Playstyle & Rotation Tariq Fellowship Hero Guide

Playstyle Overview

Tariq is a melee DPS built around the building and spending his main resource fury.

Fury is a build-and-spend resource generated by your Basic (Wild Swing and Face Breaker) and Core (Heavy Strike and Chain Lightning) abilities and spent on big-hitting Power abilities (Hammer Storm, Skull Crusher, and Culling Strike).

Because of the nature of building and spending fury, Tariq has a priority system rather than a fixed "rotation":

• Build fury with Basic (Wild Swing and Face Breaker) and Core (Heavy Strike and Chain Lightning) abilities. You will want to pool up to your maximum fury of 100 outside of your major cooldown Thunder Call.
• Spend fury by using Hammer Storm in AOE or Skull Crusher in ST, prioritizing burning down your pooled fury inside Thunder Call as you deal more damage with Hammer Storm and Skull Crusher during Thunder Call. You will only use these abilities outside of Thunder Call if you hit 100 fury in order to not overcap. Once an enemy falls below 30% health, Culling Strike becomes the first priority as an execute spender and you should use it whenever you have at least 10 Fury.

Core Rotation (Priority)

Below I will cover the core priority for Tariq with which you should get familiar while learning to play him. I then discuss some additional considerations while playing the talent Schism and Kill 'em All.

This priority looks like this:

1. Weapon ability (Sahril's Reckoning, Fateful Basher, or Void-Touched Hammer) if lined up with Thunder Call or Raging Tempest. (Note that if you are using Visions Of Grandeur, Raging Tempest will partially reset its cooldown based on how many ranks of Visions Of Grandeur you have. If you have 4 ranks of Visions Of Grandeur, you always want to use your weapon ability before using Raging Tempest if both are available).
2. Raging Tempest - Thunder Call - Focused Wrath (Focused Wrath can be used anytime in any Thunder Call window. If you have it up in your ultimate, try and wait for your expertise to stack up before using it to maximize the damage).
3. Free Culling Strike procs from Executioner's Unsanitary Bands if using that legendary.
4. Leap Smash to put the Slayer's Mosh effect on enemies if you are using Drape Of The Slayer King.
5. Spend Fury with:
   1. Culling Strike if you have at least 10 Fury any time a target is available.
   2. Hammer Storm at 3+ targets if you are in Thunder Call or Raging Tempest, or you are capped on fury.
   3. Skull Crusher at 1 or 2 targets if you are in Thunder Call or Raging Tempest, or you are capped on fury.
6. Generate Fury. The Fury builder priority changes based on build and target count:
   
   1. Lightning build at all target counts, or Schism build in ST:
      1. Leap Smash if you are using the talent High Road and not capped on fury.
      2. Chain Lightning if you are not capped on Fury.
      3. Heavy Strike if you are not capped on fury.
      4. Face Breaker if you are not capped on Fury.
      5. Wild Swing as filler while every other fury generator is on cooldown.
   2. Schism build in AOE:
      1. Leap Smash if you are using the talent High Road and not capped on fury.
      2. Face Breaker if you are not capped on Fury.
      3. Heavy Strike if you are not capped on fury.
      4. Chain Lightning if you are not capped on Fury.
      5. Wild Swing as filler while every other fury generator is on cooldown.

Note that Culling Strike and Leap Smash, are both off of the GCD and do not interfere with each other or your other abilities. Thus they can be used "at-will" as soon as the right Fury conditions are met. However, they will interrupt Hammer Storm mid-channel, which you normally do not want to do.

Schism Adjustments

The Schism build makes some minor adjustment to the rotation: While you do not have a Schism proc for Hammer Storm, you will always spend fury with Skull Crusher, no matter the target count. You should only use Hammer Storm if you have a Schism proc, and you should consume those procs in ST with the Focused Wrath buff. Thus the ST and AOE rotations are very similar.

Additionally, if you are using the Drape Of The Slayer King legendary, you should hold onto Leap Smash and a Schism proc if you have one to line them up together in order to maximize the damage from Schism-empowered spenders. Note that Schism procs can stack up to two charges, so you can spam Skull Crusher to get two Schism charges for Hammer Storm, then spend both in a row in a single Slayer's Mosh window with the next Leap Smash.

Kill 'Em All

If you are using the talent Kill 'em All (such as in the lightning build), you will occasionally get procs of Kill 'em All just by doing your rotation, which will immediately reset and reduce the cooldown of Heavy Strike, as well as empowering your next two Heavy Strike casts, but only for 8 seconds. You will want to be aware of these procs so that you can quickly use Heavy Strike twice to consume them before you lose them.

Interface Options

One of the most basic but important things you can do in Fellowship is mark specific targets or locations. In the Input Settings you will notice you have the ability to keybind “Mark Unit” and “Mark location”. These can be exceptionally useful for designating targets to kill or important stack points on bosses. I use mouseover mark for my kick as its easier to just mouse over a mob and mark it. Also I recommend using the "quick cast" option under targeting mode so you can just press your Leap Smash button over your mouse cursor to instantly Leap Smash and not have to press the button and then click to Leap Smash. Have a good keybind for setting your interrupt target, triggering interrupt target, and your regular kick.

Buffs and Debuffs

Fellowship has now made it way easier to keep track of your buffs and your debuffs, having an option for "important hero buffs," "hero buffs," and "hero debuffs." Place these in spots that work best for you.