Hello!
I realise my blog isn't quite good.
But it's where i come to write meaningless shite that actually makes you more bored than had you sat there doing nothing.
Maybe one day i'll put the effort in. But i doubt it.
Not like anybody reads it anyway eh?
But if you're one of the unlucky ones.. Don't take it seriously (or do). I'm complaining for the sake of it. It's what any good warrior would do.
Or thats' what i tell myself anyway.
I'm not trying to avoid offending anyone,if anything i'd like to! But what i say,or type rather,it isn't personal.
Unless it is.
Well,i'm going now.
ITS A WARRIOR AXE! WARRIOR AXE! WARRIOR AXE!
A blog about an ARMS warrior with too much on his mind. From himself to raids to over aggroing. It'll be pretty much like every other self important WoW player blog out there. Only with worse grammer & spelling.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Overaggroing (if such a thing exists)
Greetings anybody silly enough to read my rambling.
So i'm an Arms warrior.
If you've never played arms in end gane content,or you're a whimp that plays Fury (yeah i said it) then you have NO idea what "watch your aggro" means.
Arms warriors have NO aggro reduction abilities or Talents.
Fury does,Death Knights do,Druids do,Paladins do etc etc etc.
But not poor old arms.
Now,Fury is considered the warrior end-game dps spec. Well we,disagree!
In my guild,there are several warriors,most of which are fury. Imfact about 99% of them are. In fact they all are. Except me.
And i'm sitting pretty at number 1 warrior dps in the guild (at time of writing).
In fact,there's only 1 fury warrior in the guild that can occassionally out dps me,
and she's got much better gear than me.
So what does that tell you? Simply - i'm awesome.
No really it says that Arms is definitely a viable end game dps spec.
But only if your smart.
While fury does require skill,and way more stat stacking,it is easier to play.
You have 3 moves,or 4 if you're good. These moves are - Heroic Strike - bloodthirst - Whirlwind - Slam. The rotation is set by priority.
Whirlwind & Bloodthirst should be ALWAYS kept on cooldown,Slam is used on a bloodsurge proc but ONLY if Whirlwind & bloodthirst are on CD. And heroic strike is used when you have over 60 rage,but ONLY if WW & BT are on CD and Slam hasn't procced.
Sounds hard? Yes? Scrub.
Here's Arms -
Keep Rend up at ALL times. Your priority (after keeping rend up) is to keep Mortal Strike on Cooldown. Everything after that is based of Rend ticks. Seriously,if you aren't on the ball your rotation is going to fall on its ass. Rend procs Overpower & Execute. Without these,your rotation is only 2 moves - Mortal Strike and Slam. So really what you'll end up doing is this - Charge > Rend > Mortal Strike > Slam > Overpower > Slam > Mortal Strike > Overpower > Execute > Slam > Rend > Mortal Strike etc etc etc.
Now that's only if you get it right,which i always do. But seriously,try it sometime if you think Fury is so hard.
Anyway,the reason i say all this ( when the topic is overaggroing remember?) is because being an Arms warrior is hard.
You have little to no AoE. Only Bladestorm and Sweeping Strikes. Both of which catch Aggro easily. So i can't even AoE on trash pulls.
My single target moves put out really high threat aswell. So if the tanks die,i'm pretty much screwed.
Which brings me to my point - no one EVER over aggro's,they simply put out more THREAT than the tank.
When i use Bladestorm,i hit up to 6 targets every second for 6 seconds. That's alot of crits. Which is also loads of threat...
Ah i'll finish this another time,i'm hungry now.
What do you mean "put on a flask"? I'll be dead in a minute anyway..
So i'm an Arms warrior.
If you've never played arms in end gane content,or you're a whimp that plays Fury (yeah i said it) then you have NO idea what "watch your aggro" means.
Arms warriors have NO aggro reduction abilities or Talents.
Fury does,Death Knights do,Druids do,Paladins do etc etc etc.
But not poor old arms.
Now,Fury is considered the warrior end-game dps spec. Well we,disagree!
In my guild,there are several warriors,most of which are fury. Imfact about 99% of them are. In fact they all are. Except me.
And i'm sitting pretty at number 1 warrior dps in the guild (at time of writing).
In fact,there's only 1 fury warrior in the guild that can occassionally out dps me,
and she's got much better gear than me.
So what does that tell you? Simply - i'm awesome.
No really it says that Arms is definitely a viable end game dps spec.
But only if your smart.
While fury does require skill,and way more stat stacking,it is easier to play.
You have 3 moves,or 4 if you're good. These moves are - Heroic Strike - bloodthirst - Whirlwind - Slam. The rotation is set by priority.
Whirlwind & Bloodthirst should be ALWAYS kept on cooldown,Slam is used on a bloodsurge proc but ONLY if Whirlwind & bloodthirst are on CD. And heroic strike is used when you have over 60 rage,but ONLY if WW & BT are on CD and Slam hasn't procced.
Sounds hard? Yes? Scrub.
Here's Arms -
Keep Rend up at ALL times. Your priority (after keeping rend up) is to keep Mortal Strike on Cooldown. Everything after that is based of Rend ticks. Seriously,if you aren't on the ball your rotation is going to fall on its ass. Rend procs Overpower & Execute. Without these,your rotation is only 2 moves - Mortal Strike and Slam. So really what you'll end up doing is this - Charge > Rend > Mortal Strike > Slam > Overpower > Slam > Mortal Strike > Overpower > Execute > Slam > Rend > Mortal Strike etc etc etc.
Now that's only if you get it right,which i always do. But seriously,try it sometime if you think Fury is so hard.
Anyway,the reason i say all this ( when the topic is overaggroing remember?) is because being an Arms warrior is hard.
You have little to no AoE. Only Bladestorm and Sweeping Strikes. Both of which catch Aggro easily. So i can't even AoE on trash pulls.
My single target moves put out really high threat aswell. So if the tanks die,i'm pretty much screwed.
Which brings me to my point - no one EVER over aggro's,they simply put out more THREAT than the tank.
When i use Bladestorm,i hit up to 6 targets every second for 6 seconds. That's alot of crits. Which is also loads of threat...
Ah i'll finish this another time,i'm hungry now.
What do you mean "put on a flask"? I'll be dead in a minute anyway..
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