Arms Warrior PvE: The Abandoned Spec

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Arms Warrior in Classic is the redhead of SoD. The season which was supposed to breath life into classes and specs which were hampered by the early design of WoW.

Zirene posted a little while back saying that Arms Warrior would not be receiving support as they couldn’t figure out an ‘identity’ for the spec.

Meanwhile Gladiator Stance gets the ZG Tier 1.5 Set dedicated to it.

As AQ is a “.5” tier, it makes sense that it follow the trend of giving a less shined upon spec some love, so I held out hope that they’d find surprise Warriors with a nice treat for Arms.

Perhaps a “When your Mortal Strike debuff is active, your Slam/Heroic Strike/Overpower criticals now immediately trigger a tick of your Rend and Deep Wounds” which would pair nicely with the “10% damage buff if Deep Wounds and Rend are on the target” that the 4-set is.

But instead we got a massive buff to Death Wish, further elevating Fury as the premier and forever Warrior DPS spec.

RIP.

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bro just go macro Bloodthirst with Mortal Strike icon and you ill be fine believe me

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+1 so much potential of subs wasted

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is it so hard to believe that people want to play Arms, the 2H spec for warriors, and not play off-brand Fury? This isn’t even a solution to the problem, just awful parroting.

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Sucks because I have almost 1k hours in my warrior and I really enjoy pvp as end game content and sod is just not playable for me for pvp. T2, Warlord Gear, BWL gear, its not enough. At least fresh classic is out and I can start a new. Warrior rocks in pve thats for sure but pvp it doesnt make sense the play style how a warrior ramps up over time and builds up to a high dps amount for how other classes deal out the kind of burst. I often am taking more melee damage than I deal and I am 450+ defense T2/warlord gear 7k+ armor.

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