Fury Warrior PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.0.5)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Fury Warrior and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Fury Warrior PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Fury Warriors
The War Within PvP Talent Builds for Fury Warrior in Arena
Slayer - Raging Blow Fury Warrior
Slayer Fury Warrior is focused on delivering high sustained damage, doing overwhelming amounts of pressure until the enemy falls over. The amount of damage this build can push out is very strong and easily one of the better builds of this season on the melee spectrum.
There are several talents in the Fury Warrior tree that you will want to change regularly based on matchups, which are:
- Wrecking Throw / Shattering Throw: This node comes down to whether or not the enemy has magical immunities, such as Divine Shield or Ice Block. If they do, pick Shattering Throw, otherwise use Wrecking Throw for shield breaking, and if the enemy team has none of both, simply skip this node and pick something else in the talent tree.
- Anger Management / Reckless Abandon: The largest increase to your damage here is Anger Management.
- Ravager / Bladestorm: Always pick Bladestorm for the immunity to crowd control and uptime it provides you.
- Berserker Shout / Piercing Howl: Both are situational and really powerful. You should default to Piercing Howl, but choose Berserker Shout in situations where you can break fears with cooldowns on your healer, such as Intimidating Shout or Psychic Scream, reliably, or if you're confident you will have full uptime on your target.
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You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents; each has its uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. As Fury Warrior, your choices are limited as you will be running the mandatory PvP talent almost every match.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Slaughterhouse gives Fury Warrior its healing reduction effect. This effect can be powerful but, in general, hard to keep up. It should still always be picked up if your composition does not have access to a healing reduction effect. This ability counts as a Mortal Wounds effect, and because the game only uses the highest value, other effects in this category will overwrite it, such as Mortal Strike and Wound Poison from other classes.
Other healing reduction effects that fall out of this category do not, however, like Fel Fissure or Necrotic Wound.
Battlefield Commander lost a lot of power with the nerfs and no longer roots through Piercing Howl. It's still a strong pick if you have Thunderous Roar talented.
Situational PvP Talents
Master and Commander got buffed and has become much stronger when paired together with Battlefield Commander. You can use this as an additional defensive cooldown, or as a root breaker for cooldowns like Mass Entanglement + Solar Beam.
Bloodrage lets you have higher uptime on enemies than most other melee specializations. This ability will give you a much easier time sticking to targets, with only a small negative effect tied to it.
Safeguard is a very strong talent that provides an additional wall for your team, in addition to slightly more short-term mobility for you.
Enduring Rage received a rework and can be a nice addition against compositions that have an easy time shutting you down, allowing you a quick burst window to catch back up.
Battle Trance provides you great sustained healing and extra Rage to work toward more Rampage attacks.
Disarm has a short cooldown and can completely ruin the damage of weapon-based classes like Frost DK or Subtlety Rogue. This ability can even be used offensively vs. specializations that require weapons for their defensives, such as stopping an Arms Warrior from using Die by the Sword or a Death Knight from using Death Strike.
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 29 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 09 Apr. 2022: Updated to reflect the changing meta.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Page updated for Patch 9.2.
- 08 Nov. 2021: Page reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 03 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 25 Jan. 2021: Rewritten by Karanze for Shadowlands season 1.
- 05 Dec. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tier 5 Regular Talent.
- 22 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 1, 3, 5 and 7 Regular talents.
- Updated PvP talents.
- 17 Feb. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 27 Jan. 2020: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Karanze, an experienced Gladiator Warrior player who has been a Stormforged/trusted member in the popular Warrior class discord Skyhold. You can watch his stream on Twitch.
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