Arms Warrior PvP Guide — 12.1

Season 2 brings with it many changes to Warrior, primarily for how Rend operates. Many passive or permanent uptime slows in the game have been adjusted down to a more baseline value, so 70% slows like Chains of Ice have been reduced to 50% ,or Curse of Exhaustion from 50% to 30%. This is a major buff to Warrior in general, as Hamstring has retained its power, which makes the playing field a lot more even now.

• Rend is now an Arms only ability, and costs 10 Rage to use.
• Cleave applies Rend if you have the ability.
• Ravager now deals 50% more damage, no longer increases the damage of Cleave and causes targets hit to take 25% more damage from your bleeds.
• Bloodletting now gives your abilities 5% critical chance against targets affected by Rend.
• Broad Strokes now only gives 6 charges of Sweeping Strikes, but stacks with a regular usage of the ability.
• Improved Sweeping Strikes has been removed.
• Battlelord and Master Tactician have swapped positions.
• Demolish is now 30 seconds cooldown and no longer has cooldown reduction.
• Tide of Battle now also increases the damage of Execute.
• Piercing Howl has been reduced to 50% slow in PvP.
• Storm of Destruction has been reduced to 50% slow in PvP.

Midnight is here, and with it, a lot of changes to Arms Warrior. Midnight has aimed to reduce the amount of button bloat across most classes in the game, and Arms Warrior is no different, but also hardly affected by it.

To highlight, the fateful ability Heroic Strike has once again returned to the kit of Arms Warrior. This time, it is a proc ability that replaces Slam until used, delivering a high amount of damage and giving you a bunch of benefits through Master of Warfare.

Fundamentally, Arms Warrior remains the same, still having access to the same CC, utility, mobility and rotational buttons, with only a few button bloat removals like Thunderous Roar. Additionally, the hero specializations Slayer and Colossus function almost the same, but have a new branch of talents that you will fill out as you level.

Important Note

Midnight also introduces Apex talents, with Arms Warrior getting Master of Warfare, giving access to armor penetration, which is something Arms Warriors have been lacking for a long time.