Arms Warrior DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.5)

This build is recommended for any level of Mythic+, with strong damage spikes and great sustained multitarget damage.

Colossus leverages frequent use of Mortal Strike and Cleave to reduce the cooldown of Demolish, generating strong single and multitarget damage, alongside a host of passive damage and defensive buffs. While slightly more technical due to requiring good placement of Ravager and being mindful of the lack of movement during Demolish, the build offers good sustain along with strong spikes of burst damage.

While it is recommended that you run the build as listed, there are a few changes that can be made to suit personal personal preference:

• Either Second Wind or Bounding Stride may be dropped for more customization.
• Overwhelming Rage is not completely necessary, as Arms very rarely Rage starves or caps resources, making it another point that can be dropped for more customization.
• Intimidating Shout or Rumbling Earth may be taken for increased crowd control.
• Honed Reflexes is another potential pick as it affects several utility abilities, though the amount of cooldown reduction is so small that it is often difficult to assign a practical value.
• Fast Footwork and Intervene are both compelling due to increased mobility, though points are tight enough that they will often be skipped.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This build is recommended for coordinated high-level Mythic+ key levels, focusing on further increased maintaining Juggernaut to increase priority damage against powerful single targets and bosses.

This Slayer variant exchanges multitarget potential for more single-target capability, which is generally considered a good tradeoff in higher-level Mythic+, where boss damage checks become more important. However, it is important to note that this build focuses on maintaining Juggernaut, both on bosses and between pulls, so the build is best used by experienced players in coordinated groups to help avoid continually restacking the buff.

While it is recommended that you run the build as listed, there are a few changes that can be made to suit personal personal preference:

• Either Second Wind or Bounding Stride may be dropped for more customization.
• Overwhelming Rage is not completely necessary, as Arms very rarely Rage starves or caps resources, making it another point that can be dropped for more customization.
• Intimidating Shout or Rumbling Earth may be taken for increased crowd control.
• Honed Reflexes is another potential pick as it affects several utility abilities, though the amount of cooldown reduction is so small that it is often difficult to assign a practical value.
• Fast Footwork and Intervene are both compelling due to increased mobility, though points are tight enough that they will often be skipped.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Pummel is the Warrior version of kick, frequently used in Mythic+ to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially the tank. Because it is sometimes necessary to interrupt targets other than the one you are actively attacking, it is highly recommended to use a focus or mouseover macro.

Slayer has the unique ability to use Pummel during Bladestorm, which normally cannot be done.

• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Pummel

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your primary target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

• /focus [@mouseover]

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Not technically an interrupt, Spell Reflection is an incredibly powerful personal tool, which can deflect or reflect the damage and negative effect of many enemy spells, but only when they are cast on the Warrior.

Storm Bolt and Shockwave are single and multitarget stuns, often called "stops" due to their use in stopping enemy actions. Easier to talent into than the past; these are core talents in any Mythic+ build.

Intimidating Shout is another AoE stop, fearing targets instead of stunning them. This has several limitations, causing targets to run away and potentially call allies, as well as some targets being immune to the condition outright. It is also limited to five targets, so there are times when it may not necessarily stop all of the enemies you want it to. Because of this, the talent is not always taken in Mythic+ builds, but can be added as desired.

Piercing Howl and Crackling Thunder can both be used as AoE slows, though this is not something that is regularly needed in most content. Hamstring is the non-talented, single-target alternative, which is typically enough to cover any slowing needs.

Battle Shout increases the damage output of all melee classes and Hunters by 5% and should always be active.

Rallying Cry is a group-wide defensive cooldown, useful in helping yourself or allies survive incoming damage.

Berserker Rage and Berserker Shout removes fear and disorient effects, which are not very common in the modern game. The shout version applies to allies but suffers several limitations: requiring an extra talent point, having a very limited range that often misses casters, and only able to be used reactively after the fear effect has been applied rather than pre-emptively immuning it. As a result, it is rarely used.

Shockwave with Rumbling Earth should be available frequently enough to handle this mechanic, with backup Pummel or Storm Bolt as needed. Intimidating Shout can be taken as well, but should not be necessary and may not reliably affect the correct targets in larger pulls.

Bitter Immunity will remove the debuff, though it is not a great strategy as the affix happens much more frequently than the cooldown allows, which means healers will still need a plan to cover the other sets. This often results in holding the cooldown for emergencies that rarely ever come, effectively wasting the talent point. Instead, simply using Impending Victory will help reduce the healing burden enough to quickly remove the debuff.

There's no particular trick here; simply kill the mob as quickly as possible to gain its buff!

There's no particular trick here; simply soak the orb of another player to gain a mastery and leech buff!