Monday, October 13, 2008

3.0.2 Live tomorrow, Arms/Fury Builds.

I've had a few people bugging me about 3.0.2 Arms/Fury builds, personally I'm going to go with an 0/53/8 build, I think Arms might be very strong, but I'm interested in how TG will perform, and I have the gear to support it fully hit-capped, assuming that the change to TG to be 12% miss penalty makes it to live. The style between BC Fury->WotLK Fury hasn't changed much at all, except now we don't have to keep Rampage up and there's an occasional Insta Slam(Which makes up 1-5% of your damage, buff please. -_-). If you were Dual Wield Fury before the patch, you need to make the transition over to TG, or stick to Arms, Dual Wielding your 1-handers will not net you the same result as it does on live, unless you're rocking Warglaives. :)

If you're going with an Arms build, you should know that the learning curve is much steeper then on Live atm with the Slam after Auto-attack. Slam no longer resets your swing timer, and just delays your swing, it's one of those abilities you can use when you have nothing better to do now. Keeping Rend up is important, might want to get yourself a mod to monitor that if you don't have one already. MS takes priority, Bladestorm on CD, Overpower when you can(pay close attention to when rend procs one), Slam when nothing else is up. If my order is off here, let me know. I've had limited Arms experience in beta outside of PvP(Which has been a nightmare).

Builds:

Titan's Grip 0/53(?)/8 raiding
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior=000000000000000000000000000000203300000000000000000000000305200005500312053120501351
This build has a free floating point in Fury, do with it what you want. You can also drop Blood Surge and pick up Furious attacks/Imp Zerker's Rage if you want for whatever reason. You shouldn't need more then 2 points in Imp Demo, unless your guild missed the memo that Faerie Fire > Curse of Recklessness. Everything else is fairly obvious for what you'd want in the build.

Arms 53/8/0 raiding
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior=052030212333510000201223131251000000000000000000000000000305000000000000000000000000
This is straight forward as well, pure PvE build, I hope you have an Axe ready given the state of Mace/Sword, nice 180 from Blizzard eh? More then 1 point is worthless in Unrelenting Assault. You may have noticed I passed on Tactical Mastery, you will NOT be stance dancing with this build. Sit in Arms, Rend, Overpower, etc, it is a headache to switch to Zerker just to WW, you will lose extra damage on your extra rage sudden death executes, it's not worth it. There is theorycraft on a Zerker Stance build where you just MS/WW/Slam/Slam, and this might be easier on some of you.

Patch Cliff Notes:
Berserker's Rage is available in all stances, adjust your binds accordingly.
You're getting a free 3% crit on top of whatever your crit is now, don't ask why, just smile/nod.
Arms Warriors, Blizzard has forced you to invite Battle Stance to your birthday party, be nice.
Fury Warriors, Blizzard has forced you to invite Hit to your birthday party, be nice.
If you like to World PvP/Battle Ground, don't attempt to do so Solo, you will cry and weep yourself to bed that night at the damage other classes inflict upon you.
If you like to Arena...GL with that.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

No mention of a 1H Fury w/ DW build? I don't see TG beating that currently with how ridiculously good Deep Wounds currently is.

Something like http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=LN0c0fZhxb0E0ubgRVzu would seem to make sense, although I'm almost certainly going to go Arms.

- Nomepunter

Unknown said...

And for what it's worth, you're almost as well off staying in Berserker Stance and using Overpower as you are with Rend/OP and Battle Stance with the current version of Arms.

Unknown said...

Emeraude,

Nice blog. I've noticed many of your posts on the forums - and they tend to be very well informed. I'll be checking back here often, and probably commenting on your posts as well.

A very skilled rogue friend of mine and I operate a rogue/warrior blog: http://www.thecombatlog.com/
- come check us out. Maybe we can list each other as links?

Best wishes on today's patch!

Marraxus

Anonymous said...

The theory crafting of staying in zerker stance and utilizing WW while ignoring rend/overpower turns out to be almost identical DPS.

So unless you're someone like me who hates wasting points (so many wasted points in arms if you aren't going to rend/overpower/pvp) and just want the easier rotation; continue ignoring battle stance; it's birthday isn't till T8.

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Kinzlayer said...

"BLOODRAGINGIRL" I read as Blood Raging In Real Life, although I did see "GIRL" first but after a bit of trying to see what the other characters make up I thought it wasn't girl.

nice.