ARMS WARRIOR
Arms Warrior is built on the Arms talent tree and plays as a damage dealer in raids. The tree has 17 talents: 3 new in Forever, 10 changed from Classic.
ARMS GUIDE
We'll write the Arms Warrior rotation, stat priority and recommended build as the beta data settles. For now, see the talent tree below, the talent calculator and the class discussions on the forum.
WHAT IT BRINGS TO A RAID
The catalogue has no raid contribution tied only to Arms; the ones below apply to every Warrior.
EVERY WARRIOR BRINGS
Battle ShoutSunder ArmorAttack power reductionThunder ClapInterruptAoE taunt
DETAILS ON THE CLASS PAGE →TALENTS
Hover or tap a talent to read it below. Text is for the final rank.
3Improved Heroic Strike
5Deflection
3Improved Rend
2Improved Charge
5Improved Tactical Mastery
2Improved Overpower
1Anger Management
3Deep Wounds
1Spearing Strike
3Two-Handed Weapon Specialization
2Impale
5Bloodthrill
1Sweeping Strikes
5Weaponmaster
2Improved Slam
3Improved Hamstring
1Mortal Strike- Improved Heroic StrikeRow 1 · 3 rankChanged
Reduces the cost of your Heroic Strike ability by 3 Rage.
- DeflectionRow 1 · 5 rank
Increases your Parry chance by 5%.
- Improved RendRow 1 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the Bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 35%.
- Improved ChargeRow 2 · 2 rankChanged
Increases the Rage generated by your Charge ability by 6.
- Improved Tactical MasteryRow 2 · 5 rankChangedClassic name: Tactical Mastery
Tactical Mastery lets you retain up to an additional 15 Rage when you change stances.
- Improved OverpowerRow 2 · 2 rankMoved
Increases the critical strike chance of your Overpower ability by 50%.
- Anger ManagementRow 3 · 1 rankChanged
Generates 1 Rage every 3 sec while in combat, and reduces Rage loss while out of combat by 30%.
- Deep WoundsRow 3 · 3 rankChanged
Your critical strikes cause your opponent to Bleed, dealing 60% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
- Spearing StrikeRow 4 · 1 rank · activeNew
A brutal attack that deals 40% weapon damage. Deals an additional 80% weapon damage against Giants, Dragonkin, and mounted targets. Mounted targets are dismounted.
- Two-Handed Weapon SpecializationRow 4 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the damage you deal with two-handed melee weapons by 3%.
- ImpaleRow 4 · 2 rankChanged
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your abilities by 20%.
- BloodthrillRow 5 · 5 rankNew
Your Main Hand melee attacks against enemies afflicted by your Rend have a 20% chance to allow the use of your Overpower ability on the target. Lasts 6 sec.
- Sweeping StrikesRow 5 · 1 rank · active
Your next 5 melee attacks strike an additional nearby opponent.
- WeaponmasterRow 5 · 5 rankNew
Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. Axe/Polearm: Increases your critical strike chance by 5%. Mace/Staff: Your attacks ignore 15% of your target's armor. Sword: Your successful melee attacks have a 5% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target.
- Improved SlamRow 6 · 2 rankChanged
Reduces the global cooldown and cast time of your Slam ability by 0.50 sec. In addition, Slam no longer interrupts or delays your melee swing and Slam's cooldown is reduced by 3.0 sec.
- Improved HamstringRow 6 · 3 rank
Gives your Hamstring ability a 15% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
- Mortal StrikeRow 7 · 1 rank · active
A vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 85 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 sec.
Removed from Classic: Axe Specialization, Mace Specialization, Sword Specialization, Polearm Specialization
Talent, spell, race and raid data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), from the WoW Forever beta client; data date 2026-10-14. Numbers can lag live tuning. Spell names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment. Warrior talent calculator.