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Need some serious help with my arms warrior
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troymancer
so im having a big problem. this is my first toon to 85 so i know im still learning alot. but im getting kicked out of alot of heroics and not doing very well anywhere else either. my dps right now is at 1201 and goes up to 1304 with battle shout. and everyones telling me thats REALLY low. but ive had ppl look at my gear and cant find any problem there. and ive looked on line at ppls build and rotations and i seem to be on par with others there. im not sure what im doing wrong
heres a link to my armory
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/dentarg/krooton/simple
any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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Badguy
Just because you see 1300 dps on your character's stat sheet does not mean you are actually doing that amount of dps.
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troymancer
alright im guna make those changes u suggested and see what happens. il let u know if it worked or not. thanks everyone for the help
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Post by
marklartank
-You're at 3.37% hit. That's a big problem right there, we need to be at 8% to not miss our specials. I see you actually reforged some hit on your bracers to crit, which is a big mistake. Since arms' DPS is primarily built around using our GCDs and special attacks in a priority rotation, we need to be sure all of those are landing, all of of the time. Reforge all your gear into hit, cutting your haste first, until you hit the magic 8.
-It looks like you're at 0 expertise. We need to get to 26 expertise in order to not be dodged when standing behind a target (which eliminates the chance to be parried). After you hit the 8% hit, reforge all remaining haste/crit/mastery you can into expertise until you hit 26. This isn't something you should gem for per se, but that is very important.
slightly less for heroics - something like 22 expertise and 6% hit.
and i think you're not looking at a dps meter - you're looking at your weapon damage or something.
Post by
cubelord
Once you have enough Hit to work everything out, Arms is a completely devastating spec in terms of DPS.
Like a few others said, it's all about a priority rotation. Cliffnotes on rotation (that I've found works best)
1. Keep Rend up. Try not to "clip" it by more than 1 second or so.
2. Colossus Smash. Use whenever off of cooldown, but also don't clip the debuff of this one either.
3. Mortal Strike. This procs a lot of damage buffs for us, as well as being the "bread and butter" attack of the spec.
4. Overpower. This procs a lot from Taste for Blood. Use it whenever it lights up, but attempt to have the Slaughter buff (from Mortal Strike) up when you use it.
5/6. Slam/Heroic Strike/Cleave. fillers in the rotation, also assuming you have the rage for it. judging by the patch notes, I'd say slam would be a better choice. Cleave is also only used against groups of enemies, of course.
If you have enough hit, and are having rage troubles, go with Haste. It scales surprisingly well for Arms, as well as acting as a catalyst to our Mastery. Crit is somewhat underwhelming, and Mastery is pretty good.
Nothing I've said is backed up by anything other than my personal experience, and it seems to be working out pretty well for me so far.
Keep playing Arms, I feel we're under appreciated though! :3
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