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I’ve never understood why people settle for bad warlocks
Like I get they bring a ton of things to the raid
But they also are like top 5 dps every tier
I swear warlock has less expectations than tanks do for performance
Also Doggo @modern brook
Show up to raid first, summon people, give HS, soulstone healer, here's your free raidspot for the patch

but no feet
That is a sock, not a foot
Foot is in the sock
But I can't see foot, so no point
She’s knocked the fuck out
In my previous guild, we had a very special lock...
its better to have something for the imagination 🙂
This was in s3, when lock was blasting and arms was dog tier
Was like that every boss kill
Pretty sure he was blackmailing the officers or something
I'm not going to say anyones WRONG im just saying theres a lot of people here not playing lock for their free CE every teir
quick question, anyone know the macro to cast something at your feet? like ravager for example? (dont worry, its not for me, i wouldnt want to lock ravager to my feet)
Yeah we can tell by the arms warrior getting an 80 doing the same damage as a lock getting a 34
so just like /cast Ravager [@heavy mirage]
?
and it'll go straight to your own feet?
ok thanks!
5Head
thanks man
i was just about to get frustrated over locking ravager to your feet
then i saw the original message lol
i have a macro for both ravager at feet and cursor
yeah im here
if it pops up while already having mobs clumped/in ST and you have it, very nice
can just slap feet macro
You don’t look like kungen…
well they do say the camera adds 20 lbs
the attempt on my life has left me scarred and disfigured
oh for sure, i just prefer not to macro much together in general, i prefer the control, but having a modifier macro for it wouldnt be bad
i just have a friend that clicks a lot of stuff still so having it @ feet is helpful for them to not have to move their cursor around so much
prefer @cursor macros, it's usually at my feet already
I started being in charge of windfury group so I get it now lol
for sure, but that's also because you use keybinds
which is obviously better
my cursor's normally hovering over enemy nameplates, so it's faster on demand to have an player macro; it also sometimes helps with not having ravage ascend to the heavens
that being said, sometimes to footsies macro causes it to ascend to the heavens
sometimes it's just not meant to be
blizz still really needs to work on environment obstructions
looking at you all rooms with 100 flags in them
When im halfway levelling through Dragonflight my camera will still be stuck somewhere in sanguine depths
It's funny because it's true
Hi Chadgar
Nothing better than turning ravager into a fancy ceiling fan
lol quite true
when playing reprisal in ST, are you supposed to run away from the boss to charge?
so rephrase if the hitbox is too small to not drop melee range
to you still run out to charge
or no
often you can just step a quick step back and it's far enough
its simple, do it when you can
if dropping melee range fucks other things up like positioning, then you dont do it
Beta - Shield Charge is on GCD now
is it?
yep
didnt see it in datamined notes, but just tested it
That or my mechagnome arcane mage I'm leveling right now
Diapermagic
Originally in the ancient days of yore
Shield Charge replaced Shield Block in Gladiator stance IIRC
Was it off the GCD then?
i thought they learned that taking things off the GCD is unfun D:
Hope that's either potentially a feedback situation and gets reverted or an accident
flowed pretty nicely from testing
dunno. just relogged, reset my talents, tested again
@strong forum current Beta - Shield Charge is on GCD now
That’s cringe af
maybe it doesnt make it to release. dunno.
I literally thought I missed the key press. Tried to click it again and saw the GCD refresh thing spinning.
tested on dummies to confirm after that
also tested w/ and w/o Battering Ram
cant log in on live ugh
it was honestly surprising to me that it was off gcd at all
It does so much fking damage
If it’s off gcd then it’s too broken
It’s a 1 button stun, sb and revenge
Damn they nerfed the huge SR on the 2nd boss in Shadowmoon in half (not sure if it’s still reflectable)
It should probably be on the GCD, especially if Demo Shout is,
but it's so much funner with it off
Demo shout should be off gcd
^^^^^^^^
We’ll SC is on gcd as part of a nerf so I doubt they’ll put Demo shout off gcd
Is SC on GCD a big nerf?
Huge nerf were now the worst tank in the game
good thing i also mane vengance
Aren't we like middle of the pack when it comes to damage?
Sc nerf. Tc nerf revenge nerf, better tell dratnos soo he can put us on the bottom of his tier list
let it be knows that pwar doa now so 'the meta club' all roll vdh
Oh No...youve convinced me...Ill never play Prot Warrior EVER
Gonna pop over to the vengeance disc and start asking questions
If you are reading this and want to play FOTM tank in Dragonflight, play Guardian Druid
agree
Don’t play any FOTM just figure out what class you enjoy and play that tbh
Well it was honestly between Prot Paladin and Prot Warrior
I really like the fast paced play style of Prot Warrior
xD
Prot feels slower in DF than SL tbh
S3 and 4 we were fucking sprinting now we jogging
I might be coping but it doesnt feel like a huge deal, especially considering were picking up some huge damage abilities between 60 and 70. Like I'm trying to think if any other tank is picking up as impactful things for damage between 60 and 70 as we are with dragon roar, ravager and shield charge
Actually based
Hello @strong forum i see the beta has slight changes for the spec. Probably hasnt been enough time to check those changes and the patch wont go live for 3 weeks, and the [item, talent, tier, tooltip, ability tuning, loadout, encounter] might not be testable yet but can i get immediate and urgent updates on how this will surely shift my talent, playstyle, and meta choices? Also please include how i should feel as well. TY in advance
I think thats just haste from gear
We're still like 70+ CPM in DF
I mean... going from 45% to 42.75% for revenge and 46.2% to 41.58% for TC isn't that big of a nerf
one might say it's 10%
legit nothing changes at all you just do slightly less revenge and tc damage
Pretty reasonable nerfs, we'll be fine
It’s 5% for revenge and 10% for tc
On the bright side it seems like they must be happy with where Pwarr is, because this is surely no more than a percent or two dps nerf
@mortal brook bear hopium check
no

I think Ppaladin can be lumped in with bear at this point
literally unplayable now, i gotta march on to the forums to complain and inform blizzard of my intent to no longer play DF
It's fine, just play the backup VDH. Kek.
On a non-shitpost note, I'll fuckin' die before I play DH
if they nerf every non-DH tank out of the game, I'm not tanking
Nah I think it was a combo of haste and our rage gen from double leggos
the "big thing" is the gdc on SC
Looking at some keys for HOV and AA on beta it would be abt a 2-3% damage nerf to overall.
And those are 2 of the heavier aoe dungeons
Even less in say Shadowmoon or Temple I would think.
Not trying to say you're wrong or anything, just like to hear people's perspectives. Why do you feel that way?
i hate the aesthetic
This change is nothing more than a tiny tiny tuning
i ain't gonna play a character i don't wanna play
i don't think it's a confusing statement lol luerce isn't saying that's happened here
I did not like the kite meta in season 1, and thats what I personally associate with dh tanks now, and thats no bueno
they're just saying if we lived in some bizarre hypothetical world where DH is the only viable tank
they wouldn't play DH
That wont happen
Vengeance is sick
Neither did in s1 of sl
WOW CRO I DIDN'T REALISE
IF ONLY I HAD SAID
"IF WE LIVED IN SOME BIZARRE HYPOTHETICAL WORLD"
^^^
TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT THAT WON'T HAPPEN
It’s maybe a 1.5% on ST
Pretty minor…. Should mean not much more in the way of changes
I can only imagine the pvp community of sheild charge were off GCD
let us have it off gcd abd put on gcd in bg and arenas
:^)
Makes sense to be on the gcd in general with how much it does for 1 button.
F for Fun!
41.58% Attack power on Thunderclap? FUN MURDER.
worse, U tier, can't press demo shout or shield charge off GCD? smh i have to live the life of suffering
whatever will i do with my 100% shield block uptime, constant rage gen, and pumping SS outbursts?
how look your dps in single target ? i can't do more than 5-6k
once you hit max level youll start doing more
LOL
blizzard is so lost @_@
Prot warrior is a problem, they live forever... Alright let's nerf their dmg and make their gameplay a bit slower with SC. ???
im 60 already and 289 ilvl
something go wrong
i can do a lots in trash but in raid i suck as fuck
yes. give logs for targeted feedback
What happened to TC other than the dmg nerf?
nothing
If all they could come up with is a 2-3% nerf to our overall then that’s a win.
maybe they are doing that cause of the tier +Brutal Vitality synergy?
its something
That makes no sense
You probably also mean tier and BV but that also doesn’t change anything.
alright whose playing brew?
yeah brutal vitality
Rather eat my toenails than play brew
brew got hella button bloat
Someone go test if we now only TC over SS on 5 and 7 targets respectively instead of 4 and 6
ye but i see no other reason why they nerfed the aoe a little
Are we now officially below DH tanks?
having not played beta, i actually can't even believe SC was off the GCD to begin with
So we do less damage if they think we do more aoe than their targets
that's kinda wild for how good it is
Or is it just a matter of time till DH gets a nerf bat?
Should I reroll guardian guys?
Should have done that already
Why did shield charge have to go on global? Lol
because it is stun
stun with high amount of damage
Oh ok makes sense
Omg, nerfs, are we still viable?!?!? /s
Yes, there's no chance we're still viable
fucking pvp ruining it for us
CCs in general shouldnt be on GCD for PvE
Idk, does an f ton of dmg too
rerolling a bear
Good, we're F tier for sure
Hi, this is the noobiest of noob questions but: when will i go under 90%hp? Is m+ going to teach me a huge lesson or what’s going on ? Are prot warriors just that strong atm?
M+ scales infinitely, so at some point yeah you'll find a challenge.
Just rolled my first tank today and it seems so easy, nothign does any damage and i can kill mobs relatively quickly, just seems so weird having been a dps player for the past 10+ years
As a bear main probably re-rolling, this hurt me on a personal level
It's prepatch and prots pretty beefy
i mean leveling as a tank is easier than anything, and that continues through all trivial content
For sure, you'll have an easy time of it. Once you get to current outdoor content killing can be a little slow; but is more than made up for by the fact that you can pull all of it and just grind it all down at once.
with covenant loss with DF, our tankyness should drop quite a bit.
Yeah, currently doing the legendary belt line in ZM and so far it’s been a breeze. How hectic is the playstyle one mobs start to actually hit?
I mean all should, but wars I think in particular are going to feel the loss
I've heard that isn't the case in beta
its not that we're weak by any means
just that banner is very powerful
and we're currently end of xpac secondaries
so the relative tankiness is going to drop is all
Took them long enough to nerf those 🐝 in AA
Warrior just has good talents that work well with the toolkit so losing banner wont be a big deal for tankiness
@chilly brook paying you back
PUPPERS
the giga nerf to stormslam
went to town on several tank busters it seems like
Damn. Warriors nerfed to the ground. Time to go bear
unplayable
Is thunderclap generating zero rage a tooltip error on that blue post?
my man if tclap started generating no rage that would be what the post is about
i was pretty sure that was the case
and the discord would be on fire
still generates on the beta
Now that would have been huge but also make 0 sense as you would be left with 1 generator and 2 overlapping spenders lol
The datamined tooltips for TC can be completely ignored.
It’s the same every time they post it. There is another modifier giving prot the 5 rage gen not shown in the wowhead tooltip.
Is that ignore main tracker that is pinned on here giving anyoine else errors? Just started today
Do we have any stuns that aren't on gcd now? Shield charge was so good for stoping unkickable casts from mobs :/
war stomp 🙂
hmm maybe a spec that's already seen as busted didn't necessarily need an insta off gcd 4s stun + burst damage aoe button
prot nerfs it's over
😏
shield charge on gcd kinda cringe tbh but it fits with demo being on the gcd
Honestly, I never noticed it was off, kind of just assumed it always was
yeah it doesn't make that much of a difference tbh
im glad tankiness hasn't been hit
Quick question: what is the ‘cap’ for SB duration, not including stuff like bolster/SC. As in how high can we stack SB before we get diminishing returns on hard casting it?
23 secs is the max i think
what do you mean "not including stuff like bolster/SC"
those add to SB duration
there's also, uh, no diminishing returns, only a hard cap
which depends on if you have enduring or not
iirc it's 24 with enduring, 18 without
They ignore the DR tho I just wanted to know the 3 x base
Ty
Dr is the wrong word. If you have 20 secs of SB and hit SB again it gives less duration
But bolster ignores that and goes over 24 secs
I wanted to know about only SB
it's
it's still this
it is a hard cap of 3x SB duration
so 24 seconds with enduring, 18 without
i may be wrong but i believe that bolster does actually go over
if you press SB while at 23 seconds, you get 1 second of SB
i'm not sure because i never play with it
Bolster I think does, yeah, since it goes through LS duration first
I don't think Shield Charge with Bulwark goes over
I'd wager it's due to it being tied to LS duration, but I ain't no nerd to know
it wasnt tied to LS duration in shadowlands
venthyr leggo used to extend last stand
but it iddnt extend bolster
Codex sucks on warrior i assume?
pointless
I mean more like on a coding end in that it does math with LS before anything else, but that's real nitpicking
i dunno enough, anyhow
press sb slap ss
me get 100% uptime
How are pwar getting nerfs where VDH isnt!
How much impact the passive mitigation from High mountain race has ? what % overall if anyone knows
Not even worth considering
ty !
But to answer your question..
Reduces damage taken by (Stamina * 0.0003 * 20)
This «nerf» what will it be like 1-2% overall😅?
Yea, but my point still stands! Blizz need to wake the fuck up and look at vengeance!
What nerf?
Some minor dps nerfs and shield charge tweak to teh GCD

@neon fossil thats coming
Yea it better be! But it's typical blizz, always focusing on the warrior right at the start of an expansion release and then nerf us into the ground!
Wild take.
Yes...
And is it overperforming that much compared to vdh?
Idk, i tried prot, diddn't care for VDH.
Thats not the ground
The "nerfs" are minor. Who cares.
Just number tunings.
More than likely every class will get some.
Druid is on the ground 😆
Ye but this guy is afraid «it will gets nerfed to the ground» thats why i ask how it is without 4pc
i mean shield charge to GCD ain't just number tuning, but it didn't make sense for it to be oGCD, even though it was much funner off it
Still strong. 🤷
unless it is just number tuning and i'm way outta the loop on how we talk about things
i dunno i'm stoopid

My point isn't that they are slight number tuning, it's the fact that they got their fucking eyes on us when they should be elsewhere.
Spell block is good if the dungeon allows it to be good
yea
im just gonna quote mwahi here to do my arguing for me:
"The "nerfs" are minor. Who cares.
Just number tunings.
More than likely every class will get some."
Evoker
Hello is prot still viable
damn right it is
But tbh, I played all tanks on beta except bear and yea, vdh is insane
So they prob tune every tank a bit

if anything, the fact that pwars nerfs are so "delicate" is indicative of blizzard making pwar the bdk of next season
look at enhance
thats when you know blizz dont care about a spec

They were shitcanning most of the other dps by about a Detroit mile
so were survival and destro
blizz basically select couple of spec and make them the bis
its pretty obvious at this point
its pwar's turn
trust
Yes but the nerf itself is bad. Enhance has sooo many modifiers, a tweak on them would be better than a flat nerf
Such a strong and wrong reaction. For once there are multiple tanks in a good spot. That’s a great thing. Hope they won’t let people like you get to them and change that
In raid yes but in keys there will always be a top 1 and every pushing team will play that one spec
All the tanks are very similar to eachother currently with the consensus on bear being slightly below
literally play what you want. This is an age of tanks if you wanna talk about anything they’re all stupid strong currently
I mean its normal they tune most classes in the end. And i think most guys saw a tuning comming
Like stop worrying about shit weeks before it’s even due for raid mplus and tuning parses still yet to come
i really dont think theyre gonna do a CN unholy dk again
unless somethings stupidly broken
Yeah exactly, it was 100% sure tuning would happen, so “why do they have their eyes on us” is a dumb comment, and asking for stronger nerfs on other classes in even dumber
i mean they let BDK be what it was for 2 seasons
like just stop. Leave mwahi and shit alone to they deal with this shit daily. Like go back and read like 20 lines up whenever you come on and the shits been answered for you
Just wait
Simple as that
it even got stronger in S4 because of the affix
Becouse sl was over after s3 i tihnk
I can almost guarantee none of you play at a level that any of it will even matter
Play what you want and enjoy and you’re far more likely to exceed
its not as exclusive as you think it is
i remember people stop taking any tank other than BDK for 25+ back in may
Okay but the Player base for 25+ is less then 10%
Exactly. It’s not about whether other tanks CAN do they key, but about the likeliness you’ll even get into it in the first place
More like.. ~1%. At least when looking at data from r.io 2.8k is top 1%. And that's roughly 25's.

if you get a team at that level tho you don’t need a BDK you have never needed a BDK exclusively for over 25s
You could have done it as any tank
sure as hell be alot easier to do it with a BDK
25s and what not are not a high enough level that this one tank is going to break or miss
thats like saying if youre the top 3 feral in S4 you can still get 3.1K but then like
honestly at that level no
any tank easily thrashed that level of key
came down to the player not the class
yea but then unless you find a team to just do 26 27
idk i think you find a team to push as high as you can
thats when you reroll bdk
or pwar next season
masterrace unite
im honestly fine with blizz doing this take turn thing
No you don’t
You also could pug 25s
yes you could
thats what i did
on brm
and then people started asking me to play ww
So what?

And then you tell them "No thank you".
and then i just stopped doing keys lol
That’s the reason why you say you can’t pug 25s? 😂
huh
i said 25 is around the level of pug
over that youre lucky to get in one if you were not bdk
extremely lucky
also during push weeks most high keys arent even in pug ques
they just do it with a team anyway
for real tho i get conspiracy theory with this shit
you can tell if blizz have man power on each spec by looking at balance changes
-25% damage over all = they have janitors designing that class
what war had today means war will be good
also the amount of place holder talent icon in BDK tree means
its gonna suck
bdk is realy good tho
damage sucks is what i heard
Bdk is really good
if you suck yes
No
but if you play good, the dmg is good
Bdk damage os huge if u play correctly
havent even touched it yet so idk
war is way more fun than brm
having a blast
fuck brm
thats why those statements are always dangerous :D
Streamers and YTers are spending like 2 hours on it not understanding how it works and say its bad while the theorycrafter have like 50 hours on it are imortal and do more damage than port
thats also why everyone says pwar bustedd hurrdurr
as long as brm and prot pal arent the top pick im fine with everything else
even bear
Has the Mana Devourer tank in corner strat been fixed? Got cussed out by a group earlier for doing it and they said it doesnt work anymore despite the majority of the orbs seemingly going straight under the bosses hitbox
so just minor TC and revenge nerfs? we should be fine if they leave us like this, or?
we're devastated, absolutely destroyed, there's no hope go to the forums and yell to the rafters how you're quitting wow forever
Honestly, if the spec is fun and balanced
It doesn’t really matter how many + or - they have
Fury had a +29
That’s fine
If enh shaman is still fun and varied in play style
Who really cares
i would agree if we were in the middle of a season but its beta dude, its normal for things to be drastically imbalanced lol and sometimes when that is the case a flat nerf is fine
yeah there are times for nuanced tweaks and times for broad strokes, really doesn’t mean anything about the development side
More sad about SC being on gcd that fucking sucks
Gunna make pull even more annoying

What was SC again?
Shield Charge
I quit the game since i got CE denathrius
Can’t recall a shield charge skill xD
Damn It has been a while huh
I see
Charge with a stun ok xD
and with shield block, and with revenge proc
(when taking an extra talent for it)
it’s a charge with aoe damage and a 4s stun on the primary target
thats dope
also no minimum range, so, that's why the "off gcd" felt so nice as you could always do it
And since the aoe is only 10yds you usually just want to charge in first to gather
but I guess it was too much fun to have it off gcd 😄
annoying though cus idk where id bind it
bind it on rock band drum set foot pedal
I put it where intervene used to be
i had intervene and charge in one
since i'm not likely to pick up intervene in most case scenarios
You could put it on your cov button bind
Just bind Siri/Alexa/Google and say "Hey <insert tech>, cast Shield Charge"
Its on my devastate bind cause we never gunna actual have it back
Yeah talent trees lock that in
Should probs be on a less used keybind but meh
probably always? at least most of the time?
can you bind shift/alt/ctrl together with mouse buttons?
Think so
gonna check
in that case its gucci
cus i got charge on my shield button
and id want my shield charge to be more or less the same instead of on a keyboard button
For m+ we recommend it
Cant remeber the raid builds
yeah makes sense
maybe one day they’ll be cool
i cannot unbind devastate on a moral level
I mean my raid build rigt now has SC and rav because they fun and doo good damage @blazing condor u can use the build for m+ as well but u loose shield spec and outburst so its a bit meh
it would be ethically wrong for me to unbind it
i replaced my devastate button with ravager early on
okay you could bind shift with mouse buttons

rejoice
Devastate is the ability that became redundant when you specced into Devastator
devastator OP
aka the button you used to have devastate on
So guys, are we still pumping after those DEVASTATING nerfs? XD
now i have chad Ravager on 1
No spec is dead
we always ded

and still play


don't attract the fotm players
Reroll if u care for meaningful progress
Dont use meaningful, you will awaken Ion's true nature
Skill issue
tbh I laughed when I've seen the nerfs xD
as if revenge and clap damage are what makes us good rn
why you gotta laugh at the dead class smh
I'm a gnome
we're all scrapping our accounts now in rage and su-
eugh
no wonder you feed on suffering
I laughes because they only tune pwar and bear. The other 4? They dont exist for Blizzard
give them time, they still have a few months,... oh wait
I wonder how we feel at low gear and without necro banner 😦
Welp its fine, we can use dps trinkets since were gucci defensively, while the rest (except vdh) use defensive ones.
wait you didn't use offensive trinkets in shadowlands?
I did
But dont ask a BrM to use an offensive one with the way they get wrecked in Beta
For example
Yep. Its funny to watch the exact moment something magic comes their way and they explode.
Like popcorn!!
does it make a sound?

But hey, the fleeting moments theyre alive, they still have Resonant Fists
But WE get nerfed hahahaha
NOOOO my 3%
I laughed at the nerf xD
Sad part about prot warrior getting hype and being "fairly" easy to optimally play, those things get on Blizz' radar way faster than for instance the crazy burst a BDK can do when played well (that takes too much practice for a blizz dev to find out about haha)
Yes, make us non FOTM, thank you.
I think DH needs a buff
I mean they already have the options to get AoE Stun, AoE Silence, Massgrip and AoE Fear
they need to be top in M+ and have the eyes on them
but, DH's are blind?
blizzard needs to see em, not they themselves
So dmg wise? Are we like 2nd to 3rd place now?
Guardian Druid is the best tank in Dragonflight
🐻
Not bear again... XD
I should be testing stuff in Beta...been playing GoW 4 and now Ragnarok xD
You can't take misery nor chains unless you want to gimp yourself extremely hard 🙂
We were already 3rd place
Both brm and vdh do more dmg than pwar
Even before the nerf
We still at 3rd?
We now bottom last
forgot prot pal
Dead class
Hard to say how much dmg pally does
But I've not seen a pally do more than a warri yet
But that's prolly cuz they were all pretty bad
Did they fix all the pally talents
there are still 35 active bugs
Nice
I guess bdk is now equal to pwar dmg
So we may be tied to 3rd place between pwar/pally/bdk
Are we going slowly to be the tanky immortal tank, who does no dmg 🤡
No, we will still be able to pull 60k overalls
some people are getting fluffed thinking about that
Tank dmg is solid across the board now I think
With just brm being the outlier positively
And bear negatively
Just started levelling at 50 as prot and its great i've no idea why i didnt try this sooner
nothing can kill me
very nice experience
so is pwarr going to be off-meta again? what's happened?
?
Nobody can tell what'll be meta
For all we know it's between pwar/bdk/vdh
All 3 of those tanks are immortal
Vdh now has the upper hand in dmg output
That's all that changed
Vdh can tank dmg as warr and dk rly?
Yes.
U mean with kite or they just tanky af
A well played dh has 100% uptime on defensives
Df vdh is nothing like SL dh
It plays roughly the same, but you're much much tankier
You don't rely on meta to be able to tank
So they removed that paper phase out of demon form
They now have new frailty mechanic and reworked their mastery
Huge 6% nerf in aoe and a small ST nerf, and SC on gcd class dead reroll

spec
yeah was listening to your podcast, and the SC off gcd sounded so fun, kinda got me hyped
Worse than bears
read that now and was like oh 😦
True actually
Blizz always do this , im sure some dps will get killed days before m+ and raids 😂
And i vote for unholy dk
As blizz has stated, they will perform more frequent but smaller balance patches throughout each season
So anything can happen at any time
Wait, vdh got their mastery reworked? What does it do now?
Increases their armor outside of spikes
Instead of only buffing armor with spikes up
They also got a bunch of talents which just helps with mitigation uptime
And frailty rework is just massive
do you think a prot ist a good tank to start with? df is my first addon i try to start playing a tank
we can survive this!
Its far easier than it used to be so its not a bad choice still have more things to manage and is faster than other tanks but really its more on if u enjoy it or not @unkempt ingot
How have we been nerfed, exactly?
Oh is that all?
I mean, that's terrible, clearly the FOTM rerollers should stay the hell away from us >_>
Prot is fotm ?
I mean, TC was little bit overtuned lets admit. We liked it but was overtuned..
For revenge is just a small number nerf and i understand it as tuning towards the release.
And lastly for SC it was too good to be true oGCD, but not necessary with rotation and uptime we have.
I'll tell that this is realistic change for us even we dont like it, but better to set us correctly now rather than changing us in the mittle of the season.
I don’t think anyone cares about the nerf
It's 10% off TClap and 5% of Revenj, right?
Yeah, 46.2 * 0.9 is 41.58
and 45 * 0.95 is 42.75
Given what Blizzard did to like enhancement, prot got off as light as they could for their strength on beta
👍🏻 thanks
At 8 stacks of Outburst do I always use SS or if aoe do I use TC?
If u are using UF u use it on tc at 4 targets in avatar
6 outside of avatar
Otherwise its ss
To be fair, as long as there's no nerf that makes prot literally dogshit, I'll always just be a prot warrior (I didn't like the SL playstyle, so gave it a break) just because the playstyle and talent setup is so much fun now. I don't care about some % nerfs here and there, there's always going to be tanks better and tanks worse than prot anyway.
Any tiny shift in talents can change the entire (stupid) youtube tier lists, and any new Season can flip it all around again anyway 🤷♂️
A tiny nerf is a great clickbait video that could change fotm rankings
Also, at least in my "friends" list, nobody cares what tank I play, as long as I play a tank, cause they don't wanna hahaha
It's less of a nerf than I expected
I expected a 10-15% aura nerf
What we got is alot better
Its small enough to not break talent setups
But still big enough to have a slight impact to your overall
Tier lists in shambles, Marcelian going to have to make a new video now $$$
1 nerf I could see coming would be another nerf to vanguard
Like the only sensible things I could see coming are:
SS dmg nerf
Enduring Defenses nerfed by 0.5s or 1s
Vanguard nerf
Rend nerf
exactly that
So I'm hoping they've found the tank mark they want and they bring up bear dps to it and maybe gently nudge some squishier tanks defensives
regarding this i agree, i doubt at rend nerf because thats the thing they wanted to bring. maybe ss nerf and vanguard
Lets hope they get the sweet spot for tanks dps, and bring everyone to that spot
Last nerf I could see in a month is them nerfing the 4p or something.
does the heal part mecha ring work for tanks?
like if i damage them with 3 abiltys do i heal peps then?
Yes
If you get the entire group setup with the heal ring it's actually not that bad of a setup
what does "fotm" stand for?
flavour of the month
thanks
wasup guys, tried to sim my char today and got this error:
in pins, sims are broken atm
Sim broke
srry, missed that pin! Thank you
re:prot nerfs
IDK, prot nerfs were probably needed but I don't think the damage was really the nail sticking out
Seemed a bit like a misfire as far as balance concerns go
VDH damage sticks out a lot more aggressively imo, and obviously Brew Resonant Fists is nutty despite their squishiness in a lot of keys
That's what alot of attention gets you
Pwar had the most attention from everybody
And only a few weeks later people started to realise other tanks are almost just as good
Alot of people still think prot is oppressively stronger than other tanks on beta
Hopefully the FOTM rollers will hear "prot nerfed" and go elsewhere
My current prediction is VDH will win the great m+ meta race in the end
Because they've been dodging being touched
Cuz of SL
Yeah. I've been playing VDH since they first came out as my main m+ tank except for when I came back for s3
This is the sturdiest and in control they've felt to me since ever
I've read devs side of things about fotm and specs being played by so many good players that they are (on average) getting better results than the 'mathematics average difference'
Well yeah, good tanks are usually flexible
So they'll suss out what is strongest out of the things they'll play in high end content
And then those choices trickle down
That's why correct data evaluation is important
Eh thats not really correct the amount of ppl now rerilling and not playing close to correctly and doing far less damage and not even having 100% block i dont think its that accurate
Even if the data is relatively close
Example : A is better than B by 5%, but because the best are playing A then A shines even more and has 10% more instead
That's why you don't compare specs by average performance
After all nerfs and buffs to come, that is
That should be obv
By buffing B by 5% they are supposed to be equal but nobody will play B because they are shown to be 10% worde
Like vdh is on pair with bdk and pwar
If you play some low m+, all you see is prot warriors everywhere, one worse than the other
Slighty above ppala and monk overall
If pwar got nerfed
Same gonna happen to vdh likely
Prot wars and windwalkers
And bdk gonna get buffed and be meta again
But isn't bdk slightly less dmg than war and vdh? Only had that impression from watching dorkis streams
Yeah, generally
And the bones got nerfed
Also more vulnerable to getting deleted than in SL due to lack of permanent 80% parry
Not that they are squishy
But a lot of people are traumatized by how ludicrous they were in s3/s4
Only in aoe
But also
Dorki isnt playing bdk all that well
So far I don't think a single streamer is
Really? Holy
Not many ppl are playing the specs correct cause they havent spent 50 hourslike thetheorycrafters on them
The only good bdks who'd stream are Andy and Naowh
You could be the one!
I ain't playing anything but pwar
So that's interesting thank
Why’d you let them put charge on the gcd Nom
☝️
Revolt, Blizz actually cares about y’all
Tbf we dont revolt we let this stay cause they could have done a lot worse
And we just tell the fotmers that the spec is dead so we stay under the radar
Trust me, no one believes that
Prot is Z tier now
Y’all need practice at this, y’all aren’t selling it well at all
Come to guardian, we will teach
We've been under the radar all of SL
dw
Been so far under the radar that we got 3 buffs from 9.1 to 9.2
And people still didn't know about us
You and many others
That felt Bear tier
You just hate yourself already then
Pwar and bdk literally swapped spots from SL to DF
Now bdk is hard, unforgiving and looks bad to the general majority
Now pwar is easy, quite forgiving and looks omega strong to the general majority
if you intervene your melee friend in HOA into a frontal and here him crying after this , then its fun
If you have to think of single instances where it is fun, it’s not fun
wait bdk is hard and looks bad? only on beta or in prepatch too?
Would you consider pwar with the additions to the toolkit a good pug tank in a way to "carry" or iron out mistakes from bad players or is ppal still way above?
Pally will always be better at that
People scream left and right that bdk does low damage
When that's not at all the case
so if i like it on preptach and have no trouble i should be fine?
Every tank is broken as shit in prepatch
no dying no scared of dying
Well duh that's pretty easy to achieve
Thats not a bdk problem lol
The part that makes em look bad is the unforgiving dps rotation
Basically two tanks in a single unit
If you die in prepatch you need to find another role
so ye i did like 10k in the first key and after a bit practice i know do like 20k in most keys with like 285 and no gavel , but thats not that hard
and still not good
That's already more dmg than some people manage on beta 🙂
Seen some streamers pull off sub 20k dps on bdk on beta
And then call bdk shit
get a wa which makes some annoying sound if you are not in DND
So yeah, that's why they get their bad rep
problem solved
Pmuch yeah
Let’s be real, all tanks are fairly easy now
You have 5 choices, just pick one you like and enjoy a rushed xpac like the rest of us
It's never hard hard, but some are harder than others
they have very clear difficulty differences
isnt overall dps closely tied to how good you are at pulling? Like knowing the exact limits of whats max to pull and using that? you could be the best player mechanically but if you only pull 3 mobs at a time your dps will always suck
Nah
ye ofc but if you suck you will still dont do big dps in big pulls
Thinking you need to pull crazy to do big damage is copium
Clear speed is a huge factor
ok i see
Tied to button smashing
Like, yes you'll get the biggest overalls in lower kara and gambit because there are alot of frequent big pulls
But those big pulls are enabled by the mobs also just not doing anything
If you only pull 1 pack in gambit vs pulling double/triple packs obv isn't efficient
But that'll directly impact clear speed of the dungeon aswell
In almost all dungeons you can't opt to do "small vs big pulls" cuz you're limited by mechanics
Grimrail and iron docks are the best examples
You just can't pull big there
so the pulls in general are often tied to encounter design and pretty similar at a certain level of play
Yes
Many places the more coordinated your group is with kicks and stuns the bigger you can pull.
yea and thats another factor... basically approves the point that there are so many variables in a run that comparing flat dps numbers isnt the best thing to do
Take gambit, if you pull a giant with 2 murloc packs and everything just aoe’s but the giant is at 30% when all the murlocs die then a lot of that aoe would have been better used to do ST to the giant to speed up the dungeon.
At the higher levels you can
Cuz routes are standardised
And especially tank dps doesn't vary with pulls
Unlike say boomkin
Where it matters where you can pop your CDs and where not
Or like people think we (5 tanks) pull super big
When we generally pull the same or less
We just dont care about mechanics
For the most part
Are people planning on solo leveling as prot? Will it be fast compared to the other specs?
im doing it and idc if its slow

but i doubt it will actually be slow
as a tank leveling you can just mega pull everything and we have strong aoe
You wont notice a dif
No daze always lvl as tank
If you play for tank str
I’ll be playing prot at max but I’m trying to level as quickly as possible
Sounds good
In df, if you have 300ilvl rn you'll global pretty much every pack until you hit max level
The mobs in the first zones have 19k hp
Outburst shield slam crits for 35k without banner
i got 270 ilvl rn 
You can get to 298 in close to 1 week
Get working boi
All you need is 2k score and valor
Pssh, even i am 285.
do you play with addons for routes in m+ or do you look at websites?
or how to learn this thing?
MDT, create the route you want (or import from somewhere) - do the route..
🤷
You learn it like any other thing...do it..memorise it.
mythic dungeon tools?
Or you just pull shit till you figure out the route
i always find it fun to play around in MDT
thats like half the m+ experience
try and make good routes
then eventually it just becomes stale lol
Cos of limited time and fresh char gonna spam M+ and pug heroic raids to get like 290ish for fast levelling
Each time before a run you always re-check and evaluate the route
Every single time
You rarely ever just send it
You do, you fail, you do again until no fail
That's like the opposite of me. 😂
I just want to truck through the instance without needing 3 addon and a perfect trash % because idk last time I pugged trying to do optimized skips just cost more time
M+ should be about execution of fights not gimmic Skips, least enjoyable part of dungeons
At least for season 4 and DF season 1 routing will be minimal
Hold w
Dungeon are extremely linear so you won't see a lot of room for innovation until maybe MDI
with a fresh 60 and 1. time tanking boomer, where should i start with +keys?
are ppl happy with that? seems like it would be fine since the dungeons are being rotated every season...sort of nice not having to learn a bunch of routes for just a season
Get a +2 keystone from guy near vault and get started
i have so much respect for tanks managing so much more than any dd
so im very insecure but go for it looks like the way it has to be
Keep shieldblock up close to 100% as possible, use avatar with Unstoppable force on CD to maximise damage, use shield slam at 8 stacks of outburst
Rage dump prio > Ignore Pain > Revenge > Execute
for pre-patch if we are only doing 15-20 keys is there any changes that could be made to the tree on wowhead to push out some more dps?

Nom makes gud tree for slapping
my bad it was really far down haha
for like 95% of players doing m+ you can just hold W
you will get the right amount of % and time it
granted you have appropriate gear for the key
like no matter key level
cus yall aint doing top keys
god i love tanks but i hate the planning people expect us to do
Nah, my G. im here to hold W also. why do i need to know every route and percent from every mob
^ addons and weakauras help a lot with that
i hate the fact that when i played with pre mades they gave no shits about the route
its not just our responsibility to know how a dungeon works
that will notmake me want to learn that shit lol
tanks are fun. thats it
Seriously. The amount of times I'd play with people who said they'd done a really nice route with a pug or higher group, and when I asked them to show me what it was, the response was "Oh, I didn't pay attention to that". OKAY, GREAT, THANKS.
I hate the 'route' part. Some like it but I don't
At least it's not as important as it used to be, like S1
"Hey I had this one tank that had this amazing rout that we did and we +3d it"
K, send me it for MDT.
"Oh I don't have that, but my paid carry probably does!"
Exactly!
are there any fun talent combinations for prepatch I should toy around a bit on live?
I really like playing with the big shockwave xD
toy around with all of them, that's the point of prepatch
yeah anythign fun you tried?
I tested em all out, want to hear what talents y'all like especially
i haven't personally. all the good stuff is gonna be at 70 when we actually have the rest of the points
like bloodborne + thunderour roar and stuff like that
btw anyone knows why I can't put a socket on these bracers?
whats up ppl, just joined the group looking for tips. what's the def cap I should be looking for 540?
Not the wotlk channel here
Wotlk kek
540? def cap? sounds like old stuff
it's retail, you are looking for #mop-discussion
540 for raid yes
How many sunder stacks before I can tell dps to start attacking?
Idk thats rogue job
what about it. very small nerfs
She is a streamer
i mean makes sense
Pvp
because it's a ridiculously strong ability
all other charge abilities are on the gcd
it should be on the gcd
Cause it’s a stun/charge/sb/aoe damage/revenge cast all in 1 button

Ok so
This didn’t seem warranted but I’ve been not looking at much the past 2 weeks
They must be scared of s2 or high end s1 gear to do that
And the rest is like a 2-3% nerf to overall
it also does make sense from a pvp perspective - hadn't really thought of that. but regardless there is no reason for it to be not on the gcd
Yeah because prot warrior is so popular in pvp
It makes sense from a pve perspective as well
This would be all chill if they also took demo off gcd
It's a DMG ability that stuns and slaps
It's perfectly expectable that isn't not off gcd
That is true
Demo makes no sense to be on GCD
Cuz defensives shouldn't be, blizz said so themselves
Demo doesn't make sense on GCD anymore
But bubble, iceblock and wog all are on GCD cuz fuck you
It's only there because of how tied it was too bv
Wog isn't a self CD only though
Immunities should trigger your potion CD for their entire cd
Nah but it makes no sense for prot pally to have it on GCD
Still waiting for DS to be taken off the gcd.
If it was self only, or if sotr was put in gcd instead
Wog being gcd makes alot of sense
never again please
I mean you can still shield charge during charge 😛 if you like
Is it though, IP is a chain able mitigation supplement, wog was basically a free loh, and let's not kid ourselves they're going to rebuff it back to that level, they always do
It always ends up as a complete heal
If it was not on gcd it would be even more retarded
As much of a wet noodle as it is right now, it should be free.
In fact, it should just cast itself.
In Dragonflight, WoG casts you
New talent "you think you do" triggers wog at 10% health automatically but gives forbearance because, stop crying you bloated utility bag.
But without utility who would bring a paladin
pooly played they are paperbags





