WoW Forever Warrior Arms Build
Looking for the best WoW Forever Warrior build for PvP? This Arms plan is a starting point for two-handed pressure. Compare its conditions and alternatives below; it is not a measured performance winner or a BiS gear list.
A pvp planning route for Warrior Arms, built around Mortal Strike, Sweeping Strikes, Improved Hamstring using the November 3 reviewed snapshot.
Editorial planning guide, grounded in the supplied beta talent descriptions. The allocation and point order have been checked for legal ranks and prerequisites. Combat performance has not been simulated or game-tested.
When to use this plan
Read the core effects below for weapon, target, form and cooldown requirements. The exact current tooltips are shown at the selected ranks. Test the interaction in your intended activity before committing to a respec.
What you give up
This allocation commits to Arms with support from Fury; it cannot also reach every other capstone. Compare alternative plans and equipment requirements for your activity.
Why these core choices?
Sweeping Strikes
Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
Selected rank 1 of 1.Improved Hamstring
Gives your Hamstring ability a 15% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Selected rank 3 of 3.Mortal Strike
A vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 85 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 sec.
Selected rank 1 of 1. Requires Sweeping Strikes.Complete allocation
All 17 selected talents are listed below. Expand any talent to see the exact supplied description at the rank used by this plan.
Arms · 31 points
Improved Rend 3 / 3
Increases the Bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 35%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Improved Tactical Mastery 3 / 3
Tactical Mastery lets you retain up to an additional 15 Rage when you change stances.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Improved Overpower 2 / 2
Increases the critical strike chance of your Overpower ability by 50%.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Deep Wounds 3 / 3
Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 60% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
Row 3 · Requires maximum Improved Rend. Read every rank →
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization 3 / 3
Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 6%.
Row 4. Read every rank →
Impale 2 / 2
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities by 20%.
Row 4 · Requires maximum Deep Wounds. Read every rank →
Sweeping Strikes 1 / 1 Core choice
Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
30 Rage | Instant | 30 sec cooldown
Requires Battle Stance
Row 5. Read every rank →
Weaponmaster 5 / 5
Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. Axe/Polearm: Increases your critical strike chance by 5%. Mace/Staff: Your attacks ignore 15% of your target's armor. Sword: Your successful melee attacks have a 5% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target.
Row 5. Read every rank →
Improved Hamstring 3 / 3 Core choice
Gives your Hamstring ability a 15% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Row 6. Read every rank →
Mortal Strike 1 / 1 Core choice
A vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 85 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 sec.
30 Rage | Melee range | Instant | 6 sec cooldown
Requires Melee Weapon
Row 7 · Requires maximum Sweeping Strikes. Read every rank →
Fury · 20 points
Booming Voice 1 / 5
Increases the area of effect of your Shouts by 10% and reduces their Rage cost by 5%. Also reduces the Rage cost of your Piercing Howl by 5%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Cruelty 5 / 5
Improves your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 5%.
Row 1. Read every rank →
Lingering Rage 5 / 5
Increases the time before your Rage begins to decay after leaving combat by 10 sec.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Unbridled Wrath 5 / 5
Gives you a 60% chance to generate 1 additional Rage when you deal melee damage with a weapon.
Row 2. Read every rank →
Piercing Howl 1 / 1
Causes all enemies within 10 yds to be Dazed, reducing movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
10 Rage | Instant
Row 3. Read every rank →
Blood Craze 3 / 3
Regenerates 3% of your total Health over 6 sec after being the victim of a critical strike or suffering more than 20% of your maximum Health from a single attack.
Row 3. Read every rank →
Three valid adjustments
Each option below is a separate one-point change to the original plan. It preserves the point budget, row gates and prerequisites. Choose an effect you need; the options are not a damage ranking and should not be applied together without rechecking.
Blood Craze → Booming Voice
Move one point: Blood Craze 3 → 2; Booming Voice 1 → 2.
Effect after this change
Blood Craze: Regenerates 2% of your total Health over 6 sec after being the victim of a critical strike or suffering more than 20% of your maximum Health from a single attack.
Booming Voice: Increases the area of effect of your Shouts by 20% and reduces their Rage cost by 10%. Also reduces the Rage cost of your Piercing Howl by 10%.
Blood Craze → Furious Precision
Move one point: Blood Craze 3 → 2; Furious Precision 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Blood Craze: Regenerates 2% of your total Health over 6 sec after being the victim of a critical strike or suffering more than 20% of your maximum Health from a single attack.
Furious Precision: Increases your chance to hit with off-hand attacks by 4%.
Blood Craze → Enrage
Move one point: Blood Craze 3 → 2; Enrage 0 → 1.
Effect after this change
Blood Craze: Regenerates 2% of your total Health over 6 sec after being the victim of a critical strike or suffering more than 20% of your maximum Health from a single attack.
Enrage: Gives you a 30% chance to deal 2% increased Physical damage for 12 sec after being the victim of any damaging attack.
Level-by-level point order
This route reaches the complete allocation without a respec. It follows this guide’s core choices and prerequisites, rather than claiming an optimal speed-leveling route. Talented changes the level when each point becomes available, not the 51-point limit.
First point at level 10; all 51 points at level 60.
Use a Talented rank your character has actually unlocked in the Legacy system. This control models its point timing, not the rest of your Legacy allocation.
Show all 51 steps
| Level | Add one point | New rank | Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Improved Rend | 1 / 3 | Arms |
| 11 | Improved Rend | 2 / 3 | Arms |
| 12 | Improved Rend | 3 / 3 | Arms |
| 13 | Deflection | 1 / 5 | Arms |
| 14 | Deflection | 2 / 5 | Arms |
| 15 | Deflection | 3 / 5 | Arms |
| 16 | Deflection | 4 / 5 | Arms |
| 17 | Deflection | 5 / 5 | Arms |
| 18 | Improved Tactical Mastery | 1 / 3 | Arms |
| 19 | Improved Tactical Mastery | 2 / 3 | Arms |
| 20 | Improved Tactical Mastery | 3 / 3 | Arms |
| 21 | Improved Overpower | 1 / 2 | Arms |
| 22 | Improved Overpower | 2 / 2 | Arms |
| 23 | Deep Wounds | 1 / 3 | Arms |
| 24 | Deep Wounds | 2 / 3 | Arms |
| 25 | Deep Wounds | 3 / 3 | Arms |
| 26 | Impale | 1 / 2 | Arms |
| 27 | Impale | 2 / 2 | Arms |
| 28 | Two-Handed Weapon Specialization | 1 / 3 | Arms |
| 29 | Two-Handed Weapon Specialization | 2 / 3 | Arms |
| 30 | Sweeping Strikes | 1 / 1 | Arms |
| 31 | Two-Handed Weapon Specialization | 3 / 3 | Arms |
| 32 | Weaponmaster | 1 / 5 | Arms |
| 33 | Weaponmaster | 2 / 5 | Arms |
| 34 | Weaponmaster | 3 / 5 | Arms |
| 35 | Improved Hamstring | 1 / 3 | Arms |
| 36 | Improved Hamstring | 2 / 3 | Arms |
| 37 | Improved Hamstring | 3 / 3 | Arms |
| 38 | Weaponmaster | 4 / 5 | Arms |
| 39 | Weaponmaster | 5 / 5 | Arms |
| 40 | Mortal Strike | 1 / 1 | Arms |
| 41 | Cruelty | 1 / 5 | Fury |
| 42 | Cruelty | 2 / 5 | Fury |
| 43 | Cruelty | 3 / 5 | Fury |
| 44 | Cruelty | 4 / 5 | Fury |
| 45 | Cruelty | 5 / 5 | Fury |
| 46 | Lingering Rage | 1 / 5 | Fury |
| 47 | Lingering Rage | 2 / 5 | Fury |
| 48 | Lingering Rage | 3 / 5 | Fury |
| 49 | Lingering Rage | 4 / 5 | Fury |
| 50 | Lingering Rage | 5 / 5 | Fury |
| 51 | Piercing Howl | 1 / 1 | Fury |
| 52 | Unbridled Wrath | 1 / 5 | Fury |
| 53 | Unbridled Wrath | 2 / 5 | Fury |
| 54 | Unbridled Wrath | 3 / 5 | Fury |
| 55 | Unbridled Wrath | 4 / 5 | Fury |
| 56 | Unbridled Wrath | 5 / 5 | Fury |
| 57 | Blood Craze | 1 / 3 | Fury |
| 58 | Blood Craze | 2 / 3 | Fury |
| 59 | Blood Craze | 3 / 3 | Fury |
| 60 | Booming Voice | 1 / 5 | Fury |
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