Fury Warrior

What's different in Forever

Fury took the biggest reshuffle in Blizzard's 2 October Warrior notes:

• Whirlwind now always strikes with both weapons, without a talent.
• Raging Blows instead cuts 3 Rage off Cleave and Whirlwind.
• Furious Precision adds up to 10% off-hand hit.
• Dual Wield Specialization adds off-hand damage and Rage (50% more at 5/5) but no hit.
• Unbridled Wrath no longer favours two-handers.
• Death Wish, not Enrage, now leads to Flurry.

From the deep dive: Enrage triggers from any damage taken (a 30% chance for 10% more Physical damage), and Bloodthirst gives 10% movement speed instead of healing. Death Wish raises the damage you take by 5% instead of lowering armour. Queued Heroic Strikes no longer raise off-hand hit (ForeverDB).

Talents by level

With Legacy points, Wowhead adds Enrage 4 and a point of Flurry. Icy Veins adds Raging Blows, Improved Berserker Rage and Improved Bloodrage.

Rotation and priorities

• ForeverDB's level 30 sim card: Execute below 20%, Overpower after dodges, Slam on cooldown, Rend (kept up 87% of the fight), Heroic Strike as filler. Bloodrage and Death Wish on the pull. Death Wish is worth 8.8% of damage. Auto attacks make up 30% and off-hand swings 25%.
• Wowhead (30): Overpower, Sunder Armor while the target is above 70% health, Execute, then Heroic Strike or Cleave. It warns that both are Rage-inefficient, so don't overuse them.
• Icy Veins: Battle Shout, Bloodrage, Charge, Demoralizing Shout, Victory Rush, Rend on enemies that will live, Overpower, one or two Sunders.

The WoWSims APL, built for level 60, runs:

1. Death Wish on cooldown
2. Whirlwind on two or more targets
3. Execute below 20%
4. Whirlwind
5. Bloodthirst
6. Heroic Strike on a single target above 40 Rage, or Cleave on packs
7. Overpower and Rend woven in from Battle Stance
8. Bloodrage below 90 Rage, plus Berserker Rage with its talent

Whirlwind sits above Bloodthirst there. Before 36 Fury has neither, which is why the levelling guides lean on Overpower and Rend.

Levelling

Icy Veins and Wowhead both call Fury a slow solo leveller that shines in groups. Icy Veins suggests levelling another spec and respeccing once Flurry and good weapons arrive. You can't dual-wield before 20. Icy Veins switches to two weapons at 20, and Wowhead's level 30 build is built around them. ForeverDB's levelling builds stay on a two-hander and keep dual-wielding for its dungeon build. Wowhead stresses current weapons and Overpower. Its suggestion to take hits for Rage needs restraint: agree any off-tanking with the group and avoid preventable healer pressure.

Gear and consumables

ForeverDB's level 30 list suggests Swinetusk Shank (Razorfen Kraul) and Bloody Brass Knuckles (Scarlet Monastery), drop sources from Classic data. Wowhead lists the Whirlwind Axe, Saltscale Girdle (Excavation Site: Wetlands) and Blacksmithing's Officer's Belt. ForeverDB's sim ranks Bear Brisket (+2.8%) and Scroll of Strength II (+2.6%) as the best level 30 consumables, and Blessing of Might as the best party buff (+5.2%). Wowhead likes Skinning's Camp Chair at campfires, because crit feeds Rage. For professions, Wowhead favours Engineering, with Alchemy as an option; Icy Veins suggests Mining and Blacksmithing while levelling.

Where guides disagree

• Enrage: levellers rate it highly because you are hit constantly. WoWSims gives it no points, explaining that its simulated boss attacks no one, so Enrage never procs.
• Slam: ForeverDB keeps Slam in Fury's rotation despite the swing delay (Improved Slam is out of Fury's reach). Wowhead and Icy Veins leave it out.
• Execute and Heroic Strike: Icy Veins skips Execute while levelling and treats Heroic Strike as an endgame Rage dump. ForeverDB and WoWSims use both.
• Off-hand hit: Icy Veins quotes a 27% off-hand miss chance for a particular target assumption. Do not treat that as the miss rate against every quest enemy or as the hit target for special attacks. Target level and the current off-hand talents matter.
• Outdated text: Wowhead's Fury overview still describes crits as giving no extra Rage, Bloodthirst at 35% attack power and Dual Wield Specialization giving hit. All three changed on 30 September and 1–2 October.