Arms Warrior Guide
A two-handed brawler: Mortal Strike's healing reduction, bleeds that keep working, and a spin that shrugs off control.
- Role Melee DPS
- Health 5,250
- Resource Rage
Plan your Arms Warrior build → Fury Warrior
Toolkit at a glance
Counted from the spell data (every Warrior spell, the Arms spells, and the row-5 talent spells).
| Stuns, fears, incapacitates | Charge, Storm Bolt, Intimidating Shout |
|---|---|
| Roots and silences | — |
| Interrupts | Pummel |
| Defensives | Shield Wall, Spell Reflection, Die by the Sword |
| Heals | — |
| Mobility | Charge |
Arms Warrior talents
Five rows of three. Pick one per row; rows 1 to 4 are passive and row 5 teaches a spell.
You have 5% more crit chance, and any crit of yours, a swing or a strike, leaves a bleed of 75 every 2 sec for 6 sec.
All your damage, swings and strikes, also hits every other enemy within 5 m of your target for 25% of it.
Mortal Strike has a 50% chance to make your next Slam instant.
Charge holds 2 charges, but each generates half the rage.
Charge frees you from roots and slows as you go, and nothing can root or slow you for 4 sec after.
Charge's cooldown is 3 sec shorter, and after a Charge you run 70% faster for 4 sec.
You dodge 15% more often, and dodging an attack hardens you: you take 20% less damage for 4 sec.
Being stunned, feared or incapacitated heals you for 15% of your health. Once every 20 sec.
Shield Wall can be used while stunned and breaks you out of stuns and fears, and while it lasts nothing can stun or fear you.
Hamstring also roots the target for 2 sec: to a Frost partner, that's frozen.
Storm Bolt holds 2 charges: stun one, then the other, or chain a stun.
Bladestorm leaves Rend on every enemy it hits.
Learn Avatar: 20% more damage for 20 sec, free of roots and slows.
Learn Colossus Smash: the target takes 25% more damage from everyone for 6 sec.
Learn Die by the Sword: for 8 sec you are 50% more likely to dodge attacks and take 20% less damage.
Arms spells
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortal Strike | Physical | 30 rage | Instant | 6 s | 3 m |
| Rend | Physical | 10 rage | Instant | — | 3 m |
| OverpowerAfter a target dodges you, your next Overpower within 5 sec is sure to crit. | Physical | — | Instant | 5 s | 3 m |
| Bladestorm | Physical | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
Spells taught by talents (row 5)
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar | Physical | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
| Colossus Smash | Physical | 20 rage | Instant | 45 s | 3 m |
| Die by the Sword | Physical | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
Spells every Warrior knows
The first eight are the action bar a new character starts with; swap spells on your bar in Spells & Talents (N). ★ = starting bar.
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charge ★ | Physical | — | Instant | 15 s | 25 m |
| Slam ★ | Physical | 20 rage | 1.5 s | — | 3 m |
| Hamstring ★ | Physical | 10 rage | Instant | — | 3 m |
| Pummel ★ | Physical | 10 rage | Instant | 12 s | 3 m |
| Thunder Clap ★ | Physical | 20 rage | Instant | 6 s | Self |
| Storm Bolt ★ | Physical | 15 rage | Instant | 30 s | 20 m |
| Intimidating Shout ★ | Physical | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
| Execute ★ | Physical | 15 rage | Instant | — | 3 m |
| Shield Wall | Physical | — | Instant | 120 s | Self |
| Spell Reflection | Physical | — | Instant | 25 s | Self |
| Berserker Rage | Physical | — | Instant | 30 s | Self |
Recommended Arms Warrior build
Recommended builds for this spec are still being tested. To be added.
Spell names, costs, cooldowns and talent text are read from the game client (v0.21, checked 2026-10-30). The developer calls the numbers “first-pass tuning”, so expect them to change.