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Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions: State of Fury Warrior
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18.06.2018 um 18:53
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We're back with another Community Opinions article. This week, we've decided to take another look at the state of Fury Warriors, as they recently received large changes on the Battle for Azeroth Beta.
We reached out to the Warrior community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and the current state of Fury.
Make sure to check out our
comprehensive list of class changes
which is updated after every build. Here are the Community Opinion articles we've done in the past:
Affliction Warlocks
Balance Druids
Mythic Dungeon Invitational Time Trial and Group Stage
State of Death Knights
State of Demon Hunters
State of Druids
State of Hunters
State of Mages
State of Monk
State of Paladins
State of Priests
State of Rogue
State of Shamans
State of Warlocks
State of Warriors
For Fury Warriors, we have the opinions of three community members -- Archimtiros, Corejo, and FurySlouch on the State of Fury Warriors. Make sure to check out the Warrior Discord,
Skyhold
, for more Warrior discussions!
Archimtiros
is the DPS Warrior theorycrafter and guide author.
Corejo
is a contributor to the Arms Compendium, Warrior Discord moderator, and
Youtuber
.
FurySlouch
is a Warrior Poet, Discord Stormforged, and
streamer
.
Fury has undergone considerable changes since its rework in builds 26734 and 26788, and rarely have I seen an overhaul which so well addresses all of the major community concerns. Not only was every problematic interaction addressed, each are were further improved upon.
The longstanding GCD bug with
Toben
has been fixed, but to take it a step further, the damage/animation now compresses with Haste as well.
Furious Slash has been merged into
Wirbelwind
, which not only generates rage, but extras rage per target hit, simplifying the decision between them and helping maintain
Wutanfall
when engaging multiple targets.
With that opportunity cost for using
Wirbelwind
gone, but why stop there? Now the next two abilities cleave instead of only one, and every ability can be cleaved, including
Hinrichten
!
Not stopping at
Wirbelwind
, every special ability now generates rage, allowing them to be more easily incorporated into the rotation, instead of asking the player to guess how much damage outweighs how much rage and at how many targets.
Hinrichten
no longer competes with
Toben
, but rather compliments it, allowing
Wutanfall
to be maintained during
Hinrichten
without relying on a specific talent.
Klingensturm
fits inside
Wutanfall
, and finally finds its place back into the spec.
Siegesrausch
has returned, allowing Fury even stronger self-sustain.
Wutanfall
no longer increases damage taken, and now overloads the spec with Haste, finally selling the fantasy of a Fast and Furious attacker.
These overhauls have been a resounding success, and create one of the most satisfying specs I’ve ever played. The core gameplay loop is still the same as in Legion, revolving around
Wutanfall
, but the rotation isn’t complicated - it doesn’t need to be; it thrives on engagement, flooding the player with Haste to create a frantic pace seldom seen outside of Heroism.
Talents are now much more logically laid out and allow the spec to excel at what it’s built to do, such as
Massaker
reinforcing Warriors as the premier
Hinrichten
class, but what’s really interesting are the changes in the base rotation:
Wütender Schlag
no longer requiring
Wutanfall
plays similar to Legion
Innere Wut
, but operating on a charge system with resets adds just enough variance to make the otherwise simple rotation interesting.
Hinrichten
on a cooldown keeps the other buttons relevant, and the 3 GCDs between each cast is just different enough from the normal 2 GCD gap between
Blutdurst
and
Wirbelwind
to make the spec feel frantic as multiple abilities become available at the same time.
Tollkühnheit
as a resource cooldown significantly alters the pace of the rotation, as
Toben
becomes usable as often as every other GCD, still creating a power spike, but in a rotational way rather than boosting damage directly like most cooldowns.
An early Q&A talked about the apparent pruning removing the various artifact and legendary powers from Legion, along with their decision not to add any new talent tiers or customization in Battle for Azeroth, with the logic of “resetting” specs to a new baseline, setting a standard for future expansions. In that regard, I believe they’ve succeeded here; while there’s been a great deal of recent complaining over the state of “unfinished” specs, Fury is most certainly not one of them!
Pros
: Better talents, cleave,
Hinrichten
, and
Wutanfall
; better, faster, stronger in near every regard.
Cons
:
Sturmangriff
and
Anspornender Schrei
don’t feel as though they should be on the GCD.
Fury has received a number of talent changes in the recent BfA Beta builds. Most talents are engaging and innovative, with many familiar to Warriors, but a refreshing change from Legion’s seldomly changed builds.
Level 15 improves Rage generation.
Kriegsmaschine
feels really good to play with especially with high uptime, although losing the Haste buff from Legion makes it a bit lackluster in comparison.
Endlose Wut
and
Frischfleisch
are both fairly straightforward, helping
Wutanfall
uptime directly.
Level 45 enhances the rotation.
Innere Wut
is pretty simple in smoothing the rotation out a bit, allowing less time spent using your filler,
Wirbelwind
.
Plötzlicher Tod
is amazing with Fury’s new
Hinrichten
allowing bursts of rage generation and high damage.
Wütendes Schlitzen
increasing haste and offering a better filler than
Wirbelwind
feels more distinct than Legion Frenzy just buffing the existing filler.
Level 75 revolves around spending with
Toben
.
Gemetzel
is one of my favorites; more frequent, harder hitting
Toben
s really fits the theme.
Massaker
helps you get more
Hinrichten
s off which is always a warriors dream, pretty rad.
Wutschäumender Berserker
is especially interesting for me, increasing rage cost of
Toben
but making it apply a big steroid is a great idea.
Level 90 is centered on multitarget.
Metzger
really helps increase
Wutanfall
uptime during heavy AoE.
Drachengebrüll
is meant to feel similar to Odyn’s Fury which helps soften the blow in not seeing it return from Legion.
Klingensturm
gets some big QoL changes; now generating Rage, and with a much shorter duration allowing it to better fit inside
Wutanfall
.
Level 100 amplifies cooldown use.
is the Legion version on steroids; helping
Tollkühnheit
last MUCH longer than before, and feel insanely powerful as a result.
Anger Management is alright, feels like you still have Convergence of Fates, without wearing the same trinket all expansion.
I really liked
Belagerungsbrecher
back in WoD, but now it feels like a gimped version of Colossus Smash, so I’m not the biggest fan. It’s a little too similar to Arms gameplay, which doesn’t feel like Fury to me.
Most satisfying
:
Plötzlicher Tod
,
Gemetzel
,
Wutschäumender Berserker
,
Drachengebrüll
,
.
Biggest letdowns
:
Innere Wut
,
Metzger
,
Belagerungsbrecher
.
Overall, I’m impressed with most of the talent changes, and I might actually play Fury in Battle for Azeroth instead of avoiding it like the plague!Hallelujah, fury changes have finally come, and they come a plenty! Most exciting for me are the changes to Fury’s cleave/AoE capabilities:
First and foremost, the extensive changes to
Wirbelwind
improve Fury’s multitarget considerably.
Wirbelwind
allows all single target spells to be cleaved up to 4 additional targets (cleaved
Hinrichten
s HYPE!) is much more engaging, and
Wirbelwind
generating extra rage per target hit better maintains
Wutanfall
, helping
Wirbelwind
feel like a more meaningful filler than it did before it was merged with Furious Slash. On top of that, Fury still brings reliable burst to the table with talents like
Klingensturm
and
Drachengebrüll
, despite no longer having access to Odyn’s Fury in Battle for Azeroth. These elements combine to speed up and smooth out the rotation, making AoE much more fun to play, and the damage much more consistently spread out, rather than clumped together in burst windows created by Battle Cry, Odyn’s Fury, and
Kriegsmaschine
, which I feel is a much better direction for the class and game altogether.
Kriegsmaschine
has been a crucial part of Fury’s AoE in Legion, particularly in Mythic Plus, so completely changing it in Battle for Azeroth is troubling, however, with
Wutanfall
granting near the same amount of Haste and all of those extensive
Wirbelwind
changes making it easier to maintain, the rotation doesn’t feel any slower than it did before. With enough targets dying frequently enough though, this new version of
Kriegsmaschine
can generate ridiculous amounts of rage, keeping you flooded with resources.
To top it all off,
Kriegsbemalung
is now better than ever. Because
Wutanfall
no longer increases damage taken,
Kriegsbemalung
now provides direct damage reduction during
Wutanfall
; this means that rather than wanting to avoid getting
Wutanfall
d during high burst periods (such as Xavius in Darkheart Thicket), Fury actually becomes tougher while Enraged. I feel this fits the class fantasy of a “Raging Berserker” much better, and that getting so angry you ignore damage makes a whole lot more sense than getting hurt more because you’re angry! Plus, while Fury no longer has a large max health bonus to balance out
Wutanfall
increasing damage taken, it does still have slightly more health than other melee due to dual wielding two 2h weapons with Titan's Grip. This higher health pool, combined with
Kriegsbemalung
’s damage reduction and Fury’s own self healing, makes the spec a very tanky DPS.
Overall, I am extremely happy with the changes to Fury. A lot of the problems I had with the spec during Legion have been addressed, and the class plays like a better version of its Legion counterpart. Even the GCD change doesn’t feel like such a big deal anymore, since Fury has been reduced to one important cooldown rather than three used simultaneously, and pressing that
Tollkühnheit
feels like a rocket getting ready to blast-off, speeding up the rotation so much that you can barely keep up with
Toben
.
Although tuning will ultimately decide what playstyles most of us will use, the variety of builds I tested on the Beta all feel great, and I think Fury players have a lot to look forward to in Battle for Azeroth.
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