Introduction to the Arms Warrior

Arms Warriors are strong but somewhat slow damage dealers which revolve around building burst damage windows with Colossus Smash. Their greatest strength comes in the form of a versatile toolkit, offering Single Target, close-range cleave, burst AoE, and even a limited form of physical damage immunity.

Arms has powerful burst damage abilities with short cooldowns, making it both extremely competitive and easy to play in Mythic+ dungeons, where it can align those abilities with most pulls. Although it will not always fill every global between cooldowns, those abilities refresh frequently enough that the downtime is minimal, and further reduced by higher gear. In addition to powerful on-demand burst-AoE.

Below you will find a beginners guide to the Arms Warrior, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Arms Warrior

Talents

Level	Choices
15	War Machine ✅	Sudden Death	Skullsplitter
30	Double Time ✅	Impending Victory	Storm Bolt
45	Massacre ✅	Fervor of Battle	Rend
60	Second Wind	Bounding Stride ✅	Defensive Stance
75	Collateral Damage	Warbreaker ✅	Cleave
90	In For The Kill ✅	Avatar	Deadly Calm
100	Anger Management ✅	Dreadnaught	Ravager

Rotation of the Arms Warrior

The basic rotation for the Arms Warrior is as follows:

• Cast  Warbreaker

• Use  Overpower to buff  Mortal Strike

• Cast  Mortal Strike to maintain  Deep Wounds

• Cast  Bladestorm during  Colossus Smash

• Use  Slam

• Cast  Warbreaker

• Cast  Bladestorm when under 30 Rage

•   Execute as often as possible to fill GCDs

You can use the recommended Addon ConRo for help with your rotation, it can be found in our Addons Guide here

Cooldowns

• Bladestorm deals massive damage and inflicts Deep Wounds on single and against multiple targets. 

• Colossus Smash is a high damage offensive cooldown which causes the target to take increased damage, creating a burst window that serves as the linchpin of Arms’ damage.

• Sweeping Strikes is a secondary cooldown which enables two target damage. 

Stat Priority

The stat priority of the Arms Warrior is:

1. Haste
2. Critical Strike
3. Mastery
4. Versatility
5. Strength

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