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This rotation requires more actions to take per minute compared to the basic combo. Once you have a deeper understanding of the Fury Warrior skillset, it’s time to make the most of your damage rotation fully.
- Cast Battle Shout before pulling an enemy, for a 5% raid-wide damage buff.
- Cast Recklessness on cooldown or whenever burst damage is needed.
- Cast Ravager as soon as the target is well positioned and not expected to move.
- Cast Thunderous Roar while Enraged.
- Cast Odyn's Fury while Enraged. With the Season 3 set bonus, it should always be used before Avatar.
- Cast Avatar as the initial 4-second Avatar buff triggered by Odyn's Fury is falling off in order to maximize DoT and Dancing Blades Icon Dancing Blades uptime.
- Cast Bloodbath to consume the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff.
- Cast Crushing Blow to consume the Reckless Abandon buff.
- Cast Bloodbath to consume the Reckless Abandon buff.
- Cast Rampage to maintain Enrage and reapply the Reckless Abandon buffs.
- Cast Execute whenever it’s available.
- Cast Bloodthirst when the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff is not active, to maximize its value with Bloodbath instead.
- Cast Raging Blow as the primary rotation filler.
- Cast Slam to fill the rotation as a backup when all skills are on cooldown.
Endgame AoE Damage Rotation
This should be your main rotation whenever you are running as a tank for dungeons.
- Cast Ravager on pull.
- Cast Recklessness.
- Cast Charge whenever out of range.
- Cast Odyn's Fury while Enraged or with Titanic Rage
- Cast Thunderous Roar while Enraged.
- Cast Whirlwind whenever the Enraged buff expires.
- Cast Avatar to trigger Odyn's Fury via Titan's Torment. When Titanic Rage is procced, delay until the initial Whirlwind buff stacks have fallen.
- Cast Bloodbath to consume the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff.
- Cast Bloodbath to consume the Reckless Abandon buff and attempt to apply Cold Steel, Hot Blood to multiple targets.
- Cast Crushing Blow to consume the Reckless Abandon buff.
- Cast Rampage to maintain Enrage and reapply the Reckless Abandon buffs.
- Cast Execute whenever possible.
- Cast Bloodthirst when the Frenzied Bloodthirst buff is not active, to maximize its value with Bloodbath instead.
- Cast Raging Blow to fill the rotation.
- Cast Whirlwind to fill the rotation when nothing else is available.
Tips on Improving as a Fury Warrior
- Try to reduce the downtime you have when DPSing. While most classes should do this, it is especially vital for Fury Warriors since they will be using auto attacks to gain Rage. Any time spent off target is lost damage, with no way to recoup lost resources, unlike most mana-consuming classes, which will continue regenerating their resource regardless of spell consumption. Due to the variety of mobility options that the Warrior class has, it is possible to play around with boss mechanics and minimize downtime by closing the gap. Suppose the boss is casting an area effect that requires players to run a certain distance away. In that case, a Warrior can play a little greedy for damage until the last few seconds, Heroic Leap away, and immediately Charge back after the mechanic has resolved.
- For a class that primarily uses Haste, make sure you are casting as many abilities in between the global cooldown as possible, as it is essential to maximizing Fury Warrior’s damage. Even when only an auto attack away from being able to use Rampage, you can always add any OGCD skill to fill in the brief cooldown timer.
- Rage is a rapidly generating resource, especially when you are using even half of your rotation. Because of this, you will oftentimes reach the Rage cap quicker than you would expect. Rage that is not consumed is a loss of DPS, as you could always spend that unused resource to maintain your DPS on targets. Whenever you have Rage-generating buffs like Recklessness, always make sure that you spend it on skills such as Rampage.
- If ever need to find out the average DPS you can do with your current gear, try to sim your current character. Since Warriors intrinsically are heavily reliant on gear, simming your character will help you get an understanding whether or not you can meet certain DPS checks with your current gear. Addons like Raidbots are extremely helpful in simming on the fly.
