Fury Warrior Abilities and Talents Guide - Midnight

By Archimtiros Updated: 2026/08/12

Baseline Fury Warrior AbilitiesOffensive Abilities

Whirlwind (WW) - primary multitarget attack which facilitates cleaving other attacks.

Slam - initial rage spender, quickly replaced by other abilities.

Shield Slam - early offensive ability, replaced upon specializing.

Hamstring - minor snare.

Victory Rush (VR) - very useful free heal after getting a kill.

Execute (Exe) - Fury's version of Execute

Heroic Throw (HT) - pitifully low damage ranged attack, only appropriate for pulling from a distance.

Utility Abilities

Charge - primary mobility and gap closer.

Pummel - low cooldown interrupt.

Battle Shout (Shout) - worth ~5% damage for melee classes and Hunters.

Berserker Rage (BzR) - preemptive or reactive CC removal.

Taunt - draws aggro and generally gets you killed.

Fury Warrior Hero Talents Mountain Thane Talents Key Talent

Lightning Strikes - random single target damage proc from most rotational abilities. The increased chance is multiplicative (25 * 1.3 = 32.5% chance), rather than additive.

Capstone Talent

Avatar of the Storm - Thunder Blast charges are only granted by natural casts of Avatar, not including procs from Berserker or Titan's Torment.

Choice Nodes

Choice Node 1:
Storm Bolts - a mostly PvP talent, as being unable to dictate which two extra targets can contribute to diminishing returns.

Storm Shield - has very low value for Fury Warriors, due to their lower armor values.

Keep Your Feet on the Ground - very strong passive defensive bonus due to the high frequency of Thunder Blast procs.

Steadfast as the Peaks - less powerful, but on-demand; pre-emptive use of Impending Victory allows for significantly increased health pools to
help survive predictable spikes of damage.

Flashing Skies - significantly boosts the single target value of Thunder Blast. Triggers in addition to the normal random chance for a lightning strike, allowing two for one cast.

Snap Induction - has minor value with Anger Management, but otherwise overlaps with casts of Avatar, which already grants two charges of Thunder Blast.

Gathering Clouds - the increased chance is multiplicative (25 * 1.3 = 32.5% chance), rather than additive.

Thorim's Might - very powerful, giving lightning strikes and rotational abilities much more value.

Passives

Crashing Thunder - allows Thunder Clap to effectively replace Whirlwind within the rotation.

Ground Current - allows Lightning Strikes to hit multiple targets for significantly reduced damage. Does not hit the primary target of the lightning strike's initial target.

Strength of the Mountain - general damage increase.

Thunder Blast - enables Thunder Blast, a stronger version of Thunder Clap that ignores armor.

Burst of Power - makes Bloodthirst better.

Storm Surge - allows Thunder Clap and Blast to be used more reactively and regularly.

Conductivity - passive single target damage increase.

Capacitance - extends Avatar.

Slayer Talents Key Talent

Slayer's Dominance - frequent random single target damage proc that inflicts the much more important Executioner.

Capstone Talent

Unrelenting Onslaught - Typically desyncs Bladestorm from other major cooldowns, though the increased frequency is worth the tradeoff.

Choice Nodes

Choice Node 1:
Relentless Pursuit - very useful for keeping up with moving targets, especially when charging on the pull.

Vicious Agility - less regularly useful outside of specific encounter timing, though minorly better for open world content.

Culling Cyclone - increases the single target value of Bladestorm, but does not further increase damage by hitting multiple targets.

Brutal Finish - better against multiple targets due to the damage bonus applying to each target hit.

Fierce Followthrough - only triggers off crits against the primary target, though the resulting damage bonus affects every target.

Opportunist - low value due to relying on Raging Blow resetting itself, rather than resets from Hack & Slash.

Passives

Imminent Demise - more Sudden Death procs and makes Bladestorm much more powerful, has strong synergy with Unhinged.

Overwhelming Blades - universal damage increase with a very high uptime.

Death Drive - very minor and largely random, which means it will not always be effective healing.

Show No Mercy - another passive damage increase for Execute.

Reap the Storm - multitarget damage contributor that helps apply and maintain the Overwhelmed damage bonus.

Slayer's Malice - general damage increase further emphasizing Raging Blow and Execute.

Violent Euphoria - haste buff after Bladestorm.

Deadly Focus - increases the duration of Executioner, allowing more stack overlap.

Unhinged - triggers automatic Bloodthirsts that can proc associated effects.

Warrior TalentsClass TalentsRow 1

Battle Stance (Battle/BStance) - basic offensive stance.

Defensive Stance (Def/DStance) - basic defensive stance.

Row 2

Fast Footwork - minor passive speed boost.

War Machine - passive boost to rage generation with bonus on kill effects.

Leeching Strikes - minor passive healing boost.

Intervene - charge an ally!

Row 3

Impending Victory (IV) - on-demand version of Victory Rush.

Heroic Leap (Leap) - burst mobility skill, which does not immune ground effects like Blink, but can be useful for avoiding knockbacks.

Storm Bolt - useful ranged stun on a relatively low cooldown.

Row 4

Intimidating Shout - easily broken AoE fear which can be used as a pseudo interrupt.

Second Wind - very rarely ignores environmental damage, but is usually broken by most effects.

Frothing Berserker - inconsistent passive rage refund.

Bounding Stride - allows more leaping.

Pain and Gain - passive self-healing.

Thunder Clap (TC) - a core part of Mountain Thane, but otherwise unused.

Row 5

Cacophonous Roar - still broken far too easily in group content, only moderately viable in PvP.

Menace - still easily broken in PvE, though moderately more useful due to the knockback.

Spell Reflection (SR) - very useful, low cooldown damage reduction.

Rallying Cry (Rally) - one of the few raid-wide defensive abilities.

Shockwave - on demand AoE stun.

Barbaric Training - only useful for Mountain Thane in multitarget.

Row 6

Honed Reflexes - Reduces most defensive cooldowns by a very minor amount.

Crushing Force - major damage increase for Slam.

Bitter Immunity - highly situational due to its long cooldown.

Overwhelming Rage - eases the burdens of rage management.

Rumbling Earth - greatly increases the usefulness of Shockwave when using it regularly against groups.

Reinforced Plates - synergizes with Armored to the Teeth to provide additional damage.

Row 7

Wrecking Throw - highly effective against absorption shields, though rarely a major gain.

Shattering Throw - immunity breaking version of Wrecking Throw, rarely used in PvE.

- only useful for Mountain Thane.

Sidearm - minor passive damage increase.

Double Time - a must-have mobility increase.

Seismic Reverberation - very minor with Whirlwind, but highly effective for Mountain Thane.

Concussive Blows - rather underwhelming due to only affecting the target which is interrupted, rather than increasing all damage dealt, though the reduced cooldown can be nice.

Berserker Shout - seldom used group-wide fear breaker.

Piercing Howl - major AoE snare, offset by its cooldown.

Row 8

Cruel Strikes - a minor increase to Execute, smaller than it may seem.

Wild Strikes - deceptively powerful due to the already high frequency of auto-attacks.

Dual Wield Specialization - a must-have passive damage increase.

Armored to the Teeth - near indispensable damage increase that helps gear scaling over the course of an expansion.

Row 9

Thunderous Roar (Roar)- stronger than it may seem, due to its bleed damage being uncapped, allowing it to fully damage any number of extra targets.

Avatar (Ava) - one of the main personal cooldowns that should always be taken.

Champion's Spear (Spear) - aligns well with other 90s cooldowns, though not generally as useful as Thunderous Roar.

Row 10

Uproar - keeps Thunderous Roar aligned with Avatar and other cooldowns, provides a noticeable overall damage increase, especially in multitarget.

Thunderous Words - increases the damage of all bleeds only while Thunderous Roar is active, creating powerful burst windows that synergize well with Odyn's Fury.

Berserker's Torment - highly effective and extends the duration of their normal counterparts.

Titan's Torment - very strong AoE damage increase, which synergizes with other additional effects from Odyn's Fury.

Piercing Challenge - a minor overall damage increase, though the extra rage generation is largely irrelevant.

Champion's Might - a short but powerful damage window, which now activates on the target instead of requiring the player to stand within a specific location.

Spec TalentsApex

Rampaging Berserker - passively increases strength, stacks have individual durations rather than constantly refresh

Rampaging Berserker - reduces Rampage cost during Recklessness

Rampaging Berserker - more stacks during Recklessness allows for more power during cooldowns

Passive

Titan's Grip (TG) - passive bonus which allows dual wielding two-handed weapons.

Mastery: Unshackled Fury - passive bonus which scales damage with Mastery.

Row 1

Bloodthirst (BT) - Primary attack which forms the basis of the rotation.

Row 2

Raging Blow (RB) - Primary attack which forms the basis of the rotation.

Row 3

Frenzied Enrage - greatly increases the speed of Fury gameplay.

Powerful Enrage - large damage increase without increasing the speed of Fury gameplay.

Enraged Regeneration (ER) - Fury's primary defensive cooldown.

Improved Execute - turns Execute into a rage generator.

Row 4

Spite - very small but worthwhile damage increase.

Fresh Meat - useful leveling talent, but not very useful anywhere else.

Warpaint - strong passive damage reduction.

Invigorating Fury - situationally useful in PvP, but otherwise much worse than Warpaint.

Sudden Death (SD) - allows more proc based gameplay, and can now stack up to two times.

Cruelty - notable damage increase, though only while Enraged.

Row 5

Focus in Chaos - removes the 19% dual wield miss penalty from auto-attacks, although they can still be parried.

Rampage (Ramp) - the core of Fury's rotation, converting rage into damage and Enrage.

Improved Raging Blow - critical talent which enables Raging Blow resets.

Row 6

Titan's Grip: Single-Minded Fury - increase the effectiveness of dual wielding one-handed weapons, but not by enough to make them competitive with two-handed weapons.

Cold Steel, Hot Blood (CSHB) - inflicts a powerful bleed, which can be applied to multiple targets via Whirlwind.

Vicious Contempt (VC) - promotes Bloodthirst playstyles by greatly increasing its damage during the execute phase.

Frenzy - semi-passive haste buff, with the downside of easily falling off when regularly switching targets.

Hack and Slash (HnS/H&S) - very important reset mechanic for Raging Blow builds.

Slaughtering Strikes - provides a significant damage boost for Rampage and greatly emphasizes Raging Blow's role in the rotation.

Ashen Juggernaut - provides a significant damage boost when using Execute regularly.

Improved Whirlwind - enables Fury's ability to cleave single target attacks onto other targets, forming the basis of its multitarget rotation.

Row 7

Bloodborne - a large boost to bleed damage for builds that invest in it.

Bloodcraze - creates strong synergy between Raging Blow and Bloodthirst, though it resets after any critical strike from Bloodthirst.

Recklessness (Reck) - Fury's primary offensive cooldown, greatly increasing rage generation and the frequency of Rampage casts.

Massacre - allows more frequent use of Execute.

Wrath and Fury - a moderate damage and reset chance increase for Raging Blow.

Meat Cleaver - reduces the amount of Whirlwind casts needed to maintain multitarget cleave.

Row 8

Raging Armaments - minor mastery buff, with a very important Enrage extension, which helps keep Bloodthirst active in the rotation.

Swift Strikes - a minor haste buff, with a small rage generation increase which adds up significantly over the course of a dungeon or encounter.

Critical Thinking - a minor critical strike buff, with a small critical strike damage buff which is of much greater value in combination with Reckless Abandon.

Row 9

Onslaught (Ons) - a moderately strong standalone attack, which helps fill extra GCDs in the rotation.

Anger Management (AM) - reduces Recklessness down to an average of 45-50s cooldown, aligning rather well with Odyn's Fury.

Reckless Abandon (RA) - causes Bloodthirst and Raging Blow to be replaced by stronger versions - Bloodbath and Crushing Blow, creating a powerful gameplay loop.

Bladestorm (BS) - the premier multitarget damage ability, which has a reduced 4s duration and quickly generates a very large amount of rage for Fury.

Ravager (Rav) - strong passive damage alternative to Bladestorm, more suitable against single targets.

Odyn's Fury (OF) - a very powerful burst damage attack with a short lingering bleed.

Row 10

Tenderize - greatly increases the value of Onslaught, both in jumpstarting the rotation and increasing the damage of Rampage.

Unhinged - provides a deceptively powerful bonus to both single and multitarget damage during either Bladestorm or Ravager.

Storm of Steel - gives Ravager a second charge, which is fairly important in most content.

Unbridled Ferocity - randomly triggers Recklessness, though its low proc chance leaves it generally uncompetitive.

Depths of Insanity - generally uncompetitive, due to its small impact on overall uptime.

Dancing Blades - triggers a large auto-attack buff, which provides a bonus to Odyn's Fury's single target value.

Titanic Rage - a minor damage buff, but jumpstarts the AoE rotation by auto-applying important buffs, with even greater synergy in combination with Titan's Torment.

Fury Warrior Abilities and Talents Guide - Midnight

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