Dark Glare

Written by Devrim - devrim@darkglare.com .

Hello there. I have been seeing lots of Warriors around in wrong talent builds, gemming and bad ability priorities. Thought a small guide for Fury Warrior dps wouldnt go bad for this situation.

Talent Build

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LG0G0fhZGxc0E0u0eRVzAo:omG

As shown on this link there is a basic Warrior Dps build. It includes Booming Voice for extra duration of prefered shout + pull commanding presence for better effects.

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LG0G0fhZhxfoy0u0eRVzAo:omGoz

And this link is the build i use for more raid utility. As it is impossible to do 25 man raids without a Retribution Paladin nowadays i have moved my 2 points from Booming Voice to Unbridled Wrath for abit more rage and I took one point from Commanding Presence to get Piercing Howl. Piercing Howl is really usefull in Icecrown Citadel. Especially in 25 man raids you can use it in fights like Lich King, Valithra Dreamwalker and Deathbringer Saurfang.

About Glyphs : Glyph of Execution is slightly better to use than Glyph of Cleaving (except for Lich King 25 man fight where you can cleave all 3 Valkyrs) Glyph of Heroic Strike and Glyph of Whirlwind are the other glyphs.

Ability Priorities

Well I cannot say we have a rotation and lots of abilities.
Best way to faceroll through our dps is macroing Heroic Strike to Bloodthirst and Whirlwind. (Same for cleave for AoE fights and situations)

As we can forget about our Heroic Strike spam its about what to use now. Bloodthrist and Whirlwind on every cooldown, Slam on Bloodsurge procs. When boss is under %20 and rage is not a problem you can use Execute when all other abilities are on cooldown and Bloodsurge isnt procced.

Timing Cooldowns well is essential too.

Stats

Your highest stat priority should be Armor Penetration Rating untill Cap, which is %100. You get %1 Armor Penetration for 14 Armor Penetration Rating. Each Attack Power we have gets more important as we get more Armor Penetration.

After Armor Penetration it is Strength which gives us our Attack Power. We can go for this as far as we go as there is no Diminishing Returns on it is best stat to go for.

Critical Strike Chance is really nice for us. To keep Deep Wounds up on bosses and of course for damage. But gemming for this start is really useless. As we get more critical strike rating the less dps increase it gives to us as number increases. Also it is RNG that if we will crit or not, we can go really high numbers on critical strike chance but with some lack of luck you might not get the percentage of critical strike chance you should get.

Haste is a really nice stat I can say. Its not bad to get if we cant get any of the stats listed above, but gemming for it is useless.

With our 3% hit talent we only need 5% hit. If you are an Alliance player who raids with Draeneis you only need %4.

And 26 Expertise needed to avoid enemies dodging our attacks.


Gemming

This is where most people get confused but it is as basic as other stuff i can say.

Lets start with meta.

Relentless Earthsiege Diamond

Nightmare Tear for a Blue Socket

As you can activate this meta with a Nightmare Tear (preferably Nightmare Tear is plugged in a Blue Socket slot) and with Blessing of Kings it gives as much critical strike as Chaotic Skyflare Diamond

Red Gems are our best friends. Untill we get around 1400 Armor Penetration Rating (with is %100 Armor Penetration value) It is a good idea to ignore Yellow and Blue Sockets and their bonuses untill you reach it. Our lovely Arpen Gem is;

Fractured Cardinal Ruby for All slots.

After you reach 1400 armor penetration or you are really close to it (Try to get as close as possible) you should start gemming for Strength. Never gem your gear with pure Critical Strike rating. Diminishing Returns on the Critical Strike rating will make your dps suffer from it and there is always a chance that it will crit or not, even with %50 or more critical strike chance.

Gems suggested after reaching 1400 Arpen Rating;

Bold Cardinal Ruby for Red Gem Slots

Inscribed Ametrine for Yellow Gem Slots

Bold Cardinal Ruby for Blue Gem Slots

Stamina is wasted stat for Warriors. As we have highest hp by default.

Gems can be used if we lack abit of hit/expertise stats which are

Precise Cardinal Ruby

Rigid King's Amber

Thanks for reading. Please feel free to call me a noob if i made a mistake. Hopefully i have been helpful to you.