Arms Warrior Midnight 12.0.5 Guide

My name is Dan, perhaps better known as Danwarr. I have been playing WoW since late Vanilla and Warrior specifically since Mists of Pandaria. I have raided with Method since Castle Nathria, always as DPS Warrior.

Arms Warrior Overview

Arms Warrior typically excels at 2 Target damage through Sweeping Strikes. It can also bring some substantial AoE through abilities like Cleave, Demolish and Bladestorm as well as their bleeds Rend and Deep Wounds, though this regularly comes at a fairly significant Single Target damage loss.

Patch 12.0.5 Changes

Mortal Wounds now triggers from Mortal Strike and Slam instead of Mortal Strike and Cleave. This is a fairly sizeable nerf to AoE for Arms as there’s now no access to Deep Wounds in AoE apart from for Colossus.

Crushing Combo removes the cooldown on your next 2 Cleave instead of 3. This has come with a potentially unintended side effect. Colossus Smash now also resets the cooldown on Cleave when used so ultimately it’s not that significant of a nerf. This might be a bug and could be fixed.

Colossus

Practiced Strikes increases Mortal Strike and Slam damage by 15%. It also increases Cleave and Whirlwind damage by 15%.

Dominance Of The Colossus reduces the cooldown of Demolish by 5 seconds instead of 2 seconds. This is a significant buff to Demolish and gives Colossus a much needed bump to single target damage.

Slayer

Reap The Storm no longer procs from Mortal Strike. It is only available from Cleave hitting 3+ enemies or from Sudden Death procs being consumed. This is a bit of a hit to single target damage.

Unrelenting Onslaught now also increases Bladestorm damage by 20%.

Midnight Arms Warrior Changes

Midnight has come with a host of changes. Rather than list all of them, some of the key ones are listed below:

• Several abilities removed:
• Warbreaker
• Thunderous Roar
• Skullsplitter
• Bitter Immunity
• Merciless Bonegrinder talent combined with Ravager.
• Tactician talent changed to a flat proc chance instead of being based on rage spent.
• Class and spec trees updated.