Forever Arms Warrior Stat Priority

Welcome to the Stats page for Arms Warrior at Level 60. This page covers your stat priority, what each stat does, and how it affects your damage and Rage. These recommendations are subject to change as Forever is updated.

Use this priority as a starting point when comparing gear. Keep the Hit and Expertise caps in mind, then compare the full item. Haste, Agility, Attack Power, and the amount of each stat still matter.

Stat	Bonus
Weapon DPS	Determines your weapon's base damage per second.
Hit Chance	Reduces the chance that your attacks miss. Auto attack and special attack cap with a two handed weapon: 8% against Level 63 bosses. Dual wield auto attack cap: 27% against Level 63 bosses, before talent bonuses.
Expertise	Reduces the chance that enemies dodge or parry your attacks. Cap when attacking from behind: 6.5% Dodge Chance reduction against Level 63 bosses.
Critical Strike	Increases the chance that your attacks critically strike.
Agility	Increases your melee Critical Strike Chance, Dodge Chance, and Armor.
Strength	Increases your melee Attack Power.
Attack Power	Increases the damage of your weapon attacks and abilities that scale with Attack Power.
Haste	Increases your attack speed.
Stamina	Increases your maximum health.

Your two handed weapon is your most important piece of gear. Its damage affects your auto attacks and abilities such as Mortal Strike, Slam, and Whirlwind. Compare its DPS, damage per swing, and stats together when choosing an upgrade.

Weapon Damage and Speed Explained

Weapon DPS and damage per swing are different. At the same DPS, a slower weapon hits harder each time it swings. This also increases the weapon damage used by attacks such as Mortal Strike, making a slow weapon useful for Arms.

You can estimate the Rage from a normal two handed auto attack with the formula below. Use the weapon's listed speed before Haste or attack speed buffs.

Weapon Speed × 4.50 = Base Rage per two handed swing

A 3.6 speed weapon gives about 16.2 Rage per normal auto attack, or 32.4 Rage on a crit, before talent bonuses; any fractional Rage is saved and added to future attacks. Slower weapons give more Rage per hit, but swing less often, so they don't give more Rage over a full fight.

Hit Chance reduces misses. A missed auto attack deals no damage and gives no Rage.

With a two handed weapon, you need 8% Hit Chance to stop both your auto attacks and special attacks from missing against Level 63 bosses. Additional Hit Chance beyond this cap doesn't improve these attacks.

Hit Chance While Dual Wielding

Equipping a weapon in your offhand adds a 19% miss penalty to auto attacks from both weapons. Against Level 63 bosses, your total auto attack miss chance is therefore 27% before Hit Chance or talent bonuses.

Special attacks still only need 8% Hit Chance to stop missing. At that target, your auto attacks still have a 19% chance to miss before talent bonuses. Additional Hit Chance continues to help your auto attacks, up to the 27% dual wield cap.

If your build takes Furious Precision, it grants up to 10% additional Hit Chance to your offhand attacks only. It doesn't reduce the Hit needed for main hand special attacks such as Mortal Strike.

Expertise reduces the chance that enemies dodge or parry your attacks. Hit Chance only reduces misses, so reaching the Hit cap doesn't remove the need for Expertise.

Attack from behind whenever you can. Enemies normally can't parry or block attacks from behind, but they can still dodge. Your usual Expertise target is therefore enough to remove Dodge Chance.

Against Level 63 bosses, aim for 6.5% Dodge Chance reduction from Expertise. Once you reach that target, more Expertise gives no further benefit while attacking from behind.

Critical Strike makes your attacks more likely to crit. Arms gets extra value from these hits through Deep Wounds and Impale. Critical auto attacks generate double the Rage of normal auto attacks.

Critical Strike, Deep Wounds, and Impale

Deep Wounds makes your critical strikes apply a bleed. At three points, it deals 60% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 seconds. Critical special attacks can trigger Deep Wounds, but don't generate Rage.

At two points, Impale increases the critical damage bonus of your abilities by 20%. An ability that normally hits for 100 would crit for 200 without the talent, or 220 with it, before other modifiers. The talent doesn't increase auto attack critical damage or Rage generation.

Agility gives Warriors melee Critical Strike Chance, Dodge Chance, and Armor, but no melee Attack Power.

At Level 60, every 20 Agility provides 1% melee Critical Strike Chance before modifiers.

Each point of Strength gives a Warrior 2 melee Attack Power. This makes your auto attacks and weapon based abilities hit harder.

Before buffs, 20 Strength gives the same Attack Power as a flat 40 Attack Power bonus. With Blessing of Kings, that 20 Strength becomes 22 Strength and gives 44 Attack Power.

Every 14 Attack Power adds 1 DPS to your auto attacks before damage modifiers. It also improves weapon based abilities such as Mortal Strike and Whirlwind. Compare flat Attack Power with the amount you'd gain from Strength when choosing gear.

Haste makes you auto attack more often. More swings mean more damage and Rage over the same amount of time. Each swing still gives the same base Rage.

Haste Interactions

A 20% attack speed increase doesn't cut your swing timer by 20%. Divide the weapon speed by 1.20 instead. A 3.6 speed weapon with only this bonus swings every 3 seconds.

3.6 / 1.20 = 3 seconds per swing

Stamina gives you more health, while Armor reduces incoming Physical damage. These help you survive, but don't directly increase your damage.

Auto attack Rage is normalized in Forever. The weapon's base speed matters, but the amount of damage dealt by the hit does not determine its Rage gain. Strength, Attack Power, and weapon damage make your attacks hit harder without increasing the Rage from each normal swing.

Hit Chance and Expertise help attacks land, Haste gives you more swings, and Critical Strike increases the Rage generated by critical auto attacks. These stats improve your Rage generation even though dealing more damage does not.

Anger Management gives 1 Rage every 3 seconds in combat, separate from your auto attack Rage.

Heroic Strike and Cleave replace your next auto attack. That swing spends Rage instead of generating its normal Rage, so their real cost includes both. Use them when you have Rage to spare, while keeping enough for Mortal Strike and the other attacks in your rotation.

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