Gladiator Gear for... fury???Follow

You should never socket +hit over +crit unless your still under 8.6% hit. Gladiator gear has some good dps stats but is mainly focused on stm for survivability. While I'm not saying it's a bad choice, just that other gear of that level (136) would bring more to the fury table.

Of course other gear of that level drops in SSC and The Eye. Arena gear would be much easier to come by if you aren't in a fairly progressed raiding guild.

They might be only wearing 1 peice of arena season 2 gear, i currently wear the S2 Legs, since they are better than my Heroic Mech 1's in AP/Crit and has bonus hit rating.

You can make up hit rating in other places. Neck, back, wrists, belts, boots, rings, and trinkets are all slots you can put hit rating to help you out. As D said though going imp slam 2 handed would probably be better with that set.

Oh, I forgot to mention I would of course spec Arms for arena. I do have some decent pvp gear. Thunder ftw :/


I was under the impression that a 2h slam build wouldn't yield as much dps as dual wielding in raids. So, off to arena I go.
I respec many times, out of the belief that doing so will make me perform that much better than picking a hybrid build. When I do my 10 games for the week on a particular day, all I do is spec arms and click a button on outfitter. Good to go. Then when I want to do heroics for nethers, I spec protection and don my tanking stuff. And of course, during raids I'm dw fury. Costs a bit of gold, but nothing that daily quests cant cover. And I only do it 3 times a week ideally.

I'm 100% certain that prenerf 2H was better than postnerf DW, even with equivalent weapons (Stormherald vs. Drakefist and Merc. Glad OH), both in better threat control and much more access to additional AE damage on top of the fact that they did comparable single-target. Prenerf 2H was considerably more complicated to play, though... postnerf 2H, I really don't know but it's a hell of a lot worse than it was before.

Replace the word 'control' with the word 'management', since any build that will never, ever use Heroic Strike is going to generate less threat than one that will.

Let me first appologize for the necro...

I have a baby warrior only level 17 ATM, but I always enjoy going back and reading a lot the posts here so I can learn different things about a particular class. That being said, leads me to my question.

Correct me if my assumptions are wrong, but I read in this post about threat, but what does threat have to do with arena's? Isn't threat simply a PvE thing?

Yeah, that is true. But the itemization of the gear for fury requires much more hit. Which you will be socketing for instead of crit or AP, which is what you should be socketing instead.

D/w will outperform 2h slam for single target tank and spank DPS fights as things are now.

But for D/w to truly shine, you need over a 100 hit rating easy. A majority of your DPS comes from white damage. Increasing white damage throughput to the point where you generate enough rage to fuel your BT/WW cycle on every cooldown. Then increase your crit and AP. Crit easily replaces To Hit after a point, but you still need to make sure you never miss your specials (~89 hit rating with 3/3 precision).

2h slam is easier to gear for, and requires less To Hit for perfection. 133 hit rating with 2/2 weapon mastery or 89 hit rating with precision, for every hit to not miss (but still can be dodged, parry, blocked.). Then just stack the AP and Crit. No need to bother with balancing 3 stats, or having issues with min/max gemming.