Arms Warrior DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.2)

Welcome to our Arms Warrior Gear and BiS Page for The War Within Season 3. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Arms Warrior, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Arms Warrior

Overall BiS List for Season 3 Manaforge Omega Gear BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List

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Season 3 Overall BiS List for Arms Warrior

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from all sources for Season 3 of The War Within.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Maw of the Void (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Living Weapon's Faceshield (723)	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Salhadaar's Folly (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Living Weapon's Ramparts (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike (730)	Ghosts of K'aresh Campaign
Chest	Living Weapon's Bulwark (723)	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces (720)	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Gloves	Living Weapon's Crushers (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt (720)	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Legs	Living Weapon's Legguards (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Plated Sabatons (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Band of the Shattered Soul (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (723)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega

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Manaforge Omega Gear BiS List for Arms Warrior

This list contains the best gear dropping specifically inside the Manaforge Omega raid in Season 3 of The War Within.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Maw of the Void (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Living Weapon's Faceshield (723)	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Salhadaar's Folly (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Living Weapon's Ramparts (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike (730)	Ghosts of K'aresh Campaign
Chest	Living Weapon's Bulwark (723)	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces (720)	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Gloves	Living Weapon's Crushers (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt (720)	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Legs	Living Weapon's Legguards (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Plated Sabatons (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Band of the Shattered Soul (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Entropy with Haste or Critical Strike (723)	BoE Drop in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #1	Astral Antenna (723)	Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Eradicating Arcanocore (723)	Plexus Sentinel in Manaforge Omega

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Arms Warrior

This list contains the best gear dropping specifically from Mythic+ dungeons in Season 3 of The War Within. This makes them more easily farmable, though at a lower item level than what is available from Mythic Raid or The Great Vault, so they are not necessarily the absolute best drops or the best consolidated set of gear.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Fatebound Crusader (710)	Mythic+ Eco-Dome Al'dani
Helm	Crown of Absolute Command (710)	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Neck	Ornately Engraved Amplifier (710)	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Shoulder	Stoneflesh Spaulders (710)	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike (730)	Ghosts of K'aresh Campaign
Chest	Breastplate of Otherworldly Influence (710)	Mythic+ Halls of Atonement
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces (720)	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Gloves	Devourer's Gauntlets (710)	Mythic+ Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt (720)	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Legs	Quantum Leapers (710)	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Boots	Devoted Plate Walkers (710)	Mythic+ Priory of the Sacred Flame
Ring #1	Ring of the Panoply (710)	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring (710)	Mythic+ The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (710)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #2	Ticking Sack of Terror (710)	Tazavesh, the Veiled Market

New in Patch 11.2 is an artifact cloak obtained during the Ghosts of K'aresh quest chain! The Reshii Wraps begin at item level 694 and progressing to 730 over the course of the season, the cloak also features a unique role-based proc and a single Fiber Socket allowing customization over its secondary statistics. There are no other non-cosmetic cloaks in Season 3, so the Reshii Wraps should always be worn.

As a DPS, the cloak will proc a moderate amount of damage split between enemies, increasing against lower health targets. This effect is further enhanced by two specific items available within Manaforge Omega:

• Interloper's Plated Sabatons - Boots from The Soul Hunters that significantly increase the proc rate of the cloak effect, from +20% with LFR boots, up to +50% on the Mythic version.
• Band of the Shattered Soul - Ring from Dimensius The All Devouring that provides a small defensive element to the cloak procs, which can have some situational value on specific encounters, but is not particularly necessary to have.

The unique Fiber Socket on the Reshii Wraps allows customizing its secondary stats with swappable fibers purchased at Rare quality from Hashim on K'aresh, or crafted at Epic quality by Tailoring.

• Both Colossus and Slayer should prioritize Precise Fiber / Pure Precise Fiber for Critical Strike or Chronomantic Fiber / Pure Chronomantic Fiber for Haste.

For more information on acquiring the Cloak, check our dedicated page for more details:

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets, this should not be a replacement for simming yourself, at least not if you want to minmax sub-1%!

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

Carrying over from previous seasons, the BiS crafts remain 2x Dawnthread Lining on Belt and Bracers, though because the Titan DISC belt can still be used early in the Season, some players may opt to craft an offpiece tier, neck/ring (with Elemental Focusing Lens), or boot (until obtaining the Interloper's Plated Sabatons).

Alternatively, crafting a weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension paired with Writhing Armor Banding on Bracer is not strictly BiS, but a strong early consideration for players who anticipate trouble getting Myth-track weapons from raid or vaults early.

• Arms Warriors should generally craft Critical Strike/Haste onto their gear. While stat weights may change depending on what gear you currently have available, it is easier to gear around your crafts than to continually recraft your gear.

Note that it is highly recommended not to craft anything until it is felt as though it is needed, generally right before you head into serious raid or Mythic+ progression. The longer you can wait with crafting, the better information you, and this guide, will have on the best Crafts. Crafting early and then having the recommendation change due to unexpected tuning is always a possibility, and the goal should be to avoid this happening as much as possible.

1. Everforged Vambraces — is the best general craft and embellishment.
2. Everforged Greatbelt — doubling up on the same, though crafting in another slot while still making use of the Titan DISC Belt may be preferrable in the short term.
3. Next, fill low-item level holes in your gear, preferring weapons or pieces of gear you are not likely to replace quickly.
4. At this point, you are mostly done crafting. You can spend future Sparks on off-spec items, alternatively statted crafts for different situations, and so on.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as Gilded Undermine Crest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +9 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +8 Dungeon, as those are wasted Crests you may not get back for a very long time.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

1. Weapons
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.

New in Season 3, tier set bonuses are now separated by hero talents instead of traditional specializations. This still results in three seperate groups of bonuses, but instead of distinct Arms, Fury, and Protection sets, they are now tailored to Colossus, Mountain Thane, and Slayer.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses, though Arms can comfortably use all five due to its flexible stat weights. See the BiS List for more information, and remember that you can use the Matrix Catalyst to convert regular items (from Mythic+, for example) into Tier pieces.

• Warrior Slayer 11.2 Class Set 2pc — Execute damage increased by 10% and Executes from Sudden Death have a 10% chance per stack of Overwhelmed on the target to trigger a Slayer's Strike at 100% effectiveness. Stacking up to a 100% chance to trigger a Slayer's Strike, this greatly enhances the single target damage capability of Execute, while also leading to more Sudden Death procs.
• Warrior Slayer 11.2 Class Set 4pc — Overpower damage increased by 10% and Overpower has a 2% chance per stack of Overwhelmed on the target to trigger Reap the Storm at 150% effectiveness. Gives Overpower up to a 10% chance to trigger Reap, mirroring that of Mortal Strike, though this chance does not scale up when hitting multiple targets.
• Warrior Colossus 11.2 Class Set 2pc — Demolish damage increased by 20% and critical strike damage of your abilities is increased by up to 20% on targets affected by your Demolish for 10 sec based on the number of stacks of Colossal Might consumed. Very straightforward enhancement to Demolish.
• Warrior Colossus 11.2 Class Set 4pc — Demolish increases the critical strike chance of your next 1 Mortal Strike by 100%. Mortal Strike critical strikes increase your Rend and Deep Wounds damage by 80% for 8 sec. These effects are independent, so that any Mortal Strike crit will trigger the increased bleed damage, resulting in a very high natural uptime.

Both bonuses are relatively passive in that they do not add anything that needs to be explicitly kept track of, though they do result in increased use of Sudden Death, Bladestorm, and Demolish, contributing to a pronounced difference in feel between seasons 2 and 3.

Added in Patch 11.1.7, the Durable Information Securing Container remains a useful option at the start of Season 3, though it will ultimately be replaced by strong Myth track item level gear.

While the belt lacks secondary stats, they are made up for with an innate socket and the choice between 9 different special effects, each deterministically unlocked by completing various delves. Once unlocked, these effects can be swapped at will simply by right-clicking on the belt to pull up a selection menu.

These are the recommended special effects for each type of content:

• For single target raid encounters: Critical Chain or Static Charge
• For Mythic+ and multitarget encounters: Critical Chain
• For open world and delve content: Critical Chain