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round pendant
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left side is still the same?

warm plinth
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Yeah

round pendant
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I just got my 4 set today so now I gotta get it in my muscle memory to spam last stand

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lmao

warm plinth
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lol

sick sentinel
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should i play stalker?

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im not sure if its .. good game or not

toxic pewter
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I’m usually against a lot of macros but I did put last stand and avatar together

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Seems to generally work pretty well for me so far

round pendant
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nah I won't be doing that I'll just press last stand more often as it's already in a comfy spot

toxic pewter
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Do most of you guys keep last stand separate keybind

warm plinth
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Yep

toxic pewter
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Maybe will consider unmacroing it

warm plinth
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Theoretically you could keep it macroed if you're tracking the CD, and just make you press the macro when it's off CD, even if Ava isn't

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I do that with on-use trinkets that have mismatching CDs

toxic pewter
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Yah I do keep it tracked

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I won’t lie avatar and last stand often are on similar cooldowns or pretty close so I just save a button tap

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At least like every other avatar I mean

graceful kite
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stalker is all about atmosphere story is just pure trash

sick sentinel
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a shit post boss or game can still be good

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look at x slayers

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its stupid but its lovable

graceful kite
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wdym post boss

sick sentinel
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yes really

glass nacelle
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So i have a question. Whats our haste cap?

graceful kite
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40%

glass nacelle
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is that without into the fray or with it?

graceful kite
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Without

sick sentinel
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% like that and blood lust don't factor in

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same for crit to parry

glass nacelle
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so crit is 40 cap?

modern brook
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I mean that's also not true but whatever

warm plinth
sick sentinel
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ya, 40 is where u stop going after haste, is no longer worth it

glass nacelle
sick sentinel
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40 from stats

warm plinth
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Yes you need to actually hover over the stat.

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And read the tooltip

glass nacelle
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its 32.61%

warm plinth
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So you got 7% to go before you need to worry

glass nacelle
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okay

sick sentinel
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right, but hover over so it displays a haste amount

warm plinth
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btw, FYI to everyone, the 2nd DR actually kicks in at 39%, not 40

toxic pewter
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What the most haste someone can get with buffs and everything

warm plinth
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no idea

sick sentinel
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i got 42% from stats with a flask haste proc

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don't also have wafting, put on sophic instead, did have wafting for a while

lusty grotto
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should we have a pin for the whats our haste cap question? its 7100 rating, its unatainable, never stop getting haste. End of story.

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alright who wants to tank my alt's 20 FH

sick sentinel
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i neverthought i'd be running undersuck sanguine again

lusty grotto
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lets go

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listen porkky...

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i would but im not convinced

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just put "toxichip" in the application thingie

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i tried

thin phoenix
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question, is avoidance or leech better for tanks?

lusty grotto
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leech

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avoidance does nothing for tanks

thin phoenix
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figured

sick sentinel
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its not it does nothing, but its generally really bad

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its versa for fire cricles on the ground tldr

lusty grotto
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no

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its not

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its aoe dmg not avoidable dmg

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versa is better than avoidance

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by a wide margin

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simply because it applies to everything and not just aoe like avoidance

sick sentinel
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ya, it has a narrow window of targets it can "avoid"

lusty grotto
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sure

sick sentinel
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and the effect is so little its not worth

warm plinth
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Okay what is this

cinder nova
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🤔 ...why the hell is static emp the default for the api?

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Seems like simbait

lusty grotto
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APL and API are 2 different things btw

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but we get what youre saying

warm plinth
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Avoidance isn't a bad stat. Vers is not better than avoidance (they aren't even the same kind of stat so why would you compare them?). The reason you generally take leech over avoidance is because the things we take a lot of damage from are generally single target and thus not affected by avoidance, so the healing is preferable to the limited reduction. This also only applies to this season as different dungeons have different damage patterns. Next season, avoidance could be incredible. We don't know.

cinder nova
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it also doesn't seem to indicate what weapon consume it uses

lusty grotto
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god fucking damn it ghash

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you took 2 hours to type that

warm plinth
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I got halfway through and decided I wanted to reword it

lusty grotto
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he didnt ask for an in depth discussion

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the truth is, avoidance usually goes for more DR per point than vers does

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that's the one point i would make

warm plinth
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I wasn't even typing it for him. I was typing it because "avoidance does nothing for tanks" is factually incorrect.

lusty grotto
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but honestly i didnt think there's a reason to discuss it

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situational DR per point, but still more

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yeah yeah i knew you were gonna nitpick it

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ill be more careful with my wording

warm plinth
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I wasn't nitpicking. I was correcting an incorrect statement.

cinder nova
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Am I stupid where is the weapon consume

lusty grotto
warm plinth
lusty grotto
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im hurt

cinder nova
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Genuine question - why is static the default

warm plinth
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I have no idea

cinder nova
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I thought tepid vers was our best

warm plinth
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SAme reason I have no idea why Eye in the storm doesn't even exist in sims

cinder nova
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Also, serious question, how much DPS is a full chromatic stack?

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Like, raid DPS

warm plinth
lusty grotto
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anyway APL questions should go to Nome/Mwahi and Mooo etc

cinder nova
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Because I lose about 2.5K+ DPS and something tells me that a bunch of secondaries aren't gonna make that difference unless it's hitting someone's breakpoints

warm plinth
cinder nova
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That's why I said a full stack.

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All 5 covered

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Is there a general approximate raid DPS gain from a 5-stack essence?

lusty grotto
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what do you mean by raid dps

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are you referring to your personal dps while in a raid?

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or by the group's dps?

cinder nova
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Raid DPS as in the raid's DPS.

lusty grotto
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ok so your group's dps

cinder nova
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You don't look at individual damage to see if you got the throughput to kill a boss, you look at the raid's DPS.

lusty grotto
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or raid group, rather

cinder nova
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If I'm losing 2500 DPS and we get a net gain of less than that

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Me using this is actually a downgrade across the board

warm plinth
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Right but it still depends on how many people in the raid have the trinket beyond the 5 flights being covered because the more people with it, the more people who are gaining stats from it. If you have all 5 covered and you're providing one of them, then it's worth using.

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I can't give you an exact answer of how much DPS it is

cinder nova
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I keep hearing that, but without numbers I'm having a hard time believing it. Generally, as far as I'm aware, we have the minimum 5 players using it.

warm plinth
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Because there are tons of variables.

lusty grotto
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yeah

cinder nova
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There's gotta be a way to quantify it.

warm plinth
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The specs of your raid group would impact it a lot as some specs get a ton more out of stats than others.

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You could but it would take a lot of work. You'd have to have everyone with the trinket in your raid group sim vs the trinket they'd use if they weren't using OCE

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And add it all up, gains and losses

lusty grotto
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and then add it all up somehow

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and its still extremely highly variable

thin phoenix
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seems good to be the teamplayer anywho

cinder nova
thin phoenix
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not like tanks need thatttt many stats to do their job

cinder nova
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It's not about tanks.

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It's about damage.

warm plinth
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I mean, you can, if you're sure everyone has their proper gear/talents on the armory

cinder nova
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I can probably just hassle them to send me a /simC of their ST setup.

warm plinth
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Or you'd have to get a simc string from them with the proper shit on

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I can tell you right now it's going to be more than 2500 DPS gain though

lusty grotto
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and also keep in mind that their classes APLs might not be correct, etc

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imo its kinda pointless, but i guess its a good time-waster

cinder nova
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Do some of the specs just get absolutely outrageous value out of it?

lusty grotto
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its just a lot more people vs 1

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X more, depending on whos using it

warm plinth
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Some specs get absolutely insane value out of stats (relatively). Outlaw rogues, frost mages, BM hunters, etc. I don't know all of the specs but those are the 3 I know off the top of my head.

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Any spec that replaces annulet with a slightly higher stat ring basically

south zealot
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almost every spec does that lol

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well like half are slightly and the other half are like 15-20

warm plinth
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Not in single target

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And yeah, I'm not talking about 15-20 ilevel. I'm talking about like...my hunter replaced annulet with a 428 ring with stats

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That's how much BM likes stats

cinder nova
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Apparently we have 7

PWarr
UDK
Devoker x2
Fire
Enh
Fury

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I wish there was a way to just sim an entire raid's DPS keks

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Wouldn't it just be using class/spec APLs en masse?

warm plinth
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It would, yes. But it would also take quite a bit of processing power if thousands of people are doing it

lusty grotto
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you say that like its not process consuming

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raidbots will certainly not do it

warm plinth
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Because it'd be 1 person simming 20 people at once

lusty grotto
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you'd have to do it by yourself

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this is a very niche case also

cinder nova
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I'm aware. More people than necessary would be using it for something they probably would overfixate on.

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Making it both niche and misleading.

warm plinth
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You're both niche and misleading

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gottem

cinder nova
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Plus a lot of it would just be to see raw output, which a lot of fights just don't facilitate.

lusty grotto
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you could...

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well im just trying to think

warm plinth
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well to be fair that's sims in general

lusty grotto
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but out of logs

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you can probably csv export and manipulate over an existing log of a fight

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you'd have to power pivot the shit out of it

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and talking about it is making me PTSD, so fuck it ill stop

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cause i hate excel/sheets and CSVs with a passion

cinder nova
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Really? I've never had issue with them.

lusty grotto
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you must be an accountant

cinder nova
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Then again, the sheets I make are for end-user D&D crap held together with chewing gum and a prayer.

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Nah.

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Well...

lusty grotto
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well im a software eng, i fucking hate them

cinder nova
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I moonlight as the accountant for every party I run with 🫠

lusty grotto
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and i wish they all burn to the ground forever

cinder nova
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Since nobody keeps track of loot or valuables.

lusty grotto
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anyway its just an idea

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like a recent fight where you all have OCEs

cinder nova
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Honestly most of my experience with excel isn't even built out over a mastery of the software. It's just like a stack overflow copy-paste behavior from sheets I've read, cannibalized stuff from, and then learned how they behave from some fucked up kind of osmosis.

lusty grotto
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but the problem there is you dont know how much dps is added, which is what you're trying to find out

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so its probably not a good idea lmao

cinder nova
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So it's like a quilt made from weird shit outta hobby lobby.

lusty grotto
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yeah that's not what im referring to haha

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its a good tool for good things, power processing is better done via python though honestly

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power pivoting is just ass

cinder nova
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How dirty would the napkinmath be if I just scraped bloodmallet

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Would it be so blindly out of whack to be useless, or would it at least give a very rough approximation

lusty grotto
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honestly just sim the 7 people

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with and without

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since OCE, but i could be wrong here, only affects those people that have OCE themselves

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if you have 7, though

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there are repeated flights no?

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and they can only benefit once per flight

cinder nova
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Correct, but it's more people off-setting any "lost" DPS from BIS trinkets.

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Some classes, it seems, want OCE as BIS

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As long as they get the right flight and have the rest of the group to fill it out.

lusty grotto
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yeah i understand

daring marlin
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idol was cooler

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idgaf

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icon even

lusty grotto
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lol i called it idol a lot as well

daring marlin
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we're a couple of big dummy heads tbh

sick sentinel
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hide behind rock prevailing tactic for survival for many years

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This is why I play protection warrior

cinder nova
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During M Rashok I'll take Flaming Slash and twice I've seen that I have like 160-180K of IP but post-slash it doesn't even move.

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Is the aura for my IP just not updating fast enough?

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I kinda assume that's what it is. I haven't dug through logs yet.

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@strong forum Dunno if you're lucid, but I realized that I'm using the IP in your pack - you seen this before?

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Big hits cleaning out IP but not updating it?

lusty grotto
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you mean Marok's?

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the one that's pinned

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last message

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thats the one Nome's use

cinder nova
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No idea.

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Probably?

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Either way I'm noticing some weird shit and with bit slaps like M Rash it makes me skittish

lusty grotto
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not probably, it is

cinder nova
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If you say so, I currently do not have the luxury to poke through, just sending inquiries between pulls

lusty grotto
daring marlin
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How is raid finder for aberrus?

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I sorta wanna do it for the mog on an alt

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lmao

cinder nova
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idk probably about as clownshoes as every LFR

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just do it 4hed

daring marlin
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yeah yeah yeah

cinder nova
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Do you think I need Splock for M Rash? 🤔

daring marlin
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58% of warriors take it, per WCL.

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

cinder nova
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I think Sense killed w/o it

daring marlin
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Sounds like something he'd do

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chad

cinder nova
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I think with the way my raid SoH is set up I might be able to just run it with wall, but during prog I think the Splock to take off heat near the last 20% is kinda big

frozen rose
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Foeks. Mythic zskarn. Tank swap stack amount?

lusty grotto
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starting to hate prot pallies with a passion on my alt

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non stop bads

stark saddle
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Anyone got a usefull t30 4pc weakaura?

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or atleast a nice looking one

orchid mural
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oops

lusty grotto
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more ddos shenanigans?

bright wagon
daring marlin
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but why tho

warm plinth
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what the fuck

proper roost
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🤔

thin phoenix
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What do you guys think about taking versatility on ominous trinket? Cause most classes won’t take it right?

thin phoenix
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No I mean us prot warrs xD.

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Would it be better than taking haste

lusty grotto
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absolutely fucking not

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have an rsham do it

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or ret

jagged gust
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Let me ask you a question, where does vers land in our stat priority?

lusty grotto
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have checked pins?

jagged gust
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If you can answer that then you have our answer

lusty grotto
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i see

jagged gust
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Should've @'d burning, sorry nim

lusty grotto
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no worries

south zealot
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if u have one in ur guild

thin phoenix
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Haha was just wondering. Tryna be a team player out here. Just did a lot of runs today where everyone had haste chosen

lusty grotto
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on a pug?

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fuck being a team player

thin phoenix
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Both pug and with guildies

jagged gust
thin phoenix
south zealot
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you want some of every stat so u can budget less vers in ur gear and choose to take vers

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vers actually sims the second highest for me on both warrior specs

jagged gust
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thats wild

thin phoenix
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Yeah my prot set weights were 3.0 crit, 2.97 haste, vers 2.81, mastery 2.7

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I got a pogstorm today and it was insane to see how it sims 3k dps higher than a same iL 1h

jagged gust
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Take forgestorm with a grain of salt, it averages nicely but in reality it can be anywhere from 2-7% of your total damage

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That being said it's still a poggers weapon

proper roost
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Also doesn't have stats

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it'll sim high ST but start dropping off hard on aoe

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due to the lack of scaling stats on it

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less str on an item is a big deal

thin phoenix
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Hmm that’s a good point. Wonder if I should just craft the 1h then

urban portal
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do NOT sim stat weights

warm plinth
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Raidbots even has a gigantic warning when you go to that page (and is also why it's hidden behind a drop down)

proper roost
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if you recraft a s1 item with a flavor pocket into s2, will it retain the flavor pocket?

lusty grotto
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yes

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i did it to my boots

toxic pewter
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stayed on my weapon also

sand hound
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Do i play in battle or D stance for fort keys primarily?

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doing +20s

proper roost
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alright dope

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just 1 time investment for each of my characters then

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assuming they do it the same in s3 ig 🤔

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err... and I want the flavor pocket on the same slot... heck

lusty grotto
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remember to dance correctly and swap back

sand hound
lusty grotto
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youre doing 20s

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youre supposed to know when big damage is coming

sand hound
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Except I don’t lol. I got lucky with gear in raid. My rogue is 2800 so I know the basics of pulling speed and efficiency. But still learning which mobs smushes more than others.

fresh igloo
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practice makes perfect

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there is no substitute for learning the keys

lusty grotto
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i mean the idea is you got that knowledge doing pre-20s but it is what it is

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just think about whats been hurting you and use it there

sand hound
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Idk 16s hurts a lot less than 20s

fresh igloo
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any big bleed from mobs during fort week? probably hurts. any big cast bar from a boss? probably hurts

fresh igloo
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is there something specific you're wondering about?

sand hound
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That’s what I’m getting at. Dude is like I should know but… 16s don’t hurt lol.

lusty grotto
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you still notice big chunks of hp dropping in lower keys

fresh igloo
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you can still see the proportions

lusty grotto
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they wont kill you

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or be anywhere near it

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but you still notice it

fresh igloo
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you can do M0 and see "oh I bet that's gonna hurt later"

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if you are playing well and your health bar doesn't move on a 16, and then suddenly it dips a bit

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that was an indicator

lusty grotto
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start with what you think will hurt then fine tune around it

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yeah exactly mac

sand hound
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I guess. Maybe I’m not looking that far into it since I’m new to tanking. I’m still learning. Even while I’m doing 20s @lusty grotto 🤪 even though I should know better?

lusty grotto
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learning never stops

fresh igloo
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practice makes perfect!

lusty grotto
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not even for us

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or even for mdi players

fresh igloo
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I've been playing this game for a long ass time man, I'm not even good, I just see patterns and try to adapt

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my little group of friends, our goals are just AOTC and portals. it takes time, but we get there. everyone has to learn each season tho

sand hound
proper roost
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the best way to stop improving in this game is to think that you (or anyone) played/plays perfectly

lusty grotto
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im not coming at you

fresh igloo
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no one coming at you

lusty grotto
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i said you should have an idea

proper roost
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there are so many microdecisions every single second in combat that people make mistakes all the time basically

fresh igloo
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it's just facts. you gotta play it. learn it. stance dance when it matters.

lusty grotto
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you mentioned 20s specifically

fresh igloo
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prot warrior discord doesn't bullshit you

proper roost
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the skill FLOOR for doing high keys as a tank is knowing when to cd

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if you're unsure which packs hit hard, because you haven't paid attention

lusty grotto
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smh

proper roost
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At a certain key level you will just start getting oneshot by them

toxic pewter
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I’ll tell u when to d stance

proper roost
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straight up

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It will be a straight up pass/fail

toxic pewter
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Just add me on discord as friend can monitor ur stream

proper roost
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you can get away, for a REALLY long time, without cding correctly

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even remotely so

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And then often new tanks will just hit a wall where they just never learned where to cd

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routing isn't even important this season because almost all the keys are just hold w

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But if you're not sure which packs hit hard, you are going to hit this wall. you need to pay attention in lower keys that a certain set of mobs or individual mob really fucked you up

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and it is definitely visible... you realize that everyone in here started doing low keys this season too, right

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No one started in 20+

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They learned what hit hard from their 17s and shit gearing up

lusty grotto
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he said he got lucky with raid gear

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so lower keys dont hurt

proper roost
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yeh, so he's hit the wall

fresh igloo
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i mean it's the same shit in any game, really. playing nightmare keys in diablo 4 rn. when knight penitent does the big wind up, or the fallen taskmaster does the over head move

proper roost
#

it's classic later in the season

fresh igloo
#

you lean to GTFO or you die

proper roost
#

when people get geared way faster than normal

lusty grotto
#

i dont think hes hit the wall honestly

sand hound
#

Yeah I geared with raid and like 11s for crests

fresh igloo
#

you have to respond to the cues, but you have to LEARN the cues

proper roost
#

maybe

#

i mean, thing is, i have seen so many new tanks just not press cds at all

#

or purely reactively when they're 20%, that's like the #1 thing

#

And then you're just dead anyway usually

lusty grotto
#

the correct way to play is to primarily be in battle stance, but if you're not sure, then fuck it go d-stance

proper roost
#

esp on pwar that doesn't really have great recovery cds

lusty grotto
#

and then again, fine tune around it

proper roost
#

it's way more* forgiving to play dumb reactive on something like bdk

sand hound
#

I just asked because I wasn’t in D stance for a specific pull in uldaman and got smushed and my group gave me hell for not staying in D stance always

proper roost
#

Well first of all don't listen to pugs

lusty grotto
#

well you shouldnt be

sand hound
#

And I thought I was supposed to primarily be in battle with swapping to d for hard pulls

lusty grotto
#

but you just found out where to be in d-stance

proper roost
#

Secondly, if a tank dies in a key it is pretty much entirely your fault

toxic pewter
#

Was it the basilisks

jagged gust
proper roost
#

so there's SOMETHING you can do better

toxic pewter
#

I think he said he played with friends

sand hound
proper roost
#

the answer of what that something is, is just not always clear

sand hound
#

After 3rd boss

toxic pewter
#

Oh ya those golems can mess u up

fresh igloo
#

I just timed my first +20 uld earlier tonight. I died. it happens. there's some really shitty damage in there on fort weeks.

sand hound
#

Yeah learned that lol

proper roost
#

Also that golem pull isn't dictated by tank hp pace

lusty grotto
#

well there you go

proper roost
#

it's dictated by group hp

lusty grotto
#

you just learned

fresh igloo
#

but that doesnt' mean you should be in d-stance the whole key lol

lusty grotto
#

but your group was wrong

proper roost
#

if you overpull that in a way that it kills the tank, it will like pretty much 2 shot the group

sand hound
#

That’s kinda what I thought but figured I’d ask y’all’s opinion

sand hound
toxic pewter
#

Now you know about the golem

#

That how you learn

sand hound
#

Yeah he fucks

lusty grotto
#

pretty sure hes not overpulling

#

im 90% sure hes talking about this one

fresh igloo
#

it's the fissure thing, right?

sand hound
#

100%

fresh igloo
#

that killed you?

toxic pewter
#

Honestly uldaman my personal most scary dungeon

fresh igloo
#

it trucks on fort week

sand hound
#

Yeah that pull

lusty grotto
#

again, now youve identified where to swap to dstance

fresh igloo
#

all the little dudes are doing decent damage, and then the golem fissure hit eats like most of your healthh

toxic pewter
#

there’s no shame popping d stance for that pull and any golems if you don’t los the others ones I guess

sand hound
#

And got yelled at for not living in d stance every dungeon on fort week lol

lusty grotto
#

and once again your group is wrong

#

uldaman can have a lot of points where you need to swap

toxic pewter
#

Fuk backseat tanking pugs

lusty grotto
#

especially when your group cant kick for shit, and/or you cant LoS

#

and/or you cant dwarf or stutter step bleeds

#

which is why

#

its listed in the pins

#

as a dungeon you go spell block on

proper roost
fresh igloo
toxic pewter
#

I run spell block for uldaman myself even I just find it helps smooth out a lot of the dwarf packs and final boss. Better on tyran but even fort I find uses for it

sand hound
lusty grotto
#

everyone (here in disc) runs spell block on it

fresh igloo
#

well there ya go

lusty grotto
#

thats why its pinned

fresh igloo
#

they don't know shit about what they're talking about lol

lusty grotto
fresh igloo
#

if you WANT to just do shitty tank DPS but be safer, you can be in d-stance all the time

#

but it's pointless

#

huge waste of damage output/time

#

our survival comes from good play.

proper roost
#

also tank damage is very substantial esp in uldaman where its constant aoe

#

and killing things faster = best damage reduction unironically

fresh igloo
#

yeah

#

and timing keys

sand hound
#

Well thanks for the advice guys. I know learning shit sometimes requires me to get smooshed and that was tonight lol. I’ll continue to staying in battle stance with continuing to learn where to swap to D.

fresh igloo
#

a general point of advice: back seat tanking is almost always wrong about the fix. they might be validly pointing out a PROBLEM but they don't usually know what the right answer actually is.

lusty grotto
#

well said

proper roost
#

the dstance swap is usually the last thing you want to do

fresh igloo
#

so take a step back and see how to make it make sense before you just go for whatever bullshit they are saying lol

proper roost
#

well

#

I guess kiting is the last thing you want to do

#

but dstance swap, outside of doing it for a couple singular busters, is generally not good

#

like you don't really use it as a "stance" (ironic, but w/e), think of it more like a shitty mini cd that reduces your damage done by 15%

#

for 3-xs (depending on how long you stay in it)

#

as a very basic example, if you take a blazing slash on Neltharus Wardens with no cd, it can be a good idea to dstance for the hit

#

but you immediately want to swap back to battle afterwards

#

And the value of doing the dstance there is not high and possibly worse than not having dstanced, provided you wouldn't have died

fresh igloo
#

gonna be 20% mitigation soon woo

#

not changing anything we do, just gravy DR when you need it lol

#

(for reals tho the +10 seconds on spell block feels great in nelth, i really appreciate that one)

jagged gust
#

it already is 20%, that was this last reset

warm plinth
#

Gosh Mac, keep up smh

fresh igloo
#

am slow confirmed

jagged gust
#

Regular dstance enjoyer over here

proper roost
#

dang was kinda burned out of keys lately but this has got me wanting to run a few more again LETSGOOO

fresh igloo
#

wow it is live already

#

still has that damage penalty tho

jagged gust
#

Who needs damage? Call me Willy Nelson cuz I'm Gonna Live Forever

fresh igloo
#

my DPS says damage is all that matters so

#

obviously

#

i gotta compete

crude notch
fresh igloo
#

more like willy shieldman amirite

#

wait wouldn't that just be.. like... a condom

proper roost
#

is survival in keys cracked or have i just had the only neltharus route in weeks that used chains correctly

#

this guy done did 167k overall

#

that's too much bro. he did too much damage

crude notch
#

Survival is cracked

proper roost
#

is literally the only thing keeping them from viability the fact that they are tissue paper

crude notch
#

Survivability is just beans for hunter rn that's why you don't

#

Yeah that

proper roost
#

that's wild

#

so it's like SL s3/s4 survival except less dps

#

and the dungeons do way more damage

crude notch
#

P much

#

They gain like 20% from their 4p in AoE iirc

warm plinth
#

I'd like to gain 20% from your 4p in AoE

#

gottem

crude notch
#

👀

fresh igloo
#

i haven't played melee survival

#

it's tempting to poke at

jagged gust
fresh igloo
#

haven't played hunter since surv was explosive arrow based

jagged gust
#

Legion was the only time I had fun as surv

#

Hucking half a dozen traps, eagletalon going ham, shit was a blast

crude notch
#

It's annoying how hunter feels survivability wise

proper roost
#

i'm still just salty about

#

the hunter pets not being able to be any family

#

and bringing raid buffs

#

it doesn't help that we only have one druid in our whole guild atm so we frequently miss vers buff for prog which is deeply unfun

jagged gust
#

Legit, fuck pvp for ruining that, I jus t want to bring the aesthetic that pleases me

proper roost
#

idk how they literally went backwards from mop design

jagged gust
#

#Letmyponiesraid

crude notch
#

Class design in mop is over rated AF.

#

Don't at me

stark saddle
#

So i have sheild frostfire belt shadowflame boots and ring crafted with 4 shadowflame sparks i dont need to make weapon cause i have forgestorm, i have heroic 4 pc but ive been insanely unlucky with shoulder still at 392, should i just use a spark for shoulders?

fresh igloo
#

392? yikes

#

sure. craft that shit

jagged gust
#

My brother in christ you can craft better gear with whelpling crests

stark saddle
#

Oh? i got 17 of those. i just started playing again since last thur

#

so im out of the loop on stuff still

fresh igloo
#

you can get up to like 408 or 411 with out even spending a shadwoflame spark

jagged gust
#

Yeah 408 ain't fantastic but if it saves you a spark I'd do it

#

Tier shoulders aren't awesome, but the pants don't even have haste

proper roost
#

and raid comp kinda stuff

#

i don't really think the raid comp situation in DF is bad at all, but

#

our enh is not really happy that he's pretty much just a walking wft when his spec is bad

stark saddle
#

oh so make the explorers and toss in that that be a decent upgrade

proper roost
#

or same with the havoc dh

jagged gust
#

Yeah 16 ilvls, then you can hold out a bit longer for tier shoulders or smthing

crude notch
#

Thankfully Enhance is good. Ezpz

stark saddle
#

yeah im 426 atm so that should put me closer to 430

proper roost
#

i mean in raids

#

it sucks

jagged gust
#

But like even niffen drops upgrade to 411, surprised you haven't had an upgrade from there yet

crude notch
#

So does Bear but that doesn't stop Pumps from getting top 20. So find another excuse.

stark saddle
#

I havent really done much with the niffen just the story

#

and the two rep weeklys

crude notch
#

There's two?

stark saddle
#

one last week and this week

crude notch
#

Oh

stark saddle
#

only been playing like 2 weeks sorry

crude notch
#

So one weekly twice

stark saddle
#

yeah

jagged gust
#

Man's been playing 2 weeks and has heroic 4 piece but calls himself unlucky

stark saddle
#

lol

#

i got draged through the first 7 bosses on heroic with a friends guild

#

and today i got forgestorm and the magmamoth dps trinket

#

so i am lucky for sure

proper roost
#

i'm just saying he don't like doing lowest dps

#

and only being brought in cuz wft

#

tank balance is way closer than dps balance

#

in raids

#

🤔

median tulip
#

DPS who don't know how to do the frog boss on HoI piss me off

#

A Warlock and a Shaman, and ZERO aoe stuns or slows

proper roost
#

why

#

do not get upset about other people, you cannot control their play

#

be at peace with the factors out of your control

#

getting mad at them (or rather, choosing not to) is the only thing you can control, about other peoples' bad play

echo egret
#

After several (failed) tries, I just don't see how I can deal with uldaman's basiliks and their chomp spam, when there are 2 or more on 20 fortified. I'm doing my best to aggro them fast and hard, then kite, but kiting is severly limited in these corridors, and I always end up getting 2 stacks of the bleeds, which I can't survive even with defensives up. And I don't have stoneform or an evoker in a pug. Any tip welcome. And this is a sanguine week on top of that.

median tulip
median tulip
proper roost
#

a depleted key is never a waste of time

#

you should always look to learn something even if everyone else is the one making mistakes

#

depletes are part of keys and the entire key experience is what's healthy to enjoy not just the w's, otherwise why not just stay doing 16s

median tulip
#

Oh no, the Shaman called us all trash and ragequit, so no complete

#

and when I tried to tell him what he did wrong he swore at me and blocked me

#

So no learning there

jagged pier
#

u dont pay his sub

#

u cant tell him how to play

proper roost
#

i mean 🤷 it happens

median tulip
#

I resent him wasting my time

proper roost
#

what do you gain from having his experience live rent free in your mind

#

it wastes even more of your time and mental energy

#

all you can do is move on

ionic plank
#

more anger = more damage

#

rage is our main resource

median tulip
#

Absolutely

#

TOO ANGRY TO DIE

warm plinth
#

gotta love 4am pugging

crude notch
#

gotta love you

#

gottem

warm plinth
#

D:

ionic plank
#

💀

#

prevoker doing his best

jagged pier
#

ppl still need crests?

remote venture
#

I do :(

ionic plank
#

my alts need tons :)

crude notch
#

when 1%ers realize that most of the playerbase don't max out all levels of crests in the first month

jagged pier
#

the way it should be

ionic plank
#

tbf doing 1x 20 a week and being in extend prison left me at <5 crests for weeks

jagged pier
#

like i have all crest maxs jordan XD

#

i missing tones

ionic plank
#

then people who play keys all the time have 100 aspects crests

jagged pier
#

i just dont need them 🤷 but i have been lucky

ionic plank
#

I havent needed any for a few weeks

#

will need a few when 10.1.5 hits I guess, but reclearing now

crude notch
median tulip
#

I think I need 6 more to max all my gear slots. Fewer if Vault gives me a useful slot next week.

#

Also there are reports about being able to upgrade some gear even higher in 10.1.5? IDK how real that is tho

crude notch
#

wdym how real it is ? lol

#

There's a new upgrade track

#

441/444/447 called myth

ionic plank
#

no higher, no lower

strong forum
median tulip
#

With Aspect Crest?

ionic plank
#

and as jordan said, the upgrade track is 3 steps, 441 > 444 > 447

crude notch
ionic plank
#

it will cost an aspect crest per upgrade yea

#

and some flightstones obvs

median tulip
#

Yeah, so good to farm some extra crests already

ionic plank
#

and it will work retroactively, so if you have an item from first few mythic bosses it will become upgradeable

ionic plank
median tulip
#

Cool, I got Dreadplate. Probably do my Set pieces first tho

crude notch
#

🍣

#

Dreadplate

median tulip
#

The game has given me every trinket EXCEPT Anvil and Irideus

crude notch
#

Are you in the right channel?

#

Whatchu want Irideus for?

ionic plank
crude notch
#

M Kazzara, M Amal, M Assault, M Experiments, M Rashok, 16-19 M+ vaults, Heroic Nelth's Calls, and Heroic Sark Cloak all upgradeable.

median tulip
#

I don't want it; I just don't have iit

ionic plank
#

you have every other trinket in the game

#

quite the collection

median tulip
#

this season, yes

crude notch
#

👀

#

I'm not about to call bs

#

but

#

bs

median tulip
#

I haven't even seen a Shield drop all season tho

crude notch
#

why do you want a shield?

median tulip
burnt knot
#

Is ULD tank trinket any good

crude notch
median tulip
hidden linden
burnt knot
#

Much love

median tulip
crude notch
#

oh idk about that

#

Sporepods at least has strength

hidden linden
#

Lingering Sporepods at least got str on it

#

damn, too slow

median tulip
#

Hmmmm.... I see your point

warm plinth
median tulip
#

Both are literallytrash

crude notch
warm plinth
#

I know right lol

burnt knot
#

Stuck with Vial and Landslide, which should I pursue to change the vial?

median tulip
#

In an expansion or two they'll bring Sanguine Depths back into rotation and we'll be having this conversation about the Bladedancer's Armour Kit again

burnt knot
#

No

jagged pier
#

i dont want them ever to bring back market

#

codex can go die

crude notch
#

I need a season where it's literally Sporepods, Inexorable, Pulsating Stoneheart, Slimy Consumptive Organ, and Bladedancer's.

median tulip
#

Market was the second best dungeon in Shadowlands, but the codex can go DIAF

jagged gust
#

Slimy Consumptive Organ, just saying it feels right

jagged pier
#

please no jordan i dont need ppl complaining every day that they have to use low ilvl pieces because they are better like the rings this season

hidden linden
#

If you don't raid, Vial is fine-ish. You can still try and get the uldaman air raid one, or Heart of Thunder from VP, those should be fine

burnt knot
#

Thank you both

jagged gust
#

Actually what ilvl are we talking here?

crude notch
#

what?

lime urchin
warm plinth
#

Yeah I wouldn't wish that trinket on anyone

median tulip
#

Like Beacon to the Beyond. It trucks, but boy is it annoying to use

crude notch
#

Except

#

Beacon always trucks

hidden linden
#

What don't like dying to your own trinket? :D

burnt knot
#

Trying to get better at prot this season but warr feels much weaker than it was before hence why I want more def trinket to replace the vial atm

hidden linden
#

(But agreed, never used it and never will)

jagged pier
#

it literally hasnt changed

#

its as strong as it has been the whole expnasion

crude notch
#

Hasn't changed if you feel weaker it's because you're playing wrong, no offense.

jagged pier
#

^

burnt knot
#

Probably tho

jagged pier
#

it should feel stronger this season as dungoens are mostly melee

median tulip
#

Eh, the set bonus this season isn't as defensive as the season 1 version

crude notch
#

👀

jagged pier
#

the set bonus literally doesnt matter

#

yer we are weaker defensivly

#

but if it made that much of a difference u would still be running it

burnt knot
#

I mean I might feel this way cause out of 30+ above +16, 20 were ULD

crude notch
#

whatchu spamming uld for?

burnt knot
#

I thought uld tank trinket was top tier :d

jagged pier
#

except for chomps and the 1 golem uld is pretty chill tbh

burnt knot
#

In my head

crude notch
#

-_-

warm plinth
#

I used the uld trinket for a while on my paladin and I don't think it ever broke 1% of my damage

median tulip
#

The Chomps are fucking horrible

jagged pier
#

dont want to get chomped

#

be a dwarf

median tulip
#

Get hit by too many of them and it's 200k ticks

crude notch
#

So what about the cheat death trieket from the new megadungeon (:

cinder nova
#

Is there a way to preserve the custom settings I have for the text on SR? I like it, but it keeps resetting with every update.

#

Kinda a chore

median tulip
#

Those basilisks are a test for your DPS CC tho, IMO. Although ofc the DPS will blame the tank

jagged pier
#

i mean its alright but its a cheat death trinket

#

so the 99.9% of ppl that run it claiming its a must have

#

will never actually proc it

crude notch
#

God you've got to be the most easy to bait person in the world

jagged pier
#

i remeber ppl in SLs saying they need 1 of the 2 of them for s2's and u look at logs

#

and literally didnt proc it once

#

good use

crude notch
#

and i say that as someone who is quite easy to bait

strong forum
naive ravine
#

Hey, some time ago I heared Andy talking about a breakpoint for mastery (23-25%) on prot war, anybody know the exact details about that?

warm plinth
#

That is not a thing

#

We have never intentionally sought out mastery, and we have never had a mastery breakpoint.

crude notch
warm plinth
#

At least not in the last few expansions. I didn't play it before Legion

jagged pier
warm plinth
jagged pier
#

if true

#

i doubt he actually said that

warm plinth
#

I bet destro is gonna love that trinket

#

And boomie probably

crude notch
#

ye those to are gonna nut over it

warm plinth
#

I wonder how much damage the spells are gonna do 🤔

#

Though I suppose anything past the stats is just a perk lol

crude notch
#

i need a damn gear vendor on PTR for this stuff

#

:angy:

#

i want to see if you can reset the cheat death trinket

#

also want to see how tf this thing works

naive ravine
crude notch
#

also want to find out what some of these "new" secondaries do

naive ravine
crude notch
#

new megadungeon has a haste/crit shield pog for next season i guess, still probably crafting though ofc

jagged pier
strong forum
#

If you have less than 1k mastery, the return gain of getting to 1-1.5k mastery is huge

#

The less you have of a stat the better it becomes to increase

#

Going from 15->20% mastery is a 33% increase in crit block chance, which is massive for exceedingly little investment

jagged pier
#

33% chance to still not crit block sadge

strong forum
#

Yeah but what would you rather have

crude notch
#

Nome, would you do hardcore classic?

strong forum
#

15% critblock and like 1.5% more crit chance
Or 20% critblock and a few% more AP

strong forum
#

Hell no

crude notch
#

thought not

#

lol

#

do you do hc for poe?

strong forum
#

No I only did hc on d4 for easy name on statue

crude notch
#

fax

#

is it even 1k yet?

strong forum
#

Well they said last week that 1k has been hit

#

But list of names is TBD

pallid quiver
#

I'd rather have literally 0 mastery because it's a funnier talking point.

strong forum
#

Well sure that's valid

naive ravine
#

I thougt about the mastery thing to and the only other thing i could find was that mastery is double dipping on the talents that give us % main stat for armor

strong forum
#

No

pallid quiver
#

unfortunately, rng in the past has at the very least given me a piece of equipment with at least every stat represented, even if sometimes it's been mad stacked

strong forum
#

That's not based on AP

#

Mastery grants AP, not strength

#

There's no double dipping, it's just very efficient

#

The less you have of something the more it's worth to increase it

#

Same goes for vers

#

If you have 0 vers, getting just a bit of it is a larger gain than getting more of another stat

#

Even offensively

jagged pier
#

have 22% mastery without even knowing it

strong forum
#

Yeah it's hard to have less

#

It's part of the reason why I'm keeping frostfire belt, mastery

naive ravine
#

So ap is not strength, but does ap still increase armor, or is armor only scaling with strength? @strong forum

strong forum
#

only armor and strength

#

AP is pure offensive with no interaction with anything else

naive ravine
#

Perfect ty for explaining, didnt know the diffrence betwern strength and ap

strong forum
#

AP is the offensive part of strength

#

basically

#

strength grants AP, which then determines the numbers on your buttons

#

but str also grants armor because of vanguard and talents

#

thats also the reason why battleshout increases AP instead of strength

#

cuz if it granted 5% strength, it would basically be a defensive buff ontop

median tulip
#

AP increases the absorb Ignore Pain grants

naive ravine
strong forum
#

for that its just sim

naive ravine
#

k ty

uneven mason
cinder nova
#

Not focusing on zug zug is why the sayains were able to run roughshod over everyone.

strong forum
#

well they dont get anything special from mainstat besides AP

ionic roost
#

(they could easily merge Bshout and arcane intellect to be 5% mainstay) I'm assuming his argument

#

Is str vs agi

strong forum
#

ye i kinda meant to imply agi/str

sick sentinel
#

That gif Is me doing "mechanics"

#

Cuz I usually fail at it

uneven mason
#

But at least you try

shy canopy
#

any good general talents for m+? tryna push my first +20 key as a tank

crude notch
#

pins gotcha covered

shy canopy
#

sweet, thanks!

nocturne granite
#

Is that really so, that I should focus on haste/crit build instead of haste/vers? 😢

strong forum
#

dont have to if you dont want to

#

nets you more milage however

nocturne granite
strong forum
#

its a recommendation

#

not a rule

#

but yes, crit is very powerful for a while now

crude notch
#

i even changed my bear to crit/haste. dodgegodx

nocturne granite
#

Due to low scaling for amount of vers, crit will be more efficient... and finally, i should not keep all 3 sets with different gear for all 3 specs: hast/vers (prot); haste/crit (arms); haste/mast (fury)

nocturne granite
crude notch
#

yep

#

almost every tank prefs crit rn

nocturne granite
crude notch
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vers scaling is garbage and crit provides big defensive value for everyone while also providing great offensive value

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Like I have 35% dodge on my bear rn

nocturne granite
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tells true?:)

strong forum
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bloodmallet uses the t30 profiles

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so yes

crude notch
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what about them?

nocturne granite
strong forum
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que?

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read again what it says

crude notch
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what

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those aren't caps

strong forum
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its not "build 40% crit, build 30% haste, buiild 10% mastery and build 20% vers"

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thats not what it says

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it says 40% of your total stat budget should be allocated to crit

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not -> get to 40% crit

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4888 crit is not 40%, thats not even 30%

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2444 vers is like 12% vers in total stats

nocturne granite
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Lol, thank you for clearing my eyes. seems not woke up yet

icy atlas
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Can you still get KSH after 10.1.5 drops?

strong forum
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ofc

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the season doesnt end until s3 starts

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which is still a few months away

icy atlas
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Okay cool I'll shoot for 3k then

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Never thought I'd be tanking 20s but you guys have been hella helpful ❤️

strong forum
tropic gorge
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Gm tank pals

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Turns out I don't need to worry about using a vers flask. My guild is lacking in dps to push bosses, not a tank issue

regal nymph
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Tanks do damage too

crude notch
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Not on my watch they don't

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👮

sick sentinel
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mostly what im wroking on this week is gold races

crude notch
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No dps thievery

sick sentinel
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fucking sanguine

waxen frigate
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“Tanks should run tank trinkets and stack stamina”

daring marlin
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Love the smell of plastic in the morning

undone verge
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-trinket

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Like I’m sorry ignore pain dropped when I got hit for 1.9 million by flaming slash

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Unmitigated ofc

jolly crystal
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You don't keep 2m of Ignore Pain stacked up at all times?

modern brook
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4 mil needed

waxen frigate
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Have you tried just

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Ignoring the pain?

modern brook
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Ignore the RL

crude notch
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Probably the next nerf they do to the raid is Rashfreaky

undone verge
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I also just don’t get why I’m accused of dying, like yeah I died 3 weeks ago on forgotten exp prog and a little when we were wiping at 50% on rashok prog but I died once in 27 pulls last week

hazy bronze
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Just reply with damage taken from lava wave

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Bonus points if that person is above you

modern brook
primal crypt
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@strong forum I'm supposed to be using thunderlord right?

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new op talent

jagged gust
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Thor runs it

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Gotta be good

primal crypt
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who the hell is thor

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the hammer guy?

jagged gust
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The god of thunder

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obvs

primal crypt
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I mean, he IS the thunderlord

jagged gust
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literally

primal crypt
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I guess I use it too

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I want more thunder

modern brook
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tlords can sugma

sick sentinel
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zoooooooommm

jagged gust
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daaaaang

sick sentinel
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i have to have all of the race achievements by end of expansion this is alot of fun

hazy bronze
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Wheres forbidden reach?

crude notch
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in the north

waxen frigate
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It’s forbidden to go there though

hazy bronze
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I can't reach it

sick sentinel
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i have to run under rot a bunch of times for plate legs 😦

oblique garnet
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But you gotta send it on cd all the time

sick sentinel
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best dungeon drop legs for dungeons fo rme

primal crypt
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❤️

oblique garnet
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👋

primal crypt
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I seent you log onto everything but warrior

oblique garnet
primal crypt
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oh yeah you were on latewar recently

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I lied

oblique garnet
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2 more to go on paladin

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Then 4 more on warrior

primal crypt
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ugh

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so many keys.....

oblique garnet
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Just a few

crude notch
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can't just go all willy nilly to a place that's quite literally called FORBIDDEN

sick sentinel
primal crypt
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just block it

oblique garnet
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backpedal

primal crypt
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turn and run

undone verge
oblique garnet
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oh wait youre talking about rashok

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not neltharus

primal crypt
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oh

crude notch
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reading be hard

primal crypt
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raid

sick sentinel
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yeah rashok sorry lol

oblique garnet
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that doesnt hit that hard

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unless you have 2 stacks

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or take 2 in a row

crude notch
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don't apologize to the peeps that can't read

sick sentinel
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im progging it on my DK so im kind of spoiled where i got AMS for the group soak, VB or IBF or each combo

oblique garnet
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mixed blazing slash and flaming

undone verge
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The problem isn’t really flaming slash itself it’s being low for earthen crush, or being made low cause of earthen crush. If I’m full health with ignore pain running flaming slash will never kill me even without defensives

sick sentinel
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IP is all dmg or just phys?
What i do for BDK is i make sure i got a big bloodshield up for earthen and then i deathstrike the flame slash if its first, not sure if that works for warr otherwise just maybe pool rage for another IP after your first one gets eaten?

undone verge
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All dmg

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IP is capped at 200k tho

sick sentinel
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oh

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welp

undone verge
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In terms of tank busters It’s basically effective health so 200k more health to live slash

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Around 1 mil. It’s also nice last stand is up for 1 combo every phase so I try to have it up for the third one each time

sick sentinel
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whos your co-tank?

undone verge
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Bdk

sick sentinel
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ah ok

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cant even make a pally solo 1 set

undone verge
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He wants to play a pally but they won’t let him

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Strict no rerolling mid tier policy

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29 deaths in 27 pulls and one of them was cause cotank was dead for the combo

waxen frigate
undone verge
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But then they want me to swap to vdh cause “there’s been an increase in tank deaths this tier” like ok

hazy bronze
sick sentinel
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spell block first, in d stance then it looks like he went to battle stand and just hit shield block with IP up

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their pally soloed the first set

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just looking at random logs

undone verge
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Yeah, I always swap dstance for the combos, but it’s spellblock for 1 and 2, then shield wall with last stand third if you’re playing correctly

sick sentinel
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oh and he rallied there as well but probably was for the individual soaks etc

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so this person didnt laststand or wall the earthen

sick sentinel
# undone verge Strict no rerolling mid tier policy

this is so weird, like i get a healer wanting to swap to dps or an enhance shaman or your only mage wanting to swap off, but a tank swapping should be fine if they are similary geared and they arent a raid buff imo

vocal nimbus
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I alternate SW+dstance with SR+external+dstance

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Pop LS whenever it is off cd

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Gotta use the 4pc

sick sentinel
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whats SR? spell reflect?

vocal nimbus
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Yes

sick sentinel
vocal nimbus
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It has a 20% magic damage reduction

undone verge
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Popping last stand whenever it’s on cd has it up for the third combo

vocal nimbus
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If i recall correctly it does not

undone verge
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Link the logs

vocal nimbus
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I pop LS 10 sec before pulling

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To open with earthen smash buff

crystal mauve
undone verge
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Earnthen smash doesn’t do enough dmg to be justified, plus I run unnerving focus so it’s basically a dps button

vocal nimbus
undone verge
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What’s ur char name

vocal nimbus
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Soulwalker sanguino

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To get sw every second combo you have to play really well

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As in, not waste rage and not miss ss procs

undone verge
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1% wipe but still

crystal mauve
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Rashiok is just Spell block the first two combo and SW the 2nd, if you are full life you don't need anything else to survive. I use other tools to overlap for safety but I'm sure sure if it was necessay

lime urchin
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whoa! a 100!

undone verge
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I wish

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I’ve had like 30 “100s” on this boss but they’re all wipes

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Low %s too like 1%-9%

sick sentinel
vocal nimbus
crystal mauve
vocal nimbus
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Sorry missread spell block for spell reflect

undone verge
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This is actually a question I’ve had for a while but never asked it, would demo shout, and similarly fiery brand mitigate dmg like the dot of forgotten experiments? Or is it strictly dmg directly done by the boss

crystal mauve
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As far as I know it does work on dots but Iet me see if I can confirm this with logs

jagged gust
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Go run LFR real quick to confirm 🙂

crystal mauve
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Seems like it does indeed reduce bleed/dots damage as well

sick sentinel
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NA token 300k

sick sentinel
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may as well be

left basalt
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Heroic Sark progression last night, I dps in raids but our BDK was out, sure how hard can this be...

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AOTC 10 mins later

dense verge
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The wee worms in URs 2nd boss their stacking bite debuff, would spell block stop that, been in 4 keys with pugs not doing mechanics and they are murdering me, wondering if any tips to deal with them

twin bramble
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Looking for tips for pulling early VP. On pills 2 and 4, I struggle to have both, getting vortexes into group with solider and still be close enough to tempest to look at it.

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Do you ask dps to pull through and out range them on 2? Or ask for kicks to bring them into range of tempest?

strong forum
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its a dps loss to play until 7 targets

primal crypt
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I like turtles

daring marlin
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That's not batman

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you are fake news

jagged gust
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Tell me, did the batmobile ever have a pizza trebuchet?

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No.

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TMNT 1, Batman 0

lime urchin
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William spitting facts

hazy bronze
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Batman is the most American hero

waxen frigate
sick sentinel