Cataclysm Classic Arms Warrior Leveling

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Your first talent unlocks at Level 10.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you have a 33% chance to use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 20%.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Tactical Mastery allows you to keep up to 75 Rage when swapping to Berserker Stance. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you have a 33% chance to use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 20%.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Tactical Mastery allows you to keep up to 75 Rage when swapping to Berserker Stance. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you have a 66% chance to use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 40%.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Tactical Mastery allows you to keep up to 75 Rage when swapping to Berserker Stance. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you can use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 60%.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Tactical Mastery allows you to keep up to 75 Rage when swapping to Berserker Stance. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you can use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 60%. Sweeping Strikes duplicates your damage onto a 2nd nearby enemy,great when paired with Glyph of Sweeping Strikes.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Tactical Mastery allows you to keep up to 75 Rage when swapping to Berserker Stance. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you can use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 60%. Sweeping Strikes duplicates your damage onto a 2nd nearby enemy,great when paired with Glyph of Sweeping Strikes. Deadly Calm gives you a nice damage cooldown, allowing you to use all of your abilities without their Rage cost.

War Academy increases the damage of your Mortal Strike, Slam, and Victory Rush by 15%. Blitz makes your Charge generate extra Rage. Deep Wounds puts a bleed DoT on your target whenever you crit. Tactical Mastery allows you to keep up to 75 Rage when swapping to Berserker Stance. Taste for Blood is the main talent of this build. When Rend deals damage, you can use Overpower without meeting its requirements, and increases it crit chance by 60%. Sweeping Strikes duplicates your damage onto a 2nd nearby enemy,great when paired with Glyph of Sweeping Strikes. Deadly Calm gives you a nice damage cooldown, allowing you to use all of your abilities without their Rage cost. Blood Frenzy causes your bleeds to cause targets to take 4% extra Physical damage, and 30% extra damage from bleeds.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%. Lambs to the Slaughter gives you a 10% damage increase to your main abilities every time you use Mortal Strike, stacking up to 3 times.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%. Lambs to the Slaughter gives you a 10% damage increase to your main abilities every time you use Mortal Strike, stacking up to 3 times. Sudden Death lets you keep 5 Rage after using Execute.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%. Lambs to the Slaughter gives you a 10% damage increase to your main abilities every time you use Mortal Strike, stacking up to 3 times. Sudden Death lets you keep 5 Rage after using Execute. Wrecking Crew causes your Mortal Strike crits to increase all Physical damage you deal by 10%.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%. Lambs to the Slaughter gives you a 10% damage increase to your main abilities every time you use Mortal Strike, stacking up to 3 times. Sudden Death lets you keep 10 Rage after using Execute. Wrecking Crew causes your Mortal Strike crits to increase all Physical damage you deal by 10%.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%. Lambs to the Slaughter gives you a 10% damage increase to your main abilities every time you use Mortal Strike, stacking up to 3 times. Sudden Death lets you keep 10 Rage after using Execute. Wrecking Crew causes your Mortal Strike crits to increase all Physical damage you deal by 10%. Throwdown gives you a 5 second stun with only a 45 second cooldown.

Improved Slam reduces the cast time of Slam by 1 second, making it only 0.5 seconds total. Juggernaut allows you to use Charge in combat, reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds, and increases the crit chance of your next Mortal Strike by 25%. Lambs to the Slaughter gives you a 10% damage increase to your main abilities every time you use Mortal Strike, stacking up to 3 times. Sudden Death lets you keep 10 Rage after using Execute. Wrecking Crew causes your Mortal Strike crits to increase all Physical damage you deal by 10%. Throwdown gives you a 5 second stun with only a 45 second cooldown. Bladestorm is a deadly AoE spell that you will want to group up to 4 mobs together before using to quickly cut them all down.

With the Arms tree being completed, you can now grab powerful talents from the Fury and Protection trees. Cruelty is a nice 10% increased crit chance on Mortal Strike, which scales well with your other talents.

With the Arms tree being completed, you can now grab powerful talents from the Fury and Protection trees. Cruelty is a nice 10% increased crit chance on Mortal Strike, which scales well with your other talents. Battle Trance has a 15% chance to proc when you use Mortal Strike, making your next ability cost no Rage; you will likely want to use this on Heroic Strike.

With the Arms tree being completed, you can now grab powerful talents from the Fury and Protection trees. Cruelty is a nice 10% increased crit chance on Mortal Strike, which scales well with your other talents. Battle Trance has a 15% chance to proc when you use Mortal Strike, making your next ability cost no Rage; you will likely want to use this on Heroic Strike. Field Dressing gives you increased healing from your spells like Victory Rush.

With the Arms tree being completed, you can now grab powerful talents from the Fury and Protection trees. Cruelty is a nice 10% increased crit chance on Mortal Strike, which scales well with your other talents. Battle Trance has a 15% chance to proc when you use Mortal Strike, making your next ability cost no Rage; you will likely want to use this on Heroic Strike. Field Dressing gives you increased healing from your spells like Victory Rush. Incite increases the crit chance of your Heroic Strike by 15%, and whenever it crits the next one you use is guaranteed to also crit.

Your leveling glyphs will differ from your endgame glyphs. Glyphs can be a huge boost to your leveling speed as some greatly improve the baseline power of your key abilities. Be sure to check the price of these glyphs on your server to vastly improve your leveling experience.

1. Glyph of Mortal Strike — Mortal Strike is one of the main abilities of this spec, making this a mandatory glyph.
2. Glyph of Overpower — Overpower is another defining ability of the Arms spec, making this a second mandatory glyph.
3. Glyph of Slam — You will use frequently use Slam as a filler when leveling, making this a great choice.

1. Glyph of Victory Rush — You will be using Victory Rush every time you kill a mob. This makes it heal for even more, which should prevent you from ever needing to stop and eat to heal up.
2. Glyph of Sweeping Strikes — You will want to use Sweeping Strikes whenever you can pull more than 1 mob at a time. This removes the cost, making it very easy to deal with multiple enemeis at once.
3. Glyph of Rapid Charge — Reduces the cooldown of your Charge, increasing your mobility between pulls.

1. Glyph of Enduring Victory — Gives you an additional 5 seconds to use Victory Rush between pulls.
2. Glyph of Battle — Increases the duration of Battle Shout by 2 minutes, redcuing how frequently you need to refresh it.
3. Glyph of Berserker Rage — Adds 5 Rage whenever you use Berserker Rage. This helps keep your Rage up, allowing you to use more abilities.

1. Keep Battle Shout's buff up. Use whenever off cooldown if you need Rage.
2. Berserker Rage use before pulling for extra Rage is target doesn't fear.
3. Charge your enemy.
4. Rend your target.
5. Victory Rush use before the proc expires.
6. Strike any extra Rage.
7. Execute any enemies below 20% health.
8. Colossus Smash on cooldown. Try to save enough Rage before using this so you can use 3 abilities while the debuff is up on your target.
9. Mortal Strike use on cooldown.
10. Overpower if any of your attacks are dodged.
11. Overpower if any of your attacks are dodged or Taste for Blood procs.
12. Slam whenever you have extra Rage.
13. Heroic Strike only if you have a large surplus of Rage.

Early levels on Warriors are fairly basic, only having a few abilities to use. Always try to start combat with Charge if it's off cooldown. Keep Rend applied to enemies, and use Victory Rush procs before they expire. Strike will be your main ability until you hit level 10 and replace it with Mortal Strike.

Now you have Taste for Blood, allowing you to use Overpower every 6 seconds regardless of its requirements. Use Mortal Strike on cooldown from now on as you have multiple talents revolving around it such as Lambs to the Slaughter, Juggernaut, and Wrecking Crew. If you have excess Rage and both Overpower and Mortal Strike are on cooldown, you can use Slam as a filler in your rotation. When your target is under 20% you will want to use Execute, especially since Sudden Death will allow you to keep at least 10 Rage.

You now get Colossus Smash, allowing you to bypass 100% of your targets armor. Try to have enough Rage to use 3 abilities while the debuff is on your target. Taste for Blood allows you to use Overpower every 6 seconds regardless of its requirements. Use Mortal Strike on cooldown. If you have excess Rage and both Overpower and Mortal Strike are on cooldown, you can use Slam as a filler in your rotation. When your target is under 20% you will want to use Execute.

Use Sweeping Strikes every minute if you can pull 2 mobs together to cleave them down. With Glyph of Sweeping Strikes, Sweeping Strikes will cost no Rage.

Use Sweeping Strikes every minute if you can pull 2 mobs together to cleave them down. With Glyph of Sweeping Strikes, Sweeping Strikes will cost no Rage. Use Deadly Calm on cooldown to quickly dispatch stronger enemies, or when fighting multiple enemies at once.

Use Sweeping Strikes every minute if you can pull 2 mobs together to cleave them down. With Glyph of Sweeping Strikes, Sweeping Strikes will cost no Rage. Use Deadly Calm on cooldown to quickly dispatch stronger enemies, or when fighting multiple enemies at once. Use Recklessness as much as possible, ideally when hitting multiple enemies at once and combining it with other cooldowns.

Use Sweeping Strikes every minute if you can pull 2 mobs together to cleave them down. With Glyph of Sweeping Strikes, Sweeping Strikes will cost no Rage. Use Deadly Calm on cooldown to quickly dispatch stronger enemies, or when fighting multiple enemies at once. Use Recklessness as much as possible, ideally when hitting multiple enemies at once and combining it with other cooldowns. You will want to gather up to 4 mobs together every 90 seconds when Bladestorm is up to quickly AoE them all down. Combining Recklessness and Bladestorm can easily destroy multiple groups of enemies.

Use Sweeping Strikes when fighting 2 or more enemies at once. Use Deadly Calm on cooldown to quickly dispatch stronger enemies, or when fighting multiple enemies at once. Use Recklessness as much as possible, ideally when hitting multiple enemies at once and combining it with other cooldowns. You will want to gather up to 4 mobs together every 90 seconds when Bladestorm is up to quickly AoE them all down. If you are low health use Enraged Regeneration to regenerate 30% of your maximum health. You can use Berserker Rage if you need an Enrage effect to activate it.

While leveling, you will not need to use all of your spells. Many can be skipped to save gold and trained at a later date, when you have more gold available to you. We recommend to not train these spells below, and save your gold for gear, glyphs and mounts instead.

• Thunder Clap
• Taunt
• Hamstring
• Shield Block
• Whirlwind
• Revenge
• Challenging Shout
• Shield Wall
• Intercept
• Inner Rage
• Retaliation
• Spell Reflection
• Commanding Shout
• Intervene
• Shattering Throw
• Rallying Cry

Congratulations on hitting Level 85 in Cataclysm! Now that your leveling process is over, you can learn more about Level-85 Arms Warriors gameplay by reading our fully detailed guide below.