Rets are going around one shotting players for 7500 in a global while mortal strike in BiS does 350 damage. Something’s gotta give.
- First and foremost, Sundering was a part of warrior’s identity, but rogue can now AoE 5x sunder and Priest can 5x sunder, but warrior cannot… 100% warrior needs a SoD niche that at least matches rogue and priest in this category.
Now, below is how you fix Arms. Aim to have it do the raid DPS of a ret paladin (still wont have ret’s utility). If you can make Raptor strike, wyvern strike, and mangoose bite all do around 3x the damage of a mortal strike in SoD, all of the following is possible.
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Make Mortal strike do damage. I.e. it does 150% extra weapon damage as a bleed tic (sort of like scourge strike) or a flat 250% wpn damage.
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Make rend do actual damage, and base it off weapon damage, and apply a tic on application like in Cata.
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Make Sweeping strike also apply X% of your weapon damage as a bleed on your primary target.
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Add heroic throw with a similar cooldown to SW:D that also applies 5x sunders.
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Make an interaction with overpower where if your target has mortal strike applied, overpower “gushes” the target for X bleed damage.
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Make the Taste for Blood rune also reduce the CD of overpower like in WotLK so you dont lose dodge overpowers and also allows for a more interesting rotation of timing your overpowers based on other procs and CDs like in Cata.
Just start with this, and tune the numbers so you’re around Ret paladin DPS, and Arms will suddenly be playable! It will be an option for open world, pvp, dungeons, etc. It will do okay damage to armored targets the way enhance and ret can because bleeds will be like the “magic” damage. Fury will still be the ramping spec for raid on short fights where you can maximize deathwish uptime but Arms will have some purpose in SoD as the slower, bigger hitting, more bleed focused spec.
If hunter and rogue and all these other classes can get tons of ways to play their class (like why does rogue need all 3 talent trees to be good in PVP and PVE? lol) then surely Arms can not lose an entire talent tree in SoD.