Fury Warrior Guide for The War Within (2024)

Last updated on Jul 19, 2024 at 08:00by Archimtiros69 comments

Welcome to our War Within expansion guide for Fury Warrior.Ahead of launch, this page will contain everything you need to know about theFury Warrior spec in the forthcoming The War Within expansion,including changes, Hero Talent Trees, and some light predictions on the stateof the spec going into the expansion.

This page is a constantly evolving work in progress, with regularchanges expected as updates hit the War Within Beta. This is not meant to bea launch guide for Fury Warrior, but instead serves as aresource for you to keep up to date with how the spec is evolving on Beta, andwhat you can expect from its playstyle and feel on launch.

Fury Warrior cooldown uptime has been dramatically reduced in The WarWithin, and while the actual speed of gameplay is unaffected, its overall Ragegeneration and frequency of Rampage casts has gone down. Whether this is goodor bad is largely a matter of opinion, as it creates more room for otherbuttons in the rotation.

Thanks to significant tuning adjustments, Bloodthirst also has a renewedemphasis within the rotation, more closely resembling that of Legion andBattle for Azeroth.

The Warrior Class Tree has received a moderate rework, rearranging thepathing of several talents and removing some of the less desirable onesoutright. Overall, the tree has become smaller and more streamlined, withfocus on improving access to important crowd control and early levelingabilities, most notably relocating Shockwave to the middle of the tree. Below,you can see some of the most important changes that will affect your gameplay,decision-making, and power in The War Within.

• Defensive Stance is now automatically unlocked.
• Berserker Rage is no longer a talent and now automatically learnedat level 12.
• Titanic Throw, Sonic Boom, Blood and Thunder, and Furious Blows have been removed. Furious Blows is one less requireddamage talent, while the other two were never used.
• Second Wind now restores 1-2% health per second while below 35%health, in addition to its previous effects. This gives it a guaranteedbenefit in high damage/low life situations, without changing the previousfunctionality.
• Honed Reflexes now reduces the cooldown of most defensive andutility cooldowns by 5%. However minor, this removes another damage talent,while offering an interesting if equally minor defensive benefit.
• Frothing Berserker now refunds 10% Rage for Fury, down from 20%.
• Barbaric Training now affects Thunder Clap for Mountain Thanes.
• Seismic Reverberation now affects Thunder Clap for MountainThanes.
• Champion's Spear now generates 10 rage, down from 20.
• Champion's Might now affects targets hit by Spear, instead of theplayer standing inside it.
• Shockwave and Thunderous Roar no longer generate Rage.
• Thunderous Words has been buffed from 15 to 30%, but only increasesthe damage targets take from bleeds during its effect, rather than passivelyincreasing it all the time. This makes Thunderous Roar more active andcondenses some of its damage into burstier cooldowns.
• Crushing Force now affects Bloodthirst instead of Slam.
• Endurance Training has gained a second point, allowing players toincrease their stamina even further. While nice, the new pathing makes thetalent very hard to take.

The Fury Warrior Spec Tree has undergone very minorchange, retaining the same general pathing, though condensing and reworking afew of its talents.

• Improved Enrage is now called Frenzied Enrage and nowshares a choice node with a new talent: Powerful Enrage. This givesplayers a choice between faster-paced gameplay through additional haste, orslower but stronger gameplay through a direct damage buff.
• Raging Armaments, Storm of Swords, and Annihilator have been removed. Originally designed to provide aslower playstyle, Annihilator never actually accomplished that goal, and soPowerful Enrage has taken that role in a simplified format.
• Improved Raging Blow now has a 25% chance to reset its cooldown, upfrom 25%.
• Frenzied Flurry has been baked into Single-Minded Fury,making that option a stronger and cheaper investment, though ultimately stillweaker than using two-handed weapons.
• Wrath and Fury now increases the chance for Raging Blow to reset by10%, instead of overriding it entirely.
• Improved Whirlwind and Meat Cleaver now affect ThunderClap for Mountain Thane.
• Bloodcraze now triggers from Raging Blow instead ofBloodthirst.
• Deft Experience now extends the current duration of Enrage by0.5 seconds per point when Bloodthirst is used. Although seemingly minor, thisis now very important for maintaining Enrage uptime.
• Swift Strikes now increases Bloodthirst Rage generation inaddition to Raging Blow.
• Tenderize no longer increases the duration of Enrage or triggersUnbridled Ferocity.
• Bladestorm is now a choice with Ravager, giving FuryWarriors a more compressed burst AoE option.
• Hurricane has been replaced by Unhinged, which triggersBloodthirst every other time Bladestorm or Ravager deal damage. Interactingwith all effects which Bloodthirst normally does, this is a very deceptivelypowerful addition, as it can generating Rage, proc Enrage, heal, cleavemultiple targets, and trigger hero talent effects.
• Reckless Abandon now empowers one cast of Bloodthirst and RagingBlow, instead of one or the other. This is a powerful addition, which alsomakes the rotation much more forgiving, and less dependent on specifictiming.
• Unbridled Ferocity no longer triggers from Onslaught and itschance to trigger has been reduced to 6% down from 20%. This is a major nerfto overall Recklessness uptime and Rage generation, resulting in less frequentRampage casts and more distinct cooldown use.
• Odyn's Fury has been received a major buff, with the intent ofmaking it better than Onslaught in multitarget, though also currently leavingit competitive in single target as well.
• Titanic Rage now increases the bleed damage inflicted by Odyn'sFury

Aside from the changes to Fury Warrior's core features,The War Within also introduces Hero Talent Trees, new tier sets, and the naturalreduction in secondary stats when entering a new expansion.

Fury Warrior's get to choose between the Mountain Thaneand Slayer Hero Talent Trees. In sections below, we will talk moredeeply about the implications of these Hero Talent Trees for the spec, and somethoughts on what looks strong and weak ahead of launch.

Below are the Tier Set Bonuses for Fury Warrior in The WarWithin. After the wording of the bonus, you will find a brief note/commentarythat is italicized.

• Warrior Fury Season 1 2pc — Bloodthirst increases thedamage of your next Rampage by 10%. This is a very simple, buteffective bonus, as these abilities are both used with great frequency in allforms of content.
• Warrior Fury Season 1 4pc — When Raging Blow resets itsown cooldown, the damage of your next Bloodthirst is increased by10%, stacking up to 2 times. This is a problematic bonus, since thereduced emphasis on Raging Blow means that the ability is not used very often,and therefore cannot reset its own cooldown very often either.

Both set bonuses are completely passive and are not expected to have anygameplay impact, which makes them somewhat boring, but theoretically reliableif not for the glaring flaw in the 4pc bonus activation.

The 2pc bonus is unexciting but reliable in both single or multitargetcontent, with the sole flaw that Bloodthirst may occasionally be cast multipletimes before generating enough Rage to use Rampage. If it were able to stack,the bonus could be a little more dynamic, both providing bad luck protection,as well as a little more burst opportunity alongside Unhinged or Burst of Power.

The 4pc bonus is incredibly weak, and may be in the running for one of theweakest tier set bonuses of all time if it were to go live. Because the newrotation focuses on using Bloodthirst roughly every 3 GCDs, there is not asmuch space in the rotation to use Raging Blow, and because it only has a 20%chance to reset its own cooldown, the total amount of 4p procs is very low.

Even with Slayer using Raging Blow more frequently than Mountain Thane, the4p is estimated to contribute around 0.5%, which is so woefully underpoweredas to be considered unrealistic. There is extremely little chance the bonusgoes live this way.