Arms

Specialization background.

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"Cut them down where they stand."

Arms specialization improves your ability to inflict bleeding on foes as well as your critical hit chance. It also grants access to the fury boon and methods to set up foes for more damage.

— In-game description

Arms is a core specialization for the warrior that focuses on critical hits and condition damage.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Furious Burst	4	Gain fury when you swap weapons. Fury gives an increased critical chance.
Major Adept	Wounding Precision		Gain expertise based on your precision.
Major Adept	Signet Mastery		Signets grant a stacking ferocity boon on use. Cast Lesser Signet of Might when striking a foe below the health threshold.
Major Adept	Opportunist	1	Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize or disable a foe.
Minor Master	Deep Strikes		Gain condition damage when you have fury. You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
Major Master	Unsuspecting Foe		Increased critical-hit chance against disabled or defiant foes. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Master	Sundering Burst		Burst skills inflict vulnerability if they hit and inflict additional vulnerability if the attack is a critical hit. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
Major Master	Blademaster		Gain expertise. Gain condition damage while wielding a sword. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.
Minor Grandmaster	Bloodlust		You have a chance to inflict bleeding on critical hits, and bleeds that you apply last longer.
Major Grandmaster	Burst Precision		Burst skills have an increased critical chance. Gain bonus critical-hit chance and ferocity for a duration when you hit with a burst skill. Duration is based on adrenaline spent.
Major Grandmaster	Furious		Critical hits grant bonus adrenaline and gain a stacking condition damage effect.
Major Grandmaster	Dual Wielding		Attack speed is increased when wielding a main-hand weapon in your offhand.

See also: List of warrior traits

Version history

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