Arms Warrior

Slayer

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With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Arms Warrior (Slayer) deals 76% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 43 of 51) and 82% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 26 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 9.6% more than SimulationCraft's.

At a glance

4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept

Fight	Manual DPS	SBA + cooldown	SBA alone	Assisted Highlight	Rank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon	304,873	75.8%−24.24%	69.1%−30.92%	90.8%−9.19%	43 of 51
Raid boss	241,014	81.5%−18.49%	75.3%−24.72%	96.8%−3.20%	26 of 51

Against real +15 players

Real dungeons · data from 7 Nov 2026

−8%damage with the button and cooldowns, simulated on real +15 routes, against typical Arms Warrior (Slayer) players, from 2,449 real runs.

All specs against real players, and how it is measured

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What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

69%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 62%, Assisted Highlight 82%.

Manual369.2Kreference
SBA + cooldown253.1K69% of manual
SBA alone228.1K62% of manual
Assisted Highlight302.1K82% of manual

The assistant uses Cleave 89% less.Cleave: 45.6 casts in manual play (8.5% of its damage), 4.8 with SBA + cooldown. This is a real loss of the assistant: the figure stands.

Patched: SimulationCraft needs a fix to play Blizzard's list for this spec.Patch 0001-warrior-sba-auto-attack-rend-dot-crushing-blow. SimulationCraft added the weapon swings after the assistant's always-castable abilities, so they never started. The patch starts the swings first. (Its check for a missing Rend used to look for the wrong DoT name; SimulationCraft fixed that itself on 28 Oct.) The Raging Blow button did not become Crushing Blow during Recklessness as it does in the game. The patch lets it. Without the fix (SimulationCraft as published, or Raidbots) the assistant's figures differ; manual play is not affected.

Best Mythic+ talents for the button

For one-button play in M+, import this build: +9.6% damage with SBA + cooldown over SimulationCraft's build.

Best of 10 builds tested with the button (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-10-04: a talent search for the button, one talent swap at a time from the build of the #3 M+ player on murlok.io.

One-button damage (SBA + cooldown DPS), M+ dungeon, 4-piece

Best M+ build for the buttonRecommended253,102+9.6%
SimulationCraft's build230,978

Best M+ build for the button: talent string Recommended for one-button

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SimulationCraft's build: talent string

CcEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAzMzsMzMmZGAAAghphxYmxyMzMzgxMDAAAAgZWmZAhxyyALgBMDTIzgNwMjtx2ALzsMAzMAYGGA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. The best build we found for the button. Every figure on this page uses it.

Best raid talents for the button

SimulationCraft's raid build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.

Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-10): it starts from SimulationCraft's raid build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats SimulationCraft's raid build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps SimulationCraft's raid build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.

SimulationCraft's raid build (best on the raid boss for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button

CcEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAzMzsMzMmZGAAAghphxYmxyMzMzgxMDAAAAgZWmZAhxyyALgBMDTIzgNwMjtx2ALzsMAzMAYGGA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

Ability	Manual	SBA + cooldown	SBA + cooldown vs manual
Bladestorm (MH)	44.6K12.1%	29.8K11.8%	−14.8K
Reap the Storm (Execute)	44.3K12.0% · 49.7 casts	31.7K12.5% · 38.6 casts	−12.6K
Execute (Damage)	36.0K9.7% · 62.3 casts	27.5K10.9% · 51.7 casts	−8,442
Cleave	31.3K8.5% · 45.6 casts	4,3531.7% · 4.8 casts	−27.0K
Overpower	26.1K7.1% · 55 casts	13.2K5.2% · 32.2 casts	−12.9K
Mortal Strike	17.8K4.8% · 43.9 casts	25.4K10.0% · 56.1 casts	+7,612
Slayer's Strike	24.6K6.7% · 88.4 casts	16.0K6.3% · 58.5 casts	−8,598
Dreadnaught	18.4K5.0% · 46.4 casts	6,5752.6% · 21.4 casts	−11.8K
Heroic Strike	9,5272.6% · 22.3 casts	16.6K6.6% · 28.2 casts	+7,116
Mortal Strike (Bladestorm Unhinged)	15.8K4.3% · 47.7 casts	12.0K4.7% · 42.6 casts	−3,776
Auto Attack (Main Hand)	15.2K4.1% · 172.8 casts	15.0K5.9% · 172.7 casts	−164
Deep Wounds	13.3K3.6% · 201.7 casts	10.8K4.3% · 169.4 casts	−2,551
Perfected Guillotine	12.1K3.3% · 26.3 casts	12.0K4.7% · 26.1 casts	−92
Slam (Cleave Fervor Of Battle)	10.5K2.8% · 29.5 casts	1,8380.7% · 4.8 casts	−8,628
Reap the Storm (Cleave)	8,7432.4% · 5.9 casts	1,5570.6% · 1 casts	−7,186
Concussive Slam	8,7392.4% · 71.4 casts	5,3742.1% · 45.3 casts	−3,365
Heroic Strike (Cleave Fervor Of Battle)	8,1432.2% · 10.8 casts	7170.3% · 0.9 casts	−7,426
Rend (DoT)	6,7561.8% · 219.9 casts	5,2072.1% · 95.5 casts	−1,549
Slam	3,6741.0% · 19.8 casts	2,5191.0% · 40.4 casts	−1,155
Colossus Smash	3,2690.9% · 8.2 casts	3,3511.3% · 8.3 casts	+82
Fatal Mark	2,6950.7% · 26.7 casts	3,0171.2% · 31.7 casts	+322
Venomfang Burst	2,6420.7% · 76.3 casts	2,6121.0% · 76.1 casts	−30
Devour Morsel	2,4580.7% · 47.1 casts	2,3590.9% · 45.1 casts	−99
Venomfang	2,0010.5% · 81.1 casts	1,9890.8% · 80.8 casts	−12
Rune of Unleashed Fire	9300.3% · 54.6 casts	9300.4% · 54.7 casts	+0
Rend	–	5530.2% · 13.7 casts	+553
Rune of Lingering	2580.1% · 54.6 casts	2570.1% · 54.7 casts	−1
Storm Bolt	930.0% · 8.5 casts	–	−93
Wrecking Throw	820.0% · 0.6 casts	–	−82
Charge (Impact)	30.0% · 1 casts	30.0% · 1 casts	+0
Total	370.0K	253.3K	−116.7K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Arms Warrior (Slayer)

What are the best Mythic+ talents for Arms Warrior (Slayer) with the one-button rotation?

The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 9.6% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 10 builds tested (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.

How much DPS does Arms Warrior (Slayer) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

Related builds

Other hero talents of Arms Warrior

Arms Warrior · ColossusM+ −28.06% · raid −19.37%

Other Warrior specs

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.