Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents & Hero Talents for Arms Warriors in The War Within 11.2.0

All sections for Arms Warrior PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Arms Warriors in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Arms Warrior PvP Talents in The War Within.

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Hero Talents: Slayer
Hero Talents: Colossus
Class Talents
Spec Talents
PvP Talents

The War Within expands our arsenal of talent options, which include our new talent hero talent trees, Slayer and Colossus. After thorough testing with both builds in the current meta, Slayer still remains slightly more competitive in the new season. However, Colossus definitely has potential in circumstances where you want more coordinated burst on your primary target.

Let’s delve deeper and understand how to best allocate your Hero talents down below.

Hero Talents: Slayer

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Starting off we have our default Slayer hero talents. Let’s look at the core talents chosen that make up this build.

Our centerpiece talent focuses on Slayer’s Dominance, passively increasing our damage as we gain both Slayer’s Strike for added consistent pressure, and Marked for Execution for bonus Execute damage.

Imminent Demise relies on how many Slayer’s Strike procs we throw out. Once we deal damage with three of them, we receive a Sudden Death proc, and after using it, we make Bladestorm hit an additional time, up to three extra strikes, without changing its duration.
Unrelenting Onslaught reduces the cooldown of our Bladestorm when we consume Marked for Execution, and grants us 2 stacks of Overwhelmed as an added bonus to our damage.

Hero Talents: Colossus

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Next up we have our Colossus Hero tree, which provides us with more coordinated burst from our hallmark node, Demolish. When Demolish is used, you become way less likely to get peeled since it immunes you from all stuns, slows, and knockbacks. Not to mention, we receive some solid quality of life improvements to our toolkit, such as Martial Expert for some crit damage modifiers as well as Boneshaker to enhance our Shockwave.

Now, let’s delve deeper and fully understand some of the talent points we receive from this Hero tree.

Colossal Might buffs your next Demolish by 10% more damage per stack, originally up to 5 stacks. With Dominance of the Colossus, this effect doubles to 10 stacks. You’ll naturally be ramping up stacks from Mortal Strike and Execute.
Dominance of the Colossus not only allows you to generate double the amount of Colossal Might stacks, but reduces the cooldown on Demolish if we generate a stack while having maximum stacks. While channeling Demolish, you want to cleave as many targets as you can in order to maximize its effect.

Warrior Class Talents

In the Warrior Class talent tree, most of your talent choices will be mandatory when advancing onto each tier. Some of most noteworthy mandatory talents are:

Thunder Clap as Colossus, making it even easier to spread our Rend to nearby targets.
Shockwave is your primary AoE stun and is exceptional into melee cleave comps.
Thunderous Roar for that extra AoE bleed to add more to our sustained pressure.

There’s also the selection between Piercing Howl and Berserker Shout.

Berserker Shout allows us to break fears on our allies, and is highly suggested to pick up if you are facing a composition that has any kind of Fear related Crowd Control.
Piercing Howl is our pick in cases where we gain no benefit out of Berserker Shout, giving us more uptime on our abilities as this applies a massive AoE snare effect to nearby targets.

For your flexible class talents, we have a few adaptations worth making. It’s important to take in consideration that each talent tree requires a set amount of talent points in order to progress in the next tier of talents, meaning that some flexible talents will only be exclusive to specific tiers.

In our first and second tiers, we have the option of opting out of Crackling Thunder as Colossus or Fast Footwork as Slayer for any of these optional talents you may want to select. These are based on personal preference and what you’re currently up against.

Shattering Throw against classes with magical immunities, particularly Paladins and Mages.
Second Wind to further increase our survivability.
Fast Footwork as Colossus for a slight mobility increase.

Arms Spec Talents

For our spec talents, most of these will be mandatory as you advance onto each tier. Some of the most noteworthy talents are:

Unhinged, which applies Mortal Strike during our Bladestorm to 2 nearby targets, and now allows us to select who we want Mortal Strike to hit depending on who we target. Using Sweeping Strikes beforehand now causes Mortal Strike to hit an additional target.
Bloodletting in combination with Bloodborne to enhance our damage throughput specifically coming from our Bleed effects.

Skullsplitter has the potential to rise in representation once players obtain their Colossus 4 piece tier set bonus. This tier bonus our bleed damage more noticeable after using Demolish and critting your next Mortal Strike.

There are some nodes in our talent tree that can be interchangeable, the first being Warbreaker or Blunt Instruments, as both talents are considered viable depending on your preferred playstyle.

Blunt Instruments is the most preferred option, allowing you to deal the most amount of burst with your Colossus Smash. However this requires you to use Sweeping Strikes in order to apply an additional Colossus Smash on a nearby target.
Warbreaker can be a promising alternative to Blunt Instruments, as this allows you to spread Colossus Smash on all nearby targets without having to utilize Sweeping Strikes. This is best selected against classes with a multitude of pets. Additionally this talent makes your cleave pressure even more powerful, especially when paired with Bladestorm, without much effort.

Arms Warrior PvP Talents

In the current meta, your default Arms PvP talent loadout will typically include Storm of Destruction, Sharpen Blade, and Battlefield Commander.

Storm of Destruction increases your uptime from its snare effect, and applies Mortal Wounds to any target hit by Bladestorm.
Sharpen Blade reduces healing by half on the target you use your next Mortal Strike on, and should be pressed before using Bladestorm for more added pressure coming from Unhinged.
Battlefield Commander is just a passively strong option, as this makes all of our shouts way better than before. The most notable effects are Rallying Cry now breaking all root effects after used, and the cooldown reduction on Intimidating Shout, giving us yet another win condition as this makes our fear cooldown not line up with the enemy healer’s trinket.

Finally, you can swap to/from Storm of Destruction, or Battlefield Commander if the enemy team doesn’t have any fear-like Crowd Control, for any of these flexible talents.

Disarm is only valuable into a select group of classes; Rogues, Warriors, and Hunters. These are best used on their primary offensive cooldown to prevent the enemy team from snowballing massive pressure.
Berserker Roar can be quite impactful, reacting identical to War Banner‘s effect on teammates without having an object placed down. This talent requires you to have Berserker Shout selected in your class talents in order for this PvP talent to work.