Fury Stat Balancing

My last post was a rant and ultimately useless. But so is wailing on a training-dummy in Org, or just about, and I've spent plenty of time doing that too.

The warrior community is all doom-and-gloom today, because of a couple of nerfs getting handed out. Juggernaut now requires Charge and Intercept to share a cooldown in Arms, a PvP nerf and not the end of the world (some disagree). The other one is a Heroic Strike nerf, which Fury warriors are complaining will completely destroy their DPS. But maybe if they stopped stacking hit to funnel rage into something meant to be used only conditionally, they wouldn't have a problem! Thanks Blizz, for making me even more right about this.

Yeah, I'm done with that. P.S. the Heroic Strike nerf is also a threat nerf for tanks. Oops.

Hey Fury warrs, let's stack stats!

Why warrior guides suck (DPS rage-management)

The big 4.0 patch hit warriors hard, with a giant nerf-bat called rage normalization. This, roughly translated, apparently means "Eternal rage-drought," or so the guides of the day would have you believe. A glance into the warrior community at the time was something like a glance into an apocalyptic nightmare realm, where people run around screaming, shoot machine guns in the air with zealous cries of vain defiance and kill off entire families for a scrap of food. Once-mighty warriors who had been comfortable with their class for years found they no longer had any idea what all these buttons do, how to make the red bar on their unit frame move, or what their primary stats should be. Blizzard had rewritten all the gear so that well-geared Warriors now found themselves with something like 20% hit, 35% expertise, and a whopping 75% crit; these must be the important stats, right?

How to be a superhero

Zoom!

Bang!

Ka-pow!

Yup, warriors do indeed have the ability to save the day. Warrior utility is something everyone who plays or has enjoyed the company of one can agree upon - and I'm not just talking about tanks, though that is my specialty. It is a topic we will likely return to numerous times in the future, and so I think it is a suitable way to kick off my posts.

Other Possible Titles

As the title for a warrior-blog, Rageaholics Anonymous is the obvious superior choice. There were no runners-up. However, to say that there were no contenders really doesn't do it justice. There was competition which was soundly beaten, and a good twenty minutes of fierce deliberation over a second Christmas dinner (this one at IHOP). "Get Pissed and Kill Shit" was as close to second as any came, and I still have that title shelved for a later blog post; after all, it perfectly describes warriors. Other entries were the iconic "Heroic Leap," the tactical "Stand in the Fire" and the (perhaps over-?) simplified "Rwaaaaawrgh!" which might have done better had it brought more 'A's to the fight.

"Rageaholics" sealed its victory only after a final contender, "Warrgasm," was disqualified for unmarketable behavior. Honestly, it's like it wasn't even trying to be SFW.

And so, winning the honor of crowning this blog, "Rageaholics Anonymous" demonstrated its appreciation with a catchy tagline, even showing the decency to put to work one of its more beloved competitors (the tenacious "Rwaaaaawrgh!" which seems to have been improving its game). How mighty, how beguiling, and how graceful in victory RA has been.

Here's to you, "Rageaholics Anonymous"! May you see much success, and fulfillment in your life.