Fury Or arms?Follow

I've read the faqs, and saw that generally arms is better for pvp, and both can be used for pve dps. My question is what overall does more pve dmg fury or arms, and which would be a better spec to lvl with?

thanks

Although I'm a prot warrior now, I leveled as an arms/fury hybrid. It was a blast, and leveling was pretty quick. After hitting 70 I did a lot of battlegrounds and got some good gear. Although pvp gear isn't the best for pve content, it's a really good start. Get a good spec, one of the 33/28 builds, and you can do a lot of damage.

I raid occasionally with a 14/47 fury warrior, who consistently tops the damage meters in 25 man content. So while either spec is good for leveling, at end game, arms is probably better for pvp, and fury is better for end game raiding. Also, it doesn't cost much to repec, lol.

when raiding
fury = more personal dps. BT>WW>HS if you have enough rage to keep demo/battle shout up and won't miss the next BT or WW; use haste pots on cooldown, stack haste pot/reck/heroism/drums during execute phase while keeping BT/WW on cooldown while spamming HS and execute in between = profit.

arms = 4% buff to physical raid dps, but you need to be in a really good group to get the most benefit (feral, ret, enhance shaman, you and most likely a rogue and as many people with drums as possible). it's easy to play arms wrong in a raid and totally negate the 4% buff to physical damage you gave everyone else by totally sucking with your personal dps. some people use insane strength pots with their early Death Wish, then keep haste pots on cooldown.

cheaper to level with
arms. grab a big slow 2h sword, spec into 2/2 imp. slam and sword spec, follow the white hit>slam>white hit>MS>white hit>WW rotation = profit. may also do this with a 2h axe and axe spec.

faster to level with if you're rich
dual wield fury, BUT you have to have top chants and top gear to pull it off. i think it was someone on theoryspot etc. that experimented with the different leveling builds, dual wield fury came out on top but he had the best weapons he could possibly get, both weapons enchanted with crusader until he got to OL, etc.

Due to Slam and probably Precision, I'd guess.

I've tried both 2h MS, 2h Slam and DW Fury and I've found dual-wielding to be my preferred playstyle while leveling. I enjoy stance dancing and the wall of numbers that happen when you pull 2-3 mobs and wtfown them with Whirlwind, Bloodthirst and Cleave crits.

I have to disagree on the enchants, though. I've leveled without using any (at least that I know of), only making sure that my weapons weren't completely outdated, and it went just fine. Thanks to Bloodthirst and Blood Craze, I didn't have to rest much. I heard both talents are going to be improved in the expansion, Blood Craze being buffed to double the effect (6% instead of 3%) and Bloodthirst will heal based on your maxium health (maximum base health, or total health?).

Meh, 2h Slam is probably a faster method overall, but after having missed a mob three times in a row, I got tired of having to wait three seconds on the next swing. I dare say it was more boring than leveling a Paladin.

Blood Craze will total regen 6% HP per proc.

BT will heal a total of 7.5% HP if you hit 5 swings in 8 sec.

I think this "5 swings in 8 seconds" thing doesn't get along very well with DW a pair of slow 2-handers. Guess we'll be looking at fast 2-handers.

Tankspot has the different build experiment. The weapons used can be obtained from instances, or quests involving instances. The guy seems to have the weapons a few levels early so I would guess he has been given a bit of help from a higher level every now and then in the instances.

Edit: Duh L2Read, he says it on the page that he got help on some quests.

Edited, Aug 29th 2008 12:48am by Jizzlok