http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...s&cn=Odensbane
My current armory.
Here's my stats. I have the standard arms warrior setup, all arp gems, 2pc 9.5 chest & shoulders for their additional arp and the 2pc bonus arp. As it sits right now I am at 58.44% arp in battle stance. I also have grim toll.
Here's my dilemma. My druid partner and I just cannot seem to break the infamous 1800 mark. We've seen 1770's, 1780's, 1790's, but then it's followed by a string of 3-4 losses down to low 1700's and we start the fight back up again. We both have researched, asked advice, practiced, everything you can think of to improve our game. To be honest, my probably biased opinion is that we both play quite well. We communicate excellent, play well together, NEVER rage about a loss, etc. Perfect scenario. But we seem to be struggling in ways that I'm starting to think gear is our bottleneck. We tend to have more issues now with double dps teams than any other. Healer/dps is usually a win, even well executed cc teams tend to go down. But double dps(with oddly the exception of rogue/mage) seems to clean house with us. I'm starting to believe that my survivability is our issue, even with my defensive play.
I was saving for wrathful 2h, but it hasn't come yet. So I'm considering using my honor and arena pts to buy relentless chest and shoulders. For the quick math, I'd gain 4pc bonus, 1100hp putting me around 33.5k unbuffed, 167 res topping me out at 1124res, 113ap increase(4pc minus ap loss from gear). My hangup.....I'd lose roughly 16% arp.
So with the entire wall of text, my question. Is gaining 1100hp, 167res, 113ap, and 4pc bonus a valuable trade off to lose 16% arp?
I greatly appreciate any advice.