how is arms doing in pve thought about leveling my arms warrior. and what covenant would be good if i did?
Meh. As Venthyr the only thing going for it is Condemn spam.
Arms is fine in raids. Fury does better DPS in M+, but it’s easy to swap between the two, you just need to pick up one more weapon.
I don’t find it all that bad.
It’s . . . . . . reasonable. Not stellar, but reasonable…
This is just a standpoint of Arms in general…
Just my thoughts.
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Arms is viable, but is overshadowed by Fury in basically every aspect of PvE, unless you desperately need intervene + DBTS as an external tank cooldown. That being said, it’s still more than enough for heroic raids-- I use it because I strongly dislike the Fury playstyle, but you have to work really hard just to end up with mediocre damage. Mythic guilds would likely expect you to play Fury instead (and some heroic guilds are likely to follow suit, because Arms is worse.)
Venthyr is typically the best covenant for any fight where the first and/or last bit of the encounter are the hardest parts (like Sire Denathrius), whereas Night Fae wins if there’s any meaningful need for AoE DPS (or if you can be sure that the boss will never move out of Ancient Aftershock, or if Ashen Juggernaut stacks would fall off at any point).
It’s not atrocious or anything. You can go KSM just fine as Arms. Fury has better ongoing cleave though. Arms is really great two-target cleave, which there are a handful of bosses that either have 2 or more targets
I’ve been working on leveling arms also leveling this udk which apparently sucks until 210+.
I really do enjoy arms rotation but it looks bottom of the barrel in all pve meters.
Ultimately I’m gonna roll arma or unholy but udk isnt good at pvp. Oof.
It’s one of the worst specs right now for PvE. Fury does virtually everything better, except 2-target cleave and a bit of Execute phase damage. Arms is squishier and worse in all other situations.
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its a bit boring cause you just spam condemn.
You meant super amazing.
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Cant tell if serious 
But muh big hits.
Can arms really be that bad?
For PvE, yeah. It’s serviceable, but it’s one of the bottom two specs for CN right now.
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Cant tell about raid, but it hard for M+. You need to work real hard to not be the worst DPS on group. And as you are invited some people will drop you when they inspect you and see that you are arms, not fury
Need to be very good at timimg CDs and rotation to do meaninful DPS. For M+ night fae is better, but single target is a real struggle. On tyrranical weeks, better bring good single target DPS for bosses, to help out. But you can do very well on trash
According to Icy-veins, arms is the worst off the 24 DPS classes, for M+
I really hope they give arms some damage increases maybe 10%
They need to actually finish the spec’s design. Every expansion it gets a Mastery rework, but the core of the spec is absolute balls.
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