Disclaimer:
I’m a die hard ultra biased classic (vanilla era) fury fan boy. I can’t deny it. I ranked top 25 dps across private serves. Did everything from mc to naxx, played 2h fury slam spec and dual wield. Played horde and alliance and had every piece of fury gear you could dream off many times on many different characters. Absolutely loved it, always have and always will. I’ve leveled more vanilla warriors then I can count dating back to 2005 and up till classic.
I am giving dragonflight a shot. And its actually not bad. Visuals are crisp, combat is butter smooth, raid is decent M+ is decent …seen from a fury warrior point of view. The only problem is that fury doesn’t really feel like fury. It feels like some other build. You have a ton of builders that generate rage instead of using rage. I literally hurt my fingers from spamming this many buttons. It takes no effort to do dmg. Cooldowns → Rampage → spam crushing blow and the occasional execute… The only rage dump is rampage, which is a dope ability, but what happened to auto attacks generating a ton of rage and crits generating f*** ton of rage and then dumping with spenders?
classic era fury was probably the most popular build in the game back then and there’s a reason for that. It felt explosive and somewhat random, like letting a bloodthirsty maniac loose with no plan or goal. Now they flipped it on its head and its essentially the opposite.
It wouldn’t take a lot to bring it back. A good mix of the modern fury warrior and classic era fury would imo be insanely fun and engaging:
Get rid if crushing blow - nobody likes it anyway.
Make white hits/crits be the main rage generator
Flip rage generators to be rage spenders and make cooldown for bt/execute/slam/rampage/ww to fit into a nice rotation
Make the enrage buff permanent. It’s basically up 100% of the time anyways.
Remove SMF talent and just make it baseline along with TG. Or just make tmog across 1h and 2h possible.
the current state of fury is literally almost identical to building combo points as a rogue. Spam rage builders and dump. Spam combo point builders and dump…
Am I the only one who thinks a crossover between classic fury and modern fury would be sick ? Keep modern fury abilities (except for crushing blow) and bring back classic fury mechanics