70%.
• Ravager damage decreased by 10%.
• Sudden Death can now stack 2 times.
• Thunder Clap Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30) and now applies Rend by default if it is known.
• Frothing Berserker now refunds 10% Rage for Arms and Fury, and 25% Rage for Protection.
• Shockwave no longer generates Rage on cast.
• Champion's Spear generates 10 Rage on cast (was 20).
• Thunderous Roar no longer generates Rage on cast.
• Thunderous Roar now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
• Thunderous Words now causes Thunderous Roar’s Bleed effect to increase damage targets take from all the Warrior’s bleed effects, rather than passively increasing it all the time.
• Odyn's Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
• Uproar now reduces the cooldown of Thunderous Roar by 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Champion's Might now causes you to deal 25% increased critical strike damage to targets chained to your Spear.
• Piercing Challenge now increases all damage dealt by Champion's Spear (was only initial damage).
• The visual for Shockwave will now properly match its radius, both with and without the Rumbling Earth talent. Impact visual has also been updated.
• The visual for Thunderous Roar has been adjusted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Rallying Cry to increase maximum health by 15% instead of the intended 10%.
• The following talents have been removed:
  • Titanic Throw
  • Sonic Boom
  • Blood and Thunder

Fury

• New Talent: Powerful Enrage: Enrage increases the damage your abilities deal by an additional 15% and Enrage's duration is increased by 1 second. On a choice node with Frenzied Enrage.
• Hurricane replaced with Unhinged – Every other time Bladestorm or Ravager deal damage, you cast a Bloodthirst at your target or a nearby enemy.
• Fury Warriors now learn Defensive Stance by default.
• All ability damage increased by 49%.
• Rampage damage increased by 26%.
• Bloodthirst damage increased by 29%.
• Odyn's Fury damage increased by 33%.
• Raging Blow damage increased by 10%.
• Improved Raging Blow’s chance for Raging Blow to reset its own cooldown increased to 25% (was 20%).
• Reckless Abandon now buffs your next Bloodthirst and Raging Blow.
• Reckless Abandon's Bloodbath damage reduced by 26% and Crushing Blow damage reduced by 3%.
• Deft Experience now causes Bloodthirst to extend your Enrage effect by 0.5/1.0 sec if you are Enraged.
• Swift Strikes now also increases Bloodthirst’s Rage generated by 1.0/2.0 Rage.
• Crushing Force now increases the damage of Bloodthirst by 10/20% and critical strike chance of Bloodthirst by 2/4%.
• Slam's Rage cost removed.
• Wrath and Fury now increases the chance for Improved Raging Blow to reset Raging Blow's cooldown by 10% while Enraged.
• Deft Experience no longer reduces Bloodthirst's cooldown, instead it now increases Bloodthirst's chance to trigger Enrage by 2% per point.
• Tenderize no longer increases the duration of Enrage.
• Bloodcraze now triggers from Raging Blow instead of Bloodthirst.
• Bladestorm now generates 10 Rage per damage event for Fury (20 with Storm of Steel).
• Bladestorm is now a choice node with Ravager. All existing Ravager sub-talents have been updated to work with both Ravager and Bladestorm.
• Unbridled Ferocity no longer triggers from Onslaught and its chance to trigger is reduced to 6% (was 20%).
• Berserker's Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
• Titan's Torment tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
• The following talents have been removed:
  • Frenzied Flurry has been removed, its effects have been added to Single-Minded Fury.
  • Raging Armaments
  • Annihilator
  • Storm of Swords

Q: Why is my Recklessness uptime low with Anger Management?

A: There is luck involved in having high uptime of Recklessness, but it is also likely you are not using Recklessness, Avatar or Rampage aggressively enough. Do not generally hold on to cooldowns, and keep spending rage for Anger Management. You should have roughly 50% uptime of Recklessness in a normal raid fight.

Credits

Written By: Revvez

Reviewed By: Clickz