World of Warcraft Fury Warrior Class Guide
The Ultimate Fury Warrior resource, for leveling, grinding, and more:
Index
1.0 - What's a Fury Warrior?
2.0 - Why Fury?
3.0 - Leveling
4.0 - PvE
5.0 - PvP
6.0 - Gear Guide
1.0 - What's a Fury Warrior?
For those of you unfamiliar with the term "Fury Warrior," it's applied to any warrior who happens to follow the fury talent tree as their main source of talent point expenditure. Although a few variations exist of the "Fury" build and a few hybrids as well I often find the most commonly seen and known example of the Fury Warrior to be a dual-wielding 41 or higher fury talent tree berserker essentially.
Of course I'm not saying you have to have 40+ points in the talent tree to be a fury warrior, that's decided simply if you choose to go down the fury talent tree itself, it's just that often times Fury Warriors are dual-wielders rather than the other common specs, Arms or Protection. The Fury build is specialized around insane attack power ratings coupled with practically infinite rage generation once you start swinging.
2.0 - Why Fury?
Why choose the path of the fury warrior? Well theres a variety of reasons, some of the more pronounced would be that I personally find fury to be the fastest overall grinding/leveling talent tree, additionally It feels the most active, making gameplay a bit more fun in my opinion. As my chosen weaponry is that of the dual-wielding almost 100% fury talent build I find it to easily be the most fun build of warrior I've played, In my mind I prefer the faster hits and the ability to spam our various skills versus what others may prefer such as the Mortal Strike, arms warrior, build.
Fury focuses on speed and essentially demolishing the opposition before they can retaliate, due to a number of damage and rage generation inceasing talents Fury allows previously rage-starved warriors to unload ability after ability onto the target. Obviously this comes at a cost, our damge per hit is lower than arms, our survivability is lower than both arms and especially protection, but we do kill insanely fast when played correctly.
Fury is pretty much the only talent build that allows warriors to approach the grinding/killing efficiency of the other classes, we essentially give up all our defensive abilities to focus on pure damage and improve our DPS to reasonable levels. As mentioned above, given that we lack the burst damage of the Arms talent build fury really lacks in PvP until you get great gear, it's the best I've found for leveling 1-70 but it definitely won't match Arms for any PvP you may encounter along the way, not until you really start maximising you +hit and +crit ratings.
Despite our various disadvantages however It's most definitely a fun build to play, anything to make the painful warrior leveling grind just that little bit more exciting and fun is worth it to me.
3.0 - Leveling as Fury
Leveling as a fury warrior is all about keeping your rage levels high and trying to take down every monster as fast as possible, prefferably before they take *you* down. Despite the intention of eventually maintaining and enormous rage pool at all times, you'll often find yourself running out of rage at the lower levels, especially if you lack good quality weapons, use bloodrage, and when you get the improved berserker rage talent, berserker rage to boost your levels as you charge from mob to mob.
Obviously using all of your abilities as such will drain your life, slowly or quite quickly depending on what exactly your fighting, thus I recommend to you, as I do to all non-healer types, that you maximise first aid. First aid will boost your experience per hour immensely, skillful use combined with fear can even save you mid-fight if needed, beyond that using any life-stealing/health regeneration armor/weaponry/enchants possible will greatly reduce downtime.
A popular approach should you happen to possess a good amount of spare cash is to either A: buy all blue/purple weapons, B: add crusader enchant for the +strength/healing effect onto any weapons you use, or finally C: A combination of both. Not only does a well geared fury warrior simply plow through monsters, if given enough health regeneration and healing enchants such as crusader he can almost completely regenerate any lost HP as he grinds.
Another thing you may notice is that I personally found leveling 40+ to go much smoother and far more efficiently than any grinding/questing before that period, this is most likely because of the large amount of fury specialized abilities now avaliable to you such as bloodthirst and all the other talents you've picked up so far.
While fury I recommend you always dual-wield, two-handed fury is a nice idea to some but I really find that dual-wielding yields that best XP overall.
4.0 PvE
Fury Warriors role in PvE is often DPS, obviously as a warrior you may be called upon for support/off-tanking but otherwise your main specialization will be unloading tons of damage upon your targets. In smaller instances, such as 5-mans, you'll most likely be a bit limited in how much you can really let-go of your aggro control and simply spam out heroic strike/bloodthirst, the new Burning crusade dungeons require a bit more control/multiple monster tanking than before.
It'll really be in raiding, especially once you get some good gear, that you shine with fury warrior DPS. When you've got a great tank with a solid hold on whatever mob you happen to be beating on you can run wild with DPS, perhaps even reaching the status of "rogue in platemail" as some warriors have at various moments.
One thing you have that rogues and a couple other DPS classes don't is whirlwind/cleave and a bunch of anti-fear abilities. Numerous bosses/encounters have repeating fear waves and such, while others get hit with this you can simply resist it and keep on chugging, this provides alot of extra damage over-time, additionally you can use cleave/whirlwind to boost your damage immensely during multiple-mob pulls and the like.
Raid-buffed, and more particularly raid-geared, Fury warriors are one of the best damage dealers in the game, although you won't possess the burst damage of an arms warrior and lack the defense of a protection warrior you certainly make up for it in potential damage levels. The only true problem concerning warrior DPS is that we lack a significant method of lowering/dropping our threat levels, this often leads to over-eager warriors pulling aggro from the tank and getting smashed.
Some of the stats a fury warrior needs to stress when going dungeoning and more importantly, raiding, is +hit rating. At the very least you should have a total of around 8-10% increased hit, 14-16% is however preferable.
Always remember, a dead warrior is a warrior that amounts to absolutely 0 DPS, therefore watch your threat.
5.0 - PvP
Fury warriors can excel at PvP combat, especially arena's, when geared correctly, a newly 70 warrior however will most likely find himself quite lacking in this department. Given how gear based warriors are, and fury warriors even more so, I'd highly recommend gathering some of the better PvP gear *before* participating as a fury warrior, either as an arms warrior farming honor for GM/HW gear or through running instances.
Another thing, if at all possible try and get a pet healer, without a healer I almost always get focus fired and promptly slaughered, with a healer I've gone 43/0 Killing Blows/Deaths in multiple BG's, sometimes even higher. Obviously you can't just expect any ol' healer to chain himself to your leg and become a healbot, often times this can be accomplished by dragging along guildies/making a few healer friends.
Finally, once you've actually aquired the necessary gear to make the fury build work, refer to the gear guide below for that, you'll find yourself smashing faces left n' right. Fury warriors are the absolute bane of all fear users, this means warlocks and priest, especially shadow priests, with all the anti-fears we have as well as the easy rage gain we can simply tear apart anything not in mail or stronger armor in a few seconds.
One of the main advantages we have over any other warrior(non-fury) is that we can tear apart classes quite easily from the get-go due to our numerous rage enhancing abilities, such as unbridled wrath, additionally we have a number of talents such as enrage and deathwish that allow us to, for at least a short period of time, do extremely high amounts of damage.
Fury warriors lack one major thing however, Mortal Strike, the 50% healing debuff is pretty much unmatched amongst all warrior PvP abilities. You'll have to make up for it with skill, cheers.
6.0 - Gear Guide
Helm:
Overlord's Helm of the Second Sight - Quest Reward
Hope Bearer Helm - Drop(Auchenai Crypts)
Ragesteel Helm - Crafted
Neck:
Choker of vile Intent - Vendor(25 Badges of Justice)
Natasha's Choker- Quest Reward
Back:
Cloak of the Inciter - Drop(Shadow Laybrinth)
Blood Knight War Cloak - Vendor(25 Badges of Justice)
Auchenai Death Shroud - Drop(Heroic Auchenai Crypts)
Shoulders:
Slyvannar Champion's Shoulders - Quest Reward
Doomplate Shoulderguards - Drop(Heroic Underbog)
Chest:
Ragesteel Breastplate - Crafted
Doomplate Chestguard - Drop(Arcatraz)
The Exarch's Protector - Quest Reward
Wrist:
Black Felsteel Bracers - Crafted
Bands of Syth - Drop(Sethekk Halls)
Demolisher's Bracers - Quest Reward
Hands:
Doomplate Gauntlets - Drop(Heroic Blood Furnace)
Ragesteel Gloves - Crafted
Belt:
Deathforge Girdle - Drop(Talon King Ikiss)
Rubium War Girdle - Drop(Arcatraz)
Girdle of Siege - BoE World Drop
Legs:
Vanquisher's Legplates - Drop(Heroic Mechanar)
Legguard's of the Shattered Hand - BoE World Drop
Boots:
Sha'tari Wrought Greaves - Quest Reward
Obsidian Clodstompers - Drop(Botanica)
Rings:
Overseer's Signet - Quest Reward
Kaylann's Signet - Quest Reward
Band of Anguish - Quest Reward
Trinkets:
Bladefists's Breadth - Quest Reward
Core of Ar'kelos - Quest Reward
Weapons:
Latro's Shifting Sword - Drop(Black Morass)
Twin-Blade Ripper - Quest Reward
Ranged Weapon:
Wrathfire Hand-Cannon - Drop(Shadow Laybrinth)
Veteran's Musket/Marksman's Bow - Reputation Reward(Honor Hold/Thrallmar)
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