General Gearing

Unless the socket bonus is +20 Strength, dont go for it, just throw +40 Str gems into EVERYTHING.

Stat priority
8% hit > Str > 26 exp > Crit > Mastery > Haste

Basic rotation
Battleshout + berserker rage + charge in and rend then put up 1 sunder armor Colossus Smash > Mortal strike > Overpower > Slam Basically Colossus Smash whenever you get a CS proc (itll very rarely actually come off CD before a proc happens). Use Mortal Strike everytime its off CD, if its not off CD and you have an overpower proc, use overpower, else use slam. Slam should only be used if colossus smash/mortal strike and overpower are on CD. Post 20% boss, replace overpower and slams with executes. (basically keep using Colossus Smash and Mortal Strike on cooldown, using CS should be self explanatory, and you keep using MS to keep up rend/get Wrecking Crew procs (+10% dmg for 12 seconds after a mortal strike crit) Heroic Strike should only be used when you go into battlestance to do an overpower and if you have ~40 or so rage pooled. Arms is a very rage starved rotation, overpower only costs 5 rage, it is literally the only window you have to safely use heroic strike. Using heroic strike at any other point will leave you without any rage until your next melee swing (which will end up in 1-2 GCDs lost, and a pretty big loss of dps) Unless you have 2pT12, replace slam with battle shout if you need the rage. Berserker Rage should literally be used on cooldown, easiest thing to do is just macro it into something.

DPS Optimization
2/2 Tactical Mastery is the single most important talent you can have for Arms PvE. This is because youll only ever be in battle stance to use Overpower, for EVERY OTHER ABILITY (Mortal Strike, Colossus Smash, Execute, Slam) you should be sitting in berserker stance. Taste for blood procs every 9 seconds, meaning every 9 seconds youll be swapping to battle, using overpower, then going back to berserker. Stance Dancing procs a 1 second GCD on all of the stances. Normal abilities proc a 1.5 second GCD. When timed right, you can swap between stanced on every single GCD if you so desired with no repercussions at all (because you still retain 75 rage, and youll very rarely have more than 75 rage to spare.)

Basically, if you swap to battle during the GCD before you use overpower, youll be in battle stance, use overpower and proc another 1.5 GCD, and then go back to berserker stance during that GCD is up to continue your rotation. May sound complicated, but macros can actually do all the work for you there (macros will be at the bottom).

Talents
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcsRMRurzcrZh:MmcrM00zo The 1 point in Drums of War (arms 2nd tier) can be placed into Field Dressing if you so choose to. All 3 of the prime glyphs are required. Colossus Smash is the only required Major Glyph, the other 2 are your preference. Berserker Rage is the only required Minor Glyph, the other 2 are your preference. This is the standard single target arms dps spec. Will do horrible in AoE settings sub every minute and where you can bladestorm.

Cooldowns
In long fights, youll want to pop CDs as early as you can to pop them as many times as possible during the fight. You should be waiting for 3 stacks of Slaughter before popping anything (use mortal strike 3 times/~18 seconds or so after the fight begins). Youll want to pop deadly calm first (as well as any trinkets/racials/potions). Unless you are saving recklessness for heroism, IMMEDIATELY after you lose the deadly calm buff you should be popping recklessness. Because of the pooled rage from deadly calm, you can spam a few heroic strikes during recklessness. Basically; wait for 3 stacks of slaughter - Deadly Calm + trinkets then recklessness.

Macros
Simple deadly calm macro, pops your trinkets at the same time as popping deadly. Throw in blood fury if youre an orc. #showtooltip Deadly Calm /cast Deadly Calm /use 13 /use 14 Focus pummel macro, will attempt to pummel your focus target first and foremost, if you dont have a focused target it will pummel your current target. If you have a focused target but he is not in range, it will pummel your current target.

#showtooltip Pummel /cast [target=focus,exists]Pummel;Pummel /cast Pummel Should be popped immediately after you lose the deadly calm buff, allows you spam heroic strikes and get lots of crits and high dps. (best used during heroic, because youll be able to spam more heroic strikes, but with liberal use of heroic strikes can be used without hero. #showtooltip Recklessness /cast Recklessness /cast Inner Rage

Simple spell reflect macro. Equips sword and board and uses Spell reflection, if you are in berserker stance itll change you to battle stance. PvE use of this that comes to mind is dealing with the adds on alysrazor. You can solely lock down the add from casting with this macro. Pummel its first cast, spell reflect its second cast back to it (dealing ~40k dmg), then pummel its 3rd. If the mob isnt dead by its 3rd cast you have other problems. #showtooltip Spell Reflection /equipslot [noequipped:Shields]16 <enter 1h sword name> /equipslot [noequipped:Shields]17 <enter shield name> /cast [form:3]Battle Stance;Spell Reflection

Rotation Macros
All of these macros are used to handle the stance dancing portion of the rotation. Place all of these macros (minus the overpower macro) onto your battle stance bar, and place the overpower macro on your berserker stance bar. This will basically simply put you in the right stance that you should be in for using the ability. #showtooltip Colossus Smash /cast Berserker Stance /cast Colossus Smash #showtooltip Mortal Strike /cast Berserker Stance /cast Mortal Strike #showtooltip Overpower /cast Battle Stance /cast Overpower #showtooltip Slam /cast Berserker Stance /cast Slam

#showtooltip Execute /cast Berserker Stance /cast Execute

Addons
The only real functionality you need from addons is a proc watcher for Overpower. While in the berserker stance the blizzard proc watcher will not track the overpower proc, because you can not use it while in berserker stance; but youll be sitting in berserker stance for ~90% of the fight :/ I personally use Satrina Buff Frames and watch for the Taste of Blood buff, but there's tons of options out there for this.