Best in slot gear recommendations including trinkets and weapons for your Blood Death Knight in Castle Nathria - Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2. A big change going into Shadowlands as a Fury warrior is the value of crit diminishing with the Cold Steel Hot Blood Azerite Trait going away. This opens up for the old stat value of haste + mastery Fury previously has been known for. Azerite traits are king. Having the best in slot traits on a 370 piece will give you more damage overall than a higher item level piece with worse performing traits. Read your class guide and run sims so you can understand why certain traits are preferable to others. Welcome to the Method World of Warcraft class guides! Over the next few months raiders in the method guild will be creating Shadowlands Class guides to help the community learn more about that spec, suggestions on Shadowlands systems (Covenants, Soulbinds and Legendaries) and how to approach the raid bosses.

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Welcome to the Method Fury Warrior guide written by Faithy. I have been a Warrior main since 2014 and will be playing with Method for the Road to World First.

In this guide we will dive deep into Fury Warrior and explain how the class is going to function in Shadowlands and how the new systems will interact with Fury.

What has changed

Changes in Shadowlands:

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With the release of Shadowlands the baseline warrior toolkit has been unpruned. Many abilities that were removed or given to specific specs over the years will be available to all warriors, regardless of specialization. These new talents include:

Challenging Shout, Shattering Throw, Intervene, Ignore Pain, Shield Slam, Shield Block, Spell Reflection, Slam, Hamstring.

Spell Reflection is a very strong ability as it not only reflects the next casted ability you’ve been targeted by, but can be used for its defensive values of 20% magic reduction.

Single Minded Fury has also seen a return with Shadowlands allowing Fury to once again use double 1-Handers.

A big change going into Shadowlands as a Fury warrior is the value of crit diminishing with the Cold Steel Hot Blood Azerite Trait going away. This opens up for the old stat value of haste + mastery Fury previously has been known for.

With the addition of Covenants and Conduits the playstyle might see change depending on your choices.

I am not very shy about my dislike for Azerite Armor, but that being said, I’m trying diligently to separate my feelings from my analysis about how Azerite Armor will work in patch 8.3. Is this the best Azerite Armor implementation we’ve gotten? Does it make Azerite Armor something good, or at least not actually detrimental?

And to a degree that’s unfair. Azerite has actually seen a lot of work over the patches — both 8.1 and 8.2 brought improvements, even if those improvements weren’t all they could have been. The system has never been what I’d call good. It’s too complex, it’s too fiddly, and it often chains you to a piece of gear because that piece of gear has the best trait on it well past the point you’d want to keep using it.

Patch 8.3 is taking a novel approach to this problem: Blizzard has thrown up their hands and said Baby wants their best stat? Here it is! Every piece of Azerite gear from Ny’alotha will have what Blizzard feels is your best-in-slot Azerite Trait.

There are problems with this, of course. For starters, what Blizzard thinks is the best trait for a spec and what the players in question think is the best trait doesn’t always dovetail. I certainly don’t feel qualified to speak to that on every spec in the game, but looking at the Warrior traits, I’m not exactly overwhelmed.

But that being said, the idea that these traits are on all the gear that’ll drop in Ny’alotha might not actually be about what Blizzard has decided are the best Azerite traits, or even the most useful.

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Making random gear a little less random

No, what it means is that Blizzard has made a baseline. You know, whenever a piece of gear drops in Ny’alotha, that it will absolutely have these traits. You don’t have to guess. You know what you’re getting, at least to some degree, and I think that helps fine-tune the random nature of itemization. Whatever else, whether a gear piece has Corruption, you’ll know that these traits will be there. It’s something you don’t have to go outside of the game to find, something reliable.

That doesn’t mean the traits couldn’t be better. As I said, I’m hardly overwhelmed by how awesome, say, Lord of War is when it buffs an ability on a 45-second cooldown. It could at least buff the cooldown to 30 or something. I’d like it if these traits did more to change up the playstyle a little, but they’re still dependable workhorses that make your abilities work better.

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I honestly think this is a step in the right direction.

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That said, it’s way late in the game for it, and I’m not seeing anything that makes me like Azerite Armor more, just a change that makes me hate it less. And that’s a big distinction — it’s hard to give Blizzard credit for making something less awful instead of actually making it good. Don’t get me wrong — I’m hoping that patch 8.3 feels a lot better, itemization wise, than the patches that preceded it. But I’m not seeing any changes that really make me look up and say yes, this is Azerite done right, this is a good system. It’s just less bad.

I can’t really say that Blizzard has redeemed Azerite Armor in patch 8.3, but seeing the progression on it makes me hopeful that whatever system we get to replace it in Shadowlands will have learned from this one.