Arms Warrior Leveling Guide
Arms Warrior Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Arms Warrior leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
Talents
Arms Warrior
Colossus Level 70
Spec Tree
- Cleave
- Your main damage ability in cleave and AoE scenarios, functions similar to Mortal Strike except it affects many enemies at once. Synergizes well with many other talents such as Collateral Damage.
- Ravager
- Merciless Bonegrinder makes Cleave deal incredible damage during your cooldowns. Paired with Collateral Damage you can one-shot groups of enemies while leveling as an Arms Warrior.
- You can swap Ravager and Bladestorm by preference, both are good for leveling.
- Dreadnaught
- If you use Overpower with Sweeping Strikes active, Dreadnaught shoots out 2 seismic waves, both of them dealing AoE damage.
- Fervor of Battle
- The automatic Slam from Cleave works with Sweeping Strikes, so with this talent Cleave can contribute to Collateral Damage.
Class Tree
- Thunder Clap
- With Thunder Clap you can apply Rend to many enemies simultaneously, dealing good sustained AoE damage.
- Thunderous Roar
- With Thunderous Words and Uproar.
- High AoE damage on a short cooldown.
Hero Talents
- Both Colossus and Slayer are great options for leveling. These are some advantages of Colossus:
- Hero Talents One Against Many and Practiced Strikes are huge buffs to Cleave, your main AoE damage ability.
- Demolish deals good burst AoE damage on a low cooldown. When you are deeper in leveling this cooldown gets reduced through Dominance of the Colossus and can line up well with Warbreaker.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Colossus as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Martial Expert.
- Pick One Against Many.
- Pick Practiced Strikes.
- Pick Colossal Might.
- Pick Tide of Battle.
- Pick Precise Might.
- Pick Dominance of the Colossus.
- Boneshaker
- Pick Veteran Vitality.
- Pick Mountain of Muscle and Scars.
Rotation
Arms Warrior
Single-Target
- Apply Rend before using your cooldowns, if you think the target is going to live one third of the Rend debuff time or more.
- Use Mortal Strike on cooldown.
- Prioritize Overpower over Mortal Strike if you are low on rage.
AoE
- Apply Rend through Thunder Clap before using cooldowns, if you think the mobs are going to live for at least ~7 seconds.
- Use Cleave on cooldown.
Shopping List
Arms Warrior
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Revvez
Reviewed by: Wolfdisco