Now I know only about 2 of every 10 DPS warriors plays Arms spec, and almost no one is talking about this, but Arms is rage starving on the live build in a PvE raid setting. In PvP were fine as far as rage goes, this isn't about PvP at all...

As of now no matter if I use "H-Strike" or "Slam" as a rage dump, I'm unable to maintain a reliable rotation on the test dummy, or in a 10, 25 man raid setting. My concern is were going to relive the same thing that happened in Wrath where Arms was completely broken until the second major patch of the expansion. (When Uld was released.)

Some area's that could be looked at....

-Reducing the rage cost of Heroic Strike, or slam.

-Removing the swing timer stop caused from using slam.

-Reimplementing the 10% haste in Arms talent tree.

-Allowing Arms to generate more rage per swing (so it could roughly equal fury's rage generation)

Rotation Concerns

Our old rotation used Slam as the rage dump. T 10+ allowed the use of H-Strike sometimes. 4.0 Build seems to back up the idea of Arms using slam because of talents and glyphs, but using heroic strike instead of slam produces more dps on live. No matter of a player uses slam, or heroic strike Arms simply doesn't generate enough rage after 4.0 and the "normalization" to maintain a reliable rotation.

I know the time is getting close to Cata, but hopefully this can be fixed before it goes live.
reply by Ghostcrawler Blue Poster
If you're the kind of warrior who just doesn't like Slam or think it should scale with haste, that's fine feedback to provide, but not the kind of thing we are going to change before Cataclysm.

If Slam isn't worth using for a level 85 Arms warrior in reasonable gear, that's a problem. "Isn't worth using" means that it isn't a dps gain to use Slam, not "I don't like using it."

If Arms at 85 in reasonable gear doesn't have enough rage to hit Mortal Strike, Slam, Rend, Overpower and Colossus Smash nearly every time they are up, then that is a problem. Things like shouts and Deadly Calm should cover up a few rage gaps, but in general you shouldn't be standing around waiting for enough rage to Mortal Strike again. If Arms can't always hit Heroic Strike, that is intended.