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it's too broad to show a good picture
Isnβt it usually just brew+meta tank
brew is always a meta tank for prog
just off how stagger works
and their tier is fucking giga busted makes it even better
Is this macro correct?
#showtooltip /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@target,help,nodead]Intervene;[@mouseover,harm,nodead][]Charge
Probably? Assuming you want it to be intervening helpful mouseover/target and charging harmful mouseover/target
The only thing that won't do is charge a mouseover if you have a friendly targeted
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead]Intervene;[@mouseover,harm,nodead]Charge;[@target,help,nodead]Intervene;Charge
would be a better way to do it to eliminate all scenarios
thanks
that makes my icon go all funky. its red when intervene is off CD and im within range of a ally.
If you have no target or mouseover, then it makes sense that it would show that. Because Intervene is the first spell in the macro so it defaults to that tooltip/icon. Price you have to pay for weird macros like that lol
Do people usually play with different aggro colors for DPS and tanking? This is how plater profiles usually seems to be but it throws me off.
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by different aggro colors
so itβs DF prot gonna be the tits?
sure! This is what I mean. Most plater profiles do it this way where red=aggro green=no aggro for dps but for tank its flipped. Is there a good reason for this or should I just make them the same for both specs
Oh. I think they do that because red = bad generally in people's minds
Since having aggro as DPS is bad, but not having aggro for tanks is bad
But you should make it whatever helps you identify the situation easier/more efficiently. If it's easier for your brain to have them the same, then make them the same
Thanks yea that makes sense I was jw if I was missing something
@warm plinth
you wanna help me gear a rookie warrior that starts with a B and ends with an O?
xD
or are you blasting classic like COUGHLATECOUGH
excuse me
B and ends with O? π€
I am not playing classic. I stick by my convictions unlike you sir π
well
you know im in retail π
tbf i have to do the DK bullshit for that mount
im scared
I'm not sure I can convince myself to do it. Friend of mine just said he's been working on the interrogation quest for 45 mins and can't get it to proc π
Also I'm supposed to hear back on a possible position change at work that'll mean a lot to my availability
So I'm gonna say maybe for now
Bull is stll playing?
Only as arms
Guys, what's the weapon we wanna be using from M+? Fusion Hacker or Tearing Sawtooth Blade?
hacker is better for ST
sawtooth better for aoe
iirc
but honestly it's whichever is highest ilvl
i suppose if you have both available you can equip one or the other depending if its tyrannical or fortified week
im using hacker right now cause i havent had a single sawtooth drop
i could be wrong about this, so wait until someone else replies before you take it as a fact
the only fact there is that highest ilvl trumps everything else
@ionic fern hi ily
@potent anvil @shut summit hello friends, hope you are having a wonderful day 
I'm doing ok. Nearing the end of the workday 
I was trying to get KSM on my druid this week but pugs were interesting to say the least π
Jeah, it's..horrible.

I joined a 16 lower kara, and I was top DPS when we got to opera, and then only I and the ret pal knew the defy gravity mechanic so half the group would die every time it went off π
Solid.
Thats been my experience with LK as well.
Regardless of which Opera it is..people still fail.
Yeah, Wikket is so easy now too. I figured we would at least make it to Moroes or Attumen lol
π
Don't even get me started with the Horseman. Healers not dispelling..DPS'ers dying to Shared Suffering.
Ugh
Too many gimped keys
Yeah, you really start to see the disconnect in DPS knowledge when you go back to the dungeons that have more personal responsibility
Yikes!
Jeah, that's just horrid.
Give DPS as little to do as possible please.
There's a WA I found that's for Kel'Thuzad on classic. I was gonna try to fiddle with it and make it work for Shade
It does like kick calling
No,no.
We all know that DPS'ers don't have that bound.
π
Just give me 5 interrupts and 0 to the DPS'ers.
We have a guy that runs with us fairly often and we asked him to dispel something once, and he was like I don't have dispel bound; it doesn't do DPS
WTB gag order

Oh well, I will have to do a few keys next week but should be able to get KSM. Need a weapon more than anything else anyway; my druid is still rocking a 278 from last season
and a 272 scale π±
We're huge
Do you think you'll be more active in Dragonflight?
I am supposed to hear back about a promotion this week. If I get it, I should be able to raid next tier
Lets hope you get it then. 
Yeah, there's some stiff competition so I'm not getting my hopes up, but I have a good chance
I've skipped all the raids this expansion. π
Outside of doing some bosses for the Legendaries
NAa, you got this.

I did uh...heroic Nathria, heroic Sanctum, and like 3/10 Sanctum. Only did LFR this tier and last though
I did it really early so it was all the better people just doing it for dinar lol
Can't bring myself to go through it on alts though, especially after the stories I've heard from people
Jeah.
I wanted to play an alt.
But then i realised all the crap i gotta do..again.
So i just ditched the idea.
I'm playing 4 toons right now, but only did LFR on my rogue for EoN. The rest are just going with what they got
I'm only "playing" my warrior.
4 toons feels wayyy too much.
Well, i guess if you're not up-keeping them all it's fine.
Yeah I'm just doing like 1 key a week usually.
oh man that's like top 100 bear
I'm yuge
π Sadly probably not far off
In reality though I'm not even top 100 druid tanks on my realm lol
Just go Alliance.
Everyone knows that the only ranking that matters is Realm/Faction.
See.
I'm Rank 9 Horde on my heavily Alliance dominated realm.

wow smh
im number #3 prot in my realm lmaooooo
I love you too Nim
i see how it is
Oh shit, blasting
getting ready for DF mwahi?
I honestly have no freakin idea what I'm going to play in DF
I just know it's not going to be evoker
Which i'm postponing to the last possible moment.
wait when did you start doing keys though i thought you were upset about pugging
btw
I really haven't.
hmm
I'm doing like max 1-2 keys per week if any.
for true
all i gotta say
never pick the hunter that's not surv
its 500% them every time
I'm starting to steer clear of fury warriors too
BM/Marks i dont care if they have sylvanas bow, they ALWAYS fuck up
Had two in a row now that are doing like 7k overall
hmm ive had good fury at least
I'd probably be 299 on my warrior if I had like 3 upgrades
still have 3 272 items
er, 278
What did he do
and today just body pulls all around from these hunters
uhh
so you know the standard giant + double dread route right?
Mmhm
going right etc
ok so we did that, then cleared to triple pull
this guy sat on lust
lock was angry as fuck
this was fort week mind you
then we skipped guardians, someones pot ran out and died so this hunter feigned and afked while heals rezzed us
stayed afk for 5 mins
Oh boy
so we just started boss
guy died to beam i guess? and started saying I CANT RELEASE
No shit you can't release lol what
no shit sherlock we're doing the boss lol
right
then he absolutely did not lust on pirates
lusted pirate dragon mommy or w/e
all part of the route 
I actually skipped the trash before chess in an upper, and the warrior didn't have invis pot but decided to die like way the fuck at the bottom
And the shaman was like I hate this skip
bro
Like if everyone has a pot it's literally idiot proof
oh yeah
There's just always that one guy that either doesn't have an invis pot or they think they can stealth past
another hunter this week decided to pull dread there cause "sees invis"
i was like dude i just got past it
idk if they're used to failing shrouds or something lmao
Same warrior literally got to boss as fast as possible in p3 so he could kick it
At that point I was like...whatever. I had incarn so I just thrash spammed to victory
I think I was 3rd on dps in that run actually :kekw
π₯
if only you were prot
I don't have gavel either, but don't tell Steve because he'll be disappointed
I don't have that either :pepehands
Oh that reminds me
That warrior had gavel
A heroic one
like 7k overall dps
good trinket
Seems okay
I just don't have the mental fortitude to do LFR enough to get anything else
that is fine
that is a good name steve
not like any bears are getting m+ title anyways
ty
its almost as good as Nimchipadin
Why aren't you getting title Steve
need a good naming convention yep
Yeah the discrepancy in meta vs non meta this season is actually nuts
you mean the 20s title?
there is no 20s title. the shrouded hero .1% seasonal title
i didnt even know that was a thing lmao
has been for 3 seasons now
ah well
Except this season I think it's overall instead of separated between factions
Blood DK is fine though
Think last I checked, 105 BDKs were getting title
And that was before the last push week
it was a good season to come back to for sure, on my end
some dungeons are still whack but at least the gearing process was very good
mm, I think the dinar thing can go to hell personally
Incentivizing raiding is no bueno from my perspective
idk
i liked it
but that's only cause raiding loot is better, which is the wrong design logic
kinda is the root of the problem
Like if you raid then it's cool but if you don't then it's not, because these gimmick items are too strong
yea
Like I simmed a normal gavel for my warrior against his 278 offhand and it's literally like 900 DPS in single target
I don't want to do LFR
gg 900 dps
but what about people that dont like to raid
yes because LFR is really raiding
that's kinda beside the point
It's still time that I have to spend doing something I don't want to do
whether you consider it piss easy or not doesnt mean its not raiding
its a time investment that could have been spent doing the content you enjoy etc
oh whoops
Not sure you can say it's not raiding anyway since it's literally called Looking For RAID
LFR Raiding is harder than mythic difficulty
i totally typed that without reading what you said ghash lmao
ngl 900 dps is like 1 key level difference anyways
but not because of the bosses
It might be easy raiding but it's still raiding
okay i like raiding
heckin whatever if you dont do it
That's also a problem
i know
yeah
Good for you
i dont think hes bitching about it, we're just talking
I do bitch about it, because Blizzard needs to know it's not what people like myself want
ok i stand corrected

Yeah if I was pushing on that toon it'd be one thing but I'm doing like 15-22s, so my lack of gavel is not a deciding factor

It's also why I got EoN on my rogue because I do push on that toon
i know u do
Never forget LFR Garalon back in Pandaland
Legit hardest encounter in all of WoW's history
My brightest memory of LFR is when we failed the DPS check on Fallen Avatar and all the platforms broke.
oops
my only real memories of LFR was in dragon soul when it came out
otherwise ive just zzz'd through it
Do you guys think it's worth it to use it dinar on a shield. The highest I'm pushing this season is heroic is heroic so I planned on purchasing an upgrading the dread Lord shield with my 2nd dinar. I personally believe that the drop rate on any children this game is less than 1% based off of my own experience. I'm currently running the one off of Terragrue at 278. Is there something I should 100% save that 2nd dinar for.
Wouldnt waste a dinar on shield that Will cap at 298, but also season is over very soon so if you dont think youll drop one from m+ before then it could probably be good
And then use third dinar on rdm or something
Ty. Is trying to farm what I can for the most part. The goal is to be able to save the last dinar for the gavel so I can mess around in an off speck. I have friends who also like to tank. . I think maybe I'll give it one more week of shield farming before I break down and buy it
whats the plan for rest of SL
Hi, am got my dinar today. I got a old soul from HC Sanctim. What do I get with the coin ?
Rdm
way ahead of u

question is if i go back for DF
only u can answer that
π
On Attumen, is there a particular reason the whole group doesn't soak shared suffering? There are a lot of accidental deaths and mess-ups
i can see that boss being a huge wall on keys above a 20 tyranical
Because it does a lot of damage on a 26 Tyr kekw
hella damage to split
depends on what keys youre doing though
if youre doing <20 you can probably just soak it
Well coming from an overtimed +18, yeah. Soaking seemed easier, but there's been mistakes all over the fight until I got lucky evading it in every phase
Kind of demotivating to practice this boss for a 1h dungeon
So I can pretty reliably leap out for the first suffering attempt, one time he recast it before remounting, and my mouseover intervene wouldn't work for some reason
dont think you can leap it anymore (according to wowhead)
one time I was pretty late, my corpse went flying out of the ring, funny sight :p
cus he'll just keep casting it until it hits at least one player
Yeah aware of the recast and there's a priority between mortal strike and shared suffering
if it's sub 20 just solo soak it all the time, it's shadow damage so ..
Wrong. Phase lasts 20 seconds. If you avoid twice he will cancel the recast and mount midnight
didnt know. just read off of wowhead
Wowhead writers donβt know what theyβre talking about.
They get their information from class discord trolls kekw
like me B)
You know you can extend the phase right?
Right?
He switches back to horse when it gets healed to full
If you have healing debuff on him
The phase will last longer than 20
So what is the tactic for this above 20 then? We canβt soak alone
You can have SW for every single shared suffering
It's close, but you can have it
And other than that, you can outrun it with banner and 1 or 2 speed gems
Or just heroic leap / intervene
I wish π¦
indeed. bdk outrun it with death's advance kekw, you can outrun it with banner on top of intervene and leap
Speaking of speed. My mage got 2 items with bonus stat of speed, and now has 12 percent
It's very noticeable. I think probably around 9 to 10 is where you may notice the increase
Hey beginner here. Whats a good uptime on Banner, Ignore Pain and Shield Block in dungeons?
https://imgur.com/dk9GuvE
The Top log for Gambit shows 77-80% but not sure if warcraftlogs shows a different number than details
IP up-time is meaningless, treat it as a rage dump.
SB up-time in details is also meaningless, you want to get the effective up-time from logs. (Damage taken->Melees). Depending on talents/legendaries, aim to get 85%+
Banner up-time you should aim for 80%+ to begin with. Ideally as close to 100% as possible. This is not do-able in all dungeons but definitely is in others.
uptime for shield block doesn't matter, only % of hits blockable, thats to say if the boss casts 17 heroic strikes and 8 cleaves on you and all of those are block able, you should aim to have 15 and 7 (example)
have to point your character towards the guy attacking or you wont block either.
thanks
reactive defense matrix, trinket from guardian in SoD
poor guy probably wrong time to be learning to run mythic spires
in another 2 months it will be pointless knowledge
just run in and 1 shot auto attack everything
he might not be learning them, he might just be doing them to gear an alt
doing m0 is a great way to get a bit of gear on it
He wrote learning/progression
Although that could be a new option along with completion or something
Havenβt seen that one before
new to prot. How much overall is descent?
15-20k?
upper/workshop
ws is probably 15-17k, upper can be close to 20k with proper SR usage
Upper's also hard because of said SR usage; it scales very heavily with key level due to how much damage leverage you can get from SR in Upper
its hard if your retarded group kicks
or moves in before the pawn dies to bait royal slash
nah most the reflectable stuff isnt kickable
in 20s sr 4-5th in my dps
Warriors get more loyalty from people I speak to than any other spec/class i can think of. It's the class people have played for many years and seem to stick to. Why is that? This is from someone who is in two minds between brew and prot warrior.
We ainβt got the wrinkles to figure anything else out
Because once you have done log diving into your own warrior gameplay you realize it is the best spec
And thereβs nothing better than

i'm convinced botanist's plant ability in WS does nothing
he's (botanist) the scariest thing in that entire dungeon except for p2 magnet arm final boss, says it does something (namely catch fire) if it hits the fire sticks
17k as prot in WS, what am I doing wrong, did 12k last time I was in there as prot.
Ilvl 290, lvl 15 dungeon.
literally no way to know without a log
shouldve had more crit
I guess I'll dive into more research. Been back for about two weeks and just assumed that was OK damage
the plant channel does damage to random players, ignoring them, especially at higher key levels, is fatal to your dps
Their 2nd ability is just "more things to dodge during the flame cannon"
I want to say something like fantasy or it's just the character I've always played so I see myself in it or something
But execute is really good to press
uhh
i have a question about heroic anduin
what is this? does p2 in this dumb fucking guide refer to grim reflection phase?
Yes
also what do pugs generally expect, stack with reflections or no?
cause ive been yoloing stacking
If the adds get hit by a wicked star you're fucked
they go down fast enough though
Ideally you should be able to stack within cleave range but not on top
But it depends on how much you trust the pug, if someone doesn't move away they might fuck it up
100% every single stupid wipe is either not killing abom or people fucking up blasphemy
hmm
ill take that into consideration
ty harrow
If DPS isn't the problem the safest thing is to be a little further away, but it is a damage loss
yeah well unfortunately pugging that means i gotta think on the fly there
unless its a group that's staying after that and i see them moving stars away
on that note
i absolutely fucking hate pugging fated sfo
interesting fights though
heroic that is
i think it's a very cool raid for learning with your team
but there are so many ways for one rando to really fuck it up
yeah unfortunately im just pugging
i know the fights now at least
except for rygelon, which i havent seen
i did it on normal but apparently heroic has yet another soak mechanic or something?
for tanks i think
and not entirely sure positioning wise cause on normal i was just told to get him near and orb thingie
hmm
when the cast goes off and you go downstairs, there are two orbs
the raid needs to stack on them until they're depleted, then one tank stays behind to soak
while everyone else goes to the second one
you can either alternate the tanks soaking, or do what we did and have one tank (bdk cotank for me) do both soaks while I just dealt with rygelon
this cannot be understated. execute is amazing
esp when your doing nice 20k or higher crits as a tank
"why yes, i do want that victory rush proc. how did you know?"
so when you say you go downstairs
do you mean after massive bang soaks?
does he tp you somewhere else?
no it's just the other phase of the same room, with all the color washed out
dunno why we always say "downstairs" for stuff like anduin and rygelon lol
2 weeks straight with no Prot artifact hidden appearance weapon proc in the cave lol
priest bubbles don't impact rage gen correct?
they shouldnt
I completely get the class fantasy aspect, I wish I had rolled a blacksmith prot warrior back in 2004 and just stuck with it the whole good or bad.
And yes execute is lovely to press π
@ionic fern hi ily
Actually scary.
I did 16s and 15s in workshop, lower, streets,gambit, iron docks and grim rail and I can very much say screw sanguine. I hate this affix. It isn't even tough. It just sucks
Itβs not hard, but itβs annoying asf always having to be ready to move the mobs
sanguine is easy mode
unless you get mobs that can get stuck in casts
like shards in HOA
is tankingn worth it
yes
i like being able to be in control of what happens
instead of seeing dumb tanks do dumb things with not much to stop it
i love wathcing dps pull
when i wasnt ready or didnt want it
and i let them die
in junkyard
nothing gets me harder
I used sanguine to troll the warlock who kept pulling.. soon as he popped cd's id decide it was time to move the mobs cos 'sanguine bruh'.
Doob. U can also do it different. Keep em in sanguine and move them when he done 
Honestly. Locks been the most annoying thing this patch. Its not that they make it harder but the fact that they pull everything and not even asking. Their messing with my respect! And I dont tolerate it!
just control hp of mobs and move them out of casters when they are about to die
My guildmates think blizzard did a horrible thing with how reprisal works: not really the power it provides, more how it is designed. Do you agree?
I mean they say too much movement is involved (intervene, charge etc.)
I like it.
Some people don't like it.

i got lazy this week and its only a 304, 301 / something in vault
Movement as part of rotation is shit.
didn't want to run my upper key at all
true but nessecary
that's why having it tied to SB is meh
Hahah im with you on that one π
I think they realized it and improved it with the talent tied to shield charge that behaves like reprisal
I mean that just sounds like whining lol
Having a min range for a part of your rotation like a classic hunter does kinda suck
BM hunter is considered bad for m+? sheesh
and sub rogue? has to be something wrong with this list.
Itβs about representation not performance
the season 3 feral druid who carried my 17 theatre with 15k dps and killed all the explosives?
Doesnβt matter how his performance was
just, that the specs don't often show up right
Correct the player base for those specs is significantly less than other specs of the same class
TBF disc is notoriously hard to play at a high level (looking at break the meta event)
it's a mid spec
not great not horrible
i like hunters with pet cuz then it can emergency taunt or stun
Most hunters don't even know that their pet has a taunt/stun. And even if they do, they won't use it.

hunters
hunters usually do insane damage and have MD and FD, that's all i need to know
9/10 hunter donβt know/use turtle and missdirect
Honestly this
For every hunter that doesn't know about taunt, you'll run into one with taunt on auto cast
Usually a South American, or someone who says 0 words in chat
wdym
my pet doesn't have a stun
I mald when I see hunters not using tranq for magic dispel.
I straight /ragequit a key and bricked it because a hunter was our only purge and he just never pressed it.
His reaction
?? bro it's for rage effects
I lost it.
Lol
It's not only hunters tho.
It's legit all the classes. People either don't know about their utility or don't bother using it.
Fairly normal between 1 and like 16-17
it's 1 GCD
of course you dont press it
But, I've seen people in 18 to 20 that I wonder how tf they have the raiting they have and their ilvl
?
you can add that number to 28's
and still find people like that lol
I haven't gone over 20
There's a huge gap in skill after like 18 tho, that I've noticed. And people up near 20 seem to be a bit more serious, and play better. On average in my experience
One thing I noticed in 18-20 people will do shit dps and then leave keys because you didnβt know a skip or something
If people did their rotation and cc you wouldnβt need to skip in an 18 ever
Carry culture
Yeah itβs super toxic
Iunno that's like late stage wow in its prime
People around the 20 more or less know their DPS rotation.
People above 20 also start figuring out "ooh,hei,look,i got utility".
People finally start doing 20s because they numerically bulldoze everything and think they're hot shit
People below 20 are like "Hurrdurr fotm button smash"
And in reality blizzard just donated them fun
SFA is bad in keys right
i know it sims best but
that's only for ST
(comparing to 311 OWS and 291 RDM)
its supposed to be good for single target, so maybe against tyranical bosses?
i ran it in some dungeons when igot it and it didnt seem to beat rdm overall
Can someone confirm or deny something for me, is there a skill for Prot Warriors that is a Stance, reducing damage taken and reducing damage dealt?
Ah so it is Arms that has it then
For now
That seems like more of a Prot trait
perma-toggleable -20% damage incoming for prot would be stupidly overpowered
Oh wait until you see dragonflight yogi
is there any notable trash mobs in streets this week because fort + raging.
i'd mostly be scared of the mario fire stick guys at the start of dungeon
Mario fire stick guys?
The lasers
That spin
The trick is to cc them, los the cast, or have a kite path away
Melting them before they have a few beams up also works π
Just be careful of pull size as always during these weeks
During raging I usually do slightly smaller, more frequent pulls
I have a 291 fated trinket, can I use the heroic drops that I need 20 of to upgrade to 298 or must it be mythic?
is a stick goes round and round, you touch it get set on fire and die
you can upgrade from LFR+Normal immediately to heroic or mythic
yeah but is that to 298? because it is 291 atm
depends on the trinket but should be
if you use a heroic upgrade on a normal item it will go to heroic.
If its 291, it can't be 298
It depends from which boss it drops
291 is regular heroic boss ilvl
298 is endboss heroic ilvl
The only 298 trinkets are ows, stone legion heraldry, sanguine vintage, dreadfire vessel, scars and iirc the swarm trinket
From raid*
Kt book
Also I guess the swarm trinket is Dreadlords? Thereβs a different neurbian trinket from kt as well
yeah i got 298 book on mage from quest
Well im mainly talking warri
O I was confused cuz you said dreadfire
Well warri can drop that too
this game has reverse badluck rng
chasing a shield for weeks and it gives me the lfr one dunno if i should snag it and hold onto it for a potential upgrade token to use in 2 weeks or take 304 legs which are an upgrade from 298.
kinda a feel bad choice either way 6 ilvls or the best shield im gonna get in two weeks ( not doing mythic) pants and thinking itd bad chose but i can farm a 298 i cant farm a 304
You are gonna find a better shield easily
Don't forget prepatch is probably at the end of the month
i am low ilvl so pretty much any gear is an upgrade for me right now - i have done 4.5k valor worth of dungeon runs and had a single item in that whole time, a mechagon ring that activates if i heal someone below 50%.
i have become way more comfy with my warrior so not all is lost but feels very bad ngl
Once you have 2x Lego and 4pc do t worry about ilvl until youβre getting 1shot or need to push from 12k dps- 16k dps overall for example
true we get acces to all raids that point right which means i can run it weekly. Im about to to use this xp boost to lvl my ally warrior lol
anyone have tips for this week?
push buttons
bring rogues/hunters/druids and you can ignore one of the affixes
@ionic fern
Sleepy. Heading to bed. Got my sister home and settled
278 shard of anhylde or 304 soleah's secret technique for pushing higher keys? (15-22/23`s) and also why? π
Of those 2 definitely soleahs, aegis is overkill for anything below at least 26-28
But ows/rdm beats soleahs by a mile
I'm running ows/rdm and it's a great combo
In open world, how do warriors make up for lack of health sustain?
Nothing in the over world can hurt you
Except world bosses, victory rush is huge
which is more than enough
Mount up and pull as much stuff as you can, you'll see. Overworld mobs are a joke
I ask this coming from DK, so not having a mid fight heal is a bit jaring
Gotta kill something for a victory rush heal.
So used to my health going like a yoyo
well prot isnt reactive
But you won't need any of it. You won't take dmg on the overworld as a tank warrior
so it shouldnt need a heal mid fight
As I said it is just a bit jaring
the whole ppoint of bdk is that is literally reacts to damage it takes
prot should never take the damage in the first place
By jarring you mean better right
Hehe
At pretty much any gear level, a prot war in the overworld is a god that can't be killed
Pull as much as you can as often as you can and have fun with it
It is like going from a "you hit me but I am still standing." To " I am going to hit you first and good luck hitting me back."
Getting my head around the new playstyle is fun
My war solos elites that my mage has to kite and be careful with
You'll like it. Esp when you see that no matter what you pull you kill it with ease. Keybind victory rush for a 30 percent (I think) mega heal per kill you get
The pwar I can basically afk solo anything
I think mine at the moment does 20%
The mage requires a bit of work lol and effort
I forget the exact amount of vr
But it's big, and scales up with last stand or the hp shout
It is why I enjoy tank/brawler classes. The ability to be in the thick of it and survive
What is a reasonable max health that I should have? Coming from Bdk with 100k+ health has my standards a bit high
at 302 i have 152
but could literally be like 90k and be fine in pretty much all content
when played correctly u mitigate far to much damage
That sounds more like it
Need to get gearing then
Whatever you have with highest ilvl gear you have
Prot has a lot of hp, but if you're coming from blood dk you'll need to adjust to some crucial things
Specifically, if your hp moves at all you probably made a mistake. We're the polar opposite of bdk when it comes to damage intake
I mean, you're gonna get spiked no matter what, it's a matter of trying to predict and prepare for them.
The less your health moves the better.
We want our damage intake to be as predictable as possible, because then it's easily healed.
Trickle hots mostly from aoe should keep us topped, thatβs the goal
Iβm either getting a CoH echo or Iβm getting GA no in between
That sounds reasonable, so an actual tanky tank
We're bricks, 100% proactive about damage, bdk is 100% reactive
Any guides outside icy veins for recommended rotation for prot warrior?
My max mythic is 20 and wanna check my rotation/damage mitigation
You keeping block up?
Posting logs here will help, as people here can help you identify mistakes and where to make improvements
I can type it out for you if you'd like
It's the same rotation regardless of the font you read it in tho
bdk presses drw and is a prot warrior idk about that one
And yah logs + videos are the best methods for identifying errors
What do you use to log and export the logs of a dungeon?
I try as much as I can
Sure
Are you saying itβs same as icy veins?
Theres no "rotation", its just a bunch of prios depends on the situation
Good day people is this any good of a trinket for prot in M+ only.
its not very good no, its better than the other trinket u have equiped tho
so codex no good for prot?
this is just an alt i dont play much just like some m+ for fun
so i still dont know much, fairly new to prot.
codex is the worst trinket for prot
heard defense matrix is good from guardian
it is
so matrix and what is the secound one that is good?
OWS matrix and aegis
alright thank you mate π
yes
Use your CDs on CD
shield Slam whenever possible
IP to avoid overcapping, revenge when everything else is on cd
with glory + double legendary + proper reprisal usage you generate enough rage that you really shouldnt have dead globals, and spending rage is important to maintain banner
?
Guess so
well its more dont ignore them
plan their uses
you know ahead of time what the combat cadence will be like
unless you're world first
this trinket doesnt do a whole lot, it only procs once per minute and then only on 1 target
3070, same as before but newer version basically
better FPS, thats all ineed to hear
My 5070 xt is still going strong even on an large ultra wide monitor at 4K
I do want to go for a 3080 though
The 3080 is a good card if you can find a new, not used for crypto at a good price
They're going down for sure, my pal just nabbed a 3090 for 750
Hell yeah!
Legitimately the 4000 cards fail massively compared to the 3000 in price per performance, and that's before the priced plummeted
Hell, in a few weeks the 3000 cards might reach AMD level of PPD if they drop another 20%
does game higher frame rate ? yes > can i afford it? yes > can my system handle it? yes > = i buy it
its not that weird of a statement, many classes might hold a CD to allow things to align, for us we generally do not
well yeah i realized u were talking specifically about offensive cds
But even then i dont think its always true
Could be worth to hold rage generators like last stand to make sure you have it in execute
LS yeah since it's a longer cooldown and sending it is less likely to mean you get an extra cast in the fight
Our other CDs are just so short
yea, that's why i said generally, there's always judgement calls, but tbh that's what's half the fun for us and why i still miss the Legion AM that affected everything
Anyone fancy taking a look at this run please, see if there is any feedback? https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/hPj1WmcqfKHMzb2y/
well I see it didnt quite read banner right lol cause theres no way it was only up for 7% of the run
Just looking at it quickly, needs more conq banner casts and uptime
even focusing on SB and IP banner should be at least 40%
check details and make sure

i still dont have my shield yet, did my first key of S4 on my shaman, got shield as only option
please tell me your first cast of banner was not 14 minutes into the dungeon
because i can tell you thats your number 1 problem right there if so
you can βfocus on IP and SBβ as you put it while you have banner up. they go hand in hand
Yep, you should be pressing banner on your first pull and then trying to keep it going forever
more than that, banner helps with focusing on SB and IP
You've overcapped a ton of rage, that can all be going into IP to keep Banner going
Overall you're just not pressing enough buttons, you should be hitting Revenge a lot more than you do
if youre still confused on how everything coordinates with banner, check the vid in pins.
You cast Intervene twice, should be using it on cooldown with Reprisal
6% and 7% banner uptime indicates you might not truly understand how interacts
or rather what your βgoalβ should be, which is dump that rage to keep that thing up
second week of mythic raid tanking; its all coming together πͺ
nope, junk ring
other than blocked hits, conq banner uptime is basically the metric that defines the entire class
only casting it 4 times per instance is kind of insane
you need to press a lot more buttons especially revenge
please tell me you're not only casting revenge on procs?
your cpm in junkyard is slightly under 40
it needs to be around 80
dumb question since i didnt check logs, i'm assuming he definitely has Glory right?
yeah he does but coulda been bugged i guess
and when they did they were spending basically 0 rage to keep it up
i think you guys are underestimating the possibility that they just don't understand the rage machine
so it was weird they didnt do it for 14 min in jy
it happens
when learning to ride a bike you're not that focused on how to shift yet
if you were focusing on IP you would have more than 7% uptime, try to remember that this entire class is 100% dedicated to keeping up banner and spamming as much rage as possible
also your glory might be bugged so uhhh
unequip/re-equip it
i genuinely can't tell
You can tell just by checking the duration.
If all of his casts are exactly 15s uptime then it's bugged.
If one lasts 16s+ then it isn't.
its ok, baby steps!
Yeah all his casts are like around Β± 20 seconds.
Is there a good weak aura that shows ending total duration similar to the uptime one for frost breath on dkβs
https://discord.gg/acherus seems more like a question for this discord as its about DK's
what duration do you mean? banner uptime?
he asked for similar
not for breath one

my logic would be go find the guy who made it
and my logic from there is since its a DK ability, he probably hengs out in DK dicsord and then can tell you how he made it
there are lots of existing WAs for warrior timers, I just don't know which one they're looking for
sure, every WA dev is on class discords
?? no, often, but not always devs will leave their emails in wago files if you read the page
I can easily adjust that one to do what I want, I thought there might be a cleaner nicer one that people knew of. But sorry I asked in the class discord if anyone knew of a class weak aura that existed and referenced a different class. May I burn in hell for all eternity.
Yes, just something clean that tracks it, I'm just adjusting the one I mentioned not worth interacting with humans.
I think I use this one https://wago.io/8Z7bmQgP7
Sorry everyone got weird
Have one like that I made quick for my prot group, really want one that shows a total on completion. Ty though!
anyone else unable to log into retail? did OW2 break bnet?
Screw fell out of my cursed chair ):
leach prob better
nah don't think leech is worth dropping 6 ilvls
Quit beating it off sitting in your chair and it wont lose screws 
I remember raiding with my old chair it was missing a handle and if i sat wrong it would fall

you guys probably get this question a lot and im gonna say sorry in advance but at what % of haste did you guys get to comfortably keep up banner? im sweating at 28% (with into the frey) and the best i could get it to is 15sec remaining on banner cd . It's a new char so I still need the gear but managed to use the Zereth mortis currency to get 4p and have double leggo.
its not your haste
haste effects pretty little due to how much rage gen comes from non hasted sources
(charge,intervene,banner)
oh guess im just shit then, thought devestate shield slam reset procs would be part of it
im not saying haste doesnt increase your rage gen
it just doesnt increase it as much as you think it does
mythic + buff? should I get haste/ vers/ mastery/
Haste
only haste
Remember it'll be slightly easier in real content since you'll be able to intervene on CD
although you'll also have a million more distractions
so my stats are 16% crit/ 33% haste/ 39% mastery/ 18% ver.. what should I change.. this is for mythic +
just take highest ilvl everything, you'll be fine
Nice! It's all up from here
No I need to cast it to help keep aggro and what is cpm?
Casts per minute, so how many times you used abilities or a specific ability per minute on average
I feel like Iβm spamming my abilities already
I think itβs my rotation that is the issue
Play ravager better rage gen than itf
Check the video in the pins to see rotation and banner uptiming
my boomer neighbor bought a chair and he takes a screw andput it in the wheels so the wheels don't move on him
I want the wheels to move
The chair always sinks down after a couple hours
Have to pull the raise chair lever multiple times during gaming
And the arm rests are a sneeze away from falling off
Itβs like an extra action button irl
buy rubber wheels, then you can glide across all surfaces without damaging shit
like, 25 bucks on amazon probably
You need to air seal your hydraulics
I fucking hate my phone's tinyass keyboard and auto correct
Why don't they make an accessibility setting on these things called "I don't have babyhands you microscopic twat"
Some things I want autocorrected, some I donβt
I use a combination of swiping and typing
Swiping is op for using one hand
With like vaseline?
SwiftKey if your on Android is the answer
304, leech isn't worth str don't kid yourself
I think leech sucks until you have a whole lot of it
Like 3 to 5 percent may as well not even be there. Just my 02

Wondering what all your keybinds are for the spec? Anyone fancy sharing
the 1z5b square is op
Wut
i generally try to keep everything to 1 button press when possible. Keys that are very under utilized and I highly recommend rebinding to spells are Z, X, C, E, R, F and G. V, B, and T are also OK for some. I also recommend having spells on your mouse buttons. you dont need a fancy MMO mouse, but if you have 1-2 side buttons you might as well use them because theyre fast to hit. MouseWheel Up and MouseWheel Down are also really good for any abilities you have to spam alot. for instance, I put IP on there, but its different for everyone
Ye
thats a pretty good visual
1z5b square
thats causei made it up

Mouse buttons remapped to alt/ctrl/shift are also really good for doubling etc your keybinds imo
I think I have 48 including all pots and trinkets
you were closer on the first estimate
you gotta take 3-4 keys off for movement
which translates to like 12 ish once modifiers are considered
Word
unless you're an absolute fucking psychopath
Not yet
we only have time until 9
so we couldnt have finished the key, and its more value to do the 27 cuz depleted keys dont coutn for break the meta
I legit tuned in, said "If this ad ends and the btm isnt 5 tanks ima be pissed" the ad ends, it was 5 tanks i smiled, the stream ended
In theory it was the ideal entertainment
π
on the vod
I might later
BTW i always click your ads
I am your google ad sense
Just want you to know
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(its cause i cant sub)
it do be like that sometime
I mean idt Dvorak has any implication on your keybinds
But hard agree my guy drak knows what's up
What is dvorak
It's an alternate keyboard set up designed by some dork named dvorak
The idea is the most common letters are on the home row
To reduce hand movement while typing
Unfortunately, just like edison did to tesla
You guys donβt type telepathically yet?
Robert Qwerty fucking popularized a shittier model so what can you do
While doing the precast
the ones that unlock the boss?
you had me for a second there

H for heal, something that does a heal, like you heal your self, instant for a whole bunch, LOH or VR or WOG or somethin
yes
any tips for large pulls on warrior? I dont feel like we have a toolkit for it. I also get wrecked in atempting the same large pulls my paladin can do with ease. Pally gets more holy power/more self heals, monks get larger brew heals, etc. what do warriors do?
Stop damage before it happens
bears incarn, dk's... well they just dk. and when I do large pull and my health drops hard from magic or w/e.. I'm left hangin with no recourse to heal myself back up. its frustrating.
Warriors are 100% proactive tanks, if you're just plowing into mobs with nothing up you're going to get wrecked
All other tanks are reactive
shield is always up. I demo shout at start. what else is there to be up
banner up of course
I think I just stink with warrior :p.
Drop some logs
ysa I got wrecked on huntsman trash ill have to find tha tlog
Huntsman⦠trash?
So, that trash is cancer
They bleed right?
Ac debuff
Combined with haste buffs
Also charge is shadow damage so don't stand in it
pop spell reflect then walk into the pool as it grows
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so are you guys really able to keep banner up from the first pull throughout a dungeon? im starting to get the hang of intervening and leaping away, charging back . I do have trouble intervening away and then charging back sometimes without causing anything to change location
if i'm able to pull continuously, i'm able to keep it running, yeah
and then you just have to think about when you need to hold the recast for times where there's too much travel or RP or whatever
you often don't need to leap away, considering everything is slowed just walking a few steps can be enough to get to charge range
you definitely don't want to intervene and charge back to back, wastes a free revenge and probably overcaps
i just intervene melee
also many packs have casters/ranged enemies you can charge to for free
so do you also pop avatar last stand demo with banner or you do cycle through each
pop everything on pull
build that duration up huge
you just have to mash mash mash IP while you're going through those GCDs with LS up
okay cool love it. seems like its just more of a practice make perfect thing
yeah usualy im not generating enough rage and itll fall off between pack but im gonna work kiting one group towards the next more and things of that nature try to speed up the chain pulling safely. learning with pugs can be a hell of a learning curve
I learned with a FDK who really wanted to keep breath going haha
we were of the same mind
he would death grip for me to speed things up
is raged still based off damage taken at all? that may be like a lost in classic thing, wondering if you build more rage in higher keys. I havent noticed a difference but i havent looked for one tbh
it's heavily normalized, you only gain a fixed amount of rage by being hit and it can only happen once every few seconds
so it's basically the same so long as you're being hit, increased damage taken doesn't matter
gotcha yeah sometimes higher keys feel easier but thats probbably because of the better pugs lol
So this is like super scrub question. But i seem to pool a Lot of rage when i pop banner of and dont seem to be spending enough to not waste significant enough amount to not be messing my total duration ( i cureently am averaging around 1.5 minutes ) . Am i just not smashing IP and Reveng fast enough you think or i should just be spreading my other generators like Avatar , last Stand Demo shout more ?
You shouldn't need to spread out your CDs - probably just need to mash IP more, and also it's ok to skip Thunderclap to just press more Revenge when you're really really overflowing with rage and need to spend it
π thanks .
weave of warped fate vs splintered heart of al'ar, any reason to strongly prefer one over the other?
nop
strong reason to not use either
If you know you need a cheat death deal, just seeing if they worked different mechanically at all


