Just curious on if there is a massive difference in damage. I generally enjoy Arms, but if Fury is like a 10% dps increase I’ll start learning it.
At this stage it’s worth learning both because we don’t know which is going to be higher or how much. There’ll be another tuning pass with raid launch that will almost certainly upset any current guesses.
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Aedan is correct. play the spec you enjoy. Even if there is a difference it will probably wont be massive and you will do more dps in a class and spec that you enjoy playing
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Ran a mythic last night with 2 warriors, arms and fury. The fury warrior was averaging 4.5k and the arms was averaging about 2.7k. Both geared around 167ish. The mage was at 2.5k
You understand this information is worthless, right?
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Fury has felt good to me especially in dungeons. In BFA I had to level as prot because things just ripped me a new one. Had no issues staying dps the whole way this time.
10/10 thus far.
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Agreed. As a life long arms warr, this expansion has been the first I’ve really been into fury. The self regen is nice, the combat is fast and fluid.
If you are still leveling, what I do is is switch between the two every 30 minutes to an hour or so. Just so that I can get an idea for how they feel and flow.
Helps with learning the whole rotation, what one takes mobs down faster, and in the future, if you decide to go Arms or Fury, you won’t have that big learning gap if you learn little by little as you go.
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It’s funny, because it’s the exact opposite for me. Was Fury, figured it was time to get Arms down in case it becomes the “thing” after further tuning, and I’m really liking it. Only thing is that I definitely feel a bit squishier without the regen from Fury.
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I made some tests with SMF and Arms(i dropped an 171 two handed), i tested on the same Dummy for the same amount of time(i just changed the weapons).
Arms I did 1.4 dps, SMF 1.5, hilariously i did 1.6 with the Two Handed and the single hand, but my off hand when SMF was weak.
That said, i’m not that used with arms rotation as I’m with fury so it may be biased.
I’m finding arms overall better. Single target for sure, and with dreadnaught and sweeping strikes, aoe is better. I imagine when packs last longer fury would pull ahead due to consistent aoe, but I haven’t tried out cleave for consistent aoe yet. Also sim about 400 dps higher.
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Then this is kind of moot.
I’m Venthyr, Arms does quite a bit more than fury because of condemn atm, but Fury is more fun. As others have said, this is going to change, but if you’re Venthyr I highly doubt Fury is doing more for you than Arms.
This right here.
Swapped kyrian for pvp though.
I went Night Fae. No regrets.
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not really. they wanted information. I gave it to them. You understand your comment is worthless right?
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Yes. Really.
The OP asked if there was information on which spec was outperforming the other.
You gave him anecdotal from two random warriors.
I’m speaking from my personal observation. I am not an omnipresent number cruncher. It feels like arms has better burst, CDs feel more impactful. Outside of that I feel pretty low. If I get rage starved and I’m out of condemn range.
Fury is the opposite. Consistent damage, smaller peaks through CD usage. But higher more consistent baseline dps.
I prefer handling burst windows… and fury hurts my hands xD like… unironically. But whichever you have more fun with. Both are decent and balance patches will cause one or the other to be superior. So pick the one you think is cool.
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Pretty sure I could top the dps with a class i didnt like if it was capable of higher. Not liking a class isn’t gonna make my fingers move slower. Your brain workin alright?
For all we know you completely fabricated those numbers. You can’t spit out a single data point and call it helping a discussion on spec comparisons.
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