Looking like its the worst DPS in the game behind everything, including tanks, with the exception of prot warrior. Hybrids like ret and enhance are doing way more damage while also being much harder to kill and having more utility and healing.
Probably time to focus some attention on arms warrior.
They just need to adjust some runes to focus on Arms abilities, Sweeping strikes could make whirlwind free and have no cd for 5 moves,
Mortal strike could hit twice on a chance,
Bladestorm.
Make a rune that makes the benefits of all warrior wep spec talents increased by 5%
It needs a lot of damage. Preferably not flat scaling percent runes, but things like “mortal strike does an additional 100% of a normal hit as a bleed” or just general cool useful damage that will persist in raid and out in the world. If there are flat changes it should be to the abilities, like “slam does 150% weapon damage” and not just overall damage so that rage doesnt get too out of wack in raid versus out of raid.
If there was to be utility, something like deadly calm, COLOSSUS SMASH, or some of the cool things would be great. So many other classes got OP abilities like dispersion or lava burst.
Also, as it stands, Quick Strikes is useless on GCD. It needs to be off GCD to ever find use because all the specs dont have the GCDs to use it because unlike rogue warrior doesnt have a 1.0 gcd.
arms is supposed to be a pvp spec 
I’m happy with Arms being where it is, so long as Fury is doing well. One is for PvE, the other is for PvP which is historically how it’s always kind of been for classic.
Ret is currently near the bottom in terms of DPS which kind of sucks as I play both a Warrior and Paladin and would like to see Paladins only DPS spec get some improvements. Luckily, Prot Paladin is quite strong so I can enjoy playing that.
Victory Rush needs to be baseline and replaced with Bladestorm. Endless Rage needs to be baseline. Most obvious fixes in the world, does anyone think Aggrend can do it? Warrior also desperately needs Spell Reflect and probably one of the boot runes baseline. If we had those things, we’d still be the worst class in the game by far, but we wouldn’t be unplayable.
This is sod not Era,
Arms isn’t even good in pvp.
Ret is fine, the thing with ret is they are dispelling alot in the raids and still doing good damage.
People want to be arms in SoD not Fury, Fury was era and will always be #1 in era.
No one is asking for Arms to be number 1 but for it to feel more complete and enjoyable to play.
No Rets in the top 100 parsers in MC. Warcraft logs.
Arms is a Cata spec. Not here.
this is false, and has never made sense
shadow priest and boomkin are S++ tier pvp specs and also depending on the expansion, season, phase etc are fine in PVE. Ret doesnt PVP, does it? It does way more damage than arms.
Also being Arms youre still the worst PVP class in the game so it doesnt even make sense. If a bunch of PVE specs are way better than you at PVP, then you arent really a PVP spec. Youre just a bad spec. The only specs in the game that ever really fall into “PVP” are frost and sub, but they get massive amounts of utility and survivability at the expense of damage and arms does not get that. You get Mortal Strike, which rogues have as a baseline poison option…
Rogue can PVP way better in its PVE spec, so can lock, so can shaman, so can everyone. There is 0 logic to point to arms being PVP when it cant even do anything in PVP to all the other classes’ “PVE” specs. The TANKS are doing more than you.