Season of Discovery Fury Warrior DPS Talents and Runes

Fury is typically known for dual-wielding (DW) and this playstyle is supported by the tree with talents such as Dual Wield Specialization and Unbridled Wrath.

The tree itself is quite straightforward, as most talents are simply not very useful for adding damage. Ultimately what you want is obtaining goodies such as Death Wish and Flurry in the Fury tree, and combining them with Deep Wounds and Impale in the Arms tree for maximum damage.

• Gloves — Single-Minded Fury
• Pants — Consumed By Rage
• Chest — Raging Blow
• Waist — Blood Surge
• Feet — Rallying Cry or Enraged Regeneration
• Head — Endless Rage
• Wrist — Rampage
• Back — Sudden Death
• Ring — Mace Specialization or similar depending on your weapon
• Ring — Dagger Specialization or similar depending on your weapon

Single-Minded Fury is a great passive damage increase when you are dual-wielding. Blood Surge enables free Slams during your rotation and the strong Consumed By Rage buff can be reliably kept up with proper Rage management, which will enable Raging Blow, a strong extra attack.

The decision on Enraged Regeneration or Rallying Cry depends on the encounter: if you have a specific use planned for Rallying Cry, then use it, otherwise Enraged Regeneration is more generically helpful.

Endless Rage will provide you more Rage to use on your rotation and Heroic Strikes, while Rampage is a small but also short cooldown DPS buff.

Finally, Sudden Death allows you to Execute even before enemies are low health, and a weapon specialization Rune such as Mace Specialization or similar depending on your weapon is mandatory to drastically increase your Hit chance and reduce Glancing Blow chance and penalty against end game bosses.

Make sure to check our Warrior Rune guide in order to learn where to get all the SoD runes!

Cruelty is a staple of all kinds of Warriors, as trading one talent point for 1% extra chance to critical strike is usually a good deal.

Unbridled Wrath suits dual wielding well, as the more often you attack, the more often you activate this talent for extra Rage.

Piercing Howl can provide a reliable source of soft crowd control in an emergency. Whether it is because the tank lost aggro on some enemies or because you need to run away to recover health, Piercing Howl will make things more manageable.

Improved Battle Shout is a nice damage boost for a full party of melee players. If you are able to provide it at little cost to your performance, it is a good idea to do so.

Improved Cleave is not quite as impactful as it sounds, since the damage increase only applies to the extra damage applied by Cleave and not the whole attack. Still, it can be better than the alternatives for DPS, as long as you have another alternative in your group to replace Improved Battle Shout.

Enrage is mostly taken to reach Flurry, as you should rarely be hit with critical strikes while dealing damage.

Improved Slam used to be good in a two-hander Fury build but with the new runes Blood Surge and Precise Timing, you will usually be casting instant slams, making it useless.

Flurry increases your damage substantially, as long as you are dealing critical strikes regularly. With good enough gear, you will eventually be able to keep this up nearly 100% of the time.

Death Wish is a large damage increase cooldown which also makes you more vulnerable. Use it as many times as possible within a fight, but try to save your final usage for the Execute phase for maximum results, as long as its effect ends before you run out of targets to hit.

Bloodthirst provides an extra attack to further increase your damage, with a little bit of regeneration sprinkled in.

Tactical Mastery is required for stance swapping to work, as you would lose all Rage every time you swap stance, otherwise. As a Fury Warrior, stance dancing is mostly used for utility purposes.

Anger Management generates 1 Rage every 3 seconds, which is not clear at all from reading its tooltip. This makes it a decent Rage generating talent.

Deep Wounds is especially powerful in Season of Discovery as multiple critical strikes will all contribute towards making the debuff tick for more, rather than just refreshing an existing debuff. This makes it the single largest contributor to Fury Warrior DPS in the level 50 bracket!

Impale, once at decent levels of gear, is a major damage contributor to a Warrior, while only requiring an investment of 17 points into the Arms tree, allowing for deep Fury to still be reached.