Epics, DPS report, and Fury DPS Rotation Breakdown

I promised yesterday I would post a Screenshot if I ever get a 2H weapon.

Well here it is!

Don't mind the roasted pig on the left =). After a month of waiting for a 2H to drop I finally was able to get replacement for my sub par weapons.

I got the following loots last night

Armageddon - pretty nice 2H. This is really not the ideal Main hand for fury warriors as we want Slow/Slow combo but this one was a great pick up nevertheless.

Inevitable Defeat - more of a DK tanking weapon IMO but again another big upgrade so I took it anyway.

I picked this one up from the trash to Noth a few minutes after I got Armageddon.

Crude Discolored Battlegrips - got this one from patchwerk. I will lose 4pc bonus next raid when I do wear it but I gain more stats.

Grim Troll - Beast Trinket. This one procs alot and I mean alot. My armor ignore goes up to 50%+ when this trinket procs and I like it. Plus the hit allowed me to swapped in 16hit for 16str gem.

With all these gear changes I ended up not being expertise cap for dodge. So I went thru all my gems again and I found that I'm way over hit cap for specials.

I changed another 16hit gem into a 8expertise/8hit gem. Turned out I was exactly at the cap at 4.5% + 2%(from talent) ignore dodge.

DPS Report

Well we were all pumped cause we were getting ready to get the Immortal title but something went wrong at Patchwerk that killed almost all of melee.

Some F*ing genius decided to shrink Patchwerk. By doing that he shrunk the boss' hit box which in turn made him kill all nearby melee!

After that the next 2 hours of the run would turn into a lag fest.

You know it's bad when Thaddius take's 5 sec to cast Polarity shift and then another 5 to wait for your debuff to show up. He went on to Enrage and for some miracle 2-3 people lived to finish the job. It was messy but we were glad it's over.

Me and SPQR(other TG Warrior) were trading wins in the DPS races.

Here are a couple of SS I took last night

This was from Loatheb

This one is from Kelthuzad

I was 3rd but check out my DPS. I was at 4k. My hits were all critting like crazy during the last 20 sec.

For the rest of the bosses we were pretty even. Sometimes I would pass him sometimes he would do the same. It would be interesting to see the results next week with my new gemmed and enchanted gear, my weapons(the new ones) didn't have an enchant but they were still better than the ones I was using.

Which brings up another thing, Enchants. The weapons that I have looted are not top end weapons in the game right now. So I'm not gonna put berserking on both of them.

I plan on putting the old Mongoose/+85 AP combo from my old weapons. Now I just need to look up the mats again.

I think the leadership decided to do Naxx on another day besides Tuesday to avoid another lagfest which I think is a good move.

Fury DPS Rotation

Well there is no magic here really. I should have taken SS of recount on all bosses for my personal DPS breakdown but I tend to forget after I pick up my emblem.

I do BT>WW>Slam if up>HS till BT is up>Heroic Throw when everything else is down.

I can't say I'm 100% disciplined on that rotation, which I should but sometimes I use Slam even though I'm suppose to hit WW cause my Bloodthirst crit. Then sometimes I would hit another special causing the use of BT/WW delays which results in lower DPS.

When Bloodlust is called

I pop my trinket(s) as soon as BT and WW is on CD.

I use recklessness during the duration of Bloodlust but sometimes I vary it

Sometimes I would just use it after a Bloodlust then do BT-Slam-WW combo with all of them being a guaranteed crit.

There are times though when I use Recklessness with the boss having less than 20%. I would include Execute in that combo. A guaranteed 12-14k crit is pretty awesome sometimes.

What I'm still trying to figure out is timing my executes w/o Reck. Sometimes I would get lucky on execute crits. When they do it's awesome. If not I tend to get rage starve and my dps goes lower.

I think I'll just stick to my rotation and use Executes instead of Heroic Strikes. Next week I'll be sure to take SS of breakdowns of my DPS.

Well there it is.

Another exciting night from WoW Raiding. Our next raid isn't scheduled till Sunday/Monday for Sartharion with 3 drakes up.

EDIT: I also got this achievement last night

Warrior DPS spec's and Deepwounds

Information here is nothing new I'm just trying to get all the information I have absorbed in the past few days and try to make some sense with it however feel free to read thru.

Browsing thru the websites(tankspot and elitist jerks) these are the specs that are working right now for warriors PVE wise.

Arm 53/8/0 - Heavy reliance on RNG. You specc ToB to get Sudden to proc, thats your goal. This is usually done with 2H but I have seen alot of people doing it with 2 1hs.

Fury 15/46/0 - Get deep wounds in arms and put eveything in Fury. You don't have to get rampage if there is a feral druid in the raid.

Fury 15/38/8 - Speccing Incite and deep wounds then put everything in Fury. I'll skip rampage and bloodsurge. Reason for incite will be discussed soon.

All of these specs are viable and with sunwell/bt gear will do awesome. The reports of warriors doing 3.5k-4k dps on bosses ... got most of their damage from Deep Wounds.

If you don't know by now. Deep wounds mechanic has been changed they made so we can "roll" deep wounds and they will keep stacking as long as you crit while deep wounds is active. That's why you see screenshots of deepwounds doing 1,500-10,000 per tick(I just saw someone who had 11k tick deep wounds... lolwhut?).

What does it mean for me? I realize I need a new school of thought. So here's what I've gathered so far on what I need to do.

1. Stack crit and haste to take advantage of Deep wounds and it helps if I'm arms spec(read upcoming changes below). I need a plan to regem my stuff I don't want to blindly regem everything. I might need to switch some gears out to get some decent crit and haste rating.

Don't get so much crit that you will sacrifice AP, if you do that you'll hit like a pansy.

2. I realize Arms still the way to go with all the reports and testings. Succesful Fury dps breaking the 3500-4k mark usually uses dual glaives and are really really geared. I'm not that geared from sunwell so I might stick to arms. I also need a fast offhand if I'm going with dual 1hs arms or fury.

3. Do some test on my own. I will try all the 3 specs I mentioned. Next on my list is Arms dual wielding 1hs and Fury with incite spec. I'll make some post and provide SS next time.



Upcoming Changes in Patch 3.0.3

Sudden proc will no longer be 30% chance on crit rather it will be 10% chance on hit. They made this change because blizzard wants to see warriors using swords and maces and prevent people on just stacking crit.

Things to watch for ....

As always prepare for changes don't overcommit to a spec but believe me I understand min/max.

As it stands right now if specced/gemmed/enchanted right deepwounds is something to really think about if you want to up your dps. Expect nerf(fix?) on deepwounds in the near future if this keeps up.


If you want to study more I suggest going to Tankspot or elitist jerks forum or hey do some test on your own.

Comments and suggestions are always welcomed!