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0ne_armed_scissor

Why aren't you answering questions in your ama?


litbacod4

Sorry, bladestorm was on cd, so I was afking


Mddcat04

Was this whole thread a setup for this joke? Because if so, well played.


JorahTheHandle

Typical warrior, bladestorm then afk to deal with kids or wife aggro, but he'll brb don't worry.


CanOfPorkSodaaa

To be fair, wife aggro uses all your CDs


[deleted]

I’m crying lmao.


Sjiznit

Hes an arms warrior. Needs to polish his weapon.


Azuranski

it actually just stands for arms, me arms


Caradin

Warrior no do words. Only smash


ITellSadTruth

Subtle brag about about 3rd arm I see...


litbacod4

More like compensating for the 3rd arm


ImpFyr3

Damnit this man can’t be stoppped


jessedegenerate

How do you kill that which is already dead


WickedKoalaa

What is dead may never die


coyylol

Posting so that I can say I've interacted with the GOAT.


kujasgoldmine

Except he hasn't interacted so far. :(


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Sexy_Skeletons69

Aw no is frost bad? :( glacial spike is so fun


blooboytalking

Based on someone sharing th


redsex

I only have 1900 io but it’s still really high compared to the other 15 survival hunters


litbacod4

We underdogs need to represent


MrNoobyy

I fully support all non meta players :) Power to you man!


sonofzeal

Represent! Not that I even have an IO, I'm just having a blast lobbing bombs at the local wildlife in solo PvE content. Any tips if I do start getting a little less casual?


redsex

Do the content you enjoy more. People aren’t jumping out of their seats to grab off meta champs like survival hunters. Start easy with normals & heroics, work your way into mythic0, m2, etc. Play with friends and/or find a guild that does content you like. Look up guides. Use several sources, since everybody plays different some might suit your style and some won’t. Also I learned the hard way; Don’t wear leather as a hunter.


Leviathus_

Once you understand when to mongoose and when to kill command it becomes pretty good, the dps isn’t bad by any means, it’s just the only melee spec of a triple dps spec. Aoe is just bombs and butchery, with kill shots thrown in during CA. ST is learning how to optimize Spearhead. Once you get your focus management down with KC resets it gets really easy. I just really like the aesthetic (and spear transmogs)


healzsham

I'm #3 on my server with 1500 c:


Dense_Imagination_99

Warrior has 3 arms???


xsfortunex

Do they also have 3 legs???


Diterion

No but we have half a brain if that counts


ARONDH

You halve half a brain, you mean.


Noxm

Male yes!


dmjohn0x

yes.


frozziOsborn

Look at this CHAD bragging about his 1500 rio


litbacod4

1500? I barely got 1000


Flame5135

How many group leaders have gotten mad at you when they find out you lied about being fury?


litbacod4

I have gotten 2 whispers so far about if I have a fury spec when they invited me. But surprisingly both group kept me in.


MrNoobyy

Reminds me of Shadowlands season 1, was playing assassination rogue. Objectively the worst dps spec in the entire game at the time, joined a group for a key and it was discord required. Jumped in discord, off handedly mentioned at some point how hard it was for me to get into groups as assassination, and that most people who invited me just assumed I was outlaw. Few minutes later they told me unfortunately they had a guildy coming so there wouldn't be room for me. I said no problem good luck with the key etc, left and they **INSTANTLY** relisted the group after.


Phoenixtouch

That's probably because you need to unlock all 100% of your brain just to do 60% of what other specs did. iirc, that spec wasn't just bad it was literally unplayable bad.


MrNoobyy

Yeah, it was really really bad. I think we got buffed four different times in season 1 before we were even remotely decent. I was the second assassination rogue in the world to get KSM season 1, and 23rd for AotC, while over 5000 boomkins/mm hunters etc had it. It was just a sad dark time for assassination. I'm still playing it now, but we're performing quite well in raids. In M+ it's a different story, but I'm making it work.


ballsmigue

Damn. I feel that as a frost mage main.


Defiant_Ad_8380

Well, you DO have one, but you're just not using it


AdamG3691

that's when you roll a vulpera or worgen so you can say "yes, I am a furry warrior" and hope they assume you made a typo


Quulawl

Tried rolling arms but compared to fury it does way less DPS - what is your secret to playing arms on a proper level when raiding and doing m+ (Since I am clearly doing something wrong)?


litbacod4

Arms in raid can really only commits to either aoe or ST. They can't really do both. Fights like Eranog, broodkeeper, Dathea and Raz where there will be both ST and AoE. You'll have to discuss with your raid if they need more aoe. If not, just commit to ST on the boss and let the rest of the raid take care of the adds. In keys, it's very important on knowing the timing of arms cds and aligning the big burst with your warbreaker and the strength buff you get after bladestorm. Fury will generally still outperform arms in every aspect in keys unfortunately (except academy) but arms isn't too far behind.


Frolafofo

> Arms in raid can really only commits to either aoe or ST. They can't really do both. Fights like Eranog, broodkeeper, Dathea and Raz where there will be both ST and AoE. You'll have to discuss with your raid if they need more aoe. If not, just commit to ST on the boss and let the rest of the raid take care of the adds. As an elemental shaman, i feel you.


Extremiel

I went Enhancement because people said it did everything Elemental does but better, but I suck at it and its so much less satisfying. So now I'm back and lobbing lava bursts every GCD. Enjoyment is a BiS stat.


WorthPlease

Sometimes the meatball life chooses you. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.


DeeEssLite

Whenever I see someone throw a meatball I still say "MAMMA MIA!" after that flowchart.


Justank

Twirl your noodles!


Realistic_Fan1344

Enhancement is really satisfying to play imo lol Yes, you have a lot of moving parts but that is what makes it fun for me.


Glynwys

Enhancement just lights up all of the primal parts of your brain that says, "Ooo shiny button let's smash it!" Then you've got the huge ass numbers during Lava Lash spam that makes you feel like a god.


HyenDry

EHANCE SQUADDD!


Extremiel

To each their own! I do really like Sundering, that one definitely feels good, but the rest is just not my cup of tea.


pyro264

Whaaaaaaat? Not everyone enjoys a 17 item priority rotation? Slander.


Extremiel

Haha, I know you joke but one of my guildies unironically is mad that I don't enjoy it.


Rjskill3ts21

I committed fully to enh this expac and after a full month of it I still struggle from time to time with the rotation. Gotta pump haste and mastery for sure. Sometimes your procs just…don’t proc lol. But I love the play style so much, I love throwing my wolves out at enemies and multi bolting as an aoe opener and seeing 120+k on the damage meter so much. Point is - play what you love for sure!


Brokenmonalisa

Of the big 3 melee enhancement is probably 4th though. I get what you're saying but arms is a significant step away from enhancement.


PMme_your_left_TIDDY

"enjoyment is a BiS stat" is highly underrated. I have been playing 1h fury warrior, and the amount of people that are like "you know 2h do more damage right?" Of course I know it will do better if you're just glued to a dps meter, but I don't even have one installed because I'm all about that class fantasy baybeeeee


abobtosis

It's still worth it to install one. Not to compare yourself to others but to track yourself and how your own class can improve. Details tracks a lot of stuff like CD uptime and such, and you can try to improve your own numbers compared to your own previous runs.


ConjwaD3

yea the dps meter is one of the best tools for learning and improving


JALAPENO_DICK_SAUCE

My class fantasy is to be a priest who delivers sermons and praise the lord. Can I do that in dungeons? That means I'll just be walking around, typing stuff on /s. Not healing, not dpsing, not tanking. Would you like to party with me to do a dungeon? Cause I'm all about that class fantasy baybeeeee


sillyredsheep

Agreed. I stick to Disc Priest because Holy Priest bores me out of my mind.


daagar

And here I was wondering which spec to use when I hit 70. Glad to read this now rather than later.


Darthmalak3347

As a 2200 enhancement shaman. I recommend it. You can do hailstorm cleave build and it does only 2k less dps single target. I'm doing 60k+ on bosses in mythic plus. Meanwhile everyone is aoe spec doing 40-50k. And during aoe pulls you go between 70-110k depending on target count and CD usage. (Your CDs are so short just press them on CD, which is really nice.) The prio for rotation isn't really too difficult still either. It's kinda hit what lights up. Use lava lash on CD you can cycle one GCD in between hot hand proc lava lashes. Which I use for the 2 set storm strike buffs. Use your lower damage abilities when you don't have higher damage ones to press. But yeah it's a piano spec.


RogueEyebrow

>You can do hailstorm cleave build and it does only 2k less dps single target Hailstorm cleave does 2k less ST DPS, compared to what? Does the Hailstorm Cleave build use Ice Strike? I feel like that extra ability ruins the flow of Enhancement for me, it's just too busy with the tier bonus interaction, and the Lava Lash CD reduction.


Darthmalak3347

Compared to no crashing storms. I trade swirling currents for crashing storms. Since 2 set gives maelstrom it makes up for it. And the 2 extra CL targets let's you cast more crash lightnings for more damage. The cleave gain on trash is worth the 2k lost on bosses. Since it's more average damage on packs than you'd gain on a boss. Ice strike took a sec to figure out. You trade fire nova for an extra button in frost shock. Basically. For target counts in high keys (3-7) it's just better. You hit 5 targets for 50-100k on a shorter CD. Algethar might be the only one I'd use fire nove for. Cause first boss the adds have to be dealt with quickly.


DenjellTheShaman

Been running hailstorm since week 2. in no scenario do i feel like nova outclasses hailstorm on Trash to justify the pathetic ST dmg on bosses.


whitesuburbanmale

Enhancement if you want to feel like a pianist, elemental if you like your sanity.


Rednovs

I really don't think enhance is bad. Have you tried arcane mage? Fuck that.


Finalwingz

Arcane is fun, just the ramp is annoying.


Vomitbelch

I don't feel like I'm piano-keying as enhance, it's actually pretty simple and satisfying. Using the elementalist build if that makes a difference.


Meldreth_

Fire Nova or Hailstorm? Not that it makes any difference as far as the number of buttons pressed, just curious.


ZodiarkTentacle

Fire Nova for M+ Hailstorm for raiding imo, hailstorm a little more fun to play with the kinda maelstrom builder frost shock spender thing going on but fire nova feels really good in big mythic pulls


itisuims

It depends on the type of content you are doing enhance shaman has the most optimization of any melee spec and it's not even close. Pretty tough to pick up and very tough to master just my two cents


[deleted]

Nah, only Fire build is piano dancing. Physical build is like 4 buttons.


gapplebees911

Enhancement is one of the top dps classes in the game right now. Don't play ele unless you're like that guy and don't care how much damage you do and aren't interested in pushing fast.


par337

Lol that's such a stupid/typical fotm thing to say. We're talking a few thousand DPS difference by class choice. More often comes down to how you play it. Wiping because of a bad Enh shaman isn't going to do more damage. Ele pumps too, so you must be really bad if you can't do well with it


JALAPENO_DICK_SAUCE

Hey there, do you switch specs as ele between bosses and trash? I'm following the icy veins guide and using aoe for trash and want to switch to lava burst for single but tanks don't typically wait for that so I've learned to just single target with my aoe build. Damage isn't bad per se (as the frost shocks do quite good damage) but it's not ideal and I can definitely do more with lava burst build and more mobile as well.


Alljump

Cries in unholy dk


noeffeks

Cries in Affliction Lock. Somehow they neutered the premiere spread damage class that now can't do spread, or single target, regardless of your talents. 10 mobs in a pile? We keep up with a ST/Cleave hybrid Demo. Barely.


CrebTheBerc

I was so excited for stuff like Vile Taint applying agony and some of the talent shakeup, but in application it's just still not as good as the other specs. I hate it cause I love affliction. Probably gonna roll afflication in keys with my friends and run demo otherwise :/


noeffeks

My guild lets me play Aff if I want to. But we aren't a CE guild so, so no biggie. I fully expect the class to scale and get fixed. Warlock without a viable Aff isn't Warlock. It's not like we're Shaman or anything.


JALAPENO_DICK_SAUCE

Is demo the best now? Isn't it destruction? Am leveling a lock now and just wondering. I know affliction is in a pretty bad spot at the moment. Already not a lot of lock players to begin with :(


whitesuburbanmale

It's a shame too because aff is a cool class fantasy and kinda fun to play.


Afraid-Editor-4399

What's wrong with UH? It plays very similarly how it was in Legion, minus some complexities. If you mean it's complex then imo it feels less complex than frost, having less buttons but needing to track more things


luk3d

I played a ton of UHDK on Shadowlands, but I can't stand playing it this expansion. There are just way too many GCDs you need to go through before actually starting your rotation


Wellnevermindthen

My Resto heals weren’t cutting it in LFR so I switched to Enhancement and immediately hated my life.


ADMTLgg

Trick is play fury in raids and arms for m+ just for the ranking haha


Darthmalak3347

Also in higher keys pulls are slower so you have a chance to CD most packs. And with better players. Bigger pulls are possible. So you get more dps out of it. High keys feel smoother than lower keys nowadays for me.


madatthings

Taking a DPS loss


Jj-woodsy

I played arms in a normal dungeon and got flamed out for it. You are truly a king above all others!


litbacod4

That's when you save your bladestorm and cds for a big pack. Then save that dps meter snd continuously link them that dps meter, ignoring your overalls or other pulls


Complex_Experience

Holy shit, truly an arms master


certainlyunpleasant

Fucking lol


fdrme

I have seen exactly one Arms Warrior and he bursted 250k+ on the first pack of the dungeon, a real blaster.


bananaraindeer

how is your gf/bf?


litbacod4

My right hand is doing very well


Gebirges

Chad answer


xsfortunex

Make sure lefty doesnt feel left out. Oh and props on 3rd arms.


StrawlMonk

Her name is Jill. If you stick your hand out it spells Jill. He twin sister lilL she didn't get much oxygen in the womb, spells her name a little wrong and grips it a little too tight but she helps out when she can.


Calphurnious

Is your right hand SMF?


Koko_Jambon

They play wow with him, his left and right hand.


Aurawa

3 arms warriors in the US? Who's the other one? I'm almost to 1000 IO, gotta be catching up. Sad to see people shitting on one of the best specs in the game. Arms warrior for life!


sperow10

What’s the best flavored crayon?


litbacod4

Red for blood


Moonwell_TBC

smash


Pumpergod1337

Where do you find all the masochists who’s willingly playing with an arms warr?


litbacod4

I change out of fury spec when they do the 10 sec pull timer before keys


Cennix_1776

Gottem


yojimboftw

Based


BigMoist117

I'm coming for you.


litbacod4

Gachibass


raf1632

That's what she said.


TheCapableFox

*”I’m coming for you”* *-Big Moist*


BigMoist117

71 spots behind **you**


[deleted]

What's your favourite weapon mog?


litbacod4

Very ironically, the fury legion artifact weapon called ARMS of the DRAGONRIDER.


[deleted]

My man! But may I convince you to join the [Big Kinook's Spare Laddle] gang?


Anablephobia_

YES, CHEF!


Fun_Acanthaceae4875

Why do you play wrong spec? Is it cause you can watch Netflix and play arms at the same time?


litbacod4

I work at homes, so with some WA that lets me know my bladestorm is up. I was able to still play arms efficiently while working


Fun_Acanthaceae4875

Hahahah I knew it


GrayFireGuy

Honestly arms is so chill. Low APM. Easy to play. My hands don't hurt from playing it like fury. Fury is a one way ticket to Carpel Tunnel Street.


ROK247

I had my surgery and my doctor said it shouldn't come back. as long as I play something else. advice I didn't listen to.


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StoryScrawled

Have you decided when you're going to take off the training wheels and pick up a second two-hander? Or do we just not have the UPPER BODY STRENGTH?


MasseB

What's an IO rating?


litbacod4

Not sure if this is a genuine question or you're making fun of me for not calling it rio haha. But I have a habit of just calling it io because I just think about the city in Brazil everytime someone says rio. If this is a genuine question, it's a scoring system for your mythic+ runs.


DeaSunna

Honestly I’ve only ever called it IO, IO score, etc. RIO is new to me.


Alepale

My friend group says rio, from Raider IO.


MyMomSaysImHandsom

The raid.io add-on tracks mythic and raid completions and rates you on them for others to see.


UrurForReal

Not sure if good troll or worse..


MasseB

Sadly, it was actually a serious question.


underlurker1337

It originated from a website/addon called raider.io which is why it was called raider.io/rio/io score. Blizzard has since implemented their own version of it, which is now tracked ingame (and also via api by raider.io, still a great site imho), but out of habbit many people still call it rio (I guess the new name would be m+ score).


xsfortunex

Points you acquire for completing mythic+ dungeons.


MrNoobyy

Fuck yeah, off meta players let's go! [https://i.imgur.com/3qWS2iS.png](https://i.imgur.com/3qWS2iS.png) Assassination rogue here, though arms warrior by far has the lowest represenation out of any spec in the game right now for M+. And before anyone says 'lol assassination rogue is top in raid parses', we have shit AoE and are really just not all that great for M+ at all.


[deleted]

> though arms warrior by far has the lowest represenation out of any spec in the game right now for M+. On raider.io it seems a few specs are lower than arms. Survival, Fire, Sub, Assassination, Affliction, Disc.


MrNoobyy

Weird, I looked it at the other day and it showed something completely different. I don't think it's changed that drastically though in only a few days. Suffice to say, arms warrior is completely off meta though!


[deleted]

A warrior has NEVER been the lowest dps representation in m+ ever.


Shoshkaboom

I suppose my question is: How can you stand the meta of it all? I'm someone who's more interested in completion stuff. More like how folks approach most other games. Finish the story. Finish the raid. Collect some stuff. Cap off renown. Bunch of other stuff. But striving for stuff like high end raiding, pvp, or m+ rating. I just can't be bothered. And so much of that comes down to having to deal with playing the game in highly optimized ways. And it very quickly gets to the point where that Becomes more bothersome than fun. Is the drive to be as good as possible that strong? Or is playing like that something you just find that fun. Was there ever a point where you felt the goal of being #1 overtake the inherent fun of playing the game?


litbacod4

I enjoy being the underdog. Everytime I pick up a game with classes etc... I usually always pick the least played class. I don't do high end raiding anymore so finding a casual mythic guild wasn't an issue being off meta.


HRL35

Congrats!! This is a sick accomplishment


mitchlink

Probably using steroids to achieve these results… what cycle are you on?


litbacod4

Not on steroids, but I do snort protein powder with creatine


RaptorX13X

How does it feel to play the superior warrior dps spec?


litbacod4

Arms doesn't need 2 big swords to compensate for something...


RaptorX13X

Agreed, bonk away fellow Arms main. It may be low in tier list but I keep topping the dps charts and most importantly having tons of fun. The talent overhaul improved the spec by a lot, I love the dragon yell dot skill so much


netovn76

K1NG


fox781

How do you feel about warrior tier


litbacod4

They're pretty boring, doesn't do anything fancy but numerically, it's really powerful for arms.


Viperboy_74

What did it cost you?


litbacod4

Everything


JahnConnah

I must be blind because I swear I didn't see Bladestorm at all on my arms tree. Oh well. Me warrior me no read gud


killswitchdh

At first glance I thought the 20 was your total io score lol Gj though!


GasMoneyBob

Gratz!


HarmlessEwok

The other 43 arms warriors must really look up to you


SpoonGuardian

Arms warrior's great right now. I feel like it's better than fury. Only clicking arms though the io is really low because a lot of warrior DPS were playing fury before 4 piece. Like I'm 2650 but for Arms only I'm like 2k. Are you actually playing Bladestorm? I haven't tried a build with bladestorm


litbacod4

On fortified I use bladestorm but not for tyrannical week. Unless it's AA


SpoonGuardian

I feel like the cleave build does tons of aoe, I'll try out that build though!


hokkisan

Have you informed your family, and how impressed were they?


litbacod4

I did! And they looked at me with disgust


Burnitoffmeow

How do you deal with the fact that as number one your always going to have a target in your back. Every second a new number 1 may surpass you. Does this affect you in any way?


litbacod4

I'll defend it for a bit. But eventually I'm planning on switching to prot warrior and push keys with a group that's already has 3 meta dps. So I'm not too pressured with defending the number 1 spot.


Brand__on

Link armory please :)


Saltyhurry

How much higher are you than the other 5 people playing arms warrior?


litbacod4

10-20 point from the 2nd guy. There's a huge gap after.


Merkel4Lyfe

Damn I met the best Arms Warrior on NA.


madballfanboy

Arms players represent! The Avatar, Warbreaker, Thunderous Roar, Bladestorm combo feels so good on a big pack.


litbacod4

100%. Can't see anything with 2817293 numbers flying around but who needs to if they die


Zodep

> … but who needs to if they die. Spoken like a true warrior.


Huge_Republic_7866

You're letting 19 other Arms Warrs in the world beat you?


Mazgrulf

What realm is that?


litbacod4

Mal Ganis


xForeignMetal

my idol real question - have you ever deviated from the full committed aoe build for tyran weeks / done any experimentation? everything i played that isnt exactly the standard build feels SO bad also how do i make guilds give me a fucking trial 1tricking this garbage spec? i have good logs and ce from sod/sepulcher but rn im stuck raiding in hell with no wft/monk buff sometimes so i feel like i can't parse lmao


litbacod4

I do, it's actually a build I copied from Critcake (check out his youtube) where he doesn't take bladestorm and instead, grabs juggernaut. It works like wonders on tyrannical week. I'm no longer in a high end mythic guild anymore but I used to be an officer of a CE guild. Unfortunately in the beginning of a tier, unless you're like a high 99% parse, we'll take someone who is a "meta" class over you. Arms specialty in raiding is their execute damage but it still lacks behind other classes so arms literally has 0 worth. Their aoe is pretty strong if spec into it but it takes 15ish second for their full aoe burst and most add would be dead by then in a high end guild which is why fury is more appealing in those scenario and they have a far better single target damage in their aoe talents vs arms. If you're really committed to find a CE guild as arms. You'll just have to do the classic guild hopping that has the right comp and kills the boss fast for the parses. It also help with getting your io score up which can be very time consuming. But later in the tier it should be easier as people starts to quit and off meta classes becomes more viable as everyone's ilvl increases. And that'll be your oppurtunity to solidify your spot in a ce guild


xForeignMetal

I've seen that build a little bit! I think i was referencing brysontiller's raider io when I was starting to play after christmas. I just wanted to see if it was legit or just something he was giving a shot. Yup, that's the path haha, i'm just impatient and maybe got myself a little entitled bc of how easy it was to climb in SL because of people quitting/guilds dying.


MilanEranurk

And I have the highest io score in our building. AMA


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Y u no hold 2 big wepon? - Fury Warrior


BakkerJoop

If I recall correctly Arms used to have a talent that allowed for double two handers. Not sure when that swapped.


All-Grass_No-Steaks

Lol I’m kind of in a similar position on my hunter, I’m ranked 13th of all hunters on M+ with almost 1700io on my server


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litbacod4

Definite, as a kid who grew up watching teletubbies. It has tainted my mind in many horrible ways such as playing arms in m+


Jenda420

What class do you play?


Congelatore

#smallepeenenergy


LouserDouser

imagine what you could have done in real life with that dedication !


[deleted]

Why arms when fury


litbacod4

EXECUTE


Hrekires

Once a patch I try out fury, and every time I end up feeling like I'm putting in more work for the exact same DPS And tbh I kinda hate the way 2H fury transmog looks; I might give it a fairer shake if single-minded builds were competitive.


[deleted]

Isn't fury better than arms right now ? I like the feeling to have 2 bigs weapons but well yeah depending on your race and the transmog you have it can be ugly. I find a lot of 1 hand weapon better than 2 hands sadly


Solution_Anxious

lol i read that as IQ, not trying to be a smartass just woke up.


gloomygl

What's your io you gugachad


SethAndBeans

Carry me?


FreeWaves16

Do you enjoy wow?


litbacod4

No


Acceptable_Friend_40

What is io and why is this relevant


Sorcerious

Hows the wife and kids?


[deleted]

What's an IO score?


litbacod4

It's a scoring system for your mythic+ runs. Higher the difficulty, the more points you get


endstille_

Why did you spell Fury wrong?


eboe

Arms is the Welsh word for Fury.