Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents for Arms Warriors in Mists of Pandaria
All sections for Arms Warrior PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Arms Warrior in PvP for Mists of Pandaria, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will show you what are the best PvP Arms Warrior talents in Mists of Pandaria Season 12 and why you should choose them.
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Best Arms Warrior PvP Talents

This new talent system is dramatically different from our original Cataclysm talents. Now players are given way less options in terms of talent selection, and can even change their talents in the starting gate using Tome of the Clear Mind.
Here we have your default talents for Arms Warrior. Let’s break down why these talents are so promising in MoP, and any alternatives you can select depending on the composition played or up against.
Hard-Locked Talents:
Double Time not only grants you increased uptime, but it provides more micro CC opportunities. This is because Charge reacts as a micro Stun.
Second Wind will be your best recovery tool as it is your strongest self heal as long as you’re below 35% HP.
Storm Bolt greatly assisting you with locking down your opponents at a ranged distance.
Soft-Locked Talents & Alternatives:
Staggering Shout acts as a semi-ranged root, which is super helpful for uptime and to peel teammates.
Alternative: Disrupting Shout against low-mobility casters to guarantee more interrupts, and should be selected if you choose to play with a Mage.
Shockwave to stun any target in front of your character, granting you more control over the course of a game.
Alternative: Bladestorm as a niche pick against double DPS 2v2, primarily against Rogues to temporarily negate their CC.
Safeguard not only provides additional utility that reduces incoming damage on a teammate, but greatly increases your mobility thanks to its root-breaker effect.
Alternative: Mass Reflection becomes viable against caster cleaves where you do not need the extra mobility, and is used to reflect unavoidable CC on your healer.

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