Midnight 12.1 arena
Arms Warrior PvP guide
How Arms Warriors actually play arena: the PvP talents they take, what they press when they go, how they survive, what to kick on them, and the comps they play. Counted from real rated games, not written from memory.
Most taken PvP talent
Sharpen Blade
94%
Main cooldown
Colossus Smash
94%
First defensive
Spell Reflection
61%
On the enemy healer
Intimidating Shout
37%
Arms Warrior PvP talents
How often each PvP talent is taken. Click one for what it does.
Colossus Smash causes your next Mortal Strike to deal 15% increased damage and reduce healing taken by 50% for 4 sec.
Disarm the enemy's weapons and shield for 5 sec. Disarmed creatures deal significantly reduced damage.
lasts 5s in arena
Bladestorm, Ravager, and Demolish now snare all targets you hit by 60% for 6 sec and decrease their healing taken by 50% for 10 sec.
Intervene now has 2 charges and reduces the ally's damage taken by 20% for 5 sec. Intervene's cooldown is increased by 10 sec.
Cooldown of Rallying Cry reduced by 120 sec.
Class and spec tree talents, with the build most players run and every cooldown adjusted for it: Arms Warrior talents and kit.
What Arms Warriors press when they go
The offensive cooldowns in their goes, and how often each one is in it.
Colossus Smash
Bladestorm
Avatar
Champion's Spear
Crowd control on the enemy healer during a go
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Intimidating Shout
37%
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Storm Bolt
34%
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Shockwave
19%
How Arms Warriors survive a go
Dies in
28%
of rounds. Every spec: 24%
Dies first in
21%
of rounds. Every spec: 17%
When a go lands on an Arms Warrior, the defensives pressed and how often:
Their own
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Spell Reflection
61%
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Die by the Sword
37%
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Rallying Cry
28%
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Gladiator's Medallion
26%
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Berserker Shout
26%
From their team
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Pain Suppression
19%
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Blessing of Sacrifice
13%
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Holy Word: Serenity
9%
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Lay on Hands
7%
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Evangelism
6%
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Leap of Faith
5%
Arms Warriors as kickers
Arms Warriors stop 22% of the high-priority enemy casts they meet with their interrupt ready. Across every spec with an interrupt it is 11%.
A chance is a cast from a kick list, begun while the player was alive, free to act, had their kick off cooldown and stood within its range. The combat log has no line of sight, so a pillar may have been in the way.
Arms Warrior 3v3 arena comps
The teams Arms Warriors play in most.
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Counted from rated arena games uploaded to MindCollector: every player in every game, not only the one who recorded it. Updated 26 Oct 2026.
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