Fury Warrior Gearing Guide

The War Within Fury Warrior Season 1 Tier Set:

• (2) Set Bonus: Bloodthirst increases the damage of your next Rampage by 10%
• (4) Set Bonus: When Raging Blow resets its own cooldown, the damage of your next Bloodthirst is increased by 10%, stacking up to 2 times

As usual for start of expansion tier sets, neither of these bonuses are particularly exciting nor do they change the gameplay of Fury on their own.

In reality, the 4 set is actually very weak since Fury playstyle was shifted into trying to prioritise Bloodthirst over Raging Blow at almost all moments. This offers less resets which simply activates the 4 set less often. The 2 set itself is just a very solid damage increase that feeds well into the current playstyle.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Fury Warrior, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

There are a number of well performing trinkets available for Fury Warrior in Season 1. For your first trinket you’ll specifically be looking for an on use 1.5 minute cooldown trinket. There are 2 that function almost identically:

• Mark of Khardros (Higher on use Mastery)
• Skarmorak Shard (Slightly lower Mastery on use but stacking Mastery passive as enemies die around you, stacking 5 times)

As you can see from the descriptions, the minor differences between the trinkets allows you to make a decision based on the content you’re doing or the boss you’re fighting. A boss like Rasha’nan in the Nerub-ar Palace raid, for example, has regularly spawning adds which would allow for greater use of the stacking Mastery passive from the Skarmorak Shard. While a pure single target type boss like Sikran would have no use for this so Mark of Khardros would be slightly better.

Getting both of these trinkets is ideal but the actual difference in the on use is so minor you likely won’t notice a major difference between one or the other.

For the 2nd trinket slot you ideally want a passive trinket. There are only really 2 good options for this:

• Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood

The Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg does have an on use component to lock the stacks at certain amounts but generally the tracking and use of this trinket could be fairly awkward in order to gain maximum value from it.

Ara-Kara Sacbrood on the other hand is purely passive. Static Haste isn’t the worst stat for Fury by any means and the proc is a rather generous buff of 1k strength (item level dependent) per stack. The stacks have an independent timer (like Ironfur from Guardian Druids) and can stack quite aggressively. The damage dealt when the stacks fall off is almost entirely negligible but that isn’t the driving force behind the trinket anyway. Sacbrood is definitely a passive trinket worth aiming for.

New expansion means new embellishments. The embellishments that look particularly strong right now are:

• Dawnthread Lining (Armor only) - Grants Crit rating while above 80% HP
• Duskthread Lining (Armor only) - Grants Versatility while above 80% HP
• Blessed Weapon Grip (Weapon only) - Grants your highest secondary stat fading over time

There are other embellishments that are slightly more inconvenient to create:

Darkmoon Sigil (Weapon only) - These are copies of the Darkmoon Decks which are rather powerful however they are annoying to create. They require the Darkmoon Decks in order to make the embellishments which will require you (or a kind Scribe that you know) to be able to make the Deck for you.

The Deck you will be looking for is Darkmoon Deck: Vivacity.