Warrior Hero Talents — The War Within (11.0.5)

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Fury Warrior, check out our Talents page:

Mountain Thane offers compelling gameplay and powerful defensive bonuses, but currently lacks the competitive tuning required to compete with Slayer.

Slayer is currently strongest in all situations, providing significantly higher single target dps and very high burst potential, which is useful for dealing with the kind of short-lived waves of adds typically found in raid content.

Mountain Thane performs surprisingly well in sustained multitarget against longer lived packs of mobs, though its lack of single target causes it to fall behind when facing more powerful lieutenants and bosses. The increased survivability bonuses could make it a strong choice for very high Mythic+ key levels if the damage is tuned up though.

Slayer offers incredibly strong burst AoE, with enough single target damage to stay relevant on bosses. Although the sustained multitarget output does fall after the initial burst period is over, cooldowns come back relatively quickly, allowing it to hit several back to back pulls or waves of adds without issue. The only real downside to Slayer is the lack of increased defensive talents, though Fury does not typically have a problem with survivability anyway.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Fury Warrior

Slayer Pure Single Target Build Slayer Universal AoE Build

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Best Slayer Single Target Build for Fury Warrior

Slayer lacks compelling defensive bonuses, but offers a choice between increased mobility through Relentless Pursuit and Vicious Agility. Which is better will largely come down to circumstance, though the increased movement speed after using Charge is very helpful in raid situations where bosses get quickly pulled from one side of the other, making it a safe default choice. In the rare circumstance where Heroic Leap is needed just a few seconds sooner, Vicious Agility may be worth swapping to.

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Best Slayer AoE Build for Fury Warrior

Slayer has an interesting offensive choice bewteen Culling Cyclone and Brutal Finish. While it seems intuitive that increasing the damage of Bladestorm would be better for multitarget content, the 20% extra damage is divided by the number of targets hit, so that it will always grant the same total amount of extra damage, regardless of the number of targets hit. Because the Rampage damage bonus is applied to each target, this means that Brutal Finish is actually better against multiple targets, while Culling Cyclone is more of a single target damage increase.

Mountain Thane differs from a normal Fury Warrior in one key way: effectively replacing Whirlwind with Thunder Clap. Supported by several talents throughout all three talent trees, it deals significantly more damage, making each cast feel more impactful, while also continuing to allow single-target abilities to cleave. The result is a very similar playstyle, though Thunder Clap and its enhanced Thunder Blast proc have a much higher priority.

Slayer plays exactly like a normal Fury Warrior, simply gaining more Sudden Death procs, which are important to consume Marked for Execution, granting additional cooldown reduction for Bladestorm.