Mists of Pandaria Classic Arms Warrior Spell Summary

Arms Warrior has a wide arsenal of spells available to them; knowing your important spells and when they are best suited to be used is a key part of performing well in any environment. The sections below aim to show you your most important spells by each category and give you a brief example of what each spell does.

Warriors have three different stances, each having unique functions that are needed in certain situations. In Mists of Pandaria, all spells can be used in any stance, meaning you should only choose a stance based on your needs at the time.

• Battle Stance — Grants you high Rage when you deal melee damage. Since all abilities can be used in any stance, you will use Battle Stance most of the time.
• Defensive Stance — Decreases damage taken by 25% and significantly increases threat generation, but you generate no Rage from damage taken or damage dealt. Use this only to reduce the damage of major raid abilities.
• Berserker Stance — Grants some Rage from melee damage, less than Battle Stance generates, but also grants Rage from damage taken. Use this whenever there is high raid-wide damage going out.

Buffs and debuffs are an important part of any party or raid group as they greatly increase your groups ability to tank, heal and deal damage as a whole. Make sure you keep your buffs and debuffs up at all times to ensure the highest chance of success in whatever content you are in.

• Battle Shout — Increases Attack Power of all nearby raid and party members.
• Commanding Shout — Increases the Stamina of all nearby raid and party members.

• Commanding Shout — Applies Physical Vulnerability to the target, increasing all Physical damage taken by 4%.
• Sunder Armor — Applies the Weakened Armor effect, reducing the targets' armor by 4% per application, stacking up to 3 times.
• Mortal Strike — Applies Mortal Wounds to the target, reducing their healing received by 25%.
• Thunder Clap — Applies the Weakened Blows effect, reducing targets physical damage dealt by 10%.

These are your core damaging abilities that you will use frequently, either while leveling or at max level.

• Colossus Smash — Smashs the target for high damage and causes all of your attacks to bypass 100% of the enemies armor for 6 seconds. Sudden Death has a chance to reset the cooldown of this, allowing you to use it more often than the cooldown implies. Never use Colossus Smash while the debuff is still on the target, always wait for it to fall off first so you get the most uptime of the debuff as possible. This is the main ability you will play your rotation around as you want to get in as much damage as possible while the debuff is applied.
• Mortal Strike — Instantly deals moderate damage to target and reduces their healing received by 25%. This is the main iconic ability of the Arms specialization. Thanks to the passive Taste for Blood, whenever you use Mortal Strike you gain 2 charges of Overpower, stacking up to 5 times total.
• Overpower — Deals damage to the target, but can only be used if you have charges; this attack can not be blocked, dodged, or parried. Charges are gained through the passive Taste for Blood, whenever you use Mortal Strike.
• Slam — Instant cast, deals very high damage the target, but costs a lot of Rage. This is one of our main abilities now, but can should only be used during certain conditions to make it worth the Rage cost. Targets debuffed with Colossus Smash take 10% additional damage from Slam. While Sweeping Strikes is active, Slam will deal 35% of its damage dealt to all nearby enemies.
• Execute — Requires the target to below 20% health before you can use this. No longer consumes additional Rage to deal additional damage, instead this will cost a fixed amount of Rage while still dealing very high damage. This will become a top priority spell once the target reaches 20% health.
• Heroic Strike — Instantly deals damage to the target. This spell was one a core part of our rotation, but is only used now to dump Rage if you are getting close to cap.
• Cleave — Instant attack that deals damage to target and an additional nearby enemy. Similar to Heroic Strike, this is essentially just a filler in an AoE situation if your Rage is nearing 100.
• Victory Rush — Deals damage and heals you for 20% of your maximum life. This can only be used after you get the killing blow on an enemy that is a similar level to you. You can not get this proc by killing low level enemies, such as critters. It is rare to be able to use this ability (in raids at least) as it requires you to get the killing blow to activate it, but be sure to use it if you can.
• Sweeping Strikes — No longer has a cooldown, but now costs 30 Rage. Causes your melee attacks to hit an additional nearby target for 50% damage. While Sweeping Strikes is active, Slam will deal 35% of its damage dealt to all nearby enemies. Great for AoE and multi-target bosses.
• Thunder Clap — Deals damage to all nearby targets, applying Weakened Blows to them. With Blood and Thunder, Thunder Clap will apply Deep Wounds to all targets hit, making this a great AoE spell.

Arms Warriors has a number of personal cooldowns and a few raid-wide cooldowns for both offensive and defensive purposes.

• Berserker Rage — 30-second cooldown, triggers Enrage. Use this to help with Enrage up-time.
• Recklessness — 3-minute cooldown, gives 30% increased crit chance. Use this in combination with other offensive cooldowns.
• Shattering Throw — 5-minute cooldown, reduces targets armor by 20%. Use this in combination with other offensive cooldowns.
• Skull Banner — 3-minute cooldown, increases the critical damage of all nearby allies by 20%. Use this in combination with other offensive cooldowns.

• Rallying Cry — 3-minute cooldown, grants you and all nearby allies 20% increased max health. Coordinate this with your raid to help the group survive raid mechanics.
• Die by the Sword — 2-minute cooldown, Increases your parry chance by 100% and reduces damage taken by 20% for 8 seconds. New defensive added in Mists of Pandaria, use it as needed.
• Shield Wall — 3-minute cooldown, 40% damage reduction. Can be used in any stance and no longer requires a shield to use. Great for surviving major raid abilities.
• Vigilance — 2-minute cooldown, 30% damage reduction to targeted player. This is your Tier 5 talent and is an amazing defensive cooldown to use on your tanks.
• Demoralizing Banner — 3-minute cooldown, Throws down a banner than decreases the damage dealt by all nearby enemies by 10% for 15 seconds.
• Enraged Regeneration — 1-minute cooldown, instantly heals you for 10% of your max health, and an additional 10% over 5 seconds; this healing is doubled if you use this while Enraged. Great for personal survival if you ever find yourself low health in a bad position.

In addition to your main spells and cooldowns, you also have many utility spells that can be game-changing when used in the proper scenario. Make sure you understand each of the spells listed below to fully take advantage of your entire spellbook.

• Charge — Quickly rush to an enemy, stunning them and generating some Rage. With the Juggernaut talent, you can use this ability every 12 seconds for Rage, improved further by Glyph of Bull Rush.
• Intervene — Rush to an allies location, causing the next melee or ranged attack made against them to be redirected to you instead. You may need to use this from time to time for mobility or to escape a lethal area.
• Pummel — Interrupts the target, preventing them from casting for 4 seconds. This is an important spell that you should be making use of whenever possible, especially on trash pulls. This spell is not on the global cooldown, letting you cast it freely.
• Disarm — Removes your target's melee and ranged weapons for 10 seconds, greatly reducing the damage they deal, and may prevent them from using certain abilities. Mainly useful on certain trash mobs that use abilities similar to Whirlwind.
• Intimidating Shout — Fears up to 6 nearby enemies for a short duration. Can be useful if you are in danger or surrounded by enemies, but will typically only be used in PvP as using it in PvE situations can cause trash mobs to run in bad directions and pull additional packs of enemies.
• Heroic Leap — Jump to the targeted location, dealing damage to all nearby enemies. This is useful for either dealing a bit more damage on AoE pulls, but will most likely be used as a movement ability to close the gap on your enemy.