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chilly brook
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And a significant amount of extra heals just from being healed?

mellow quartz
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If monks are the most reliant on healers and healers are getting a relative nerf then monks are getting a relative nerf

prisma crane
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healers get nerfed, most reliant on healers means they got hit the hardest, relatively

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its not hard to grasp

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no one is saying monks are fucked now

chrome falcon
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i am

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i'll get hyperbolic

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monk is unplayable

prisma crane
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except him

chilly brook
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I sincerely doubt there is any noticeable difference for monks

chrome falcon
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reroll ww or delete your characters

chilly brook
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And again most healers complain about not having anything to do

chrome falcon
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healers complain?

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sounds fake to me

uneven mason
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But they literally just got their second button

mellow quartz
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40% increase in damage is not insignificant

chilly brook
prisma crane
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people arent saying this change was a bad one, we're just discussing the relative gains and losses from it, even if ultimately low impact

median tulip
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It's best for BDK. It's ok for us, albeit it shifts our potential healing away from leeching off our damage output, which is a shame as I quite liked the idea of a somewhat assault focused tank. I don't know enough about the rest to comment.

Let's hope it makes all the FOTM people go back to BDK tho

chilly brook
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Which could also be somewhat offset by higher damage intake

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But again they are very good at dealing with anything other than dots or magic

sand drum
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wondering if swaping OWS for Salvaged fusion amp ? since I feel good on haste now in prepatch ?

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and be more pew pew dps ?

mellow quartz
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Will be interesting to see healers pov of this change in m+ this weekend.

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How they feel now

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Like the aoe guys in RLP

jagged pier
mellow quartz
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The big guys in shadow moon lol

sand drum
median tulip
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I will say, as someone who plays healer sometimes, that the change will make the player skill of the tank much more noticeable in terms of how much EHRPS the healer has to do. You'll barely notice it with a good tank, but a bad one will be a horrendous experience.

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Which is not a bad thing

mellow quartz
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EHRPS will only be an issue if the healing becomes a struggle.

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If it’s just a relative nerf but they still have no issues healing people up then it’s whatever.

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If they now can’t keep up in large intakes then it’s different.

outer thorn
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Am I reading this right that thunder clap will now cost 10 rage instead of generate 5 rage?

mellow quartz
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No

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Be careful looking at datamined stuff. Especially for abilities shared between specs.

outer thorn
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Im looking at the wowhead talent calculator, it says 0 rage on tc itself and 10 rage cost increase on blood and thunder

median tulip
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For us it's a generator, same as it ever was

outer thorn
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just a talent calculator bug then

mellow quartz
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Just ignore

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Wowhead thing

median tulip
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Not sure which calculator you're on. My wowhead looks like this:

outer thorn
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thats what it looked like for me yesterday too

median tulip
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🤷‍♂️

edgy bone
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What is our opinion on the seismic reverb legendary

mellow quartz
median tulip
edgy bone
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What talent point does it overlap with

mellow quartz
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with the wall 🙂

edgy bone
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Its in baseline warrior tree

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guess i already have it

median tulip
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Seismic Revereration is a talent now too

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Before you ask: No, it doesn't stack

patent osprey
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Before you ask: The tooltip on the legendary is wrong, even though it says 75%, it only does 30%. Same as the talent

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😉

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But if you want the open point, u can run the legendary for it

outer thorn
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Id hate to be a blizzard gm for the next few months lmao

minor helm
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Why they get paid to be dorks like us

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We’re just dorks

forest dagger
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Anybody else getting this error when trying to run a sim on raidbots?

uneven mason
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Prots don't sim

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Sheesh

scenic path
minor helm
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Real and true actually

forest dagger
balmy nacelle
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Damn, i just saw the pins that unbreakable will is going away and now im sad 😦

mellow quartz
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it's already gone

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on beta that is

balmy nacelle
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oh lo

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was looking at it on retail

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Just discovered it last night after trying prot for the first time since BfA

limpid kite
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Not pwar related, but anyone have problems with closing tabs with esc ?

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I used to close character panel with esc and I cant do it now. Its even frustrating in a key when I fatfinger achievments and I have to close it with mouse

covert sentinel
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can someone recommend an addon for the buffs and debuffs inthe top right corner?

mellow quartz
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to do what with the buff and debuffs?

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you can freely move them now with the standard UI

uneven mason
covert sentinel
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something tochange the look...the blizz thing is so..idk naste?

mellow quartz
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they don't allow you to change the default buff and debuff fields beyond the build in stuff

covert sentinel
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before the prepatch raven would dothat...is it gone since patch?

scenic path
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can I just say.

I'm going to miss banner.

RIP

mellow quartz
covert sentinel
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hm...sad but thy

limpid kite
uneven mason
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Ok only time I heard that glitch was from typhoon bugging

prisma crane
modern brook
mellow quartz
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didn't nome say none of the DF abilities are implemented in simc yet?

minor helm
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Damn that’s a month and a half of twitter verification

modern brook
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who needs simc

minor helm
modern brook
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just give me a screen shot of your bags and i can tell you bis

severe hatch
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So in regard to this 40% stamina and mob damage buff, does this not just raise Pwarr stocks even further relative to the other tanks, due to the percentage-based nature of IP and block?

modern brook
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i can make that up too if u want

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custom sims cost 3 dollars extra

mellow quartz
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FBV and BV value has gone down relatively but IP is still strong on its own given how much rage we generate and spam it

ocean bloom
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so brew stonks: 📉 dk stonks 📈

mellow quartz
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pretty much how I see it

prisma crane
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and warrior ______

ocean bloom
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warrior prob even?

mellow quartz
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doesnt hurt us much in a vacuum

ocean bloom
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in theory our spell reflects are bigger now too 🙂

prisma crane
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this is true

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assuming they actually allow us to keep any of the fun reflects

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back in legion we had lots, lately it feels like all the decent ones get removed

mellow quartz
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omg wanna see that SR on 2nd boss in shadowmoon burial now

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almost 4m damage per hit on a 15 now

prisma crane
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5.6M then

mellow quartz
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was 2.8m

prisma crane
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ooh

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either way, that's a buff i didnt think about

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again, provided they dont take it from us

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so much lately is just a deflect instead of reflect 😦 should just fucking rename the thing

mighty valley
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i can only remember them getting removed in SL when reflecting deleted raid mechanics

prisma crane
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there was a few in BFA iirc that allowed us to do pally level of fun stuff but they removed ours, pally could still do their thing

mighty valley
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mordretha scythe reflects were sweet

forest dagger
mighty valley
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synced up aetherdivers

modern brook
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i got u 3 dollars please :^)

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All sims are done by my proprietary formula

mighty valley
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holy shit this is in 3d

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i'm not even wearing glasses

radiant magnet
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seems legit

minor helm
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Crit is pog!!!!

tawdry aspen
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Nothing works so far. Even changing servers/factions/delete undelete. There are several posts in EU and US forums. Unless blizz does something ur char is completely bricked

mellow quartz
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just make a ticket and see what they say

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can't do much else

severe hatch
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Maybe it will be now idk

urban portal
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In most content

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You worry more about overcapping ip than not having enough

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I feel like this is net neutral or buff

urban portal
severe hatch
modern brook
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mooman gets the freebie so i can advertise my work

tawdry aspen
grave crane
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is it only on your warr that you cant take talents?

uneven mason
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Sounds sus

modern brook
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I had to uninstall peggle 😦

runic sparrow
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how the fuck did this guy do 41k on dausegne

severe hatch
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How many PI

modern brook
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0

jagged pier
runic sparrow
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i know, but 41k is still pretty absurd considering where the rest of the logs are at

severe hatch
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Anything is possible with the power of mote cheese

jagged pier
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hmm i wonder what he was cheesing on

runic sparrow
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yeah i see that it's motes, still absurd regardless

uneven mason
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Looks like some shenanigans

jagged pier
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not really siesmic

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and TC in avatar spam

uneven mason
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That was absurd

strong forum
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i wasnt allowed to pad on the gnashers

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cuz id just kill them

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😦

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i also couldnt tank them cuz they wouldnt heal off of me to be able to be abused by rogues

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so my bdk had to tank them

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pwar bad btw

jagged pier
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had to tank that 1 add to the side

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😦

tawdry aspen
strong forum
icy yarrow
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@strong forum i need a emoji of this temple of emotions, the true disappointment and rejection, really liked the cast, always spreading the good info 👌

uneven mason
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@strong forum I second that emotion

strong forum
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im a very emotional guy what can i say

elder bay
strong forum
uneven mason
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We needed that emoji whenever someone would ask about the trinket that shall not b named

strong forum
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"guys how much vers do i need"

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and then just send that

elder bay
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I second that

mellow quartz
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it's really hard to test the damage increase and more HP with BV bugged on beta 😦

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at abt 45-50 stacks on the tanking dummy it was hard to capped out IP outside of big CDs coming up

elder bay
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guys, what tmog gives the most dps?

strong forum
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T3, Primal elite glad, Cruel Elite glad are the top3

elder bay
strong forum
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after that its other elite mogs

prisma crane
strong forum
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oh and challenge mode set and the polar set are also top tier

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and the set of undead slaying

elder bay
strong forum
prisma crane
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T6 was just so good, so an updated version was bound to be BiS

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plus non-chunk boots are 👌

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meanwhile the tier right after that in antorus was metal uggs

icy yarrow
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i just tank naked, idk if feels refreshing

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dworf ofc

wispy tapir
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awesome podcast fellas

urban portal
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Codex is the best trinket for lvl 70 heroics

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Bet

wary heath
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Does the 40% hp and creature dmg mean anything for us

strong forum
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The HP changes mean nothing for us

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Only brew and pally suffer from it

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Because their self healing is AP based, not HP based

placid vale
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Indom isnt worse now with more hp?

mellow bridge
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indom heals you for a % of hp

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so no

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bear kinda suffers as well if they skill ufr

wary heath
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Do we need to take more defensive now over offense to compensate for 40% more Incoming dmg

placid vale
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Ah its a % oh max hp

placid vale
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The damage is the same, since mobs desl 40 more dmg but we have 40 more hp

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So it neuters

wary heath
strong forum
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Literally nothing changes for tanks besides pally and brew

wary heath
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Alright thx 🙏

strong forum
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Except that we actually lose hp every now and again

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But our self healing prowess is the same

placid vale
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We do WHAT!?

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That is possible?

strong forum
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Hasn't been a thing for 2 expansions but yeah

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Ikr

placid vale
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So, pwar or vdh for s1

median tulip
placid vale
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What do you think will be meta?

wary heath
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The self healing might feel more noticeable if our hp is actually moving now. Seemed to stay at 100% forever

strong forum
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So they don't change either

placid vale
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Brew and pally are screwed xD

median tulip
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I haven't played VDH since season 2; did they move away from AP healing with spirit bomb?

sand pebble
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Why is it that there needs to be a single class thats 'meta'

strong forum
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The deal the most damage currently

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Out of all healers

placid vale
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True

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With 2 fucking buttons too

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Im on the fence myself on tanking like last 10 years or try healing with Evoker...time magic is damn cool

wary heath
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Evoker more than mw? How

elder bay
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so when you adding the @strong forum emoji?

strong forum
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I don't have that power

placid vale
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2 words. Fire breath

strong forum
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You can bully @oblique garnet or @ionic fern to add it

urban portal
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You are taking more damage

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Because each point of healing is worth less in comparison

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How much more damage is another question

oblique garnet
wary heath
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Does spamming revenge just refresh deep wounds or does it add them to form a massive DoT? Thunder clapping past the 1st rend application seems to do less damage than just spamming revenge..

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Are people alternating clap and revenge or only single clapping

sand pebble
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tc on cd, it does lots of damage

lusty grotto
lusty grotto
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read the talent

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also learn what outburst applies to

wary heath
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I dont think show of force raises TC up to the damage that revenge + the double hit does

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Especially if rend is already on everything

lusty grotto
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you dont think

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do you have math?

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do you know what we call that part of your sentence

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also not to mention TC is a rage generator

median tulip
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It depends

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The big think with TC is the synergy with SoF and UF

lusty grotto
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youre never gonna be in a situation where youre choosing one over the other

prisma crane
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just above, this log was posted

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i think it speaks for itself

lusty grotto
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thinkcraft though

prisma crane
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dont get me wrong, im all for feelycraft, and to some extent TC usage comes down a bit to how you prioritize stuff

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but

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it's clearly strong, despite all the buffs revenge has

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and imo the real likely reason is simply the difference between it being a builder vs spender

median tulip
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I mean, ideally you're alternating between TClap and Revenge during Avatar (when running UF)

prisma crane
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unlimited rage, sure, use revenge more, but in practice you cant sustain it

sand pebble
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its very simple - press tc when its avail and press revenge if you have the rage to spend to do so

prisma crane
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  • profit
sand pebble
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and just forget trying to feelycraft it at all

prisma crane
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na, i think feelycraft is important to try new stuff

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but you have to be humble enough to admit when something doesnt pan out as expected

orchid mural
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feelycraft?

lusty grotto
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feelcraft

prisma crane
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as opposed to simcraft

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basically napkin math

median tulip
prisma crane
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basic enough to form an idea, not extensive enough to exhaust all scenarios

lusty grotto
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all new stuff comes from feelcraft krotos

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i think everyone understands that

prisma crane
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exactly

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like i said, i see value in it

sand pebble
# orchid mural feelycraft?

yes when you ignore all the testing, math and a huge amount of info into sims and ingame testing and just simply 'think something else is better because it feels like it is'

sand pebble
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haha

prisma crane
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i think that's too dismissive of a way to describe it

lusty grotto
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indeed it is

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that's a stupid comment tbh

orchid mural
prisma crane
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anyone genuinely interested in finding ways to improve will feelcraft to begin with

sand pebble
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i might be too old to even understand what any of those labels mean tbh

lusty grotto
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i might be even older

orchid mural
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no shit eh

lusty grotto
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im almost 40

median tulip
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anyhow the point is that you can sit down, calculate all the factors, and get some idea of the relative strengths of the different approaches

prisma crane
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34 here

orchid mural
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im 38, and apparently am the "millenial" generation, so i'm told.

strong forum
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Nimchip? More like AncientChip

knotty venture
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42 😄

lusty grotto
median tulip
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I will however add a note of caution: there can be approaches which work in theory, but do not pan out in actual practice in a fight

prisma crane
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to be fair wow players are an aging demo anyways

strong forum
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According to the Internet I'm also almost grandpa age

orchid mural
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@strong forum @jagged pier thanks for the stream with Flame - gave me something to listen to on the commute :p

sand pebble
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40 - feel like 83

strong forum
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Everybody knows if youre above 25 you're literally dead

median tulip
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I was already in my 20s when I played the original beta

lusty grotto
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true

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im in the grave

strong forum
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Same tbh

median tulip
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Anyhow; beware the occasional SimTrap, but otherwise apply maths

prisma crane
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and if you're ok with waiting, just look at top logs

strong forum
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^

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But it's important to evaluate the data you look at properly

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Otherwise you get another vdh in SL beta moment

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Or a bfa pwar->9.0 pwar moment

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Where blizz nerfs based on poor data evaluation

median tulip
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cough Enhancement Shaman cough

prisma crane
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sims are only as good as the info they're given, and new ways to min-max are always evolving as more hands get on things

sand pebble
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does blizz currently get most of it pwar feedback from here, or the 'top tanks that play multiple classes'

strong forum
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That's just cuz its in the rulebook that shaman isn't ever allowed to be strong

prisma crane
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they should read here IMO but doubtful they do

lusty grotto
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so uhhh speaking of which, whos working on the APL, are you Nome?

prisma crane
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its mostly feedback

strong forum
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I will once the spells are implemented

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Yes

lusty grotto
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nice nice

sand pebble
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well whatever combo of things that happened for df pwar i love it, best its ever felt

strong forum
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I could pre-write it already

lusty grotto
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godspeed my friend

strong forum
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But lazy

lusty grotto
prisma crane
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personally i think pwarr has had moments i enjoyed more, but we're FAR from in a bad spot as far as fun to play goes at least, so ill take it

strong forum
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Most the work is done anyway with just writing the IP line

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Rest is just simple CD usage

mighty valley
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if i was a game dev responsible for a class, it would be really hard to try and dip into a class discord and parse useful feedback. some have the time and mentality to immerse themselves in a community and get good at taking the pulse

oblique garnet
mighty valley
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but imagine if you were like "got half an hour in my work day to try and gather some deep prot warrior feedback" and we were having an apb conversation about haste being evil

craggy pilot
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why is LFR wait time so long 😦

lusty grotto
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yeah the amount of misinformation that comes through in here is kinda rough

lusty grotto
sand pebble
prisma crane
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i think it's a good way to get an idea of how reception of a change is going, which i know comes with faults, but reception still matters

lusty grotto
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yes

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yes is the answer

sand pebble
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ty

oblique garnet
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Shouldve deleted it

sand pebble
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i finally got a rdm from vault to replace stone heradly

oblique garnet
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Vendoring gives it value

sand pebble
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hahahaha

lusty grotto
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hmm true

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we need the BFA thingie back, fuck i forgot the name

gleaming mica
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OWS or RDM first dinar?

sand pebble
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no

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i was arms main

lusty grotto
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the trash compactor

craggy pilot
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anyone know a good way to raid, without a guild, that is not pugging? 🤔

gleaming mica
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Become friends with people and then start your own raid

sand pebble
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i have 1 dinar left and am hoping to grab the shield

craggy pilot
prisma crane
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LFR with less gear equipped

sand pebble
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then i need to pug either 2 mythic kills or 3 heroic kills to upgrade it

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my guild stopped raiding 3 weeks ago

prisma crane
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in a slightly more serious answer, your restrictions leave basically one option, you find a guild that's competent but needs a tank (these are extremely rare)

gleaming mica
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Beyond rare

prisma crane
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if you wanna be a shithead you can raid with a team as if you're trialing and just not join them, but it's a dick move imo

lusty grotto
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better chances are winning the mega millions tbh

gleaming mica
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Tanks are so abundant anymore it’s unreal.

prisma crane
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thats not so much the issue

lusty grotto
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its not that

mighty valley
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There are occasionally regular "pugs" that organize cross-server on discords so it's barely even pugging any more

lusty grotto
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its the hard lock to 2 tanks per raid

sand pebble
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gm is prot pally, ot plays whatever is considered meta every season - i have a deal with pally that he will tank prog bosses and ill tank reclears

prisma crane
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its that having a solid raid team without a consistent tank is almost impossible

lusty grotto
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and that

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but consider that out of all the roles

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tanks have the least number of required slots in any raid size

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its always constant

prisma crane
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you'd have to have a revolving door of GOOD tanks to make up for their lack of experience with the rest of the team and likely differences in strats per that raid's comp

lusty grotto
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it doesnt matter the number of tanks, if you bottleneck at the raid comp

mighty valley
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especially for non-mythic guilds, they can recruit a billion dps and healers if they feel like it, but just need two tanks every week

prisma crane
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and if a raid cant keep tanks, it's usually a fatal sign

median tulip
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My Guild has three Tank Mains, but we have a rule that everyone should have a DPS spec. We were also stupidly overburdened with healers at the end of S3

sand pebble
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we found healers got bored and wanted to dps

mighty valley
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i will say that the need for a "good tank" is lower than it's ever been, the mechanics burden on the tank is generally lower than dps and healers tbh

median tulip
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Our healers are /rolling for the heal slots

mighty valley
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which also means that you can't really find a guild by excelling

median tulip
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especially late on when you can drop a healer for faster clears

lusty grotto
mighty valley
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since if you're semi-decent at world of warcraft and show up every week? good enough tank

prisma crane
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imo, tanking at an adequate level is extremely easy, but the harder to quantify intuition that comes with experienced tanks is hard to replicate unless a player is just an excellent player all around

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so having random off tanks is still not great

mighty valley
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sure, at the top 100 level, but you can see some wild bad tank logs even in mythic full clears

median tulip
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Most raid bosses have a lot less need for reactive tank play. Raid bosses are usually heavily scripted.

prisma crane
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tbh i think that intuition matters more at the lower mythic end

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top end players have shit down to a science, less need to react on the fly

mighty valley
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but usually the pipeline just goes... we lost a tank? one of our smartest DPS should take the tank spot and we'll find another DPS

prisma crane
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by react i mean to react to what raiders are doing, not the fight itself

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primarily wrt positioning

median tulip
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IMEx what usually happens is that one of the DPS gets pissed off with how long it takes to get a tank for M+, starts tanking those, and then it's like "hey, $MAIN_TANK can't make it tonight, can you tank" and then you're a guild tank

sand drum
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when you speak of the devil :>

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in LFR

median tulip
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(offering to tank M+ is a decent way for a DPS to make themselves useful to a guild when they're on trial as well. other DPS classes like having someone who offers to tank)

sand pebble
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nah i was a mt for most of wow, swapped to mm in antorus cause guild faction/server swapped for a bigger mythic raiding pool to recruit from - that guild fell apart in cn hungering prog so i joined my current guild as fury - since then they like oooo you have a hunter? cool bring that - you can tank??? cool you cna backup raid tank

prisma crane
# sand drum when you speak of the devil :>

to be fair, complaining about people in LFR is like complaining about someone going slow in the right lane, or making fun of a fat person at the gym, sure they could be doing better, but at least they're in the right place

sand drum
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even being rude

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is it allowed to ignore ?

median tulip
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You're in LFR

prisma crane
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imo you're the one being rude there

median tulip
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Yeah

sand pebble
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they prolly in lfr trying to replace codex

prisma crane
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aggressive unsolicited advice is always going to be met that way

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if you wanted to actually help them there's ways to explain why it's not great without coming off that way

median tulip
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I mean, the guy has a blue shield, he's clearly just working up

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Anyhow, Question: How many points are people putting into the right/middle part of the prot tree?

sand pebble
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the exact amount thats pinned

median tulip
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(From FbV/BV down to Enduring Alacrity)

lusty grotto
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yeah that was kinda rude of you, ive roasted people in here but ive never gone out of my way to tell them how they are wrong in that way

prisma crane
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i want to do 4 because i like the idea of bigger bleeds, but 3 makes sense because you need those points later

lusty grotto
#

and trust me ive seen worse

#

just a few weeks before prepatch i hopped on a heroic jailer group to find a venthyr prot that had all the wrong talents

#

and couldnt do positioning to save his life

prisma crane
#

there will always be a bigger idiot, and some people just straight up dont care, and that's ok

#

we're 100% in the minority of players by being a member of an external source of information looking for ways to improve

lusty grotto
#

true true

mighty valley
sand pebble
#

i mean venth prot in heroic is pretty bad

lusty grotto
#

even then i removed his name, bullying is never the answer

sand pebble
#

prolly an arms warr being made to swap cause 'couldnt find a tank'

mighty valley
#

you can be anything in heroic tbh, it's not stats that's usually holding back a heroic guild

prisma crane
#

also that

lusty grotto
#

before prepatch arms as venthyr? that'd be rough

mighty valley
#

hell, door of shadows for when someone fucks up p2 positioning sounds great

lusty grotto
#

lol

#

maybe, but i'd say it was the opposite of that

#

anyway that's not the point

median tulip
mighty valley
#

Oh are you talking for 70?

median tulip
#

YEah

#

Sorry I should have made that clear

lusty grotto
#

how dare

#

to the dungeons!

mighty valley
#

Yeah Bolster isn't necessary, tough as nails is worth a point though, and punish fine in ST

craggy pilot
#

did i see someone mention Seismic Legendary doesnt actually do 75% dmg, and only does 35% like the talent?

mighty valley
#

no no, I absolutely understand that you were being bad as a joke, as a funny bit

mighty valley
#

i had my dreams shattered yesterday

#

oh well it's only prepatch

craggy pilot
#

so whats the best legendary then, if not using Reprisal?

#

Reprisal and the Wall is just extra Rage right?

#

which we alrdy have ton of anyway

#

anyone tried Vitality Sacrifice?

mighty valley
#

i mean the wall and seismic both read "save one talent point"

craggy pilot
#

ye tru, so Reprisal is only good one then?

lusty grotto
#

??

mighty valley
#

a talent point is a decent amount!

lusty grotto
#

what makes you say that

mighty valley
#

if you really want to tryhard, you can work around reprisal and cut a bunch of unnecessary shield block uptime talents to squeeze out some damage

#

or

#

you could wear seismic and vibe

craggy pilot
#

did anyone try Vitality Sacrifice in M+ or Raid?

lusty grotto
#

low ppm

craggy pilot
#

ye ok but still up to 9% dmg

lusty grotto
#

yes it has been tested, its been in the game for a while

grave crane
#

its been in the game for an entire expansion and its not good

mighty valley
#

nice QOL when our rage income is super high, not much else of high value at the same tier

lusty grotto
#

its not cause outbursted SS on LS windows usually insta capped raged with 100 rage

mighty valley
#

it turns into more used rage since there are times when capping is basically guaranteed

lusty grotto
#

right

mighty valley
#

and where else is it going? sidearm for <1% dps?

lusty grotto
#

making sure rage caps dont happen with a bigger pool is important for AM/VO/etc

#

do you have outburst?

#

do you have unnerving focus

mighty valley
#

in aoe, with last stand running, with an outburst proc, it's pretty likely

lusty grotto
#

i know we're mentioning last stand, but maybe if you dont have Unnerving then youre probably not seeing it

#

most of us have it conduited, which is why its not picked as a talent in the builds

#

but they assume you do have it

mighty valley
#

we might not run it come 70, but it's basically a freebie right now

lusty grotto
#

that still assumes you have the conduits

#

unnerving, and any that you might want a free talent on

mighty valley
#

so long as I can brainlessly get 100% banner uptime, I'm doing it

lusty grotto
#

and of course the banner one

mighty valley
#

til blizzard says fun season is over

lusty grotto
#

right

mighty valley
#

yeah, it's ~50% increased rage gen, makes a huge difference

lusty grotto
#

we use LS on banner drop so

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its big rage

mighty valley
#

i think you can just buy all the conduits for basically nothing now?

lusty grotto
#

you can

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at least 226s

#

max conduits (278 ilvl) are rep locked though

#

ZM rep

mighty valley
#

well, depends on how overpowered you want to be for the next three weeks

#

otherwise no, nothing matter rn

zealous willow
#

When we are in avatar do we spam TC over Revenge ?

urban portal
#

if you arent going to overcap rage

median tulip
zealous willow
#

thanks

jolly inlet
#

Yal think there will be a tank tuning pass ?

lusty grotto
#

sure

#

best bet is to go back to BDK just in case

#

you're welcome

#

most of us prefer the underrepresented underdogs anyway

wary heath
#

@lusty grotto damn bro don't bully me gladge

lusty grotto
#

huh

median tulip
oak echo
lusty grotto
#

i stand corrected

oak echo
#

if only there was something useful like that to spend boat loads of valor on 😦

lusty grotto
#

ive been pumping arms/fury gear

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well

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i was

#

cause now valor is just burning a hole in there

#

honestly though flux comes by easily

#

can afk in oribos and get it

oak echo
#

yeah i was just hoping we'd get like m0 gear again like past seasons to help gear alts but not like it'll matter soon

mighty valley
#

m0 gear is already pretty good rn

lusty grotto
#

wish you could send to alts for sure

#

valor that is, cause you can send flux over

mighty valley
#

yeah, you can just get alts pretty overgeared for df leveling quickly right now, even more with prepatch event coming up

#

don't think they really needed another system

lusty grotto
#

i havent touched my alts, theyre still max s1 ilvl lmaoo

wraith hemlock
#

Are you lads using defensive stance of nah?

#

Been doing chill stuff (heroic raid/M15+-19+) and it feels like overkill

lusty grotto
#

then no

#

and thats the short answer

#

but we might need to in DF, doesnt really seem like it but its good to understand that its a free 20% DR

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well, not free since dps loss but still

#

brainless is probably the right word

mellow quartz
#

will be interesting to see how things feel friday with m+ and the new 40% increased damage

mighty valley
#

really don't think it'll feel that different to us tbh

mellow quartz
#

Would expect you can feel it

#

but will be interesting to see for the group as well

mighty valley
#

our health is also going up by the same amount, all our mitigation and healing is % based

mellow quartz
#

the overall number left behind is larger though and healers power level stays the same

mighty valley
#

it's mostly going to be about healers working harder to refill group health bars

lusty grotto
#

will be interesting to see outside of a tank perspective honestly

warm plinth
#

It'll feel somewhat different I would imagine. After all, if you mitigate 30% of 100k, it's different than mitigating 30% of 140k.

mighty valley
#

well, if you mitigate 30% of 10% of your healthbar, it feels the same as mitigating 30% of 10% of your healthbar, right?

mellow quartz
#

if you have 80% mitigation and you got hit for 100k you took 20k damage, at 140k hits you take 28k damage at the same mitigation so healers will have to heal you 40% more still

mighty valley
#

right, it will be harder for healers to rectify our mistakes

#

but if you were feeling sturdy and like you didn't really need healer support much before, that will not change meaningfully

mellow quartz
#

people need to realize as well that they have slowly been upping the damage in the dungeons over the last weekend or 2

#

some things do damage

lusty grotto
#

well its safe to summarize this as: bad prots will feel it

#

non-bad prots wont, unless oopsies cause everyones human

mellow quartz
#

your ehrps is not 0 so no matter what the amount is now it will be 40% higher after this so just more strain on the healer together with the rest of the group damage

mighty valley
#

they can definitely tune it such that healers have to pump tanks to stay alive if they want to with this change

lusty grotto
#

im prepared to get my ass kicked just based on idk what the fuck to pull on these new dungeons

mighty valley
#

i just think the group damage component is gonna matter a lot more from the damage profiles i've been seeing

mellow quartz
#

I for one would like to see the top keys in S1 be like 25s max

#

not 35s

#

so overall like it

mighty valley
#

shadowlands s1 keys weren't crazy high, yeah

dusky crest
#

shadowlands s1 keeys were imbalanced rofl

#

you get 1 shotted by every single thing

mellow quartz
#

take RLP as an example, people were complaining about the thunderhead 1 shotting people

dusky crest
#

everything was overtuned

mellow quartz
#

this is a fix for that

mighty valley
#

what does overtuned even mean in a scaling system

#

anything above ksm is for bragging rights

mellow quartz
#

they can make things more lethal without having to 1 shot, they can now tune it down a bit but healers will have more trouble topping people between dispel no1 and the 2nd debuff doing off so a more challenging mechanic without 1 shotting immediately

dusky crest
#

season 1 plague fall and dos were something

#

getting all +15's was a challenge in itself

#

healer were literally pumping and you had to have a shaman in dos

mighty valley
#

?

lusty grotto
#

i wouldnt say 15s were hard in s1

#

maybe the first 2 weeks

dusky crest
#

I think I got all 15's at like what 5th week or something

#

and I was just never invited as a warrior so Pepexecute

mighty valley
#

i was tanking 20 DOS as venthyr with all melee, no lust, holy priest healer

#

ksm turned into a super joke after s1, honestly thought the balance felt way off

ocean bloom
#

do we wait for shield slam to come off cd if we have an outburst proc? for more rage

mighty valley
#

in st? kind of depends, you generally want to set yourself up so that you won't have to wait

#

if it's close i'll slam revenge over TC to try and get the proc

#

but especially after outburst was nerfed i'm not letting an empty gcd go by to save for SS

oblique garnet
lusty grotto
#

true

lucid bough
#

dh was busted in s1

cobalt seal
#

Lol

lucid bough
#

i wonde were is the fun

#

when the spec was even bugged in terms of mitigation

cobalt seal
#

Thats why it was busted

lucid bough
#

they were taking 15% less damage from any source from a bugged passive and 40% less magic damage in another shit that was bugged.

cobalt seal
#

You pulling random numbers

urban portal
#

they were taking less magic tho right

#

cuz they had the havoc magic resist also

oak echo
#

yes

ocean bloom
#

is there still no way to track BSV cd?

cobalt seal
#

That was the bug

#

We were taking less magic dmg

#

But it was simply 15% less magic

#

Not what @lucid bough is dreaming about

mellow quartz
#

vdh was just really good at going in and using all their CD's and then running away

eager lodge
#

was the reflect spreadsheet removed from the pins?

mellow quartz
#

its in the faq

#

the SL one

eager lodge
#

wasnt there a df one in the pins?

mellow quartz
#

in the DF channel

#

which was deleted

eager lodge
#

rip

severe hatch
mellow quartz
#

do we even know if KSM will be all 20s?

#

wait they have another title for that right?

#

guess it will stay 15s then

#

or rating rather but still

severe hatch
#

AFAIK 15s still = KSM and 20s = KSH, but someone correct me if I'm wrong

sick sentinel
#

im testing the talent "Show of Force", it seems better to use the conduit with same name, is it possible?!?

severe hatch
#

Conduit doesn't increase Revenge damage itself

#

So not worth

#

And you'd be replacing either Adaptive Armor Fragment or Veteran's Repute for the Show of Force conduit, which would be a huge loss

#

Guess you could replace Ashen Juggernaut if you're running 3x potency but still pretty meh value

sick sentinel
#

really ty 😄

urban portal
#

the conduit sucks dick

#

yea

mighty valley
#

new m+ post says that ksm won't even be 15 now, but they're expecting 10+ to be a lot harder than it was

mellow quartz
#

It all just comes down to how it’s tuned vs our new player power but given the scaling above a +10 is 10% instead of previous 8%, if all else was equal it would be harder.

#

Kinda pathetic though.

mighty valley
#

KSM will hold even less weight as a marker of anything when it's this separate from the high end of the rewards

lusty grotto
#

agreed

#

well, kind of agreed, what are the numbers vs total pop of KSM this season at least?

#

because i'd say it was piss easy for most of us here but im curious as to the general population

mighty valley
#

idk, used to be like 10% of the section of players that actually touched m+, might've been more with how powerful we were in s2-4

lusty grotto
#

10% hmm...

#

ngl thats kinda lower than what i was expecting

mighty valley
#

majority of wow players don't really care about being good at wow

#

which is a pleasant way to be

lusty grotto
#

yeah

#

that's the reason i was curious about it

mellow quartz
peak bramble
#

KSM is character specific though right? 20% of my toons that touched M+ last season have KSM, just purely because my alts just did a 15 for vault and left it there. No doubt there's still a much larger % of the population that just doesn't care about playing keys but even M+er's probably contribute negatively to that stat

hybrid peak
#

That's it

mighty valley
#

it at least meant "able to get the highest ilvl gear"

mellow quartz
#

Hard to get week 1 when you need Tyr and Fort keys 🙂

lusty grotto
#

in terms of the general pop of M+ players, id say KSM is still worth something

#

if its only 10%

mighty valley
#

yeah it's worth maintaining perspective

hybrid peak
mighty valley
#

when we're like "lol if you're not doing a +69 you're not a real player"

peak bramble
#

I'm only a +68 gamer myself tbf

mellow quartz
lusty grotto
#

if it is then its even less

#

so its worth even more, no?

hybrid peak
#

I know a few people who have ksm on 3-5 alts

mellow quartz
#

I would say most players get KSM

#

One 1 toon

#

At least

fluid shard
#

My highest key ever was a +21 that i found very stressful, still very happy about KSM even though i know it’s not impressive. I guess it depends where you plan to stop pushing too.

mellow quartz
#

And then may have 10 other alts that don’t get KSM.

lusty grotto
#

idk it seems like skewed perspective here

#

if 10% of the characters doing M+ got KSM, and most of the numbers are dilluted with alt KSMs, then KSM is still something that's highly sought after

peak bramble
#

yeah but usually most of those 10 alts don't even touch M+ and wouldn't be included in the sample

lusty grotto
#

huh

mellow quartz
#

Like 0.1 title is not 0.1% of m+ players it’s 0.1% of characters that have done m+.

lusty grotto
#

id say if you got 2k rating, you should be included

mellow quartz
#

Many people get title on multiple alts

lusty grotto
#

yes im not arguing against that

#

im just saying to the average keys player, it means KSM is still something that's held in high regard still

mellow quartz
#

My main issue with that blue post is they want to make keys harder and increase scaling to make rewards from 20s mean more but then water down the titles to be 14/18 instead of 15/20.

lusty grotto
#

oh im with you there

mellow quartz
#

Seems counter productive

mighty valley
#

i don't disrespect the attempt to be like "there are rewards that aren't exactly gear, your ego doesn't need to be tied to your ilvl" but players be players

peak bramble
# mellow quartz Most people do some keys on alts for gear.

anecdotal evidence only, but personally I have a main + 2 alts that I actually care to put through keys, another 2-3 that I rat through guild raids only, and any remaining are mostly just for crafting/gathering etc. A lot of people at least in my circles are similar. not 10% but sub50 for sure. ymmv

#

agree with the general point though

mighty valley
#

everyone has to toss away their understanding of "the average wow player"

#

doesn't exist

#

everyone plays differently for different reasons

pallid quiver
#

to me, the average wow player is someone who is stupid enough to continue playing this game

so all of us

lusty grotto
#

excuse me

#

i at least quit in s1

#

i just came back cause my list of things that i wanted done was met

#
  • crossfaction
  • systems gone
  • account wide shit <-- i lied this one still hasnt been done
#

if it wasnt for those changes i would 1-game xiv instead of being subbed to 2 mmos

pallid quiver
#

you've got a braincell or two on top of me, then

lusty grotto
#

i also havent preordered DF

#

im waiting on hour 0 to buy

#

fuck preordering approved

#

😄

west prairie
#

is roar good

pallid quiver
#

Looks at bloodsurge and the bleed damage talent it leads to

........... no

it is really good, just hard to slot in with our number of talent points atm because UF is really stronk

low kindle
#

you can't sim Dragon roar on raidbots?

mighty valley
#

dragon roar is dead

#

long live thunderous roar

low kindle
#

oh that's right, dunno why raidbots still trying to execute Dragon roar in their sim lmfao

mighty valley
#

they're just not fully updated afaik

pallid quiver
#

sims ain't gonna be updated for pre-patch by and large

#

like

#

why bother

low kindle
#

it's still a talent relevant going into DF, updating it early wouldn't hurt. If say, a certain SL trinket or conduit is not working on sim, then yeah why bother updating it.

mighty valley
#

Stuff takes time, tuning isn’t finalized, etc

wraith hemlock
#

And by the time DF arrives shit will be broken again

wary heath
#

is the youtube channel WoW At Night, reliable at all?

#

pops up in my feed a lot

strong forum
#

It's from the wowhead guidewriter for prot warri and brewmaster

ruby berry
#

Oh llary has a YouTube? I'll have to check it out

#

And nice job on the m0 the other day nom

#

And jakey as well, lots of good discussion from all sides.

wary heath
#

tank health pools post 40% change

warm plinth
#

Where is Mwahi 😠

urban portal
#

The lower health pool you have the easier you are to heal

#

Why does dk have less than dh

#

Is that dh in meta

magic bolt
ripe mason
#

I'm watching pika go through a gambit with 100% banner uptime

#

Killing hooktail with the same banner from the start of the dungeon

#

What is this

ruby berry
#

I did an iron docks earlier with two banners total. Loved it

urban portal
ripe mason
#

Doesn't pala have a bunch of baseline % based stam increases

magic bolt
wary heath
#

It's DH outside of meta, and with all baseline stam talents (if available )

#

across all classes, (according to vid)

ionic fern
modern brook
warm plinth
ionic fern
#

Hi. ❤️

#

Hope your interview went well.

dark lark
#

Wow, Execute actually hits like a wet noodle post nerf

#

That makes me so mad

magic bolt
#

:c

dry heart
#

More haste means faster Shield Block recharge time right

ionic fern
#

And a multitude of haste effects.

#

E.g Ravager.

dry heart
#

Well I do have another question then regarding Shield Block

#

I know now it’s fairly easy to have it up 100% of the time due to the talents and what not

#

But back before that was possible how did you utilize having to play around these charges like you basically have very few gaps in it even without all the special talents so what was the skillful way to use SB charges

mighty valley
#

Like in the rest of shadowlands? Using Reprisal and maximizing charge + intervene CDs

ionic fern
#

Believe it or not, we did not fall flag when our SB was down.
We have:

  • high armor
  • RNG block/crit block from mastery
  • a TON of cooldowns
  • Blizzard usually adds some "additional" things to increase our base SB up-time.
#

We used to rotate defensive CD's like DS/SW etc.

#

Lets take Shadowlands for example:
-Pre Reprisal, we all took Bolster as a talent to increase our SB up-time.
-After Reprisal, we dropped Bolster and took AM instead since Reprisal covered our SB down-time.

#

We have been ~80% effective up-time for a while.

dry heart
#

Ok so it’s basically just playing around with figuring out how to keep SB up as much as possible and fill in the gaps with some sort of defensive/utility

forest fern
#

It “was” yes.

dry heart
#

Now it’s like always a thing so

#

Was just curious mostly

#

I usually played Arms/Fury but have been tanking since coming back a few weeks ago

mighty valley
#

Before the power was split between talents and expansion systems, now it's all in the talent system

#

(and maybe sometimes tier sets, we'll see)

#

I still don't know how they expand the talent system for a couple expansions without running into the same bloat problems as the original talents

forest fern
#

They may not change it each expansion now I suspect

#

Give you some other form of reward each level, or they’ll kill traditional levelling all together

#

Making the talent tree a static thing etc and redesign aspects already in it but not increase it in size

ionic fern
#

Gonna be a full on PoE experience after a few expansions.

dry heart
#

“Who Has a build”

forest fern
#

It’s in the pins of this channel

dry heart
mighty valley
#

There does need to be some exciting new character thing with each expansion

#

"""borrowed power""" was how they achieved that and then removed it to prevent bloat

forest fern
#

If they burn that energy into making the game standard more exiting to play instead of adding systems you probably don’t need that anymore

#

*exciting

dry heart
#

I do got another question about SB uptime though. Is Bolster going to be needed again once everyone’s haste is dialed back or will the other talents be enough to hit it without. Seems like Nom answered this but I forgot..

forest fern
#

I doubt it

#

You have 4 talents to achieve longer uptime, any 2 are required atm

#

Maybe you’d need a third at the beginning but prob not for long

#

Or just live for a while without it being 100

dry heart
#

I love shield charge always forget it adds some SB time with the other talent

#

Probably one of my fav prot Warrior moves atm but find myself usually taking ravager

#

Ravager slaps hard

mighty valley
forest fern
#

Right but whether that novelty has to greatly affect player power is debatable to create interest or excitement

mighty valley
#

But… it has to be something new

#

Making new is the hard part, not increasing number

#

And then adding without bloating is hard

dry heart
#

Is Focused Vigor one of those must haves

#

Seems really strong

ionic fern
#

Know what was a great borrowed power?

#

Artifact weapons.

pallid quiver
#

the only reason i liked artifact weapons was because of infinite spell reflect

ionic fern
#

No, like system wise.

#

It enhanced what we already had.

#

And added new stuff to those.

pallid quiver
#

other than that, artifact power grind and the idea of the weapon is what made me quit during legion; i, like, just didn't like it

#

shoot me if you will

#

Well, it wasn't the sole reason, but it was a contributor

#

Base design wise, it's probably the best form of borrowed power we've had that's not tier sets,

#

but i thematically like the idea of tier sets more; they're funner to me, personally

lusty bobcat
#

yay or nay on the Execute talents after the change on November 1st?

ionic fern
#

Nay for Juggernaut, Punish is better.

lusty bobcat
#

right, I was just wondering if the change to have a prot-only execute had changed anything, but I can see that it was just bug fixing. So talent strength is the same

median tulip
#

The problem with the execute talents is that they are spread between the 3 vertical paths, which makes taking all 3 very restrictive

mortal brook
onyx pike
#

Hello everyone, just wanted to ask real quick, does prot change drastically with the extra points from 60 to 70?

potent moth
#

From current version, no not really

#

You basically get 1 or 2 extra DPS Cds

onyx pike
#

Which talent would be the go-to for m+? I was expecting wild Ravager builds when I first saw the talent tree

#

so at least taking these 3, they sound nice on paper

potent moth
#

That will depend on your playstyle and tuning and stuff so, I guess only time will show 🙂

jagged pier
#

the cap stones for rav are bad

onyx pike
#

true. I tried to play DF as blind as possible but I'm getting curious for prot builds

median tulip
#

Dance of Death would be ok if it wasn't bugged. Storm of Steel is awful.

strong forum
#

Both ravager talents are shit

#

Dance of death increases 5% of your dmg by 20%, making it 1% of a dmg increase

Storm of steel reduces the dmg of it by 40%, so down to 3%, the 50% rage gen increase on it is only 30 rage total. Instigate generates 60 over the same duration while actually gaining damage instead of losing it

onyx pike
#

thank god, I hate ravager

#

I'm hoping this shield charge thing is somewhat viable

#

sounds fun.

strong forum
#

Getting 2 ravager on the same CD turns useless as soon as you have sent both ravagers out, at that point you're just sending them at the same frequency as a normal ravager

#

Ravager itself is very strong, just the talents that enhance it aren't worth it

#

However both shield charge nodes are very strong

#

This is my lvl 70 m+ build if you wanna have a look

onyx pike
#

checking it

#

whats the cd on SC?

strong forum
#

45

onyx pike
#

I couldnt see it in the talent tree, seemed bugged

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in your tree it works

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weird.

keen peak
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I’ve been enjoying SC a lot on Beta, even more since they removed the minimum range a while back.

strong forum
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Skill diff

onyx pike
strong forum
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Yes I love SC

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But I also love ravager

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Banger of a button

onyx pike
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I need to pull out the macro again for instant ravager

strong forum
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Well yeah

onyx pike
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only way i can get used to it. I just hate these circle-clicking stuff.

strong forum
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@stoic erminesor

onyx pike
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exactly

strong forum
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For every single retical based attack

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Instantly

onyx pike
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I like how we can have impending victory now.

strong forum
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Was long overdue

onyx pike
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really hyped for prot in DF .. always played BDK in the final SL patch and got annoyed

strong forum
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Victory rush needed it's rework for decades

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And this is the bandaid fix

onyx pike
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i will miss zerk rage tho

strong forum
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Will you?

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There's not a use case currently in DF

onyx pike
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kinda yea

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but I guess in pvp you just pick it

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so it will be fine

prisma shore
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sonic boom no longer meta ?

ionic fern
jagged pier
ionic fern
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It was hyped when it came out tbf.

prisma shore
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it was ?

ionic fern
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It was for a very short time.

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But calling something "meta" before any proper testing is..eeeh.

strong forum
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It was hype until we got beta access

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But it was only the best dps choice for a couple days

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Until they fixed our bleeds and thunderous roar

prisma shore
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well in the first week or so it will be the best

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when mobs just die by farts

strong forum
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I guess?

onyx pike
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TC + Rend is so amazing.

crimson furnace
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https://youtu.be/gsdJ-c-JMtc
such a good talk, really enjoyed the vibe and ty u guys for doing it, and huge thanks to @strong forum for taking a shower before the pod, amazing job! :))

hardy snow
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Bloodborne specifies that its incresing damage of wounds, rend and roar. However bloodsurge and thunderous words says it works with "bleed effectS". Do they work with zandalari troll's embrace of kimbul after all fix done to these talents?

ionic fern
stuck lava
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hey guys, i need to replace our tank today, what is the current highest dps single target legendary?

strong forum
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Reprisal/wall as they allow you to pick different/more dps oriented talents in the prot tree

strong forum
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But thanks

jagged pier
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or siesmic

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if there are motes

crimson furnace
crimson furnace
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good voice

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decent face

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good for podcasts

edgy kindle
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Random question guys, do you think we'll keep going Haste Versa in DF? We got some nice crit interactions now

strong forum
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I myself will play haste>crit>=vers

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We have alot of crit interactions yes

worldly fable
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gtfo here

onyx pike
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go touch some grass

jade pulsar
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Just had a listen, good job guys 👍

sick sentinel
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@candid path i love the videos you do on wow, im gunna subscribe to you

candid path
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thanks dawg

sick sentinel
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nice and relaxed and not freak out, easy to follow

candid path
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🙂

sick sentinel
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i was watching one about 40% dmg and hp buff this morning gotta continue

candid path
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the good news is that Warrior comes out of it in really solid shape

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surely nothing bad can happen now!

sweet summit
strong forum
jagged pier
brittle owl
oblique garnet
brittle owl
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no u

onyx pike
sick sentinel
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on the beta, they gave tanks +40%hp and the monsters do +40% dmg -40% overall healing from healers

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i think thats the summary of the llarold video i was just watching

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so, you wont be able to go into a boss fight take 80% of your hp, and then instantly be full healed 1-3 seconds later by healer

mellow quartz
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He just kinda missed the whole ‘relative’ argument in this in his video by saying that things like wotn on bdk has been buffed just because then number it mitigates is larger. It’s exactly the same relative to itself as it was before.

strong forum
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They gave everybody 40% more stam

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Not just tanks

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And made mobs do 40% more dmg, but they didn't buff healers because healers just do too much healing

uneven mason
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Healing values have been ridiculous combined with how durable tanks are we were looking at just not needing heals in base content

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*primary heals

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So started working on the little ratman BDK last night, can honestly say that I thought warriors were immortal at low level, but bdk just can't die

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Around 30ish I was just pulling boss to boss, and unless I get cc'd just full heals

mellow quartz
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Bdk has never been able to die until things start to hit you for more than your rune economy / gcds can manage besides miss plays.

uneven mason
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Yeah it's harder than war but that might just be muscle memory straining since bdk won't fill every gcd

mellow quartz
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And getting globalled

lyric elm
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It's annoying to heal a bdk because it kinda doesn't matter if you heal them or not, it's entirely in their hands if they live or not, so you can't carry a bad bdk

mellow quartz
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Which is why people like to play them.

lyric elm
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You can carry a bad war somewhat

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Yes i guess

mellow quartz
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Not being reliant on shit healers 🙂

uneven mason
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Well idk, when I was healing I'd just watch how they were spending RP

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If they had no RP I knew it was time to pump

lyric elm
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Yup

bold furnace
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Bdk is fun but sometimes I'd just get zerod and not know why lol

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Likely bad play on my part

agile elbow
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Just super reactive, basically.

jade pulsar
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Yeah I personally don't play in the way bdk requires u to do. Cba being on edge like that all the time x)

uneven mason
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NGL I got shit from a DPS for taking a talent that lets me get bone shield at 30 ft

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Yeah I normally can't deal with them

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In m+ because I main war

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So seeing hp drop scares me and I panic slap DS too early

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Because it's on my sb key

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Obviously if my HP go down I didn't refresh shield block

lavish oracle
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Part of why I never really liked DK, I like talking to my healer

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I guess in pugs you kinda don't talk to them anyways

sturdy sable
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I always enjoyed dk. Its like the other half of the coin

lavish oracle
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Yeah, the differences in the ways tanks mitigate damage is neat

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Blizzard has done a really good job at making them all have their own distinct style

uneven mason
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They mitigated damage by running away

onyx pike
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So BDK and ProtW top of the pack right now? I'm having such a hard time to decide on what I wanna play, never been that hard.

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I also hear a lot about VDH, but I dont like all the kiting.

uneven mason
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Just play BDK literally never gets nerfed

onyx pike
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I mean I do kite, but on VDH its extreme.

uneven mason
onyx pike
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I could tell from the talents, lot of leeching and healing

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good changes.

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I will play 3 chars at max, and one is evoker just for the sake of trying it out as an alt.

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Might still main warrior tho, looks so fun.

bold furnace
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I plan on making warrior and maybe alt MW..

uneven mason
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Can't tank won't play

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Evokers that is

onyx pike
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So sad they did no tank spec inspired by the black dragonflight

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but w/e.

uneven mason
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No thanks

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We have zero reason to add another tank

onyx pike
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yes please, 2h spear+shield

bold furnace
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onyx pike
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just cancel Brewmaster lol

bold furnace
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Anyone run one of these?

uneven mason
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Literally the most idiotic thing was the fact they kept adding melee tank

bold furnace
urban bane
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ooc is the beta spell reflect sheet still floating around?

uneven mason
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It's like they had the idea that people didn't play tanks or melee because there wasn't enough variety in them

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When it was because crap raid designs punished melee way more

mellow quartz
urban bane
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peepoHappy ty

lavish oracle
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I still think survival should be a tank spec

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Its in the name!

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They could like split damage between themselves and their pet or something

ionic fern
cobalt seal
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Wtf are you kiting as vdh

urban bane
ionic fern
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Idk, maybe?

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I thought he updated the same one tbh

steep condor
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just tanked as kyrian in dungeon - is it a lot more dps than necro in packs? Felt lovely!

mellow quartz
sweet summit
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we're not in dragonflight yet so that is not a problem

modern brook
wild hemlock
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i hated necro before pre patch

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but it feels great now

ionic fern