Fury Warrior DPS Gear, Legendaries, and Best in Slot (Legion 7.2.5)

Table of Contents

• +Introduction
  • 1. Class Overview
  • 2. Patch 7.2.5 Changes
  • 3. Patch 7.2 Changes
  • 4. Strengths
  • 5. Weaknesses
  • 6. Viability in the Current Patch
  • 7. Contents
  • 8. ChangeLog
• +Easy Mode
  • 1. The Basics
  • 2. Talent Choice
  • 3. Stat Choice
  • 4. Basic Rotation
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Spell Summary
  • 1. Spell Summary
  • 2. Main Resource
  • 3. Basic Abilities
  • 4. Important Procs
  • 5. Offensive Cooldowns
  • 6. ChangeLog
• +Builds and Talents
  • 1. Talent Choices
  • 2. Talent Cheat Sheet
    • 2.1. Open World, Levelling and Questing
    • 2.2. Dungeons and Raids
  • 3. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
  • 4. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents
  • 5. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents
  • 6. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents
  • 7. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents
  • 8. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents
  • 9. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents
  • 10. ChangeLog
• +Artifact Traits and Relics
  • 1. Artifact Progression
    • 1.1. Early Progression
    • 1.2. Patch 7.2 Post 35 Trait Path
  • 2. Artifact Ability
  • 3. Relic Choice
  • 4. ChangeLog
• +Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
  • 1. Single-Target Rotation
    • 1.1. Execute Usage
      • 1.1.1. With Tier 19 4-piece Bonus
      • 1.1.2. With Tier 20 4-piece Bonus
    • 1.2. Juggling Frothing Berserker during Execute
    • 1.3. Using Massacre with Soul of the Battlelord.
    • 1.4. Cooldown Rotation during Battle Cry
    • 1.5. Opening Rotation
  • 2. Multiple-Target Rotation
    • 2.1. Execute in Multiple-Target Situations
  • 3. Important Notes
    • 3.1. Tier 1 Talents
    • 3.2. Cooldowns
      • 3.2.1. Usage Order
      • 3.2.2. Battle Cry
      • 3.2.3. Bladestorm
      • 3.2.4. Odyn's Fury
  • 4. Mastering your Fury Warrior
    • 4.1. Rage Management
    • 4.2. Enrage
    • 4.3. Movement and Mobility
    • 4.4. Sustain and Defense
  • 5. Tier 19 Set Bonuses
    • 5.1. Tier 19 Trinkets
  • 6. Tier 20 Set Bonuses
    • 6.1. Tier 20 Trinket Optimization
  • 7. ChangeLog
• +Stat Priority
  • 1. Basics
    • 1.1. Getting a Better Understanding
    • 1.2. Statistics
    • 1.3. Breakpoints
  • 2. ChangeLog
• +Gems, Enchants, and Consumables
  • 1. Gems
  • 2. Enchants
  • 3. Consumables
  • 4. ChangeLog
• +Macros and Addons
  • 1. Macros
    • 1.1. Generic Macros for Warriors
      • 1.1.1. Bladestorm Cancelaura Macro
      • 1.1.2. Pummel Macro
      • 1.1.3. Heroic Leap Spam
    • 1.2. Specific Macros for Fury Warriors
      • 1.2.1. Bladestorm / Berserker Rage Macro
      • 1.2.2. Offensive Cooldown Macro
  • 2. Addons
    • 2.1. Generic Addons for Warriors
      • 2.1.1. ElvUI
      • 2.1.2. Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
      • 2.1.3. GTFO
      • 2.1.4. Parrot or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
      • 2.1.5. Weak Auras
      • 2.1.6. TellMeWhen
      • 2.1.7. Raeli's Spell Announcer
      • 2.1.8. Recount / Skada / Details!
      • 2.1.9. Omen Threat Meter
    • 2.2. Specific Addons for Fury Warriors
  • 3. ChangeLog
• ×Gear, Legendaries, and Best in Slot
  • 1. Best in Slot List
    • 1.1. Extra Notes
    • 1.2. Trinkets
    • 1.3. Tier 19 & 20 Bonus Combinations
    • 1.4. Evaluating Upgrades with dynamic Item Levels
  • 2. Racial Bonuses
  • 3. Legendary Items
    • 3.1. 7.1.5 Legendaries
    • 3.2. 7.2 Legendaries
    • 3.3. 7.2.5 Legendaries
    • 3.4. Recommended Choices
  • 4. Loot Competition
  • 5. ChangeLog

General Information

This page is a gear reference for Fury Warriors. It lists your best items and Legendaries, gives you gearing advice, and shows you how you will be competing for loot with other classes.

The other pages of our Fury Warrior guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

About Our Author and Reviewer

This guide has been written by Wordup, a frequent theorycrafter involved in a number of class communities. He is also an experienced player who has been in the world top 100 since the days of Sunwell, currently raiding in Echoes. You can also follow him on Twitter.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Archimtiros, one of the best DPS Warriors in the world, who raids in Infinity. You can follow him on Twitter.

1. Best in Slot List

With the existence of Titanforged and Mythic+ dungeons, there is no such thing as a hard Best in Slot anymore. This is more of a guideline for the best pieces to keep an eye out for in your raid or dungeon (if applicable). Be smart, and if you find higher item level pieces with valuable stat combinations do not hesitate to upgrade to them.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Armet of the Rotten Mind	The Desolate Host
Neck	String of Extracted Incisors	Demonic Inquisition
Shoulders	Titanic Onslaught Pauldrons	Fallen Avatar
Cloak	Titanic Onslaught Cloak	The Desolate Host
Chest	Titanic Onslaught Breastplate	Maiden of Vigilance
Wrists	Vambraces of Resolute Justice	Tomb of Sargeras Trash
Gloves	Groundshatter Gauntlets	Fallen Avatar
Belt	Girdle of the Crumbling Sanctum	Tomb of Sargeras Trash
Legs	Titanic Onslaught Greaves	Mistress Sassz'ine
Boots	Iron Ballast Sabatons	Mistress Sassz'ine
Ring #1	Seal of the Second Duumvirate	Kil'jaeden
Ring #2	Scaled Band of Servitude	Harjatan
Trinket #1	Umbral Moonglaives	Sisters of the Moon
Trinket #2	Convergence of Fates	Grand Magistrix Elisande

1.1. Extra Notes

The Jeweled Signet of Melandrus provides a relatively significant bonus to Fury whilst still having a reasonably balanced stat budget on it. As melee attacks contribute a good amount via the Enrage effect, the bonus auto damage can generate anywhere up to 1% extra DPS, so if you can acquire a powerful version of this ring it will be a very powerful choice.

1.2. Trinkets

With the trinkets listed, this assumes that you are comparing against equal item level pieces, therefore in some cases due to the scaling effect, this list can be inaccurate. The gear used is a Tomb of Sargeras profile with the Tier 20 4-piece bonus equipped:

Convergence of Fates remains the absolute best choice for Fury considering how significant the impact of your Battle Cry effect is, so gaining the cooldown reduction is significant enough to keep this an auto equip.

Draught of Souls has been nerfed by 40% for Fury, an amount significant enough for Fury that it is never advised to equip, due to how much you now lose by spending a significant amount of your short Battle Cry and Enrage windows on it.

All of the Tomb of Sargeras trinkets come with some caveats that can exclude them for many fight types, which may interfere with how realistic they are in reality compared to where they appear on the list. Due to this I quickly covered the melee specific trinkets below:

• Specter of Betrayal requires you to recast it on cooldown to gain the value from a double hit. Given that the Specter cannot be moved, boss position can have a dramatic impact given how small the gain it shows is.
• Cradle of Anguish has the issue of requiring you to take very little damage to prevent losing the stacks. This liability cannot be understated, but if this does not impact you is a solid option.
• Engine of Eradication has very high uptime and despite being heavy on Mastery, it comes with a good primary stat proc. Unfortunately with Strength being weaker for Fury, this is currently not ideal. Orb positions can also sometimes be problematic, making it potentially cumbersome.
• Vial of Ceaseless Toxins provides a consistent source of damage with a big chunk of Strength, alongside having the added effect of being gameable on certain fights. An average choice but nothing special.
• Umbral Moonglaives interacts perfectly with Battle Cry, allowing you to frontload a high burst of damage during the effect akin to Draught of Souls in Nighthold.
• Infernal Cinders has a difficult value to quantify because of the scaling effect with other players. However due to being loaded with just Critical Strike and dealing relatively low damage, it does not appear to be a great option.

Be on the look out for Haste stat sticks as well when closing in on certain breakpoint areas that bring up the value of Haste. Aside from that, Unstable Arcanocrystal remains a powerhouse alongside Chaos Talisman as the most powerful frontloaded Haste items; unfortunately reaching a competitive Item Level is difficult, so do not actively aim for them.

1.3. Tier 19 & 20 Bonus Combinations

The Fury Tier 19 2-piece isn't really impactful enough to actively maintain unless you have unrealistic item levels on Tier 19 items, alongside not having any special synergy with the Tier 20 2-piece. This is made even worse by this combination directly blocking the two best legendaries (Helm/Legs) and as such is not something to consider.

1.4. Evaluating Upgrades with dynamic Item Levels

Due to the Warforging/Titanforging system, having a full comprehensive list of gear ranked against each other would be far too elaborate and confusing to compile, and as such it is recommended instead to evaluate upscaled items using rough stat weights. As always with weights, they can change depending on your gear and to get them perfectly accurate for your character, it is always advised to simulate it yourself, however for the purpose of this I will use example Fury stat weights:

These were calculated using a 52 point Artifact and ideal trinkets:

• Haste: 1.2
• Mastery: 1.18
• Versatility: 1.15
• Strength: 1
• Critical Strike: 0.97

If we then compare two pairs of gloves, we can get a rough evaluation of which to use. Starting with Insect-Etched Chestplate, comes with 1715 Strength, 1012 Mastery, and 448 Versatility, so we can use this to calculate a relative value:

Then comparing to Horror Inscribed Chestguard, comes with 1715 Strength, 1043 Critical Strike, and 417 Haste, which can be evaluated in a similar way:

Through this we can see that the value of Insect-Etched Chestplate is higher than Horror Inscribed Chestguard, and is the better choice to use. As said though, these weights can differ depending on the content you are doing, your talent selections, and the other gear you are currently wearing, as many stats synergise with others and scale exponentially, increasing their value.

2. Racial Bonuses

Racial bonuses are quite minimal for most classes currently, and this is also true for Fury. Whilst this image shows rough estimations for each Race, there are always extra factors that can push some Races above the more passive ones, so I would recommend playing whichever you like the most as the difference is so minor. Gnome appears with such a strong showing due to synergy with both Frothing Berserker and Reckless Abandon with the additional Rage cap, rather than any other effect.

3. Legendary Items

Legendary items have a high item level of 970, which makes them extremely strong. They are so strong, in fact, that a legendary item is always going to be worth equipping over any other item you might have in that slot.

However, there is a limitation on the number of legendary items you can have equipped at any one time (by default 1, but by now most players should be able to equip 2). Since some legendary items are better than others, if you have more items than the limit, you will have to choose which ones to equip.

Below, we will do our best to guide you through this process, as well as provide any other relevant information.

Ayala's Stone Heart opens up Execute usage above the 20% threshhold, and helps to round out Massacre when equipped. Due to Fury relying more on consistent Execute casts to stack up Juggernaut, it is not currently a desirable choice.

Kazzalax, Fujieda's Fury provides a consistent flat 5% damage increase, alongside an extra healing boost. A solid increase in all situations impacting all damage, but the stats leave something to be desired. Still a powerful option.

Ceann-Ar Charger increases your Enrage uptime through the additional Rage gained when you activate it. Increasing this uptime is extremely important to Fury, and as such is a top tier Legendary, and if available should be your first choice.

Naj'entus's Vertebrae provides a 33% increase to Whirlwind on 3 targets or more. Is a great choice in AoE situations, and synergises very well with Wrecking Ball.

Aggramar's Stride provides additional mobility, and given that Haste is so valuable to Fury, is a fairly significant boost. This however is not a very required benefit as Fury already has good access to movement tools, and is not recommended.

Mannoroth's Bloodletting Manacles grants a solid incoming heal as Fury can generate a lot of Rage very quickly, and heal in bulk with this. It is purely defensive and the overall benefit can be mitigated if there is no incoming damage, so is a situational pick. It can, however, help to offset the punishment dealt out through the increased damage taken with Enrage active so has great solo applications. 7.2 added additional Versatility to this item's budget making it slightly more appealing, but still not an ideal choice compared to output legendaries.

Sephuz's Secret has some fringe bonuses for extra mobility and an extra Haste proc activating after crowd control and interrupt effects, such as Intimidating Shout, unfortunately this has a long cooldown and requires targets vulnerable to Fear. There are talent options that can improve the uptime, and if you are able to consistently activate this then it is a solid choice.

Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus can have some powerful survivability uses to survive large bursts of raid damage if it syncs up with the recharge time alongside the additional stat budget. Considered to be a very powerful option for progression and difficult content due to this.

3.1. 7.1.5 Legendaries

Timeless Stratagem provides additional mobility if needed during an encounter, but has no other impact and as such is a niche item to be used if necessary, as it provides no meaningful damage increase. 7.2 has added additional Versatility to this item's budget making it slightly more appealing, but still not an ideal choice compared to output legendaries.

Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish is a powerful stat stick trinket with an equally powerful on use effect that deals AoE damage on a 1.15-minute cooldown. This does not scale with any secondary effects (but is amplified by Unrivaled Strength), so is relegated mostly to being used in situations where you can get extra use out of the AoE damage.

3.2. 7.2 Legendaries

Rethu's Incessant Courage is a new crafted legendary added in 7.2. Its effect triggers a small heal every 3 seconds if an enemy is within 8 yards, but if not grants 15% movement speed. This is predominantly an open world content item without any real group content applications, however, it does come with 3 prismatic sockets making it a great stat stick option if needed.

3.3. 7.2.5 Legendaries

Soul of the Battlelord grants the Massacre talent, allowing you to pick an additional talent on the Level 75 tier, either Carnage or Frothing Berserker. This can be very powerful, but it relies on the length of the Execute phase on any given fight, so is a much more specific choice.

Valarjar Berserkers cause your Rampage critical strikes to generate 6 Rage, significantly increasing the uptime on your Enrage effect. A fantastic choice due to the loss of Tier 19 leading into Tomb of Sargeras to soften the blow of reduced Enrage uptime.

3.4. Recommended Choices

Generally, you cannot choose which legendary you get but now as the expansion moves on people have a much wider choice of items to choose from. If you find yourself wondering what to use, some good choices are as follows (in no particular order):

Single Target:

• Ceann-Ar Charger
• Valarjar Berserkers
• Kazzalax, Fujieda's Fury
• Soul of the Battlelord assuming extended Execute phases.

Multiple Target:

• Naj'entus's Vertebrae
• Ceann-Ar Charger
• Kazzalax, Fujieda's Fury
• Valarjar Berserkers

4. Loot Competition

Regarding the loot you will get from raid or dungeon bosses, you will compete with other classes in the following cases:

Item Type	Competing Classes
Tier Tokens	Hunters, Monks, Shamans, and Fury/Protection Warriors
Plate Armor	Death Knights, Paladins, and Fury/Protection Warriors
Amulets Cloaks Rings	Everyone
Trinkets	Frost/Unholy Death Knights, Retribution Paladins, and Fury Warriors

5. ChangeLog

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• 24 Jun. 2017: Incorrect legendary Belt effect fixed.
• 14 Jun. 2017: Added note regarding Tier 19/20 2/4pc combinations.
• 13 Jun. 2017: Updated with new simulations including Tomb of Sargeras gear, new Trinket recommendations and additional Patch 7.2.5 Legendaries.
• 27 Mar. 2017: Added 7.2 legendary changes.
• 10 Jan. 2017: Added trinket sims.
• 10 Jan. 2017: Updated gear pages for 7.1.5 Nighthold gear, more to follow regarding Trinkets.
• 27 Oct. 2016: Added extra notes about the Jeweled Signet of Melandrus.
• 25 Oct. 2016: Updated BiS trinkets and added trinket simulations.
• 30 Sep. 2016: Another pass on BiS.
• 28 Sep. 2016: Updated BiS.
• 18 Sep. 2016: Re-did weight calculations with new weights.
• 29 Aug. 2016: Updated for Legion's launch.
• 19 Jul. 2016: Removed trinket sims and added BiS recommendations.
• 19 Jul. 2016: Updated for the Legion pre-patch.