Tsmith's Warrior Guide - Fury DPS (Talents And Tips)

Recommended AddOns: TomTom (Map/Coordinate AddOn), Gatherer (Keeps track of Veins, Herbs, Chests, etc location).

Recommended Races:

For Alliance players Human is the race I would recommend. The reason for this is the Mace and Sword Specialization, most races have racial abilities along the lines of magic resistances. An example is the Night Elves, their racial abilities are most useful in questing. Human's are good for tanking and DPS for warriors so if your doing Dual Talent Specialization you get an even bigger advantage choosing Human.

For Horde players I recommend Orc. The reason for this choice is the Axe Specialization, Blood Fury, and Hardiness. One of the best weapons Warriors can get is the two-hand axe from the Heroic Halls Of Lightning, this makes Axe Specialization one of the best racial weapon specialization abilities for warriors.

Things To Note When Leveling:

If you are using a leveling guide and fall behind DPS some dungeons to level up.

I recommend making your professions Mining and Blacksmithing. With warriors First Aid is a good profession for when you are questing because you will not have a healer with you.

Good DPS gear has strength and stamina with both of the close in number. Below in the green writing you want hit rating and critical strike rating.

For enchants you want hit rating and for gems you want strength. Do not worry about the socket bonus, don't go for crit rating just to get that extra 2 strength. Always put 2 strength gems in the sockets (red).

The best ability rotation at level 80 is to use Heroic Throw, Bloodthirst, and Whirlwind whenever they are available. If all three of those abilities are on cooldown then use Heroic Strike if there is one enemy, if there is multiple enemies use Cleave when the other abilities are on cooldown. Also, after you get the bloodsurge talent, use insert slam into the rotation whenever you have that buff. After slam continue where you left off.

Keep Battle Shout active at all times when in battle.

Level 1-70 Talents:

Note: The following build is the best possible for when you DPS in dungeons, it works good for questing but it could be better.

Talent Build At Level 70
Talent Build At Level 80

Armored To The Teeth 3/3
-Increases the amount of damage you deal

Cruelty 5/5
-Increases the amount of critical strikes you deal, increasing your DPS

Unbridled Wrath 5/5
-Increases the amount of rage you generate letting you use more abilities and increasing your DPS

Improved Cleave 3/3
-Increases your DPS

Dual Wield Specialization 5/5
-You should always be using dual wield so this raises your DPS

Precision 3/3
-If you hit the target more often you deal more DPS

Death Wish 1/1
-Since you aren't taking the damage taken increase won't affect you, just don't use this ability when you are being attacked

Improved Berserker Rage 2/2
-Increases the amount of rage you generate

Flurry 5/5
-With Cruelty you will get this more often and raise your DPS

Bloodthirst 1/1
-A great ability that you should always use on cooldown

Improved Whirlwind 2/2
-Whirlwind is a great ability that should be used on cooldown

Improved Berserker Stance 5/5
-Increasing the strength increases your DPS and reduces the chance you will be attacked by lowering threat

Bloodsurge 3/3
-Slam is a good ability but the cast bar sucks

Rampage 1/1
-ThIs buff is even better in instances because it affects your party/raid members, too

Intensify Rage 3/3
-Helps generate rage by decreasing cooldowns on Bloodrage and Berserker Rage

Unending Fury 5/5
-These are your 3 most useful abilities, this is a great talent

Titan's Grip 1/1
-With this ability you go from Warrior to Titan, you double your DPS because all your abilities are instant

Improved Heroic Strike 3/3 (ARMS)
-You don't use Heroic Strike as much as some other abilities but it is still a useful ability

Deflection 2/5 (ARMS)
-In instances it's basically useless but you can't do Rend at all in Berserker Stance

Iron Will 3/3 (ARMS)
-Again kind of useless but you can't use charge in Berserker chance and you shouldn't be changing stances or using defensive stance

Level 71-80 Talents:

Deflection 4/5
-Building up arms tree

Impale 2/2
-Increases DPS by adding on to Cruelty

Deep Wounds 3/3
-More DPS

Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 3/3
-Increases DPS like crazy by adding on to Titan's Grip

Best Glyphs:
Major Glyphs:

Glyph Of Cleaving
-Raise your DPS by attacking an extra target

Glyph Of Whirlwind
-Whirlwind is a great ability but doesn't have a small cooldown like Bloodthirst

Glyph Of Heroic Strike
-Helps your rage regeneration

Minor Glyphs:

Glyph Of Battle
-Saves some rage by increasing the duration of your shout

Glyph Of Bloodrage
-Don't go out and spend big bucks on this, it is hardly a bonus but it is better than the other minors

Glyph Of Enduring Victory
-Don't go out and spend big bucks on this, it is hardly an upgrade but it is better than the other minors