World of Warcraft: Arms Warrior PvP Post 3.1

The WoW Warrior. This class is not for the faint of heart. Getting into the game at maximum tilt is not easy to do and survive through. This World of Warcraft PvP Guide will give you some tips to maximum the strengths of your warrior and eliminate all of the weaknesses in PvP. We're focusing on Arms spec today, but Fury players will find the information equally useful, as even Fury delves into the arms tree now and again. Saddle up! The way of the Warrior in post patch 3.1 is not for the faint of heart.

The Arms warrior has gone through a few changes since the game's release. They were extremely powerful in the early stages of the game, then they were nerfed..but now...they're back! You're success as an Arms Warrior is going to rely on two abilities: Recklessness and Bladestorm. With these two abilities you can kill anyone. It's true. Blizzard has given warriors a unique power in that, they're able to kill somebody every time Recklessness is up, no matter what. If you aren't killing people with Recklessness, i'd say you need to go gear up.

Bladestorm guarantees that you're going to be able to smash through as many opponents are possible. What's nice about this now is that Bladestorm's cooldown can be reduced to 1 minute by the use of a glyph. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

Let's go through the attack phase of your perfect battle as an Arms Warrior. If you can pull of this sequence time after time, then you'll be able to beat your opponent time after time. It's that simple. It's been tested and tried to be the best warrior spec around. The sequence goes as follows:

Charge the opponent, immobilizing them for a few seconds. After you do this, immediately hit your mortal strike to get that big burst of damage in and prevent any healing from happening for a while. Even if they DO get a heal off while you're pummeling them after this, it's not going to be enough to combat your damage. After the Mortal strike, you're going to want to hamstring them so they cannot run away. The strategy is flawless so far. They've been immobilized, slowed, and their healing has been shot to the ground in the first few moments of the battle. There's not much they can do now (note: if you're fighting a rogue, be sure to rend after the hamstring to prevent Vanish from letting your prey get away). This is what I call the setup, or control phase of the fight. You've set up various barriers and effects that prevent your opponent from countering your attack.

The damage phase consists of spamming Mortal Strike, Overpower, and Execute. The great thing about Execute post 3.1 for WoW warriors is that it no longer uses all of your rage. This makes it viable for use during mid combat now. If they run, you just intercept them and start the setup phase again. They're going to run out of tricks, and usually by the second setup phase they'll be down for the count. If not, this burst damage ensures that they're going to be wasting all of their time trying to prevent their damage and won't have anything left to damage you with!

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