#Arms raid dps help

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vast pivot
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So just been playing arms real for this tier for the first time, done keys with it in the past but most of the time resorted to prot. im a CE raider for quite a few tiers now but i seem to be really dropping the ball on arms

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/R2QCP6xKMtqDNzZ9?fight=24&type=damage-done&source=5

I am kinda unsure what im doing wrong, i feel like im doing great damage but then i look and im really not.

I feel like part of it is me not holding cd's for add sets, but i also bet money im fucking up the rotational priority.

celest echo
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Especially for the first boss, the difference is almost always going to be an add pad diff, unfortunately. You can either gamify it and try to pad the adds harder, or look at boss damage parses, but the first boss is just a mess sweat

The one thing i'd call out is during the opening minute when there's only one target, don't use Cleave. I know the boss will be brought closer to the Adds during the first 1min, but you can't actually harm them. You can get stacks off them and stuff, BUT cleave only gets benefits on 3+ targets. So just do your single target + sweeping strikes for the first 1min.

Once the intermisison adds spawn, swap to your AoE rotation (cleave spam) as long as you can hit 3+ targets with them

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If your group is absolutely deleting adds and you dont have a chance to pad off them, id just swap to the normal single target build. Your Bladestorm will still do big damage to them, but then your single target damage will be must higher throughout the fight between add spawns, which can help too

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The other thing to work on would be the Execute rotation. Once the boss hits 35%, you only want to send Mortal Strike if you've cast Execute twice first. This is to stack your Executioner's Precision talent. So the rotation basically becomes:
Mortal Strike -> (2 executes and any Heroic Strike Procs, filling with OP if you're under 90 rage) -> Mortal Strike.

In the logs, I'm seeing MS be cast during execute phase with 0 or 1 stacks.

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Then the only other thing is just small bits of downtime here and there. There was a spot with 5 seconds of downtime. This will happen to stay alive sometimes, but just try and punch something at all times if you can

vast pivot
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celest echo
celest echo
vast pivot
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This was my chimaerus kill, I did better but I bet if I fix those problems ill see a bigger jump in damage