Fury Warrior is all about constant action and aggression. With an extremely fast-paced rotation, you're always on the move, generating rage and spending it on massive Rampages that tear your foes apart. The aesthetic feel of the spec is raw, relentless, and adrenaline-pumping as you power through enemies with rapid and explosive damage.
If you're into high-speed, action-packed gameplay that will never have downtime between button presses, then literally nothing else in the game comes close to the fun you'll get from playing Fury. Our guide will help you get a solid grasp of both the basics and the lesser-known nuances of the specialization.
While the spec retained a relatively simple rotation in the new expansion, the associated haste buffs make Fury one of the highest actions-per-minute specializations in the game, proving that gameplay does not necessarily need to be complex in order to be engaging. In addition to a well-rounded offensive toolkit, Fury enjoys high mobility, moderate self-healing, and one of the few raid-wide defensive cooldowns in the game.
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
| Great against small packs of 4-6 targets. | Suffers greatly from any downtime having no range attacks or passive rage generators. |
| Massive AOE-burst windows every 45 and 90 seconds. | Weak sustained single target damage and only mediocre uncapped multitarget. |
| Strong gap closers and mobility. | Melee to its core, meaning you'll often have to dodge numerous mechanics or risk losing most of your damage. |
| Awesome personal defensives and overall tankiness. | Lack of any damage immunity or cheat death mechanics. |
The War Within introduced Hero Talents to the game, giving players a choice between 2 separate paths that not only add cool visuals to your spec but also impact the way you play it!
Fury gets to choose between Slayer and Mountain Thane:
There are numerous Fury Warrior builds that are being shared on the internet, with most of them being either outdated or outright bad in 11.0.7. Here we gathered for you 2 awesome Raid builds and 1 for Mythic+ that combines a great mix of raw damage, personal defensives and party utility.
Raid Single Target
Raid Multi Target
Mythic + Build
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Lets be honest, the rotation for Fury is extremely simple both to remember and execute, but you still need to know the proper order as the spec is rather punishing when you mess it up.
Slayer Build
Mountain Thane Build
Slayer Build
Mountain Thane Build
Minimizing Downtime
While relevant for most classes, minimizing downtime is especially critical for Fury Warriors given their reliance on auto-attacks for rage generation and damage. Any time spent off target is lost damage, with minimal means to recoup lost resources, unlike energy-based classes which will continue regenerating their resource up to its cap. Due to the high mobility innate to the Warrior class, it is possible to play around boss mechanics and minimize downtime. If the boss is casting an area effect which requires players to run a certain distance away, a Warrior can instead continue attacking until the last few seconds, Heroic Leap away, and immediately then Charge back as soon as the danger has passed.
As a Haste-driven specialization, ensuring you are always casting abilities as close to the global cooldown as possible is paramount to maximizing Fury Warrior damage. Even when only an autoattack away from being able to use Rampage, it is better to fill the global cooldown with something, rather than letting that time go to waste.
Overcapping Rage
Because Rage can be generated quite quickly, particularly during Recklessness, it is important to be aware of how much Rage you have, and how much each ability will generate, as well as the impact of autoattacks, which can come quite quickly while under the effects of Enrage. For example, if you currently have 75 Rage and are trying to build up to 85 Rage to cast Rampage, it may be a good idea to cast Raging Blow, pushing you up to 87 Rage.
On the other hand, if you are under the effects of Recklessness, casting that Raging Blow would instead generate 24 Rage, which has a much higher likelihood of an autoattack swing pushing you beyond 100 and wasting Rage. Due to the emphasis on Rampage damage, being cognizant of your Rage cap will help minimize waste, maximize Rampage casts, and increase your DPS over the course of an encounter.
That said, being able to cast Rampage sooner is more important than wasting single-digit amounts of Rage. Being too fearful of overcapping and taking two global cooldowns to build enough Rage to cast Rampage instead of one can be just as, if not more, detrimental.
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You can skip this section entirely if you're not aiming for the highest results in M+ and Raids and instead pick the race that you just vibe with.
But if you are eager to conquer the Mythic+ ratings you should first consider picking Night Elf as it gives you Shadowmeld that lets you dodge targeted spells and make crucial skips in dungeons.
The second close choice is Dwarf with it's Stoneform racial that removes all Poison, Disease, Curse, Magic, and Bleed simultaneously every 2 minutes, making it just OP in certain dungeons and Raid encounters.
As for other races the choices are very close to each other since no race provides more than 1-1.5% damage increase from the "worst" one.
Properly equipping your character can massively boost your success in both Mythic+ and Raids, so we've gathered all the info you need about Fury Warrior's best stats to help you pump out the highest numbers possible.
The general rule when it comes to your gearing is that ilvl > your best stats, but if the ilvls of the 2 items are similar or very close to each other, then you have the following priority:
While playing the game, you'll come across an endless variety of items — many of them decent, but only a few are the GOATs that you can rely on until the end of the Season.
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| Slot | Best Overall | Best from Mythic+ |
| Mainhand Weapon | Charged Claymore | Wild Hammer |
| Off hand Weapon | Charged Claymore | Wild Hammer |
| Head | Darkfrost Helmet | Darkfrost Helmet |
| Neck | "Emergency Stop" Keychain | "Emergency Stop" Keychain |
| Shoulders | Warsculptor's Horned Spaulders | Earthshape Pauldrons |
| Back | Anvilhide Cape | Anvilhide Cape |
| Chest | Warsculptor's Furred Plastron | Earthshape Pauldrons |
| Wrist | Everforged Vambraces | Vociferous Subjugator's Bracers |
| Hands | Warsculptor's Crushers | Rope-Scored Gauntlets |
| Waist | Girdle of Somber Ploys | Girdle of Somber Ploys |
| Legs | Warsculptor's Cuisses | Gormshell Greaves |
| Feet | Boots of the Black Bulwark | Ballast Sinkers |
| Ring 1 | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Umbriss Band |
| Ring 2 | Writhing Ringworm | High Nerubian Signet |
| Trinket 1 | Treacherous Transmitter | Skarmorak Shard |
| Trinket 2 | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Ara-Kara Sacbrood |
Having the right gear is just the beginning — upgrading it with the best enchants is what truly makes the difference. Here's a list of the top enchants available and their more affordable alternatives to help you get the most out of your setup.
Here's the list of what you should buy as a Fury Warrior to amplify both your damage dealt and your survivability:
Warriors usually do not need many macros to play effectively, although a few can be very nice quality-of-life improvements, automating targeting reticules and eliminating excess keypresses.
With this you can swap stances while using only 1 keybind.
/cast [stance:2] Defensive Stance; stance:[3] Berserker Stance
Leap on your cursor without the extra mouse click.
/cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap
Charge your target, unless your mouse is over another enemy, then it targets that enemy and uses Charge.
/target [@mouseover, harm, nodead] /cast Charge
If you have Ravager talented, then you use Ravager on your cursor; if not, then you use Bladestorm.
/cast [known:228920,@cursor] Ravager; Bladestorm
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
Presses all your burst abilities, trinkets and a racial to inflict an absolutely massive damage upon your foes.
#showtooltip Recklessness /cast Recklessness /cast Avatar /use Blood Fury /use Berserking /use Ancestral Call /use 13 /use 14
This guide provides all the core information you need to begin your journey as a Fury Warrior. However, some finer details and advanced techniques are beyond its scope. Our expert boosters, highly skilled in both Mythic+ and Raids, can help you master these nuances and unlock your full potential as a Fury Warrior!
