Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Arms Warrior in PvP in Dragonflight
In this article, we will go over the biggest change that came with Dragonflight – talent system. We will cover the best talents for Arms Warrior in PvP, including the Class tree, the Spec tree, as well as PvP talents themselves.
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Arms Warrior Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents. Those will depend on the situation and the comp you are playing. The Core talents will be the ones you pick almost all the time either because they are that good on their own, or simply better than all other options.
Warrior Class Talents
For our core talents, we start off by picking important utility like Impending Victory. It is a strong healing cooldown that will help you with sustain when taking burst damage.
Intervene is another essential tool mainly used for peeling physical damage on your partner. Using it while they are stunner or taking heavy fire will be the main way to utilize this ability.
You also want Rallying Cry, which is like having an AoE Battlemaster trinket for your team. It serves as a life-saving cooldown when your team is on the brink of death.
The middle of the tree also allows you to get Storm Bolt. It is a short cooldown stun with some range, which is needed for creating pressure, locking down your target, so you can unleash your burst damage.
Further down the tree, you want to get Avatar. It is another powerful offensive cooldown that you will use for additional pressure, as well as for breaking any roots on you. This talent increases in strength when playing with Blademaster’s Torment, although you can still pick up Warlord’s Torment instead when expecting to only do single target damage in a matchup, for example when training a SP against a caster cleave.
You also want to pick up Thunderous Roar its follow up talents. This talent is preferred over Spear of Bastion due to the damage being less obvious, the shorter cooldown and for the great synergy with Bloodborne and Bloodletting.
Your flexible points include Frothing Berserker and Wrecking Throw. We highly recommend Wrecking Throw into any team with shield effects, especially Mistweaver Monks, Warlocks, and Disc Priests. These talents could be dropped for Menace, which turns fear into an 8 second baseline CC, and Uproar, which simply gives you CDR on your main burst CD.
Berserker Shout is a great option into Shadow Priests and can situationally good into Warlocks and other Warriors depending on your composition. This is a choice node with Piercing Howl.
Arms Spec Talents
Moving on to the spec-specific talents, you definitely want to get Die by the Sword. This is a must-have talent as it is your best defensive cooldowns that is especially effective against melees.
In the middle, you get Colossus Smash, which is your most impactful offensive cooldown. It’s vital at setting up your burst damage with other cooldowns or hard-hitting abilities.
Strength of Arms is then taken most of the time, but can be swapped out for Improved Sweeping Strikes in matchups where you’re able to cleave a lot.
You want to pick up Bladestorm as it is a very versatile talent. In this build, it will commonly be used as a damage cooldown, since you are getting Hurricane as well. This makes your Bladestorm deal even more burst damage, which synergizes greatly with the rest of the build. It’s fantastic into cleave teams and even in single-target situations because it creates an immense amount of pressure when used. Unhinged can be a good option when you need to cancelaura Bladestorm as this is not allowed when playing the Hurricane talent.
You also want to pick up Battlelord, which increases the damage of your Overpower. It also gives you resets of Mortal Strike, which will further increase your passive pressure.
The primary choice node is between Fatal Mark and Executioner’s Precision. Executioner’s Precision gives more damage to your Mortal Strike whereas Fatal Mark puts more damage into your execute and adds more overall finishing power.
Arms Warrior PvP Talents
Your only hardlocked PvP talent is Sharpen Blade. This brings a huge healing reduction debuff that makes healers struggle with your damage.
Battlefield Commander is a soft locked talent. This adds an additional effect to each of your shouts.
Storm of Destruction will then typically be taken as your third PvP talent, but it can also be swapped for utility depending on the situation. This now applies a slow making it hard for enemy teams to kite you.
Rebound has been changed for patch 10.1. It causes spell reflection to reflect two spells with an increased 50% damage modifier. This is great when fighting casters and to build pressure in these matchups such as Mage Lock.
Whenever you play against a class where Disarm is useful, you will take it instead. It is one of the best peels against most melee and Hunter specs, making it a great choice in such situations.
Alternatively, if you are against compositions that CC your healer a lot to enable their win conditions, you can look to use War Banner. Timing this properly to reduce heavy CC that lands on your teammate will be a great way to survive a deadly setup.
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