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
Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD	0.6

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

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

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	8.7
4	Overpower	7.4
5	Heroic Strike	6.5
Z	Slam	2.4
X	Colossus Smash	1.9
C	BladestormOff-GCD	1.8
V	Sweeping Strikes	1.6
R	Storm BoltOff-GCD	1.4
F	Spell ReflectionOff-GCD	1.1
T	AvatarOff-GCD	1.0
G	Charge	0.8
Shift+1	Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+2	Defensive StanceOff-GCD	0.3