Can anyone bring some light to Arms AoE rotation?
From what I read you should always use MS and CS on cooldown with MS > CS.
Next to those we have "filler" abilities until MS/CS come back. How do we fill those spots?
The AoE options are:
- Sweeping Strikes for 30 rage which can be glyphed to regen 1 rage per target hit
- Thunder Clap for 20 rage
- Whirlwind for 20 rage
- Next to that we have Bladestorm, Shockwave and Dragon Breath
I would like to discuss the topic based on certain scenarios that have different pack sizes.
Additionally...is there a sweet-spot at which Thunder Clap will be better dps than Whirlwind? Or is Whirlwind always > Thunder Clap or the other way around?
Do you use Sweeping Strike on cooldown as long there is another mob around? Every time there is more than 1 mob?
What do you do with your CS window? Will you just keep spamming AoE spells even if your current target has the CS debuff?
Another quite important question. How do you handle rage starvation? Do you wait for rage to come up? What do you do in the meantime? Because OP and SL cost rage. Using those instead of your AoE will not bring your rage up.
So lets set up pack sizes from 2-5+ mobs.
I will edit in your suggestions so my current list are just my incompetent guesses.
Pack-size: 2
MS > CS > TC (no DW) > SS > OP > SL
Pack-size: 3
MS > CS > TC (no DW) > SS > WW > OP > SL > TC
Pack-size: 4
MS > CS > TC (no DW) > SS > WW > TC > OP > SL
Pack-size: 5+
MS > CS > TC (no DW) > SS > WW > TC > OP > SL
What is the best AoE talent? BS, SW or DR?
Remember you can DR+Bloodbath every minute. No delay. You can only BS+Bloodbath every 1.5 minutes but delay BB by 30sec. If you do not delay BB you can use it every 3minutes only.
You can DR+Avatar every 3 minutes. You can BS+Avatar every 3 minutes aswell.
Of course you should HL on CS debuff but that applies to single target aswell.
Hopefully you guys can help bringing some insight on Arms AoE. Thanks.
Code:
MS - Mortal Strike
CS - Colossus Smash
BB - Bloodbath
DR - Dragon Roar
BS - Bladestorm
TC - Thunder Clap
DW - Deep Wounds
SS - Sweeping Strikes
OP - Overpower
SL - Slam
WW - Whirlwind
HL - Heroic Leap