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opaque quest
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I mean doesnt he have to say yes this is a good reward

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But hes probably the guy that says 14 recolors of the dawn set is fine soooo

strong forum
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no

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he designes what items do

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not how they look like

opaque quest
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Welp

lusty tiger
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fasion designer

opaque quest
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gj to him making 14 different very rare trinkets then /s

strong forum
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also rewards team does design the tiersets but not their final numbers

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thats why any numbers current sets do are placeholder AF

lusty tiger
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can we just have 1 very jaded person design everything soup->nuts for each spec

strong forum
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i dont think thats gonna fly

opaque quest
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Maybe just have a DK design dk stuff

lusty tiger
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LOL

opaque quest
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And a warr warr stuff

lusty tiger
opaque quest
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Sure tastes still differ but right now sets are damn ugly

lusty tiger
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like if i wanted to maximize for "fun" i would do that and tell them to all make the most op shit they can think of

strong forum
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and what do they do after that?

opaque quest
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Just give every class devoker fire breath in pvp that oneshots

opaque quest
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To see the mayhem without further consequences

strong forum
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fuck it

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lets overbuff items each season

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then once the new season comes

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nerf the old ones into the floor

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thats surely fun

opaque quest
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Dungeons are so fucked we need broken items

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Power creep ruined destiny. Lets have it ruin wow too

strong forum
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thats why we get resets each xpac

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to reel in the powercreep

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like stat squishes, lvl squishes

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etc

lusty tiger
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it would be each spec designer against one another trying to make their specs as op as possible (with some rules ofc)

strong forum
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itll happen every 2 xpacs at this pace

jagged pier
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Might be an old mind set but i have no issue with leggos being useful for like a tier the expansion after tbh

opaque quest
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I kinda want a nother lvl squish rn. Numbers are getting pretty big

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Doing 10k dps in highmaul felt good

strong forum
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11.0 does 100% bring a stat squish

jagged pier
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Numbers arent even close to big

strong forum
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not a single doubt in my mind

opaque quest
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I played SoO heroic i know numbers can get bigger but why let it come to that point

jagged pier
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Mop was millions and they had to sesign a boss to do 2 full hp resets because 32 but

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At least we in 64 bit now

lusty tiger
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squish mainstat, keep secondary stats... i dont like low haste in every season 1

opaque quest
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I remember 1.5 mil stormbolts trust me

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But i dont want that again

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So squish earlier rather than later

jagged pier
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Bring back 10 man

lusty tiger
strong forum
opaque quest
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Oh god yes

lusty tiger
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i want MORE

strong forum
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you should never be a game designer

opaque quest
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My sham has 108% haste 50% of the fight. Its fine

lusty tiger
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agreed

sick sentinel
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#raidingistoohardperiod

strong forum
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if 11.0 doesnt bring a squish of any form

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then we'll start with having DPS doing close to 1mil dps in raid

lusty tiger
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im kinda just trolling- i realize those things are unrealistic, but sometimes going too far the other way sucks

strong forum
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in the first raid

opaque quest
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I wouldnt even mind them going way overboard with the squish

strong forum
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by the end of the xpac then dps will do north of 5million single target

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if they dont do a squish

jagged pier
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The problem with the squish what do u do wih old items

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Loke most expansions now match in lvl

opaque quest
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Who cares about old items

lusty tiger
opaque quest
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Youre lvl70 in 2 days

lusty tiger
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they did it w crafted gear s1->s2

strong forum
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old items just get squished

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just like they did from bfa to sl

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lvl zones can stay the same

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i hope we only get to lvl 75 tho next xpac

opaque quest
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Blizz is a 100 bilion dollar company im sure they can figure something out

strong forum
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ofc

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the solution is squish

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thats inevitable

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every 2 xpacs

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and lvl squish every 4 or smth

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maybe more

opaque quest
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How does FFXIV handle stats? I played it for some time but only did extremes and ultimates and didnt care about anything else

strong forum
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fuck if i know

lusty tiger
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@ nim

chilly brook
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Iirc it’s just very incremental

strong forum
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their gear isnt nearly as important as ours

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afaik

opaque quest
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No trinkets

strong forum
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and the raids are tuned around them being bis geared

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they also dont have customisability of their class as much as we do

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so balancing is alot simpler

opaque quest
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Also gearing is easier

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You can grind a boss until you get loot from it

strong forum
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sadly combat sucks

opaque quest
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Big time

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Thats why im back

lusty tiger
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why do people play it then

opaque quest
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Cause cOmMuNiTy

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Story is good

lusty tiger
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kekw

strong forum
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that game offers alot more than just raiding

opaque quest
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Aye

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In wow raiding and M+ are like 80% of the game

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In FFXIV raiding is more like 10%

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90% of the game is dressing like a hoe and dancing in limsa

lusty tiger
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more mmo than rpg

strong forum
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its both

opaque quest
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Ye

strong forum
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more mmo and more rpg

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wow is just a themepark

opaque quest
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Its also way more single player if you want it to be

strong forum
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wow you cant play alone, literally cant

lusty tiger
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well traditional rpg = i make class end level end gear and become god

strong forum
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unless you want to ignore endgame

opaque quest
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Apart from the ultimates and savage raids you can do that

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Also FFXIV has no real endgame compared to wow. M+ scales endlessly

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FFXIV only has normal dungeons

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Sooo. Get gear and you feel like a god

lusty grotto
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oh stats? there was a squish for endwalker

lusty tiger
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we curious about ff item scaling

strong forum
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ffxiv has more replayability because you can play old raids "like back in the day, just with current class balance"

opaque quest
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Yeah sync or non synced

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You either do it with 3 man or you play every mechanic

chilly brook
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I don’t really think the combat of FFXIV sucks

opaque quest
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Its boring

lusty grotto
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it doesnt

opaque quest
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You have a set rotation and nothing else

chilly brook
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I think it’s actually pretty good, assuming you’re not talking about the 1-60 experience

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That portion is bleh

lusty grotto
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ogcd weaving is decently entertaining

opaque quest
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DPS got a 1-5 tanks got a 1-3

strong forum
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from my limited 35hrs experience its incredibly stale and single minded

chilly brook
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But it’s certainly different than WoW

lusty grotto
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early game its absolute trash ngl nome

opaque quest
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You just need to learn your rotation and youre done

chilly brook
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I don’t think having a “set rotation” is bad

strong forum
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and theres no such thing as active mitigation

opaque quest
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No way to improve

lusty grotto
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there is active mit

strong forum
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yeah for 4 seconds on a 30sec CD

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big fun

chilly brook
lusty grotto
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no

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all tanks have active mit

opaque quest
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How do you improve pressing 5 buttons in order for 10 mins straight

chilly brook
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Instead of getting better at pressing your buttons in a randomish sequence

opaque quest
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Knight has darkest night once every 45 sec or so xd

lusty grotto
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at least endgame, for the active mit thing

chilly brook
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You’re getting better at getting a few more casts in through a fight with complex mechanics

opaque quest
strong forum
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i also dislike the fact that the only shield class is paladin

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why paladin

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i dont wanna play paladin

opaque quest
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Cause gladiator

chilly brook
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Yet again someone making weird arguments I’m not making….

lusty grotto
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i kind of agree with that one

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but i also dont hate WAR being a 2hander job

opaque quest
strong forum
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isnt war just a 1 button spec in ffxiv

jagged pier
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The warrior isnt too bad i enjoy S1 of Sls when the tmog big was in

opaque quest
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Classes are ALL the same. If you know one you know all

opaque quest
chilly brook
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Tldr FFXIV combat is about executing the fight well and your class should be something less….active in terms of dedicating brainpower.

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WoW is a mixture of both

lusty grotto
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actually there's a lot of brainpower involved

chilly brook
lusty grotto
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its just that they are talking about selective jobs

chilly brook
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Go play black mage well in difficult content lmfao

opaque quest
chilly brook
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Spoiler alert you won’t be able to unless you actually know the fights

opaque quest
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Watch video. Check where he uses ley lines. Replicate

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Very hard

lusty grotto
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absolutely untrue but it is what it is

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ive been doing ver badly

chilly brook
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I don’t think either game is outright better than the other

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They’re both very different

lusty grotto
opaque quest
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Agree on that

lusty grotto
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im always behind on parses cause my static is super casual so im behind on weapon upgrades

chilly brook
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Also doesn’t one of the classes have this massive ass flow chart based on RNG?

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So they’re really not all the same

lusty grotto
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and because there's no ilvl parsing like wow does my numbers will always be horrible

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hmmm

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all classes literally parse based on RNG

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a good BLM parse is the one where you crit meld and have almost all your hits be crits or direct hits

chilly brook
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Hold on I’m going to find the flow chart

lusty grotto
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and also mechs dont fuck your positioning (which happens most of the time anyway)

opaque quest
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Its still the same. All Tanks got the same CDs. All melee got positionals and so on

lusty grotto
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but yeah WAR gameplay is simple

opaque quest
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All dps got their 1-5 rota

lusty grotto
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DRK and GNB gameplay arent

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and PLD gameplay is kind of in-between

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but no

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tanks do not have the same CDs

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they all have active mit, but its not the same

opaque quest
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True. They all have 1 CD the other tanks dont

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1

chilly brook
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Ah yes Astralogian

opaque quest
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DK has darkest night thats it

lusty grotto
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dps cds? they are different

chilly brook
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Several different openers based on rng

opaque quest
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Astro is a healer. It doesnt matter and you cant farm your rota

chilly brook
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Wut

lusty grotto
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AST mains are gods

opaque quest
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Or am i stupid rn

chilly brook
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Healer rotations absolutely matter in FFXiV

opaque quest
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Wasnt astro the support heal with cards?

chilly brook
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You acting like healers aren’t having to do damage and are expected to do so even

opaque quest
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You acting like 99% of healers in FFXIV arent heal bots

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Ive done ultimates with healers being bots

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You dont NEED heals to do dps

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Sure they can

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But its not needed

chilly brook
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Most of the healers I run into aren’t heal bots

opaque quest
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And ofc they should

chilly brook
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

lusty grotto
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i think the biggest challenge for people is ABC in savage/ults

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well for everyone but mostly casters

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either way that's something any wow player should already be doing, but its not as required

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in wow

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it is for ffxiv

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and with dances, positioning, mechs involved it becomes overwhelming extremely fast

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ABC as in always be casting

opaque quest
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FFXIV has dope telegraphs. At some point the brain just reacts through muscle memory

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Missing that in WoW still

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Might make DBM obsolete

chilly brook
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I think the best way to describe it is:
FFXIV is the guy who only does the basics but does them at an insanely high level

WoW is the dude who did the basics until he got it and then started doing some advanced stuff but isn’t quite a master because of it

chilly brook
lusty grotto
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both games are so different, but i really enjoy raiding in both separately, even though i dislike pugging (in WoW) and PFing in ffxiv

opaque quest
chilly brook
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If you like dungeon content WoW hands down is better unfortunately

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I think FFXIV could really benefit from more dungeon content

opaque quest
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Yea FFXIV has no endgame apart from savage

lusty grotto
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yeah there's no replacement for M+

opaque quest
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Ultimates just transmogg

lusty grotto
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no

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weapon is still the best

opaque quest
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Also only like what? 4 Bosses per patch cycle?

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Ye when a NEW ultimate comes out every 18 years

chilly brook
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Ultimates are legit BiS weapons

opaque quest
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But then: relic

lusty grotto
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yeah this tier, we didnt get a 3rd ultimate so relic will happen

opaque quest
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What was the last Ultimate before the heavensward dude

lusty grotto
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Alexander

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TEA

opaque quest
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Thats also a good thing about FFXIV tho. There is a point where you can just stop and wont miss out

chilly brook
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I need to continue playing it tbh

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Still haven’t capped

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Too much to do while leveling to distract

opaque quest
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Did you do post ARR yet?

chilly brook
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Yeah

lusty grotto
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yeah its a good thing that you can pick it up anywhere

opaque quest
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Hardest part done keks

chilly brook
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I’m starting shadowbringers or w/e

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I’m weird, I enjoyed ARR

opaque quest
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ARR was ok

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Post ARR wasnt

chilly brook
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Nah I legit enjoyed it all

daring marlin
chilly brook
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Payoff was worth every second

daring marlin
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game gud

lusty grotto
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heh wait till you do Shadowbringers and Endwalker

chilly brook
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The problem though is post ARR content outside of story feels useless

lusty grotto
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yes

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its optional

chilly brook
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Because you’re barely advancing your character at all

opaque quest
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Is it a spoiler if we talk about the blue bird?

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Probably right

lusty grotto
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yes super spoiler

opaque quest
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Griff how far are you rn?

daring marlin
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enjoy having your heart torn out a couple dozen times

chilly brook
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Literally just finished stormblood

daring marlin
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B R O T H E R

opaque quest
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Oh sweet

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Stormblood was a slog too without flying

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Make sure you grab the flying sheet

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With the compass

chilly brook
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It was worse than heavansward for sure but holy shit do they know how to make compelling villains

opaque quest
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I dont remember the villain from SB

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Gryphon?

chilly brook
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Nah

lusty grotto
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Zeno

opaque quest
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I dont wanna spoiler you so i cant say shit

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Oh fuck yeah zenos is dope asf

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A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES

hardy snow
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it would be interesting if dot from this weapon (waycrest manor) would count toward new 2p, but I guess too op, so no fun allowed yep

chilly brook
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At least according to the wiki thing that I was given

lusty grotto
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which thing

opaque quest
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Nim probably means the raid and stuff

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Theres lots of post ARR

lusty grotto
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OH

chilly brook
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All the post ARR quests you had to do to get to Heavansward lol

lusty grotto
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yeah those are good to do just for the mini stories

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if you mean the raid stories griff

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but

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yeah there's a lot of garbage post ARR like rooach says

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like the refugees thing in mor dhona

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the good news is that post expansions get better after that

opaque quest
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Oh yeah

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If Heavensward is a 10/10 Shadowbringers and Endwalker are 13/10

grand veldt
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I'm much more curious how leech will work with this, i think it could be a significant survival bonus

opaque quest
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Im sure the stats you need to give up on the axe counteract any dmg or surv bonus you could get otherwise

pallid quiver
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oh my god the ARR filler back when i had to do it was fucking terrible

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I'm so sad I looked in her and had to be reminded of that

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shit was godawful

lusty grotto
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rememebr you had to build mor dhona

pallid quiver
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no fuck you i remember shit

lusty grotto
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if you played it at the time

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LOL

pallid quiver
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None of that had any reason to exist

opaque quest
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It wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt followed by a masterpiece of an expansion

daring marlin
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Loved ARR when it was current.

lusty grotto
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yeah i did too

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but

opaque quest
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I only started with prepatch shadowbringers

lusty grotto
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i took a break after HW

opaque quest
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Looks like i dodged a bullet

lusty grotto
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and came back for ShB

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i skipped stormblood (because break)

daring marlin
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I think stormblood was one of the only times I took a break too.

austere lava
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is cloak any good for prot?

opaque quest
austere lava
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and by that i mean VoSS

lusty grotto
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so kinda started from Stormblood to ShB to get back up to date

austere lava
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to dps focused?

lusty grotto
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its only for raid parsing if anything

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the proc rate is really bad

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absolutely bad for keys

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like 500%

austere lava
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gotcha

lusty tiger
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@lusty grotto can i ask u something about git and virtual environments

lusty grotto
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sure

lusty tiger
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ya know how when you have a virtual environment your console looks like this within your ide

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with the (venv)

lusty grotto
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yes?

lusty tiger
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do i need to CD to somewhere else in order to git push without my venv included in the push*?

lusty grotto
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uhh

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so like venv is a virtual machine

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it depends if you have a way to access its storage

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then you can do it from the host

lusty tiger
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yea

lusty grotto
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what are you trying to push? code?

lusty tiger
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when i 'ls' it still gives me the contents of the root though

lusty tiger
lusty grotto
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do you mean the host root?

lusty tiger
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yeah

lusty grotto
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ok so

lusty tiger
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this is the outside

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dont worry about "projects" lol

lusty grotto
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well in theory you can

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just CLI/terminal/cmd/powershell there

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you just need git installed on the host

lusty tiger
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oh tru

lusty grotto
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if you have access to the .git file, you should be good

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and .gitignores etc

lusty tiger
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i should just not push through my ide

lusty grotto
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well pushing through IDEs is fine

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but if you wanna learn a bit more, then yea

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im fucking lazy and just push through intellij or vscode

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or whatever git client i have lmao

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like sourcetree or kraken

chilly brook
lusty grotto
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or sublime merge

lusty tiger
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i always git add .->git commit -m ""->git push in the terminal

chilly brook
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That was like Shadowbringers when I started playing I think

lusty grotto
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ah, didnt know

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thought it kinda fast forwarded

chilly brook
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Idk you had to do stuff with refugees and shit

lusty grotto
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oh wait the uhh... place in doma

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i had to do that

chilly brook
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It’s been a while

lusty grotto
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fuck i forget the name

opaque quest
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I know what you mean

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With the samurai

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Something something front

lusty grotto
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doman enclave?

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i think

opaque quest
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Yea

blazing condor
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Doma nuts fit in ur mouth

lusty grotto
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😱

opaque quest
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Bojzan soutern front

lusty grotto
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oh yea bozja

opaque quest
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Im still on the bozja relic grind for my GNB

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But i cant be arsed

lusty grotto
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ugh

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im kinda glad this expansion's relic is super easy

opaque quest
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I played the intro quest

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With Hildi

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Couldnt finish it

lusty grotto
opaque quest
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I cringed to death

lusty grotto
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i enjoy it because its so bad

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def not for everyone

daring marlin
lusty grotto
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i swear ive tried to stop myself from laughing

daring marlin
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Despite the fact the orange was ugly af

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SAM one is clean tho

opaque quest
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Im on the last one time grind step

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Friend finished 2 days earlier than me and it broke me. Not gonna grind that shit solo

lusty grotto
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i cant remember the ones i finished, i know i finished BLM/WAR/WHM for sure

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but yeah its a dumb grind

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but still not as bad as ARR's

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that one is fucking ass

dusky canopy
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Dayum those FF character models tho

opaque quest
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Mommy yshtola "fan art"

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I love how all the fan art memes just crop her tits then call it finished

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lmao

dusky canopy
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You know guils a fan

opaque quest
dusky canopy
lusty tiger
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ty nim i needed a quick outside perspective lol

modern gazelle
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dude i cant time a key this week

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its like peopel decided swirlies on ground means stand int it

lusty grotto
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if you havent done so

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VMs are good but containers are kinda dominating too

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and kubernetes etc

lusty tiger
lusty grotto
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nice

lusty tiger
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after years i got IT to get me a server space

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and am migrating my django project w a sqlite server to be on docker with mysql

sudden tangle
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What do the 10.2 set bonuses mean for us and our gameplay

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If someone wouldn't mind explaining to a simpleton

lusty grotto
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that's great, migrating from VM to containers is a huge learning experience

opaque quest
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Spend rage on IP. Get procc

lusty tiger
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so i can actually utilize the convenience of git and docker lol

sudden tangle
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Docker ftw

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Also learning atm

lusty grotto
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both are excellent, but can be a pain in the ass when you touch some edge cases

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like everything

jaunty jacinth
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What embelishments are we using on prot? didn't find anything on FAQ.

lusty grotto
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2x shadowflame or 1x shadowflame + unstable frostfire

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either is fine

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if you had a UFFB from s1, then go the 2nd route, otherwise go for the first one

jaunty jacinth
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FF it is then, gotta craft one since it's my alt.

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thanks.

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Do we put any enchants on our shields? is it even possible? 😄

lusty grotto
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nope

jaunty jacinth
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Can someone explain the differenec between dodge and block?

lusty grotto
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dodge you completely avoid damage, warriors dont do that

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we parry, which is similar

jaunty jacinth
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any damage?

lusty grotto
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physical

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melee hits

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block you dont really avoid the damage, you take a little bit depending on K values

jaunty jacinth
lusty grotto
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dodge and parry? no

jaunty jacinth
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Ah so dodge and parry are in the same category right?

lusty grotto
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block does not apply to bleed effects either

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spell block makes our shield block block magical nukes

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and a very select number of dot ticks

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the number is extremely small

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magma's dots and sarkareth void slash are kind the only notable dot ticks you can spell block

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as a warrior

sick sentinel
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the good thing about spell block is you can stop 100% of the attack if the calculation is big enough

jaunty jacinth
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By block i meant the block stats.

sick sentinel
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i forget the exact numbers but block stops after reducing like 85% dmg

jaunty jacinth
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Block chance.

lusty grotto
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so block is affected by the block value of your shield

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block chance doesn't matter

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because if you have Shield Block up, you have 100% chance to block

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so the only important stat is block value, which you can get by having the highest ilvl shield you can find

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and the talent shield spec

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so really the only way block value goes up is by having a big fat shield

jaunty jacinth
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So block stat only works on melee hits?

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not physical or magical hits? I main bdk so this is kinda new to me.

lusty grotto
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for the most part, and while spell block is enabled on magical attacks

sick sentinel
#

it works on spells if you have spell block talented and active

#

spells that could be blocked anyways

jaunty jacinth
#

oh

#

got it

lusty grotto
#

all melee attacks can be blocked, parried, and dodged (but we dont do this last one)

#

but if you want a list of other attacks that arent in that category

sick sentinel
#

i think that spell block requires you to have shield block up so you get 100% chance to block and its not RNG if you blocked the spell or not

lusty grotto
#

there's a pinned excel sheet with that info

#

as well as reflectable spells etc

#

correct spell block requires you to have shield block up to properly function

sick sentinel
#

so, for instance, say the boss has an ability that coats their weapon in magic and strikes at all players infront of them in a cone, or it puts a swirl on the ground, you cant spell block those

jaunty jacinth
#

Is Spell block used in m+ content?

lusty grotto
#

yes you can read where in the faq

jaunty jacinth
#

alright, thanks guys

#

Also, i remember prot was pretty good on s1. What made the demand go so low in s2? Can't recall any nerfs or anything

lusty grotto
#

prot pal replaced us cause it had utility in higher keys

jaunty jacinth
#

Weren't utilities the same as in s1?

lusty grotto
#

then druids got reworked, and while VDH was creeping up as well due to their damage, any utility trumps all

jaunty jacinth
#

or was it the content rotation change?

lusty grotto
#

prot pal got reworked

#

then druid got reworked

#

thats the gist of it

#

they got tanky and have utility so

pallid quiver
#

Also, even in S1, Paladin still had utility over us

#

like before the rework i mean

lusty grotto
#

yes that's what i meant

pallid quiver
#

A large majority of the player base do not do the thinky

lusty grotto
#

yes that's the way meta goes

pallid quiver
#

So it's not even that Prot War was bad/became bad, they just got viewed as bad

lusty grotto
#

always

pallid quiver
#

also damn, doing the timewalking stuff just for the free gear casually for catchup,

#

people have their knickers in a hell of a knot

#

I haven't had a group of decent people at all today

dry tide
#

so how many bleeds do prot warrior have in total

pallid quiver
#

Rend, Deep Wounds, T Roar are the main three that will pop up

dry tide
#

thats what i thought

jaunty jacinth
dry tide
#

how are we thinking the new set bonus is gonna be ?

pallid quiver
#

shrug

#

Depends on what they do to it from now until launch

#

They could make it proc every time we spend rage, could make it proc once an M+ run

#

The idea's fine

dry tide
#

the damage sounds good but thats about it

pallid quiver
#

It's also like 15% DR on a prio target

dry tide
#

2% per bleed consumed

pallid quiver
#

10% from 2P

dry tide
#

thats only like 6%

pallid quiver
#

So it's anywhere from 12%-16%

#

realistically 14%

dry tide
#

how though

pallid quiver
#

2P gives 10%

dry tide
#

the math aint mathin

pallid quiver
#

and then 4p gives more for the bleeds

dry tide
#

2P?

pallid quiver
#

2 piece

dry tide
#

ahh i see

#

you right

lusty grotto
#

its 14-16% DR from it according to Nome

#

solely from it

pallid quiver
#

Yeah, deep wound+ rend will al;ways be up

sick sentinel
#

should be 1/6th up time

#

5 second proc at 2 ppm

mighty valley
#

i thought people on ptr were saying it procs like, every ~40 rage you spend

pallid quiver
#

Nome said like 10-12 ppm earlier i thought

#

either way, liable to change

#

Are bears still meta right now?

#

i';m seein' a lotta bears

lusty grotto
#

yeah they are still meta

#

in live

pallid quiver
#

Explains why I'm seeing a lot of levelling bears who aren''t pressing their buttons

lusty grotto
#

until the keys testing comes through, and classes potentially shifted around (around motw)

#

who knows what will happen honestly

pallid quiver
#

make it so that every time we proc our tier set, we also proc execute

#

do it cowards

#

they won't

sick sentinel
#

Is there a comprehensive M+ guide for Prot Warr out on the Internet? Rebooting my guy from S1 to push a few portals.

lavish sphinx
sick sentinel
#

BF5 isa fun when there isn't hackers

#

so far

#

i thought i had heard some of the new call of duties were cursed or general bad brown shooter

cinder nova
#

Bro why the hell do we have sleeves on our tier

sick sentinel
#

would you guys use sandlgass or scale in keys

dusky mica
#

The sleeves look like a bug.

sudden sable
# sick sentinel would you guys use sandlgass or scale in keys

Hourglass seems like a good pwar trinket. Scale seems bad. Warriors usually don't die quickly. It won't heal much. Will prob depend on the dungeons-- if there's big magical tank nukes that can't be blocked reflected or kicked, or a huge bleed it might have value.

violet ginkgo
#

I heard that warrior doesn't die quickly because of the good mitigation but has to be healed since not much self heal

urban bane
#

it is simple. if we can block the damage we good. if we cant it can get spooky

urban portal
#

+something here and there

jagged gust
#

Only times I take big boy damage is when I play badly and take 5 backshots or miss a defensive

#

Also hourglass sims pretty well for us but the long ass CD is annoying, though seeing my haste hit 120% with lust is pretty neat. I'd rather just have an anvil or something passive... Not that im confident I can keep anvil up most of the time but in a perfect world

jagged gust
#

jfc, I lost 35% of my rage gen from shield charges, only 5% from the bashes but damn

#

I think every single one of those intersects with Last Stand

low timber
#

I was gonna go back to blood dk cause the war tier (cosmetically) looked ass, but the wowhead up close shit and no weird sleeves has me second guessing myself. I kinda like it now

cerulean tusk
#

They always come crawling back

low timber
#

im a slave to trying to look cool

obtuse viper
#

Hello prot friends..I was planning on tanking m+ to get my last 200 points for 2500. Would you guys say I "have" to get a pathing addon like method dungeon tools or will I be able to tankit by just remembering the routes from dpsing? 🤔. I like to minimize addon usage but if you prot mains think it's a requirement I don't see a reason to gimp myself

cerulean tusk
#

MDT could be nice to check your pathing before you go % wise. Rest you can yolo

charred ivy
#

i always yolo xD just some spots need remember how much i want before i pass a certain spot

jagged gust
#

Most pulls are pretty intuitive. mdt is more distracting than anything, I used to think I'd have to have it open every other pull but stopped after like 3 dungeons. Just keep moving, if you're just doing pug pulls its hard to miss % anyways.

jagged pier
#

For that rating u can press w

jagged gust
#

FH being the big exception

obtuse viper
#

I also feel like why download mdt when the lowest DPS is always gonna let me know we missed % as soon as it happens anyways

charred ivy
#

u see np u have reminder xD atleast he do something good then 😉

obtuse viper
shy python
#

(Didn't find the news in english)

obtuse viper
#

I hope they just mean like full screen overlays people were using to put like markers and what to do in the arena on your screen for you at all times not CD tracker stuff

shy python
#

Hope that too... I love this reflect thing.. makes me feel like a god

obtuse viper
#

I'll stream my runs and the chat can pay 20 bucks to blast an air horn to let me know I missed %

charred ivy
#

what wa do u use?

jagged gust
#

Realistically just learn how to do the first big pull of a dungeon and it'll make up for any inefficiencies in your routing

violet ginkgo
#

Speaking of which uh I can ask suggestion for the item to use here right? Like what to choose

sweet summit
#

of course

jagged pier
#

Erga been back a day doing yellow stuff already

violet ginkgo
#

great, do we have something like uh armory so ppl can see and advice stuffs? Also any dreambound gear is good?

sweet summit
#

best bet is prob to link a recent top gear sim i think

#

and i have no idea what dreambound gear is so ask jakey about that Late

jagged pier
#

its catch up gear that i think caps at 415

#

so no its not that great

sweet summit
blazing condor
#

erga ur pfp is sad turn that frown upside down

violet ginkgo
jagged pier
#

well then its okay

sweet summit
violet ginkgo
#

ok then I might buy some gear

sweet summit
#

crying even

blazing condor
sweet summit
jagged pier
#

just watch some classic hardcore deaths to cheer u up because its always someone being stupid

#

best thing are ppl literally malding when they die at like lvl 15

#

bro

blazing condor
#

yeah lol

jagged pier
#

it takes like an hour to get there

blazing condor
#

maybe its their 20th char tht didnt make it past 20

#

at one point u start malding

jagged pier
#

there are a lot of ppl that cant get past that

#

and literally die doing the same mistakes

#

eveyrtime

#

like going into caves

blazing condor
#

just like retail peepoHappy

jagged pier
#

when the mobs are still yellow

sweet summit
#

LMAO thanks jakey

blazing condor
#

pfp still sad detective

#

it didnt work

jagged pier
violet ginkgo
#

Question to jakey if you are willing to help me

jagged pier
#

shoot

violet ginkgo
#

So I use this
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/protection-warrior-pve-tank-gear-best-in-slot?area=area_3

as a baseline on what I should work on, of course maybe still in raid finder version since real raid might be a bit far for me with 10.2 also coming soon.

Now the question is I saw all that gear is from raid right, and some gear got versa status, what if there is a dreambound gear or catch up gear that got haste and crit, instead of haste versa? just take the dreambound gear?

blazing condor
jagged pier
#

your focusing too much on stats

#

stats mean very little compared to ilvl

#

even then if the pieces are the same ilvl u take the one with more haste

#

crit and vers are equal anyway so u can choose which one u want to go for in the long run

violet ginkgo
#

hmmm ok so no need to do minmax stat

#

at least not yet

sweet summit
blazing condor
#

looks smug

violet ginkgo
jagged pier
#

yes

iron junco
#

Hi. What do you think about the bonus set in 10.2? To me it seems semi-useless in m+ where we are already in bad shape due to chronic lack of utility, perhaps in raids it is a little better, but even there it doesn't seem to intervene in the sector that worries us least: damage reduction.

urban portal
#

Its really good in raid

#

It’s just way too st

ionic fern
#

What.

hazy bronze
#

No healing = no utility I guess

strong forum
#

Paladin has always had it's insane "utility"

#

But somehow they weren't even on the radar all of bfa and most of SL

urban portal
#

Yeah ikr

#

Death grip like didn’t exist until sl s3

sweet summit
#

almost like utility is a buzzword to gatekeep

urban portal
#

And disappeared after

#

Weird

strong forum
#

And mentioning raid relevance and damage reduction as a weak point in the same sentence is kinda whack

#

Nobody really cares about defensive prowess in raid outside of like top 10 guilds

#

Past that point it's just a thing of git gud okayge

urban portal
#

Well the raid defensive comes with a gazillion damage deleting bleeds

#

None of the other tank sets do a ton of st I think

strong forum
#

(he's just farming)

urban portal
#

If you are into that

strong forum
#

Sims will tell

#

If you don't need Spellblock, you can talent out of enduring Defenses potentially

urban portal
#

I think it’s better than nails for sure in raid

strong forum
#

And get 2x BB

strong forum
urban portal
#

Oh wait

#

Yea

#

Mb

strong forum
#

That's the crux

#

Its either 0 BB or 2

urban portal
#

Wait no doesn’t bb also path to punish

strong forum
#

Cuz if you can get 1,you can get 2

urban portal
#

Oh yeah

strong forum
#

Yes but it's 2 points

urban portal
#

You have to finish the node

#

So it’s nails+soemtjing

strong forum
#

Either nails/bolster/spellblock

jagged pier
#

until u get mythic ilvl pieces 2pc 2pc might be better

#

so u run bolster anyway

strong forum
#

Ye

jagged pier
#

u can still get 15k dps out of the tier set with that

#

both nome and me this morning have got that

#

and thats without bb

#

and from testing yesterday its about 2k more dps from the tier set with 2x bb

#

so its not much of a gain anyway

strong forum
#

Hard to tell without Sims

#

1 or 10 samplesize ain't enough

jagged pier
#

true

hazy bronze
#

Overall, hows it play? Just kinda the big slam every so often?

strong forum
#

~10-12 procs per minute if you play well

#

of extra damage on shield slam

#

need to remember to reapply rend often via TC

urban portal
#

Yeah just make sure both bleeds are still ticking

charred ivy
#

How is prot warrior ranked now in DPS compared to other tanks?

urban portal
#

Up there

#

Our tier is entirely st

violet ginkgo
#

But I mean we just have to survive right? Let the dps worry about their dps.

urban portal
#

In m+ you still need to do damage

#

But tank dps still matters a bit in raid

strong forum
#

surviving is the bare minimum job of a tank

#

and playing optimally defensively also means youre playing really aggressively offensive

#

there is no pure defense playstyle

strong forum
#

and brew aoe is just really strong by default

#

BDK aoe is also really good, but their ST is low

lyric heart
strong forum
#

Won't be OP for it

#

But our ST increases a good margin

#

And we get alot or consistent DR on the boss

opaque quest
#

Tank usage doesnt depend purely on dps. Looking at sarkareth for example

strong forum
#

So it's a big ol' maybe

#

tank choice for RWF is as following:

  • raid buff (bshout / mystic touch / chaos brand)
  • cheese potential /utility (Grips/AMS/Spellward/Bubble/Bop/roar(every druid brings that))
  • dmg output
  • survivability
#

In this order

granite marten
#

how strong is prot war magic dr?

#

is it still basically just spell reflect?

sweet summit
#

ignore pain exists

#

as do our cooldowns

#

demo shout/shield wall etc

hazy bronze
#

Spell block

sick sentinel
#

im currently tking nome approach to wow

#

only log in to fart around

#

havent done a single key this week yet

opaque quest
#

I started playing my sham again. Playing 1 key in a incorp week made me stop again

sweet summit
#

speaking of which

#

what is happening to affixes season 3

#

or still TBD

opaque quest
#

tbd

sweet summit
#

need them gone..

opaque quest
#

Incorp and Afflicted ruin the game for me

#

Low key

sweet summit
#

blizzard make enjoyable affixes challenge (impossible)

opaque quest
#

Tangled is fine

urban portal
#

Bring back prideful

opaque quest
#

I rather have the seasonal affixes again if that means we get rid of incorp

#

Told the new guy he needs MC

#

YES IT IS READ THE FUCKING AFFIX

sweet summit
#

friendly reminder to try not to gatekeep too much and help out in a kind way gladge

sick sentinel
opaque quest
#

Thats why i only said yes

sweet summit
opaque quest
#

Even told him where to get the point

#

But having to explain a talent 10 times in an hour is rough

sick sentinel
#

i would prefer to see blizzard have the affixes tuned for season 3

#

and then by 11.0 completely new ones

#

something we haven't ever seen before or couldnt predict

mellow bridge
opaque quest
#

Classic

#

Key dead. Tank just left

#

Cant even complete a 15 in weeks where ppl need to press 1 additional button

#

Last one im posting. Sry for spam but this one cracked me up

rustic knot
#

Seeing all this makes me glad i don't plan on logging back in for a few more weeks xan

opaque quest
#

Lies of P soon 🙏

ionic roost
opaque quest
#

My favorite word in low keys is redundancy keks

austere lava
ionic roost
#

It's a 15, what's there to heal lmao

opaque quest
#

Youre both right. Usualy healers handle it solo but ppl just dumping it on the healer without at least picking it for emergencies is garbanzo

#

Am i doing something wrong or very right

strong forum
#

New partition

#

Since 10.1.7 just hit this week

#

So it's easier than normal to snag 100s

opaque quest
#

Oh sweet

strong forum
#

They won't lock in for a few days*

#

So if anybody after you does better, he takes your 100 away

opaque quest
#

Nobody with 430 will do more than 113 i think im good

#

lol

#

Havent played the chars in 3 months. Everything above 90 is fine for me honestly

strong forum
#

Log says you're 440

#

Smh

opaque quest
#

lul what

#

How the fuck am i 440

strong forum
#

susge

#

Ah...

#

You're checking ilvl parse

opaque quest
#

ofc i am. Why would i compare my 431 to 448s 😄

strong forum
#

Fake R1 smh

opaque quest
#

its also only HC

#

Just using them to flex on my friend who buys boosts for all his chars

smoky pollen
#

I skipped out on tanking because Fury was good this tier.
How wrong am I for playing Battle-Scarred Veteran but dropping Battering Ram for it?

urban portal
#

battle scarred veteran doesnt work properly

hardy snow
smoky pollen
#

As in the dr doesn’t apply correctly ?
I swapped into it when I picked prot back up in .5 because I was rotating defensives in DoTI but Murozond hurted and I needed one more thing to save me

urban portal
#

because it procs very unexpectedly

fallen spindle
#

been running some myt doungens ( no lag ) to try out the new tier set and so on, atm, i really like the feel of it, also that roar is getting faster to use is nice while the tc reset feels nice if you dont have alot of haste, its very smooth, its pog

urban bane
opaque quest
hardy snow
opaque quest
pallid quiver
#

In order to get good use out of Battle Scarred Vet, you have to specifically plan around it due to how it activates, so you need to pretty much plan to be in the situation you need it for in advance, such as specifically 3 minutes into a fight after it trivially procs at the start or something along those lines

#

as compared to simply swinging faster almost half the time giving more shield slams

smoky pollen
#

Oh okay I see I see. Thank you for the insight everyone.

chilly brook
pallid quiver
#

please tell me you're like ilvl 250

#

it'd be funny

chilly brook
#

Since there are a grand total of 2 Dev evokers at 441 apparently on zskarn

pallid quiver
#

That's a different kind of funny

chilly brook
#

My overall parse went to shit because I died 30 seconds before boss died

#

But I mean still ending up with a 62 on a prog kill when you died and had 30+ seconds of nothing seems decent

#

Also fuck that boss

sick sentinel
#

taurens look dumb in the 500 tenders bundle

#

but thats about expected

opaque quest
#

25€ btw

chilly brook
#

If you’re a Tauren and you’re not mogging to reflect WC3 then you’re wrong

pallid quiver
#

There's very specific things that you do to make Tauren mog look good; it's most about the shoulders, helm, and gloves in that order

#

and you generally want to cover chest pieces with tabards because they just get stretched so much

sick sentinel
#

Or no chest

opaque quest
#

There are no helmets for Tauren. They just dont exist

#

I like the new totems from the trading post for tauren tho

opaque quest
#

@sick sentinel How do you handle spamming 17s. I have so many 445s doing 80k overall here wtf

pallid quiver
#

hey can you get me in those 17s

#

i'm pretty sure i can pull more than 80k overall at like, 395 or something

opaque quest
#

Im 431 doing 160k overall in Ulda

#

Ppl are so bad lol

pallid quiver
#

While doing timewalkings on alts, I saw a prot war who never pressed revenge

#

a single time

#

They only used Whirlwind

opaque quest
#

Yeah its not defensive. Fuck revenge

#

./s

pallid quiver
#

it makes me feel things that said person was the best tank i had all day

chilly brook
#

This fuckin guy (priest) was like 440 something

#

He had the gall to whine about chains not being “right” in neltharus

pallid quiver
#

damn there's an aug in there, too

chilly brook
#

Yeah….

#

Did I mention he was floor pov on the first two bosses?

pallid quiver
#

some people really just need to hit the training dummy more often and they just refuse to

chilly brook
#

Like I’m a 430 something prot boi

pallid quiver
#

like 5-10 minutes a day does wonders

chilly brook
#

I shouldn’t be out damaging you

#

Especially when you have an Aug

#

But yeah chains are the “problem”

#

For reference adds were brought to chains btw

chilly brook
sudden palm
#

Is the Zskarn dot spell blockable like Sarkareth's dot?

chilly brook
#

Press your buttons don’t die

sudden palm
pallid quiver
#

It's not even just keys; I've had some people lose their shit over random shit in timewalking dungeons, even

chilly brook
#

Keys legit are press w and don’t die

pallid quiver
#

like i know we can just hop over the river after first boss in that one wotlk dungeon instead of going around my guy,

chilly brook
#

Once you get that down then we can start worrying about pressing w into the right areas and not dying

pallid quiver
#

there's no reason to spam every last ping and shout "FUCKING MORONS" if someone doesn't do that

#

At any rate, that was my reminder that the ping system exists now

opaque quest
#

K key done

#

Somehow we timed

#

This is how it looks at the end

#

Pala is 443

#

I am 431

#

We not gonna talk about the DH below tank

#

Pala ofc also helped alot with CC

sick sentinel
#

Serves you right meta slave

opaque quest
#

Im a prot warr main tho

#

And a unholy alt

#

Hows that meta keks

sick sentinel
#

I'm a brew enjoyer

#

Playing druid

opaque quest
#

Brew ftw

sick sentinel
#

Slave

opaque quest
#

If brew didnt have 45 buttons i'd play mine too

sick sentinel
opaque quest
#

Where is weapons of order

mellow bridge
#

PTA picker detected

opaque quest
#

Press the advantage isnt sweaty enough

sick sentinel
mellow bridge
#

Opinion rejected

opaque quest
#

Everything cock ever said says or will ever say is invalid

#

na for real tho

#

PTA is giga terrible in AoE. I rather not play at all if i have to handicap myself this much

sick sentinel
#

2 less buttons

opaque quest
#

Yeah i know. I played with the thought of just going PTA but the amount of dps im losing just isnt worth it

chilly brook
opaque quest
#

So ill just stick to prot warr and BDK

chilly brook
#

Class needs about 2-3 less buttons

opaque quest
#

Just put all the shadowlands shit on a choice node

#

Fixed

chilly brook
#

More specifically in the offensive CD department

#

Rotational stuff isn’t bad

south zealot
#

no weapons of order or tiger palm id good

#

is

sick sentinel
opaque quest
#

Ye PTA is good for 30s

mellow bridge
#

murlok Pepexecute

opaque quest
#

Even the WoWhead guide says PTA is viable for hard content

#

But none of us plays 30s

#

So PTA is garbanzo beans

#

Also Murlok is just as useless as u.gg

sick sentinel
#

Not really

#

Just takes all of info from rio ect

jagged pier
#

Yes so useless because murlok only take the top 50 players for each spec

opaque quest
#

As long as this exists u.gg and Murlok are useless

jagged pier
#

Are u doing that content?

#

Because at that lvl its a different game

opaque quest
#

Thats why i said none of us is doing 30s keks

jagged pier
#

They websites can be good but u need to know why are what your looking at basically

#

Its why we hate that other one that just scrapes all the info because its just mot useful as ppl just follow thw trickles down even if its wrong

opaque quest
#

If ppl do it in 30 it must be good for my 14 weekly

sick sentinel
#

Applies to 22+

jagged pier
#

No it doesnt

#

22s are not 30s

#

High content is like 26s

#

Sure stuff from murlock might be good there

opaque quest
#

30s have insane teamplay. 22s still dont

jagged pier
#

^

#

It helps if 22s do

strong forum
#

What is even the context

south zealot
#

pta on brew

opaque quest
#

Context is PTA for brew is meh in low to mid keys

#

But Murlok says its good

strong forum
#

From I know

#

Pta is hard trolling

opaque quest
#

PTA is giga hard trolling unless you die without it

strong forum
#

You lose shitloads of single target dps to gain 3% aoe dmg

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Or some shit

south zealot
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worth

opaque quest
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Other way around. You lose big aoe for ST

sick sentinel
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Its literally just a guide

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"GUIDE"

south zealot
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honestly idk how it works i just said it was good in reference to brew having a lot of buttond

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good step in removing bloat from the class

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if its not taken then that sucks but fixed with tuning ofc

opaque quest
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Well a Guide for a ferarri is still terrible if i have a WV and a guide to a racetrack and how to deal with corners is still shit if i drive in the city only^^

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Its just for different areas

sick sentinel
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Better than wowhead

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Faster than looking on rio

mellow bridge
south zealot
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murlok is almost never better thsn wowhead

sick sentinel
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Just a brtief overview

mellow bridge
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it's a damage loss for both aoe and st, the only use it has is simplifying the spec

strong forum
sick sentinel
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Because woiwhead shows embellishments ect

strong forum
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which crits for 200k or some shit

opaque quest
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Oh ye you guys right

strong forum
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playing PTA

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is just trolling

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to gain 3% aoe

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but lose your strongest ST/prio button

sick sentinel
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2 less buttons

opaque quest
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PTA gives huge rising dmg tho doesnt it

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I mean it doesnt matter what you play in 22s

sick sentinel
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Works for me as 5 is always taunt

south zealot
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still a loss bc u use tiger palm a lot in st

opaque quest
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Just saying its still a big hit

strong forum
chilly brook
opaque quest
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"doesnt it" keks

chilly brook
strong forum
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id rather deal meaningful dmg

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than play 2 less buttons

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just my take

opaque quest
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My OCD wouldnt let me play brew because my brain would always yell at me thati m sub optimal lmao

strong forum
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buffing your aoe, as the already highest dps tank, at the cost of .. 17%(i believe pao said) ST dmg

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sounds like a real bad fucking deal to me

sick sentinel
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less buttons always good

strong forum
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sure for your weekly key its whatever

sick sentinel
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Exactly

strong forum
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at those levels nothing matters

sick sentinel
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I dont do 20+ on monk so

strong forum
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well evidence suggests

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that even on 30s it doesnt matter

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but youre not doing yourself any favours either

sick sentinel
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I dont even follow trhe guide just play what i like personally and what dungeon ect

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Only posted that cause roaach asking where weapons at, most people dont even play it, probably for same reason less buttons

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Even equinox runs PTA okayge

strong forum
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the guy known to pad aoe as hard as humanly possible

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yes

sick sentinel
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Mr dps himself ofc

opaque quest
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Wait

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I thought i was the guy to pad aoe as hard as possible

sick sentinel
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Eranog as outlaw pad heaven

opaque quest
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Beautiful

weary saddle
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how come protwar channel is talking abt brew...

opaque quest
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As long as mwahi doesnt see us we are talking about everything

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If mwahi sees us we are running for our dear lifes

obtuse viper
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Pvp chat talks about wind Walker a lot why not brew in prot?

opaque quest