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does anyone have the DPS build for prot?
(In fairness, I also play the game a lot and I'm still bad at it)
i think thats 95% of us
check the pins; Nom's IMO best M+ build is good
had a prot in a key that was top dps using a weird build spamming TC
I need the build for spamming 2's
All things being equal out first 418 craft should generally by Lariat? Other craft I have is shield but not sure that is a wise one as I can get it off first Mythic boss or Heroic Brood both which we are clearing. Thanks
i dont need a m+ build, i have that
I need an all damage build
Probably something with ITF
that would be the same thing
except maybe swap HR for ITF
and drop shockwave for Droar CD reduction and Crit
what's ITF?
into the fray
more haste
both are correct options
hmm
I would probably cut spell block and Thunderlord's for bloodborne
(Though, actually I'd probably sim thunderlord's it might actually be more damage, not sure)
This is what I made for literally only caring about damage
would not recommend
for usual content
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Is punish more damage than impenetrable wall?
thanks
I think so
Guys i have question i was 22 aa, and DH overaggroed me sometimes, i was doing 60k overall and on aoes 100k+ always is it ebcause im nto swapping targets and targeting same mob in pack?
i mean he was doing brutal dmg but still
shouldnt aggro me like after ten seconds dmging
so basically spam thunder clap as much as I can?
how is that so dh does that?
Basic question but, is there a cap on ignore pain ?
Love when I'm doing first pull of AA and a DH let's eyebeam rip before all the mobs are grouped
dh burst is kinda front loaded
And they just get deleted
esp if they have puzzle and all CDs up to start a pack
follow the same prio: SS>Clap>Revenge
alright
I mean, thats generally a good idea
They should be more mindful of their burst, tbh
If you're doing good damage on all the mobs and they pull threat, that's on them
55-60k overall, 100-150k+ on pack
you could mark prio and they could cleave off that
and if you have a log, we can see if you pressing your buttons right
but so much of their opener is AoE
like the only thing that isn't is probably the initial hunt hit
but also, in AA, you should be closer to 80k; though it may be pull size dependent
i was chain pulling and was little bit scared
but 80k is reasonable for a normal route
can u send me route for this week? gues si did shit route
for aa
80k sounds lik eheaven i mean dpsers do 80k 😄
theres not really a route I can share; its more like, do you pull the whole tree area in one pull?
like, whats comfortable for you
I mean, if you're doing 150k on a pack and they get womped, they have to be doing 600k burst, right?
Threat multi still 4x?
Or about there, anyways
he was doing like 500k burst and normally like 250K
maybe im pressing bad buttons in my burst and that not target swapping ye
that big pull on fort is tough, because you need to have mit rolling and you are probably GCD starved from that when everyone is opening
so your dps need to be disciplined as you gather/secure
yea, if they start dpsing before things are grouped, they are activly griefing you
especially when you preparing a big pull like that
so they should wait like what 3 gcds?
well, I mean, they should wait until shit is well grouped
but it all depends on what you doing
They should just wait until a pack is grouped
he's trying to summon a demon
like, on AA I run to the center of the tree area, throw axe, get everything together and then slap
the other part of that pull is the lashers have to spawn out the ground, and they're coming from all diff directions
yea, the build is SUS AF for anything but maybe just max damage
on tree its biggest pain i want make big pull but when im chaining aroudn area someone is heavily single targeting somethign behind me, 5 mobs overaggro and then im single targeting and pulling them back and meanwhilke avoiding green aoe under me
so your job is to try and make them converge at roughly the same time to one spot

if people start ripping into them before they're gathered, you're going to be wasting more GCDs pulling mobs back to you
i should train this
instead of getting gathered, then throwing TC / Rev out to hold aggro
Try this; if you want everything wait a couple of seconds for the first set of birds to path out of the way
run to the center of the room
then heroic toss the three large packs and whatever bugs you want
they will accumulate in the center, then you can start blasting
okay and one mroe thing i have problem with, nokhud, first patrol, how u manage so they super together and thsoe two bitch rangeds are not separated?
if you leap into them rather then charge
im charging into main guy and taunt but its not working
they will group up
why is that so u charge they dont group but leap yes
but the mobs have bows, so they do not like to move
do you guys normally bring shield charge + champions bulward?
IDK why, its just the interaction
I always have SC, Champions Bulwark, and Battering Ram
line up every Demo Shout with a big Shield Charge
overflowing whatever overpowered
here you got, a bag with 15k raw gold..... sure.... i'll take that...
gotcha, i was debating on replacing it with a second bloodborne and tough as nails
but im also not good at remembering to use it lol
jsut tried tzhat on m0 thats cool lol
i mena that aa tree
i feel like noob now running around
blood bourne is a trap
because while you need the constant bleed on everyone, the bleed doesn't do as much damage as other things do in well played normal rotaion
the bleed exists and is vital because everytime it ticks, it has chance to increase our rage by 5
so would you say tough as nails > bloodbourne 1 here is the rest of my tree.
if you're taking HR, you don't need bolster
nails is about a 3% dps increase, so worth the point
HR?
i run this
heavy repercussions
bog standard
i run what runs yogi but usually using mass kick cause i dont beleive pug kicks
Yogi has a good looking build; though I run HR over ITF
Spell Block only in RLP, ToJS, and AV
isnt it good for aa vexamus and half magic adds?
this is the other minor variation i do
or nokhud before elemental magic adds
i am a huge fan of bounding
I havnt run into the scenario in those dungeons where I was like 'damn, I really need Spellblock'
hmmm
im only running around m10s and im usually like #2 on dps and im only really dying to sleepy healers or dps's that love hitting me with quaking
Having eclipsed 50 runs of CoS last week, my first run today got me a whetstone
the most sanest protection warrior
from what you posted IMO, drop bolster for Tough As Nails, and drop Bloodborne for Punish
will be trying it out thx
grats tho, thats dedication to gear
Started to feel like I was the only pwar without it lol
bleeds are like 15% of your total damage in big pulls dungeons
so 2 pts for 3% ish damage
maybe a little more, forgot dragon roar dot
i love fighting the germinate dude, I become a certified PUMPER
so many ads to put bleeds on
imo give arms blood borne if it doesnt have it
it does
can spark be as reward from WQ?
Bottled essence, yes
@fallow nova Do you need to set loot spec as dps for whetstone?
yes
Yes
I'll give it a whirl farming it, I really miss having an on-use dps trinket
Looks like my fully trained ST welp only does around 2.5-3% of my overall damage...
do u guys still run barbaric training?
In keys
no it's shit
Yeah it's mid
and even worse in keys
How much damage is that though?
Well if he’s doing 100mil+ it’s alright
on my 16 NO, I did 77.8M, Fireshot did 2.6%, 1.99M
Yeah and grieftorch is a strength trinket too
I’m not saying use it over grieftorch
Even hoof is better prob
It is
I said "mid" not "trash"
3% is mid
My only other options are puzzle box and horn of valor
Whetstone does 5-6% but has no strength
and burgeoning seed 
Yes so you should be happy enough with whelp for now

Yea 2mil is kinda low
% of overall assumes everyone plays perfectly and since I’ve never spoken to this player I cannot assume they are doing close to max damage
On a +16 NO my whetstone did 6m damage
I am most likely nowhere near max damage 
Strength is a big difference
Crit for whetstone is pretty big too
ye mine did 7mil in a +20
I did fat damage in a 16 RLP and somehow my whetstone did 10%
It seems to fluctuate hard
was a pretty fast 16 tho, 19:37
oh I misread, 8%
4.25m
still, whetstone seems to be more like 6-8% and yes you can argue the higher % you get on whetstone then the less damage you did with other abilities
but I get good parses so 🤷♂️
@ionic fern Stinky
So I've accumulated too many good trinkets and don't know what to use I have a 421 Blazebinder's hoof, a 418 whetstone, a 408 icon, a 402 rumbling ruby, and a 402 decoration of flame? I normally just run the double on use Blazebinder's and whetstone unless I'm raiding and several people are running Icon
probably blaze/whet. maybe Icon if your group has a couple
hoof and whetstone yah.
you are correct
if you're comfortable with 2 on uses, blaze/whet are good to use
although I'm a big hater on running double on use
so probably wouldn't follow my own advice

Never understood disliking double on-use
It's 2 extra fat dps buttons
what's not to like?
how many casts?
òh no not this guy
10 casts
@round pendant you're not gonna have a full uptime with it is one thing.
idk, also have double on use on my DH and it really annoys me there, but that's also because one is puzzle
he remembers 
what the
Wdym, you can still use both trinkets on cooldown, just one is delayed by 20 seconds at the start
If we run with Hoof, is it worth it to use our Shield charge/Roar/Ravager/Demo shout when we have more str stacks or the diff is not big enough?
well yeah, and then you are out of combat, and it might overlap again, putting it on a cd again. Meaning not full uptime.
what
just press it when it's up
If you're going at a decent pace in a dungeon this is probably not gonna happen tho
I get max casts for dungeon time in like all my keys
it's not about pace, it's just about timings
When I sim Hoof vs Ruby it seems that Ruby is stronger, do we know if the sims are correct? I was told that Ruby sees the target at full HP and deal more damage in sims that it does in reality. Not sure how it works exactly tho
well a lot of dungeons have things roleplays like ruby, hov and so forth, meaning it might be unavoidable. Thus it's a valid point. and even by just a few seconds each time it results in something.
ruby oversims since the sim is assuming perfect uptime on each stack of the buff and then the proc, this won't happen in actual content
@round pendant in like all my keys, basically proves my point.
How does my wording prove your point
Good to know, thanks!
both are oversimming
hoof has the same problem
Well cause it's not in all keys. Cause based of the time left, you might lose one usage.... IDK how we're arguing about this.
true, forgot to say that
at least rumbling ruby gives attack power
hoof strength is an active and you can lose it
rumbling ruby's attack power lasts like 5 minutes
We don't know if it's not all keys. I haven't looked at all my logs for the number of casts vs dungeon/fight length
i would just run ruby
Yeppers
I've been on Arms loot ever since I got a decent shield
does ilvl matter much for the decision?
@fallow nova - Loving your avatar 😄
but like
my point is that both are probably oversimming
I figured haha
i c
@round pendant I can tell you for sure that you have lost a trinket usage because one is putting the other on cd. This is a fact, if not, you have played less than 5 keys, and been lucky.
Thank you. Doesn't mean that it's not gonna be worth it, but it's just going to make it worse than it would be.
Yah the clunkiness of 2 on use not only feels bad, it’s actually difficult to anticipate just how many casts might be affected
exactly how many casts are you losing, depends on the dungeon
but saying that you'll lose 0 casts is just false
Maybe in fucking halls of valor when going from fenryr to whatshisface muh aegis
bro, in every single one...
If you're trinket gets up at the same time as the dungeon is finished, you lost one cast.
never mind if you have staggered cds for the on use
You could alternate, most of the time you are going to have Avatar + Demo without other CDs on half the packs, pop the other trinket there
it's not about alternating, one trinket locks out the other
The timings just end up sucking ass though
passive trinkets don't work that way
passive trinkets are you set it and forget it and hopefully it lines up
You lose the initial time but if you're not going at a snails pace or holding the second trinket, I doubt you'll end up losing a full cast
ofc it depends on the dungeon
like with your avatar or something not another passive trinket
@round pendant As stated previously.... Even if you lose only the 20 seconds, that might mean a full usage...
but its good to know that one passive trinket puts another passive trinket on cd
Active
passive trinkets don't lock @sick sentinel
So I might potentially lose a cast on the tail end of a boss if it dies too quickly for my trinket to come off cooldown
Can't say I see that as a reason for not running 2 actives
no one said it's bad to run 2 actives, it's just a consideration that you are losing uptime
2 active is still bis excluding raid drops
whetstone and hoof
DN & ligma
its kind of true that most m+ trinkets suck
wtf is going on
That wasn't your questiooooon.... You asked, you don't get why people dislike this.
the only good m+ passives are ruby whelp and hunger
Mythic plus has like no good trinkets , just the whetstone i guess
Whetstone cranks
The "losing uptime" is only relevant if there's a situation in which the 1 passive + 1 active beats out 2 actives in overall damage
Dragon Games actually does a lot of damage if it wasn't so fucking buggy.
yeah, and what, you gonna go back in time after it's happened?
I've never had an issue sending trinkets.
I'm saying, not picking 2 actives because of that potential micro-optimisation (which you don't even know is true) is.. silly?

how would tattman not know its true
hes actually good at this game
So...add tanking in brood tonight for the first time on mythic, any tips or bits of advice anyone can offer? Lol
Anyone else sitting here wondering what actives are

on-use trinkets...
Dodge the frontal
ye I came that far Erga
If you have a prevoker then having them flame it off is 👌
Damn because good players are infallible and always make the best decisions
Stoneform the bleed and prevoker the next
Losing a cast isn't a good enough reason to not run two actives on its own is my only point
Any packs hit especially hard compared to the rest?
Wouldn't if be great is the same way Zandalari trolls can pick their racials you could also do this without having to be the race? That would be the summum of optimization (with the same weekly timer or something).
nom would be heartbroken to read that
Also in brood, the leftover floor lightning, I can't walk through those right? Leap over or wait it out?
just avoid
Ok
and its not up for long if u do it properly anyway
can someone share me the AV route with the jumps?
Well now you asked for a reasoning to why people would think IT'S uncomfy. And my response is simple or not, now if it's worth it or not, is based off of individual trinkets. And then you can't even say if they should use any on use trinkets at all.
DM me the string if possible
@round pendant Losing one cast could be as much as a 10% value off of the trinket.... That is quite a fucking bit.
Another valid point is that you would usually use the first one to line up with cds, meaning the second one will probably not line up with anything.
Matters especially for whetstone as well
Since it doesn’t give main stat
A lot of the power budget is in the cast itself
Now I'm not sure about what everything alters whetstones dmg output. However that's both an up and down I guess in some cases. You don't gain more dmg output in normal abilities from whetstone, however it still does a massive amount of dmg without anything else altering it's output.
this works fairly well w the whetstone hoof combo if you use hoof first
right thats my point
the only reason whetstone sims well is because we assume you are losing 0 casts
but whetstone losing a cast hurts much more than say, big toe losing a cast
Whetstone damage sensitive to crit and one talent from the BDK talent tree bossting physical damage. Nothing else (to the best of my knowledge and testing at least)
They need to add a party shade for cross faction
you lose minimum 1/6 cast... best possible case scenario
benefits I believe from the DH Initiative buff
For summon stone, there are a million of the other faction at every stone
but that's not % damage boost, it's an increase to crit
it shouldnt
99% of class abiliites do not interact with trinkets
unless its programmed badly
initiative boosts crit
so does combust
Pretty sure simple things such as demo shout, stances and vers alters it output aswell.
not demo
it affects Grieftorch as well (initiative that is)
my hypothesis is that they ripped the exact code from korayn first strike
and never changed it
With my testing Demo doesn't work and neither does stance (I haven't tested stance as much tho)
Shout works on class abilities, not trinkets.
I might've been wrong then. From my testing like 2 months ago I would recall these things affecting. But I might be wrong ofc.
what r the bis trinkets excluding raid drops?
only external thing i know that affects trinket damage is the stormsurge buff on raz
thundering
ahaha
so wouldnt know
im arms main, but gonna be tanking mythic tonight with raid, i should be fine like this right
the amount of vers shouldn't matter too much i guess?
and i have lots of haste
your shield brother
yeah i know :/
make sure you use a spec particular to each boss
ez
should be doable with 402 shield right
ofc
good
i always change talents before every raid fight
always make sure to check wcl
good
parse on the noobs for us all
might go prot lootspec
to get that shield from eranog maybe
:)
i have done some raiding on normal / heroic as prot at the beginning of expansion
those weren't too bad
so i think i somewhat know what im doing
no master yet :)
skill issue
xd
definite skill issue
u get 421 tier rolls in the vault tho
if u at least hit nog and council
half my tier are 421 kekw
whats ur ilvl
anyone to make export here?
im a slacker at 410 still
or do i need to click a specified log?
u can export from WCL- i use jakeyplops logs
Not being at least 418 giga slacker
although some of them break
lowest piece at 415 cuz valor abuse
😉

guess I could get some ilvl from crafting
but if i wanted to do crafting id enroll in a woodworking class
5x 418 to replace 5x415 is like what 1 ilvl
WoRtHh
I would love to craft, but sparks are not my friends
same
reset day is the best day to craft
1 - ((9/16)^3) chance to get upgrade in vault
niiice
Quick math
Hey guys been playing both a 417 guardian and a 405 prot warrior.. and I only tanked this xpac. My damage seems like so low as prot warrior.. does it ever pick up a bit with high gear or that’s just nature of the tank?
How much damage are you doing?
Gotta read the tooltips. Reck increases the crit chance of abilities, initiative is general crit chance
Mmm like 34k overall in let’s say a 17 offensive
Are you sitting in battle stance?
pretty sure you were dead on about them copy/pasting the Korayn thing
Also are you maximizing spell reflect?
I’m getting better at spell reflect
Mostly defensive feels good to be a real tank I know that’s a 10percent damage defense but still haha
Using cds everytime they’re up. Pulling huge
if he perma sat bstance he'd do 41k based off that overall
That would actually feel better hmm
In nokhud, the packs are pretty big so I prio thunderclap when getting violent outburst
Is d stance bait?
not rly dstance is great
I’m doing like 70k overall in nok in 20s @ 418
Use it like a cooldown or if the healer is weak
15% dmg reduc passive man it fucks ngl
Never looked into it lol
But doing phatt dps is nicer
Use d stance as a defense cd. Not as a blanket “keep it on”
usually in cleave situations my dps wil sustain me so
i dont sit dstance
maybe towards raging pop
Ok thank you guys
I got hit by a >1M dark claw this week dxdxdxdxd
Does the bottled essence (spark of ingenuity) quest come every two weeks?
I mained guardian all dragonflight so it’s hard to give up tanktness haha
I’m not used to it
The biggest dps upgrade for me was a weakaura that tracks violent outburst
there are only 5 quests for that
yo I got a 700k shield slam vs odyn xd
after that it's random drop from content
me too
@modest grove 5 from quest, then really low drop rate from basically everything. Bosses, m+ dungeon quests, world quests, dungeon bosses, raid bosses, dirt piles, magic chests
Rip
I prefer font of power
Like u pop off 300-400k dps vs packs of 5 if u have all CDs
for like 10-15 secs
than fals off obv
its fun to get a reaction out of ppl with it
Oh god
65-75k single target during 20 sec with it too with bl etc
I've gotten two in four weeks from the random stuff
I can't get used to Court of Stars. Finding good places to use CDs is hard there for me
I am doing pugs at low keys so still being second on dps, but the dps is not good
Literally if you’re attacking something, use CDs
send it
just make sure you spell reflect Shadow Sash
the succubus npc casts it
or die
xd
And every single run, someone pulls the two guys by the gate near the first pylon
Takes like 2 minutes to kill them
14k ms trinket
And being a prot war is phenomenal
We timed a 22 last night with like 130% count or something… tank was full brain dead. We did docks and no skip lol
with 287 haste and 144 crit, would be amazing at 415 + ilvl
How strange
I did one where the tank took us to the last boss cos missing 15%
You cleared docks, but didn't skip?
heyho im starting a warrior twink tank now, is there any gear i should get crafted first ? or should i just look at wowhead which embell and so on ?
I was dps but yeah
Like you’re gay or low level?
Shield, weapon, then other stuff.
are u toxic as fuck ?
U said you’re a “twink” tank
apparently that trinket i linked is F tier, you are hard capped to 5000 MS
ty
twink prob not the correct terminology, you can't really twink a character out at max level
That’s what I’m wondering
using that would more be referring to like a low level pvp twink
How r u gonna craft gear with embellishments under max lvl
more to the point, it's not like you can transfer conc primal focus
if you could do that, yeah, you could twink a char out
is smurf tank the right terminology ?
No
nah man
Alt
ahhhh thats it, so u knew what i mean by "twink" ?
not your main
You’re the one looking for a question to be answered using the wrong words
Also pins
if im asking what gear i should get crafted first i dont think its so hard to answer that correctly as Bjoolz did that was the false terminology but in my language we say to alt twink
Lol stop crying it was a joke dude
you both knew what each other meant, there's no point arguing over it
Make sure you make two boots one for each foot
no i didnt know what "twink" meant in english
I’m dying rn
I mean it was a harmless joke and the dude got hella triggered lol
they're not triggered, obviously english isn't their first language and they weren't aware
They're pretty triggered.
This week is pretty free what affixes we got next week?
This week been bonking me
Wanna see something fun
Ye
just had a nice thudnering, quaking, germinate overlap in AA 😄
Anyone have a decent link to decent prot macros ?
Is there a minimum m+ required for you to get gear you can upgrade with valor?
The upgrades have tiers based on m+ score
Any kickers?
It was like 4 at once and I died in between SLT ticks
I think all cc was down
Oof
Something that I like there is having dps focus down caster first and once a caster is down I tell them to burst down the caster next pack
Ifs fun seeing a line of adds doing whirlwind conga
Hahaha
Ye we did a slightly different route too because my sham was scared of the axes
But I stopped every severing slash so I might try axes next time idk
And by every I think I missed 1
And parried another
do you guys reccomend to make bracers and put brez in them (engineer)
If given the chance
Tank channeling brez is slightly sus no?
how long is the channel
Does it take an embellishment?
I would not, there are small gaps in fights that you can brez and if it fails it would be worse for everyone
you can put an 100% doesn't fail on it when you craft it i thought i read
You have to be engineer for that
what did i die from?
Bird
100 in all but fishing
2 40k 2x enraged bugs
They rage plus raging week
well, and other professions obviously too
there finally got a whetstone
maybe big bubble on you? i dunno. timewalking?

u took all these melees at the same time, logs shows the instant so u took all of those at the same time which bought your hp low
ah
then at .6s u had the amount of hp shown when u took the 40k hit
now just need a ton of valor
just makes it look weird
Maybe you sidestepped weird and they hit you from behind?
The side effect of syncing up autos in big packs
14k autos sounds normal
Hey, I am new here and have a question about gearing;
What is my best option between crafting a shield of the hearth or trying to snipe RLP Drake rider / AV Bulwark ? Should I just wait for vault? I play m+ only and my current shield is 332. Really need to upgrade. I did not craft anything apart from frostfire belt so far. Open to other suggestions as well.
i just got syncd autod
Do not craft shield of the hearth
craft primal molten defender
and im bad at reading details
if you have enough primal chaos, just send it
Maybe, haven't really checked damage intake there, my HP never really moves
which is why u use logs not details
well i was surpised
332 is insanely low
Yes, I just started. I am 356 overall
M0 world tour is great, alternatively you can post and keep dropping to +2 keys labeled valor farm and take high io players and pull big and fast
do 0's
should have crafted shield instead of belt first
This is de way
plate stack funnel
mfs trip over themselves for +2 valor farm
tell them you are stronk
And it’s actually funn finishing some dungeons before lust is back up
I dont understand what any of that means I'm sorry 😂
Well you’re going to have to sooner or later
I'm doing +4 to +7 at the moment
Well no need to progress key levels at your current gear
My highest is +9 timed
Do you know how to post a key/mythic group?
just keep doing keys and then craft primal molten defender
So what do I do with that shield slot? Primal molten defender > Hearth?
Yeah
hearth is bad
All right I'll do that, Thank you
going forward, make your shield the priority upgrade via crafting
unless you get a high ilvl from vault eventually
I wasn't sure if I should have waited for one dropping from AV or RLP or the vault. I.e. if the craft was worth it, but then I read on ict veins shield was the most important thing
hot take: (idk if this is even a hot take anymore) AA is the easiest DF M+ dungeon now and I actually enjoy running it
you can eventually craft it up to 418, which is 3 ilvls short of a max vault slot
Until explosive week
Or next week vex will be hard af
Oh right, and I already have a Primal Infusion
true
also, does anyone have the stance swap macro? the ones I have found dont seem to work
#showtooltip
/cast [stance:1] Defensive Stance; Battle Stance
would putting [1,2] fix it?
yeah, so you can basically gain 70 ilvls on your shield rn, which is a massive upgrade
Change the 1 to a 2
Or check the pins
0,1 maybe?
Macro to toggle between Defensive Stance/Battle Stance:
#showtooltip
/cast [stance:2]!Defensive Stance;!Battle Stance
ah, thank you so much
Great news, thank you 🙏
wish me luck. running a +17 AA and if I time this should hit 2k M+ score
No you still want more
Make sure to stop the severing slashes and arcane missiles and pop CDs on vex frontal
Amd most importantly pad on the tree boss
Alright. There's so many things, deffensives etc. Is there some i can macro together?
Ex : Shield Charge / Charge. isd it mpossible to macro them together?
not recommended
They serve 100% different purposes, so those absolutely not
I use similar key bindings for this for example, Charge it T and shield charge is SHIFT+T. This way you can use whatever is best for each situation withou having to compromise anything
There's almost nothing you can macro together as Prot, unfortunately
I macro shield slam to damn near everything I can
What arer their purpose ? Tought both were gaP closer and one of them did a little bit of aoe damage
isnt shield slam on the gcd?
Same
Should have clarified, everything off gcd I tie to shield slam
Yea but: avatar, pot, trinket, racial, and sb aren’t
How effective is it? I was considering it but i'm not sure how much you gain from it. also I usually use the non GCD cast during my GCD downtimes
depends on if you’re having issues w uptimes imo
Not a ton of improvement, but I snipe a lot of resets that way. Shield slam resets a lot
Is there any situations where you would have like to use your GCD on something else but get GCD lock?
Nothing pertinent. A lot of defensives are off gcd, and those are mostly what I'm worried about timing fast
Maybe rallying cry
But those situations are quite rare
Where I get locked from sniping a reset
Thx, I might try on SB and IP and see if I see any improvements/snipes
How much kiting is there on higher keys? Like 20+
None unless something goes wrong
what did u guys do with ur 6th spark?
what 6th spark
If you're kiting, your group didn't kill the mobs fast enough 
the one that u can get as a drop
I've done nothing with it
What did you guys do with your 9th spark?
my plan's to use it with my 5th spark to make a 2H for DPS. I don't think that's happening.
I'll prob use my sparks on arms weapon
Rude
😄 Just kidding I'm in the same bot as you, only 5
Ive gotten 7 sparks in total
Rares are easily best way to get them
what's that in percentage

right now I have 31% haste
28% crit
9% vers
and 19% mastery
is it too much haste?
hm
alright
i only have 17% haste 😦
was just wondering if I should lower the haste in exchange for some vers
but I guess I shouldn't
gotcha thank you
so I should lower the crit
to gain more vers
sims say i need more haste
When you’re saying sim says more haste, you’re talking about gear and not stat priorities right?
Am I reading this right that it's a 0.2% diff? I dunno that I'd lose sleep over it haha
Really it doesn’t want the COS chest?
I guess when you’re already at 40% haste before weapon oil
Maybe
In fact weapon oil gives your the amount of haste from cos chest
yes gear
How do you get this view in simc?
🤔
guys, it is no longer possible to get the hiden aperance of the warrior legion artifact? have been trying to get it for days with 3 warriors all created during bfa all of them above lvl 50, already read the stone tablet with the artifact equiped on prot spec and i have find nothing so far
Ok good, if your sims are still picking haste gear then that's what you should go for. There's no need to drop one stat for another, focus ilvl and whatever is simming highest. All secondary stats are good.
alright thank youu
@tropic tangle do you know if i have to read the stone tablet every day?
damn, hope i had more warriors
Pretty ez gains
meanwhile Im overhere turning all my pieces with the Catalyst cause TMOG
stats on items be damned, I gotta look good

Bloodmallet is showing the idol trinket from NO as simming pretty high. What's y'all's thoughts on it? Picked it up and was thinking of valoring it up
don't use bloodmallet
Idol is good
Idol is decent
yeah I mean, you could sim yourself and find results on raidbots
If you dont have access to raid trinkets idol is good choice
if you just mythic plus, that with Whetstone actually a decent combo
So why r u catalyzing things then
War set sucks bawls
I guess a better question would be until I can get into heroic raids and shoot for some of the big boy trinkets which mythic+ trinket would you advise pairing with whetstone?
Idol
Geodude more like b.o. dude, that set stinks
premium bloodmallet is so good
im not fking gear comparing every trinket in the game
blazebinders hoof also good
Idol is lazy decent option
so we didnt time the +17 but at least we completed it
Just passive horsie runs from your body time to time
That's pretty badass
Yea, I think thats the goat M+ only combo
at least, from my experience
too bad im a spoiled Totem+Icon user

Would you play icon if your party doesnt have icons?
No
but they usually do
if not, I take out the whetstone
now If I had a boon though....
Boon bis m+ trinket
Today I puged 2/8 M, kinda hoping for ring
ring is gains
though, I would prefer it not to exist
cause it forces me to use frostfire belt
Well i dont have belt and no spark
Crit good
I mean the belt
oh, belt has big crit, but I would prefer the allied bracers
haste crit and 1% vers
yea, im using the tinker wrists
with bres
which is lame
wish the flamethrower wasnt so bad

If i get ring.. i would have to drop crafted ring with food buff..
Which is another spark wasted
I dont think the food embellishment you are referring to costs an embellishment
you have the one that saves food buff on death yea?
Yes, i know its on top of 2 embelishments
oh ok
But i kinda like to have it
Are there any known nerfs coming to prot warrior soon do we know?
lol
no
balance is good
Yeah I have melandrus as 2nd
🔮
Can the food thing be baked into ffbelt?
why though
I have 19TJS to do, was 21 though
Very good question
wait, is grieftorch not BiS?
I was pretty surprised myself
its a awesome trinket
You need to play around its use a bit
Cus you cant block,dodge,parry while channelling
at least you can move
me and my boon stuck in one spot for 10 seconds
but totally worth
I want to pull the whole tree area in AA and boon.... but im scared that the green stuff casts faster then every 10 seconds
cant cancel
gotta commit
for 10 seconds
its 100% less versatile then whetstone, but its so much fun if you get it right
less so if you die
can anyone explain me the fucking frontals from HOV... i keep getting hit on my DPS alt even though im behind the mobs
the box is bigger than you think, and if your tank is moving them around sometimes they like to turn away from tank before moving back to him
because their pathing is great
whetstone is nuts holy
you can move out for them yeh, but I guess what I meant was wider
i was standing behind the mob
getting these last few 20s pugged is killing my sanity
dunno man, I don't get hit zooming around on my DH, you gotta play real careful with the hitboxes there
ill never understand getting so angry over a game that you have to whisper to someone and talk shit
my man, if a game is upsetting you that badly, go outside
I shall reserve judgement until I know the situation
Sometimes the COD brain kicks in 😂
Though I think the most I’ve ever really done is said something to the effect of “there are great guides on YouTube to learn the mechanics”
oh i love it
Which, honestly, isnt even bad. But shit like "youre shit/ass/an animal" etc which while those are very mild compared to what else Ive seen it's just like, is it gonna matter to you in 5 mins? why waste the time and energy? lol
Screenshot?
eh, i already closed the whisper window
Did the AA go alright?
Sometimes you gotta kill people with kindness.
people who angrily whisper you, then insta ignore so you cant reply xd
Putting people on ignore means your flame game is weak
Ouch. I woulda left by that point.
we completed but didnt time sadly
F
Tbh as a Nasus main I’d be salty towards a man with a wukong profile picture
You'd be even saltier to learn I was a Darius/Sett two trick
Nah Sett is chad
i want you to wake up tired
I also don’t care about Darius
both of you
lol did you main tank?
well okay
when i was asking about the wrists earlier, for crafted, its because, thats one of my embellishment slots
and because, that seems to be the best option for tinkers
Darius main? Probably deserved the whisper tbh
there is a collide one but its on e 30 minute cd shared by potions
Idk why people dislike Darius so much
the only other ones is one that ise a flamethrower, but again its channeled

and rest are just total poopy
Why change name to game bad
Also where yellow
Why brown
i cannot for the lfe of me imagine an alarm-o-turret lasting more than a few melees or 20 seconds
game bad
Explain
have you learnt something tho
video game not good i don't play
that pugging 20s is awful
true
dont blame them
yeah
Big sadge, just bored?
multiple reasons 
Do rogues take numbing poison this week, or does it grief their own DPS?
Can anyone tell me what spell block would do on brood mythic as a boss tank?
One day brothers
warriors will have BL
and will be the only tank to give dmg buff + BL
thereon no more pain
It’s in the guides
Check the pins for the spell reflect sheet
Couldn’t tell you otherwise, haven’t tanked the raid

snagged the eranog ring on my warr alt, I want to craft the frostfire belt now?
yeah if youve got shield/wep already crafted
currently weap, lariat and ring. Its a fresh 70 and got the AV shield from a +10 which is haste/vers so figured id save a spark there
thanks
gotta make some concessions on my alts i think, won't realistically be farming 50 +16s on em
not sure what to do with my last spark though tbh
i guess just whatever slot is kinda crappy since i have lariat and im crafting the belt. Bracers and legs seemed kinda strong otherwise
legs you want as tier
Technically 418 crafted shield is the best thing you can have for prot until you get higher from vault or mythic raid
ok so maybe just wait until i can craft the shield at 405/418 and stick with the AV one for now
since its the same ilvl
and use valor elsewhere
Probably yea unless you’re in desperate need for a non shield item
really just legs atm but you cant catalyst crafted gear so
ive been spamming bonus valor +2/3/4 since i hit 70 and i'm basically in full low epics + crafted 392s
sitting on like 4500 valor
prob start tanking keys for real soon and use valor on nice drops
Yea just gotta farm those pants out from one of the dungeons that drops a pair unfortunately. Just had do the same on my shaman. Took almost 2 weeks to get the chest lol
ofc pants are the best tier piece too lol
has anyone got the route map for Brrodkeeper HC?
looking at the bis trinkets list and makes me sad.. i have puzzle, kickball, ruby whelp and big toe atm
Thank you both
time to farm whetstone






