Fury Warrior - Some Tuning Thoughts

Overall Fury is not in a bad place, but I do have a few concerns.

1. Tier bonus - It is horrendously bad lol, but the last thing the spec needs right is more buffs to Bloodthirst, Raging Blow, and Rampage. Certainly not the first time we’ve had an awful tier bonus. So while this is annoying, it’s probably not something that should be buffed.

2. Odyn’s Fury - is completely dead and worthless. This impacts Slayer more as it fit more naturally into the Slayer toolkit, and it was also a strong ability to help Fury compete on larger pulls. This ability needs a SIGNIFICANT buff to ever be a competitive choice.

3. Bladestorm - This can also be an answer to help fury be competitive in larger pulls and for Slayer. Unhinged is obviously very powerful, but it lacks AoE power (I realize it can proc Reap the Storm) and Bladestorm is extremely minor on single target.

Odyn’s Fury

I really don’t understand this. The repeated nerfs in season 1, and the removal of Titan’s Torment absolutely gutted this ability. It could be buffed by 50% and still barely be worth using in most scenarios.

With Vicious Contempt becoming so powerful for all fury specs there is a talent economy issue that further makes it difficult to justify using Odyn Fury.

Talent economy issues aside this ability would go a long way to helping Slayer feel like a more competitive option outside of high end keys and I think it could also create a compelling choice for Mountain Thane in deciding to have more burst or more sustained damage.

Bladestorm

I love Bladestorm. Bladestorm makes me happy. The extreme buffs to our main rotational spells has left many of our talents behind. (This also impacts Thunderous Roar and Champion’s Spear as well - which also lean into Fury AoE concerns). Culling Cyclone in the Slayer hero is also worthless because of the balance of talented abilities like Bladestorm versus the main rotational abilities.

Buffing Bladestorm is a decent part of the answer to having Fury feel stronger on larger pulls while having a very minimal impact on Fury single target damage where it is admittedly quite strong (but will be falling behind as other classes acquire tier bonuses this week and next)

Something I had also mentioned before was to allow Unhinged to cleave Bloodthirsts to some degree. While I’d prefer to have the damage on Bladestorm itself if that is unviable for whatever reason then this option still empowers AoE both through raw bloodthirst damage and increased Reap the Storm procs.

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We don’t have to play around it, which is nice. Though we aren’t getting much out of it at all, unlike many other classes getting 10%+ dps gains from tier. Blizzard should really rethink this part. Would be easy for them to tune it to give better results.

I don’t know why they wanted to take this ability behind the shed and put it down. They did, and now we have another dead talent and capstone tree. I get why they wanted to de-link it from the class tree, but that concept in itself is backwards. The class tree should support the spec tree. We’re still waiting, (and will most likely never see), they make good on their promise to make it a strong and powerful cool down.

Unhinged capstone is the only thing that makes blade storm worthwhile. They took away it’s teeth, and now we have limp storm. Hopefully they do something to resolve this identity issue with this talent.

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Would have been a cool winning streak proc.

Untethered to titan, it needs a large buff and/or its target cap removed.

I am super disappointed and honestly it kind of blows my mind that Odyn’s Fury couldn’t get a simple numerical buff to be relevant with the tuning coming on Tuesday.

Signature ability? Lol lmao

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What needs to be understood about tuning for warriors is that they only remember of our existence when numbers need to go down, never up.

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Sad but true. What is really surprising was how little Windwalker got touched. When you compare their nerf to what Fury ate in Season 1, it’s really disgusting.

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its actually nutty to me that we didnt get a single buff this upcoming tuning for M+…capped at 5 targets but not even top 3 dps in a 5 target cleave scenario makes 0 sense.

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I’m not sure what else we’re even supposed to call it at this point besides incompetency.

Like how many times do you make an awful tier set for fury for us to fall into bottom half every single time before you learn?

How many seasons does Fury have to be one of the worst and least desirable dps in M+ before you learn?

At the very least we could do great damage. But nope we can’t even have that.

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