Arms Warrior DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Welcome to our Arms Warrior Gear and BiS Page for Midnight Pre-Patch. 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.

The Midnight Pre-Patch includes a stat squish, reducing all stat and combat numbers in the game, even gear item levels! Although the relative amount of stats gained should still be very similar, there may be small differences, as well as those caused by specific specialization talent changes.

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

2.

BiS Gear for Arms Warrior

Overall BiS List Manaforge Omega Gear BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List

2.1.

Overall BiS List for Arms Warrior

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from all sources.

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

2.2.

Manaforge Omega Gear BiS List for Arms Warrior

This list contains the best gear dropping specifically inside the Manaforge Omega raid.

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

2.3.

Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Arms Warrior

This list contains the best gear dropping specifically from Mythic+ dungeons. 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	Mythic+ Eco-Dome Al'dani
Helm	Crown of Absolute Command	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Neck	Ornately Engraved Amplifier	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Shoulder	Stoneflesh Spaulders	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Critical Strike	Ghosts of K'aresh Campaign
Chest	Breastplate of Otherworldly Influence	Mythic+ Halls of Atonement
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Gloves	Devourer's Gauntlets	Mythic+ Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt	Crafted — Blacksmithing
Legs	Quantum Leapers	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Boots	Devoted Plate Walkers	Mythic+ Priory of the Sacred Flame
Ring #1	Ring of the Panoply	Mythic+ Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring	Mythic+ The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Cursed Stone Idol	Halls of Atonement
Trinket #2	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Operation: Floodgate

Going into the Midnight expansion, much of the current gear will continue to be viable, especially if it is near max item level, though some items are less suited for leveling than they are raid or Mythic+ environments.

Although just about anything can be used to successfully progress through leveling content, trinkets can be optimized to help speed things up a bit, avoiding those with lengthy ramps or stacking mechanics that fall off outside of combat, and prioritizing those with passive bonuses or an immediate effect on-use.

• Araz's Ritual Forge, Perfidious Projector and Eradicating Arcanocore can be useful raid trinkets, due to their immediate effects, while Screams of a Forgotten Sky and Astral Antenna are harder to take advantage of.
• Cursed Stone Idol and Void Pactstone are similarly viable, while Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker and Ara-Kara Sacbrood are less likely to have time for their effects to trigger in short leveling combat.

First introduced in Patch 11.2, you can obtain an artifact cloak during the Ghosts of K'aresh quest chain! The Reshii Wraps begin at item level 694 and progressing to 731 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 currently, 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:

Puzzling Cartel Chip returned in Patch 11.2.5, allowing players to purchase specific Heroic or Mythic items from the Manaforge Omega or Mythic+ loot tables!

Below you can find a list of items to consider buying with your Chips. Consider your current gear and the chances of you getting the specific items before deciding which ones to get. For the best result, remember to sim yourself!

• Screams of a Forgotten Sky is the single best DPS trinket.
• Interloper's Plated Sabatons is very strong in all content.
• Cursed Stone Idol, Astral Antenna, Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker, and Ara-Kara Sacbrood are all strong trinket options for Mythic+ content.
• Band of the Shattered Soul does not add any direct damage, though provides a respectable defensive bonus due to Cosmic encompassing so many different magic damage types.
• Maw of the Void is not actually that special, since the effect is not combat related, but it is still a cool and rare weapon to collect!

If you already have these items, then feel free to use your Chips on any other trinkets or piece of gear still waiting to be collected.

6.

Best Trinkets for Arms Warrior in Midnight Pre-Patch

Best Raiding Trinkets Best Mythic+ Trinkets

6.1.

Best Raiding Trinkets for Arms Warrior

This Trinket Tier List is single target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Raiding. The best trinkets tend to be those that provide stat boosts, enhancing the performance of burst cooldowns, although there are a handful of strong direct damage trinkets available.

Using two on-use trinkets is usually not preferred due to the shared 20-second lockout period they incur, making it harder to use both with important cooldowns, though direct damage trinkets do not need to be timed with anything in particular, allowing them more flexibility.

FAQWhat are the best trinkets for Arms Warriors?

Assuming equal item levels, Astral Antenna and either Eradicating Arcanocore or Cursed Stone Idol.

6.2.

Best Raiding Trinkets

• Astral Antenna spawns a nearby orb, which can be collected to grant a moderate stacking critical strike buff. Although it can be collected, the orb lasts 20 seconds and will slowly move toward the player, allowing it to be passively collected after a short delay. This makes the trinket much simpler than it appears, and can be treated passively in all but the most movement intensive situations.
• Eradicating Arcanocore passively deals direct damage, best used against a single enemy, though the total damage does increase when split between multiple targets.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood is a powerful passive trinket that grants a great deal of strength, though the spawned add does next to no appreciable damage.

6.3.

Good Alternative Single Target Trinkets

• So'leah's Secret Technique allows some control over which player it is used on to gain the appropriate stat, though care should be taken to ensure the buff remains active.
• Ticking Sack of Terror deals direct single target damage after several applications.

These are generic simulations from Bloodmallet, giving you a rough overview of strong Arms Warrior Trinkets. It is not a replacement for simming yourself, but it can still offer a quick reference point.

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For the complete simulation results, check out Bloodmallet.com

6.4.

Best Mythic+ Trinkets for Arms Warrior

This Trinket Tier List is multi-target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Mythic+. The best trinkets tend to be those that provide stat boosts, enhancing the performance of burst cooldowns, although there are a handful of strong direct damage trinkets available.

Using two on-use trinkets is usually not preferred due to the shared 20-second lockout period they incur, making it harder to use both with important cooldowns, though direct damage trinkets do not need to be timed with anything in particular, allowing them more flexibility.

6.5.

Best Mythic+ Trinkets

• Astral Antenna spawns a nearby orb, which can be collected to grant a moderate stacking critical strike buff. Although it can be collected, the orb lasts 20 seconds and will slowly move toward the player, allowing it to be passively collected after a short delay. This makes the trinket much simpler than it appears, and can be treated passively in all but the most movement intensive situations.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood is a powerful passive trinket that grants a great deal of strength, though the spawned add does next to no appreciable damage.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker remains a decent option due to its predictability, though this can be a liability in some situations in which it triggers automatically at inopportune times.

6.6.

Good Alternative Mythic+ Trinkets

• So'leah's Secret Technique allows some control over which player it is used on to gain the appropriate stat, though care should be taken to ensure the buff remains active.
• Cursed Stone Idol is the only viable 90-second cooldown trinket to align with Warrior cooldowns, though its stat buff was heavily nerfed in favor of dealing rather a lackluster amount of direct damage.

These are generic simulations from Bloodmallet, giving you a rough overview of strong Arms Warrior Trinkets. It is not a replacement for simming yourself, but can still offer a quick reference point.

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For the complete simulation results, check out Bloodmallet.com

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.

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 bonus.
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 Ethereal 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 +10 Dungeon (701 iLvl), for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +9 Dungeon (697), because you just wasted 15 Crests that could have been saved by just farming the slot on a +10.

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. Rings and Necks
5. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
6. Cloaks and Bracers

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

Tier Sets have been reworked in the Midnight Pre-Patch, now providing a passive damage increase.

• Warrior - Midnight PrePatch - 11.2 Class Set 2pc — Damage done increased by 6%.
• Warrior - Midnight PrePatch - 11.2 Class Set 4pc — Damage done increased by 10%.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses, so we recommend you get all items except for the Helm, and check out the BiS List for more information. Remember that you can use the Matrix Catalyst to convert regular items (from Mythic+, for example) into Tier pieces.