I am happy with how arms warrior came out after the switch to the Dragonflight talent system. However, having played in classic era-cata and then coming back in BfA, I really miss arms being able to spec for big hits as opposed to DoT damage. I want good Spear of Bastion, for example. I think Arms as a spec has great potential going into next xpac, especially with that AoE storm bolt if they can get it. I just think that big swings feel more fun than maintaining DoT uptime, and I miss it from my defining experiences as an Arms warrior in WoW.
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The capping execute damage at (40 rage used) was the biggest kick in the nuts we took way back when. I also was sad about the removal of rage generation on taking damage.
The current devs fascination with bleed builds and trying to make slam worthwhile is BEYOND annoying. Remove Slam, give us Heroic Strike (with a short cooldown OFF GCD) as a rage dump.
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I remember when the type of weapon mattered, when we had poleax specialization that increased our crit chance with polearms and axes by up to 5% and axes were slow but dealt the heaviest blows, so everyone who specced arms wanted the arcanite reaper so they could deliver massive executes.
You’re absolutely right about the capping of execute hurting. But the standardization of every weapon to be the same speed and damage also really sucked a ton of the fun out of arms. If they reworked arms tree to give us back our mace stun/sword extra slash/poleaxe crit beef options, I’d think I died and gone to Oribos.
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sorry mom i cant parse right now because i cant get a 2h sword to drop.
weapon specs were neat on paper that carried over from old tabletop rpgs but in practice you just found whatever was the best and went with that. Swords throughout vanilla and bc, poleaxe in wotlk. then they were gone.
bleeds been a core component of arms since the begining
Arms should be about big chunky crits. Deep wounds/rend was a meme until wrath and even then it was mainly for overpower procs.
Arms is way too spammy atm imo.
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It’s stupid you need 3-4 self buffs and 2 cd’s and Kyrian spear crit increase for MS to even take a chunk of HP.