nah arms is 10 steps behind ret. ret has shorter defensive and offensive cds and they’re stronger. ret has self healing, multiple complete immunities, and ranged attacks. ret was a joke climbing and trying to climb with anything else even a warrior rn is a shetshow. as soon as a ret swaps to you with one cc on your healer, you die through defensives and kiting
that’s not enough when you have one other dps even look at you. plus you have to hit something, which if you’re kiting the ret the only thing to hit is the ret sometimes which forces you to accept death on the whim that the heal might save you. news flash: most of the time it doesn’t because even if you pair it with a storm bolt, spell reflect, and fear, they still pop cc immunity or trinket nuke you anyway.
all of arms cds are 1.5min and rets are way better at 1min as well as two immunities and a full heal to rotate. you literally have no chance vs a decent pally
Hes on someone else? Awesome, run Duel and chain Duel off the back of Disarm. His only option is to bubble and you just got every CD he has. Survive 8 seconds and kill him. Intervene his target and stay in close for free damage reduction.
Whats he gonna do, trinket Disarm into Storm Bolt into Intimidating Shout and he cant Go again for 60 seconds?