Arms Warrior DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — The War Within (11.2)

The single target Slayer raid build also provides a surprising amount of multitarget capability through Sweeping Strikes and Bladestorm, allowing it to cover most raid encounters. Improved Sweeping Strikes can also be taken on a case-by-case basis, provided the secondary target is active long enough.

The recommended build already takes every important offensive and defensive talent, so there is not much necessary customization, though there are a few points which may still be changed as desired:

• Fast Footwork, Intervene, Second Wind, and Pain and Gain are all interchangeable, so long as eight points are spent within the first tier of talents.
• Honed Reflexes reduces the cooldown of several useful abilities, though by such a small amount that it is difficult to assign a practical value. However, it does lead to Wrecking Throw, which is quite strong against absorption shields and can be used as a moderately powerful ranged damage filler.
• Bitter Immunity may be taken as an extra on-demand heal, though the long cooldown prevents it from being very important when Impending Victory is so regularly available and the debuff removal is virtually never relevant in raid content.

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

The multitarget Slayer raid build is almost identical to the single target version, while taking Cleave and Thunder Clap for better damage and debuff larger groups of adds. In many cases, this is unnecessary, as raid adds tend not to live long enough to deal a significant amount of damage, so evaluate this on a case-by-case basis.

The recommended build already takes every important offensive and defensive talent, so there is not much necessary customization, though there are a few points which may still be changed as desired:

• Fast Footwork, Intervene, Second Wind, and Pain and Gain are all interchangeable, so long as eight points are spent within the first tier of talents.
• Honed Reflexes reduces the cooldown of several useful abilities, though by such a small amount that it is difficult to assign a practical value. However, it does lead to Wrecking Throw, which is quite strong against absorption shields and can be used as a moderately powerful ranged damage filler.
• Bitter Immunity may be taken as an extra emergency heal, though the long cooldown prevents it from being very important when Impending Victory is so regularly available and the debuff removal is virtually never relevant in raid content.
• Crackling Thunder may result in Thunder Clap hitting more targets, though it has a low direct damage contribution and still only applies Rend to a maximum of five targets, making it a deceptively weak talent.

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

Delves are very similar to dungeons in that they present a healthy mix of single-target bosses and multitarget add damage, resulting in near identical talent builds most of the time. The amount of stuns and survivability talents may vary depending on your level of gear, but there is little harm in taking them either way.

The multitarget Colossus build significantly increases the damage of Cleave, though Mortal Strike also continues to be used in order to quickly refresh the cooldown on Demolish. Because of this, Execute is rarely used.

While the recommended build may be used without changes, there is a small amount of room for customization and personal personal preference:

• Either Second Wind or Bounding Stride may be dropped for more customization, though eight points must still be spent in the first tier of talents.
• Overwhelming Rage is not strictly necessary, as Arms very rarely Rage starves or caps resources, resulting in little damage value.
• Due to its low value in small group content, the recommended build drops Rallying Cry in favor of Rumbling Earth, which will often prevent more damage by controlling enemies better.
• Intimidating Shout may be taken for increased crowd control, though the low cooldown on Shockwave already covers the majority of use cases.
• Fast Footwork and Intervene both add a small amount of increased mobility, though not generally as much as Bounding Stride.
• Honed Reflexes reduces the cooldown of several useful abilities, though by such a small amount that it is difficult to assign a practical value. However, it does lead to Wrecking Throw, which can be used as a moderately powerful ranged damage filler.
• Pain and Gain and Bitter Immunity add a small amount of increased self-healing, though their returns are not particularly high.
• Crackling Thunder may result in Thunder Clap hitting more targets, though it has a low direct damage contribution and still only applies Rend to a maximum of five targets, making it a deceptively weak talent.

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

The multitarget Colossus build significantly increases the damage of Cleave, though Mortal Strike also continues to be used in order to quickly refresh the cooldown on Demolish. Because of this, Execute is rarely used.

While the recommended build may be used without changes, there is a small amount of room for customization and personal personal preference:

• Either Second Wind or Bounding Stride may be dropped for more customization, though eight points must still be spent in the first tier of talents.
• Overwhelming Rage is not strictly necessary, as Arms very rarely Rage starves or caps resources, resulting in little damage value.
• Due to its low value in small group content, the recommended build drops Rallying Cry in favor of Rumbling Earth, which will often prevent more damage by controlling enemies better.
• Intimidating Shout may be taken for increased crowd control, though the low cooldown on Shockwave already covers the majority of use cases.
• Fast Footwork and Intervene both add a small amount of increased mobility, though not generally as much as Bounding Stride.
• Honed Reflexes reduces the cooldown of several useful abilities, though by such a small amount that it is difficult to assign a practical value. However, it does lead to Wrecking Throw, which can be used as a moderately powerful ranged damage filler.
• Pain and Gain and Bitter Immunity add a small amount of increased self-healing, though their returns are not particularly high.
• Crackling Thunder may result in Thunder Clap hitting more targets, though it has a low direct damage contribution and still only applies Rend to a maximum of five targets, making it a deceptively weak talent.

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

Mythic+ can require a mix of AoE and Single-Target talents, depending on affixes and other variables. You should check out our page below if you want advice specific to Mythic+.

The multitarget Slayer build uses Cleave regularly, but revolves around using Execute to consume Marked for Execution in order to reduce the cooldown on Bladestorm and to maintain Juggernaut. This gives it significantly stronger single target damage than Colossus, but at the expense of moderately less multitarget and more room for failure.

While the recommended build may be used without changes, there is a small amount of room for customization and personal preference:

• Either Second Wind or Bounding Stride may be dropped for more customization, though eight points must still be spent in the first tier of talents.
• Overwhelming Rage is not strictly necessary, as Arms very rarely Rage starves or caps resources, resulting in little damage value.
• Due to its low value in small group content, the recommended build drops Rallying Cry in favor of Rumbling Earth, which will often prevent more damage by controlling enemies better.
• Intimidating Shout may be taken for increased crowd control, though the low cooldown on Shockwave already covers the majority of use cases.
• Fast Footwork and Intervene both add a small amount of increased mobility, though not generally as much as Bounding Stride.
• Honed Reflexes reduces the cooldown of several useful abilities, though by such a small amount that it is difficult to assign a practical value. However, it does lead to Wrecking Throw, which can be used as a moderately powerful ranged damage filler.
• Pain and Gain and Bitter Immunity add a small amount of increased self-healing, though their returns are not particularly high.
• Crackling Thunder may result in Thunder Clap hitting more targets, though it has a low direct damage contribution and still only applies Rend to a maximum of five targets, making it a deceptively weak talent.

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

Mythic+ can require a mix of AoE and Single-Target talents, depending on affixes and other variables. You should check out our page below if you want advice specific to Mythic+.