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by itself, was a fine ability. combined with CDR from Anger Management, became too much of a combo
it wasnt that you could do it. it was that you could do it every 30s
i know there will be lots of tuning till DF, but which tank u think will be meta in S1?
It's the kind of thing that would have to be a standalone ability
kinda true
tanks are reasonably balanced atm. meta isnt going to be set by current tuning. it's more likely to be set by The Personalities. some streamer or RFW pushing what they like best
meta not set by that at all, prot warrior was used in the WF sire kill yet, everyyone still thought it was shit
even tho obviosuly it could clear all content
i mean the used it not cuz he was good 😄
Not the greatest example but sentiment is right ye
Most people in here are not going to be pushing at a level where meta is even considered so just zug zug
doesnt matter if it was good or not did it show it could clear the content
i.e perfectly fine
yes
Streamers who don't play and have no idea how to play Warrior will always set us lower.
i know, but tell that those ppl who arent gonna inv in a +15 if ur not a meta class
and tbf the guy playing the warrior was playing it wrong as well
Meta doesn't matter for mythic raid even
ive never not been invited to a 15
when ive applied
Get a guild, run +20s with your guildies. GG Job Done
it's more about that herd FOTM mentality. they need a 'best'. if the tuning is balanced, they still need a 'best'. if they cant get it from comparing classes, they'll get it from logs and streams
ye thats it
We call those degens and redditors
okay but that doesnt stop them being dumb
We don't listen to those kinds around here
The kind of people who think they need an all-meta party comp to complete a +15 are the kind of people that I don't want to run a +15 with
ppl literally have made tier lists in beta with a few hours on each spec, that is not enough time to understand everything and all the new stuff @strong forum has spent around 50 hours on prot figuring stuff out and I bet he still doesnt know it all yet
The type of people who thought you needed an all meta comp for anything south of a 27 this entire expac are the type of people I don't want to run a single key with kekw
so how ppl can believe teir lists and stuff atm is beyond me
As the quote goes "One day I will be come rich and famous by inventing a device that allows me to stab people in the face over the internet"
you had people making tiers lists months ago when every single tank and talent was either broken or untuned
ppl want confirmation for what they dream up will be op and what they want to suck
like high ranked tanks are playing the classes wrong like completely wrong atm all the Theorycrafters see it and tell ppl that but no the streamer whos spent 3 mins on the class is right instead of the crafter whos spent hours and hours
so they can already start calling their friends meta slaves for wanting to try out warlock for a tier or some shit like that
Any sort of rating people come up with right now
Is going to be bullshit
Like
A week
Flat
and blame the community for never getting invited into a +5
I wanted to push 30 keys last season, but couldn't but it wasn't necessarily because I was a prot warrior, however it was related to dps not being good/meta enough. Correct me if i'm wrong but I didn't see a single top prot warrior not playing with a full/mostly meta comp in high keys, you just couldn't do it without survival/lock/rogue pumping and bringing all the utility going with them
i played with mm hunter / demo lock / ele shaman / rdruid, and they just couldn't deliver the damage needed to time anything above 27s
go figure records are set with meta comps
literally highest content is where meta matters
so top 50 guilds in raid progress
and top key pushers
thats it
but most people struggle to do 15s
Ye, 27 is p much the cutoff of meta beginning to matter
yeah, but that's where I want to be, top key pushing
most ppl doing keys struggle to do 15
Most people also struggle to remember their left and right if you ask them unprepared
issue is people stare at meta so long they're blinded to anything else
most of the player base dont even do m+
You gotta remember that over half of the playerbase never even sets foot in a Mythic Zero
You gotta remember that over half of the playerbase drinks glue
Including me
I fucking love that shit
my guess is people like to find any other reason for sucking at the game than the way they play and i know it cuz i was it, not that i am some crazy player rn but i've gone past that at least.
People often like to blame other people for them sucking at the game
Fairly true about 7/10 times
thats part of it, but it's also the fotm mentality. it takes more than reading a wowhead guide to play a class well. you dont get that practice and skill from swapping toons every time meta seems to shift
ppl refuse to believe they are bad, you see it all the time in here. 'I'm playing perfectly but im still dying' we look at a log and they arent playing closely to correctly, then we tell them and they argue and refuse to believe they are wrong
The one that sticks in my mind is a run where I was on my shaman with a DK tank, and the DK blamed me for not healing him, while running around with a permanently full blue bar
What level was the key
A +15
And the BDK needed heals?
My brother in Christ I tanked +18s on a BDK at 230 ilvl with one lego and 1 piece tier
back in legion when i started taking the game somewhat seriously the first thing i did was to look at a dps tier list and pick a spec and i'd blame anything but myself for general sucking at the game xd
And timed them
Esp a BDK in SL
Idk in what situation brew is in now

But tanks are hugely powerful now
i saw bdk on beta solo bosses in +15s
That’s sort of always just been blood’s specialty
I did always enjoy doing +15s and having healers go "I thought Warriors were supposed to need lots of heals" while I spammed the shit outta banner and IP
I'm still expecting a mass dungeon tune on beta
But if played well, pretty much every tank is close to immortal
Bdk obv still more than others cuz it's bdk
They're literally designed to work like that
i played healer for a while and i think it's crazy how much healing you need to pump into most tanks and then you get that guy that knows what he's doing and it's like playing a different game
I'm not actually reactivating my account until the 15th
Truth. Running both my Priest and my Shaman, I've seen tanks that I can basically ignore, and tanks that I have to constantly heal dump.
it's hard to like judge a tanks skill, like dps have logs and healers don't let people die
Have to admit, prepatch prot warr feeling pretty great
Just knocked out a 21 Streets, 22 Upper, 24 ID, 25 WS and 26 Grimrail on my ~277-283 warr (got some gear during the keys)
started with a 226 neck, 233 helm and 233 legs
welcome to pre patch where tuning doesnt exist
Feels amazingly sturdy
well yes partly tuning tho
Damage feels pretty meh though. I've tried weaving in more battle stances but
cause in m raid testing things did hurt a bit
Still not great at actively stance dancing
Medivh definitely felt like it deserved d-stance lol
Tru
Yeah, cleared the back half of Sepulcher tonight on my monk
and LoD hurt like hell
Kintessa was smackin' the shit out of me
Plan to bring the warrior into Sepulcher next week
Weird question that I don't know if anyone can help me with. I left SL season 1 in part because pugging m+ was a total nightmare back then. It was the only m+ season I played since early legion.
I recently watched Yumy's video where he reacts to OneAzeroth's m+ depeleted keys recap YouTube video. And a really common theme in the comments was that s1 SL m+ was super overtuned and that it was really unfair to tanks. This made me raise an eyebrow because I was under the assumption that was just how the game was. I didn't have experience with any other season.
So my question is this: Was SL s1 really overtuned for tanks? Did it get way easier to tank after that? I remember it being a fucking nightmare to get KSM as a bm because all the mobs hit so fucking hard and you basically had to hard kite every single pack. I'm starting to suspect that that season was an outlier, and tanks are really supposed to be able to actually tank more.
When they announced the DF m+ changes it kind of made me not want to come back because I remember sl season 1 already being so hard to pug. But if DF season 1 is closer to the other seasons then I could see it actually being OK.
I don't know if "overtuned for tanks" is the phrase I'd use
SL s1 was tank apocalypse
but basically it was tuned such that kiting was incredibly important
Tanking has never been worse
It was pretty rough if you weren't a VDH
i mean 226 ilvl was pretty low for SL1 tbh and that was max gear
Cuz vdh was meta cuz they could run away the best
but i dont push so i felt fine puggin my like 18s or whatever
tanking SL1 was glorified running for your life simulator
pop all cd's, pray you can generate enough threat for the entire pull in 8 seconds then run like mad
Ok that is really, really interesting. So I guess my next question would be, is DF season 1 looking to be like sl s1 again? Or does it look like it's going to be more like the other seasons? Because I have ZERO interest in playing again if it's gonna be like sl s1.
Df s1 is tank heaven
DF looks to be much more stand and deliver
on beta tanks are the least likely to die in pulls tbh
Df looks nothing like SL
You are beefy, you pull sizeably and most of your life is your own responsibility
Tanks are infinitely stronger
well they have made all tank easier to play and made their defensives better, basically because they want more ppl to tank
thank goodness. seriously. man i just let out a huge sigh of relief. not even kidding.
Healers are really there to keep the group up and fill in the gaps when CDs are down and/or you've fucked up, depending on the specific tank spec
Rather than babysit tanks
they also removed necro inspiring because they finally acknowledged that tanks are expected to control the route, the pulls, the pacing while tracking dps and healer cd's and having even more stuff to deal with was kinda bull
So far what I've done on DF beta, it feels much closer to WoD era tanking than Legion onwards where they removed tank independence
When I read the DF m+ changes I thought i was taking crazy pills. Because they're making the scaling harder and making you go above 15. And the last I remembered, from s1, was getting to just a fucking 15 was a god damn hellish nightmare. It sounds like it's a lot easier now.
s1 also had to have % perfect routing to not get slapped by random prides early on
I really enjoyed season 1 tbh
which was brutal if someone ass pulled and you had to bust out the math to not get pride mid pack
But there were definitely a few egregious spots
Remember how brutal the packs after 1st boss in Plaguefall were?
So I shouldn't panic? DF s1 looks to be much more reasonable?
Little soldiers hit way harder than they should have
DF s1 is entirely different. good different/
pending any idiotic tuning by blizz of course, but should be fine
DF so far, tanking wise, looks great
Vdh
VDH probably
Yeah
Prot Warr disgusting in keys
Even tho pwarr 
Pwar is great, but vdh is better


at 70 pwar picks up a lot of value talents. VDH has most of their good shit right now
Vdh gets spooned cuz pwarr is chad in df
You want to be #2 though right? cuz then you still get parties pretty easily but blizz is less likely to nerf you 🧐
Brew does phenomenal damage atm
Vdh also gets to play frailty + fiery brand build rn
But feels pretty squishy in Sepulcher
Glass cannon
atleast on LoD
tbh there shouldnt be much or any nerfs, all tanks are even pretty much in terms of survivability
Jailer is very Brew favored
they just need to fix some bugs and buff druid damage
Or take a pwarr and watch him take 0 dmg
honestly Brew handles Jailer better now than it did before due to Diffuse giving them an extra CD for p2
I really appreciate all your time in answering my questions. You really made me feel better. Thanks.
whats the usual uptime on banner on st?
Prot warrior still handles jailor better
perma on st too?
Brew has stagger
100%
yh aight ty

yes
I know why will i fix it unlikely
Dont really care
15s are easy
Why push
Skill issue 
feel like banner is not pug friendly. im low % also
nah just smthn we gotta get good with yh
i haven't played prot since bfa
new to banner myself
well, pug healers may need breaks for mana etc,.. banner ticking down...
they can drink u can pull
u arent going to die while they drink
espically now drink is front loaded
Maybe its not cant actually remeber maybe it gets faster over time.... regardless just because a healer is drinking doesnt mean u have to stop
You arent or shouldnt die in the seconds it takes for a healer to drink
Is banner going to be in DF or is that gone?
its gone
Don't hate me but I'm glad lol
Gonna miss it especially right now where it it’s easy to keep up
I didn't like banner in s3/s4
but mostly because I really didn't like Reprisal
minmaxing it felt really janky and annoying
cool to do the first couple times then just annoying after and kind of camera fucky
Now that we don't need Reprisal to use banner properly, it feels pretty great
There are 4 builds pinned for m+
Can you share?
there shared in the pins
hey all, couple of questions for anyone that can help me:
- is rend worth casting if I apply it via blood and thunder?
- is slam / whirlwind worth casting over revenge?
no and no
group wall already chopped 😦
we've been saying for weeks its gunna happen
thanks Jakey
i just got 20 mythic confounding thing.. now i'm just choosing what to upgrade.. my gear at the moment is like this https://raider.io/characters/us/frostmourne/Greystormz?utm_source=addon
^
i have a choice of devastated world shard, old warriors soul, ruined crest lordaron
so u have ows
yah i do
my current trinket was the highest ilevel
should i upgrade it then
it is fated item
so u cna only upgrade ows out of what u listed
i have 3 choices of whati want to max
well tbh i think ows kinda fallen off now as we dont need the haste, think scars RDM and aegis are all better now tbh
was running RDM and scars last night
i do have aegis
RDM is that from jailer trinket scars?
oh wait
ok defensive matrix
yah i see alot of ppl running that
both at max 304 ilevel
Ilvl on trinkets isn't all that important
It's better to have the correct trinkets at an alright ilvl
Anything between 291 and 311 is perfectly fine
how about the rest of my gear like weapon and shield
Aegis would even be amazing at 265
or should i invest on the tier piece
yah thats true
i'm just confused of what i should upgrade
was thinking ows then haste not relevant
Ows, and if you can, get your hands on rdm
Yea my prot atm is giga scuffes
I think im using soleahs at 298 and the cheat death from cn at normal
Been thinking of putting on mythic scars though since all i have is dps trinks
currently using a 288 eye of command and 288 stun grenade lmao
Gonna have to grind hard this week to have passable trinkets for when I bring him into raid next week
I was a fury main the past 2 tiers just enjoyed messing around with prot especially with how good it looks in df
@strong forum Do you get this buff even if you dont use thunderous roar ? so its active at all times as long as you have this talent?
yes
That is epic
Ye just wasnt sure if it was applied after or before using TR
So we get 5 more talent points while we level on class tree and another 5 on spec tree right?
Yes
Class tree kinda easy but spec tree has so many choices 
Spec tree is nice tho. You end up with enough flexibility to take some of those side talents if you need it. Boss does X ability, you can shift a point into a talent that counters and not feel entirely gimped
what is rdm?
Reactive Defense Matrix
thx
Im using wowhead build and doin kinda crap damage😆 please advice fellows, i have read the guides and try and do what it says😇
Hit buttons more
I be spamming!!😆
i dont even know what the wowhead build is
but your probably playing wrong tbh
but can tell without logs

Will log when i get home and bring🙏
Also pretty good dam now
Oh yeah truuu
Well
You do lose around 4% of raw dmg by just losing str
And since we have even more Str modifiers now
Sack needs to do alot of dam
rdm also is like 22k
Ya matrix is fucking nutty now
which lego should i use? Wowhead says Reprisal and here you say The Wall or Seismic Reverberation?
You can play reprisal, it's still very strong, but any legendary will be good
On the 22 gd it did 1.1K
Which is kinda good ?
Did 15k overall in a 26 grimrail at 281 on my pwar
Idk i just go zugzug
But think I empowered Thunderclap too much by accident
Need better trinkets and to adjust some ui elements to better track Seeing red or w/e
hello sorry if thats answered already but are conduits streamlined now or is it just a visual glitch my juggernaut even conduit says 0% even tho im not talented into it
wondering if it does anything
Visual glitch
so you should still aim for higher conduits ?
Yes
Thank you sir thats all have a nice day
If you use it you'll see the buff itself is correct
For some reason the conduit tooltips in the soulbind ui are very bizarre
yea like my banner shows on all ranks that it gives 10% strength but on the buff it says 16% for now
i just resubbed yesterday so im still on the grind
why did u do so much more than the other warr? and jesus VDH busted xD
built diffy
It's important to note the gap should close a bit at 70
Currently DH basically gets everything it wants at 60 with Kyrian replacing a few talent points
Conduit tooltips are bugged
Thunderous Roar, Shield Charge and Ravager will be pretty giga
yea were missing alot of juice
I'm opting to play shield charge + ravager rn, cuz I like the burst dmg
And the rotation is pretty stale without them
i kinda miss shockwave now wtb 1 more point
what do you take away instead
rotation kind of sucks cause u take outburst and its broken
That'll probably help me too
I play the "no shield spec" build from pins
I don't have indom or outburst
Yeah you lose a good chunk of self healing playing that build
Having to do calculus to shield slam empower without tclapping 1 stack earlier
Just make your TC a diff colour when you're at 7 stacks of seeing red
And voila
You now know that you shouldn't press TC
True, more talking about the slight delay on tclapping you have to do sometimes to insure you can get the empower on the shield slam
It do be like that
yep
Might be partially a problem with my 19% haste though
Farming Mechagon rings and clearing all 3 raids tomorrow for OWS
Best prot warr race animations and mog wise
GO
DID
Currently HMT but thinking about going Draenai
Love me some male Draenai built like fridges
Shame Lightforged racial ignores damage amps
All racials do
They ignore self damage amps but not amps on target
So monk WoO works with vulpera racial for example
Very sad though that monks can't be LFD 😦
Wth
just go into the Outburst child WA, and change the Trigger Aura Name from Outburst => Violent Outburst
what is there even to do in Prepatch?
Nothing
does it make a big diff to gear for lvling?
meme around trying different shit in keys
Just fucking around
Well yeah ofc the gear helps leveling
violent outburst at max stacks should be consumed with thunder clap for aoe and shield slam form ST or always shield slam? sorry if stupid question
always ST
not at all anymore
or i dunno if they changed alot of the rage gen, but with Tier it was always ST
ye but the rage which gives Revenges?
Is there a target count ballpark?
Revenge is worse and TC is better?
@strong forum might know the target where u change i have no clue
6+ outside of avatar
4+ during avatar
there u go
Good to know, ty
because of UF?
Si
+6 lol
perfect thank you @strong forum
so if u go Imovable Object its always +6?
Yes
Is that accounting for an extra Revenge worth of rage from shield slam?
si
Played my warrior last night. I'm loving infinite shield block, and the massive armor and Dr I gained
I know that complicates it a bit
it will
its why u never used it on TC in the past
because it was never worth cause of the revenge casts
i would presume
well u still get a decent chunk with HR and the wall tbh
ah
But since in large target situations you get flooded with rage from bloodsurge
I don't take it into the equation
Yes, so do i
Nice nome you have improved your wasted rage
I'm sub 1% of rage overcapping now
I've come to the conclusion that it's not very much avoidable in SL if you go for max dam
As nobody had me beaten who wasted less rage

I mean im also losing to nome

But im also the only one who has less rage wasted than nome
well
If I rend, I don't need to put it on my bars, right?
point still stands
Would the other specs play Thunderclap?
No clue wrong channel for that
Arms does
how do i get class colored party/raid frames?
and how do i get different layouts for 25 / 40 man raid
Search Class in the options
Display class colors willl pop up
Layouts you need to go to edit ui and click the frame
It will allow you to select the size, scale and direction
ye but when i swap from 25 to 40 it moves
i cant have different width for 25 and 40
Ah yeah not yet 😦
Boys is prot owning in prepatch?
Make a new profile completely but it won’t automatically update you can just swap profiles
Worst tank atm
Jk we rock
😛
laughs at prot pally and bear
You will have a much lower rage generation in DF than you currently have in prepatch.
Not really
Once you get to 70 you should have some additional Rage generator tools
Extra talents don’t really make up for loss of banner.
Losing banner is significant
Playing keys on live vs beta feels quite different
Rage gen will be absolutely lower
Rage wise
Like rn banner makes up for 25% of my rage gen over an entire key
We're just flat out gonna lose that
With barely any more income of other rage sources
Losing 80% haste etc will have a big feel difference also
Just lower haste in general at start of expac and no more shrouded buff.
Hello guys, what covenant should I use in pre-patch for prot warr?
Necrolord
Necro is best, or Kyrian if you CBA learning how to play around banner (which I wouldn't entirely blame you for right now, with how little time there is left)
Thank you guys, I am new to prot warr and I wanna try to learn it properly 🙂
Anger Management is key; spend more rage to generate more rage. The key to Protection Warrior is to get too angry to die.
Hey guys im looking for a Tank spec for df.
Would you recommend prot if you are not a die hard warri player?
Like is the spec in a good spot
You should play whichever tanks playstyle you enjoy most
Easy to Learn; Hard to Master
i dont think its really that hard to master now ither
Do you think it runs smooth? Or does it feel clunky? And normaly my Focus is on m+
I mean Im mostly just a door knob and I feel comfortable playing it
Its smooth to me, a lot of the stuff feeds into each other
The point with Protection Warrior is that we are the kings of mitigation; we simply take less damage than everyone else. The playstyle has a high APM (Actions Per Minute) because we run through our off-GCD defensives pretty rapidly to dump Rage, and through our on-GCD Rage builders rapidly to gain it. The underlying strategy for Warrior is to always be using your abilities to generate Rage, and spending Rage makes your abilities come around faster (this is Anger Management).
its like "fuck you im to angry and busy to die"
If you're worried about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome don't play Protection Warrior, is the only caveat
Like the movie ‘Crank’
I legit wear a wrist brace lmao
really bummed about unbreakable will
saaaaaame
have been having lots of fun saving teammates with a charge of wall
it was broken AF bro, let it go
Least its not as spastic in DF as it is in SL
yeah, just seemed different than your average "take less damage" spell
If the DPS are taking damage that's a Them Problem. Or Possibly a Healer Problem.
probably too busted but was interesting and fun
No one is arguing it wasn’t busted. That was also why they removed it lol
It's going to take me a while not to hit Intervene every 30s
lol right
yeah I keep mousing over party members reflexively to intervene them
I used to have a macro that would intervene focus target, and just set the biggest melee DPS as focus
usually my Fury Warrior friend
What legendary are you guys running now a days?
Right now i feel like damage intake is so low, i mostly use last stand liberally to save myself a few SB gcd and do more dam
ah i just like using focus stops/interrupts too much to use it like that
15 gambino with some of the homies alts, so funny at the minute hey
Did you hit IP once by yourself?
How is protection in prepatch have not played yet on vacation
Looks like some mad rage overcapping
That IP usage is more questionable than codex lol
brah
You spend rage to get CDR on your abilities to do more damage
That IP usage is terrifying hey
Not that ‘it’s a 15 I didn’t need IP’
IP is not a button to press "when you need it"
You press IP to prevent overcapping rage to make use of it
And it lower avatar cd
This is how healing breakdown should look
It still does that right
hell yeah
Also ip also reduces half of melee dame take bby 50 right
Any good Talent trees? For raiding an m+. i‘ not really happy about what I found
@oblique garnet how much leech do you have?
17%
Pins have 5
You basically also get 5% from talent trees
10%
10
Even better
going to adjust the IP usage here
Just always hit IP if you would otherwise overcap
Is IP on the gcd
So don't worry about other things just press it
Don’t worry abt IP max and not going over that. Completely irrelevant.
Press it always if you would cap rage otherwise.
Don’t just press it so your sit at 0 rage all the time.
Yea don't do that
No SBlock?
Pwar now feels like old blood dk like mop days blood dk, literally can’t die and we have so much absorb and self healing now, I feel like I can solo raid bosses
Do harder content
How often do you guys use slam now a days?
u dont
15 streets, maybe overfocused on the IP
I dont know what your doing but its all kinda of wrong
probably not gening rage
if u could log please that would be great
Oo not going shockwave/
yeah not enough ss too much ip
i was getting that much damage out of SS in 1 raid encounter
not enough rev
go necro?
Find a less shitty trinket also
i have tried and yet i cannot
do lfr
1.6% dmg
all wings in all raids
Is hilarious bad
saving last dinar for JZ prevention
wait hol up, I just came back and hate LFR, what is this doing lfr and buying trinkets?
RDM best yeah?
That's my dmg breakdown from GD27
I don't even play outburst, if I did. SS would be even higher
Looking at your logs, your uptime on CB was 91% and you didn't really spam IP either
I think I'm spamming IP too much haha
Define to much
Like, I had way more IP casts then Revenge
Do you spam it so you don’t have rage to use on revenge and sb?
You wanna IP so that you don’t overcap rage. You cannot spend enough rage by just hitting revenge.
In aoe at least.
I was focused on keeping up Banner without Reprisal, but think I went a bit over board
Banner rn is a non mechanic
Banner keeps itself up unless you spend ages between packs.
The aoe helps for the st
Yea, I didn't do much Prot in SL so I wanted to give Banner the good ol' college try now but I definitely think I IPed way, way too much
You can see there what I'm talking about. Still learning but, you can see my Revenge dam was ass cause I was IPing way too much. Definitely don't need to do that after review.
which build are you running here
As I said above, still learning again + IP spam too much
Nah im washed
The "Max m+ dmg" build from the pins, but it's on the squishier side, I recommend one of the first 2 builds linked for beginners
Hell yeah will check it out, mines scuffed
Are you even tanking in your keys nome with 5 tanks?
@strong forum you went with a 1.5 min cd ravager instead of outburst why?? Ss outburst hits so hard and gives good rage and if you were aoe focused you could just outburst more thunderclaps that slap hard? What’s the argument for ravager? I saw the cd got increased and I said meh nvm
its less damage overall
I’m nopers’ing u u just can’t see it unless you wanted to add it or whatever 👉👈
Yeah but outburst provides more survivability with the constant extra rage gen imo
u dont need the rage gen in aoe at all
Not like we need it now but we will in the future
Later on I’m saying will you change up in DF?
A couple mobs sometimes
Aggro is pretty shared between each of us
Depending on who has CDs
Well duh, in DF you'll have alot more points available
That's when I get the remaining points in the middle
I don’t like ravager in this pre patch is all my argument is
Think about the build like this
I like middle more
You sacrifice 3 defensive talents and 1 offensive talent
To get 3 offensive talents and 1 meh talent
We’ll I guess I plan on running +30s and up so I went more defensive
You are squishier with that build, 100%, but it's pseudo df and I wanna have more buttons
It's just a build that's playable and fun, not recommended for actual keys obv
In normal keys I'd play the seismic build
I would not necessarily say go with what nome is using as you will be tanking 100% of the time in keys and he is tanking 20% of the time.
Everyone picking revenged cost extra rage does more dam talent or no?
But if you don’t die then go max dam
Yes
Okay just making sure
Barbaric Training. And yes.
Warrior chads
I hate it on any smaller pulls ngl

Finally tried the new talent system last night on live servers
It feels great
Love shield charge
So is the consensus that Honed Reflexes is underwhelming? Based on the number of SS resets I was getting last night, hard to see much value from a 1 sec cd reduction.
Yeah, unless the pummel CDR is useful for some explicit purpose I can't see it being worthwhile
May need to go back bear after warrior nerfs
😂
Hello everyone! I’m working on my banner uptime, can you get 100% on the single target dummy? Do you need reprisal for that?
yes and no will be hardish tho
Yes it is underwhelming, if you can manage to snipe SS almost perfectly you get roughly 1 more SS per minute
But in that it's better/equal to sidearm
Thanks! Gotta work on it then. I’ve noticed that there is no rage generated when I Shield Charge. I assume that had been reported by many already?
meh 🤷
strange, it was generating rage for me last night
Just tested, received 20 rage on dummy
Weird, I'll report it on my end then... Maybe there is a conflict with something if I have a different setup somehow
@strong forum your DF WA's SB tracker load was set to outburst -- also i dont know if marok's ip tracker is supposed to only show numbers or both numbers and the ip icon but its only showing numbers
Take another talent instead and then retake it.
did you recently swap specs?
@mellow quartz will try when I get home, thanks for the tip.
@lusty grotto yes a few times, maybe it's similar to the unity bug...?
/PTR
i dont think there is a bug with spec swapping, but i know someone mentioned that talent issues were solved by spec swapping in beta


Hmm wonder if Aegis is even worth it now
probably not, unless youre doing 40s lmaooo
i guess i could mention a few mage bosses in tyrannical coughmedivhcough
Makes sense if it would give rage, now you use Charge for rage and then use this point blank
huh
I have a feeling people are going to get sad when DF starts after having played prepatch war with banner and shrouded haste buffs 🙂
Yes I updated SB, and IP is supposed to only display as text
I'm gonna try Necro tonight. I've been playing kyrian just bc I was so new before the patch
hmm it seems the guardian discord is having a convo about pwar being shit at taking Magicdamage
Great
nice ty! is there a way i could show the icon though on that implementation? i couldnt find how
People thinking pwar is bad is good for us
That discord is big sad
i mean it has been true for years
but at least we have some more tools to deal with it now
And brew needs nerf eh
All I did was turn the icon alpha to 0 
So OWS with RDM is the way to go for Prot? 😄
ok ill try that 👍
Ya rdm is huge now
SCARS and RDM


RDM btw?
is pwar rising in populatiry 😮
yes
?
aah reactive defense...
Reactive Defense Matrix
Reactive Defense Matrix
i dont have it 😢
Sack is also a good m+ option as its doing 6% of my overall
what are thosee???
trinkets
bought shard for my last dinar 😦
ok so fish for it in all difficulties then
LFR and the up with heroic or mythic tokens or w/e
is the AJ conduit tooltip bugged
yes it is
Yes
yes
yes tooltip bug
okok
Scars?
Fueled by violence TALENT does not work atm
is that because u have the conduit in?
Don't we take Brutal Vitality anyway?
not if u have the conduit
Nah
Optimizing gear with 1 month left is a bit try hard now if you don’t have the items already 🙂
Does it work on beta?
Dunno havent played pwarr at all on beta
does juggernaut talent combines with ashen juggernaut conduit? In theory these are two different things, but talent supposed to replace conduit in future
I was noticing this
Overall I feel very "wet noodle" while leveling as prot
Near unkillable, but damage is lacking in a serious way, some DPS can pull off of a warrior even pumping revenge
kinda seems like its a gearing issue whenever someone says that
dmg during leveling scales in a weird way, so its pointless to care about it
Are you changing stances to get more DPS?
i sit in battle stance
is prot execute being shit intended or no?
I thought that was the case so I swapped to full looms with gems etc and dh, fdk and destro locks can yank mobs
That's doubling down on ae talents
yeah i guess that's just leveling exp
i ran keys with enh shamen and locks that were destroying meters last night and they didnt pull threat once
Definitely a bummer to be excute nerfed since it’s one of our strengths but I’m fine with it as long as we keep 100% block and blast the aoes
Yeah like from a tank perspective I have yet to die
That inudes soloing bosses after the party dies
i just wondered cuz not actually playing currently and have just seen people complaining about it, makes sense though
It's probably intended
but it shouldn't be as impactful as people make it seem, including yourself
"execute nerf - brought to you by Death knight tears"
Yeah but banner execute was pumping
Shame
Seismic or The wall for Necro keys. Have OWS and SCARS
Seismic
Swap OWS for RDM?
There any good shield charge / charge macros? Or doesn’t work?
Should be able to do it as a modifier key macro if you really want it on a single button
But I’m lazy 🤣
is there a good one button charge/intercept macro?
its better if you use SC to put giga dmg on packs
Ya I’ll just do a modifier I suppose
instead of charging just for charging
If you macro them together
since it can be done on melee range
You only get the benefit of 1 spell
But use both
If you charge-shield charge, you put shield charge on CD but didn gain rage or do any dmg
Good point
You can't get TR rn
Ranged interrupt
funny boss fight 😄
You only get 5 points below 3rd gate
group died and just stood there 100% hp for 4 mi n
This has been my experience several times
Looks like gobbamak
What happend with the lvl70 builds from beta channels?
feels like bfa prot again
Again? 3 days in a row….
blizz being blizz
I have very different memory of BFA
wdym never being able to die as prot warrior and doing same dps as dps ? 😄
remeber at end i put on 50% td could do 200k as tank in dungeon
I was prot in 8.0
yea, healing is just to keep the group alive lol
not even close
But df pwar is vastly superior
I also enjoy chewing salted glass shards
In every way
played prot war whole bfa and we were crazy tanky then aswell
not as now but we were
just saying gameplay wise feels fun again
what key level were you running?
We were alright, but most people confuse bfa with vers stacking s4
It plays more like a dps spec imo, lots of buttons to press off the gcd
8.0 prot did a ton of damage but was difficult af to play well
or twilight dev lottery 🤷♂️
mate before they nerfed clap that was fun
if you were running TD you werent running high enough keys
You either didn't miss a CD or rage bank or you died
The main thing about bfa was easy to play, and dungeons where 90% dmg was pure melee dmg and spell reflect abuse
And obv dmg output
No, you didn't run high enough keys then (with TD), but you had a TD set laying around for the drunken friday nights where you just wanna laugh 😄
corruption brrrrrrrrrr
I ran TD until 25s
ah yes of course
Fuck vers
exactly
I wanna work for my surv, not be given it to me
but thing is bfa tanking was a lot easier due to op as trinkets aswell
every tier we had some insanse tank trinket
Eh?
Like sure, urchin and edict was nice
Nzoth trinket was bonkers
But besides that, SL offered better trinkets in sod
Rdm and aegis are disgustingly strong
Aegis is so strong it'll be good for all of DF btw
They have to destroy this trinket with DF launch
shell urchin edict prism eye
all decent trinkets
but i just didnt like designs of sl trinekts 😄
the self harm stuff from vault is gonna be juicy
alright lets see what they did
pretty sure they might have merged the nerfs in
oh nope
I just imported my first prot build and it removed everything from my action bars 😦 is that normal? PRetty sure it dident do that when i imported fury builds yesterday
I found an ignore pain WA and this is one of the options. Doesn't IP only scale with attack power and vers? I don't understand the point of this option
outburst and fueled still bugged
its weird but outburst is going into seeing red at 6 stacks
wow they added 2min to the AA timer and 4min to the AV timer
IP caps at 30% max HP
This wa scans the tooltip of ignore pain and knows how much 1 cast of IP does
With this you can set up when it should change colour
worrying about overcapping IP max atm is just kinda pointless
The only thing that changes the value on the tooltip is your AP and vers though right?
Yes
The point of this option is, it changes colour based on how close you are to IP cap
if your IP gives you 30k, but you are 10k away from cap, it will change to alert you
Or you can set it up to only change colour when 50% of 1 IP cast would be "wasted"
And not 80/100/20% or however much
Ah I see
Maybe IP scales better with more gear but right now IP is only a 10k absorb and 28k max on my warrior
So I'm not really having a problem with wasted casts
Don't pay attention to ot
Press when needed don't overthink it, it's not stagger or optimizing deathstike
Press when needed and press when about to overcap rage
It's a rage dump, use it as such
Which is a need
Ya but people treat it as a defensive
Not as a rage dump
Just look at fotm reroll tanks who perma sit on 100% rage
Although ae tanking you can lay on the IP button non stop and still cap rage at times
It's like runic power right 
Should I be going for 100% uptime on it?
Stop thinking about it
Just press
As long as you're not starving yourself out of block
Its over guys. Please all BDKs that rerolled prot, we just got nerfed, time to jump ship quickly to VDH before its too late!
T_T
Quickly! Here is the link to the VDH Discord: https://discord.gg/zGGkNGC
I just checked the pins, did reprisal go bye bye in M+

lol what a time for me to speak up

y no enh shaman
But it doesn't apply to me because I came from Brew
eww gross
I wish we'd get a little nerf
except for the beer of course
One that can be blown out of proportion
we lost AOE shield wall, its all over
How do i do more damage as prot!
So we can scare the fotm away
should all re roll guardian druid tbh
Pull bigger
It's okay I wasn't taking AoE shield wall anyways
👆
I'd just tell them I was taking it
Im only taking it atm so i can use the wall legendary
is there a set rotation for prot warrior or more of a priority list
"Oh yeah, giving you shield wall"
AOE Shield wall was so good T_T
you should have seen last night plka
dont take ither and use your talent point somewhere else
people were malding
It was gonna make us Mandatory for high m+
"OH NO MY REROLL"
now people have options 😦
tbh this isnt new nome has been saying for weeks dont get attached to it
Ss for rage, tc for bleed, revenge for slap
it was always going to go
"why did i level this warrior to 40, shame on me"
I mean it was gonna be mandatory for raiding aswell
2x prot warriors
With aoe wall
only half the raid tho
Yeah doesnt matter its 40% dr on low cd
4 Prot warriors
25%
@uneven mason ty
Well yeah i guess but still
They'll bring 2 more to DPS in bstance just for the wall







