Arms Warriors are a popular choice in PvP. This Arms Warrior PvP guide will give you an overview over the most important aspects of playing your character in player versus player combat.
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1) Apply Battle Shout and Commanding Shout in every fight! The damage and health is a must. Especially in the arena, Commanding Shout is highly recommended.
2) Your talent build should always compromise these following essential talents:
- Mortal Strike
- Improved Overpower
- Deep Wounds
- Impale
- Iron Will
- Taste for Blood
- Second Wind
- Unrelenting Assault
- Juggernaut
- Sudden Death
- Bladestorm
- Your weapon specialization
3) Heroic Strike: The Arms setup makes Heroic Strike less effective. Since the skill does not trigger an instant, free attack, it’s often wiser to save the rage for another Mortal Strike. Especially since Heroic Strike does not take your slow weapon attack rate into account. There is one combination though, that makes Heroic Strike very effective. If your timing is good, use Heroic Strike and then follow up with Mortal Strike. Your regular attack and the free attack will hit nearly at the same time, producing massive burst damage.
4) When you are NOT fighting caster classes, use your rage on abilities like Slam, Sunder Armor and Demoralizing Shout while your Mortal Strike is on cooldown.
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5) When fighting caster classes, save your rage so you are always able to interrupt their spells.
6) Arms Warriors’ choice of weapons:
- Maces: This specialization increases your overall DPS and reduces the armor of your targets. The armor reduction is especially useful against cloth armor targets. You should have at least 30% critical strike chance to choose this specialization.
- Axes and Poleaxes: The +5% critical chance makes for higher burst damage but is also less reliable and predicable. Orcs get an extra bonus to axes and therefore a great advantage when using these weapons.
- Swords: The chance to get an extra attack is basically worth +5% of your damage. Humans have an expertise bonus from their racial ability here.
7) Melee range and movement: There are three different kinds of movement impairing effects.
- Stun – Prevents your Warrior from doing anything
- Snare – Slows down your movement speed
- Root – Keeps you from moving at all
It’s necessary that you have a counter against every kind of movement impairing effects. One way is to choose a race that has a build-in defense mechanism, like the gnome (Escape Artist). If your warrior can not move, you can neither get into melee range nor flee from battle, thus rendering you useless for the combat.
8 ) To get into melee range there are some abilities that your Warrior can use to move yourself closer to the target or prevent your target from getting away:
- Charge
- Intercept
- Intervene
- Hamstring
- Piercing Howl
Make sure you are have prepared at least some of those skills and can use them by pressing a button.
This Arms Warrior PvP guide should give an impression of what the PvP combat is all about. I hope you enjoyed it – now get some front-line experience!
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