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Spec guide

Fury Warrior — guide and builds

Fury wields two weapons and lives on rage: in WoW Forever it is a group spec, strong on two or three targets, that asks you to manage every point of rage.

Class: WarriorData 1.60.1.70009By ForeverGuide team · updated Sep 26, 2026

Overview

Fury is the Warrior spec hit hardest by the normalized rage of WoW Forever. Every hit grants a fixed amount of rage and your crits earn no more: you have far less rage than in Classic, and fewer abilities per fight.

The spec stays very strong when two or three enemies are close together. Raging Blows, a new talent, makes Whirlwind strike with both weapons. Its rotation is simple, but its rage management is demanding. Solo, it levels less smoothly than Arms; in a group, it comes into its own.

At level 20 in the beta, the spec is incomplete: Berserker Stance, and therefore Whirlwind, arrives at level 30. Fury still sits in A tier among DPS at that level.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Two or three targets
    Cleave, then Whirlwind: very strong damage.
  • Burst
    Death Wish opens a real damage window.
  • Sturdy for a DPS
    Plate armor and lots of health.

Weaknesses

  • Gear-hungry
    You need a lot of it to reach your stat caps.
  • Recklessness
    A 30 min cooldown.
  • Rage from hits taken
    Little rage when you take little damage.
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You deal heavy damage to a few targets with Cleave, then Whirlwind, and Death Wish gives you a real damage window. In plate, with lots of health, you take hits better than most DPS.

On the other hand, you need a lot of gear to reach your caps, Recklessness only comes back every 30 min, and your rage drops in fights where you take almost no damage.

Key spells

Key talents

Rotation and priorities

Single target:

  1. Priority 1: Rend
    Only if the target will live through the whole bleed.
    When: Long-lived target
  2. Priority 2: Overpower
    Your most rage-efficient attack at level 20.
    When: Every time it opens up
  3. Priority 3: Sunder Armor
    Apply it early in the fight.
    When: Target above 70% health
  4. Priority 4: Heroic Strike
    Spend your extra rage, or use Cleave on several targets.
    When: Spare rage

Multiple targets: Thunder Clap often, for its damage and because it reduces the damage your tank takes, then Cleave to spend rage.

Never miss an Overpower. When a mob gets away, do not hesitate to pick it back up: hits taken give you rage.

Stats

  1. 1Hit
  2. then 2Weapon damage
  3. then 3Strength
  4. then 4Critical strike
1 Hit
up to the caps

Order to be confirmed: the exact priority is not settled yet.

No order is established. Fury needs a lot of gear to reach its caps, hit in particular. Then aim for weapon damage, Strength and critical strike. The exact order is still to be confirmed.

Leveling

At level 20, put Cruelty 5/5 and Unbridled Wrath 5/5 for rage and damage, then your last point in Piercing Howl. With 2 more Legacy points, add 2 points to Improved Cleave.

Your whole kit depends on weapon damage: swap weapons as soon as you find a better one. The Ruins of Lordaeron and The Deadmines have good pieces at this level. Fury levels better in a group: dungeon quests now give most of the experience.

Changes compared to Classic

Builds

The 3 guide builds open in the calculator below, with the point order. You can then change points there.

  • Level 20 with Legacy (+2 points)

    Level 220/13/013 points, levels 10 to 22

    The level 20 build, plus 2 Legacy points in Improved Cleave. How many Legacy points the beta grants is still to be confirmed; the simulator opens this build at level 22 to count its 13 points.

    Calculator page
  • Popular level 60 build

    Level 6017/34/051 points, levels 10 to 60

    17/34/0: Bloodthirst, Flurry, Raging Blows and Dual Wield Specialization in Fury, Deep Wounds and Anger Management in Arms. The most popular level 60 Warrior build before launch, not yet testable in game. Automatic point order.

    Calculator page

Calculator

“Level 20 (beta)” build · level 20 view

Calculator page

Talents

Split: Arms 0, Fury 11, Protection 0

Points left:0

Level needed:20

Piercing Howl, level 20

Point 11/51, Piercing Howl 1/1, Fury

Arms

next row at 5
0 points of 51

Fury

next row at 15
11 points of 51

Protection

next row at 5
0 points of 51
  • Available
  • In progress
  • Maxed
  • Locked
  • New
  • Planned · 1st point
  • Taken · 1st point lv. 20

Spellbook

The Warrior spellbook, open on the Fury tab. It follows the calculator: its level, never above the max level, and the talents of the build. Switch tabs, pages or views as in the game.

Level shown: 2035 spells known

Fury

  • A talent spell joins the book when its talent gets a point.
  • Tooltip numbers are the beta client’s at level 60, with no gear.

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