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Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions: State of Fury Warrior
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18.06.2018 в 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
Буйство
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
Вихрь
, which not only generates rage, but extras rage per target hit, simplifying the decision between them and helping maintain
Исступление
when engaging multiple targets.
With that opportunity cost for using
Вихрь
gone, but why stop there? Now the next two abilities cleave instead of only one, and every ability can be cleaved, including
Казнь
!
Not stopping at
Вихрь
, 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.
Казнь
no longer competes with
Буйство
, but rather compliments it, allowing
Исступление
to be maintained during
Казнь
without relying on a specific talent.
Вихрь клинков
fits inside
Исступление
, and finally finds its place back into the spec.
Победный раж
has returned, allowing Fury even stronger self-sustain.
Исступление
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
Исступление
, 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
Кровопролитие
reinforcing Warriors as the premier
Казнь
class, but what’s really interesting are the changes in the base rotation:
Яростный выпад
no longer requiring
Исступление
plays similar to Legion
Внутренняя ярость
, but operating on a charge system with resets adds just enough variance to make the otherwise simple rotation interesting.
Казнь
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
Кровожадность
and
Вихрь
to make the spec feel frantic as multiple abilities become available at the same time.
Безрассудство
as a resource cooldown significantly alters the pace of the rotation, as
Буйство
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,
Казнь
, and
Исступление
; better, faster, stronger in near every regard.
Cons
:
Рывок
and
Ободряющий клич
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.
Военная машина
feels really good to play with especially with high uptime, although losing the Haste buff from Legion makes it a bit lackluster in comparison.
Бесконечная ярость
and
Свежее мясо
are both fairly straightforward, helping
Исступление
uptime directly.
Level 45 enhances the rotation.
Внутренняя ярость
is pretty simple in smoothing the rotation out a bit, allowing less time spent using your filler,
Вихрь
.
Внезапная смерть
is amazing with Fury’s new
Казнь
allowing bursts of rage generation and high damage.
Неистовый удар сплеча
increasing haste and offering a better filler than
Вихрь
feels more distinct than Legion Frenzy just buffing the existing filler.
Level 75 revolves around spending with
Буйство
.
Резня
is one of my favorites; more frequent, harder hitting
Буйство
s really fits the theme.
Кровопролитие
helps you get more
Казнь
s off which is always a warriors dream, pretty rad.
Разъяренный берсерк
is especially interesting for me, increasing rage cost of
Буйство
but making it apply a big steroid is a great idea.
Level 90 is centered on multitarget.
Рассечение плоти
really helps increase
Исступление
uptime during heavy AoE.
Рев дракона
is meant to feel similar to Odyn’s Fury which helps soften the blow in not seeing it return from Legion.
Вихрь клинков
gets some big QoL changes; now generating Rage, and with a much shorter duration allowing it to better fit inside
Исступление
.
Level 100 amplifies cooldown use.
is the Legion version on steroids; helping
Безрассудство
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
Прорыв блокады
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
:
Внезапная смерть
,
Резня
,
Разъяренный берсерк
,
Рев дракона
,
.
Biggest letdowns
:
Внутренняя ярость
,
Рассечение плоти
,
Прорыв блокады
.
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
Вихрь
improve Fury’s multitarget considerably.
Вихрь
allows all single target spells to be cleaved up to 4 additional targets (cleaved
Казнь
s HYPE!) is much more engaging, and
Вихрь
generating extra rage per target hit better maintains
Исступление
, helping
Вихрь
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
Вихрь клинков
and
Рев дракона
, 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
Военная машина
, which I feel is a much better direction for the class and game altogether.
Военная машина
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
Исступление
granting near the same amount of Haste and all of those extensive
Вихрь
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
Военная машина
can generate ridiculous amounts of rage, keeping you flooded with resources.
To top it all off,
Боевая раскраска
is now better than ever. Because
Исступление
no longer increases damage taken,
Боевая раскраска
now provides direct damage reduction during
Исступление
; this means that rather than wanting to avoid getting
Исступление
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
Исступление
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
Боевая раскраска
’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
Безрассудство
feels like a rocket getting ready to blast-off, speeding up the rotation so much that you can barely keep up with
Буйство
.
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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