To Fury or not To Fury

[lessigfan]

Balls of Steel made me rethink my use of fury charms, and I thought it was really good advice. Exactly the sort of thing we could all benefit from posting, so I'm putting it here for anyone else around level 27/28 and still relying heavily on fury charms (like me).

hey man, just wanted to point out something

at my current lvl, fury potions and blind fury are virtually worthless.
i use honor axe, which does 44 melee(5% P)

fury potion gives me +47 on next melee, but i lose 18 life total in 6 turns....so its basically a delayed attack that costs me 18 life

while blind fury eats at my armour/ward and gives me a delayed attack of 45 melee

they are only worth something if u are using a set with alot of damage+break protection.....other than that they are useless

thought id inform you

I agreed:

Good thinking, I need to reconsider my use of fury charms. The reason I've stayed with them, is because I think one attack of 80 damage is better than two of 45. Either because of the other guy could slap on some armor in between, or because a fury charm (as you point out) could be coupled with a piercing or armor-debuff weapon. I do use a lot of debuffing class charms, so fury charms do couple nicely with those.

I try to use more blind fury than fury potions because I pack very little ward/armor by default, but I've only got 3 blind fury, so I typically use a fury potion or two as well, and the health reduction does hurt. I've had pretty good luck with the fury charms so far, particularly since I have very few of the honor sword/shadow/axe/earth items which do damage comparable to a fury potion. Partially that's because my stats aren't there yet (I can only use the honor sword at present), partially that's because I haven't PvP'd enough.

I do rely too heavily on fury potions, and I do need to wean myself off them. Thanks for the tip, I really appreciate it!

[SinMan]

I'm not at that level yet, but even using wide swing and focus staff seems to be worth it so far. The bigger hit makes a big difference so people can't put armor/wards on, or you just destroy the protections in one hit. Maybe if you use some of the +1 action charms once in a while you can probably build up some huge hits that there's no way to defend against. The negative life doesn't matter much if you kill them fast!

[Yigh]

Fury is good for quickness sets. I'd Fury, on my next turn I'd had 20+47+24over a few turns.

Once you get to charms that do 40 damage, fury is redundant, yes.

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