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does crit provide more tankyness as well has help you live more than vers?
over the course of a key, yes
for extreme specific mechanics like crawth? not entirely
but it can also stop some mechanics even landing on u
like searing blow stacks
and rending bite from dragons on brood
or deathspike
you can parry some blows?
a stack of it
that's interesting
and in the case of crawth
sheeeshh ive been doing it all wrong all along im getting some knowledge dropped on me
you can parry melee attacks while the bleed is up, ultimately removing large parts of dmg intake
^^
what flask are protwar using atm on high keys? also embelishement, some websites are bugging too much when i tried checking
if u parry the melees when x magic damage or other damage is happening your haste and crit is doing more damage rducetion than your vers ever will
can you link your toon nome please?
can just look up my name
alright
what's the reasoning of waking stats over sustained strenght that i see used a lot on high protwar?
its just more stats
getting 0.1% stam is not a thing you wanna chose over 70 more str
thats like saying you dont wanna pick mainstat gem on your socket
and instead go with a stamina + haste socket

hmm on me atm it's 9k hp difference, should not be that big
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that's a fair point explained this way ๐
Hey guys,
in which order do you charge/leap/ or even gate at the third blowie of razageth (when the sparks will spawn directly after) so the boss does not moove towards the mid?
which stats on your socketed gems get buffed with elemental lariat if u have multi stat gems?
Fire gems= crit, earth = mastery, air = haste, frodt = vers
its the lower stat
its always charge leap charge
so as a prot war which gem should i socket? crafty ysemerald?
for the crit buff
I socket all haste vers but sure many people have different opinions
i run crafty yse, ye
and the boss does not move at all when doing it this way?
do we use disclosure potion on keys?
u can do
what's the alternative, ultimate power i presume?
yes
thanks ๐
looking at nomeratur toon, i'm getting a little confused on into the fray vs HH
that's exactly what i had, instead of battering ram over disrupting shout for sanguine purpose in some dungeons
can anyone tell me why there is a movement of top tanks switching to pala?
people overhyped pwar
and were blind to pally being better for your group
would you consider switching to defender's Aegis for academy because of crawth?
no
no
what wep enchant do you recommend?
hey can i yoink someone to take a quick look at my scuffed kurog logs? idk why he hurts me so much while other bosses don't :/
frozen devo for dmg, sophic for general play
i can give it a shot
i mean kurog is the first boss that hurts
its grim
:nodders:
Why you guys so against double wall
It's so good for higher keys on big pulls
Or bosses like 1st boss in RLP
hey guys what u think about this route for rlp this week, i hate sanguine on channelers so im invis pot skipping it
also skipping red dragon and second jugger, pack 2 i break some eggs and do whelps so ending nice sweet 100
Ye it's good though if you fail the last 3 pulls GG
And for first pull need lots of prio damage
As jugger has big health
literally has no application on high keys
the higher you go, the worse it becomes
Ofc it has. Literally can't do 1st boss RLP on tyran without double wall, as you have too many dry spots
uhuh, sure
Look at any log of 25-26 first boss RLP
Every single prot warr has 2 charges of wall and spell block saved for last 40% or they're just floor pov
nah man your wrong they run out and respec for that boss
Look at all those double walls

meanwhile andy also never ever ran double wall cuz its useless
when he was still on warri
cuz the exact usecase of double wall
Honestly gotta be photoshopped since they "literally can't do 1st boss RLP on tyran without double wall"
is when you need SW BACK TO BACK
in a less than 1 minute window
if you need it more than twice
thats when impenetrable wall just SHOOTS ahead
and wall makes it so shield slam generates literall 20% more rage
Eh I stand corrected
double wall is only good in mdi
cuz of shotgun pulls
and i concede for TJS in lower keys
cuz 3rd boss wont have more than 3 phases
so double wall wins there, and its good on last pack
I'd day it still has its uses. Let's you facetank some pulls for a lot longer
In some cases close to necessary
Lets*
if you've made up your mind just go crazy
Nah, I was wrong, I'm not so set on double wall, I play both
it wont be a detriment to run DA , but youll just be outright better running with impenetrable wall
Just a bit weirdge that people here are so against double wall when it has it's uses
b-but it doesnt
only when youre bad
and cant press your buttons
ive yet to see somebody use shieldwall reasonably often
nononon
Bird + fish pull in TJS
lets pick a niche scenario to make my point
u definatly do not run it in SMBG
You don't /need/ double wall but with it you don't need to start kiting early
you dont need to with impenetrable either
and its literally only 1 pull
in the entire dungeon

you just SW-SB-SW
There's 2 fear shas + double small guys exploding
Peck is not an issue yes
Counter argument is "just use a stop for every fear sha buster" but cmon
idk, chief, stuff should be dead there rather quickly
fucking arty pulls the entire floor in 1 go
as vdh which doesnt have double wall
(without pandas ofc)
on 26
Again, not necessary, like I said, it's safer in the scenario of anything in the pull at all going south
Not really
Should
But almost all groups I've played with don't allocate CDs at all besides for very specific scenarios
Like waterfall in NO
i mean, playing around your DPS' cds should be norm ye
Playing around, yes
Allocating specific CDs for specific pulls, no
So anyways, how low is SW cd with the single wall talent? Never really paid attention to it
Without ITF
Assuming played optimally
Aite
imean lets not forget that the wall is also more rage
I'll give it a go today in keys I normally would run double wall
Yeah, I used to play single wall all the time but on certain pulls felt pretty dry
reminder is just send SW early
So on NO and TJS I started running double wall
Yeah, we do some spicy pulls in NO
its all physical damage
they only have 1 or 2 casters per pack
No I mean the bolters
Theres a pull with 2 bolters, 2 mystics
and 90% of the time the bolters cast necrotic eruption
- 6 other mobs
Feels a lot safer with double wall
Or the waterfall pull with 2 dudes on tip
Top*
its only safer if you use SW twice back to back
Otherwise double wall not useful at all
yeah so
There's just not enough kicks or stops for the bolter pull
you pick a talent that makes you weaker for 99% of the key
And that pull saves a lot of time
u only get deleted in nokhud from the bolts and the healing debuff
which u can both stop
Yep
inting if you ask me
Look
It's like a 1k DPS loss from me
For a big time save
From that 1 pull
That's all that matters
Yeah but I don't struggle.in any other pull
So it's not a surv loss
As you said, other stuff like arcing strike can be outranged and the shield dudes get dispelled, just kite if needed
Bolters I can't really kite
And TJS for the bird + fish pull.and last pull
you do you man
people have done it without it plenty times
whatever works for you
Yeah I know
It's just foolproof
Double wall there's 0 chance those pulls go wrong
Coz the pulls before I don't need wall
Hey, anyone has the script that shows how many charges of catalyst do i have?
/run local n=(C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo(2167).quantity or 0)print(string.format("You have %d Catalyst Charge%s Available",n,(n==1)and""or"s"))
ty
What phial are most people using on Dathea
in raid you just use vers
cuz the boss dmg is what counts
not add dmg
actually the adds dont even hit you
so the only phial to use is vers
Is there a sim site for tanks like raidbots for dps and questionably epic for healers? Or should I just be using raidbots?
Ok cool. Thanks

In what dungeon do you switch from tough as nails to spell block ? i'd presume ToJ/azure ?
TJS and RLP are the 2 main ones, but can make arguments for other dungeons as well
It helps on the first boss a lot, but Im not sure it would be terribly helpful for most of the dungeon, outside of a pug with no stops or interrupts
if ppl arent kicking cinderbolts in rlp, its gg anyways
at least on frport and above 10 15 keys
cinderbolt go brr delete random dps each cast
1 is ok, usually an issue if it overlaps with inferno
what do u think are the best trinkets for prot war only from m+ and for m+
Whestone & then either hoof or the centaur icon probably
^
anyone got a nice and simple ignore pain bar?
i use a WA i found on wago
Simplest of all: don't use one
its an icon though
color codes your shield absorb size based on if your next IP cast will waste absorb or not too
There's no reason to track IP
false
just track ur rage and block and throw else overcapped rage into ip and its uptime will be ait per automatic
this one is great
knowing how big your absorb shield is, and if you will waste rage casting IP is very useful knowledge
if you are not getting full effectiveness from your IP cast, you are wasting rage
unless you are refreshing your IP because it's going to expire
if you have a full duration IP at max absorb size, and youre still casting IP instead of revenge, I have to ask why
Other than you really wanting your CDs to refresh
And it gives stacks for VO
Seems like a DPS loss to me
if i have SS off cd a full IP and 80 rage
imma press IP
otherwise im wasting SS resets
Ignore Pain is a button that reduces the cooldown of Avatar and Shield Wall by 3.5s, gives you 3.5% HP, and as a happy side effect gives you an absorb. The absorb is absolutely not the point of pressing it.
literally dumb just to spam revenge because your IP is high
you'll waste SS resets and rage
You can go ahead and try your rotation without overcapping IP, but you'll just do fuckall dmg
More often
Sometimes I have to send IP 4 times back to back
To prevent overcapping
Cuz ravager + outburst + avatar
And bleeds rolling
ye just track rage waste and always use ss on cd and proccs, most of time it can be a good idea to press block or ip every other ss procc
anyhow having block tracker ip tracker and a good ragebar aswell as a reminder to press avatar demo shout etc on cd is a good idea overall
ah yes i can really press revenge instead of IP on pull
well from like 1 second in cause i greif pull
Yeah I was just about to post the same 
Honestly don't like how often we have to press IP
I wanna press revenge more, please blizzard let me press revenge more
i p much slam all my buttons like a monkey and never die in keys idk man
well thats bad then xD
not about not dying its more about not wasting ur class potential
doing as much dmg as possible while maintaining ur survival and no overcap rage
yes yes I'm aware of the concept of min maxing
ya and cant minmax spamming buttons i guess
I mean just pressing everything mindlessly will probably get you 80% of the way there with prot warrior
Randomly spamming buttons is how you end up doing low dps
Seems to work just fine in 21-22 keys on my 395 warrior
Pressing buttons correctly is now considered min maxing? 
Turns out you dont need to be that good to tank high keys as a warrior
its a surprisingly low threshold to be a "good" tank
nomeratur can you explain what a margin for error for success is
21-22 isn't high
But if you actually wanna do good damage, and more importantly be allowed to comment on whether or not certain things are good/bad to do, it might be worth learning what to do and why you're doing it.
ty
you guys like the centaur thing now?
considering the gear level, it's "high" respectively
thought it was 2

i thought i kept hearing it was mid
not really i mean ppl were doing that key lvl in low at the start of the season
good shotcalling
i mean, it's my alt, but ya, you should be maximizing DPS
A good tank has a good group
I mean ngl you sound just like the last guy who came in here spouting false information and saying that he was tanking +24s as a 390 warrior
he was wrong and lying btw
and ergo doesnt need to be good
who u talking about yam
you can probably tank 24s at 390
yeppers
LULWS
I mean 340 paladins can also tank 20s
Like
It's not as big a flex as you think burgah
turns out the majority of being a successful tank is having a good route and not dieing
was watching skillsac tank 26 keys on his 405 prot pala last night
so ofc is possible
Ya idk what you're trying to prove here burgah ngl
My point is just that people who use that kinda metric as a flex generally dunno what they're talking about
i'm not trying to prove anything
Aight then
tank has to be the only role you can not even attempt to hit your buttons correctly and be in the top 1% of rating however
tank is just "hold aggro and stay alive"
Nah he doesn't claim it
nobody mentioned parses Richardos
AND PUMP!
But he's correct that rio career tanks are often times boosted
obviously, if you want 99 parses you need to be hitting your DPS rotation properly
ye and isnt that what we all aim for?
Tanking is just a hella easy job if you learn the 2 things per dungeon that can kill you and your dps are good players
not everyone
tanking is pretty braindead in raids so i guess yeah there is nothing else to do but DPS

Big dam is the the major enjoyment of tanking
I dunno I think it's pretty damn amazing to push over 100k dps on aoe pulls and hardly take dmg
tanking in raids has always been extrmely brain dead
nah it hsnt just these last xpacs as raids gotten easier
point boss out the group, taunt when called for it every 20 seconds, use cds while tanking it
Hey
96?dropped
cringe tbh
This looks suspicious
Scrub status
Nooooob.
Point is that "not dying" and "having a route" are both insanely easy and whatever that you may as well put the remainder bit of effort into doing damage
I think Richardos' point is that atleast in like wotlk you had to hit your buttons correctly to have enough threat to not be pulled from
Uuuh
Where as threat is basically non existent these days
noto nly that
if youre my cotank you still need that 
say u was tanking lk heroic
Threat is a dogshit mechanic
truuuuuuuue
soul reaper for instance
We're glad it's gone
if u dint press ur button exactly 1 sec in time
u onetapped
I have to hit my buttons really hard during SBG 2nd boss soul suck phase
it's scary
Oh threat is still very much an issue for some players
these days i can tank pretty much all bosses pressing zero cds
LFR and normal raiding tanking pictured
cuz they just dont hit anymore
We have a paladin "tank" (I use that term not easily) that hardly generates threat at all
skillissue
he is yogi 2.0
he is simply not htiting his buttons
And I had to afk cuz sennarth isn't solo tankable
in lfr you just tank all the electric jaws and it only hurts at like 6+ stacks
it's sad I have to ditch my warrior for prot paladin fotm
I got PI when I had to afk
it was so sad
lmao
I did a normal raz and I was like 2nd on dps and everyone was like whoa HOW IS TANK TOP DAMAGE
feels good man
Literally 50% afk cuz I'd rip if other tanks taunt fell off
And here I thought pwar was fotm
I was doing normal sennarth or something and the other tank, after asking me if I knew this fight and to taunt at 6 stacks, suddenly found myself at 40 stacks
Pwar isn't fotm anymore
Were you guys close in ilvl?
dont i have to buy a speical socket item to socket lariat
X
That's the biggest cap
I've ever seen
I've had dudes that had major ilvl gap on me do that. Just outright rip threat
I think it was 35
and then a special gem for that special slot, and i think i get get 2 normal and 1 special gem in there
Yeah nah
i dunno how tf that works
Ok
Log or didn't happen
35 fucking stacks even on normal will literally overkill you by like 4 times
spell reflect goes crazy

oh then idfk
Starts to hurt at 13-15 from my experience
i was living tho
So until you bring proof that's a major cap
look maybe i'm just hitting the buttons better
cuz im gunna get a 405 lariat today porbably that i will eventuall upgrade into a 418 some day
Which tank does the most damage in single target?
Bear
so, i dunno how the gems part of that works
got to 17 stacks on sennarth HC early in season, my "co-tank" was afk, didn't end well
I'm 401 ilvl and 6 stacks can do a decent amount of dmg to me. Not like "you gon die son" dmg but noticeable
it only shows 1 gems and i see ppl with 3 i think fo rit
Bear 
I could probably take 10 stacks semi OK
You can apply 3 sockets on your neck afterwards
With tiered medallion setting
You need r2 for 2 sockets, and then r3 for the 3rd socket
Work on every neck
You could be dumb like me and apply 3 star to all of em
im curiosu how the other 2 slots get added since it statrs with 1 and what type the first one is
1x t2 medallion setting
1x t3 medallion setting
what item i would need to buy to complete it, i dunno if i gotta do like vualt token socket thingies
nome just explained it
You craft it or buy it off the ah
oh, its like an addon material like the -15% to fail for engineer
so it's these
How easy is it to get geared out as fresh 70 to tank?
I still haven't had a main Stat gem made for my lariat yet. I'm a damn slacker
Depends on your friends
Run a few m0 then start keys. Depending on speed you can do it in a weekend
If you enjoy punishment you can do lfr also
If you know what you're doing you can jump straight into 16-20s and have a group of people
If you're pugging I'd try with 10-12s
And just go from there
interesting, i still remember days of TBC, put 2 red gems and 1 yellow in some leather chest piece i got
Craft your 5 spark items
If your new to warrior or tanking, legit start with heroic dungeons spam to get the basics down
If you've never tanked then yeah, take it slow
What Ilvl you recommend for M0?
320 or less
doesnt matter
whats the ilvl recommanded to be "comfortable" with +20 spamming?
im gunna look up the material cost of lariat now
You can do m0 right out of the gate
400 or so
I'd say around 400?
It's what, 10 percent or less more than heroic?
20s drop 405, 400 is more than enough for them
Highly skilled players can do 20 at ilvl 4p0
what about the special gem, is that AH or crafted
Get to 410
But most of us can't
You'll also have difficulty getting invites out of lfg into 20s and higher if your a pug runner
Thatโs just so wildly misleading
all you gotta do is keep up shield block
With increased key scaling its closer to 7
and run the route
I mean I've done so at 400 but I feel weak (def stance etc)
How is that misleading
but this doesn't require THAT much skill tbh
you can tank 20s at 400 Ilevel... will a group take you is the question
We all started with lower gear
Run your own key
Because people asking that question donโt have a premade
if you have a main with 3k io, they will take you
Yeah but even a 400 ilvl tank in pugs is fine in 20s
Yeah at below gatekeeper Ivl you'll ha e to run your key
It's not the gear that'll gatekeep you at that point
The question wasn't "What io do I need to be allowed into +20s"
ur never gonna get accepted
That's not what was asked
You can at 400 with proper io. But you'll never get an invite to a 20 without good io
Yeah but thatโs not realistic. If you donโt have io and you donโt have ILvl youโre not getting into pug 20s
That's still not what was asked
Not exactly no. But what was asked isn't the same as what will actually occur
people invite my rat 398 warrior to their 20 keys
and it goes mostly fine? from my end anyways
True it was a vague question
It was quite an explicit question
He asked what ilvl for 20s, I answered. If he doesn't get invited that's another topic
I didn't asked what should I have to pug 20, I was just asking how much ilvl is "recommanded" to be "comfortable" with tanking 20 keys tbf
Thats a tough question to answer because it's highly skill dependent
e.g. a 20 COS was tanked by a naked warrior with only trinkets weps and a lariat
is cos a key or a walk in the parc?
Walk in the park
there are alot of frontals and not many mobs hit hard outside of that
nvm got my answer thx ๐
so if you can dodge well, walk in the park
0 tank dmg
Cos is hold w. You can rng get a bad combo before the 2nd boss tbo
lariat material costs ~ 5k
Shadow Slash and the Vampire Shadow Bolt dude are the only reasonably high dmg tank busters
You can outrange it even
for first craft at least
Do we still put main stat gem into lariat, or pop it into something else?
Oh good I rememeber people talking about having stat gem lowering lariat procs or smthn like that
Always reflect vamp claw
That's just misinformation with lariat
good to know
I love reflecting that. It can hurt sometimes
Woah I didn't know that
I always thought it was just gems in the neck holy shit
That's even more powerful than I thought
How
It's the same probability
Nothing changes with that information
The proc doesn't occur more often or stronger depending on how many gems you have
DH does a lot of damage 
but with two additional gems you can get the full rainbow of stat procs 
How many stacks should the M sennarth add get to before its a serious issue
Okay how many stacks is that
6 is danger territory, 7+ the raid is probably dead
We're falling over around 5
are your healers using a healing rotation?
Yeah
2x big raid healing cooldowns per add?
No, we're saving CDs on the burst
not really sure then - we use 2 x big healing CDs and 5 heal it, dont run into that many issues
yeah you need a minimum of 1 raid healing cooldown on that add (think Rewind or Ancestral Guidance) but 2 is safer
personals + healthstones + pots, and also make sure all the DPS are actually switching onto the add - sometimes people like to continue to pump Sennarth cause parse we've seen
First add we only use one healing CD due to bloodlust though. If you have an evoker they can get the first add without any healing CDs with 3xTA in Stasis then Verdant Embrace -> Emerald Communion for a 20% raidwide heal every second for 5s
Hey guys we had a DH and me about to go into Brood, whos best on adds and best on boss?
What would be rougher
Any specific pain points etc
Guys tell me, how u overcome pug braindead ppl hell? i just cant finish any 22 key, i cant and yes im crying, it doesnt matter 3k rio, 4k rio, same mistakes over and over on most stupid shit ever, ye u can say everyone does mistakes blabla, but on trivial things? its so tiring, i thought okay ill reach 3k border it will be fine, NO, its still same bullshiet, so where is magic? playing 20 hours a day and pray? make team is totally impossible, noone wants on disc channels, i dont know, maybe im tired, i was always super positive with isnane determination, but this is killing me so fucking hard
Before itโs second breath is how I judge it
I should also Say Mythic just incase
u get your own dedicated group
small amount of valor farm remaining and good to go
@jagged pier i jsut dont know how to make it, its always same scenario, u try make it, then any mistake or key deplete and ppl break
guess trying over and over?
that or pug
nah bro im done with pug
Alrady done this
I filtered logs for Broodkeeper kills with 1 Prot and 1 VDH
we tallyed it all together and its pretty even
midgation wise or dmg?
As you have to go into Exe to see no overlaps
Mitagation wise; I played BDK for our brood kill (boss tank) and it was pretty chill
Does it matter which 1hand item I craft?
the adds also were generally fine once our warrior tank and add group figured it out
The mythic plus friends discord might help you
Can I link a discord here?
and VDH seems closer to a BDK then a Prot War is
and oddly enough Brood was one of my guilds better fights; only 47 pulls before a kill
and I think VDH plays Feiry Brand on that fight so you get double charge of that ability, so you can pretty much brand each mortal strike thingy
but honestly, might be better to ask the VDHs what they think; I just have a feeling that Prot tanking boss sounds like a pain
@tropic gorge im actually there, whsipering each single person around my score for team, doing it like 10 days, its always same, we go key together, its okay okay, then one deplete, team breaks
Damn
Are any of the weapons fine for crafting for tanking? And any certain embiask?
Yeah in the 20s people seem to run into leavers a lot
like in kindergarten reeee we have to be isnane no mistakes ever u know
Tanking boss on prot was very easy
Lol yup. One death or wipe = gg no re
so you saying I could sneak my Prot Warrior in on a reclear
nah i mean tema breaks after deplete not in dungeon,
but ye fuck it guess i have to try over and over until i find solid people who are no sowflakes
snowflakes
imo, the best strat to get some good M+ is to join a mythic raid guild and just do keys with the bois you raid with
well i have solid m+ guild, we are Dathea, but ppl here around 2,7 and ill not change raid guild jsut cause of it
M+ pug life is a flippin nightmare
theres bound to be at least 2-3 people who want to get into pushing
and just dont know how
Keys with the bois is essentially pugging unless someone takes on the mantle of calling stops
Simply Being in voice is a advantage though
ye voice is so huge advantage
not exactly; do enough keys with the same person, and you start learning what they like to do
or what things they struggle with/excel at
Maybe itโs a skill thing but in my experience I have a easier time pugging my 8 20s every week vs doing them with the homies
biggest think is voice, since i love leadershipping and call out all shit its do huge, i can imagine dpsers in pug are braindeadly doing dps and ignore everything around so when u actually tell them avoid this and this its already diff between deplete or succeed
I think itโs mostly because we all are used to pugging so we all try to handle all the stops at the same time
@dusky canopy ye but its 20, 20 is like i dont know kinda meh, im not saying my 22/23 is somethign godlike but its kinda difference and pug is just tragic at this
Then we have no stops left and struggle
Are any of the weapons fine for crafting for tanking? And any certain embiask?
For sure.. youโll need 2-3 externals through the egg phase when shield wall isnโt up but it was easy to do / coordinate
yea... this is the issue
changing the strat cause I want to play warrior
and blood is like 'i got AMS kek'
Yeah Iโm only a 2800 Andy pugging
So my mileage varies
Iโm new to Prot warrior. Is there a add-on or weak aura that helps you know when incoming magic damage is happening to use spell reflect?
craft what you like for TMOG (just make sure it has strength on it!)
embellishments: lariat, frostfire belt, the wep bleed thing, or the 1% vers bracers all good options
yes. spell reflect essentiels (dragonflight)
Thank you
eh, more fun with the homies
and then rotating rats
@dusky canopy ye around that pug was fine and it was doable, i dont know maybe i have bad week, but imt rying to do 3rd day 22/23 with pug, each day 8 hours, impossible
for dem weekly vaults
u tell them route, u tell them what we do u tell them what focus on, what is dangerous
but nah not enough man
theres always way they suprirse u how to die
my academy, ravager pull with samall dragonitoes, hunter two times 3K guy btw, got marked with jump, he baited jump into sanguine two times
nah ill not even start with shit i see this week
its for whole book
sometimes u feel like in some comedy, and u thinking that they acting and u are in hidden camera
or maybe im not getting something maybe playing class like beastmaster hunter is actualyl ahrd with that two button rotation and u cant focus on mechs
in the end i play braindead prot war
This is very true ye
nah nvm im starting be arrogant ignore me
Hey guys is there anyway of seeing our uptime of our 2 set anywhere? Ty
buffs on details
What is a good average uptime please for m+? Ty
100%?
dumb question but can you only block frontal damage? and if so, does that extend to sides aswell
Itโs 180 degrees iirc
Strive for 100%, donโt stress it too hard tho. Worry more about Cast priority if your uptime is lower than you want it to be
Same thing with IP. Donโt burn yourself out trying to get that 100% uptime. High uptime comes with good play and health rage management
does personal space amp work?
For high keys like 21+ do you spend most or time in offensive or defensive stance? Damage output seems really high to stay in offensive
switch as needed
20+ tyr bosses you might go in to Dstance for tank busters
fort obv depends on the mobs and how locked down they are.
throw damage and threat as much as you can until you need more mitigation
21 is medium key, stick in offensive stance
also wehn u are trying new pulls / diffrent way of pulling its nice to be in def stance
i don't understand
3 meless and 2 snap shots
Is there anything special I can do for the rock guys in azure vault
I feel like on pulls with 3 on fort week they clap my cheeks
Which like usually Iโd be in to but theyโre not my type
(Specifically piercing shard casts)
i have a log of what happened just, this is what killed me
You can stun and interupt piercing shards
You were sub 50% for at least 5 seconds. And it looks like just passive healing on you, prot can't easily raise our health that's a healer job, we just try to keep it from going down
Stun yes, interrupt - really?
Didnโt know, Iโll try that. Ty
I normally try to rotate through our group stuns and then if I have to eat one I pop a cd
And stun to interupt, you are correct that you can't kick/pummel it
stuns->defensives
there was some guy in our group, and he died to dragon breath and he went LAG in chat and then he also died to something els as well
You can also los them on some locations, if you do the whelp pulls, the ones where theres just two, should be able to cycle through group stuns and fear
Yeah I used to never do the whelp pulls and just do giga pulls on frogs but now every group seems to expect the whelps
Fok frogs
And like 2/5 people In the group wonโt realize that piercing is a frontal
I just want KSM man thatโs all
I mean, for KSM
just dont wipe
key level is not high enough to worry about anything else
Thatโs my reason for just going safe routes, but people get giga mad
I had someone insta quit cause I didnโt pull the second whelp pack
In a +13
people love to imitate MDI strats without knowing anything about why/how it works.
have a route, build it, share it at the start "this is what i'm doing"
Slow and steady will get you through 20s if you play clean
they can leave before the key starts that way.
You really don't need to get fancy until much higher keys
If the people who insta left keys and the people who had dungeon tools I could share paths to were same same people โฆ the world would be a nice place
I mean
If your prog is ksm
And your pugging it
The solution to shit pugs
Is go again
Facts

Iโve just been grinding it out
The stun rotation is gonna help a lot tho I think, Iโll just mark shit
You'll find 4 that complete a 13
Yeah I guess the other thing is when a group wipes and Iโm tanking I always feel like itโs my fault but I guess this isnโt Therapyhold so that one Iโll have to figure out on my own
all you can do is your best. can't control what other people do.
i avoid pugs like the plague for this exact kind of reason lol
pugging is my only recourse feelsbadman
I did a hov 21 yesterday, two of the pugs were alts, their mains 3.1, alts 2.8, both of them were really bad players, one worse than the other
getting into +20s now, my goal is to get every dungeon teleport.. its painful
alwasys some 416 ilevel guy pulling 390 ilevel dps, someone dies all the time, one guy leaves early cause of a minor inconvenience
People who get to high io pugging will insta leave a key and apply to another right away with not even one care, they don't really sharpen their skills by doing so, but eventually they get to where they want to get io wise
was 40sec from timing vault yesterday in a group that seemed smooth enough but that one is more on me at least, shouldve pulled more
had a rogue leave a nokhud +16 before tempest because the healer kept clearing thundering on him too early
lol
was absolutely smashing before then, some people are just idiots
Hei guys, how warriors survive on 3rd boss in temple +21 +22?
my pet peeve is people leaving after one wipe on completiongroups
Pins?
Def use the pins, Iโm not quite that high up but corner tanking helped a LOT

Lil pin icon in the top right
or if you're on mobile check the swipe tray on the right side
I guess that doesnโt mention the corner thing
But tanking her in a corner seems to help my group make that boss super easy
i never thought about that
Basically makes 2 of her lil shooty things go away
does it really help taht much? i guess its less confusing
Itโs nice when pugging prevents the dps from taking extra dam which means healer focuses me more
Yesterday on cos 22, fighting last add before boss, 4 mins to spare, rogue leaves, my guess is he felt too good to give the other dps who was very low on dps "free Io" guy had barely any cc
- note Iโve only done tyrannical +14 there but I was consistently wiping before doing that
But they look at details and they are like "but muh dps bruh"
People are strange
in my experience leavers and whiners are almost always underperforming
or high dps but first to die somehow
theyll even leave their own key XD
Can't DPS when you're dead
only time thats happened to me this season; 22 AV, Shaman leaves after not clearing thundering
u were afk for 5 sec
and the rest of us were like 'this is his key yea?'
I've met people who honestly don't want depleted keys on their rio page
And that's a super cringe statement
But dps brain works weird so I shouldn't be surprised
ive been getting hit by thundering more lately, ive been feeling lazy about clearing since they made tank always the same polarity :/
thundering clears has only been a problem with mechanic overlaps
like storm boss in NO
means a 3 people stun which is almost always a wipe
as a tank I dont remember even clearing last time with people KEKW
when he puts lightning around everyone and we needed to clear like 5 seconds ago
and we all just stand there like 'ah shit'
yeah lmao, i feel like i shouldnt ever have to do it but if it happens it means i failed too
I always tell people after a thundering wipe "your 2-3% extra dmg won't make or break the key, us wiping because you are lazy will"
yeah
sometimes im surprised at people
they stand next to me, clearly meaning to clear eventually.. and they clear at 7sec
and it depends on key level to; I would say you could clear insta anything below a 22
i went afk?
and they stay there so its not like theres a hurry to clear
but obviously, playing the mech well reap pretty good rewards
especially if it lines up; like our DH on our AA tree pull got Thundering at the start and hit a million dps
we were so hyped
Thundering the 2nd seasonal I liked. I really enjoyed the seasonal from sl
Yeah def, there are places where it's best to clear right away and places where it's safe to hold, but then you see someone doing 50k on ST and clearing too early or not clearing
love it when thundering happens as you just finish a pack and you have a long walk to the next one lol
actually the worst
I also like people that instantly clear it
Like damn guys. At least wait for the dbm timer to speak up
YEP everythime that happens im like " what a great affix, hope the devs are having a good day"
if healer wants to clear on me early so they don't have to at a bad time? ๐๐ป if they have to hit a dps with it? less ideal, but still not gonna complain.
would rather have an early cleared healer than a stunned one.
the other strat to deal with Thundering.... dont invite range
3 melee
and a dragon healer
or HPal
lot of incentive for ranged to be in closer lately anyways
eh, I still see em out in Narnia half the time
not really sure where they are or what they doing
just jammin on their casts
even in pre-made group my prevoker is constantly yelling at our ranged about their positioning lol
Yeah, they need to be in front of the healer to be effective
I yell at my boomie friend
his great weekness is, and forever will be, knowing where they hell hes standing
Have him pvp a day or two
I've tried
PVP!?!?
but cause he also restos

Going back to the jade temple 3rd boss convo earlier, are people doing a lot of positioning on the wall, corner, or just leaving in the middle of the room?
Fastest way to go from "where am I" to "gotta protect my healer and have a visual acuity of an eagle"
I got to 20s not worrying about it, but was considering experimenting w/it
if your group finds they prefer something else and it works better for them, do that
I just dont see the benefit for my group
Give him a weak aura that puts everything in his characters ass, move his hot bars to the side and make them tiny, eyes on feet is 100% the fix
oh, his UI is a mess

Stay in the middle, boss does an X patter then + you tank her let's say looking to the east then after first jade you tank her looking to the north then you alternate
Literally people who die to stupidity are like driving blind because nothing important is where their eyes need to be

I'm still mad I get tainted UI with no clear indication, I don't want to go back to elvui, fps chugger
Group does the same
I just need to figure out a way to be more consistent with her positioning then. she likes to dance around a bit when I have to move out for the circle and it's annoying.
Happens to everyone specially when you charge back
as long as shes close enough its fine
you can also just move her a little back to be centered
not a huge deal
Elvui has no performance impact if you have a good pc
On that note, I hate when some adds dance around you like cos last add
or fuckin' thunderhead in RLP
My 1080ti still has firepower 
I've noticed mobs doing that also. Esp cos
I actually kinda like that they do that. I view it as a pay attention check. Wod enemies were always trying to flank the tank
What shields do yโall use I have no shield luck
Iโve been pushing arena rating for the sole purpose of leveling my gladiator shield lol
Av drops a best in slot m+, I crafted a shield
Then an hour later the av one dropped. So yah, rng ftw lmao
In my experience AV drops no such thing
To get it to drop you gotta craft one first lmaoooo
Cause that's how it always goes. Farm it, never see it. Craft it, drops next run
my 980ti still slapping
I just got a spark out of a chest yesterday ๐ค
Low key the best dollar for dollar upgrade you can make for retail is to get an SSD if you donโt already have one
Yup yup
Nvme is too fast for the games servers. I noticed no real difference between nvme and ssd for wow
Is this week the easiest for m+ for affixes or is there even an easier week?
I have one SSD for windows and I think wow is there, but in hindsight, I should just get another one and put everything there game related
This week is a push week, but somehow, dps (for me) are playing worse than the previous weeks
Bubbles you should boot from nvme if it's an option
My desktop is legit faster than a laptop for booting (and my phone)
I upgraded my pc 2 years ago? first time hearing about nvme ssd, I usually stop updating myself with pc component information until its time
Same thing happened with usb-c cable, I thought all of the were the same
Check if your board supports it
Nvme is basically connecting a drive to your cpu via pcie bus
wow, going over the middle man
4.8s button to login nvme legit is crazy
The way my area is setup my desktop sits behind a TV. I can power on the pc, and before I sit down it's at a login prompt lol
Grew up with 3600rpm 16kb cache HD, for my first 3.1 machine
My board seems to support nvme, will double check and get one if its that crazy
Just depends on if it shares lanes with your GPU
My first pc was one of those Compaq pcs, monitor was cool at the time
Compaq
Compaq used to be a respected pc builder back in the hayday when Dell and gateway were also huge
Haha yeah, good ol days, when you could call everyone in the world from msn
Compaq used to sell fairly fast machines compared to dell
No, not really
Compaq was the Walmart special
Nvme is super nice
My fondest memory was trying to download ragnarok online with dialup and no way to pause downloads back then, eventually I found an app that could do it
1.1gb for a whole week
I still remember having 4 disks to install WoW
Diablo demo, 66.6 mb on a 9600 connection

Man such a different time
I get impatient if something takes more than 10 minutes to download and install
Paying a 400$ phone bill April of 1999
My friend and I have this believe, because some players are young they don't know how to be patient and understanding, we were raised like that because there was no other way
So they just leave keys
And then I look back and remember how I would just sit and watch the slideshow of different photos and music when installing WoW

Reading the manual while something was installing because the anticipation was also fun
Didn't pay for access until I got high speed net
Or theyโve just done way more keys than you have and their tolerance for things is very destroyed as a result
I miss old manuals
Oblivion/Morrowind manuals were BiS
The book for alpha centauri was amazing
I remember the wow one being a straight up book
Remember when DRM, meant you needed the original manual because they would ask you to enter the 5th word on the 11th page
Even the smash bros manual was like a small book iirc
Lol yes
The wow starter book was amazing
No cd cracks were great too
The dwarf fighting the yeti? Hell yes dude
The strategy guide recommending warriors to learn first aid 
I still have my Kings Quest 3 and 4 manual....
Because Incase I ever want to install them I'll need to know what the character in the image on page 14 is named
First aid literally the best skill in wow, I cried a little when they removed it
Would it be viable to macro Shield Block with another ability for less buttons, or should it stay by itself?
stay by itself
The only regular macro should be to have shield slam after IP
Maybe avatar and charge
could put shield slam after shield block as well. def still need separate button for shield slam though.
Wow I love prot warrior it's so cool
oh why did i think sang/volc was next week..
for some reason i thought its raging this week
gonna try to get my last 3 timed 20s done this week
It's a good week for it
My few runs so far have been decent. Few brain dead dps but that's fairly common across all skill areas it seems
Mental note, push keys, stop farming torghast for xmogs
caster mob says hello
Vdh might need their brown pants though
lightning bastard from HOV gets raging bolstersed

