Possible new BIS setup for fury warrior? Or, what should I get?

Potatosoup

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Hello, I recently decided to get into the 29 bracket and while I was browsing Wowhead and also looking at peoples armories, I had a few ideas on what a good setup would be, and I noticed no one is using this setup, it could be because they don't want to faction change or they know something I don't. My understanding is that as a fury warrior crit is very important, and so is str, but crit is a little more important because you are primarily relying on crusader procs to get your str and so what little crit you can gain at the expense of some str would be worth it in the long run. So here's my idea on a setup:

Head: Deep Reach Helm - Item - World of Warcraft ( Second highest mail crit giving helm, the first highest, sunblaze coif gives 2 more crit but no str. This helm gives the highest crit while also providing some str and stamana. Boa helm has NO crit, only haste, dispite what the tooltip says!)

Alternatives:

Sunblaze Coif - Item - World of Warcraft

Frostreaver Crown - Item - World of Warcraft

Polished Helm of Valor - Item - World of Warcraft

Shoulder: Polished Spaulders of Valor - Item - World of Warcraft

Body:Polished Breastplate of Valor - Item - World of Warcraft

Legs: Barechus' Greaves - Item - World of Warcraft OR Polished Legplates of Valor - Item - World of Warcraft

Wrist: Commanding Bracers - Item - World of Warcraft

Belt: Felbane Belt - Item - World of Warcraft OR Earthbound of the soldier, same exact stats.

Gloves: Earthbound Grips - Item - World of Warcraft OF the soldier ( 7 str, 7 stam, 7 crit)

Boots: Caverndeep Trudgers - Item - World of Warcraft

Alternative: Boots of the Hero - Item - World of Warcraft

Rings: Band of Raptor Teeth - Item - World of Warcraft X2 ( Requires faction change to obtain both)

Neck: Eternal Emberfury Talisman - Item - World of Warcraft

Weapon: Bloodied Arcanite Reaper - Item - World of Warcraft X2

Back:http://www.wowhead.com/item=55929/skull-scorched-cloak ( In comparison to boa, you gain 1 crit, and lose some haste, str, and stam)

Alternative: http://www.wowhead.com/item=122260/worn-stoneskin-gargoyle-cape&bonus=0

Trinkets: http://www.wowhead.com/item=19024/arena-grand-master X2 if human, if not human, one AGM with http://www.wowhead.com/item=122371/inherited-insignia-of-the-alliance&bonus=0 OR of the horde.

( AGM still provides one more stamana than http://www.wowhead.com/item=122530/inherited-mark-of-tyranny&bonus=0 at this level, making the agm Best in slot) ( you could use http://www.wowhead.com/item=122361/swift-hand-of-justice&bonus=0 for the extra haste/dps increase, but as we have sacrifised some stam by giving up boa gear for blues that award more crit, I think the AGM's make up for the loss of stam.)

Couldnt figure out how to set the boa items to level 29, but the reason I have some lower level quest blues as bis instead of them is simply because the blues offer more crit, at the cost of a couple str or a few stamana points. With this build you still have well over 4k hp, which is on par with the f2p accounts, and only a few hundred hp below other 29's, but you have almost the max amount of crit while still using mail gear that provides str and stamana, thus not giving up too much AP to hit like a wet noodle, or enough stam to get one shot.

This is my thoery on a new viable fury warrior setup that focuses on maxing out crit, but while at the same time providing enough str and stam to hit hard and stay in the fight. If you guys have any improves or a different opinion on gear, I would love to hear them.
 
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AGM is purgeable and has a 15 minute cooldown, its still bis for stelathies to get a restealth but not for anyone else. Sure humans get shafted, but lets be straight if you roll human you are rolling it for double trinket so learn to capitalize on it with an engineering trinket or pick a different race.

Crit is not an important stat for warrior, in terms of DPS its like 1 STR for 2.5 crit.
 
Crit is fairly important as fury, that being said it's not worth sacrifcing too much AP for it. somewhere between 20-25% crit should be more than enough.
 
25% crit, then you can start focusing on AP.... It has been like that for fury for a long time
 
You need to realize that pre-WoD 14 AP was 1 DPS, now it's 3.5 AP for 1 DPS. That along with the fact that crit does 150% damage rather than 200% in WoD I would say you are MUCH better off getting strength gear. Just my 2 cents

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if my math is correct your setup adds 9.9% more crit then my setup. This is 4.95% increased damage (since crit is 150%). My setup (once I get 10 AP wrists) is 49 more AP (14 DPS). This is about 101 DPS comapred to the 87 + 4.95% damage from crit. Of course I didn't include the 10% increased damage from enrage but a 10% extra crit on 10% damage bonus would come out to 1% damage more on average. If it were pre-WoD I would say go ahead stack crit but currently crit is too weak and strength is too strong. Correct me if I am wrong on something :)

EDIT: I think 1 str = 3 crit is a good ratio for fury
 
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IMO stacking str is pretty counter-productive, considering you get 100-200 str from crusader, which are up almost always on a fury it feels like. Once you get that crusa proc or two, 40% crit rating will make you burst pretty damn hard. I've personally only tried a crit setup so couldn't know how other setups work in practice, but I've seen no reason to change my gear yet.
 
Im really green in this bracket (always been a 60/70 dude) but I go crit.
Theres a 40%+ on bloodthirst and you want to crit as many of those as possible. You can reach 35% rather easily w/o sacrificing much ap/stam so -> 75% and crit pretty much every bloodthirst.
Then theres the matter of rage, high crit makes you swim in rage ---> more damuge.

^ Why I go crit as arms aswell, well that and the fact i feel like my rend becomes so beastly with high crit.
Just rend em up and start whacking at a healer, 18s later and either the healer is dead or all of his teammates are just an execute away.
You become paper, but its more fun when you actually have to use D stance every now and then. ++ papercuts hurts alot more than anything else.

I would try out 1h with vibroblade, in 60s those apr items like bashguuder are beyond broken (for warriors they buff all dmg).
Dunno about that one but it should be atleast a 20-30% dmg buff.
 

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