Unpopular opinion: fwarr is harder than people give it credit for

I've been laughed at a number of times for saying playing fury warrior is hard. People say it's a "smash your keyboard" spec with only 2 main buttons in its rotation, occasional third button for slam procs, and spamming 1 button over and over again i.e. heroic strike/cleave.

Having said that, there aren't many fury warriors that really know how to play the spec to its full potential in my observation i.e. truly maximizing dps. I remember thinking I've gotten the rotation down decently, only to be humbled by another fury in my raid with about 200 gs lower than mine but doing higher dps. It really hit me then that this "2 button spec" isn't as simple as it appears to be on the surface. Looking at parses on UwU really shows just how much damage you could really eke out on fury, and how few people actually attain those numbers.

Paradoxically, I've parsed better on specs considered more complicated in their dps rotations even with lower gear e.g. demo lock, feral cat, ret. My conclusion is fury is easy to pick up, but very hard to truly master.

Thoughts?

You should differentiate between playing a spec at an essential level and minmaxing it. When people say this or that spec is easy they usually imply what it takes to show "good enough" performance. You don't need to learn much to do your job as a fwarr, the basic rotation is very simple. Now minmaxing is a whole different story and a tough job for any class/spec, however simple it may be get into (mage for example).

High gs doesn't mean good DPS.

The 200 gs difference can easily be offset by other factors. Outside buffs (ToT, Hysteria), having (proper) professions, consumables, itemization and gemming correctly for it, playing more efficiently (reaction times, positioning etc.), BiS item(s) while having poor gs on weaker items.

The mistake many furies do is they gem arp from 5k gs without reaching anywhere near soft or hard arp cap. Gz on your 60-100% arp, now show the world how your massive two handed weapons hit as hard as a dainty slap.

Ppl really seem to adhere to the 2 button spec, took me all minibosses in RS to convince 1 of other 3 wars to do sunder with me...