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@modern gazelle
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There I at'd you
https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=16647/dragonflight-keystone-explorer-season-one
"obtained by 34% of profiles" kekw
Attain a Mythic+ Rating of at least 750 during Dragonflight Season One. In the Dungeon Feats of Strength category. An achievement from World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.
not surprising at all
perception in class discords is always skewed
everyone assumes that the min key level for everyone in the discord is 20
when its so far from the truth
mute server+these settings and its guuci
you can uncheck the suppress @role if you want those to show
i just posted that above
thank you for @ing me really needed to feel wanted right now
but no, i need role mentions
This requires a major step that automatically will make this number inflated.
- connecting your Blizzard account to wowhead.
Yes, insert key level that you find easy heres are easy but most people just don't give a shit.
Imagine not
personally i prog on 2 seperate account simultaneously
I am a filthy casual tho, as one of them is a hunter
Same radio, I'm secretly already 10/10 M for 10.2
Oops just spoiled there's 10 bosses
10.2 is so passe amirite?
There goes my NDA
what week are we at now? i got my AOTC just 2 days ago xD
I still remember the NDA's for WotLK like it was yesterday
6th raid week ah ok
thought we were on 10 or so
for some reason im as burnt out as i usually am at week10
Unironically I think DF will work reverse of what we're used to. Instead of progressively getting better, it's gonna progressively get worse.
lol
Yes we're halfway through the 6th week
idk i feel like its getting better, but it just feels uninteresting to me for some reason
ngl im a little burned out, but its also due to playing 2 mmos
I tend to get burnt out pretty quick on wow in general, I go balls deep for like a month, get fully geared then put it down for another year
theres something weird in this seasons dungeon pool, and i cant put my finger on what it is
and honestly i cant pick 1 or the other to quit, i like both
What MMOs
i think what killed M+ for me this season is the amount of healers just plummeting
xiv you know this my good sir
like every key you wanna do, is 20+min wait for healer
Healer drought is real
yeah its been very noticeable, and youre EU, its bad in NA
or worse, i would say
All I’m sayin is my dragon boi services as a dps or in .5 simpvoker are available
but idk also want the dungeons on my warrior
like i cant even commit my paladin to healing again, its just not fun
As long as you don’t raid tue/wed anyways
holy shit man, i tried holy pala once
that shit is wack
Yeah I've started vibing in mw. This spec is sick.
i fell in love with hpal in BFA
Can heal anything.
was strictly holy until... this expansion
I like preservation evoker but man I feel so stressed while playing heals because I’m bad at it
Hence why I don’t really do it much
Ah that's when you gotta vibe and turn it off.
haha yea i feel this as well
i dont think i could play prevoker, the range shit alone is a huge turn off
Healing you just follow along and pray people aren't stupid (they are).
its like everyone dies and i still have Spirit Link rdy and im like "maybe i should have used this earlier"
You might be surprised
they always are
and then i cry
and delete my healer
Really the “hard” thing about it is just actually being smart about your echo heals and using them well
its the same shit that turns me off from shaman, just look at this dumbass hunter all the way in africa
and the healer problem got even bigger xD
I'm never surprised by the Boomkin standing 45 yards away from mobs.
See that’s actually not a big problem
you send a Chain Heal on him, thinking it will bounce, and it just goes "nope"
I literally use my rescue to forcefully reposition huntards
Just because you have the longest range in the game doesn't mean you should use it bud.

xD
"fuck you and your max range, stand here plz"
Quite literally I say “fuck you get in my heal”
just looking at this alone on my alts is making me go like ughhhhhhhhhh
Hunters are the worst offenders
i skipped Wyrm farm entirely
just went for Aspect farm
with 425-430 ilvl
Like bruh I need you to be in my breath if you wanna love
i dont even have 1 i think
maybe 440 in bag
but not equip
It’s the weirdest thing the healer drought though
Like I don’t think it’s that crazy in terms of damage intake
But who knows maybe I’m just wrong
healers have way too much responsability right now imo
Maybe most healers are truly like me and just get stressed out despite having played the role for years and not being a starter like me
did they buff dmg by 25% and everyones hp by 25%?
but not buff healing
Yeah keys with a good v. Bad healer are noticeable
Yea
so basically healers got 25% more to do 😄
That was the point of the buff
They complain about not having anything to do

yeah that was the double down on blizzard's part
and it was due to off spec healing too
actually i would say that off spec healing was the entire point
but yea its big difference between being in a +14 with people standing in everything, and a +18 with people dodging everything
off spec healing is the real silly shit
instead of just fucking nerfing off spec healing to the ground in keys
And they're nerfing off spec healing in .5
I don’t think it’s that bad for healers
they did that shit
uhhh we still have that
yup
I’m aware
I’m saying it can’t be that bad for healers
If this is happening
nah true
the thing is healers pick up other peoples mistakes xD
cus in <18 where shit dont oneshot
and you stand in it
you go to like 10% hp, and healer has to bring you up
Skitters on 1st boss NL can be an example there
Well, who needs healers when PPal can do 135k HPS on Khajin
on low keys Skitters is just a "tunnel boss, and let healer handle it"
also just feels weird theres some bosses where you literally ZZZZZZ as healer, and some where you have to fucking PUMP PERM
the difference is wild
idk when i play Heal compared to Tank, i just have a hard time staying locked in
cus its just zzz in periods
Ironically the higher you go the less you need to heal. Because eventually that dumb rogue that apparently has no spacebar on Asaad just dies.
yea cus shit starts to oneshot if you fuck it up xD
Yes Nielsen that's exactly what I said
its exactly what i said 3 messages ago 🙂
^
Difference being I didn't respond to your 80 lines of text
oh well another day of staring at my toon in Valdrakken while doing no content, maybe tomorrow ill bite the bullet and buy Diablo 4
Ain't no one gonna read when you're typing like that not letting people get a word in otherwise.
❤️
looking way better
thats like a 30% increase in SS CPM if im recalling correctly
Yeah lol
I now understand what ppl mean when they say you don't have to worry about IP
I had to press it constantly to stop from overcapping
so much more rage gen
was your overall dam the same or higher now?
Then there's a certain point where you realize that shit is never gonna fall off unless you fucked up very very hard
It was like a 10% boost from what I usually do. On warcraftlogs I parsed a 97% for that key level
log parse for keys does not take DPS into account i believe
just compares your completion time and the key level to other people
Well regardless it was a very noticeable boost
Depends what parse you're looking at
Actually it was 20%, I usually do 55, did 68 that dungeon
The parse in the key log itself is comparing you to other prot wars for that key level.
nice, youre beating the dps xD
D4 owns
i kinda decided i want all 8 dungeon portals before i buy it
and just need 4
but was just on zzz mode today idk why
i have a few guildies i play keys with
but when pushing higher than 18 with them it just gets difficult
way easier to push my rating with pugs
i think pug is the ideal scenario
idk i think premade is ideal in some setups, but it just requires a lot to make sure everyone is on the same level and vibe
I feel this. Found out one of the dudes that raids with us doesn't use nameplates. Yea, your not coming to keys over 15 bud. No wonder your interrupts are so low.
lol what
Yup, "clutters his screen"
i think new evoker spec is going to ruin wow for me and i should just quit the game
i haven't been interrupting looks like
could be wide variety of reasons pummel doesn't connect and count as interrupt
tanks are usually topping interrupts
How so?
i think alot of my interrupts come in the form of stuns, rather than spell lock out
I think it will take alot of balancing, and might be reworked to just another caster spec if it doesn't pan out
cuz u will need a pocket evoker to do competitive damage
and you cant do good logs without it
Warcraftlogs will implement a filter I imagine
im excited for the new support spec, I think it is cool
I cant play my favorite spec because i dont have a pocket priest and now they're rolling out a new one
lol wat
What do other players have to do with what you are finding most fun
I dont want to be bottom dps because I didnt get a "fun" proximity 15% main stat buff
I think it will be great
how if theyre litrally buffing your stats
Fairly certain there was a blue post on it. They're adding additional combat logging options. Is it stats, or % dmg?
do you think details will calculate 14% vers 15% main stat 3% crit etc?
It's stats; idk how they'd add your damage to them...
Nvm, stats won't work
No shout?
no, curse-ed button
i dont use shout too
but im just too lazy to swap when only doing weeklies
tho bounding stride is pretty nice to have
priests already got physhic terror or whatever, locks have a group fear, i know,
It is honestly the worst CC we have
if they would cower in fear more, it would be better
fleeing in terror is the worst mechanic ever, so many wipes to it in 2004 wow
isnt there a glyph for them to stand still
Which one?
Bummed that augment evoker will target certain stats. Like PI all over again.
Won't quit over it, but that's kinda shitty
foul menagerie
Oh, wasn't that a bug?
are they? dont they give tiny amounts of crit chance
and also giving vers (which is whatever)
i dunno what dungeon that is for, but if thats X% crit + 15% crit thats a whole lot of parry for us, maybe, if its 15% flat no beuno
LEEEEROOOYYYYYY
Well primary stat treats almost all specs equally
So that’s whatever
Am I high?
Weightstones and Sharpening Stones are our BIS weapon consumeable right
or is it howling runes
Howling rune all day
I'm kinda pressed to imagine 115 AP is gonna be worth less than a haste proc
I guess I'll have to sim later..
It’s not a proc though, it’s a flat haste stat buff
I forget the exact amount though
Wait what
310
is there a piece for us to craft to 447 for every slot including rings/trinkets/back/neck etc?
Yes but I don't believe the trinkets are very good
Also there's better shit than crafted gear in tons of slots.
I guess if you were desperate you can just buy your way into 447 full set with WoW tokens, but that's cringe af
does our 4pc change how we use our Last Stand? is it worth using offensively now?
Yes.
Send it on CD.
We also change talents around it.
In fact, we change at 2p.
We pick up Bolster and UF for ST
Drop UF for M+
sweet ty
And... by UF I mean Unnerving Focus
The one near the top of the right tree that looks like a glaring eyeball
anyone know if spell block avoids the dot on rashok tank combo?
Is there a dot
Yeah, but it's really not something to give a shit about.
Blocking it doesn't stop it.
The slap is your real concern.
What dot though
the tank debuff i mean
Is it on mythic
It's a very short-form fire dot on Flaming Slash.
No dot in heroic
Oh wait lol it's just the 3000% debuff
No, it doesn't stop the debuff on any difficulty.
Splock just lets you block the damage as opposed to eating it with your face.
hmm guess it wouldn't matter though cause you'll block the whole combo right
Um... no? You'll die.
Only one we can take two in a row is Crush, but I woudln't recommend it.
Block works on crush iirc.
But I don't think I've survived two crushes without wall or crit block.
hmm the spreadsheet says yes to both
You should read the color coding.
One yes is for Splock the other is for normal block.
ohh missed that
That's why there's multiple columns.
Some mechanics can...
- Be blocked as normal
- Only be blocked with Spell Block
- Be reflected for damage
- Be deflected to avoid damage
- Avoid certain mechanics
And then reading the notes line for each mechanic if there are any may be relevant.
Honestly Rashok doesn't really do damage outside of his combo in regards to tanks.
As long as you have SR or Wall you'll be fine.
hah it's kinda funny to see us take like no dmg to the combo in heroic
If you're worried you can just Def Stance for combo with SR and continue cranking, then swap back to Battle.
while the dh 9/9 tank i'm with takes 80% of his hp
Flaming Slash can one-tap you if you aren't careful and aren't totally geared.
I wouldn't recommend taking it raw.
On M it'll absolutely clap you.
yeah i just spell reflect and IP with shield block up
ShB doesn't really matter to Slash.
It matters for Crush, but Crush was never a danger since it's phys and we have a fuckload of armor and base mit to eat it.
I mean - obviously have block up, but it's not keeping you alive for Slash.
That's why you hit SR.
yeah true
If I put a shadowed belt clasp on then recraft the belt, will it retain the enchant? Im looking to swap my shadowflame to the belt slot
yes
fantastic thanks
You're welcome
❤️ jordan
I need a chiropractor to snap me in half, anyone else?
damn that is the spitting image of my PT
Not what I necessarily had in mind originally but I won't refuse.
Damn lucky to have LBP as your PT
Apparently that's harder than it looks
The fuck did I just come into
this too is a double entendre
so whats up with this stupid dam vengeance is doing
Just your normal tank tuning imbalance nothing to see here
why is FH so hard for me
i would have thought prot warr would be good at fH
but i feel like i fkng suck at it
i think it's my lowest key. I also notice the top warrior parses are super low for FH
is it considered a hard one for us
Prot warr is best fh tank
well it is a tank heavy dungeon isnt it
burden wise
i mean this week pack 1 can be diceey
I mean it’s a mob heavy dungeon and yeah fortified can be tough sometimes
it just seems like randomly every pack can be a trouble
im not specificlaly hung up anywhere
Yah just gotta get more comfortable in there learn what each pack does
oddly I played it in BFa
and i swear it was a lot easier
now theres just so much. that seems to really truck
also the player base limited knowkedge of it is not helping
Honestly its probably just fortified thats kicking your ass
But yeah pretty much every group you pull has at least one mob that does massive damage so you kind of always feel on your toes dodging the cones
If you struggling on warrior in FH. Something is a miss.
Freehold was literally designed for PWar.
FH makes me feel nervous, its too open. I have dwarven sensibilities
I rather prefer to fight in tunnels
It has a few things that hurt if you stand in them, the real danger is the shooty dudes in the first area all targeting the same character at once and giving you some rng corpses
i LOVE FH
could do that dungeon in my sleep, loved it in BFA and still love it now
are you CC'ing the mobs that need to be CC'd?
for me the only time i have trouble is when people butt pull 50 packs or the last group of mobs after the bridge is hit or miss in pugs
freehold's now my favourite one to tank as a warrior it's the BEST, though it deffo took me a bit of practice- the first week of fortified/bolstering annihilated me
halls of infusion however
i will never time that beast
yeah sure I got you
it's ok I got a 415 weapon 😔
Not for a tank, tank I think only gets hurt from oiled blade boys in the end
All danger before that is frost bolts+blasts blind rage and enforcer aoe
Other than that trash just melee's you which you have a perfect tool for
if you pull a big boy with a harpooner it's important to stun the harpooner when he does the aoe
same if you pull a pack into the second boss
stun the harpooner when the big boy/boss does aoe
and it can be good to kick painful motivation in the last pack so the enforcer doesn't oneshot the group with shout
and reflect oiled blade
can you still block whilst channeling beacon?
i feel i just get decimated every time i use it in m+
no you cannot
cc or pop a deffensive beforehand
Ez aggro
yes
best snap threat tbh
freehold is the easiest and best dungeon of all times
for a wide variety of reasons
https://mplus.subcreation.net/
how many people agree with this Dungeon Ease Tier List? it seems kinda odd to me 🤔
Subcreation provides statistical analysis of Mythic+ dungeons, Raids, and PvP in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and provides summaries of the top talents, gear, enchants, and gems used in Mythic+ and Raids.
feel like Uldaman is by far the worst one... the bosses are hard, the trash is insanely hard as well
but the tier list might be based on 24-25 ?

Actually says in the subheading. 21-27s - so kinda top keys and specific to this weeks affixes which might change things from week to week.
yea but still on 21 it shouldnt be much much different from the 18-21 that im doing
but i guess it changes a bit after doing 24 and higher
but idk maybe just Uldaman is way easier if you build the grp for it
18 is absolutely not comparable to 21+.
I feel 22s is already a completely different story than 20s. Stuff you kinda get away with in 20s just insta brick your keys if you don't pay attention.
yea the curve is likely steep from 22+, but 21 seems very much the same as a 20
and i guess its just in VP theres not a lot of decisions on where to double pull etc without having an insanely hard time
Also, remember this is a tier list for keys for all classes. Not specific to you as a prot warrior.
Your personal tier list can (and probably will) most likely be different.
ULD is potentially unpleasant for pwar b/c reasons - while VP can be very tough on healer and DPS and more likely to be bricked.
yea
just feels like VP is a very ZZZ dungeon with just a W route, and changes if you wanna push higher are likely not easy
i dont even know what you would change in VP routing for a better high push, like theres not rly any good stealth spots is there?
can only really skip the 2nd storm dragon in vp and pick up everything else, dragon just takes ages to kill faster to sneak past it and pull both packs of assasins either side of the first storm dragon but youll be 2% over count doing it but overall when we have done it works slightly faster than sat killing the dragon
Easiest to hardest this week out of NL, ulda, hoi? +17-20 range.
Nl>uld>hoi
Oh cool some1 just charged article. Thanks!
Nl easiest, right?
Imo yeah
Agreed. Was curious if anyone else is struggling to time ulda lol
What’s the best way to pull the gnashers in the water in NL?
lair has a ton of dmg in it
dps will die alot on 15-20 fort keys
cave ins, geode, grub, green rock dudes, scorpions, tons of crap to kill ppl in there
so many ppl die to cave ins
I would also die if I got a falling rock on my head
just did a 20 VP and felt majorly squishy with R druid
usually issues were on pull
like they couldnt respond to incoming dam on time, and I was trying really hard to make sure I had at least 1 defensive up going into a pull
but their numbers were high
idk
on some pulls both of us were healing 75K HPS lol
who would have though this from prot warr
are their certain healers we tend to do better or worse with
Rdruid should be sending iron bark on pull/while you’re grouping
Either jump in and HT+taunt the far ones, leap back. Or just tell the ranged to fish 
What else is he gonna use it on for fort week anyway
If you’re properly lifebloomed and ironbarked while pulling there should be 0 issues
i dont think he was ever ironbarking me
lmc
ok imn thinking of barksin which is their own personal right
They got both 
That looks more or less correct
Show auras
Like really bad 
yea same from the first area
where we were really wiping
only 1 cast
but it lasts 12 seconds there
And there’s some strafing walking/jumping you can do to avoid back hits while pulling
ig maybe I died 4 seconds in on the first one i showed
or somethjing
and he said to me "ypu need to use your defensives better tank
and i was pretty embarasssed cuz hes probably partially right
There’s a lot of nuance pwar can use
and also I don't have these issues normally haha
Dstance weaving/ ravager throwing mid charge/ good LS/iv usage
grouping the first area is def sketchy to me
Also health pots
yea
on CD with thos this week haha
when i posted logs last week someone criticzed my overlap of last stand wih other stuff
saying I was overkilling my defensive CDs, but I have been pressing last stand on CD Basically as an offensive thing isn that what we should do with 4 set
Ahoy.
Is Freehold generally I a DMG heavy dungeon on Addweek or am I just bad? Attempted a 21 today and got hardgimped a few times. Especially the second to last pack right after the bridge to last boss. Anybody have any pointers for me maybe? Thx
That packs fucks
With pugs it is easily a lust angle
Ideally a death log would help decipher the exact issues you were having
Sadly can't provide that I wasn't really expecting that hard of fisting 😂
Log every run is my advice
Yeah good shout
i think with that post bridge pack its generally worth jst killing the 2 on the bridge first
then sending everything with the pat and the side pack
anyone on NA had trouble connecting to wow
seems to be my internet in general, but i figured id ask
not today
I'll give that a shot next time. It's really finicky anyway I guess. Not much space and the pat really adds to the pain I feel
also there are a lot of weird LOS issues in that area
You fight him by the wood docks that overhang the path you walk to get to that boss zone- tucked all the way in the back by the gold piles
for healer
Thanks!
auras on details show buffs recieved by the player so that means he casted ironnbark on himself once
if you want to see how many times in total check cooldowns tab or if thats not tracking it you need to go thorugh auras on all palyer
Shadowed Impact Buckler = really bad?
i want the first craft bonus but if its awful ill just use an old spark on a dumpster alt xd
Thx I'll look into that. Much appreciated
ill old spark craft it for the transmog
the stats on it are ass for us and im not sure if the effect is worth it
thats buffs on him, he used it once on himself, it doesnt mean he didn't use it on other people, you would have to check buffs uptime on other ppl in group, but its easier to just check in logs in casts tab 🙂
one thing i will say about "easiest dungeon" discussion
is that its partly baseds on the loot thats in there too
you put shiny object in there, it means more people are gunna farm it on repeat en masse to get shiny item, and meta appears and it's now "easy" cuz everyone knows how you do the farm
are u sure about that? i cant find it at all in buff uptimes. I did look at "cooldowns" and see him using it 6 times all dungeon
"auras" tab you showed previously is for checking buffs uptime on specific character, 1 there was just showing that he used it once on himself, the one that you check now is i guess indeed CDs uses so looks like he used it 6 times, which of one was on himself according to auras tab you showed on previous screenshot
Ok moral of the story then is i dont have to be scared of VP ig then haha
with cheat gear im 437 now, need to wait till next catalyst for chest which is 4/4
Are planning on crafting anything to 447?
i have to do 16s to do that and to get my uh.... 4 hero pieces to 441
so i got 4 heros to do once with aspect, and then, 4 crafteds from 437 to 447
thats 25 timed 16's for me
20 neltharus, overtime. anyone who wants to fuck my shit up, let me have it. never really had anyone else look at my logs, so I probably do a lot of silly shit without realizing.
I remember seeing a good video during Shadowlands, explaining what to look for in a log to check one's own performance, made by @strong forum iirc ? Is it still availble and up-to-date ?
I don't think @craggy pilot meant they chunk him but his group.
You need stuns, AOE stops etc. And then blast. If you don't have, consider going left. There's no 3 balls pull in there.
I've started just going left lol. They constantly all blast a single target and there's no outhealing that so I don't bother
how much of a scrub am I if I use this macro?
#showtooltip Shield Slam
/cast Shield Block
/cast Shield Slam
ah ye left is good call tbh
but no death skip
i do early stuns on the cast right? cus its channel dmg not insta dmg?
but idk, this run we did mark one and insta kill that one
helped a lot
guilty
thats kind of scrubby behaviour
Unfortunately the apparati have trusight so no skip
But they dont cast on the tank so why are we talking about spellblocl? For when the group inevitably wipes and they're all 3 casting on u ? 😆
Boys at what point do we drop the onyx ring?
if at all
I've got a 444 version of the ring from halls and the one from freehold
When the nerf goes live ig or be like me and never get it. You dont have to drop it if u never got it
🧠🧠🧠
true and fair
it just makes prot warrior so easy tho 😦
woo 424 forgestorm
was helping a buddy that returned, and as it were it finally dropped for me
i need 700 stones, for 2h weapon to 437, then im done with farming stones
Don't think it's scrubby at all. I tag shield slam on a lot of shit off gcd. I came to slam, so welcome to the jam.
@jagged pier did that iirc
any decent vids for going through logs?
I removed the vid link from my copy pasta
Cause its like an expansion out of date but meh can re link there just more to look for nowadays and more to say in the overall of 'logs' and understanding what your looking out mostly due to more talent points etc
I can still link if ppl want but it is a bit out of date i guess it shows the quick things to look at
jeez the Runic Protector in Uldaman
new jakey vid
this pull in Uldaman, would you split that in Fort?
like the bleed is just insane
but if i do 1 at a time, i can just outrange it perma
go work
one is easier, can do both if you are good in ranging the bleed
man i feel Uldaman is a dungeon for my Festering Splinter, ran out of defensives for the Runic Protector real fast
Honestly this always felt like a bad idea to me, it's pretty hard to miss a SS proc, SB is usually used off cadence with the GCD (Unless you're a clicker then I guess you need all the help you can get) and I'd rather be more in control of my GCD and not accidentally trigger one when I intended to go for a stun/CC and possibly miss kicking a cast
New @jagged pier vid would be FIRE
Please no 😦
yeah I wouldn't recommend it either, as sometimes you may not want to use the rage on a shield block if only taking spell damage
Jakey, Jakey, Jakey, Jakey!
Jakeypoo stream when?
Pretty new player and still have to figure out how to sim so apologies for the question. I have all 437 /441 gear currently. If I get a 441 with secondary stats downgrade like haste/vers to vers/mastery, is it still best to take the ilevel (on average)?
Looking at stat priority it says ilevel>haste>vers=crit but not sure if that’s applicable at last upgrade from 437 to 441
Lol
BH just before 3rd boss, I was told the pack with 1 hunter and 4 hyenas was skippable, anyone knows how ? (other than invi pot)
I ran NL a few times today. Not sure if I got lucky with groups but the timer seems free
depends how good your group is at killing adds and standing behind everything
Yeah ilevel is bis
Thanks!
Unless it’s rings or trinket is where it gets messy
Ill think about it
Not sure what happened but high keys are seeming so much easier currently. Maybe shield from 437 to 447 makes a bigger difference than I thought?
10 ilvls on a shield is pretty real but you’re probably just getting better
Are there some pieces that make a significant difference with survivability like that? Or is ilevel ilevel.
just walk up the cliff to the left and walk past it
zero haste first criit second necks MADGE
depends what you mean by high keys, but ya you're probably just getting better
do more practice in keys get better (shocking!)
especially as tank the biggest noticeable diff is just when someone is actually prepared for a pack that will hit hard
and cds appropriately
Nah, I actually chain these two into the third Refti Custodian (don't rush down, stutter step with the two inital guys). Just gotta be quick on your feet to never eat a bleed. But if you do accidentally, pop SW right away and make sure not to get a second.
you're a madlad
Why? 🙃
Oh just because you've got a lot more balls than me going for that pull
tho tbh I'm pretty burnt on uld since last night, I think I had 1 run in 3 hours where I wasn't either first or second on DPS
haven't played protw since bfa
is not taking devastator a big loss? st rotation feels really empty (maybe changes at higher gear/with tier?) and I miss spamming it
you use revenge in place of devastate, you should never let a gcd be wasted as prot
then you spam thunderclap/revenge to proc shield slam resets
sounds like youre doing something wrong in priority
That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone actually want to play devestate
By all means my good man
I skip the first two then pull all 3
it's not optimal but i usually do the first pack alone then the next two snakes together when pugging- it's worth taking it slow if you're not sure if the group can kill one of the snakes before you get to the third
It's actually not that scary once you figure this pack out. They are very susceptible to stuns, so shockwave once all together goes a long way. Otherwise, just outrange their bleed which is rather easy as they don't move while they cast it. As warrior you can just charge back in for extra rage. Rinse and repeat till deadge.
When I started playing pwar I liked devastate because it was another button to press and seemed like a good idea at the time
It's very rare these days that I don't have any buttons to press. I think it only happens in two scenarios:
- I'm not close to boss/mobs to generate rage/play rotation correctly
- I fcked up pretty bad on my rotational abilities and rage starved myself
Yeah I definitely don’t want any more buttons to press
is the 2nd pack of Ticks skippable in Underrot?
You can walk past the ticks
Without going to the right side
Just hug the pillar on the left side
oh
never had issue with ticks, and did +21 last week 🤔 but idk if its just good grp stun chaining them or what
today i got like 16 stacks of the bleed insta
what exta % should i take then hmm, the 3 lashers?
I would take them out of the route, its a waste of resources
Theres also the chance that someone walks too far and puts the pat or the pack on the right
I avoid the ticks they can mess up the group but other people inevitably pull them so be prepared to pick them up
yea but what to replace with? 3 lashers or 1 faceless corrupter?
Don't pull fortified ticks, you 100% cannot do them in high keys
I pull that 1 faceless on top of the skelies and the worm, its only avoid frontal and kick work type of pack
They will wipe your entire group minus you
Yah ticks just a bad play
ticks are really, really efficient count
but they will straight up oneshot your entire group at around 22+ even if you have major group defensives
And if you're doing lower than that your healer is no shot prepared at all and it'll still chunk everyone down to 5-10%
... with bursting existing
And other mobs
I would suggest if you really want to pull ticks, to consider having a frost mage in your grp, if you want to come with extra count, pulling the bats that are flying to the right of the 2nd skeleton pack is not a bad idea
Hell no
You avoid all bloodswarmers as much as possible
they are terrifying even on tyr and cause the highest amount of variance in the key
this is the standard pug route, it's at 96.88%
To get the remaining count you must either pull the 3 lasher pack or 2 worms or 1 extra giant
Giant into 13 is efficient, skipping 14 worm with shroud is efficient, you can also skip 12 by pulling the giant
worms = inefficient
giants = actually really efficient
I cant recall what bloodswarmers did, I've pulled them a few times with skeletons and as long as you kick them its fine, it was a regular pull back in bfa, but again, I have 0 idea what they do
They fixate on random people and jump on them
If you do any high keys they will 2 shot cloth rdps
Aka your mage
That freezes except the bloodswarmer literally jumps on them and two shots them
And even if they didn't do that all of your rdps need to lose a bunch of dps running around in circles kiting them
ofc as a tank you don't pay attention to this but bloodswarmers are what dictate your pace of pulling around Cragmaw
how you guys are dealing with piercing shards in NL seems to hit me hard even with cd up
Ah, they are the same as the spiders, I call those others next to your pull 9 bats, but they are the same thing
*dogs
That's definitely a dog
bat
it has wings and it flies a bit
that thing is a spider and a bat made a baby and thats the result
so do flying squirrel, you dont see us calling them avians now do you
bird actually
Anyway UR is like the most straightforward route
don't think any pug tank really deviates from this
Except for the dumbass dogshit ones that go left after cragmaw for some reason
Really a hold w key
it's so they can jump over the wall and avoid the casters that will never get pulled during the encounter with the boss with pugs 
You need the count so you go right
Because worms are more inefficient than a discord argument
Actually i have a dumb question, whats the actual aggro range of cragmaw? Im always so fucking hesitant doing my pulls around him
7.5 yds
You have to walk really close, but in my experience, its always a druid that pull it
Actually I don't know because no one knows that shit
oh wow thats tiny
Just pull shit
pull it for me
the hardest skill of them all
If you've ever looked with your eyeballs you can tell there's a decent bit of a distance between him and all the trash
practice the key more so you find out for yourself
And if you pull him don't freak out just heroic leap back towards first boss
He's quite easy to reset
oh thats good to know
Honestly ive been avoiding UR like the plague, so my experience is like 90% what I vaguely remember from bfa and even then I was a coward and hugged the walls doing my pulls lol
Do a BfA route ain't no one gonna care
literally have not seen a single person bitch about tank route in keys this season
even when it's dogshit
Because 99% of non-tanks don't know routes lol
just pull with confidence and don't instantly die when you charge in
no one bitches about tank routes you just psych yourself up in your mind
and 100% of the time they think they do
"pull bigger" says one our dps when we are already struggling to keep a-float on baby pulls due to healer
That's true enough, I honestly haven't had a single bad experience this xpac, it's nothing but wholesome ass friendly players
or you're doing some like +11 where nothing anyone says matters
No I mean I definitely bitch about tank routes in my head or in discord
But it's a pug who cares
that was the key that i think is my fastest to date, was an 11 or 12 lair in 13:XX
Will literally never see you again if you pull badly
Any RouteLord that gives me shit, I immediately cease the run and converse with the individual
I try to understand them
And learn
i only pully like a bitch when there appears to be a reason
No let's not do this again
you do NOT need to DM every single person who declines you from their key and ask why
please
that is psycho behavior
Lol
I do that only sometimes
I remember that
But during the key
I was like wtf

That's childish af
And converse with them at that time and place
thats pathetic behavior tbh
I must do it
damn even yogi is flaming you for this one
reeks of im not confident
In order to learn
taking a big L on this one chief
You think they're disrespecting you because they don't agree with your route
jordan should I gear my hpally or my healing priest? i only value your opinion and not my own (i have no opinion)
Grow TF up
i tried playing my bear and I really do not enjoy it
Because of YOUR ego
I can't blame you, some dps literally stop playing just to chat for 15 mins about how they are the next imfireup or jpc, I wouldnt do it, but I understand why you'd do it
I always must attain more knowledge
No, it’s the opposite. I encounter and crave knowledge and i must learn more
So if someone wants to share it
I have to in that moment learn
Otherwise I cannot grasp it
im still only gunnna play warrior personally as main
Save that shit for the end of the key
This is the real always posting bait
not the watered down version we've had for a while
may i suggest that I think apb is just baiting 99% of the time and does not actually do anything he says he does
his name stands for Always Pe Baiting
post
post baiting
FUCK
it was right in front of me
master baiting
No, if they want to chime in during the key, I will at that time and place be open to what they have to say
Stop it
can I get some serious input on the hpally vs healer priest thing? my shaman is done and I need a 3rd alt
I’m serious though
Hpal
That's the problem
everyone is going hpal so go with priest
ok nice my pally has CM set so it's gonna look swag
I am able to take criticism, it is those of you who continue on and ignore them that actually is weak if you think about it
i don't ignore anyone, you can learn even from the stupid and vile
I learn the best in the moment when I actually have a conversation about what is occurring
i ignore the vast majority of chat within keys which is turning out to be a bad habit when I need to know when my tank wants lust on fort
😔
Just ask before the key starts
ez
it's usually just the 2nd or 3rd lust i missed it on
I also talk about it before key starts
Why put off until later that which can be done now
Or I bring a DPS to just send it via discord vc
I've learned to ignore details for the past year and a half, watching others perform was tilting me more than depleting a key
was doing a fh21 on wednesday and 30s into a double pull before 2nd boss I saw the tank typed lust
hell no, i never played a lust class before, and i don't intend to start
Bro are you ignorant
and i was like oops
Are you missing the key thing I've said 5 times now?
Listen if someone calls me out I must confront what is said and have the opportunity to rebut
No
i let bloodlust ppl do blood lust things
Ya
Time
???
Because someone questioned your route
Who said that what
I've said it multiple times
I do cease any and all activity in certain cases yes. In order to learn more
Bruh, I thought you had a table and chair toy and you sat to talk with the dps
step it up
Knowledge is most important thing there is
This is demon behavior
don't give him any ideas, he's going to incorporate this into the next bait
You can acquire knowledge after the key is over
Gonna have to agree here
Nothing else matters
THIS
No
it's 100% baiting because he's bored on discord
apb the psycho that messages a girl every day after she rejects him
I’m not baiting, if there is an issue with the route I need to attain it as soon as possible
The knowledge about what is wrong
If that's true you should record your runs and review them later.
I can’t correct it until I understand it
You don't have to obtain it mid key
it is fiction.
Yah sometimes I do though
No you don't
I do in certain cases
You think you do
Because stopping in the middle of a run to converse with someone that criticizes your route is insanity
it never happened
Ignore the fuck and move on
waste of time
With newfound knowledge
sometimes the less you think about MDT and look at MDT the better you do in your key
You can't correct something you already pulled you idiot
in a timed environment
In other news I've been having so much fun with D4 Druid, the boulder skill makes me lmao every.single.time. 
Yes saved until after the key
cuz you don't have the image onf this one guyt like ii'll use the green rock men and cave in bastards in lair around boss 2
You can learn after the key
and you get paranoid oh fuck hes got this spell its gunna wipe us
AND THEN IT HAPPENS
If someone has knowledge that I do not possess it’s actually wrong to not learn it though
I’d be doing a disservice
and your left with negative emotions about it
You're wasting the time when you could ask after the timer is stopped
No one is saying don't learn
Yeah but not everyone learns the same way
I learn best in the true “heat of the moment”
this is literally the same bait argument that happened last time when he said he whispers all group leads
I do
it's not real
i only ever chased down like 2 or 3 people
If I qualified for a group I’d like to know why I was declined
asking them why they left key early or some shit
Y'all are masochist but I always enjoy these conversations
If this is a bait I'm not sure if that's any better
Then you need a therapist.
Just to learn
it was back in BFA and this was before i knew about this discord
I mean I like to hear why they declined me if I feel I am meeting g requirements
and i don't recall the scenario, but i ran this key and the guy left long story short
They don’t always respond
I’m not baiting
so i messaged him say wtf did i do wrong cuz he said i was doing it wrong.
I watched a dude on EU streaming and he messaged every group leader saying some variation of "big pp"

after that i stopped doing it people would block me and whatever
someone applied to my group earlier with the message "i will smash dps more than wow has smashed our social lives" and I thought it was amusing
he also had 0 timed 20s so i declined him tho...
healer would get mad that i didn't do X mechanic and block me for whatever reason
That is true also sometimes gotta do what ya gotta do
big PP meta works
I decline anyone who messages me tbh
Hi, I'm apb. You might remember me from such films as "What Timer?" "You Think You Can Decline Me?" and "Whose Route is this Anyway?"
im telling you this, if someone as thier opener comes at you with hostility of any kind and you never spoke to that person
the knowledge is how far you can bait people into thinking this is real
before they realize it's not
immediately block them and never think about them again
I mean you can believe what you want
the current world record any% is 20 minutes
not if they say fuck off, but if they are legit angry or you have to do my way or else
same
Anyway, tank egos are fragile and that's why no one bitches about tank routes even if you do the most demon terrible route known to man
Lol
exhibit A:
Listen it’s not like everyone
But sometimes I wanna know
I guess I can never know
i tend to be more poker face social in keysr
You actually did that well apb
hello when i join OMW when i travel who needs summons, GG TY at the end
Lined that up nicely with Kanga's message
every key
Yes perfect timing lmao
🧢
i would like to know what nomer thinks about the current discussion
Fuk routelords. Gonna get that tatted on me
being on the search for a tank that doesn't instantly crack when you say "hey next time we do this key could you press cds when the wardens blazing slash" is like finding a diamond in a haystack 🙂
but seems like hes busy and can only watch on 2nd/3rd monitor
"Always W" that's what I would get tatted
If i could get a tatoo it would say hold W
Bro, one of two things are true right now:
- this was all a bait
- this wasn't a bait, you do this demon behavior because you're secretly a serial killer in training so you won't stop until you literally show up at someone's house to ask why they declined you then whack them with an axe
Jabeted mon
P O P C O R N
Tobias Rieper
I will do better
i think you should live your life tbh
but next time use one of the picnic basket toys when you sit down and have a conversation with your dps
that way everyone can feel cozy and welcomed
I will admit I sometimes phrase things poorly
I agree the end of the dungeon is the better place for criticism I suppose
HERES apb
Apb you're like that guy in the heroic raid a couple weeks ago when I won Anvil.
Rogue - "I'll give you 200k gold"
Me - "Nope"
Rogue - "Just nope?"
"No sorry?"
"Learn manners f**"
LOLwtf
Powerful
I shouldn't say you're like him this conversation just reminded me of him.
I only got one whisper when I won rashoks on my shaman
Lol
If you're not offering feet pics, you're not even trying, and you don't deserve my sympathy.
Like I'm not gonna apologize for winning a dice roll.
And I'm certainly not gonna apologize if well I'm not sorry.
I may or may not of bought eranogg ring with gold LOL
all pug egos are fragile
I just stay dead silent for the entirety of the run
The only way to know that is to have pugged yourself, so you call your own ego fragile
any word, any smileyface can lead to someone leaving
🤔
I will admit yeah sometimes I get triggered I am only human
Triggered by what
that's when you hit them with the ellipsis
and uf wipe happens you should res and heroic leap forward
You know you're in a group with me if you randomly start seeing someone type "..."
it happened to me like yesterday when i was helping out a friend and a apug turned away and moved towards the exit in vp
and here i come bounding stride and shit
I just don't say anything. There's no reason to encourage any sort of conversation. Just do it again or whatever.
yea
Yeah just talk shit about them in discords or twitter.
Exactly
the exception is when ur doing weekly which might be untimed yo ushould ask if theyre fine with it
Does that actually work
Work in what way?

