Introduction
My name is Dan, perhaps better known as Danwarr. I have been playing WoW since late Vanilla and Warrior specifically since Mists of Pandaria. I have raided with Method since Castle Nathria, always as DPS Warrior.
Fury Warrior Overview
Fury Warrior has access to significant consistent Cleave damage through their Improved Whirlwind stacks. This offers AoE damage on up to 5 targets at all times with no major single target damage loss. Fury also has access to significant condensed burst AoE damage in both hero talents through Odyn's Fury, Bladestorm and Thunder Clap/Thunder Blast.
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Fury Warrior
This patch has come with a few changes to Fury Warrior:
- Rampaging Ruin redesigned - Now causes your Rampage to deliver additional AoE damage on the final strike if used while you have stack(s) of Whirlwind remaining.
- Hack & Slash - Now has a 75% chance on Rampage cast to refund a charge of Raging Blow and additionally causes your next Raging Blow to deal 20% additional damage.
- New talent Carving Blades - Whirlwind deals an additional 50% damage when used against a single target.
- Whirlwind now generates 3 Rage baseline. Additionally, the Improved Whirlwind talent no longer generates 3 Rage baseline but still generates 1 Rage per additional target hit up to a maximum of 8 Rage.
- Bloodbath initial damage reduced by 12%. Bloodbath bleed damage increased by 300%.
Mountain Thane:
- Thunder Blast has received numerous damage buffs.
- Crashing Thunder hero talent now increases Thunder Clap damage by 10% (was 30%). This does NOT affect Thunder Blast.
- Ground Current damage increased by 150%.
Slayer:
- Executioner is no longer capped at 3 stacks.