1 thing you must remember if you want to dps as arms in pve "HIT RATINGS" alot of warrior's who come to pugs as arms get kicked coz their hit ratings is so freaking low....

tuna no point going to pve with all that gears i would rather have a pve geared fury warrior become offtank and in 25man there is no such thing as a arms warrior with pvp gear as offtank

You HAVE to take weapon mastery. You only need 17 points in arms for impale. Cookie cutter build 17/44, there's pretty much no other way going about with it.

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Added on May 5, 2008, 6:41 am

Well its the BF debuff that makes arms spec wanted in raids and Imp slam that makes it dps viable also.

As for gear wise - Its much easier to gear for Arms then fury especially if you are at low lvl entry. S3 gear + weapon suits this purpose well.
Either way, both specs are gear dependant.

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Added on May 5, 2008, 6:42 am
I don't think this makes any sense at all.

How about Slam build DPS, is it good?

http://altosis.blogspot.com/2008/01/2h-pve...xy-vs-3130.html

http://www.honorbound.se/Slamdps2.pdf

To do that actually you need Quartz swing timer.  Latency can be worked around if you have that although personally staring at a swing timer for 4 hours is not my idea of fun.

On an equally geared warrior, I would expect a 33/28 BF/SLAM MS Warrior to be about 300-500dps below a fury warrior, especially at t6 level.  The reason you bring an MS warrior is because more than 1 fury warrior is in most cases a waste of a raid spot.  Blood Frenzy means an additional 4% physical dps which benefits your tanks, hunters, and other melee classes.  When you have dps approaching and surpassing 2000dps, you really see the value of a MS warrior in your raid as the increase in raid dps is more than the reduction in the MS warrior's personal DPS.  We're working on Brutallus atm and i can tell you that it takes a lot of hard work to get to the 2000+dps. 

Expertise is the most pro stat because irrespective of how much hit you stack you will still lose DPS from dodges and if you have bad positioning, parries.  Weapon Mastery is essential for any dps warrior due to the poor itemisation for expertise.  However having said that on my human warrior i'm kinda capped on expertise due to the human sword expertise bonus and shard of contempt which results in a total of 6% dodge reduction.  It's unbelievable good for DPS as all your rage effectively is converted into damage.  The 2% dodge bonus from weapon mastery is a flat out 2% increase in dps and is unbelivably good value for talent point expenditure.  You will never use overpower in pve - it's just not worth the rage loss from stance dancing.  There is only one cookie cutter spec for DW fury and it's 17/44.

For most guilds, you would be damned lucky if you could get a raiding spot as a dps warrior and you really have to be able to demonstrate your worth by being as pew pew as the next rogue.

Cookie cutter is just a standard template for the build that more or less every fury warrior who understands his class uses just because it's that good.  Using anything else will have you called a noob.

It's always viable for PvP geared DW Fury to do well in raids.  the S3 weapons are among the best weapons you can get for pve inspite of wasted stats on resilience.  But if you're talking pure S3+Vindicators you would do mediocre damage by pve standards.  Then your dps performance will depend on a lot of other factors.. like the relative gear and performance of your other raiders and the group you're put into (eg Kurei's good MS Dps was down to a combination of his group and his skill).  Pwning damage meters isn't just about how good your are - it's also about how badly everyone else sucks.