You probably saw it coming. With patch 2.3 changes done to weapon mastery, sweeping strikes, along with new imba enchant 33/28 got stronger then before. Weapon Mastery is what really made me respec, I wasn’t taking it into account, but if I consider it as a -2% dodge and the ability to have an enchant (I would be pretty much forced to use weapon chain without it) it’s one of the best if not the best two-point talents we have atm.

41 arms is nice, but it doesn’t have an edge over any, hybrid or not, common PvP build. Seeing they are fixing defiance to give 6 expertise outside of def stance in 2.3.2 I’m 100% positive that Blizzard moved DW and Intercept to arms to make 41/5/15 - 42/5/14 viable. It makes sense as on BlizzCON class discussion they noted how warrior could perform extremely well in many aspects of the game (PvP / PvE dps / Tanking) but couldn’t do so without respeccing. Now with changes to defiance, TM and after talents swapping it’s possible to make a build viable in all aspects of the game, not the best in any of them, but good enough for a casual player who wants to do some heroics, BGs and arenas, which should be the majority of players. I’d also bet my money that Kalgan is using 41/5/15 or 42/5/14 by now on his supposed to be rocking with S3 weapon within first week of S3 warrior.

I need to practice Sweeping Strikes now, since I respecced 33/28 from 35/23/3 long time ago I didn’t use it that much as I found it really not-handy to stance dance for SS without TM. It’s extremely potent talent, and when grouped with druid/pala in 2v2 where there is no risk of breaking CC like poly, you can give your enemies a big surprise and make them think “WTF did just happen?”.

Update: OK, I didn’t think about Intercept when talking about WM, imp. Intercept is our best 2 pointer hands down ;).

Terhix