Fury Warrior Guide — Class Guides · WoW Classic

Dual-wield damage from Bloodthirst, Flurry and a deeper Rage pool: a raid damage tree.

A plate-wearing melee fighter who builds Rage by dealing and taking damage and spends it on attacks, shouts and stances. Warriors tank with a shield in Defensive Stance or deal melee damage with two-handed or dual-wielded weapons. More about the warrior

Class: Warrior
Roles: Damage, Tank
Used for: Raids and dungeons
Top talent: Bloodthirst
Popular builds: 4
Version: WoW Classic

How to play

Fury is the raid damage tree. You dual-wield, keep Battle Shout up and turn Rage into Bloodthirst, Whirlwind and Heroic Strike. Flurry speeds up your next swings after every critical strike, Unbridled Wrath adds Rage from white hits, and Death Wish and Recklessness stack for burst on bosses. Most Fury warriors take Impale and Deep Wounds from Arms too.

The rotation is a priority list rather than a sequence: Bloodthirst when ready, Whirlwind when ready, and Heroic Strike queued whenever you have Rage to spare. A queued Heroic Strike also makes your off-hand hit more often while it waits. Some Fury warriors use one slow two-hander instead, relying on Slam or, in Horde groups, the shaman's Windfury Totem.

Fury is limited by threat: you hit hard enough to pull enemies off a fresh tank. Watch your threat, hold Heroic Strike when you're close to the tank, and use Execute for the last 20% of a boss's health, where it replaces everything else.

At a glance

Single-target damage
Damage to groups
Survivability
Utility for the group
Solo play and leveling
Ease of play

Rated 1 to 5 against the other specs in WoW Classic.

Rotation and priorities

1Keep Battle Shout up for your group.
2Bloodthirst whenever it is ready.
3Whirlwind whenever it is ready, in Berserker Stance.
4Heroic Strike (Cleave on several enemies) whenever your Rage is high, so it never caps.
5Below 20% health, Execute replaces everything else.
6Death Wish and Recklessness together with trinkets for the burn phase or the execute.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

The highest melee damage in Classic raids with good gear.
Scales with every upgrade: hit, crit and Rage feed each other.
Can off-tank in Defensive Stance with a shield.
Death Wish and Recklessness give big burst for kill windows.

Weaknesses

Needs heavy gear and consumables to perform.
Pulls threat easily: you have to watch your threat.
Takes 10% more damage in Berserker Stance and dies first to cleaves.
Weak leveling before Bloodthirst and the dual-wield talents come together.

Stats and gear

Stat priority

Most valuable first. Bars compare each stat with the best one; a cap in the note means the stat drops off once you reach it.

1
Hitto 9% for special attacks, 6% with +5 weapon skill
2
Weapon skill+5 from racials or Edgemaster's Handguards
3
Strength2 attack power each
4
Critical strikekeeps Flurry up
5
Agility
6
Stamina

What to look for

Two one-handed weapons: a slow main hand (2.6 speed or more) for bigger Heroic Strikes and Whirlwinds, and the best off-hand you can find. Swords and maces suit Humans, axes suit Orcs.
Hit until 9% (6% with +5 weapon skill), then Strength and crit. White swings keep gaining from hit beyond the cap, but much less.
Crusader on both weapons; Strength or Agility on the rest.
Raid consumables are a large part of Fury damage: elixirs, Strength food and Rage potions.

Items worth chasing

Lionheart HelmCrafted plate helm with Strength, crit and hit.
Devilsaur GauntletsCrafted leather gloves with attack power and hit.
Edgemaster's Handguards+7 weapon skill with axes, daggers and swords.
Hand of JusticeExtra attacks and attack power in a trinket slot.
Blackhand's BreadthA trinket of critical strike chance.
Onslaught GirdleStrength, hit and crit in one raid belt.

Builds

Each bar splits the build's talent points by tree.

Arms
Fury
Protection

Flurry Berserker
DamagePvE
1734
17/34/0
The raid standard for dual wielders: Bloodthirst, Flurry and Death Wish turn every critical strike into faster swings, and Impale makes those crits hit harder.
- Impale 2/2
- Dual Wield Specialization 5/5
- Death Wish 1/1
- Flurry 5/5
- Bloodthirst 1/1
Open in the talent calculator Theorycrafting Talent order by level
Windfury Greatblade
DamagePvE
2031
20/31/0
Two-handed Fury for Horde raids: Bloodthirst and Flurry around one slow weapon, with Two-Handed Weapon Specialization and Impale so every Windfury Totem proc lands hard.
- Anger Management 1/1
- Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 3/5
- Death Wish 1/1
- Flurry 5/5
- Bloodthirst 1/1
Open in the talent calculator Theorycrafting
Slam Juggernaut
DamagePvE
1932
19/32/0
Improved Slam makes Slam quick enough to weave between the swings of a slow two-hander, while Bloodthirst and Flurry carry the rest of the rotation.
- Anger Management 1/1
- Improved Slam 5/5
- Death Wish 1/1
- Flurry 5/5
- Bloodthirst 1/1
Open in the talent calculator Theorycrafting
Bloodthirst Off-Tank
TankPvE
3120
0/31/20
Fury/Protection for off-tanking: dual-wield Bloodthirst threat, plus Defiance, Shield Specialization and Last Stand to survive when the boss turns to you.
- Piercing Howl 1/1
- Death Wish 1/1
- Flurry 5/5
- Bloodthirst 1/1
- Last Stand 1/1
Open in the talent calculator Theorycrafting

Key talents

Bloodthirst · top talent, up to 1
Instantly attack the target causing damage equal to 45% of your attack power. In addition, the next 5 successful melee attacks will restore 10 health. This effect lasts 8 sec.
Cruelty · tier 1, up to 5
Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 5%.
Unbridled Wrath · tier 2, up to 5
Gives you a 40% chance to generate an additional Rage point when you deal melee damage with a weapon.
Improved Battle Shout · tier 3, up to 5
Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Battle Shout by 25%.
Dual Wield Specialization · tier 4, up to 5
Increases the damage done by your offhand weapon by 25%.
Improved Execute · tier 4, up to 2
Reduces the Rage cost of your Execute ability by 5.
Enrage · tier 4, up to 5
Gives you a 25% melee damage bonus for 12 sec up to a maximum of 12 swings after being the victim of a critical strike.
Death Wish · tier 5, up to 1
When activated, increases your physical damage by 20% and makes you immune to Fear effects, but lowers your armor and all resistances by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.
Flurry · tier 6, up to 5
Increases your attack speed by 30% for your next 3 swings after dealing a melee critical strike.

Fury abilities by level

When each ability arrives: trained abilities at the level a trainer first teaches them, talent abilities (gold frame) at the first level the talent can be taken.