Warrior Arms Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Charge 2 Cleave 3 ChargeOff-GCD 4 AvatarOff-GCD 5 Colossus Smash 6 Execute 7 BladestormOff-GCD 8 Mortal Strike 9 Storm BoltOff-GCD 10 Mortal Strike 11 Mortal Strike 12 Mortal Strike 13 Mortal Strike 14 Overpower 15 Overpower

1 Charge 2 Cleave 3 ChargeOff-GCD 4 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 5 Colossus Smash 6 AvatarOff-GCD 7 Execute 8 BladestormOff-GCD 9 Mortal Strike 10 Storm BoltOff-GCD 11 Mortal Strike 12 Mortal Strike 13 Mortal Strike 14 Mortal Strike 15 Overpower

1 Charge 2 Cleave 3 ChargeOff-GCD 4 Colossus Smash 5 AvatarOff-GCD 6 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 7 Execute 8 BladestormOff-GCD 9 Mortal Strike 10 Mortal Strike 11 Mortal Strike 12 Mortal Strike 13 Mortal Strike 14 Overpower 15 Heroic Strike

#showtooltip Charge
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Charge
/cast Avatar
/cast Bladestorm
/cast Charge

Ability	Top-player CPM
Mortal Strike	18.2
Execute	12.6
Overpower	7.2
Heroic Strike	6.5
Cleave	3.1
Slam	2.4
Colossus Smash	1.9
BladestormOff-GCD	1.8
Storm BoltOff-GCD	1.4
Sweeping Strikes	1.2
Spell ReflectionOff-GCD	1.1
AvatarOff-GCD	1.0
Charge	0.7
Impending Victory	0.4

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Charge 2 ChargeOff-GCD 3 Cleave 4 Heroic Leap 5 Cleave 6 Overpower 7 Spell ReflectionOff-GCD 8 Impending Victory 9 Cleave 10 Die by the SwordOff-GCD 11 Execute 12 Sweeping Strikes 13 Mortal Strike 14 Cleave 15 AvatarOff-GCD

1 Charge 2 ChargeOff-GCD 3 Cleave 4 Mortal Strike 5 Overpower 6 Cleave 7 Overpower 8 Charge 9 ChargeOff-GCD 10 Cleave 11 Overpower 12 Mortal Strike 13 Cleave 14 Overpower 15 Light's PotentialOff-GCD

1 Cleave 2 Overpower 3 Overpower 4 Cleave 5 Colossus Smash 6 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 7 AvatarOff-GCD 8 BladestormOff-GCD 9 Mortal Strike 10 Storm BoltOff-GCD 11 Mortal Strike 12 Spell ReflectionOff-GCD 13 Mortal Strike 14 Cleave 15 Execute

#showtooltip Charge
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Charge
/cast Charge

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 97% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 3%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 70% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 5%	Rune of Self-Mending 72% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 19% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 8%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Burning Haste 85% Rune of Critical Power 12% Rune of Masterful Cunning 2%	Rune of Burning Haste 81% Rune of Masterful Cunning 17% Rune of Critical Power 3%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%	Rune of Overload 94% Rune of Echoes 6%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip
/cast Avatar
/cast Colossus Smash

#showtooltip Colossus Smash
/use Colossus Smash
/use Blood Fury
/use Berserking
/use 13
/use 14

#showtooltip Pummel
/cast [@focus,harm,exists][] Pummel

#showtooltip
/cast [@player,known:Ravager] Ravager; [known:Bladestorm] Bladestorm

#showtooltip Heroic Leap
/cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap

#showtooltip Heroic Leap
/cast !Heroic Leap

#showtooltip
/cast Charge
/cast Victory Rush
/cancelaura Bladestorm

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:2] !Defensive Stance; [known:386164] !Battle Stance; [known:386196] !Berserker Stance

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Mortal Strike	18.2
2	Execute	12.6
3	Cleave	8.4
4	Overpower	7.5
5	Heroic Strike	6.5
Z	Slam	2.4
X	Colossus Smash	1.9
C	BladestormOff-GCD	1.8
V	Sweeping Strikes	1.5
R	Storm BoltOff-GCD	1.4
F	Spell ReflectionOff-GCD	1.1
T	AvatarOff-GCD	1.0
G	Charge	0.8
Shift+1	Battle StanceOff-GCD	0.5
Shift+2	Impending Victory	0.4