Came up with a Warrior Build that was similar, in a few ways, to how a Combat Sword Rogue works. Wanted something that would be ideal to use with Warglaives.
The build incorporates talents like Deathwish and Sword Specialization in Arms. However, you lose out on the AP gains from talents like Improved Berserker Stance and Rampage. You also lose the gains from Fury’s Weapon Specialization talents.
If you’re able to achieve 9% Hit Rating through gems and gear, you can also forgo the “Precision” Talent and pick up Weapon Specialization instead:
In order to make the best out of Sword Specialization, Latro’s might be an ideal OH Weapon, along side a slow MH Weapon.
Overall I know the standard 17/43/00 build will be better overall, especially as you get better gear. But I thought this build might be nice to use alongside Warglaives or if you happen to be using a fast OH weapon.
Honestly, if you’re giving up Imp Berserker Stance (+10% AP/-10% threat in zerker), then you should probably just give up BT as well and go Kebab spec with a slow MH sword and a fast OH sword (which fits Glaives).
Dual Wield MS is not actually that bad (currently sims a few % behind 2H, somewhere around 80-100 dps if slam is used optimally), and with Glaives, it might actually exceed 2H MS when we get to phase 3.
Basically, if you’re giving up Imp Zerker, then you should just give up a few points of Flurry/OH damage and take Blood Frenzy and Improved Disciplines, esp in a raid situation.
HS changes next timed swing, Bloodthirst is an extra instant attack.
You want to use BT/WW on cooldown and keep up Heroic queued as long as you can (because your offhand gains your instant miss %; don’t know if there are people that use cancelling still, maybe) and it’s extra damage.
When you’re geared you can keep up HS much of the time, if not most of the time. Obviously it’s not like classic when you had world buffs making it trivial, but should have HS up a lot.
Also can queue when BT/WW are >3-4 sec cd even at low rage.
And yeah if you’re going a Fury build with Bloodthirst, you really have to choose either 17/44 (Rampage) or 21/40 (Death Wish).
Giving up the 5/5 Imp Berserker Stance is really not a good idea; you’re nerfing your DPS way too much given that Imp Zerker stance feeds BT directly.
The Dual Wield MS build is the only real alternative DW build that brings Blood Frenzy to a raid and gives you that aspect of the utility.
Most guilds are going to want 1 arms warrior (normal 2H spec or DW Kebab spec) if you got a lot of physical DPS as most have given the strength of hunters.
