Arms Warrior Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Arms Warrior Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Mortal Strike and Cleave damage increased by 5%. Colossus Smash increases damage taken by an additional 5% (from 30% to 35%).
• (4) Set Bonus: Extend a Colossus Smash debuff on your target by 1 second if they are hit by Mortal Strike or a Cleave that hits 3 targets.

Tier Set Discussion:

Typically, the opening tier sets of an expansion are quite basic and uninteresting. This is not too much different. The extra Colossus Smash uptime is vaguely interesting, allowing for potentially high uptime of the Colossus Smash debuff across a fight, particularly when paired with the Battlelord talent.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Arms Warrior, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Raid trinkets seem more powerful than M+ trinkets in this season. The trinkets you’ll ideally want are:

• Gaze Of The Alnseer - Chimaerus (Dreamrift)
• Heart Of Ancient Hunger - Vorasius (Voidspire)

If you can’t get either of these then here are some decent alternatives:

• Umbral Plume - Belo’Ren (March on Quel’danas) This trinket may drop in it’s Mastery form (Radiant Plume). Simply equip it and use the on use effect to turn it into the Crit variation
• Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Algeth’ar Academy
• Heart Of Wind - Windrunner Spire

You can have two Embellishments on your character at any one time. On your select crafted items you’ll want the Devouring Bolts embellishment. You get this from the Devouring Banding embellishment item.

This embellishment gives your abilities a chance to proc a bolt for minor damage as well as increasing your highest secondary stat.

Ascendant Voidshard (Upgrade system)

New to 12.0.5, the Ascendant Voidshard system allows upgrading Weapons and Trinkets to 298 Item Level. Since the upgrades are limited to specific slots the decision on what item to upgrade is fairly straight forward:

1. BiS Weapon
2. BiS Trinkets
3. Other Myth Track weapon (if BiS weapon is unavailable to you)
4. Other Myth Track Trinkets (if BiS trinkets are unavailable to you)

Nebulus Voidcore (Bonus rolls)

Also new to 12.0.5, the Nebulus Voidcore system brings bonus rolls back to the game. Every week you are given 2 Voidcores to bonus roll a guaranteed item in raid or M+. Any item you get from the bonus rolls are then removed from the loot table for subsequent bonus rolls on the same raid boss or in the same dungeon making it possible to target specific items in the long term. It takes 2 Voidcores to roll an item in Raid or 1 Voidcore to roll an item in M+.

Important Note: Targeting BiS items should be absolute priority since the system is deterministic long term. The order to bonus roll these items will be different for each character and you should sim yourself for the best idea on how to spend your bonus rolls.

Listed below are good raid bosses to use bonus rolls on. Keep in mind that your bonus roll will give you loot on the track of the difficulty you have killed the boss on. Try and hold off rolling unless you are in Mythic. If you don’t have access to Mythic boss kills, it might be more worth spending bonus rolls in +10’s in M+.

Raid:

1. Chimaerus (Dreamrift) - Contains a BiS trinket and boots as well as a tier piece. High chance to bonus roll something useful
2. Belo’ren (March on Quel’Danas) - BiS ring and a very strong trinket option which can also be used as Fury
3. Vorasius (Voidspire) - BiS trinket and a decent ring option. The Gloves tier piece isn’t part of the full BiS set but can be useful for 4 set options during the gearing process
4. Fallen-King Salhadaar (Voidspire) - BiS neck, tier token and a head piece that could be used with the Catalyst for another tier piece

Mythic+:

Pit of Saron is the absolute best dungeon to farm for bonus rolls. Every item in here is useful or even BiS for Arms Warrior.

Outside of this, it will be worth to sim your own character to see how valuable other dungeons are in your specific gearing situation.