Fellowship Tariq Guide

When you pick Tariq in Fellowship, you sign up for a simple deal: you watch one little bar, you hit your timing, and you pretend you planned it all along.

• Why does your damage drop when you press buttons at the wrong moment
• What is the swing timer bar, and what timing do you want
• How do you build Fury fast, and what do you press first
• When do you spend Fury on Skull Crusher vs Hammerstorm
• When do you use Culling Strike, and when do you skip it
• Which skills sit off the global cooldown, and why it matters
• Which cooldowns pair together for big bursts
• What stats, gems, legendary, weapon, and relic pick you want

Core mechanics you must understand

Swing timer bar

You get a bar near your character, and a moving line shows when your auto attack lands. When the line reaches the end, you auto attack, and you can empower that hit with Heavy Strike near the end of the bar. If you press a different ability right at that moment, you cancel the empowered hit, so you pause and let Heavy Strike land.

Fury resource

You build Fury with your rotation, then you spend Fury with your finishers. Your is simple: build Fury, empower key hits, then spend Fury on the correct finisher.

Combat: build Fury, then spend it

Build Fury priority

Your Fury generation feels inconsistent, so you use a priority system instead of a strict rotation.

Use this priority to build Fury;

• Thunder Call: you use it to empower attacks, and it opens Chain Lightning
• Chain Lightning
• Leap Smash
• Wild Swing
• Base Breaker
• Heavy Strike: simple filler when nothing above fits

Small timing rule that saves runs: when the swing timer line is close to the end, you slow down and plan, so you do Heavy Strike at the right moment and you avoid canceling your empowered auto attack.

Spend Fury finishers

You have a few finishers that actually spend Fury.

• Use this spending rule
• Skull Crusher: big single target hit
• Hammerstorm: big AoE hit, so you use it when you hit more than one target
• Culling Strike: single target execute, so you keep it for priority damage, and you usually skip it in multi target

Global cooldown and swing timer

Some of your abilities sit off the global cooldown, and this matters because the swing timer can get canceled by wrong timing.

Your main rule: you track what is on GCD, you track what is off GCD, then you avoid pressing a GCD skill right when you want Heavy Strike to empower the auto attack.

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Damage cooldowns

• Thunder Call: key cooldown that empowers attacks and leads into Chain Lightning
• Focused Wrath: damage buff that boosts two spenders, so you press it on cooldown

Ultimate pairing

Your ultimate is Raging Tempest, and it empowers Thunderclaw for its duration, so you pair these cooldowns for a strong burst window.

Survival and control

• Unbreakable Will: your personal defensive
• Intimidating Roar: AoE fear for 10 seconds, useful to stop mob casts

Talents: what you follow from the text

You unlock talent points over time, and nodes can need different investment, so the build can move around during leveling.

A simple early path from the text

• First two points: Blood and Thunder
• Third point: Ride the Lightning

You also get a stage-by-stage breakdown and a point counter in the guide, so you can pause and follow the stage you are in, while you adjust points if your Fury feel changes.

Stats, gems, legendary, weapon, relics

Stat priority

Your stat priority is item level first, then crit, then haste, then expertise, then spirit.

Gems

Amethyst is a strong gem pick in the guide.
 Early on, you can use tier one gems you have, and later you focus your gem power into one main gem type.

Legendary

The cloak legendary is the main pick in the guide, because it empowers Leap Smash and makes enemies you leap on take 20% extra damage from you for 5 seconds.

Leap has a low cooldown in the guide, so you get that damage window often.

Weapon

Fateful Basher stands out in the guide, because it gives a large amount of cooldown reduction, so you sit inside your cooldown windows more often, and it scales well once you have your legendary.

Relics

Relics are utility focused, so your second relic depends on what you value and what you have.

Sin Binding Stone is the lock-in pick from the guide: it gives 15% damage reduction to you and allies for 15 seconds, on a 3 minute cooldown.

Common mistakes you fix fast

• You cancel your empowered auto attack by pressing a skill right at the end of the swing bar, so you slow down and time Heavy Strike instead.
• You spend Fury on the wrong finisher for the target count, so you keep Skull Crusher for one target and Hammerstorm for packs.
• You forget cooldown pairing, so you line up Raging Tempest with Thunderclaw boosts for your burst window.

Conclusion

You get great Tariq damage when you respect the swing timer, because Heavy Strike timing gives you empowered hits, and your priority system keeps Fury coming, then you spend on the right finisher and you pair your big cooldowns for burst.