Fury Warrior DPS Guide — 12.0.5

Midnight Season 1 has released, and with it came a lot of new content. It brought with it three new Raids, alongside heralding the start of Season 1 for both Mythic+ and PvP. With all the new things available, we've provided some dedicated hubs covering everything available!

Fury Warriors have several changes in Patch 12.0.5, affecting its talents and resulting gameplay. While the initially proposed Mountain Thane changes were reverted, Slayer has ungone some rotational updates to make Rend more passive and putting more damage into Bladestorm.

• Improved Whirlwind now causes Whirlwind to apply Rend to all targets.
• Hack and Slash now has a 100% chance to refund a single charge of Raging Blow.
• Wrecking Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active absorb shield.
• Shattering Throw will now be highlighted when the Warrior targets a unit with an active immunity effect.
• Reap the Storm now only triggers when Rampage strike 3+ targets.
• Unrelenting Onslaught now increases Bladestorm damage by 20%.

In addition to this, a variety of open world content releases worth checking out!

• The Voidforge Unlocks!
  The Voidforge is Midnight's take on Bonus Rolls and Turbo Boost, allowing you to target specific big ticket items through a new bonus roll system. You can also further empower trinkets and weapons, and we have recommendations on our Gear page.
• Void Assaults are Unleashed
  Eversong Woods and Zul'Aman are under siege from the forces of the Void. Thwarting their attacks provide a new way to acquire gear all the way up to Hero level, and you can check out more on our Void Assault hub.
• Disrupt Ritual Sites
  Sharing a similar reward structure to Void Assaults, Ritual Sites are instanced content similar to Delves. You can find out all about them on our Ritual Sites page.

Click for Previous Season 1 Hotfixes

Fury Warriors received two notable changes with the start of Midnight Season 1 on March 17th, increasing all damage by 10% and reducing the proc chance of Reap the Storm.

Midnight Class Tuning

The first few days of Midnight max-level play have given us data and feedback needed to make our first tuning pass, with the goal of reducing outliers. We will continue to keep a close eye on class balance as both Heroic week and week 1 of the PvP season start, and players continue to gain gear and begin using tier sets.

• All damage dealt increased by 10%.
• Slayer: chance for Reap the Storm to trigger changed to 20% (was 30%).

Fury Warriors have undergone significant changes in Midnight, reworking or removing and replacing several talents entirely, alongside a newfound emphasis on keeping Bloodthirst on cooldown. Below is a general overview of the most impactful changes and how they affect gameplay going into the new expansion.

Each Hero gains three new talents by level 90, though they are fairly straightforward, with no significant change in playstyle. The most notable update is for Slayer, with Reap the Storm now having an updated chance to proc per ability cast and triggering from Sudden Death.

With the exception of a few new talented effects, the general gameplay remains very similar to The War Within, though Bloodthirst and Rampage now have a significantly increased priority for all heroes and rotations.

• Rage generation has been reduced, which reduces the frequency of Rampage, but otherwise has little impact on the overall rotation.
• Rampaging Ruin is a new talent intended to increase multi-target efficiency beyond the normal target cap, though it reduces the normal damage of Rampage when hitting smaller numbers of targets, which makes it a very niche option.
• Single-Minded Fury has been removed, though Titan's Grip: Single-Minded Fury is a new passive allowing Fury Warriors to transmog one-handed appearances, a long requested option which solves the disparity between weapon types.
• None of the Fury Warrior tier set bonuses were carried forward, resulting in less overall Sudden Death and Thunder Blast procs, though the inclusion of Deep Wounds encourages both heroes to use Execute much more regularly than before.

A new four-point node of specialization-specific Apex talents is now available. Rampaging Berserker is a largely passive buff triggered by Rampage in the same manner as Frenzy.

• The first point triggers the Berserk buff every time Rampage is cast, passively increasing strength. While this buff stacks, each has its own duration, resulting in the buff constantly stacking and decaying, making it easy to treat passively and ignore.
• The second and third points passively increase the damage of Rampage and reduce its Rage cost during Recklessness. This allows the powerful attack to be used much more frequently and stack the Berserk buff much higher during the cooldown window.
• The final point increases the duration of Recklessness and grants three stacks of Berserk whenever the cooldown is used, further enhancing its damage potential.

Warriors have seen several small improvements to their self-healing and survivability, though the removal of WeakAura tracking has made Spell Reflection harder to use effectively.

• Field Dressing increases incoming healing.
• Second Wind now heals twice as much when below 35% health.
• Stance Mastery significantly increases the value of Defensive Stance, making it an extremely strong mini-cooldown.

Although no major new effects or abilities, Warriors have seen a few improvements to their group utility in the new expansion.

• Rallying Cry Rallying Cry now provides a larger bonus in small group content.
• Enemies no longer becomes immune after several stuns in PvE content, allowing them to be used more liberally.
• Javelineer now causes Wrecking Throw to serve as a ranged silence, albeit on a long cooldown.
• Piercing Howl now grants allies a short movement speed buff, which is not particularly important for countering mechanics, but useful for reducing downtime between pulls.