Some referencesDPS warrior calc spreadsheet utility (Arms and Fury)
http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37462-warr ... readsheet/Note, theres a version for the newer excel, and older.
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The following spreadsheet is the product of the need for a user friendly and accurate DPS calculation and gear selection tool and about a year of use/comments from players just like you! Please download the sheet and try it yourself and pass along your suggestions and also if you find any bugs, please send me a PM! You may also talk about cool findings while using the spreadsheet in this thread. The three main goals of this project are: accuracy, simplicity, and user-friendliness. Please be sure to read the directions on the intro page in full and familiarize yourself with the program before you post in this thread, or send me PM's with questions. These spreadsheets are only compatible with and designed in Microsoft Excel '97 and '07. Please do not try to use them with Google Docs, Open Office, or any other spreadsheet program for they will not work. Please don't use the spreadsheet to determine if fury is better than arms or not. It's just a metric to determine what gear to acquire to get the most efficient output. They are pretty close to where the better player will do more damage regardless of spec. Thank you for all your support!
In depth discussionshttp://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37807-dept ... cussion/p1Here is a guide for 3.1 from Tankspot
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f177/486 ... guide.html-------------------------------------------------
Im really, really trying to decide if arms is more viable than fury.
Without a real raid setting its hard to tell. Sloppy arms work did more DPS on a test dummy than fury did, but without full raid buffs, heroism and raid damage a level 80 test dummy isnt a great comparison.
I managed to do
this in a sartharion pug but wasnt too thrilled about the numbers. (breakdowns page, if the link doesnt work.)
I was also most damage done to Tenebron, over the ranged too. Although my AOE sucked. Not pleased with arms AOE. All you got is bladestorm, and sweeping strikes which doesnt seem to hit much at all. Fury's cleave (specced and glyphed) with WW every 8 seconds is far superior in terms of overal AOE capability, compared to the burst of bladestorm.
Note, bladestorm also gets you killed.
The base concept beingSD > OP > MS > Slam
Being good about weaving slams in every time the others are on cooldown basically makes or breaks the arms DPS. If your sloppy on the slams, your DPS is going to drop obviously. The goal in each parse
Have a slam for each taste for blood
Have an execute for each sudden death
Have excellent uptime on rend, obviously
Slams any time the others are on cooldown (too hard to check imo)
After more practice I've got that down but the numbers are not convincing.
I read the tip to change all gems to ArP but Im not completely sold on that either. I'll be making some gear changes tonight before raid now that I have the 1 missing badge I needed. We shall see. Im aiming for an additional 49 Arp and about 50 more STR, putting me over 4K AP unbuffed as arms.
There is some speculation that during raid damage, infini-rage scenarios, and bloodlust to switch to
OP > SD > MS, spamming heroic strike to dump extra rage, instead of slams.
Im not totally on board with that. If you throw heroic strikes, your rage is gonna drop hard. With no white swings to provide income on something like XT's heart, your just gonna run yourself dry unless you "occasionally tap heroic strike". And if your occasionally tapping it, why not just slam like usual.
Theres a macro floating around, which is kinda laughable
/castrandom Execute, Overpower, Mortal Strike, Slam
Surprisingly, for a facerolling macro the test numbers were pretty damn high. But dissapointed it misses many SD and TFB procs.
So I changed it to
/castrandom Execute, Overpower, Mortal Strike (Your three instants)
Slam manually when these three are not lit
This is actually a little harder to use than you would think. Since its random, you have to spam the button a billion times for it to hit the desired cooldowns. However
It didnt miss execute procs.
It didnt miss overpower procs.
I think a G15 is in order, to press those four buttons in sequence ( DS>OP>MS>Slam) But I guess its been made clear you can get banned for that.
Thats almost like a /castsquence macro, however a real castsequence macro will sit and wait for an ability, whether its usuable or not. A G15 will not care.
UGH. I wish to make my arms debute soon, but I have no clue what im gonna do yet. LOL Sigh. If it can't put out close to the numbers I was putting out as fury, we will switch back. But its hard to say, not knowing how im gonna macro it yet, or if I'm even gonna do that. My best attempt on heroic heartbreaker was a little over 6K; thats one heart phase (Tho I think I wasted time DPSing the adds cuz I hardly put a dent into them anyway compared to the range) if arms can't come close...... well, then
Arms ---->Window
Summary
Arms is a huge game of wack-a-mole. Hit whatever lights up. Oh BTW, you can't pummel without some fancy dance moves. Heh.
One shitty aspect of arms, is the abilities for sudden death, taste for blood and improved execute are basically locked in, and the talent tree lends 0 room for adjustments or preference; unlike fury where you have 3-5 points to play with. =/
Sundering as arms is also absolutely terrible.
As fury, you sunder when everythings on cooldown.
As arms, nothing is ever on cooldown, and each sunder costs you anywhere from 3K to 6/7K damage each.