SWTOR 3.0 Fury Marauder DPS Guide by Artorias

SWTOR 3.0 Fury Marauder DPS guide written by Artorias of Ebon Hawk. Updated for patch 3.2.1.

Contents

• 1 Intro to Fury Marauder
  • 1.1 Utility Selection
  • 1.2 Rating
  • 1.3 Gearing & Stats Priority
• 2 What you need to know
  • 2.1 Buffs/Passives
  • 2.2 Abilities
  • 2.3 Opener and Rotation
  • 2.4 Execute
  • 2.5 What to check for?
• 3 Video & Parse Analysis

Intro to Fury Marauder

Introduction: Fury is currently one of the few AOE specs in game, how ever with changes to the spec in update 3.0, the spec is now capable of doing a pure single target rotation to allow for added damage by sacrifcing AOE in the rotation. This allows you to swap between a single target burst and an AOE burst depending on the situation.

Note: This guide was translated from Rage Juggernaut. Rage and Fury have near identical rotations due to Vicious Slash merely replacing Retliation for single target. The rotation for Fury is actually easier than Rage, as such there is a higher insentive to run it.

Utility Selection

Skillful

Cloak of Carnage: Increases the damage dealt by Cloak of Pain by 15% and increases its duration by 4 seconds.

Defensive Forms: Shii-Cho Form: Further increases Damage Reduction by 2%

Cloak of Rage: While Cloak of Pain is active, it generats 1 rage when ever you’re attacked. This effect cannot Occur more than once every 3 seconds.

OR

Path Carver: Sweeping Slash deals 25% more damage. (For AOE Fights)

Masterful

Defensive Roll: Reduces damage taken from area effects by 30% and increases Internal and Elemental damage reduction by 5%.

and Select one or more of the following depending on fight.

Cloak of Annihilation: Each use of Assault, Battering Assault and Crippling Slash reduces the cooldown of Cloak of Pain by 3 seconds.

Phantom: Increases the duration of Force Camouflage by 2 seconds and further increases the movement speed bonus of Force Camouflage by 20%

Relentless: Predation no longer requires or consumes Fury, but will go on cooldown for 30 seconds when activated.

Heroic

Brooding: Reduces the cooldown of Intimidating Roar by 15 seconds. In addition, you build up to 30 Fury over the course of using Channel Hatred. This effect cannot occur more than once every 30 seconds.

(select one of the three depending on preference or fight requiring cleanses often)

Undying: Increases the duration of Undying Rage by 2 seconds and reduces the cooldown by 30 seconds

Unbound: When Predation is applied or refreshed, it purges movement-impairing effects. Additionally, the movement speed bonus of Predation is increased by 30%

Expunging Camouflage: Force Camouflage removes all cleansable effects when activated.

The above utilities are outlined to make the most of your Raid Utility and PVE environments.

Rating

• Single Target Dps: 7
• AoE Damage: 9
• Rotation Difficulty: 4
• RNG Dependant: No
• Burst: 8
• Sub 30% Talent or Ability Buffs: Yes

Gearing & Stats Priority

• Accuracy: 100% Melee (110% Force). 1% from Companion, 760 Accuracy Rating from Gear.
• Alacrity: 1 Enhancement
• Surge: Use for remaining budget
• 250 to 400 Critical Rating (1% from companion)
• All other secondary stats in Power
• Augments: Might (Strength)
• Relics: Serendipitous Assault & Focused Retribution
• Set Bonus: 6 Piece Weaponmaster
• Form: Shii-Cho

What you need to know

Fury revolves around buffing yourself passively in rotation to allow for a massive hit at the end of each ‘cycle’. These cycles remain the same but if you have no idea of your passives then you won’t know how or why the cycles are there in the first place.

Buffs/Passives

Berserk: While in Shii-Cho, converts 30 stacks of Fury to generate 8 Rage over the next few seconds.

Destruction: While Shii-Cho Form is Active, activating Berserk/damage dealt by Force Crush grants Destruction, increasing the damage dealt by your next Raging Burst and Force Smash by 15% and reducing their cost by 100%.

Dominate: Force Charge and Obliterate make your next Smash or Raging Burst automatically Crit.

Rout: Assault, Battering Assault, Vicious Slash, Sweeping Slash, Force Scream, Vicious Throw and Furious Strike reduce the active cooldowns of Smash, Raging Burst, and Obliterate by 1.

Cascading Power: Increases all damage dealt by 5% for 6 seconds after dealing damage with Smash or Raging Burst. Cannot occur more than once every 8 seconds.

Dark Resonance: Increases the Critical strike damage of all abilities by 15%.

Gravity Manipulation: Force Crush grants Gravity Manipulation, providing immunity to interrupts and controlling effects 6 seconds. Cannot occur more than once every 30 seconds.

Battle Cry: Reduces the Cooldown of Obliterate by 3 seconds. When Force Charge or Obliterate is used, your next Force Scream deals 5% more damage and generates 1 rage.

Furious Defense: While Shii-Cho Form is active, Furious Strike grants Furious Defense, increasing your defense chance by 10% for 6 seconds.

Abilities

Raging Burst: Deals a massive amount of single target Kinetic damage when buffed fully (this should always be the case.) Procs Cascading Power and consumes Shockwave and Dominate.

Costs: 0 Rage

Force Crush: Deals Kinetic damage over time before hitting with a final blow which deals a higher amount of damage. Grants Shockwave and Gravity Vortex.
Costs: 3 Rage

Smash: Deals a massive amount of Kinetic damage when fully buffed, though less than Raging Burst, compensates for this by being AOE. Should never be used on Single Target.

Costs: 0 Rage

Furious Strike: New ability added in 3.0. Deals high amount of weapon damage and autocrits when utilizing the 6-piece Weaponmaster Set Bonus making it one of the hardest hitting abilities in game.

Costs: 5 Rage

Force Scream: Deals moderate Kinetic damage. Has a Range of 10m, this ability isn’t used as much as previous Fury to make use of the 6 piece set bonus.

Generates: 1 Rage

Obliterate: 10m gap closer and one of the most used abilities due to granting Decimate.

Costs: 2 Rage

Dual Saber Throw: Deals less damage than all your single target abilities but is decent in AOE situations. Procs Weaponmaster Critical Set Bonus

Ravage: Used in its own respective cycle. Ravage had its damage and CD reduced to 18 seconds in 3.0 allowing you to use it more frequently and within Cascading Power windows, meaning it’s always 5% more powerful. Also procs your Weaponmaster Critical Bonus.

Vicious Throw: Used in place of Vicious Slash in every Ravage Cycle. Your second highest critical ability (when crits does more damage on average than Raging Burst)

Costs: 3 Rage

Vicious Slash: Used in conjunction with Furious Strike to deal moderate weapon damage and reduce active cooldowns.

Costs: 3 Rage

Assault: Never used as it does terrible damage and has zero benefit to you entirely.

Generates: 2 Rage

Force Choke: Never used. Minimal damage and will unsettle your rotation.

Generates: 4 Rage

Force Charge: Simple gap closer that allows you to transition to your target in opener or if you need to swap and get to your new target ASAP.

Generates: 3 Rage

Opener and Rotation

The opener for Fury is rather simple and never deviates regardless of scenario. Berserk frontloads your Destruction and Force Charge grants Dominate, allowing the following Raging Burst to crit. Your Ravage will proc your Weaponmaster Set Bonus allowing the first Furious Strike to Crit.

As I mentioned above, Fury follows ‘Cycles’. One cycle ends and another begins, each cycle ends with a Raging Burst (or Force Smash depending on if you want AOE). Each Cycle subsequently bleeds Rage or lack there of into the next cycle.

There are 2 types of cycles. I like to call them the "Berserk Cycle" and "Ravage Cycle." These cycles follow one another, when an Berserk Cycle ends, the Ravage Cycle begins, so you can keep track of which cycle you’re supposed to be doing on the CD of Force Crush as it’s the first ability used in the Ravage Cycle.

Each Cycle follows another, even into the execute.

You may be asking where you can fit Dual Saber Throw into rotation for AOE? The best place I’d personally put it is in your Berserk Window’s Cascading power following your Smash, this will give near back to back AOE and will buff it with Cascading Power.

The location where Bloodthirst is placed mid-rotation is dependant on two things: Do you have Frenzy? And how much Fury do you have? If you prematurely use Frenzy, you’ll push to 30 stacks and will only have enough Fury to use one activation. So when Frenzy is up and Satiated has fallen off, it should look like this:

This Obliterate is the one at the end of your Berserk Cycle. You’ll consume your 30 stacks of Fury with Berserk, then gain another 30 stacks with Frenzy, then consume those with Bloodthirst, this priority will mean you don’t throw your rotation off and needlessly throw away stacks by popping Frenzy as soon as it comes up.

Execute

The execute changes the rotation slightly in favor of damage. The rotation itself doesn’t alter and neither does resource management, the only thing that changes is an ability shift in your Ravage Cycle to gain more damage. By substituting your Vicious Slash for Vicious Throw, you gain the 2nd most powerful critting ability in rotation without any draw back. Pretty good right? Your rotation will look like this:

What to check for?

What was the minimum hit of your Raging Burst/Force Smash? You’ll see a rough deviation of roughly 2000 due to Relic and Adrenal windows. If you land a 10000 Raging burst, your minimum should be the low 8000’s. If you have hit far lower than this 4k deviation, you’ve messed up a Shockwave window at some point or another.

The Number of Obliterates+Force Charge activations = Number of Raging Bursts+Force Smashes.

APM (Actions Per Minute) of at least 39.4

Are you clipping Ravage effectively at the 0.3 second mark? Clipping Ravage with Furious Strike secures it inside the Cascading Power window.

Is your Raging Burst/Force Smash average output higher than 10secs? If so, you’re delaying it or your rotation is too slow.

Video & Parse Analysis

Parse Analysis

• Raging Burst will make up most of your damage since it’s one of your most used abilities. There are times where it may not be the top damaging if Furious Strike manages to crit very heavily.
• Furious Strike is one of the strongest abilities you have outside of Raging Burst, even going as far as to out damage it when it crits. Furious Strike is a heavy contributor to your overall damage and always falls into your Cascading Power windows.
• Master Strike is more so a filler but due to being used near on cooldown with Cascading Power it builds up to a substantial total.
• Obliterate hits hard, used once a cycle meaning its also used frequently, as such it contributes to the over all damage by being more than a simple gap closer.
• Vicious Slash being your most used filler and on top of the surge bonus and Cruelty means it’ll crit and deal heavy damage often.
• Force Crush will come close or even surpass Vicious Slash if the ticks and final hit crit often enough. As it’s not used as often, typically it can fall short.
• Bladestorm and Zealous Strike being used every second cycle mean that they don’t contribute a lot in total but still do respective damage themselves.
• Force Flagellation being a passive will add up to a small amount of damage, just barely a head of force leap.

Video of the Fury/Concentration Rotation