How to Not suck as A Fury Warrior (An Aside about WoW)

Okay, so I am going a bit off here and talking about another game that I cannot seem to get enough of; WoW.

My character's name is Etrin, and I have been playing since about February of 2013, and in that time I have accomplished a lot of things.

At one time I was the #2 Fury warrior on the server, which really did not mean much, I was just the only other person to finish the legendary quest line other than Dusen. Now I am more like #7 on my server horde side. Which kind of sucks, but that's what I get for not playing for two months.

Enough background, however, onto the real meat of the post. How to not suck as a Fury warrior and how to be successful in WoW.

First off you want to make sure you have at least 7.5% hit and expertise. That will go a long way towards having decent DPS, that and you also want to have the right enchants on your gear. Most sites will suggest you get Dancing Steel for your weapons, which can be a bit expensive if you're a Fury because you need it for two weapons. The way I got around this is I would buy the considerably cheaper Windsong enchant and put it on my lower level weapons. If you want to be conservative or even realistic, save Dancing steel for the 540+ weapons (though I placed it on a 536 LFR weapon, which you can do, it just costs more money).

Another thing you want to make sure is that you are gemming your character properly, or that you have gems in the first place. Now I understand it can be a bit expensive to buy gems for lower level gear, but in the long run it will pay off because of the over all gains you make from having the socket bonuses. What I have seen is people just stacking crit, which is great, but you can do a whole lot more if you span out into the combo gems like the orange 80 strength + 160 crit, or the 160 crit + 120 stam kind of gems. I use mostly the Inscribed Vermilion Onyx for my red/yellow sockets and the Piercing Wild Jade for my blue/yellow sockets. For my Meta socket I use the legendary Capacitive Primal Diamond (324 crit + Capacitance), but if you're not far enough along the quest line then I recommend you either a Reverberating Primal Diamond (216 strength + 3% crit damage) or an Enigmatic Primal Diamond (432 crit + 10% snare reduction) depending on your preference or whatever is cheaper at the time. Yes they are expensive, but really you should be using them on gear as low 502. It's a good habit to have, trust me.

More importantly, do not forget about enchantments, despite how expensive they can be. If you want to have any form of progression with your character, make sure you're enchanting all of your gear. The more time and money you invest in your character, the better things will turn out for you in the long run (especially if you have raiding as goal in the long run). You want to have a shoulder, chest, wrist, hands, pants, and boots enchant at all levels of gear. For your shoulder you want Greater Tiger Fang Inscription (200 crit + 100 strength), Greater Stats for your chest (+80 all stats), Strength for your wrists (+180 strength) Strength on your hands (+170 strength), Angerhide for your pants (285 strength + 165 crit), and Pandaren Step on your boots (180 mastery + minor speed increase). Maintaining these enchants can be expensive, but if you ask around in your guild, or try to make friends with an enchanter, then it can really simplify the process (and make it cheaper). If you're really strapped for cash though, que as a tank a few times and rush through a few regular heroics.

You also want to make sure you are using the right rotation for the type of weapons you are using. For me I found using Heroic Strike 90% of the time with 2h's was best for dps, but when using 1h weapons, Wild Strikes works best most of the time. You also want to make sure you are using Berserker Rage and one of your shouts (Battle or Commanding, depending on whether or not someone has the stam buff, I usually use Commanding, but it is up to you). Here are some pictures of what my rotation looks like (feel free to laugh at how bad it is):

Talents also help, and having the right glyph's as well:

*Writers update as of 01/09/2014: I've had a new set of talents I have been experimenting with for the last couple of days, I replaced Dragon's Roar with Blade Storm and Blood Bath for Storm Hammer and have noticed a considerable increase in the amount of damage that I put out. Also, I have been seeing more hits of 1 million plus lately since I made the switch. So kindly disregard what I had up here earlier, this is the new and revised scheme that I use and I recommend that you use it as well.

All of these things can come together and if you keep at it, you too can stop sucking at WoW.

Here's a video on the subject: