a guide to pve arms

April 21, 2008 | by RoundDisc | Tags: arms, guide, pve, slam

Generally duel wield fury is considered as the best raid dps spec. Although if you know a thing or two you can dps near or just as good playing Arms/fury with a 2 hander. I am raid experienced into SSC as this spec so i know what im talking about. Im not very good at writing, but im not asian so bear with me.

You will need a good swing timer mod.

~The Spec the general cookie cutter spec is 33/28 for pve arms. You don't have to follow this number but there are definite talents you need for a pve arms spec. 1.Impale and Blood Frenzy 2.Mortal Strike 3. Blood Frenzy 4.Improved Slam Most people go 3/5 flurry. Personally i pick up sweeping strikes and Improved blood craze. It acts as a rage pot during your attack rotation. Blood Frenzy is the whole reason for going arms for pve. Your dps and the whole raids dps will go up(especially if your the only dps warrior in your raid). It also increases your tanks threat gen

~Attack Rotation. This is the important part. You need to know how to work your spec if you want top the charts:

Attack-slam _____WW____attack-slam_____MS_____attack-slam

  you want to slam ONCE RIGHT AFTER EACH AUTO ATTACK. ?Why? because slam resets your swing timer. You want to minimize loss of attack time by doing it as soon as possible right after you attack. Think of it as a "double" attack.

In between you attack-slams you should pop an instant(either WW or MS) and follow up with another attack-slam. Dont worry if you dont have enough rage after an attack-slam to use an instant attack. Just keep attack-slamming until you get enough. Rage will vary on different fights so just use them when you got em.

~Latency issues If you have a latency of 1000 Milliseconds(1 second) you will slam 1 second after you hit slam. Therefore you would want to hit slam 1 second before you attack. Its very hard to do, but if you can check your latency and you will be better able to attack right after each attack. Its better yo be a half a second late then to hit it early. Youll get one hit instead of 2 and your dps will be screwed.

~Practice your attack rotations. The best way is on trash mobs while farming. A slam spec warrior is the hardest spec to play. You have to be top of your game even on farm content if you want to top the dps charts. Although it really is more fun than fury IMO. If you get good your Blood Frenzy will help your whole raid and you will know how to dps. The big bonus is that you will be both pve and pvp spec, so no need to respec.

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