Hi fellow players! Get ready to grasp the Arms Warrior in WoW Cataclysm Classic with this amazing guide. Let's explore how to utilize heirlooms, enchants, talents to quick level up and fight. In fact, it will even work in the pre-patch and get you to the max level as quickly as possible.

Heirlooms

For the heirlooms items, we aim for a full Valor set with superior stats on the chest piece, include the Hand of Justice trinkets, and acquire both the two-handed Bloodied Arcanite Reaper and the one-handed Venerable Mass of McGowan.

You'll level up to 40 with a two-hander weapon, then transition to a one-hander and shield upon unlocking Revenge. Additionally, having two-handed gear sets you up well for potential dungeon DPS grinding later on.

Enchants

From Level 1 to 20, it's advisable to prioritize acquiring the Fiery Weapon enchantment to enhance your weapon's damage output. This enchantment provides a Fiery effect that can help you dispatch foes more efficiently during the early stages of your journey.

However, as you progress beyond Level 20 and delve deeper into your adventures, transitioning to the Crusader enchantment becomes more beneficial. The Crusader enchantment imbues your weapon with a powerful blessing, granting you increased strength and the chance to heal yourself with each successful strike.

Talents

Onto the talent trees, you have the opportunity to do a lot of damage, not only to one target but to many targets at the same time with Whirlwind, Bladestorm, Sweeping Strikes, and the Cleave. And because you also have the Victory Rush, whenever you kill a target, you can heal yourself instantly for 20% health.

Leveling Strategies

If you're going to be soloing dungeons of a higher level, particularly 80 to 85, then some tanking gear will make your life much easier. So prepare enough WoW Cataclysm Classic Gold is a good idea.

Arms Warriors also have the option to solo dungeons fairly easily when you've got good enough gear. Just pick whatever dungeons have the best gear upgrades for you and it's also worth doing every single dungeon once, for all the quests.

From Level 60 to 85, smash Blood Furnace, Botanica and then the Halls of Lightning. These dungeons will get a little harder so I'd recommend getting the PvP gear at Level 60, 70, and 80, but you'll actually get decent XP by doing it yourself. The Wintergrass Commodations can be redeemed for a lot of honor to get your alt geared up.

If you're doing pre-quest thing, the best ones to get are definitely the dungeon quests, even the daily Heroic ones, but the weekly raid quest won't grant any XP. But if you've already done those quests, then what you want to do is just stack a load of dailies from Northrend from the Sons of Hodir, Orgrim's Hammer, and the Argent Tournament.

Combat Strategies

Until you get the Revenge at Level 40, what you're going to do is, you're going to pull a few mobs, put the Revenge up, spread it with Thunder Clap, and then burn your Revenge with Cleave. Be sure to get the Glyph of Cleaving at Level 25 as soon as possible. At Level 36, you can also go into Berserker Stance and start using Whirlwind, but after reaching Level 40, it's just better to go a full Tank mode.

Then, get Revenge up and spread it with Thunder Clap again. Use Shockwave on cooldown and Revenge when it procs. Cleave to burn rage, filling with Devastate, then Shield Slam obviously when it procs. When using Sword and Board, the Shield Slam deals 100% more damage to Shield Block up. And with the Impending Victory talent, you get extra Victory Rushes which should be used to maintain your health.

If you're doing dungeons with Arms Warrior, remember to pull Revenge fully before popping Sweeping Strikes. Immediately use Whirlwind and Cleave together, then the Bladestorm. Sweeping Strikes causes these special attacks to do an additional attack on nearby enemies. Remember also that jumping massively increases the range, particularly on Cleave.

As the WoW Cataclysm Classic pre-patch is set to launch on April 30th, I've put together a brief guide on swiftly acquiring gear for returning players on freshly boosted characters or those starting anew. It's surprisingly simple to reach an average item level of 260, more than sufficient to expedite your leveling journey when WoW Cataclysm launches.

Prepare Honor Points

Before the pre-patches launch, it's important to prepare the currency that you need to get this gear, and that's honor points. Make sure you cap on honor points before the pre-patch launches. In the WoW Cataclysm, the currency is totally revamped. The cap on honor is now 4K.

Which is why the best strategy right now is to prepare the Stone Keeper's Shards to turn them into Wintergrasp Marks of Honor. Wintergrasp Marks of Honor can be used after the pre-patch to grant you a lot more honor. Remember, these are actually account-wide, so if you have Stone Keeper's Shards lying around on your alt, get a load of these marks and get them hoarded up.

We're going to be purchasing the Wrathful PvP gear with Wintergrasp Marks of Honor. Although PvP gear isn't ideal for PvE, it's the biggest power creep you can achieve from this little time and this can leapfrog you into Gamma Dungeons and raids.

Although it's not confirmed yet that this gear will be purchasable with honor, it's how it did work at the end of WoW Classic and how it did in the WoW Cataclysm Classic. If for whatever reason it doesn't work, you can still get the Relentless gear. There might be an arena rating restriction on the weapon, but there's a simple solution to that. There might be an arena rating restriction on the weapon, but there's a simple solution to that.

Dungeon Raids

So, now you're decked out in PvP gear, then you're going to obtain is the weapon. The item level of the gear is so bad on the boosted gear that you may actually struggle to get yourself into Gamma Dungeons as it does now have an item level requirement.

So, you want to queue yourself into Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron, and Halls of Reflection to get yourself a weapon. These reward 232 gear. If you don't get anything from those dungeons, queue Trial of the Crusader.

We will just be able to purchase the Wrathful weapons with honor and therefore the best thing to do is just mindlessly grind Battlegrounds and Wintergrasp, making sure to do all of the quests in Wintergrasp. These reward honors but also reward you Wintergrasp Marks of Honor, which can be turned into commendations, which obviously can also be turned into even more honor.

For returning players, you can queue Gamma Dungeons now in the Dungeon Finder, which are more difficult versions of the original Heroic dungeons. However, we want to farm the Scourgestones, particularly for the trinkets, because that will be the best trinket that you can get.

A currency vendor for these is where all the others are in Dalaran. You'll be able to get excellent weapons and trinket upgrades, and the trinkets will be even better than the PvP ones. You can also downgrade the Scourgestones into Celestial Essences if there's something better on that vendor.

Final Thought

You can do raids to get Heroic gear, but your time would be better making WoW Cataclysm Classic Gold and leveling up your professions. Particularly for a returning player, professions provide a big DPS boost, and you can easily do gold flips on the Auction House in order to afford all of your weekly raid consumes.

Feel free to do some raids. You don't need to deck a character out in full 25-man Heroic gear unless you're going to be doing the World First race to Level 85. Bear in mind that by the time you hit Uldum and the Stonecore, the quests will start rewarding item Level 312 gear.