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it does not really
Hard disagree
Honestly the number of new things they're trying to implement is stupid high already. The little things really seem to stack up to almost as big a shift as legion.
which is probably why they picked that
i've done all ptr keys and i legit did not see a difference with or without seasonal
Yeah I kind of agree. We have enough extra affixes for the seasonal one being removed won't have a major negative impact imo
Nor do I think it's renoval will suddenly make things a lot easier
I believe overall difficulty will remain roughly the same
the seasonal i hated the most was prideful
8 fhought that was legit the stupidest shit ever
infested "shudders"
I liked the shadow dudes from sl. I liked that seasonal
Infested was fun
I think a mild reduction in cognitive load to allow you to focus on everything else sounds perfect.
it was..... ohh THAT guy has infeated kill him first..... noooooo stunnthe worms!!!!
double
I hated the bfa affix
no triple
I thought the portals were dumb
so, with the 4th affix removed, did they increase score gains for later keys, or do you just need to push higher for ksh?
triple fuckjng void bitches at the start of undersuck
No score changes afaik.
at one point we had 3 void aspirants or whatever at the start of underrott
void emisary + 5 dervishes in sethrallis
pull lasted a couple of days before it was removed
thst casts on repeat a wipe the grouo spell
and it pissed my guild off so much i made a reddit post about, and it worked
reading all these bfa affixes, I feel even more glad I didn't play that expac
Don't forget Valor is going away too so play with it now if you have anything to upgrade
literally nothing good sounds like it came from back then 
Lol it was... interesting
They were experimenting a lot
How many of them are permaretired?
i used the avgn line "some game developer whos laughing his ass off just decided to put a pizza (void) down therem well whos goig to go after it, thats suicide"
You missed out. Outside of S3 it was pretty good.
Ah, avgn
Awakened was the best.
That's the ninja turtle video right yogi
skip mobs but gotta fight bonus bosses? Did the bosses at least count to %? Or was there some other benefit?
because deathspike is not a cast that goes on you, wa detects specific abilites that are casts
its a buff that boss applies to herself which adds dmg to her hits on you
A good amount of the dungeons heavily used invis/shroud so it was incredibly nice.
CAn it be tanq shotted?
Don't think so
And it was the play on certain dungeons to spawn the minibosses with the final boss.
Again, it was the best.
So what you're saying is, the dungeons themselves were cancer, and the affix made them fun again?
i only vaugely recall adds on final boss for not doing some seasonal
Is overkill but I run spell block all the time, and deathspike is a reason why.
i just reember whatever affix that was
we alway did all of rhem
or left the dps one up
or the ewsy to kill one
can't really think of a reason not to considering how much spell damage exists in every dungeon this season
Hahaha I remember that video. The game. A d that moment
Being a kid and walking over it like, "oh man wtf really". That turtle game was hard af
You lose some damage and it's not necessary... but it sure is comfy.
I'm not pushing world records or top keys, I just wanted my portals
Eh. Back in legion I was all about the big burst prot could put out to fuck people and bosses up. But I guess when I get to tanking things seriously I think more about the fact that I should just do what makes it easiest to stay alive and let everyone else figure the damage shit out. Grabbing big packs for 150k still satisfies the urges, and I always feel good dropping 70k to shame bad dps
Yeah. Your job is survive, hold threat, and do damage, in that order. If you can push more dps while surviving, great, but if you're not sure about surviving that's the first priority
Someone yesterday in here told a new player prot war is a dps that doesn't die
That's a very true statement
Lol
I don't think spell block is worth using in sub 20 keys and most runs
Spell reflect, SW and iv can cover everything
it's sort of a circle for me. Survive >hold threat > help > do damage > survive...
If i'm good on survivability, no problems with threat, then try to do something to lessen the damage everyone else is taking, or make it so heals looks at me less than everyone else as much as possible. if everyone else is taken care of, or if rage is getting scarce, it's time to fuck shit up
@fresh igloo I just realzied you said spell block and not reflect. I don't think I've swapped to that ever 😂
Try a jade temple 20 on Tyr without spell block and see how you feel about it heh
Yes SR is great but it doesn't cover everything
I keep hearing "on tyr..." what even is this?
tyrannical?
But like I said spell block on every dungeon is over kill
Yes
🤘
A 20tjs on fort will fuck your couch as well without sb
gotcha. And considering what i've experienced so far, that probably is exactly what the fuck is gonna happen ;-; the only issue i've had up to 18 was last pack. I'm sure those fuckin kicks are gonna be a bitch later though.
Because that last pack and dark claw
Yeah those minions can really truck lol
It's a half sec cast can't reliably kick, use stops, pop CDs pray they die before SB/SW are done
literally stronger than everything else in the dungeon. Except maybe serpent strike way later on
If you're 2s left on sw and they're not dead it's time to roleplay the demo Hunter and leap out
😂
Jade strike and dark claw are the two most dangerous abilities in that dungeon
But I get some value out of spell block in lot of dungeons. I understand why people don't bring it everywhere but I don't miss tough as nails. So... meh.
Hyrja shield of light doesn't even tickle thru spell block. It's funny.
Well, since I broke my 19 and there isn't any value in doing anything else this late anyway, i'm wrapping my week with every key at 17/18 except RLP. Any tips for pushing all my fort keys to 18 next week or are fort weeks pretty okay at this level?
Fort is generally more dangerous to tanks than tyrannical unless your DPS are flippermonkies and can't hit their stops
AoE stops and kicks are your friends on fort
Too many different things to account for without a more specific question though
Like, if you're not shitting hard on your parsing you can take the CDR on shockwave and disrupting and intimidating
As prot we can handle a lot solo. Pummel, storm bolt, shockwave, int shout
Managed the jade strike on 20 tyrann very well on tyrannical
But the first boss wiping my party left and right, ouch
Racial stun if you're a cow
Mari has been buggy lately too
Sounds like a ID-10-T error on the DPS part
Or are we back to the 15degree off visual bug for Jets
Where it's at 2oclock but shows 12
Last night the water pulses were hitting people on platforms
That's fixed now at least.
O that's a diff one
Was a weird ring interaction lol
ONE JOB
Annulet broke the water jet.
How that interaction happens... I have no idea.
Coding is wild man
It was no bug
Just id 10 t error
That happens too lol
Maybe more specific then. My fort weeks have been the worst on ruby, jade, nok, and av (which i'd really rather never enter again). Any specific tips to make those better?
Also, I don't talent int shout. What are you giving up to take that?
Imagine having flawless.all other bosses runs and struggle to a tank and spank fight
Pain & gain or leaping strides
There's an m+ build in the pins, I run a variant of that
I don't mind av, I'm not a fan of the skips tho
I see many saying Season 2 dungeons are dispel heavy. How far do you think Protwar is disadvantaged cos we cannot dispel others
Av is easy to time by holding w, staying on schedule and dps not making major mistakes in the first half
laughs in dwarf
About as disadvantaged demon hunters Dks and druids are
People like to pile up double pulls and do crazy skips and shit... but the most important thing you can do is have a clean run. Don't do more than a pack at a time if you're not confident in your group's stops. Wipe recovery loses so much time.
Learn the mechanics you're dealing with. Figure out what is pressuring your healer and stop those abilities
There's a lot of them in ruby for example lol
I enjoy ruby. But damn it's hard
Lots of people like eating the dragon breath
And often times the next to last boss gives groups hell
Ah, that's basically the build I use. I the point is from bounding strides
I used to not care for it because of its cd over heroic throw. But titabic throwing at multiple enemies is kinda nice
That might be another flex point you can play with
joins in di
Esp for Los pulls like in rlp
Dwarf powah!
i dun like titanic throw because it tends to hit extra, that makes it bad for single pulls.
Yea bounding or titanic is your flex for intim
I've gotten lucky so far and I've not noticed titanic throw pulling extras for me
i had thought about race changing from tauren to high mountain, but meh
But now I'm wondering how many times it's happened and I've missed it
If you ever cc anything titanic can fuck you over
high mountain racial sure fits the theme of a bull tank
Intimidating shout I think is a sleeper ability a lot of people may overlook
What is this 2008 we're polying mobs now?
Yeah I'm never doing the skips in av on a fort week. Those pulls are foul on tyr. Not trying to volunteer to take even harder hits. Ruby wipes...Maybe int shout will help but it's almost always because primalists aren't getting interrupted on the ring. Fucking cancer.
It's not much of a thing anymore, iirc it used to check for 5 targets in range of you, now it checks for 5 targets near your target
It shines great in places with caster packs
Talent throws radius is not large enough to ass pull things unless you're being very irresponsible
Int is really good in rlp on the ring
That's what I was thinking. I tend to target middle mobs when I do pulls, I've yet to notice it doing what I don't want it to do, so far
I'm with you man. I think the av skips are silly, and for me I've had more groups fail trying to pull the first packs in there than just holding w and staying on track
Spam cast of interruptable spells still works with aoe stops instead of just pummel, don't forget. If you can catch multiple spells with an aoe stop, you just saved your healer a bunch of stress.
this is what i want them to tod about intimidating shout like 2 minutes
You mean the frog skip that has been less efficient since week 2 but somehow every week someone tries to routlord me into doing it
Yepper!
Had a group 2 weeks ago demand we do the skip. Comp was bad and didn't have a lot of stops and stuns. Instant wipe and group disbanded.
Frogs are basically free, just stun the jump
"we doing skip right" yup I'm skipping you bricking my key
the second room and the one after first boss are just too heavy. People fuck up and can't keep the crystals stun locked, or get way too close before they're positioned right and catch crystal spit. Or, worse than both, they focus the big one instead of the little guys and by the time sw and demo shout are done I've got 5 half health crystals walking around and next to nothing to help me stay alive when they blow chunks 4 times in a row.
"if by skip you mean we are skipping the platform and going directly to the first boss, yes.
I"ll def remembe rthat. Already swapped bounding out so I don't forget tomorrow
Frog rooms are free and easy percent. Shockwave those assholes before they leap and head to the next room. Ezpz
Frogs take legit 3-5 min based on key level and level of pump to kill for 30% count
in 3 big pulls
party with another war and double spear them. gg
the only time I wouldnt do frogs is bolstering maybe
Melee dps just doesn't like that they jump away lol
unless you got a good funnel/ST damage dealer to focus breaker
Reasons people dont like frogs 1).... the second reason is that they cant immediately go ham cause it takes a little bit to put the pull together
what a coincidence. next week is bolstering storming
I'm glad bolster isn't a perma buff now
just have a ST pumper
or someone who can prio cleave
Just don't do frogs
Lol yeah that surprised the fuck out of me
Ez
cuz, cacophonous is really nice to have, but its more like after the fact that you want it
the main purpose to hitting either menace or int shout is to fear the mobs so they stop casting
When I saw that in the df patch notes I cheered
I got myself killed in Kara during bolster a few times trying to do big pulls lol
though Im only gonna be doing Halls of Valor for the rest of this Season.... theres a shield in there I want for TMOG that only drops in M+
so I gotta farm it before the season ends

You know I don't care for df shields so far
Imo nothing is cooler that the bulwark of azzinoth
they are fine
Which one??
Graphic wise I mean
Skovald's Breaker or something
its super viking like
I don't like the buckler round shields. I prefer more fantasy style shields
and it would look siq with Dwarf heritage
shield mogs in DF are bad my ass
The definition is so low tho
An HD update for older armor is deff needed
You can really see the difference in the t1 and t2 warrior tier
yes for 2004 to 2010 wow i would start with updating
Compared to even cata or Legion sets
Yeah the tech is there to do it quickly
Or should be. Maybe at the halfway point blizz will shock us again and do a mini patch to update older tier
T1 warrior set in high def would be soooo nice
they don't even have to be made to look fantastic, just like, how you guys did the cursor image so it actually loosk like a gear
and not like, 4 fuckin pixels
like it was before
Looks like dis!
4 pixels armour were fine when they only had a grand total of 24 available lol
World of Waifu's World of Waifu-Craft
I also want the quelserrar graphic updated
Oh I think this is the one I have atm 😮
I think quel is the best looking 1h weapon tied with thunder fury
I think some of the shield mods in DF are pretty good way better than past expansions
And it would go perfect with this!
That's awesome
Compared to bfa and sl, I agree
That’s a dope dwarf friend
OK that id use
went from BE to Dwarf recently
Yo I need to make my warrior a dwarf
very happy with the change
What’s this tiers set you are rocking. In hum?
What armor and shield is that?
the armor is Dwarf Heritage
Join the bearded team. Where all our jokes are about drinking and women
and the shield and axe are just what I had in my bags that work
cause you know, cant use a sword as a Dwarf
that be weird
Hey I use a sword!
need a double-sided axe or hammer and a Viking shield
my rogue
Yeah right now I am a sunchild and hate it
I've not found many axes I like
yea, looking through the axes its slim pickings
nobody here clued into clever thing i did with name on him yet
I do like the 1h mace MOG, I think yogi is using it. But it requires specific armor to look good with
Nah dwarfs need a mace .....HAMMER!!!!!
If you are from Qc I get it ;p
theres the ironforge smasher
ES TE TABER NACK
I'd love to collect iron forge guard armor set
Yea, we working on looking good
Getting the kings armor would be chefs kiss
hopefully my vault drops some TMOG this week
Ah the SW guard
Giga chad, get 8x20 keys done for the week - only need Tmog lol
Humans, especially females look great in SW guard armor
you look like a human took his armor off and dressed a dwarf up for Halloween
I have a mace I am using right now on my warrior that looks like mjonir
this is de way
for a very long time
i was anti playing human OR orc
and im still doing 8x20 each week to get 421 weapon 
just those 2 races specfically, and furry races and classes
i've loosened up a bit since then
TMOG>Upgrades>Socket
Human was top tier due to their racial. Orc is the only horde race I'd play
it means I still have 4 weeks to play and moreover im not guaranted to upgrade my weappon right when s2 starts
in the very beginning 2004 of wow, every character that could be made into a dwarve, was for me
I thought about kul tirian
since dwarf has on 3 minute cd, remove debuffs
Cause of the verse
Kul Tirin you can make look funny
I try to keep a good push until the end of a season, so I can start the next one in a decent place gear wise
so, until cata, i never rolled non dwarf
we ran a key, friend used the race change toy and made his toon look like a redneck from the south with two Katannas
You can almost make Jaina as a kultiran
its 2 min
I have a new moto for DF and it served me well so far - ilvl is in your head. I was able to sneak into +16 keys on my fresh 70 BDK 370ilvl, we timed them and I did not die. Same on warrior. Don’t trust IO lol
Im thinking about changing race to alliance when patch hits (my guild is horde), i like their pvp tmogs, but races that have cool racials looks shit, and races that looks fine havent cool racials 😐
Yeah their body make up is kinda wonky in some armors
regardless, its over powered
for me it read "remove all debuffs"
My favorite race in the game are blood elf girls tho. I think they look the best in most armor sets. Being more petite than a human makes them even cuter
stone form made raiding stupidly easy for me as rogue
whats also fun with stoneform is that you can stoneform+Avatar and then your Dwarf becomes as big as a orc!
for 10 seconds!
just cloak or stoneform or pre-vanish the mechanic
I need this in my life, with Illidans shield to be giga massive dwarf
the doors before the smoke maze
in mechagone workshop
u had goggles in bfa the trait was would make u smaller or bigger
I find arcane torrent just useful in a few dungeons since some mobs can have their overshields dispelled
yea, Arcane Torrent is great
just to get in door
but also, all my toons are BEs until recently
Dwarf in Brackenhide is going to be nice
so a little change up was good for me; Dwarf War, Orc DK, BE Pal: the ideal set up
Boss size
Avatar + stoneform makes you as big as the king of iron forge
My warrior is a Vulpera and I made colourful Tmog just to be more visible lol (mythic Dazarlor full white is doing well to be seen)
my transmog is impossible to not see
I was wearing Dwarf Heritage in a Halls.... lets say I really blended in
giant icicle monster
Also the offset T2 from Palladian - purple does great in that department
I am wearing the purple t2 on my pally
My favorite go to MOG, is black temple
I think the plate armor out of bt looks really good and screams warrior
grnomes too, i have been anti gnome playing for a long time now
times change though
Can't bring myself to use any set pre mop, low res texture 🤮
the rework of that mog from Legion is also good looking
I have like 3 or 4 different colors of the t6 mogs on my warrior
I didn't know there was a Legion rework of bt armor
I am trying to get the last two pieces from mythic tomb
I'm gonna have to look into this and do a tmog hunt
Tomb of sargeras
Also, the Antorus mog looks swag on a dwarf; unfortunately, the best shield for that is the legion mage tower one which I cant get 😦
It only took me like 5 months to get the bulwark
I like the mythic antorus MOG as well
The high res bulwark or the garbage from illidan
hoping for some good shields to come out of the Trading Post
Illidan
🤮
Pixilated pixels
hey!
Man the trading post weapon and shield mogs so far are blah
still big gold now
Anti ailising and 1440p helps hide some of it lol

I'm loving that 2hnsword
Remember to kill the trash, the belt is a trash drop! If you have the money a quick run at the AH works too. It took me a few weeks to find the belt after I noticed :/
That isn't what anti aliasing does.....
I got the belt already I am missing helm and pants
And lower res texture look worse on higher res screen
I also made out like a bandit in my first Antorus TMOG run
just need two more pieces
everything soloable pretty easy
Yes I love that mog
though Eonar is a bit of a pain
the only thing I have to do is change the mustache
so it doesnt clip through
Dwarf beards clip damn near every hat and helmet
too bad this is the best shield for the set
Praying they rerelease those appearances
FIRST RUN?! I'm on my 15th and I still have about 4 pieces lol fml
in mage tower again
there are those two 2-hand weapons a sword and a mace from the traders tenders
I'm still trying to put together what I called the ultimate og warrior set. Full wrath with the shield from chromag and a tf
I have one binding in all the years I've been farming Mc. One. And my mage got it.
even if its from 2004
Do you have a link to that Tmog? That sounds cool
It's the tier2 armor set. I'm using my phone so searching for it would be a pita
T1 and t2 are super low pre HD wow days. They look
... Interesting lol
Well I think one update has been done during cata or wod for older sets. But you can deff tell it's old blizz
time to get on wow for a nice all day play session...... 
and the servers going down in 15 minutes .... rip
I literally just got the first one offa Garr like a month ago
I hope your second comes quick
Been farming MC those 2 since wotlk
I don't hit Mc weekly or anything. I go in a few times a month to farm them and a hand of rag if I'm bored
also how about fixing that thing where you are flying in DF fast and then u randomly DC
that'd be swell
Farm wise, I've been doing it since wotlk also. But I've been in Mc since vanilla, and the binding I have is the 3rd I've seen drop ever.
It's such a low percent
I did hop in during bc and make a half hearted attempt to get a binding. At the start of bc the thunder fury was the strongest tank sword you could get. It's proc totally cheesed boss fights. Blizz nerfed it into the ground hard after that
The tf is one of the most nerfed items in the game I believe. It's gotten specifically nerfed a number of times lol
How was it breaking bosses? I spend 8month in vanilla wow leveling as a holy pal because I didn't know you could chance spec lol I was far from having Thunder Fury lol
It was the only way for warriors to hold aggro in ae because thunderclap wasn't in defensive stance and didn't produce extra aggro, so we had to spam battle shout
ooh, you NEEDED it in order to tank anything basically
Tf during bc was for its slow proc. Iirc it slowed attack speed quite a bit. And procd so often is was essentially a perma debuff
Slowed attack speed, stacked with thunder clap slow
needing TF to tank in bc
Yes
was maximum fucking copium
No yogi it was to cheese prog at the start of the xpack
You didn't need it, but it made doing heroics doable without multiple cc or a paladin tank
yes, over powered, but not as much as ppl say i bet
Because the proc was legit too powerful. All guilds without a tf fell behind from those that had and used it
No it very much was as op as people say lol
well, you had to get it in the first place
Wotlk was when prot was op for the first time
But it wasn't op in a bad way because only a few would be on a server at any given time
it was still very hard (relatively) to clear MC back in tbc
Wotlk prot was insaaaane you could stack sbv ARP and one shot people in pvp
Would only take an hour or so tops. Kill 3 bosses and bail. Well, 2 really you can skip garr
its like, if you could get it you would use it i suppose and it seems like not very many at all players got a TF
You only went in for baron and garr
Doing 16s, 17s, and 18s. I'm simming 50k dps in full 411, but usually around 36-40k overall during the dungeon.
Do I need to get good, or is that the nature of the ebb and flow of the live game?
Which wasn't that hard, Garr you just needed a hpal in pvp gear as your healer
Are you looking at details or WCL?
Just details
i just think for most of use out of the loop, it would have been way out of the way and overly complex
for 2007 2008
Lots of people had a binding going into bc. Most people were Hunting just one. Quite a few guilds on hyjal made use of its power until it's fateful nerf
Just raid bots
So patchwerk 5min?
Yes, sorry not clear.
it would be dangerous to have a weapon equivalant to thunder fury in retail wow
thats all i can say for sure
So that's not a good sim, because it gives you all the buffs
Thunder fury is why old items are turned off now. They don't want to repeat that
But 40k overall in a key is low
Instead of nerfing it into the ground like they had to with the tf, now they just turn it off
if they added int some thunderfury literal legendary weapon, people would, lose, their, minds
No, Legion legendary is why old stuff is turned off
You'll all notice the one borrowed power we never got is the tf proc
I guess bfa thunder lord came close
i will relook at the rotation and see what im missing, is there pinned instructions anywhere for the warcraft logs option?
Bear tar tar, strategem and aggramars stride
Are you in defensive stance
Day 1,234 rioting for removal of explosives
current iteration is gone forever today
dps get to deal with it in 4 weeks

Correction, Healers have to heal it now instead of putting one gcd into it
🧠
dps have to deal with mechanic all over the dung, key rip 
idk if ima do 600k dam in 8 seconds chief
yes really
Looks like a job for rallying cry
tbh if only 1-2 spawn per pack
just let em go off
should not be, i only found the discord a few days ago, so was spamming WW until then...
but next season dungeons have alot of passive dmg flying around
soooo
pls kill explosives i beg
With 411 you should be close to 45k overall if everything goes well. Do you have offensive trinkets? Doing only +18 you should be able to pump a lot of damage as the damage taken is really low. Make sure to use the new ring it's really strong, especially if you are still learning the class.
If they want them to have high health they should give them a icd of 20sec ish or something and have a maximum of 1 spawned at Time
So wowhead has a "how to WCL" guide, somewhere...
Everyone has access to raids?
dual on use trinkets is typically very bad
At what key level are explosives manageable on the PTR? Like easily manageable. I believe if we find that out, we can then assess what key level exactly Blizz test m+ dungeons
its either that, or scale, or LFR trinket
i would strongly finding a passive one to pair with your best on use option
+20 they around 470k hp after nerf roughly
So like 10 dps globals roughly
Depends on Crits etc
And when a pack of 6 mobs spawns 3 of them at once
it's not typically very bad, it's just harder to manage appropriately but it's fine if you know what you are doing. Arguably it can be worst than 1 passive 1 active due to loosing uptime but it depends on the passive vs active trinket you are considering
The only non on use is a 376 LFR or a 411 Scale
and most people my self inluded, don't play properly enough to use 2 on use anyways
Make macro
#showtooltip
/use 13
/use 14
Put the preferred trinket in the first 13 and the less preferred in 14
Like I do grieftorch on 13 so I can send it on pull
And whetstone on 14
And they make WAs to track cds
So do that
Profit
At a similar ilvl I though Whetstone dealt more damage, no? I don't have a Grieftorch so I never had to choose but I'm curious to know what number you see on both
Grieftorch Varys wildly
Sometimes it’ll do 12m in a key
Whetstone does like 6ish
Let me find a recent log and check mine I’m mobile so sec
Cool thanks 🙂
Some of us are in self imposed exile as the Emperor's of nothing
The trinket that gets better the worse your DPS is
Use a macro tie it to avatar
Or shield block
Ok so just a random key from last night my grief torch only did 6m but that was a zero death run
Or whatever
I’m trying to find one with extra deaths
Since CD don't impact trinkets you just want to send them
So just macro em in a button you press a lot
Charge is a good one
Ehhh
Yes and no
You don’t want to grief torch one mob
Unless it’s boss
For example
But you would want to send whetstone on cd
Any target count
and you dont want to grieftorch after you charge right into mob
Dual on use for me, means one gets ignored most of the time lol
whispering to buff your party, all-totem to have something good for yourself 
Browsed a couple logs from yesterday not much recent data to share since I was running all totem instead of whetstone yesterday, but basically my 411 grieftorch competes with my 415 whetstone they’re about even, grief torch takes over very quickly when people start to die a lot
I also prefer grief torch because it’s main stat and not mastery
Whetstone overall is decent ye but you take away damage from every else since you lose almost 500 str
I've been running with whetstone and hoof for a while now, can't find trinkets to save my life
It can vary from 200 to 600k++ per use cuz crit and amount of shots rng
Grieftorch also makes it less painful when your DPS stand in stupid
Bc at least you get to nuke stuff
Has become a running joke in my group "I was just resetting Storm's grieftorch, sorry"
I has in raid 😉
Have a tactical suicide shaman every 30sec
Yeah once or twice, sure but I mean constantly
the grief squad
Ankh totem + ankh
Look at some prot warrior logs, in a 6min fight you see the prot warrior casting 9 torch or something stupid like this lol
You would need what 5 or 6 shamans
To rotate reincarnate
For a sub 3 minute fight
Boss should die quickly if you have 15 grieftorches go off every 30sec
Legit just open with Lust, once Lust ends you send the suicide bombers on a schedule
Off the top of my head I feel like I’ve pogged out with my buddys a time or two when one of our grief torches does over 1m on a single cast of it
anyone else having this issue on EU?
Or like grief torches on rasz is pretty sweet
This totally! Keep making fun trinkets blizz!
So my guilds gonna do our first brood pull tomorrow. Yay extending!
The boss fight last 2:20m and there is 3 Torch cast... lol
Ty! Ima need it lol. Seems atm the plan is for me to be on egg and boss duty
so is anti
Extending in heroic prog is not smth I expected to read today
My guilds very bebind
Good luck! It's pretty chill as tank
there are raid guilds out there extending normal
At the start of the season we had a major habgup with a prot pal player that is incredibly bad
I would not be suprised anyway
Im rly sad that BT project is on pause
This route might be out dated but this is the route I learned
We started heroic a bit late into the season. We have been playing catch up since I was able to slide into the tank slot.
Since I got the spot we have made very good progress.
And while it's gonna be really tight, I think we can squeeze at least one raz kill in.
Next season we won't have this issue
Ty, I saved that
Couple buddies wanted to go show a R1 buddy a normal prog guild cuz he refused to accept that that exists. So they planned to play super mega scuffed builds on fresh alts and go undercover in such a guild
If your group struggles with doing 3 eggs back to back on 3 and 4
You can switch it from 4th set to 6th
hopefully it happens
If that makes sense
He wouldn't last 1 night ( the R1)
ppl still dont believe me when i say 50% of players dont even run a single m+
I do.
oh no for sure he wouldnt
Even in my guild we have a lot of people with no io
but at least he will know they exist
I have to decide if I have the mental fortitude to help a buddies guild prog M Rasz. This would be my 3rd kill with a different guild. Lol
That's wild.
Players that have played this game since the beginning recognize the gap in player skill
I think a lot of players are scared of m+ because they think mdi is the norm
New players have so much information at there disposal that they have infinitely higher odds of jumping straight to the harder stuff
Makes sense to me that so few would engage with M+ due to the timer.
Imagine if keys actually got bricked like in Legion. 🤣
What’s wild is looking at the rankings on Rio or warcraftlogs
If a player comes from like eso or ff14, I could see jumping right into difficult content. For new players to the genre, maybe some but most probably not
Some players are just scared by the timer alone
^^
muh anxiety
I know I was back in legion at first, I thought I had to bumrush from pack to pack
oh yeah, for sure
That’s only barely doing 20s
Ye KSH is top 1%
My guild does a guild m+ night. For all obvious reasons. I've showed quite a few people that m+ isn't as bad as they think it is.
This same shit applies to League even.
EU its 3k US its 2.9k
I don't usually do mdi style pulls and shit. I just hold w, do packs and try to keep a good pace
So 1% of the TOTAL population of M+ participants can do 20s
This doesn’t filter the ones who were boosted either
It's funny how the gap between 1% and 0.1% is literal lightyears however
top 10% is 2.4k US and 2.5 EU
Doing any 20? Or doing everything at 20?
FACTS DUDE
Everything
Getting invites when your in the liw 20s is rough. At least that's my experience, even with every key at that level but the one and getting invite to that one you need.
Then running your own key and someone doing tank damage or other screw ups.
I kinda expect that around 10 and below. Seeing that at 18 to 20 is soul crushing
I fully understand people have off runs etc. But damn
People do it in 22s etc
People always doing tank damage in my keys >:)

I had aa20 last week as my key. Warrior paradise. Ez key
Stacked my dps pugs all over 405 ilvl and 2200 io. Blew up at the tree boss.
The difference between 20, 21, 22 and 23 starts getting whacky
I was so frustrated lol
I've been playing my ret. I went from 350 ilvl last week doing 2s to doing 20s this week at 400 ilvl top damage. It's op but fun. Don't get invites yet so run my own key.
20-22 bracket is basically a dead end currently unless you get lucky
tyraniical tree boss givers me anxiety
Did a 22 RLP and people weren't popping CDs for the debuff
And yes a 22 to 23 is pretty huge for some keys.
on last boss
I like ret paladin and dk as mele
shit was bizarre
Rogue is rare to see sadly, at least for me
23 aa and people standing in shit on vex is alarming, and a healer that can't top people
23-24 from what I’ve been hearing and reading is infinitely easier than 21-22
I guess the skill gap is large
dk and ret are good cuz they got battle rez
War needs lust now
It does
Then can avoid squishy hunters and shamans. I'm leaving out mage cause I never end up with them either.
What’s a mage?
i still think rogue should be able to stet up a stand for the pvp drinks they have and its like a healthstone

My entire view has changed as I've tried to push into 20s. I really did expect a higher, I guess "quality" of player in the range over 20. I expected good gameplay and minimal mistakes
Lol neat
Boy damn was I wrong.
Lol
Nooo pugs are pugs
From time to time I'll stack pug dps and it's a breeze
Nah any idiot with some time can get carried to 3k eventually
Then I'll try again and it's a dead key
Especially if meta class
To put it politely, pretty much anyone in the 20-22 bracket now are like the bottom of the barrel skill wise for that bracket specifically it’s super late into the season
I’m not saying that’s directly your skill level at all
20-22 is like League gold/plat elo hell
Just in general that’s the type of players you’ll get queuing into your pugs
best of luck fam
Thing is however you also get good players who just do their weekly
But that's rare
pugging is like fishing, you gotta wait some times, and then sometimes its a huge fight sometimes its not, sometimes line or fishing pole breaks some times u get a fish
and u just have no control over it
I didn't think you were
but u can try to make the right things happen
I know I'm not anywhere near top tier or half as good as some dudes in here. However I'm getting convinced I'm better than the average.
Bolstering/storming
No worries just making sure, I’m not the absolute best either didn’t want to sound too air headed in a public space
...should be ok right

:^)
Lol
The fact that you can complete a key over 18 even puts you well above average
You got 14 mins yogi
Average would be 50% keep in mind
13
First attempt with green screens.
Discord: https://discord.gg/dYqbzaYZ
what is reality
Yogi
Gas is on the right

Shit.. speaking of that
Found out yesterday one of my guildies has clutch, break, and gas as keybinds apparently.. he uses the pedals from his race sim setup

how about if its SBG 18
does same logic apply kappa
if its stupid and it works it ain't stupid
anytime you see someone doing something stupid, is cuz at one point it did work
HoV has legit like 20 items in its loot table.
Yee
i have all but some legs i think it is
I have all except shield
im in
Just started specifically hunting the mog
This happens literally every week. People are silly.
Talking about scuff builds, I noticed when we killed Mythic Rasz that our HPal was not using Beacon, thanks to this I parsed 99% in healing (and 40% in dps)... LoL
Yes, a hotfix was pushed on (EU) client, servers are lagging behind, thus this situation. Best you can do is wait for them to fix it
Helmet all day long
Unless you plan on a looting a 424
Well wait do you have helmet at higher ilvl currently?
is the game down for anyone?
What game?
oh sorry
didnt read chat above
Yogi my vote is helm
More stats than shoulders
I got ICON
or 421 pants with leech
Ggs icon
already have 421 pants
YEET
Yoooo
nice grats
Icon is only cool if your group members run it

Lemme just hide my 421 Strike Twice I got last week...
Lol
i mean seasons over soon then youll need the nelfarious wep anyway 🤷 take socket if u want it
Gottem
bis
Holy shit
well would be better with leech
No leech, disenchanting :/
A dps war got that ring this week. A dh went tf off
Yowch
Dude didn't have the frost fire belt at the time. I don't know if he's made it yet

socket! 
Imagine opening vault as prot
First vault opened as prot.
Once you get that 421 shield
Already have two 2Hs, 421 whetstone
You start opening as fury until you get strike twice
Just noticed SB is not being tracked in Details under buffs? Did they move it somewhere?
I’ll run some diagnostics and get back to ya
I've been opening mine as prot hoping for a trinket
Ye
Then you definitely
Want to open as dps spec
We don’t really need defensive trinkets
Would it matter which?
I would suggest fury so you can still loot a strike twice
If you also like to play arms you could do arms spec and hunt for a 2h specifically
I have a crafted 2h for arms
I probably shouldn't have made it. But damn does it hit hard when I do world stuff
I'll open today as fury and see what drops for me
We don't use defensive trinkets they're all pretty garbage this tier, but for all totem
yea, but if you already have all of those other slots, going back to prot to hunt for a shield and 1h isnt a bad thing
What trinkets do you guys like? I've grieftorch and whetstone which I alternate but what non use one should I look for?
Icon, Totem
i dont hear about it much but i feel like a haste or crit crafted statue may even be decent at least if you have a lot of sockets
Thank you
Just run those, make one macro
can only prot loot all-totem?
whot phial are we running in M+?
According to Icyveins Tepid Versatility is our go to
Oh you think? I've the Idol of Trampling Hooves atm
edited
ok, that's what i thought
got a whetstone, need something other then hoof, its kinda meh
They all Sim roughly the same. Use what you like
I really like eye of the storm phial in m+
i well tried it out ty ^^
eye in the storm in m+
vers in raid
but you cant go wrong with vers phial in m+ too, its just outclassed on 2+ targets by eye
With eye stacked up and a str pot with procs I've seen 10k str before
That's really cool to do
Why did I think we were supposed to run glacial fury?
it was good early in the season
Ahh, I just never revisited
I have been! I'll make the swap today and see how it feels
but since we actually deal dmg on our own as a class that gets buffed by stats, we benefit more from stats than the raw dmg
broooooo
Grats
Yeah that definitely makes sense. Man, my damage is gonna be wild today, compared to yesterday. 421 diurna ring, the right phial, and a 418 frostfire belt
grats
the speed roll too
i wish tiertiaries were more common tbh, theyre so much more fun than sockets

Yes they can be
Do we still do the triple pull in hov with bolstering?
if you coordinate it, yes
for pug (or even a weekly key).... this week... I would split up personally
super bolstered dragon sounds like a bad time
Or a really good time. For at least a few seconds
So uh
Timewalking TJS final boss didn't get downscaled
No one in my group has more than 10k hp
Lmao
Tunneling dragon hard I guess lol
get 'em chef nimchip
Give ‘em the smoke
That explains the random dms trying to sell me shit lmao
I always just delete the dm and move on
report em to us so we can ban em here and other discords
theyre either just in skyhold or in multiple ones
I’ll be sure to do that for future ones
Speaking of people trying to sell things
How about those calendar raid invites in game
“Full normal carry 9.99usd”
Bruh lmao
Lmao
same goes for people who harass you in DMs and theyre in skyhold, thats a quick ban
I set my client here to require permission to send dm messages. Really helps filter out the bait
Imagine harassing players in a public space designed specifically for guidance
happens more often than you think
Scammers gonna scam. And some people take things way to personally
is Impenetrable Wall good for 3rd boss Temple? 🤔
like can i get 2x Shield Wall during Jade phase if i spam the shit out of SS?
I usually use the 2 charges for that dungeon
same, but i usually feel safer with Impenetrable Wall, cus with the other i need to save up for quite a while leading up to bosses
It's kinda not needed imo. Grant it I haven't do e tjs20
idk i use 2x wall for jade as well
Last stand, iv, SW and maybe rally if you need it, has been enough for me up to 18
why do you need wall before the boss though, everything is reflectable
I can't remember if I've done tjs19 yet
true
and you still have AM resets
but lets say i use both Wall Charges on 2nd boss 🤔
oh ye AM still reduces, i forgot lol
yeah it should always be up
so i can use charge before 1st boss, 1 charge before 2nd boss
both charges on 2nd boss
both charges on 3rd
you can get it twice if the boss casts 4-5 times in p2
you dont care about p1
indeed but that's some bad dps if it happens
Whats your CD rotation for Temple boss; assuming somewhere between 5-6 casts?
4 times is normal isnt it?
curious cause ive been under the assumption double wall was the play... but that was months ago
1st SW + demo + SR + IV
2nd spell block
3rd spell block + sr + IV
4th LS + demo + pot
5th SW + rest
you can change up IV and SR usage
is spellblock enough by itself?
yes
for the hit, absolutely
spell block is giga good especially with a good shield
thats just 1 example on how to spread out SR and IV
you can only get them every other kick
does spellblock last for 2 hits?
sounds good; then depending on what healer you have you can add their stuff in yea?
spellblock lasts for 2 hits if you use it just before the hit
oh
5th just pop a CR
with lust should be possible
why not 🤣
i mean
if you have a paladin, evoker or rdruid healer
they have a 1min external aswell
shaman only rly has ascendancy or a stacked high tide/cloudburst
and cocoon helps as well kind of
that looks pretty good
just plan out your CDs
glad to get rid of double wall also
and youll be fine

I just had to look up what spell block was. I hit 2500 last week and never changed a talent from the pins.
I really need to learn healer buttons more
Im just so unlearned about what healers can do and what they cant do
spellblock is by no means required in any keys to get KSH
but i greatly recommend it in AV and Temple
in SMBG its only useful until first boss
in hov its only useful for hyrja
It's nice in RLP if kicks are shit
I'll check the talents when I get home.
On the 3rd boss in temple you can spell reflect the fire kick can't you? I've never had it hit me
RLP its nice for first boss and that first area
I victory rush the second, shield wall the third, and last stand/victory rush the 4th
lets you pull pretty big with no concern
and its a super powerful CD for first boss
fire kick you can reflect



