Fury Warrior DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — 12.1

The Fury Warrior rotation is a priority list, in which each time an ability is cast, the user should start back at the top of the list, establishing a hierarchy of importance. Because Recklessness has a major effect on how Rage is generated and spend, this list is split up based on whether or not cooldowns are currently active.

Tier Set and the Rotation

The Season 2 tier set increases the damage of rotational abilities, while causing them to buff Recklessness. Slayer handles this automatically with Unhinged, while Mountain Thane must use both Bloodthirst and Raging Blow during its cooldowns.

• Warrior Fury 12.1 Class Set 2pc
• Warrior Fury 12.1 Class Set 4pc

During Recklessness, Rage is generated faster and Rampage can be used sooner, though it should not be used as soon as it is available. Instead, Rampage is delayed until approaching the Rage cap, in order to create room for other abilities.

1. Cast Rampage with more than 100 Rage or if Enrage is not active
2. Cast Thunder Blast with 2 stacks of the Thunder Blast buff, less than 2 seconds of Avatar remaining, or less than 3 seconds remaining on the Thunder Blast buff
3. Cast Bloodbath twice to apply the Season 2 tier set critical strike chance buff
4. Cast Crushing Blow while the Hack and Slash buff is active
5. Cast Bloodbath
6. Cast Rampage
7. Cast Thunder Blast
8. Cast Crushing Blow
9. Cast Execute
10. Cast Thunder Clap if nothing else is available
11. Spam Rampage immediately before using Bladestorm
12. Cast Bladestorm during Recklessness
13. Cast Execute with Sudden Death
14. Spam Rampage if the Hack and Slash buff is not active
15. Cast Crushing Blow
16. Cast Odyn's Fury
17. Cast Execute
18. Cast Bloodbath
19. Cast Crushing Blow

Outside cooldowns, Rampage is less frequently delayed, though without the extra rage generation from Recklessness, it must be used every few casts in order to maintain Enrage. The rest of the rotation is fairly similar, though Bloodthirst and Raging Blow must be weaved more to generate the extra rage needed to use Rampage.

1. Cast Recklessness on cooldown
2. Cast Avatar on cooldown
3. Cast Rampage when over 100 Rage or if Enrage is about to expire
4. Cast Raging Blow with the Hack and Slash buff active
5. Cast Thunder Blast
6. Cast Rampage
7. Cast Bloodthirst
8. Cast Execute with Deep Wounds talented
9. Cast Odyn's Fury
10. Cast Raging Blow
11. Cast Execute
12. Cast Thunder Clap when nothing else is available
13. Cast Odyn's Fury
14. Cast Execute
15. Cast Raging Blow
16. Cast Rampage
17. Cast Bloodthirst
18. Cast Whirlwind when nothing else is available

Against multiple targets, Fury Warriors make extensive use of Whirlwind and Thunder Clap for damage, while also enabling their normal rotation to cleave four additional targets.

Tier Set and the Rotation

The Season 2 tier set increases the damage of rotational abilities, while causing them to buff Recklessness. Slayer handles this automatically with Unhinged, while Mountain Thane must use both Bloodthirst and Raging Blow during its cooldowns.

• Warrior Fury 12.1 Class Set 2pc
• Warrior Fury 12.1 Class Set 4pc

During Recklessness, Rage is generated faster and Rampage can be used sooner, though it should not be used as soon as it is available. Instead, Rampage is delayed until approaching the Rage cap, in order to create room for other abilities.

1. Cast Odyn's Fury if Enrage is not already active
2. Cast Rampage if Enrage is not already active
3. Cast Thunder Blast
4. Cast Thunder Clap against more than 6 targets
5. Cast Rampage with more than 100 rage, or if Enrage is about to fall
6. Cast Bloodbath
7. Cast Crushing Blow with the Hack and Slash buff active
8. Cast Rampage
9. Cast Thunder Clap
10. Cast Crushing Blow
11. Cast Whirlwind to apply the Improved Whirlwind buff whenever it is not active
12. Cast Rampage as much as possible
13. Cast Bladestorm during Recklessness
14. Cast Execute with Sudden Death
15. Cast Odyn's Fury
16. Cast Crushing Blow
17. Cast Bloodbath
18. Cast Execute

Outside cooldowns, Rampage is similarly delayed, though for reasons of rage efficiency in order to maintain a better Enrage uptime. Without the extra rage generation from Recklessness, this is a much more important factor and results in a very different gameplay cadence.

1. Cast Whirlwind if Improved Whirlwind is not active
2. Cast Odyn's Fury
3. Cast Avatar
4. Cast Recklessness
5. Cast Thunder Blast
6. Cast Thunder Clap if the Improved Whirlwind buff is not active or against 7+ targets
7. Cast Rampage when over 100 Rage or if Enrage is about to expire
8. Cast Bloodthirst
9. Cast Thunder Blast
10. Cast Raging Blow with the Hack and Slash buff active
11. Cast Execute
12. Cast Rampage
13. Cast Raging Blow
14. Cast Thunder Clap if nothing else is available
15. Cast Rampage
16. Cast Execute with Sudden Death
17. Cast Odyn's Fury
18. Cast Execute
19. Cast Raging Blow
20. Cast Bloodthirst
21. Cast Whirlwind to fill the rotation

Slayer revolves around Sudden Death and Bladestorm, though it is still important to keep Bloodthirst on cooldown for damage and Enrage.

• Consuming Sudden Death reduces the cooldown of Bladestorm based on the number of Executioner stacks.
• Sudden Death can stack twice, so it does not need to be used immediately, but should not be delayed unnecessarily to avoid overcapping.
• Bladestorm triggers multiple talents, making it better to use early in Recklessness, to maximize the overlap of buffing effects.
• Storm Bolt can be cast during Bladestorm for an extremely minor amount of extra damage, any time the stun is not needed.

Mountain Thane effectively replaces Whirlwind with Thunder Clap, which becomes greatly empowered during Avatar.

• Thunder Clap is occasionally replaced by Thunder Blast. Though they deal a very similar amount of direct damage, Blast is extends the duration of Avatar and always triggers an extra Lightning Strike, making it much stronger than the tooltip implies.
• During Avatar, the cooldown of Thunder Clap is greatly reduced, allowing it to be used every other global cooldown. It should be kept on cooldown when facing a high number of targets, though in single or low-cleave situations, it is better saved as an intermittent filler.
• Recklessness and Avatar have the same cooldown and are equally affected by Anger Management, allowing them to be safely used together with a macro.