Beyond directly making your character stronger through talents, equipment, enchants, etc, there are 2 more things you can use to improve your performance as a player: addons & macros. It cannot be understated how much of an impact they can have on your gameplay — increasing your DPS or healing by a large percentage, preventing you from dying, etc. You will need the best addons & macros to be the best Fury Warrior!
Addons
Addons are direct quality-of-life improvements to the existing game features. They can range from User Interface modifications to simple tools such as a Damage Meter or Threat Meter. Addons can also be used to generate text notifications or even in-game vocal notifications to keep better track of your buffs and procs. They can also be used to display boss tactics and notify you of impending threats.
- DeadlyBossMods – Allows you to track boss abilities. A must-have for raiding.
- Details – Shows you how much damage, healing, etc everyone in your raid is doing. Flex on your friends!
- WeakAuras – Extremely versatile addon that can be used to track buffs, debuffs, or create audio notifications.
- Auctionator – A great tool for any interaction with the Auction House!
- LFGBulletinBoard – A great tool for quickly finding PUG Raid groups and filtering Premade Groups.
Macros
In terms of actual useful macros, Fury Warriors don’t have any specific macros that can improve their overall performance besides the general essential macros that most Damage Dealer specializations use.
Cooldown Macro
This macro uses all of your cooldowns at once, so you don’t have to use them individually. Includes trinkets, potions and engineering enchants. Will skip any cooldowns that are currently not available, so you don’t have to worry — just press this macro twice when you want to “pop off” and activate all effects at once! It is optimal to use this macro when one of your proc items, like trinkets or weapon enchants, proc. Furthermore, by adding the “/use 10” command to this macro, you automatically use your Synapse Springs together with your other cooldowns.
#showtooltip
/cast Recklessness
/cast Death Wish
/use 10
/use Golemblood PotionStartattack Macro
It is optimal to have the /startattack command on all of your abilities as a melee character. Doing so allows your character to begin auto-attacking your target right away, even if you aren’t currently in range to attack them, that ability is on cooldown, etc.
#showtooltip Steady Shot
/startattack
/cast BloodthirstCancel Aura Macro
There will be abilities that will be cast on you for brief invulnerability purposes that you will need to remove as soon as possible to optimize your damage output! The best example of such an ability is the Hand of Protection. You can bind any ability to this macro to cast it after you remove the aura itself, however, you will need to press the button twice for it to also cast the ability.
#showtooltip
/cancelaura Hand of Protection
/cast BloodthirstMouseover Macro
This macro can be used to cast an ability on any target by simply hovering your mouse over it. You can either hover your mouse over the target itself or over the UI raid or party frame in the case of a friendly target. For any beneficial spell, you will want to have “Help” in your macro, and for any damaging spell you will want to have “Harm”
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead] Intercept
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