Arms Warrior Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 — The War Within (Season 1)
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Arms Warrior leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Warrior leveling guide.
Arms Warrior Leveling Guide for The War Within
Arms Warrior Leveling Playstyle
Arms Warrior only really have one playstyle, though take time to grow into it. Starting out as a mediocre leveling spec with only Sweeping Strikes, Arms Warriors do not start gaining more worthwhile multitarget tools until around level 30. Past that point however, the gameplay picks up quickly, regularly able to pull several mobs together and cleave them down without fear thanks to Die by the Sword to mitigate damage and Victory Rush to heal it back up. By rotating several offensive cooldowns, Arms Warriors will eventually chain from pull to pull with little to no downtime.
Always initiate combat with Charge whenever able, using Heroic Throw or Heroic Leap to pull more as desired. When facing several targets, use Sweeping Strikes, Cleave, Overpower, and Thunder Clap if they are expected to live long enough for the bleed to tick out. In between those abilities, or when there are only one or two targets left, use Mortal Strike and Execute to kill off priority targets. Cooldowns such as Warbreaker and Bladestorm can be used liberally, but are not often needed, so try to save them for bigger packs or harder targets.
Arms Warrior Leveling Talents
You unlock the Talent Trees at Level 10. Further below is the recommended Leveling Talent path.
Best Arms Warrior Leveling Talents
Standard Leveling Build
While there are many different options featured throughout the talent tree, there are not a whole lot of choices specifically for leveling, so this standard leveling build covers players questing mob-by-mob and chain-running dungeons alike. Upon reaching level 71, Arms Warriors are recommended to choose Colossus for the last 10 levels, due to its stronger up front damage bonuses.
Best Leveling Gear for Arms Warrior
When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Leveling Rotation for Arms Warriors
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.
- Cast Charge to initiate combat whenever possible.
- Cast Sweeping Strikes to hit a second target with single-target attacks.
- Cast Thunder Clap to apply Rend to more than three targets.
- Cast Victory Rush for free damage and healing after killing an enemy.
- Cast Shield Slam to deal damage, if still using a shield.
- Cast Avatar when facing large groups or strong enemies.
- Cast Colossus Smash to deal increased damage against the primary target.
- Cast Warbreaker to increase damage against all enemies.
- Cast Demolish on cooldown for a high burst multitarget damage.
- Cast Thunderous Roar against groups of enemies or individual strong targets.
- Cast Bladestorm against groups of enemies or individual strong targets.
- Cast Mortal Strike as the primary single target ability and to apply Deep Wounds.
- Cast Execute whenever possible.
- Cast Overpower as a free filler.
- Cast Overpower as a free filler and to increase the damage of Mortal Strike or Cleave.
- Cast Slam to deal damage to a single target.
- Cast Slam to deal damage to a single target or Whirlwind against multiple.
- Cast Slam to deal damage to a single target or Cleave against multiple.
War Mode Talents to Level Up as a Arms Warrior
The following PvP talents are recommended for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content. You may find that different PvP talents work better for you depending on your playstyle. Experimentation is encouraged!
Arms Warrior PvP Talents
- Shadow of the Colossus increases rage generation.
- Sharpen Blade increases damage of Mortal Strike.
- Storm of Destruction allows Bladestorm to be used much more frequently.
Congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80 we recommend you look at our Easy mode page, Talents section, and Rotation section to learn how to play at max level.
Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Season Launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch
- 12 May 2024: Updated talent build and spell priorities.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 25 Mar. 2024: Minor adjustments to leveling tree, updated for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 04 Apr. 2023: Swap to new by-level talent calculator format.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 15 Feb. 2023: Updated leveling build and talent choices by level.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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