WoTLK-Official Fury Warrior Stats Gearing and Gemming Explained

[blazedboy]

Hello I am Mikeyblayzed- I play on Ragnaros and I am a 6.6k gearscore, near best in slot warrior and Guild Master of <Krenshaw Kings> an icc heroic raiding guild.
Ok weather or not you like me or not is completely irrelevant to this post. Collecting gear on a warrior and trying to decide which gems to use can be extremely frustrating for most players. Simply because there are so many options to choose from. (do i stack arp as soon as i reach 80? should i use agility gear at 5.3k gs etc?) Luckily, I am here to make things a little easy er for you and to give you an exact detailed description of how to best utilize your stats. OK. Lets get started with a break down of each stat you will be using.

Expertise-Reduces chance to be dodged or parried
Strength- Increases attack power, Increases block value
Agility- Increases Critical Hit chance, Increases armor
Hit rating- Increases your melee chance to hit a target of level 80
Armor Penetration- Armor penetration is a rating system that affects a percentage of armor ignored. This means that upgrades scale more cleanly with all bosses but has a side effect of becoming less useful on low armor ones.
Crit chance% - Critical strike (often abbreviated as "crit") refers to 100% bonus physical damage (twice your normal damage) that occurs as a result of an attack made with melee or ranged weapons.
Attack Power-Attack power (AP) is a physical damage attribute derived from strength and/or agility and character level, that serves to increase your base weapon damage by an amount relative to this statistic.

Alright now that the stats are laid out for you its time to explain exactly how and when they should be used.

*as soon as you hit level 80 by far your strongest stat is strength, this is because almost all of your damage at this point is coming from attack power and essentially nothing else.

Key Point: ALL YOU HAVE TO DO AS A FRESH 80 TO MAXIMIZE DPS IS TO STACK STRENGTH thats it, the hit rating and expertise will cap itself as long as u just collect strength on gear.

Ok now that youv grind-ed rep farms, pos hcs, and maybe some raids your at a respectable gearscore of lets say 5k goodjob!

Now here is where alot of WARRIORS STAR LOSING AND FAILING RAIDS! At this part a lot of warriors feel they have to need on agility gear JUST for arp. This is wrong on so many levels and here is why. Simply your just not ready to do that yet! alot of 5k something warriors see guys that are full best in slot or 6k gs with agility items and maxed armor pen and basically try to copy. DO NOT TRY TO DO THIS. IF YOU ARE BELOW 6K GS AS A WARRIOR U SHOULD HAVE NO AGILITY GEAR ON Warriors in between 5k and 6k gaerscore should not even think about arp/agility those stats are only for the pros to edge out every last bit of damage they can..NOW BELOW IS AN DEPTH LOOK ON HOW AGILITY/ARP BENEFITS AT HI GEAR AND NOT LOW OR EVEN MEDIUM GS.

Strength is a stat that linearly boosts your dps. This means as you increase strength you will go from 7k dps to 8k to 9k etc linearly as you collect gear
while Armor Penetration exponentially increases dps. This means that it absolutely sucks balls at low levels but gives a huge AND I MEAN HUGE POWER BOOST at hi levels this power boost only becomes evident at around 75% Armor penetration and I HAVE THE CHART TO PROVE IT! Chart was taken from teh armor penetration section of WoW Wiki.

DPS percentage increase Table
Level 80 Level 83 Target Armor
ArP %AR 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 8317 9000 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000
0 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
10 0.8% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3%
20 1.6% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6%
30 2.4% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.6% 0.7% 0.8% 0.8% 0.9% 0.9% 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.8% 0.8%
40 3.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.7% 0.8% 0.9% 1.0% 1.1% 1.2% 1.2% 1.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1%
50 4.1% 0.3% 0.5% 0.7% 0.9% 1.0% 1.2% 1.3% 1.4% 1.5% 1.5% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4%
60 4.9% 0.3% 0.6% 0.8% 1.0% 1.2% 1.4% 1.6% 1.7% 1.8% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7%
70 5.7% 0.4% 0.7% 0.9% 1.2% 1.4% 1.6% 1.8% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0%
80 6.5% 0.4% 0.8% 1.1% 1.4% 1.6% 1.9% 2.1% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3%
90 7.3% 0.5% 0.9% 1.2% 1.5% 1.8% 2.1% 2.4% 2.6% 2.7% 2.6% 2.6% 2.6% 2.6% 2.6% 2.6%
100 8.1% 0.5% 1.0% 1.4% 1.7% 2.0% 2.3% 2.6% 2.9% 3.0% 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 2.8%
200 16.2% 1.0% 1.9% 2.7% 3.5% 4.2% 4.8% 5.4% 5.9% 6.1% 6.1% 6.1% 6.0% 5.9% 5.9% 5.9%
300 24.4% 1.5% 2.9% 4.2% 5.3% 6.4% 7.4% 8.3% 9.2% 9.4% 9.4% 9.4% 9.2% 9.1% 9.1% 9.0%
400 32.5% 2.0% 3.9% 5.6% 7.2% 8.7% 10.1% 11.4% 12.6% 13.0% 12.9% 12.9% 12.7% 12.6% 12.5% 12.4%
500 40.6% 2.6% 4.9% 7.2% 9.2% 11.2% 13.0% 14.7% 16.3% 16.7% 16.7% 16.7% 16.4% 16.2% 16.1% 16.0%
600 48.7% 3.1% 6.0% 8.7% 11.3% 13.7% 16.0% 18.1% 20.2% 20.8% 20.8% 20.7% 20.3% 20.1% 20.0% 19.9%
700 56.9% 3.6% 7.1% 10.3% 13.4% 16.4% 19.1% 21.8% 24.3% 25.1% 25.1% 25.0% 24.5% 24.3% 24.1% 24.0%
800 65.0% 4.2% 8.2% 12.0% 15.6% 19.1% 22.5% 25.7% 28.8% 29.8% 29.7% 29.6% 29.1% 28.8% 28.6% 28.4%
900 73.1% 4.7% 9.3% 13.7% 17.9% 22.1% 26.0% 29.9% 33.6% 34.8% 34.7% 34.6% 33.9% 33.6% 33.3% 33.1%
1000 81.2% 5.3% 10.4% 15.4% 20.3% 25.1% 29.8% 34.4% 38.8% 40.2% 40.1% 40.0% 39.2% 38.7% 38.4% 38.2%
1230 99.9% 6.6% 13.1% 19.7% 26.2% 32.8% 39.3% 45.9% 52.5% 54.5% 54.4% 54.2% 53.0% 52.3% 51.9% 51.6%
Total percent damage increase due to ArP

In WotLK 3.3.5 every raid boss has the exact same amount of armor, 10643
Now according to the dps chart increase table on WowWiki
against a 10,000 armor opponent 25% arp increases dps by about 10%
against a 10,000 armor opponent 50% arp increases dps by about 20%
against a 10,000 armor opponent 75% arp increases dps by about 35%
against a 10,000 armor oppenent 100% arp increases dps by about 55%

Now maybe its hard to tell from just a numbers standpoint but IN GAME THERE IS NO REASON TO GEM ARP UNLESS YOU HAVE AT LEAST 75% PASSIVE armor penetration OR ARE ABLE TO USE TRINKETS TO ACHIEVE TEMEPORARY 100% ARP. What I mean by TEMPORARY ARMOR PENETRATION is ARP FROM TRINKET PROCS like the scorpion trinket.. from in game experience full plus 20 arp gems in every slot will give u about 25% arp and the only people that can get 100% PASSIVE arp from gear alone are the near best in slot guys. IF YOUR NOT NEAR BEST IN SLOT, DONT HAVE ARP PROCCING TRINKETS OR NOT OVER 6K DONT WORRY ABOUT ARP/AGILITY...WHY NOT WORRY ABOUT AGILITY? HERES WHY

Remember crit % ???? well its back! ok. once you keep on collecting gear and reach closer and closer to the golden 6k gs and above eventualY you will become *soft crit capped* this happens at around 55% chance to crit. at this point all regular mellee swings will be crits period and more than half of your total damage will come from critical strikes. IT IS ONLY OK TO SLAP ON SOME AGILITY GEAR WHEN YOUR CRIT% IS OVER 50% OR CLOSE TO IT (45%) this is because at crit chance over 50% more damage comes from critcal hits than it does from attack power/strength.

Basically in a nut shell your path to becoming OP is as follows

Stack strength-get hit capped-get expertise capped- (Optional get temporary 100% arp thru trinkets gems and gear while simultaneously stacking strength)--If you dont take the optional route-
Continue Stacking Strength(if at any point you go over 50% CRIT or are very close too it (45%) its time to start slapping on agility gear)- get 100% Passive arp

Honestly thats the best anyone can explain how warrior stats work and its arguable one of the most confusing classsess since it uses more than 1 type of gear. On a final note, agility gear should only be placed on the neck, cape, wrist, hands, OR rings BECAUSE this leaves the main gear slots like the head and chest open for class specific gear with set bonuses.

Thank you all this is my guide Mainly for my own guild to use but other guilds and players can use it too. Comment your feelings and positive feedback and discussion! If you have a counter argument please post logical data why your correct and not troll THANK YOU! :) GOODBYE

[taralej]

Has some good points. Could be better though - do some formatting, make it more reader-friendly. You could also post a BiS list, add some explanation about some Agi picks while gearing up (Scourge Stranglers, AV agi ring, DBS10 agi finger, EoF agi cloak etc), add those graphs in the guide directly instead of just links.

Has the potential to become a sticky. Also, proofread it - there are spelling mistakes x)

[blazedboy]

Has some good points. Could be better though - do some formatting, make it more reader-friendly. You could also post a BiS list, add some explanation about some Agi picks while gearing up (Scourge Stranglers, AV agi ring, DBS10 agi finger, EoF agi cloak etc), add those graphs in the guide directly instead of just links.

Has the potential to become a sticky. Also, proofread it - there are spelling mistakes x)

alright im working on it TY

[Joltie]

Comment your feelings and positive feedback and discussion!

I feel like this is a disconjunted garbled mess.

It started ok with the definition of what each stat does, but then it started veering off into an incoherent wall of text with very little logical sequence.

Also, why is there "Official" in the title? It implies something sanctioned by either Blizzard or Warmane.

[Deimise]

If you are a fresh lvl 80 Fury Warr and you're not getting invited to heroics yet and you don't know what to do and where to get gear . Follow these steps.

Step one: Farm rep with Sons of hodir, Kalu'ak, Ashen Verdict, Knights of Ebon Blade. This will allow you to pick up some blues and purples(Ashen Ring) for minimal gold (and ofc all the head/shoulders enchants).

Step 2: Start farming NORMAL dungeons and ofc vote points and gold. You'll be able to buy things like http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=46032 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45459 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45522 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47214 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50198 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47859 with votepoints.

And http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47573 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47590 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49906 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=49903 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50020 with gold.

And you have to farm normals because you will need Emblems of Triumph to buy http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=47659 http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=45820

Step 3: Battered hilt quest (you can buy a BH for 3k last time i checked on Horde) this will get you your main hand http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=50049

And if you will say well this will take days and tons of gold...nothings easy. And you don't have to buy everything at once. I have found that you can easily make 10-20k a day by just having mining and herbalism (selling lichbloom and titanium ore is very profitable)

So if you're not lazy and you are willing to collect your points everyday and make some gold you will be able to get these items and get ARP capped and destroy Strength stacking warrs who are higher GS than you in DPS.

BTW this is a way to gear you're a successful gold maker like myself. And it is quite easy because you really don't need to grind heroics for a week to get a piece of gear or get frustraded when someone wins the item you want. Gold making gives you 100% assurance that you will get an item if you work hard enough, so if you don't like to rely on your LUCK...this is the best way to get into icc 10 /25 and toc 10/25.