Arms Warrior DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.2)

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 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!

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!