Fury in Wrath
What's the first thing that comes to mind when most people think of Fury Warriors, what is the one talent in all of Warcraft that allows to tell that this Warrior is Fury, and what is the one talent that is in every other classes mind is far to overpowered.
Yes Titans Grip, the only talent 51 point talent from all 30 talent trees that is simultaneously mandatory for a spec to do competitive damage and yet the reason it can't do competitive damage. The talent that everyone in the game was comparing their own 51 point talents against when it was first announced. And probably the only 51 point talent that has received so much attention to balancing in only one year (I don't actually know if that ones true).
So now you're running around with two great big weapons, feel like awesome yet? If you don't well there's something wrong with you.
Now Titans Grip isn't the only talent Fury warriors got of course, there's Heroic Fury (which is not as cool as Heroic Leap by a long shot), a version of Mortal Strike for PvP, and Bloodsurge (which is also quite cool).
The thing is however that because there was not that much added the Fury Warrior has remained largely the same since TBC, except now he's dual wielding two-handers and throwing in the occasional instant Slam. The same is true of the Fury tree itself, there really is not that much different to TBC. Yes Flurry finally got unlinked from Enrage (something Fury Warriors had been wanting for a long time), Armed to the Teeth was added and Rampage was made a weaker Leader of the Pack that you didn't need to refresh every 30 seconds, but there is still a lack of 'fun' talents in the tree and so almost every Fury spec looks the same.
As for glyphs there is an even smaller choice, I have only ever seen 3 major glyphs I would use for raiding as a Fury Warrior, with perhaps 2 others that could be used for soloing/grinding.
In short Fury needs an overhaul and I hope that Cataclysm will be used as the ideal environment to do this.
As for gear, there's a lot of work to be done to get 2 very good two-handed weapons, considering you're up against Death Knights, Ret Paladins, Arms Warriors, and in some cases Hunters and Feral Druids. Also keep in mind that Fury Warriors scale better with gear that almost anyone else, so expect a kick in the teeth every time new content is released in order to keep Fury damage in check.
Fury in Cataclysm
Blizzard have said they want to redesign many of the talent trees, removing many of the +damage and +hit talents and replacing them with more fun talents, the trees will be staying at 11 tiers so this opens the possibility for trees to go wider.
I hope that the Fury Warrior becomes more than a 3 button wonder, and also that some way to stop a penalty from being applied to Titans Grip, because lets face it, Two Freaking Two-Handers.
Yes Titans Grip, the only talent 51 point talent from all 30 talent trees that is simultaneously mandatory for a spec to do competitive damage and yet the reason it can't do competitive damage. The talent that everyone in the game was comparing their own 51 point talents against when it was first announced. And probably the only 51 point talent that has received so much attention to balancing in only one year (I don't actually know if that ones true).So now you're running around with two great big weapons, feel like awesome yet? If you don't well there's something wrong with you.
Now Titans Grip isn't the only talent Fury warriors got of course, there's Heroic Fury (which is not as cool as Heroic Leap by a long shot), a version of Mortal Strike for PvP, and Bloodsurge (which is also quite cool).
The thing is however that because there was not that much added the Fury Warrior has remained largely the same since TBC, except now he's dual wielding two-handers and throwing in the occasional instant Slam. The same is true of the Fury tree itself, there really is not that much different to TBC. Yes Flurry finally got unlinked from Enrage (something Fury Warriors had been wanting for a long time), Armed to the Teeth was added and Rampage was made a weaker Leader of the Pack that you didn't need to refresh every 30 seconds, but there is still a lack of 'fun' talents in the tree and so almost every Fury spec looks the same.
As for glyphs there is an even smaller choice, I have only ever seen 3 major glyphs I would use for raiding as a Fury Warrior, with perhaps 2 others that could be used for soloing/grinding.
In short Fury needs an overhaul and I hope that Cataclysm will be used as the ideal environment to do this.
As for gear, there's a lot of work to be done to get 2 very good two-handed weapons, considering you're up against Death Knights, Ret Paladins, Arms Warriors, and in some cases Hunters and Feral Druids. Also keep in mind that Fury Warriors scale better with gear that almost anyone else, so expect a kick in the teeth every time new content is released in order to keep Fury damage in check.Fury in Cataclysm
Blizzard have said they want to redesign many of the talent trees, removing many of the +damage and +hit talents and replacing them with more fun talents, the trees will be staying at 11 tiers so this opens the possibility for trees to go wider.
I hope that the Fury Warrior becomes more than a 3 button wonder, and also that some way to stop a penalty from being applied to Titans Grip, because lets face it, Two Freaking Two-Handers.
