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Hi guys, this has probalbly been asked tons of times, but I haven't seen it on the stickys... What is the quickest spec for leveling, I am currently arms but am now stuck between deep wounds and imp overpower.

Grats on the pre-kara gear sticky, glad to see more class boards are getting those up.

I would recommend going for imp OP first for a couple reasons.

When you level, you should mainly be in battle stance anyways (more efficient, 3% crit =/= 10% damage intake while leveling).

When you crit, it will refresh deep wounds - so if you crit within 3 seconds of applying it, it won't tick for anything.

imp. op is also almost free (5 rage, nothing!) and for basically a guaranteed crit, it's quite great.

Imagining you already got AM, get 2/2 imp op, then 2/3 DW and then go for the 2h spec. After you have that and once you grab deathwish [http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=LV0fdi0o] respec into http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=LZVxzm0g for improve slam, as that is the most efficient (although not the most fun) leveling.

you shouldn't DW, you should go 2h fury while leveling for the lack of +hit gear at lower levels.

As far as PVP goes, it really won't be making a significant difference until your mid-late 60's. MS *is* better obviously for the debuff, but you can make fury work in pvp out of arenas. The leveling difference between the two however, is phenomenal.

Here's a post me and Xordon put together a while ago. Should have all you need to know about leveling builds (Don't know why it's still not made the sticky...).

You're 2h:ing, and UW is only ever optimal with DW. I don't know the PPM of it, but you only need 2, max 3, points for it to be 100% chance of rage gain on hit (edit: Clarification, that only applies to 2h:ing). An option is to go 2/5 UW and 3/5 Imp. Demo. Shout. This is, Imp. Demo. Shout is a really nice ability when it comes to melee mitigation, and you should use it alot while leveling.

Of course, these builds are variable with preference. If you prefer some fill-out talent over another, just go for it. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the key-talents of the builds, and all this post does in addition to other build posts is tell you when to spec what. It is, once again, very interchangeable.

Edited, Feb 3rd 2008 12:14am by Utarius