I use /stopcasting before and after /cast Slam. I find this works best and rarely ever get slam casting bar.

With the way the macro is written, it looks like you would either need to press the macro a second time to cancel casting, or you can try adding a very short delay between the /cast Slam and the /stopcasting.

The recommended macro on wowwiki is similar to what you wrote:
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Slam
/stopcasting
/startattack

But this macro will likely still take two key presses. When I get home from work, I'll play with some macro writing and edit this post with what I find if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Why not just put the /stopcasting /startattack lines into a BT macro? I'm sure your muscle memory makes you press slam once then go back to spamming BT anyway. Just seems more streamlined while accomplishing the same effect.

I've not done any controlled tests with SMF in execute phase but I currently have both TG and SMF in my build. I do switch to 1-hand weapons sub 20% and I've noticed an increase in damage during that phase. Execute and HS are our main dps abilities sub 20% and both are affected greatly with the 15% increase to damage since neither is based off weapon damage. Even with the decrease to stats from the swap HS hits for about 500 more damage (with 10 stacks of Slayer only) and from what I can remember from raid testing execute was hitting for around 1-2k more (obviously raid buffed).

As far as talents go I'd think putting only 1 point in DW and filling Incite would be better dps than 2 points in each (assuming you're taking both TG and SMF).

I think the consensus is that spamming execute/HS (maybe a BT here and there for Battle Trance?) sub 20% is better dps than keeping our normal rotation regardless whether we have TG, SMF or both. So the real question is this: Is it better dps to take TG+SMF and swap to 1h for execute phase or take either TG/SMF and get 2/3 DW and 3/3 Incite?

Yesterday I was playing around with that macro and in fact it requires two key presses.

The problem is that after the first keypress the button is showing the GCD so I was not able to press it a second time right after, but just only after the GCD finishes. Is there anyway to bypass this?

The provided damage bonus of Inner Rage with the rage-free bloodsurge proc makes this a very attractive combo but we should be able to do it on a single click. Use power auras to track when both procs are up at same time.

But saving up 75 rage for a bloodsurge proc does not make that an attractive combo. Especially if you're going to cancel the inner rage right after.

I'm wondering if they could make inner rage more attractive by lowering the rage activation cost so you could micro it into your rotation more freely.

Wouldn't this be the exact reason they will not do that? I'd argue that if optimal DPS involves cancel aura macros then our damage is just designed poorly at this point in WoW.

And let me clarify what I mean by optimal in that, yes, Rend in a perfect world with perfect latency and Starcraft World Champion actions per minute reflexes it is a dps increase of ~1%, but is that Marginal Benefit worth the Marginal Cost. If however the cancel aura Inner Rage = 10-15% dps increase than I believe we're due for a balance or adjustment.

Personally after fuddling with it for awhile, except in times of extreme rage generation like heroic conclave of winds during the North boss power up, I find there is little place really for Inner Rage in my rotation.

This macro actually sounds really good, are there any drawbacks to it?

This macro works perfectly for me, just hit your slam key twice whenever you have bloodsurge to make sure inner rage is cancelled, or you could macro your bloodthirst to also include cancelaura before casting bloodthirst.

#showtooltip
/cast Inner Rage
/cast Slam
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Inner Rage
/cancelaura Inner Rage

I began weaving Inner Rage into my Slam macros but I ended up removing it because even with the /cancelaura I noticed that many times when I would use a Heroic Strike at the same time it would suck up the extra rage which was just no good for me.

I've had alot of good experiences with keeping Inner Rage up during the execute phases as mentioned though, it definitely provides a significant DPS increase as long as you make sure you only execute with 30 rage (which you probably should be doing anyways as it feels more efficient as long as your stacks stay up).

Anyways I was wondering if anyone has made some solid comparisons of a high hit (16%+) build compared to a low hit/high crit (11% or 12% hit) build within the same gear via reforging. I was under the impression that the high hit build would yield better results but after doing some testing on a dummy the low hit build came out on top due to improved flurry uptime which led to similar rage gain over time. The downside was that the rage gain was much more random during short intervals so I ended up being much more conservative on specials. I'm also not the most experienced DPSer as I typically tank, but I have been filling a fury role for a few months now. I'm hoping someone with alot more experience may be able to enlighten me a bit.

The change also made a shift of my melee attacks being my highest DPS in the high hit build to Heroic Strike and Bloodthirst being my highest DPS in the high crit build. That yields another question of is it worth dropping raging blow for Heroic Strike, especially with 3/3 incite...

So much testing to do and so little time.

Hitting it twice? Ugh.

If slam falls off insta as you are in the process of tapping that, you still wind up using 15 rage on Inner rage.

I'm having good luck with putting all my abilties into a combination of in-game and logitech macros. Even with a seperate macro for /stopcasting that fires off on a delay after starting a slam, there isn't 100 percent slam interruption.

I guess I'll report the "slam is sometimes mandatory" bug on the blizz forums.

Inner rage costs no rage to cast, and slam consumes no rage until it actually finishes casting, I don't see the downside.

I have tried such macro, its often cast full Slam when I push macro button without bloodsurge proc. In additional button with Slam macro won't fire alert about bloodsurge proc.
I am not sure but /stopcasting sometimes stops autoattack.

Sacrificing DPS for ease-of-play is a personal decision, not a theorycrafting one. Leave it out of this thread.

Easy fix for this is to have something like Power Auras that will alert of you of when to Slam.

Slight nerfage to fury dps, which is a bit confusing. I'm guessing this is more pvp related than anything else.

To follow up on what Civrock said, I have quoted a blue in regards to the Raging Blow "Nerf";

Originally Posted by 18209092883 You'll notice many of the patch notes are actually tooltip fixes and the corresponding hotfix is likely to be live already (as you can correlate in the hotfix notes.) Also, it's important to note that we didn't nerf Raging Blow (Fury warrior talent). The attack continues to do 110% at level 80. We fixed a tooltip bug and it’s possible that you're seeing the base damage at level 39, which is 80%, and not the final damage at max level, which remains 110% as it has been for some time.

It was just a tooltip clarification. With the following changes;

Raging blow will actually be doing more damage post-patch than it is now. I guess that is to make up for the heroic strike damage nerf.

I doubt that change the mastery will make up the 35% nerf to heroic strike damage. Heroic strike is almost always ~20% of my dps, raging blow is under 5%. I'm SMF, so maybe add 50% more for TG. Since mastery is currently a garbage stat, that buff isn't going to make it appealing enough to get gear with it, so very little will change(in regards to the mastery).

There's not only a change to Mastery, but also the War Academy change as well. Taken together they are roughly a 21% increase in Raging Blow damage. Using the numbers for TG from this post the changes buff Raging Blow's contribution by 2.7% while lowering Heroic Strike's by 5.2%. The 2.5% difference is only partially up by the mastery change also buffing (slightly) Death Wish and Enrage.

There's essentially a 1.5% or so gap that isn't filled, unless Blizzard is counting on most raiders having some mastery on their gear because it's practically unavoidable.

"Unshackled Fury (Mastery) now grants 5.6% benefit per mastery point, up from 4.7%."

Along with the 20% nerf to Heroic Strike this has made me think. Is this change enough to actually make a difference, or is it, as I suspect, just enough of a change to negate the DPS lost from heroic strike? I would say it's going to take alot more than that to make mastery our best stat or anything even close.

I tried to get some kind of calculation of this, but mastery is a little tricky, napkin math inc.
I assumed enrage had an uptime of about 67% (I calculated with 2x 3.0 attack speed on average and 0.66 specials per second, so a special on every GCD, which is not possible), than a point of mastery is about a 0.38% damage bonus concerning the Enrage buff alone. We also get a damage boost on Raging blow and Death Wish, so it may be that mastery surpasses haste as a damage stat, although they both work together pretty well concerning Enrage uptime.
But given that HS now is nerfed, haste will devalue even further after we can keep our basic rotation up and running (and that is possible with pretty basic levels of crit and haste).

I will use logs from Omnitron @ Blackwing Descent as an example: World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

Looks like Raging Blow got nerfed by 30% weapon damage = -5286 damage on my average of 17623 damage(including crits) per hit. It will now be 12337 when Raging Blow nerf is applied.

I am using my character as an example and my mastery value is 13.40.
Fury warriors' mastery will be buffed by 0.9%(4.7 to 5.6) per point of mastery on Raging Blow and Death Wish.

Before Unshackled Fury (Mastery) now grants 5.6% benefit per mastery point, up from 4.7%.
13.40x4.7 = 62%

After Unshackled Fury (Mastery) now grants 5.6% benefit per mastery point, up from 4.7%.
13.40x5.6 = 75%

110% Weapon damage from Raging Blow + 63% = 179% weapon damage
80% Weapon damage from Raging Blow + 75% = 130% weapon damage

With Raging Blow nerf and mastery buff my Raging Blow's weapon damage will be reduced by 49%.

Now let's believe Death Wish will make us gain the DPS we lost on Raging Blow..

Death Wish increases physical damage by 20% without any mastery, 32% with old mastery(4.7%) and 35% with new mastery(5.6%). - again, with my character as example

.. no way we will gain the DPS we lost on Raging Blow.

Resuming:

-49% Weapon Damage on Raging Blow
+3% Physical damage increase on Death Wish
-20% Heroic Strike damage

= SHIT

Correct me if I am wrong, didn't have time for more calcs.. spent 5 minutes with it.