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I’m not even going to entertain codex discussion again lmao pls dont bring that evil upon this place
We musn't forget history lest we repeat it again
It doesn’t make them right but more likely than not there is at least a perceived reason and it’s interesting to think about why something may be used
wtf is codex?
well of course there's a perceived reason
I have no idea who it is really, just trying to figure something out.
that reason being "it's giga survival"
and it also being "I know better than the discord"
There's ego on both sides
I've seen plenty of streamers with high performance in terms of io shit on class discords
I like seeing people deviate on talents but they need to make sense in the numbers IMHO
Exactly what I’m saying
usually the explanation is, "well the rank 1 goes for those"
Numbers aren’t everything though particularly in high M+. Something can sim optimally but a sim can’t replicate the reality of a bleeding edge key
but they always miss the context
I just put it this way, they're way better than I am at running the dungeons. But that doesn't mean their opinions are right on everything, just like I'm not right on everything.
I agree. The SIMs can miss too.
The context is key
I see it so much as someone who is active in both peak and equinox’s discord for brew stuff
People just are so tribal
like for example
It's not really a question of sims, numbers are numbers and some things just don't work out numerically....like codex kek
naowh has a hot take about disrupting shout
But I like seeing people deep dive on it. Like the dude in the Arms channel that found running bastion spear v roar talents was only a 1% dps loss.
thats a great recent example
Depends on the situation
disrupting was great in a dungeon like AV for example
Codex in particular was a weird one
so context was important there
there is a world where codex works
Many high io tanks do get carried by their team, but they also have time to play, commitment, a good network, a good understanding of the dungeons, they don't really need to understand the ins and outs
it's just not until giga high keys on specific specs
Define carried
I'm just saying if someone has a novel build, I'll at least take a peak and try to make sense of why and see what evidence there is for it. Sometimes it might be good, most times it's suboptimal or the reasoning is stupid.
another example, ye olde versa vs crit debate. There IS a point in key levels that you absolutely need to start swapping, its just not anywhere near low 20s
If we're being honest, being a tank in M+ in a coordinated group you have so much more on your mind besides playing your class well
you're usually the shot caller
it's like raid leading
you're taking a personal hit
Yep
Good DPS do make tanking significantly easier, but I question the definition of that as "carrying"; we're just all way too used to bad DPS
They just do the most efficient pulls and do their rotations as needed, their team will do the shot calling and the rest, the tank just exists there
Need to start swapping to or away from crit?
to versa
Yeah
I don’t think that’s the reality for most high io tank streamers lol
so when people see a streamer load up on versa, they just assume versa is king
And if we're also being honest, tanks are the role that can take the personal hit to performance
Most of them call the shots and lead the group
but they dont understand the key levels these guys are running demand the versa pump
good dps/healers are very noticeable, just have to be watching others' performance; esp as pwar you can't get every kick, you can't get offensive dispels, you have no power over your party's hp (other than rally lul)
I'm a bad healer 😦
I'm trying to git gud
That’s the current situation with brewmaster. “Equinox runs double defensive trinks and high tolerance over bonedust”
Yea because he’s taking more dmg in a pull than you’re taking over an entire key
yup
Lol
the M+ situation this season is literally making me learn Prevoker
good healers are def noticeable in DF
outright
Healers just don't exist
i dont agree with that statement at all
you wont notice a good healer, ever
I disagree lmao
i mean ig it'd be stupid to say like "you notice good dps because they don't die" but that is a pretty good factor
I just hate when people act like they’re so good at the game that they could easily be in the shoes of a top io player and do fine
first week VPs weed out the good from the bad really quickly
You sure as hell notice a bad healer
same with RLPs
Lol wha

I notice when I don't need to call for personals and when a healer is also pumping damage
for sure you notice a good healer what
I've always noticed good healers
i notice more when i have bad dps because NOTHING FUCKING DIES
Sure you will, they're above you on the damage meters
Would be kind of wild to say a good healer wouldn't be noticed, since rsham/prevoker/rdruid all offer a lot of universally applicable CC as well
I've seen healers vary from 30k to 80k. I can absolutely tell you which run were getting clapped on lol
its a dps take
I actively ran with a resto shaman in the first two seasons of BFA because he was good as fuck
healer is moot point if they are just healing forever and the monster never dies lol
a RESTO SHAMAN
when a healer does good they dont say anything, when something goes bad they blame the healer
A cooked class
Does well
i ran with a resto shaman s1 this expac too
I like finding the huge io ilvl off meta healers because, in my experience, they're going to pump hard
and hes a god healer
I mean resto was pretty solid
of course he ascended with the changes
Best healer I’ve ever played with was a resto sham in s4 sl
to meta level etc
Never felt safer and more enabled in keys than I did with her
And we were both off meta
My main healer buddy is my guild's Resto shaman (& also my RL)
A while back our guild ran into a monk healer that was pumping 150k heals on Raz. It was nuts.
Obviously.
Raid is very scripted in all departments
I honestly don’t think you notice a good healer in raid very easily
Maybe if they’re carrying a pug but if it’s a decently organized guild it’s hard to tell
healing in keys is much different in terms of agency
Yep. Raid healing is timings and consistency
Key healing is triage and improvisation
can only speak for rsham, but the amount of agency you have over keys as a rsham is insane and outside of pull cadence (which is EXTREMELY major obviously) it's higher than a tank imo
I feel like healing in m+ is like babysitting
what should i spend my 3. shard on? I want to replace Lariat as get something with patch. Also; is that fucking seal of diurna BIS with frostfire belt?
The ideal in mythic+ is for the healer not to have to heal at all
what content do you do
Green "DPS"
i'd think it'd be less for a rdruid and about the same for prevoker, but can't say for sure
hc, mythic raid and m+ but not over +20 because cba
diurna is bis for raid and st
Nowadays I don’t really agree with this. In shadowlands yes but not in DF
but not for keys
Healer dmg vs tank dmg is not comparable for most specs
yeah it's not true at all in DF because there's way more unavoidable damage lol
I mean ideally
the less healing they have to do the better
because more damage
it's pretty universal
you aren't getting through a high HOI without your healer pumping an insane amount of hps the entire key
And I’d much rather have a healer be forced to heal more than a tank or the Dps have to spend globals or gear on defense
thats a take
Because the net group Dps will not favor the healer in those cases currently
That being said, you're for sure going to have to heal
you can make boots, UFB, slap a shadowflame embelish on either shield or boots, thats it, then craft whatever to up ilvl, and read my diurna comment
DPS have more in-rotation healing than they did in SL though
aight. Gear wise its mainly to progress mythic raid, so guess i stick with it. Ill try to farm a neck so i can replace lariat and craft boots with patch
A tank being forced to use defense
i mean high keys DF seasons are just balanced around dps having to defensive/selfheal on top of the healer spamming them, it's not really one or the other tbh
But as I said, It's the ideal, not what anyone can attain easily and consistently
like you aren't killing first boss of bracken on high tyr at all if the dps don't use defensives
i mean just craft what's low if you have 1x shadowflame and unstable done
since you can just slap the shadowflame on the shield
Hmmmm
Was going to say a good DPS is the one that takes their defense seriously
Idk what tank to start gearing
unless if you have the food embelish that never drops for my alts on your shield
the amt of unavoidable damage this season is very, very high
I should clarify that I didn’t mean Dps and tanks shouldn’t press defensives

They shouldn’t have to go out of their way to equip extra defense in order to let their healer do more dmg
just looking at my friend's 24 tyr hoi key, he did 178k hps on the ice boss
kinda hilarious
They should obviously use their full defensive kit
Oh that's without a doubt
avoidance stonks 📈
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a hot minute. I remember when he was playing in the lcs
I'm just kinda gladge dh is doing well
just roll a bear, bear stonks
Just sucks that the spec is entirely propped up by a tier set
I'm having a blast with bear
I did genuinely love playing Vengeance in S3 of BFA
Wat
Because once tier goes away veng could very easily be back to dumpster
I just find it boring
I thought prot warrior enjoyers hated prot pally the most
its not hate, its just fun
idk man i feel like everyone who is a pwar enjoyer finds bear very boring
Bear is like....warrior but with less buttons and less feedback loop
bear has traditionally, in the past, basically been boring version of pwar, so I kinda get it
pretty different now though
i miss legion bear
bear cured my carpal tunnel 
There was a few sour grapes in the guardian discord early in the xpac who ranted about hating warriors
I think most non-bear players find bear weird and/or boring
trash trash trash trash trash
Less buttons?
ya like I said I think that's like a misconception about bear from like legion
yeah if you remove buttons you'll never press like healing buttons because you're in bear form lol
idk I logged into my 60 bear earlier to help a friend level
They have, crap now I've gotta go count
it used to definitely be very similar to prot warrior in terms of what the buttons did because the designer of guardian had no idea what they were doing
Probably not wrong in a general sense
i mean, the buttons just do pretty different things now
And they suffer from a shittastic class tree
I also was a lowkey bear enjoyer in BFA mind you
I find it boring now but for some reason not then
I’m interested to see the bear rework
probably because it was the peak of using stuff like resto affinity
Might give it a try
i havent tried bear this expansion, but i did find it boring before
in all of the previous expansions
prot pally also was boring to me, but i havent tried it after the changes
ppal feels boring for me too, utility wise its nice to be able to help your team
i just ret or holy on my pally tbh
Maybe....all tanks are boring? 
i despise current prot pally; the rotation is just worse feeling in every way than mop ppal (which was basically the same rotation but grand crusader AS gave holy power)
and fucking braindead as well
prot pally owns
prot pally is better than it has been in a long time rotationally imo
AS, the iconic ppal spell, being a low prio filler is dumb imo
based
i mean, mop was a REALLY long time ago
so i agree fully
but also yeah lol that's my working basis
removal of seraphim was goated
also imho AS being more filler/used for utility is far better
actually i think i'm thinking of wod ppal, because that's when AS Grand crusader holy power was baseline - and then they removed hopo for ppal in legion
i was like ok i do this and never touch the fucking spec again fuck this shit
I mean it is better in terms of a utility sense, being able to hold it for a backup kick owns
it's really fun rn
i just don't like it subjectively because I like pressing the glowy captain america button that does big dam as my top prio (so gutting its dmg compared to judge and low prio is not my jam)
you already kinda did this though in SL or at least I did
it just feels way less worse now

(i have not played ppal since legion and this season of DF)
i bet it is griff, i just rather shut off my brain and dps (or heal)
well not heal this expansion
🙂
iirc i specifically quit before bfa because they wanted to put shield of the righteous on gcd then
unless that never actually happened, idk
never really played paladin on bfa
i do think ret paladin is pretty amazing right now though
most of them seem to do pretty strong
hopefully mages and hpal get some decent love
honestly I think healing is extremely rewarding and fun this expansion, it's much better than in SL since you actually have to heal during keys
with the changes
I leveled as hpal and that was fun, I might try switching to hpal on keys
hpal is looking giga with their changes
and (weirdge take) it's kinda fun to have a couple affixes that you can solo as healer since it actually skill gaps you from the shit healers that exist
like actually sick
yeah ive seen good stuff
idk
i feel like theyve doubled down too hard on healers this expansion tbh
its resulting in less people playing them
uh yeah i mean i'd def agree but that just means if you play a healer, and you're good at it
then people are all over your dick
i think there is definitely too much healer responsibility in keys though
its not good for the game
it's very jarring when you go from key to raid and you're suddenly like
10% of your brainpower
avenging crusader with corruptions was so fucking fun
hopefully its similar to that
thats one of the high points in nimchipadin's wow journey
haste corruption, glimmer, avenging crusader
fucking amazing gameplay
couple IT corruptions on pally was pretty good
so different to the old, stand there and fucking cast
since CDs were so powerful
i know so many people who cry and say wah wah why won't they let me be a holy paladin that stands around and casts holy light
deranged people
its fine to make it optional though
I liked holy radiance
i just cant go back
melee healer is just kind of annoying for comp reasons occasionally (me, stuck with my friend playing MW for the start of s2)
can be like mistweavers where it's optional and bad
in week 1 we semi-accidentally grabbed 2 more melee dps for NL and ended up doing a 4 melee comp which uh
its not like... bfa MW but it holds its own
as you can imagine, on tyr NL, did not go well.
on my list of things to try this season
gimme fistweaving
and then we never did NL with more than 1 other melee again
yea
best healer all expac I've pugged with was a MW
i did that mistake with hpal on SBG
"oh"
Legion ruined the class
SBG last boss lmao
chi was so good man
MW actually has some interesting strengths that other healers struggle with a lot this season, they just have some really wacky weaknesses due to how faeline stomp and being balanced around raidhealing works
like, MW is insane at healing Asaad while other healers can struggle a bit since they don't really care about player positioning
Can't be worse than needing everyone to be in my Dream Breath when they're off in Narnia

in general any fight where the group is spread, MW has some really interesting strengths
would be cooler if the designer didn't only care about raidhealing for them or whatever or if they had slightly more/better self defensives
Nice
Honestly WW is doing way better than the impression I've been getting from people
if im getting an error like this in WA, is there any way to see which specific WA it is regarding?
does anyone know?
way over my head
the goblin wa?
not sure which but
if thats a function in the WA, then its very likely that its something like Tama's or whatever
i have no idea which WAs you have so you'd have to check
more specifically what's erroring out is a region class
or at least an icon of that specific region prototype
but that you can discern by just reading
isn't the complaint more about their design
things like ToD having too much power budget and spec talents being bad and annoying
bad scaling etc
I think the ToD argument has largely died down, but I was talking more or less people saying WW single target was omega bad
which even if we filter to just damage to bosses, they're lower middle of the pack
ToD cleave is turbo cringe
I kinda liked gaming it for more damage to bosses
but that's just me
I certainly recognize not everyone likes it
genuinely don't know how anyone can enjoy these dungeons
how is it possible that 5 out of 8 are stage 4 cancer
lolwut
is there a play against the Jagged Disc in Nelt Lair?
uhh wut?
yes ppl need to stand correctly so they jump into a wall
yes, intervene
they don't seem all that bad
and/or dont target the pelters so they dont jump
VP is pretty free unless you're a healer
though thats impossible in a pug
Neltharions lair gave me more cancer than playing league of legends for more than 10 years
“I just think they’re neat”
Crazy how shit these dngs are
Neltharus isn't terrible now, really like Uldaman, Freehold and UR are both free
Worst shit dungeon to exist
brooooo
like all dungeons kinda free but uldr or VP with a bad healer imo
yes, and it still works here
It's not about the bosses
The adds are cancer
Jumping away impossible to cleave shit
no no no the fact that it would yeet him across the room
i mean u can move out of avalanche
Tell that the pugs ?
they do not jump if nobody targets them
It's not avalanche
if ppl postion correctly they dont leap away
It's the disc thrower
t
you can personally control the pelter jumps slightly by choosing where to tank them also
again
they move for the first 4 seconds ish
if ppl stand correctly
@lusty grotto https://youtu.be/7Y2LDKjxRwg
and always jump backwards
they dont jump far
you can control this to make them jump into the wall
nither do i
like personally as tank only
I think generally the really bad pelter jump people have issues with is the breaker + 2 pelters in the room; you want to ensure both of them would disengage into a close wall, and not be facing you in opposite directions
Actually maybe a diagram would help more
I got yelled at when tanking last boss of UR for "not moving enough"
i should just send quazii a picture of how the pelters jump and he can just make a bideo about it
and I'm sitting here like "bruh how you gonna do damage if I'm running all over the place, let him do his breath then move slightly and just cleave the orbs"
why run from orbs when you can just put down an earthquake >.>
pelters jump depending on where the group is positioned at
they go opposite the group
always
but thats a non factor JUST DONT TARGET THEM
and they WILL NOT JUMP AT ALL
its semi random, theyll disengage based on their current target but it is often still the tank (because they retarget tank when they stop casting briefly)
usually when people get opposite disengages its bcs the tank is facing the breaker into the wall but both pelters are on either side of the breaker
so facing opposite directions
just kill them before they jump 4head
wdym?
like only do aoe dmg on them?
cleave em
Yes if you dont target them they dont jump
yes
its a weird interaction
but if one person on your group targets them
they will jump
so you gotta put it in caps in group chat
if youre pugging i mean
just bring a WW and have them ToD cleave 
skill issue tbh
if you have a group just yell at discord
just gotta point him so he doesn't do that when you reflect it, reposition him
yogi what the fuck are you talking about
lol
\
i was gonna say that but then i realized its yogi
its a legion video, from 3 expansions ago, for a solo kill
so, they've fixed that bug.... right?
reflect doesnt knock him back, correct
but it still does giga damage
thats what thyme was showing there
no, but what im saying
you cant knock him back
lol
so you cant do it
is if that was the rules in play, he gets KB if you reflect that
and you despwn him
thats an on you skill issue problem
molten crash used to knock him back
bless your heart yogi
thats what im gettin at
...
i could see it happening once or twice as a mistake
i dont think youre getting it at all
IT NO LONGER HAPPENS CAUSE CRASH DOES NOT KNOCK BACK
no, im speaking in hypotheticals
lol
5 year video :pepeg:
don't do the actions that cause the boss to do a softlock is my opinion
thanks captain obvious?
oh well, im not going to get mad and give you some kinda freak out reaction or whatever it is you are looking for lol


i dunno, hes all at me and stuff lmao
Does anyone know if subcreation publishes the parses it counts in it's tier lists?
So you can see what overalls they're finishing with?
its all
Hey ya'll with 4pc is last stand used on cd?
ye
For sure thanks
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm just curious how we're so low for "DPS" when I'm regularly finishing keys with anywhere between 70k - 90k based on the key and in raid I'm 10k DPS higher than my co-tank. I suppose it's a non question really, when I feel I'm doing fine.
because we are a low dps tank
we are in fact the second lowest at 95 percentiles
just because you are beating your co tank literally unless hes a bdk
hes bad
he should be beating u
and 70-90k is low numbers in terms of tank damage
if your good
like high 80s pretty good for prot
but compared to other tanks its not high
I’d do it even if it still did it now just to troll my dps
90k and above in BH, FH, Nelth for example, 60 - 70's in VP, around 70 - 80k for everything else.
@sleek current subcreation just takes % of players playing what class/spec in the keys it looks at and makes rankings. Doesn’t account for parses that’s why their ranking are bullshit and just a popularity contest. It’s assuming what is popular is what is best.
Yeah, that's what I thought. The FAQ made it seem more interesting because it mentioned WarcraftLogs.
why even play prot warrior at this point.
thats literally the only reason
I get a lot of messages when playing prot warrior along the lines of “how you do so much damage as tank” so I’m assuming I’m doing more then the tanks they run with normally but prot warrior D tier 🤦♂️
I'll always play Prot Warrior regardless of where it is.
cuz i think paladins are too much on the other side of the river.
That’s literally the only reason to play any class tbh
with all their holy power
What’s the point of playing even if you enjoy pushing if you hate the experience while doing it
literally the only reason
insane how people succeed and are better than you even with offmeta classes because they're having fun with the game

as I created my character and the paladin was wearing his zesty yellow armor and his cute little hammer
i knew warrior was the only way
Like I like paladin but not enough to play it seriously over warrior
I’m happy with this season I will definitely keep doing M+ beyond just getting portals because the dungeons have been enjoyable so far. Ask me again in 4 months but that’s what im saying now.
The only tank that dethroned warrior for me was DH in S3 of BFA
I'll grab my portals and be on my way personally.
STILL WAITING FOR DOPE TRANSMOGS FOR PUSHING KEYS EVERY SEASON BLIZZARD
Raid log until CE and maybe come to some alt raids for achievements.
it will be for like 2.7k
not higher
2.7k is like top 10%
That would be cool imo.
I mean they should do it
they should
Only 14% of players got KSH last season I was pretty shocked by that number. It didn't feel hard to get and by end of season it was probably a breeze.
but my point is its not really for pushing keys at that point tho
For Europe anyway
dont be thats normal
ppl forget ppl are bad at this game
DK is also rlly cool imo love lich king
That I do be forgetting
On top of that, a lot of players just don't push all the way that they could
Dang KSH did not seem that hard last season. Going from that to getting all portals pugging was a struggle for me but 2500 came easy.
both pretty easy this season tbh
easier than last season just because the gear diff isnt as big
I don’t really care what they put it at but they should put it in the game
and alot of the dungeons are giga free
I certainly don’t because it doesn’t matter
There’s no reason to
2k was legit tutorial
This season is way easier I was 2500 second week
i mean u do get mythic appreance on all tier set for hero
Like the only reason to push is to get a nice silly number
meanwhile, i haven't even logged into wow since S2 started
yeah but tbf the fact that just upgrading tier to 441 does this anyway totally undercuts this benefit
for this season
^
no like u get it on the lfr piece and stuff
He means the effects on
like the effect
yeah, the lower pieces
oh ic
Oh effects kekw
yeah
So like the lightning on the shoulders from last tier
Yeah, the special effect is what I push for then it's just about staying motivated for portals.
Speaking of tbh normal set for warrior looks best from a color perspective change my mind
I like Heroic
Even if it’s just for the last season
I like red. 🤷
just for the last season is fine i guess
Or active since day 1 but hard to achieve early
Easier to achieve in last season
Idk
Something
Maybe an expansion specific recolor if you get KSM/KSH every season on your account for an xpac
M+ NEEDS exclusive cosmetic rewards
No recolor
4000iq idea, instead of a cm set, give us access to the mop and wod rewards, like legit just a token
But add some way to catch up like guaranteed if you get title
Recolors are boring
they would need to annoce that before the expansion tho
Yes definitely
I’d be chill with that
Would be too late for DF but maybe for voidlands
I’d rather get a proper recolor than the dogshit “glowing” effects
what talent is the one for spreading rend on TC
That’s literally the worst reward for any content in the game
Why settle for either when you can ask for unique armor sets?
Also bring back raid portals for CE pls
Like we got UNIQUE ARMOR SETS FOR WORLD CONTENT THIS PATCH
Realistic goals
that will come in fated
Bro we got unique armor sets for world content in a patch
Ok but also don’t bring back fated lmao
"who needs an art team when they gave us this nifty bar" *slides hue and saturation around in Photoshop
Sorry those would cost a raid tier
because color choice good so you can avoid ass kicking outfits/rainbow pimp gear
You can’t tell me it’s not realistic to get a unique armor set for m+
When we got black Dragonflight armor sets for world content
Why would you for dungeons
I mean, it is?
10/10 unrealistic because then they'd have to spend money on the art team
We used to
So Griff, bear with me
They literally did this for every expansion up until legion
A hot minute back, iirc
PvP sets have always been recolors
Dungeon Armor looks different than raid armor
Not in cata
Maybe like
But they were still recolors of sets existing somewhere iirc
Nor in WoD
nope
M+ enchants like PvP enchants?
im of the belief things aquired on classic servers should be unlocked on main servers
dont at me
Also speaking of mogs, my warrior drip 😤
Depends on the thing
Scarab lord fuck no
Tldr it’s entirely possible for them to do unique armor sets for m+
It could literally just be by armor type
It’s certainly possible I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect it
So cloth/leather/mail/plate
I do because we’ve had it in the past
We had it this patch
We randomly got black Dragonflight armor
For WORLD CONTENT
And they’re good asf
yea the world content armor is better than a lot of raid and pvp sets
I think it would be nice to have something similar but unique a la “Scarab Prince” or like “The Undying Wrath”
it's crazy this patch
thats subjective i dont like them personally
Inspired by the original titles but different
fuck u i want my zulian tiger 
Yeah tbh the world quest gear is beyond drippy
Speedy Zulian Tiger not swift ez fix
:^)
The shoulders look horrific on an Orc imo.
Doesn’t detract from the original prestige but is different if you take a closer look
As they should, horde scum
Everything looks good on a hero of the alliance
Cata PvP sets were all recolors of the same set, as was the case in MoP and WoD. Other expansions are just recolors of the tier sets.
I'd be a Human but, then I have to go to Stormwind. It just doesn't have the same charm as Orgrimmar.
They weren't unique per season.
Yeah it smells much better and has plumbing
WotLK sets were very different season to season
huts made of mud and cow sh*t, indeed charming
Extra parts etc.
Exactly. I can shit in the middle of Orgrimmar and no one bats an eye. I go to stormwind and all of a sudden it's a "problem" and I'm "disgusting"
I’m fine if most of it is recolors but it was UNIQUE
Based alliance enjoyer
Adding additional glow effects didn't make them super unique IMO
I’m not talking just glow effects
Warrior shoulders and helmet specifically got more spikes
Went from none
To having some
To having large ones
That’s a very slim difference imo but I get what you’re saying
That wasn’t what I was talking about specifically
That's an example of what I'm talking about
Essentially just a recolor
And the elite sets per season were just recolors of the second
Talking about this to this
Does the increase duration of well fed meals by 100% count as an embellishment? Or can I use that one + two other embellishments?
Regardless the point really is just that we had pvp specific armor sets
I don’t care if they recycle the same pvp set in an expansion
But it’s at least unique to pvp
you can use that one+2 other
M+ should have the same thing, not just recolors of a raid set
Cheers
You can even just do one set of armor, no recolors and only available once throughout an expansion or something
Does that make sense? @final mist
WoD specifically had some of the coolest armor available in game for pvp the first season

I wish I was good enough at the time to have gotten this
Still some of the best animations I’ve ever seen on armor came from that season
Let the artists go wild
It is
For multiple classes
Like criminal that they produced those sets and haven’t done anything near them since
how many of these do i need to turn them in to forgestorm?
Like lemme be Emperor Zurg on my DK
0
At least 7
Anyone have any tips for surviving mythic experiments as prot warrior? I am getting absolutely blasted compared to my other tank.
Should I prioritize shield block with rage over ignore pain after I take a big hit and both have ended/expired?
It's not usually but it happened a few times when I would go out to grab 2nd boss.
he means shield block is the one you need to keep up at all times
its not a decision
you have to
I thought he meant because generally you still have a few seconds of shield block when ignore pain is down.
IP uptime does not matter
SB uptime does
if IP runs out, it doesnt have much of an impact
except on very niche pure magic damage scenarios and/or bleed scenarios
SB ups your damage and makes you the king of physical mititation
you want the rage for SB
you use IP when close to capping
as a rage dump
thats it
guys any suggestions for +21 uldaman tanking? them basilisks are tearing me apart...
So does SB help reduce damage via the dot from infused strikes, or only the cast it does?
Becasue the dot is magic but the hit is physical
kite
yep
peeporun
aight
throw slows on them and run like a bitch
thanks brothers
- is 421 diurna ring worth using over 441's? it has no socket tho so
on ST
What's the best spell reflect essentials weakaura/addon for this Season?
Any tips on Zskarn? Getting absolutely trucked and running out of defensives quickly
It's Friday boys. Raise hell, praise Dale
Be a dwarf. Problem solved 🙂
+20 Neltharus timed. 1 down 7 to go.
use spell block, and then it will (like you should anyway, at least there, on Rashok, Zskarn and Sark)
main way i know of that paladins get rid of bleed is they use bubble, and you dont want to do that ase a tank
Gz, fortified Neltharus is one of the hardest 20s I'd say for pwar
probably similar to fort HOI, kinda trucks tanks
i dunno if any tank can innately remove bleed on itself
yes we're called dwarves
thats a race
Just fyi, prot pal basically baseline takes the talent that aoe taunts when you bubble now
paladins also go dwarves for that same reason
i mean, most tanks that have scaling selfhealing just have better bleed protection than pwar
for long time it was you didn't do that, so, i dunno what changed
Like DK is pretty ok with it
Was a really bad talent choice with the mop style talent trees. DF talents changed that, didn't have to make bad tradeoffs to get it
why would i quit warrior though
Not necessarily trying to parrot the pally op thing but rather that they have a great tree
i like paladin for keys partly because they can rez others if they survive combat and now a brez too
and off heal, and can interact w/ afflicted and incorp, and can machine gun interrupts
Frost Blast of the Brinescales in Freehold is kickable right?
is a 408 seal of diurna's chosen good? I haven't simmed in awhile but with frostfirebelt+shadowflame boots, it only did 1.72% dmg on a heroic echo
at 408 w/o a socket you can replace with a high level ring
yup
so i guess focus that kick rather than the water bolt 😄
yes
yes
Also yes, kinda
water bolts are good to stop too but not nearly as dangerous
On high fort keys u need to kick water bolts so they desync
still timed it though haha
cuz they will oneshot people
guess it's time. thanks
yea, just sim it though, should be fairly accurate
it falls off quicker in aoe than ST
yeah i mean but if it's doing less than 2% on a mostly ST fight that's probably not as good
that's 2% of free itemization
it still contributes w/ the crit and vers it has
which is why it punches above its weight
but eventually it'll fall behind, yes
I know, right? We essentially did that
We’re 3 tanking and I’m banished to BDK prison 😢
Ty ty
Yeah we just made that change and im on bomb duty.
My GM is playing his vdh for bombs
So it’s me (brew main on bdk), ppala, and a lock main on vdh
Worst boss in the raid
One of the worst I’ve ever progged
raid tanking this tier seems like it would make you want to die
like the least inventive 2 tank mechanics in a raid
i guess in vault too
holy fucking shit
after 4 hours
killed sark in a heroic pug and an evoker traded me curio
only tuesday from now on
gz. after i got my 4 set, the dps players been put to shame
3rd lowest dps always lower than me on trash
Idk about SL raiding cause I dipped out after nathria, but Zskarn just feels miserable
I mean painsmith was sick
Loved the fight
But zskarn honestly doesn’t look that bad at all lol
Blizzard got bored with taunt swaps and decided to give tanks something to do in between which is mostly fine but if anything happens you get fd for timing
I mean in fairness you can just trivialize that and 3 tank strat
Like you can still force things
It’s just not boss position based and instead is player based
Like all they’ve done is remove the ability for people to just ignore everything and severely nerfed boss hp
Yeah, it just sucks when you've got shitters who get confused when you ask them to hit a defensive and eat a bomb
I like the fight on paper
At least it's something newish
Anyone recommend an addon that yells out mana low etc or any M+ must haves
can you put a shadowflame armor patch on shield as an embellishment?
or is that not recommended
you can, only reason not to is if you offspec dps a lot and want to use the same embellishment setup on both specs
some prot buffs. noice
I'm guessing we still don't take thunderlord due to the de-synch of cooldowns
oh shit nice
Probably correct
Yo wtf pwar buff pog
they actually compensated for the shield charge talent nerf thing
Didnt nome estimate it at a 7% ish nerf
So its a small increase from that pog
poggies
pretty pog
i'm progging rashok and that spell block buff
is so so good
because it means you can spell block almost every single combo
Doubt we’ll take it
I'm just saying dude
TL buff is irrelevant
TL still probably dogshit
talent is still dead
This is like back to shadowlands levels of TL
pallies prolly crying bigly in HoW
and you know if the damage is THAT GOOD people are gonna swap to warrior again
utility shmutility
no they wont
don't make me remember and cry
Warrior has to be head and shoulders above any other tank spec for people to swap
i mean still useless for a bunch of affixes lol
i still stand by this, we have to be WAY better to be picked
we dont have the utility others have
Utility is a meme
Lol pally is beyond busted for reasons that are totally unrelated to the buffs warriors got
never did have the utility others had
all things equal AF and we wont get picked
never mattered
absolutely matters
People only care about utility when the tank is good
^
but yeah, as said before, ppal had the same utility in SL
buffs 
and was not insane so
It’s a literal meme
LITERALLY THIS
obviously utility isnt better than raw viability
but like i said, we have to be outright better to be swapped to
on equal footing we're in last
Is an 8% pwar damage buff actually VDH damage or is this hopium overdose
or close to it
🤨
if they want us to take thunderlord they're gonna have to free up some points
hopium
nome usually doesnt od on hopium
They’re going to have to make it legion levels again for us to take it period
i think
Buffs incoming boys!
itt's a lot of dmg but vdh is just in it's own league atm
even then
Whhooooo
you could give us legion thunderlord rn
and it wouldn't be half as good as it was in legion
because demo shout is weaker
and on the GCD
to be clear, im happy with the changes, just not trying fall for the copium that this will make us sought after again
it would have to be insanely strong for us to take it instead of other talents at that tier, there's just not much flexibility there
It’d probably be worth because of the insane amount of rage gen even while on gcd
and demo shout lining up with our CDs is more important than it was in legion
meanwhile blood gets 8% blanket, they need 20%+
man, that middle section is so tight that it's painful to take spell block right now
But like I said it’d need to be uncapped
make thunderlord put demo shout off gcd as a tertiary effect, obviously
i feel like shorter Spell block CD would be better than longer duration, not even close
this
unless somehow they allow SB to affect dots on us, which makes no sense anyways and would never happen
Tbh
spell block is strong as is, just want it to be easier to pick up
was ok last season until they made bolster mandatory
I’d be interested to see how a talent that reduces the effectiveness of IP but grants us like 30-40% reduced effects on dots would do
😎
😎
Maybe I’m gigabraining this too much
no i think taking less damage from dots would be a very nice talent
what are we dropping for TL?
But a talent branch that makes us better into dots would be very welcome
forgotten experiments feels horrific to tank even with good gear
and i don't even want to think about tanking zskarn
(pressing defensive stance makes me sad)
give us a talent that makes it so execute is off the GCD and free when we're under the effect of a dot
i feel like i'd consider TL if they fucking took DS off the goddamn GCD
It should be

It’s like the only defensive button that doesn’t do damage that still is on it
So weird
defensives and CCs should NOT be in the GCD outside of pvp
it's all bfa's fault
Yes it is
i choose to focus my aim on devs that arent focused as sharply as they should be for how a class "feels"
DS on the GCD almost feels bad to press
even with all it gives
It does I wish it wasn’t but I can’t change it so I don’t worry about it too much
can keep asking for them to do it though
Yeah I just prefer not to keep beating a dead horse in the discord
🐎
at least our 2 biggest damage CDs are dots
more shit off the GCD is a hill i will die on
so you can put them up then pop DS
yea
that feels a little nicer
where is the link
add a min to LS CD and like 15 sec to DS and im good
Is it a fair time to say
Quite literally a channel for this
Never left
its top article on wowhead too fwiw
wrong way to help that ability
🙂
the one season i dont fotm swap and i stick with my pwar.. glad i stuck it out cuz it felt perfectly fine and now this?? oh fuck yeah
it still makes me very happy to have more spell block
hahaha, that image
i've never been in second 22 of Spell block wishing it was still up, i have wished i had it with less than 30 sec left on its CD
more damage is yummy
Yeah tbh the CD of it is kinda obnoxious
yea i dont think the spell block change is huge but it may come in handy
I would trade it down to 10 seconds or less for it to be on a 1m CD
100%
8% aura buff and demo shout CDR though.. 
or make it 3 min and put it on AM
i wonder if thunder lords become good again
idc, more shit on AM kthxbye
Or leave it 2 and let it be AM
even better
Any of these are better ways about making it a better pick
nope not worth taking
i feel like if we got too much spell block uptime though we'd just be turbo OP and unbalanced
Eh
except when a dot comes along..
all dots and bleeds still hate us
but having a 2 min spell block w/ a mechanic every... 45 sec we want to block w/ it, feels bad
in all honestly i'd be fine with spell block staying roughly as is and other tanks having similarly sized weaknesses

