Opener and Cooldowns

Let's move onto the rotation/spell priority. This page is only called rotation because that is the common term for this, but everything that we do is based on a priority. Think of our rotation as a robot would, and carry out each spell based on the conditions that we currently have, such as what buffs do we have, how much rage do we have, and what spells are available to be used. As long as you took Frothing Berserker, Inner Rage, and Reckless Abandon, the priorities here will work for all of the talent setups on the Talents page.

On this page, whenever there is a spell name with additional modifiers either before or after the spell name, it means that it's a spell to be only used if those priorities are met. For example, an "Enraged Raging Blow", would be to only use Raging Blow if you currently have the "Enraged" buff, and a "100 Rage Rampage" would be to only use Rampage if you have 100 rage. If a spell doesn't have any modifiers, then it can be used regardless of what buffs you have.

Cooldowns Priority

As a Fury Warrior, our "cooldowns" window is just whenever we have Battle Cry up since a good percentage of our damage will come within those 5 seconds (7 seconds thanks to Reckless Abandon). Your priority during your Battle Cry window when the target is above Execute range (20% hp) is as follows:

  1. 100 Rage Rampage
  2. Enraged Draught of Souls trinket
  3. Enraged Raging Blow
  4. Enraged Odyn's Fury (to replace a Furious Slash)
  5. Bloodthirst
  6. Furious Slash

Even though Odyn's Fury is our single hardest hitting ability (outside of execute phase), it's more beneficial to your dps when you are able to substitute an Odyn's Fury for Furious Slash during your cooldown window since the difference in damage between Odyn's Fury and Furious slash is much greater than between Odyn's Fury and Raging Blow.

Sample Cooldowns With draught of souls

In practice, your cooldown window with Draught of Souls would be:

  1. Battle Cry + Avatar + (any dps Racials such as Troll's Berserking) + Rampage
  2. Draught of souls
  3. Raging Blow
  4. Bloodthirst
  5. Odyn's Fury (this will only fit if you have high haste or have Bloodlust, Berserking, and/or War Machine)
  6. Raging Blow (this can fit if you have high enough haste or anyone of the 2 haste buffs above)
  7. 100 Rage Rampage (after those spell casts, you should have 100 rage by now and will use Rampage here regardless of buffs)

If the Odyn's Fury in the above example doesn't fit into your Battle Cry window, you can save the Odyn's Fury for the next Battle Cry window if you have Convergence of Fates. If you don't have Convergence of Fates, just use the Odyn's Fury.

sample cooldodwns without draught of souls

If you don't have Draught of Souls, a sample opener would be:

  1. Battle Cry + Avatar + (any dps Racials such as Troll's Berserking) + Rampage
  2. Raging Blow
  3. Bloodthirst
  4. Odyn's Fury
  5. Raging Blow
  6. Furious Slash or 100 Raged Rampage (depending on haste and whether or not you have Pulse of Battle or Legendary Helm)

Cooldowns in the middle of a fight

If you don't have Draught of Souls or Odyn's fury, you would most likely already be in combat and the most important thing is to make sure you didn't JUST use Raging Blow before hitting Battle Cry. That way you can start your Battle Cry window with BC+Raging Blow, or BC+Rampage and immediately followed by Raging Blow. This will allow you to maximize your Rampage and Raging Blow casts and use as little Furious Slash casts during your Battle Cry window. (Note: your dps won't vary much between using 100-rage Enraged Raging Blow over 100-rage Rampage).

This is the APL from simulationcraft that uses 100-rage Enraged Raging Blow above 100-rage Rampage. The dps between using either one is within 500dps. Very minor difference. This is so you're not confused if you see what I've written here and try to match it up with simulationcraft.

This is the APL from simulationcraft that uses 100-rage Enraged Raging Blow above 100-rage Rampage. The dps between using either one is within 500dps. Very minor difference. This is so you're not confused if you see what I've written here and try to match it up with simulationcraft.

If you are mid fight, be sure to also dump your rage with rampage before you hit Battle Cry, even if you didn't have 100 rage. If you are below 85 rage however, feel free to just hit Battle Cry+Rampage and start your cooldowns rotation.

Cooldowns during execute phase

During Execute Phase (20% or less), the priority during Battle Cry becomes much easier:

  1. Enraged Draught of Souls
  2. Enraged Odyn's Fury (remove once you hit 6 stacks of Juggernaut)
  3. Enraged Execute
  4. Bloodthirst

Depending on how many stacks of Juggernaut and what ilvl Draught of Souls that you have, you can choose to remove Draught of Souls from your Battle Cry window and it simply becomes:

  1. Enraged Execute
  2. Bloodthirst

The point at which you take out Draught of Souls is dependent on your character, so you need to figure out how many stacks of Juggernaut stacks you need to out dps your Draught of Souls with Executes. For reference, when I had a 905 ilvl Draught of Souls, it took me around 30 Juggernaut stacks for Execute to beat Draught of Souls in dps.

cooldowns during aoe

Your cooldown window during aoe places higher emphasis on casting Odyn's Fury earlier in your Battle Cry window. You place Enraged Odyn's Fury above all else in your Battle Cry window. Your placement of whirlwind in the priority will depend on the number of targets. That will be covered in the aoe section.