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teal swift
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First boss temple of sethralis for example

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Idk if we've gotten any irrationally nonsensical reflectable spells since bfa

untold tangle
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I agree. Its the one in HoI specifically I couldnt figure out tbh, and then I though, well maybe theres one for boss abilities

teal swift
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But it's hard to logic them

blazing condor
teal swift
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Reflecting frontal conal projectiles but only if it's targeting someone who isn't you

untold tangle
teal swift
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Did they make spellreflext easier to Intuit?

blazing condor
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its just "you gotta learn it"

teal swift
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Because some of them were insanely weirdge

blazing condor
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by looking at the spreadsheet

teal swift
pallid quiver
teal swift
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Nvm

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Map

untold tangle
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To reflect the one in VP, do I just stand in someones circle and press SR, or does it only work when its targetted at me?

blazing condor
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it wont target you

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so you gotta run into another persons circle

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and SR

untold tangle
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ok, cool thanks

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well then I won t need the wa as I now know which ones to reflect and how

blazing condor
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yeah

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just look up the spreadsheet and learn

untold tangle
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I just checked out the WA and its fucking huge.

teal swift
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Lmaoooo

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@sweet summit

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Cat loves dad chair

sweet summit
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:3

teal swift
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From the 6 tanks

Can we list them easiest to hardest? Surely some other tanks are less punishing and easier to pilot than others. Cough prot paladin

daring marlin
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easiest? Prot Warrior is prolly one of the two easiest

ember tangle
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i think it kinda depends on the content

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druid is probably the lowest barrier to entry into reasonably difficult content, but they can struggle at the start of pulls in m+ if you aren't careful

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warrior doesn't really struggle on pull because shield block is so easy to get up, but we have to learn which mobs will truck us with a bleed

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dk can be kinda hard to learn IMO, but the nature of the damage you take matters less

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ez to flop over as a DK

oblique garnet
daring marlin
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based late

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what a chad lad

oblique garnet
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Hate monk

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So gcd capped all the time

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RJW is the worst designed spell in the game and ill fight anyone who says otherwise

teal swift
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Monk feels so good in raid and sooooooo bad in keys

ember tangle
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i hate the dumb tiger statue the most tbh

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although rjw is a close second

bleak breach
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Difficulty to play no tank is really hard to play. It’s just some are better then others, which makes things easier.

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As you said Yuzu monk good in raid, but feels odd in dungeons.

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Druid people say is easy because it excels in both.

oblique garnet
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Well and the fact that the rotation is extremely easy

bleak breach
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Yes, but I mean most tank rotations are very trivial

teal swift
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BDK has so many layers of resources, that I'm inefficient with them, but keys still go well

bleak breach
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Did they change Druid much? I don’t even look at them to be honest. Do they still use heaps of spells?

daring marlin
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bone shield is the lamest shit

bleak breach
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Not saying you’re bad lol

teal swift
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No, I'm fucking abysmal and am playing it about as poorly as humanly possible

daring marlin
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Can literally say the same about any class except maybe monk

bleak breach
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Found it really weird seeing guardian use half the boomy rotation.

teal swift
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But content still going smooth up to like 17s

daring marlin
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Warrior(currently) is way easier than bdk

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Keep up shield block

bleak breach
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I honestly have never found any class all that difficult

daring marlin
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The classes are super dummy

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cuz muh raid fights

bleak breach
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Like people told me Ele shaman hard, but you literally just hit whatever flashes on most classes and maybe download a WA and you’re fine.

teal swift
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I look at the log

bleak breach
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Just log nothing and be happy in denial

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What you don’t know can’t hurt you

teal swift
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Like, feelsy wise the keys are going well

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But once I analyze the gameplay

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Holy fuck I'm bad

bleak breach
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Keys can be difficult, especially when learning. Like in a raid you get a lot of repetition so eventually you get a flow going, but pack to pack you can miss a lot

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I think one of the big things in keys is not using enough cds, that’s what I notice when I look at my own stuff. Like in raid you hold them for situations, but I sometimes forget in a key I nearly have them for every pack anyway.

blazing condor
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yeah underusage of defensive CDs is a big thing

teal swift
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Keys not so much

teal swift
oblique garnet
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theres no such thing

bleak breach
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Can never over use

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Only if you don’t have them when you need the@

blazing condor
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if you waste a cd when u didnt need it then die cus u didnt have it maybe

oblique garnet
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i guess well panic pressing everything is overusing

blazing condor
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but otherwise no such thing

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if you had to use a cd to survive

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its not a waste

teal swift
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But I try to just send one CD at a time

bleak breach
teal swift
bleak breach
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I think the worst thing with keys is just other players

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You can do everything right yourself and get let down by the group.

teal swift
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Last time I raided

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Like I'm not great

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I just think raid tanking is mindlessly easy

bleak breach
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Anything purple or above is good

daring marlin
teal swift
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My nerzhul kill I was dead for like 15 at the end

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Should've been 90+

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But yeah, for me, raid tanking is just copying lorrgs

blazing condor
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anything over 50 is above average

teal swift
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And managing resources

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Lorrgs is fucking based

bleak breach
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So you don’t raid anymore

teal swift
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I used the shit out of it in shadowlands

teal swift
bleak breach
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Ahh okay

teal swift
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After break from s2 sl

bleak breach
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I skipped shadowlands

teal swift
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That was around the time I quit

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Just came back 2 weeks ago

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Got my ksm, am just coasting rm

bleak breach
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Didn’t hate BFA but I quit then, just sort of fell out of love. Then somehow came back around 10.0.5

daring marlin
bleak breach
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I mostly raid, thinking of going Ce next tier, but I’ve got too many kids and it’s time consuming.

balmy crow
blazing condor
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first patch was dope

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for the first half year

teal swift
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Don't get attached if you feel the guild won't get it

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Jump ship

blazing condor
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its a lot of time if youre not in a good guild

teal swift
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Yesh

blazing condor
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many guilds raid 3x a week and are just now getting their CE

teal swift
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The hardest part is finding the guild to get CE with

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CE itself isn't hard lol

blazing condor
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thats like 3-4 hours x 3 for 25 weeks or smth

bleak breach
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My guild has 2 CE teams, aiming for 4 next tier

blazing condor
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mega guild

bleak breach
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They only raid 2x a week 2.5 hours

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I think their top group does 3 days

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But it’s more just the effort and behind the scenes stuff that I don’t have time for.

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Like most CE guilds requiring x amount of keys a week and other random stuff. I just like to turn up to raid on Sunday lol

bleak breach
# blazing condor mega guild

Yeah they’re massive, I’m just in a group that does Aotc and a day per week of mythic once we get Aotc, but as you can imagine there’s differing levels of players in the group so we eventually hit a wall or the roster boss because people get disheartened.

teal swift
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I wanna find a 5 day a week 3-4 hour a day mythic raiding guild

jagged pier
teal swift
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I don't really wanna slow prog 2 days a week

teal swift
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Guilds that struggle to maintain a dedicated roster focused on gearing up, tend to require keys and shit so their raiders actually get geared, good guilds players do whatever

jagged pier
teal swift
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Great guilds unleash the splitraids

bleak breach
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Ohhhhh you said weeks a week, I thought I had made a typo but hadn’t.

bleak breach
rich wyvern
blazing condor
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did they change how m+ dungeons scale per level now

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for this season rn

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like whats the diff between a 20 and a 21

oblique garnet
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🙂

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The actual scaling % is w/e because people dont understand math

blazing condor
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thanks late

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found it

teal swift
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I already casually play 8 hours a day on a light day

rich wyvern
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Ye but

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Is that 8 hours all wiping on mythic bosses?

teal swift
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I don't mind that kind of schedule

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It works for me

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But I can't really find a guild with a. Loaded schedule

rich wyvern
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Aight, whatever floats your boat ig

teal swift
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And 2-3 day doesn't interest me

rich wyvern
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Gotta take breaks Yekno

teal swift
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Why, put in 5-6 weeks of prog

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And be done

limpid ruin
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Ya perma prog is a nightmare to me now

teal swift
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Ain't no way you're pegging 3-4 months in with a 20 hour a week raid schddule

hardy snow
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if you need 200 pulls on a boss, you gonna need 200 anyway, doesnt matter whether you do them in one week or in one month okayge

teal swift
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Heavy schedules get the kills, go down to lighter schedule

teal swift
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Lol

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Faster prog = chillin rest of tier

limpid ruin
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I’ve gotten CE last week two tier in a row before sadgers . I can’t go back

teal swift
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It's be nice to y'know

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Not be permanently progging

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Imagine an extra day or two a week and you have 2+ months of relaxing reclear

hardy snow
teal swift
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It's really taxing to never get to stop progging

hardy snow
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stretching them to more weeks doesnt change that you will wipe

teal swift
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So I'd rather cram it all in

sick sentinel
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WTB wood chopping skill secondary profession and other GIGACHAD type stuff

teal swift
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Go cut trees there

hardy snow
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WoD classic when copium

sick sentinel
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no, a real wood cutting, and fix arch

teal swift
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Wait for gold print xpac

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Loool

hardy snow
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nah im kidding, i dont give a f about classic, Ive played it for 15 min when it first came out and had enough, Ive played wotlk to get mount from promo

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but couldnt do that in one run, had to spread over a week

teal swift
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I liked p1 and p2

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The leveling, gearing uo

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Getting into raid was fun

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Then it's just bleh

dusky canopy
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I like the idea of a forced reset again and doing classic+

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But idk how much I’ll actually like it

dusky canopy
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They could also just start classic+ at the end of the wrath cycle instead of doing cata. Maybe that’d be better

teal swift
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Game took a negative turn for me

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With xserver shit

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Like wotlk I touching group finder for dungeons

dusky canopy
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I kinda just want a forced reset honestly

teal swift
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Bc Introducing heroic dungeons

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I want a forced reset to classic, and rebuild from thete

dusky canopy
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Same I think that’d be pretty good

teal swift
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Every expansion after classic added worse and worse systems

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Like the cross server lfg for dungeons, fuck no

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Make people find groups in tradechat

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But then again gdkp ruined everything for most xpacs

strong forum
teal swift
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Diablo 2 LoD MVP for replayability and longevity

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I know people who are still playing d2lod and didn't move to d2r lul

dusky canopy
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They could copy and paste the retail version of premade group finder. Just not lfr or dungeon finder.

strong forum
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They're just stuck in the past, good for them tho if they can enjoy that

dusky canopy
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I’d also be happy with re balancing classes for classic as well

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Maybe optimizing talent trees etc

teal swift
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I really think they need to

  1. Remove tokens from classic
  2. Ban gdkp and enforce it. (It'll still happen behind closed doors)
  3. Stick with design philosophies that made mmos 1999-2005 so amazing.
dusky canopy
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Keep it simple 1-3 button rotations but make the classes do more damage

plush tendon
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Meh, nothing wrong with GDKP

teal swift
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It heavily incentives RMT, botting, and other things that are economy crippling

plush tendon
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And it’s a opt in anyways; people run MS>OS and GDKP

teal swift
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Notice the gold economy from classic p1-3 to wotlk.

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Just make gdkp unallowed, make people run that shit in the fringes.

dusky canopy
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They will never remove bots completely, unfortunately

teal swift
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The economy felt good

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In early classic.

plush tendon
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the issue is, whatst the logic behind banning GDKP; its essentially people raiding and then buying items with gold

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would the rule be 'cannot buy items with gold in a raid group?"

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that sounds silly

teal swift
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Idk, make it arbitrary idc lmao

nimble skiff
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Gdkp works for pugs truthfully

plush tendon
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works extremely well for pugs

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and, it incentivizes people to raid even when full geared as carrys

dusky canopy
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I might be more of a loaner with this take but I really dislike wasting my 2-3 hours of gameplay everyday farming gold. I’d rather be grinding dungeons/raids/ or bgs for fun
So I personally don’t mind the wow token or bots making everything dirt cheap because it makes the way I want to play the game easier

plush tendon
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using the wow token in Wrath classic is meh

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4k is nothing

dusky canopy
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Oh yeah it’s not worth it at current price

nimble skiff
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Is that all it gets you?

plush tendon
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the Economy in Wrath is actually fucked; but its not cause of GDKP, but the other listed reasons of RMT and gold farming/botting

teal swift
nimble skiff
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Damn dude. I got 1mil retail for 4k gold in wotlk when I stopped

plush tendon
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thats the strat

teal swift
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Lmao

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Nty

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Work rsids kinda sucked

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Well half

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Icc was fun

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Ulduar was fun

plush tendon
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but its also awesome for me; im still a little rat in Wrath, but i want to be able to run GDKPs and make gold.... to exchange for retail gold

teal swift
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Naxx was mid and toc was shiiiiit

dusky canopy
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So gold there is bloated

nimble skiff
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What are you gonna do

plush tendon
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Ill swear though, the wrath classic community is the most toxic and vile group of people I have ever had the misfortune of playing with

nimble skiff
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The classic community*

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Fixed it for you

plush tendon
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Wrath Classic

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Hardcore community from my experience is good, and I dont know about Classic Era servers tbf

teal swift
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You cannot fix the botting and RMT issue with the workforce blizzard wants

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It's skeleton crew for everything

nimble skiff
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The classic community is a lot of toxicity tbqh. The ones who played 2019 classic went thru tbc and wotlk

teal swift
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Need dedicated teams and people. Look what they did to the CS department

nimble skiff
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Hardcore is separate

teal swift
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I wonder if hardcore TBC is coming

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Or hardcore wotlk

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Lmao

plush tendon
teal swift
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Yeah they'd need to rehire

plush tendon
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its too late for classic servers

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it just is what it is

teal swift
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And double down on kt

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Yeah for classic+ though

strong forum
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I don't think you'll see hc tbc/wrath

plush tendon
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that would be crazy

dusky canopy
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I don’t think so either

teal swift
plush tendon
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I would be terrified in TBC dungeons if it was hardcore

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so much BS in there

strong forum
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Cuz the whole point of hc classic is that leveling is the game

teal swift
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The pyramid of corpses it'd take to get through ulduar alone LOL

dusky canopy
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Hardcore vanilla makes sense

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Nothing past that

strong forum
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And leveling in tbc and wrath is a much much much smaller part of the game

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(also why they're better)

teal swift
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Different

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Not better imho

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Not worse eirher

strong forum
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Mobile games are better than classic wow if you ask me

teal swift
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Just a different game with similar engine

teal swift
strong forum
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1 button gaming WOOOOO

nimble skiff
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Classic levelling is not everyone's cup of tea, and that's okay

strong forum
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1 mob gaming WOOOOO

dusky canopy
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Yeah classic leveling is very boring

teal swift
dusky canopy
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Don’t disagree with that at all

strong forum
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Like, it's great that people enjoy classic

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But it ain't stopping me from making fun of classic

teal swift
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You ever do a 6 hour molten core rai d? Kill boss use reck, log out to keep world buffs and reset 30minute reck xD for next boss

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Parse run went brrr

strong forum
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I did 4hrs MC back in wod

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During the event

nimble skiff
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Classic levelling is the best when you're drunk and/or on other substances (idk if this is allowed to mention)

But kicking back and relaxing on an easy game that doesn't need a lot of brainpower is enjoyable for me at times

strong forum
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Just to get that stupid mount

teal swift
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Nomer come give me hug

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You deserve hug for your mountslut

plush tendon
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there are certain things about classic leveling that were fun

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some dungeons are just iconic

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and soloing Cyclonian at level 35 is such a feat

nimble skiff
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Also hi nomer. I used your parry strat in 21 uld last night and parried some filthy casuals and got my KSH last night. Pretty hyped

strong forum
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Based

plush tendon
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otherwise.... the auto attack->Rage spender every 10 seconds is : ^)

dusky canopy
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Warlock for classic

teal swift
dusky canopy
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Or rogue for world pvp ganks

nimble skiff
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Now I'm done till next season so I can run some 17s/18s and work on my UI for serious tanking next season

plush tendon
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both wrong

uneven mason
plush tendon
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the correct answer is always warrior

strong forum
nimble skiff
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I need a shield block WA, any suggestions? I didn't see one in a pin

teal swift
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Fomo ruins my experience in wow

dusky canopy
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Warrior for gigachad raiding

strong forum
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Fomo is almost exclusively why I play

teal swift
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I need to find a way to track my shield block time

strong forum
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Love exclusive locked away stuff

teal swift
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I only got two

nimble skiff
teal swift
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Dk and rogue

blazing condor
nimble skiff
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Ballsy move calling out the parry god himself

uneven mason
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We're all parrygods, nom is just the only one that wears the obnoxious orange shirt with the logo

teal swift
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I have a warrior hud kicking around

uneven mason
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We had a war in here last night that was running like 120 WA

nimble skiff
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I just need some weak auras set up to track shield block and maybe some other stuff

teal swift
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Try this, it's pretty basic shit

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Rage bar + IP bar

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Nothing fancy, boomer text size

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Cause my eyes are shit

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Rage bar is helpful IP bar is helpful, I'll add a shield block bar later

nimble skiff
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Yeah I have an IP tracker but I need a shield block one

uneven mason
teal swift
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This is my Aug hud

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Tracks might, essense, essense burst, and looks cute lmao

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I like cute colours xD

nimble skiff
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Does everyone and their roommate have an Aug? I skipped aberrus and don't have an evoker levelled at all

teal swift
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Yes

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It's the #1 DPS for keys

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#2-5 don't exist

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Start at #6 for the second best dps

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Man looking at my buds lul

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You can tell I design with a very particular look

uneven mason
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Can't be warrior, can't be fucked to care

strong forum
teal swift
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Rip your fomo

blazing condor
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i got 3 mop portals

strong forum
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No that's why I like fomo

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I don't have em

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That's okay

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They're cool, I didn't commit to getting them

teal swift
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I like the dk set a lot

strong forum
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Yeah dk pally and warrior are insane

teal swift
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I'm glad I have it

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Paladin in ToS Mythic is fine

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Warrior no replacement

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Rogue looks good

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And dk looks insane

blazing condor
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holy vulpera

uneven mason
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Kill the rats

nimble skiff
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Should I just eat the tornados in m+? Last night I ran a VP and tried to avoid them and I almost died cause I think I accidentally let shield block drop for a second. I know my IP dropped off a lot cause of the tornado dance

blazing condor
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i mean depends on what you do

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sometimes its good to soak tornados before certain abilities so people dont die

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but on like the first boss in VP you probably dont wanna go out of your way to eat all tornados

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in case you get hit by ground clutter

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its about timing it

sick sentinel
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black friday comin, might get 4070, might not

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that or motherboad cpu ram but nah

nimble skiff
uneven mason
blazing condor
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same there there's no real hard rule it depends on what mobs would do

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but i never really move away

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i soak if anything

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but if theres a lot of tornados and there's a tough spell coming through maybe itd be better to get away

uneven mason
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4070 needs to drop another 200$ to be worth the money

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Since it's legitimately the 4050 with that 192-bit memory bus

uneven mason
sick sentinel
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10-15% sale isnt a sale imo

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thats about how much sale tax costs

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i have, 5600x, 3070, 64 gb ddr4 ram

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so, gpu doesnt require new motherboard which requires new ram, to put in new cpu

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(am5)

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maybe at worst a new psu, or case, and those items are evergreen, they never go bad or old unless you smash them

uneven mason
sick sentinel
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+4 gb vram, newer tech

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4080 or even 4070ti begs that i get a slightly biger psu

teal swift
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What are you even playing

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That needs that kinda hardware

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Jfc

sick sentinel
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more like 1440p content at 144hz (120 realistically)

teal swift
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My 1080 drives 3x, 1080p.monitors and 5 instances of wow

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At like 120fps

sick sentinel
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and second monitor

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1440p 120 hz is ALOT of data

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and so i get fucked if i try to also tell it to load all 8gb vram

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120fps + when it works, is bis

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and, just, 60 fps solid garunteed never dips below 59 ever, is amazing also

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50 fps = yogi rage

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source

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rdr2

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still mad

uneven mason
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4000 series is a cash grab dumpster fire for gullible people

sick sentinel
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its still like, 20% faster than 3070 i have

uneven mason
sick sentinel
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i watched loads of videos on yt fps comparisons

uneven mason
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It's at best a 5% generation jump

uneven mason
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Because that's the only time the 4000 cards gain, is with franegen

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Which, there Will be franegen soon enough for the 3000 cards

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Ironically from AMD

sick sentinel
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yeah i watched something like this i think, probably this video

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but like, 1070, 22 fps, 4070, 101 fps

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like, thats 4 times over

uneven mason
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Imagine having massive gains over 5 generations

sick sentinel
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u mean 4 right

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thats 4

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1 2 3 4 070

uneven mason
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1600 was a thing

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Yup

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1660 super was originally tagged the 1670

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Just like the 4070 is actually the 4060

sick sentinel
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yeah, 63celcious for 80fps compared to 71c for 25 fps in cp2077

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like, i mean, it speaks for itself

uneven mason
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Because universally the 70s have used a 256bit bus(since the gt 600s)

sick sentinel
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how does that work

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4070 is a 406

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wtf

uneven mason
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Nvidia shifted the names to the right, so they can charge higher prices for the weaker parts

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They tried to be even worse but the backlash

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Was too great for even them

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When they tried to release the 4070 ti as a 4080

sick sentinel
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well, i would like 4070ti, but it needs psu probably

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i could probaly do it on one i have, but i'd feel better if i had 850 psu instead of 750

blazing condor
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is cloak still necessary for nyalthoa

uneven mason
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Probably

teal swift
uneven mason
strong forum
uneven mason
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Well raytrsced shadows

strong forum
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You will get Auto MC'd by nzoth if you don't have cloak on

teal swift
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With my shitty 1080

blazing condor
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wonder if they intend on keeping it like that

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i played the first like 2 weeks of 8.3

uneven mason
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1080 is Nvidia's biggest regret

blazing condor
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so my cloak is dog

teal swift
uneven mason
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Because it was too good

teal swift
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I got it like 6 years ago or some shit

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It's honestly just super solid

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Dursble

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Runs cool

uneven mason
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Yeah it's still showing up on benches vs 4000 cards

teal swift
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Runs everything I need well

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And does 3x 1080p monitors

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LOL

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I guess I got lucky

grizzled nova
teal swift
#

Plus my card seems healthy should be able to stretch it's life out to like 2030

#

Before needing to upgrade.

uneven mason
grizzled nova
#

The 4000 series is obscenely power efficient - yes you can ram them up to inefficient speeds for questionable gains, but the raw perf per watt especially at tamer levels was a massively leap over the 3000 series.

uneven mason
#

Also underhandedly trying to force upgrades by artificially locking franegen to the 4000series when even back to the 1000series could use it

teal swift
#

IDR IF MINES FSCTORY CLOCK

#

or if I underclocked by 5%

toxic pewter
#

do people still overclock their gpu

gritty ether
#

Guys idk if you crafted anything on the PTR but about a month ago I did some heroic testing and as a joke crafted the weird shield helmet

#

And it did as much as my IP during the fights

uneven mason
uneven mason
gritty ether
#

My IP was equal to my other tanks IP without the helm

#

We both play warrior

strong forum
#

It's a shit helmet

#

If your IP only did 5k hps idk what you've been pressing

#

But also

#

The helmet has been nerfed by 80%

gritty ether
#

That’s quite the assumption

toxic pewter
#

oof

gritty ether
#

Ok

strong forum
#

So you're probably looking at pre-nerf helmet

gritty ether
#

Thats why I was asking

uneven mason
gritty ether
#

I made it as a joke to just put as many crafted items on my char as our healer was late

uneven mason
#

80% feels like a serious "I can't be fucked to math this for balance"

gritty ether
#

And after three pulls of the weapon smith girl one of my healers went “wtf is that buff”

strong forum
#

Yah idk what it is with blizzard and shit embellishs

#

They're no longer a 1% power target like in s1

uneven mason
#

So remove it from equation

strong forum
#

But also not much more than 2%

uneven mason
#

It's because tanks damage profiles are allover the place, bad concept for an item that just gets worse when try to apply actual use scenarios

strong forum
#

Also it just doesn't give dmg

#

And if you have the choice between random absorb and actual dmg

#

You pick dmg

uneven mason
#

That too

lament musk
#

damn im too late to flex my gpu...

uneven mason
#

It in a world where defense mattered

uneven mason
lament musk
#

i splurged on 4090 and 7950x3d with custom waterloop

uneven mason
#

4090 is the only real generation upgrade in the 4000 series

gritty ether
#

Here it was

uneven mason
#

7959x3d though, idk if it's enough of a boost over the 7800x3d

lament musk
#

my 3080 and 5800x3d were choppy at times when streaming and recording separately on the same pc at 4k

#

stream 1080p and local recoeding 4k

signal sequoia
#

it depends if youre using it for productivity stuff or not

#

for gaming the 7800 and 7950 are bascically the same

uneven mason
#

Yeah true, raw gaming probably not but encoding for sure you want that extra oomph

strong forum
#

I use my Intel integrated graphics to encode my stream

lament musk
#

ya im aware, i do make use of the extra cores from time to time, and tbf a lot of the cost to upgrade was mobo and ram too, so another couple hundred to take 7950x3d over 7800x3d isnt too bad

uneven mason
#

X3d chips are turning into the best purchase in a long time

strong forum
#

And I don't have twitch dashboard open on other monitor

#

That FUCKS with smooth frames

#

That website is literally illegal

lament musk
#

nvenc encoder squeezes out a bit more quality with the very limited bitrate you get on twitch though

strong forum
#

Oh yeah absolutely

#

But cba losing fps or smooth gameplay

lament musk
#

based

strong forum
#

Integrated graphics does the job really well

#

And using chatterino over twitch dashboard, + embed edit page + alert box into obs

signal sequoia
#

what is the edit page thing that youre talking about

uneven mason
#

So I just bought a better am4 and grabbed the 5800x3d for 300$ total black Friday last year

strong forum
#

thats my 2nd monitor setup basically

lament musk
#

my obs chat box literally crashed my twitch consistently after a certain update that added ad break alerts to the chat box

#

havent used the obs chat dock for a while after that, but maybe it's fixed now

sick sentinel
#

something to make nome mad cuz i know hes from germany (loosely) YT premium going up there

strong forum
#

works perfectly and you can make clips yourself quicker

#

but i guess you record so dont need clips

lament musk
#

i'll give it a try, looks nice

lone wren
#

are normal dragonflight dungeons soloable with protection warior 440 with sarka trinket

little ermine
#

Yes

strong forum
#

you can solo +15s with 440

#

normal dungeons you just sneeze at

signal sequoia
lament shell
#

@strong forum hi, which tank does the most st dmg in 10.2 for progression raid

strong forum
#

vdh

lament shell
#

thank you ExcitedBlushette

daring marlin
#

@lament shell 👀

teal swift
#

If bdk is too hard, and warrior is too hard, and I don't like bear

#

What'd the next best tank

#

For keys

strong forum
#

if warrior is too hard

#

then youre not gonna make it

#

its the 2nd easiest tank

toxic pewter
#

yah warrior considered easy by most people

strong forum
#

we did a full 180 from SL to DF

#

from hardest tank by a mile

#

to borderline easiest tank

blazing condor
#

weird question but will the catalyst charges for THIS season carry over as a separate currency into next patch? cus i wanna get the tier mog for my legs but the secondaries are worse

#

on the tier

strong forum
#

do not carry over into s3 catalyst

blazing condor
#

dam

teal swift
strong forum
#

bear

teal swift
#

I heard I am supposed to swap between

strong forum
#

you will keep your s2 charges however i think

teal swift
#

Bstwmce and dstsnce

mortal brook
#

should be able to throw s2 and s1 gear into catalyst for those sets

strong forum
#

yeah

blazing condor
teal swift
#

Now i don't think I'm good enough

strong forum
#

bstance most of the time in most content, treat d-stance as extra defensive CD as last measure

teal swift
#

Can I just send it in dstance in keys

strong forum
#

and in push content, you can more freely sit in d-stance on trash pulls

#

you can sit in d-stance as much as you want

#

its just a ~6% dps loss to do so

teal swift
#

Okay, I don't think I'll care about the dps

#

Except in raid

#

Lul

lament shell
#

macro ignore pain and shield block. dont do that

teal swift
#

I miss my orit warr

lament shell
#

makes warrior much easier to play if you have troubles

teal swift
#

Kinda scared of everbloom tho

blazing condor
#

i got 40% crit its nice

teal swift
#

Idk how long and hard the legendary quest line js

#

But I uh

#

Want it for my pvp chars

#

Like ret paladin, arms warrior, FDK, bdk

strong forum
#

nobody knows

#

how long where from who

lament shell
#

amen

strong forum
#

i just know i want it cuz of the mog

daring marlin
#

the true endgame

plush tendon
#

Im working on Shadowmourne

#

so I can fury warrior

#

with Shadowmourne and the new Axe

teal swift
daring marlin
#

Imagine not already having it smh.....

teal swift
#

But I can't play bdk for shit

#

So I also want it for warrior

#

And ret paladin

daring marlin
#

jeez augusto I thought you were based turtleman

plush tendon
#

Im trying

uneven mason
daring marlin
#

what kind of bdk has no shadowmourne???

plush tendon
#

I have to convine my friends to help me with the vampire bite part of the quest

plush tendon
plush tendon
uneven mason
#

I'll let you bite me

plush tendon
#

😮

#

I know theres a way to do it solo

#

I just have to get 4 toons in a raid together

#

and alt f4 a bunch

#

just gotta do it ya know

uneven mason
#

Today's fucked though, my meeting schedule is 15min gaps all day, no space for wow fuckery

plush tendon
#

I did ICC yesterday.... but in Classic

#

I still have no clue what is going on in that raid

#

except for blood queen

#

blood queen actually makes sense to me XD

uneven mason
#

Normally I try and have a 2h gap so I can smoke and run a m+

#

Or 3

uneven mason
#

I mean even back in the day, the wings were time gated to keep guilds from destroying aryhas day 1

plush tendon
#

yea; they arent hard; but mechanics feel much less telegraphed in Classic then retail

uneven mason
#

Because they are

#

I remember the projected texture fiasco

plush tendon
#

I also dont like tanking in classic; I feel like im at the mercy of my healer too much

uneven mason
#

Some dude made an addon that displayed the range of AES on the screen

#

Trivialized most of the fights

plush tendon
#

and Death Strike healing is capped at 10% heal

#

and not % heal

#

like, da fudge is this shit

uneven mason
#

That didn't change until uh, Legion

plush tendon
#

I think Cata

uneven mason
#

Cata we just didn't take damage (I didn't play bdk until Legion)

#

I only played warriors and druids

plush tendon
#

Cata introduced the mastery but also introduced % heal based on damage taken over 5 seconds

daring marlin
#

I loved playing DK in cata

uneven mason
daring marlin
#

It was like alt 3 and all I used it for was farming trash in Firelands

plush tendon
#

Wrath D Strike is a heal for 5% per disease on target

daring marlin
uneven mason
plush tendon
#

I first started playing in Cata

#

DK my first class to 85

uneven mason
#

And then undercut the gem bots

plush tendon
uneven mason
#

Cata was a strange time for me, I started as a pwar, had that guild implode doing heroic 25 BWD

#

Then played a mm hunter in fl

#

Then enhance Shaman in dragonsoul, until finally going arms warrior for heroic prog

#

Because arms was so fucking meaty

plush tendon
#

I thought I beat the game cause I qued for LFR, killed Deathwing, got the sword and quit

blazing condor
#

if u quit

#

then yes

#

u did beat the game

plush tendon
#

I didnt understand that there was non queable content

#

I thought LFR was the raid difficulty

median tulip
#

A lot of people think that

plush tendon
#

Normal? I aint no Normie. Heroic? Never heard of her

median tulip
#

Something like half the player base never goes above queueable content

toxic pewter
#

Wow didn’t think they’d have a final round of ptr m+ testing

plush tendon
#

queable content takes away that first level of social anxiety

#

with having to find/make a group

uneven mason
#

This is why I try and teach lfr tanks the basics when I endup in one that mr fresh out of diapers paladin goes "I don't have the taunt ability"

#

Says it's warrior only

plush tendon
#

any time I go to LFR and the other tank tries to taunt of me I get so tilted

#

like look dude, you are losing aggro to my dps, just let me do it

uneven mason
uneven mason
#

"idk I can't really go under"auto attack"

plush tendon
#

its a idk moment tbh

#

like, this is his content I imagine and im sort of just coming in there and doing everything

#

but like, what else am I gonna do? afk?

blazing condor
#

maybe its placebo but feels like you get shadowfrost shards more often if ur wearing shadowmounre

blazing condor
#

got 9 shards on 12 bosses tho

#

compared to my 4 shards last week

uneven mason
#

My dogs mad at me because I'm trying to quit smoking and do she's not getting walks every 2 hours, @blazing condor can you convince her that it's for the best

blazing condor
#

tell her "sniff sniff, raise ears, tilt head, bark"

uneven mason
#

Got it

blazing condor
#

if it works it works

toxic pewter
#

just downloaded warcraft rumble

strong forum
#

T31 profile is already out

#

Go have fun if you wanna fiddle with it

daring marlin
#

traitor

lusty grotto
#

wb mooo

#

GUILFORD

#

did you do the new variant shit

nimble skiff
#

Is BDK the only reactive tank?

daring marlin
uneven mason
#

Not even that reactive, but vdh and monk have similar recovery models

daring marlin
#

Everyone is similar in being somewhat proactive

#

Have active mit up or die bitch

uneven mason
daring marlin
#

Dying as a bdk and trying to recover without DRW critcake

uneven mason
#

Since there is still preemptive gameplay needed for bdk

daring marlin
#

terrible

#

the actual worst feeling

uneven mason
#

Like a balsawood strap-on

daring marlin
uneven mason
#

But, on seatbelts question, bdk is the highest in the recovery end of the spectrum, but iirc not the Lowest in the mitigation (vdh?)

nimble skiff
#

Trying to figure out what alt I want to roll that can tank as well

#

Conquer m+ on two fronts

uneven mason
#

All of the tanks are fine, going from warrior to bdk is jarring

daring marlin
#

BDK played well is super fun to play

#

imo

nimble skiff
#

Maybe a change in playstyle is a good thing tho

uneven mason
#

Like you legitimately go from not taking noticable damage to full yoyo

#

It's just understanding that rp is more important than hp

#

If you're out of runic power and get slapped you're fucked

#

But you can get dropped to 5% and press DS once and be gold

nimble skiff
#

My only gripe is I would miss charge x 2 plus heroic leap plus intervene for movement, every other tank feels so sluggish

uneven mason
#

Yeah bdk is a sluggish mfr

#

Painful even

nimble skiff
#

Pally as well

uneven mason
#

Yeah

#

After playing warriors even dh and monk can feel slow

sick sentinel
#

....

silent vessel
#

what is that in real currency

uneven mason
sick sentinel
#

are you kidding me, wait, hmm, im not sure

silent vessel
#

51€

sick sentinel
#

is that a reduced price? isnt it?

silent vessel
#

yeah looks like

uneven mason
nimble skiff
#

I've never considered looking at vdh for a tank tbh maybe I should look there. When I log on my druid/pally/ dk alts and try to tank a dungeon I feel like molasses

sick sentinel
#

i wonder if anyone else got that

nimble skiff
#

I think monk is too many binds

silent vessel
#

70% more value!111

sick sentinel
#

800% more value even

nimble skiff
#

WW is too many so I don't have a dps spec to fall back on

uneven mason
nimble skiff
#

Too many

uneven mason
#

Yeah

nimble skiff
#

So I guess I'll look at my dh again and see how that plays as a tank

#

Need a class that can fall back on dps

uneven mason
#

It's uh

#

1 1 2, 1 1 2

#

Vdh pretty smoothbrain

sick sentinel
#

I wonder wtf i did to unlock that deal

#

or if its for everyone, a price drop

nimble skiff
#

Is that the ability rotation? 112 repeat

toxic pewter
#

vdh pretty fun

#

just personally not a fan of the spirit bomb/soul cleave dynamic that apparently everyone likes for some reason

uneven mason
nimble skiff
#

I really want to like a bear tank but idk. Something seems off. Maybe it's cause it's 60

uneven mason
#

Bear is closest to warriors

lusty grotto
#

a way wayyyyyyyyyyyyy easier warrior

uneven mason
#

That's my usual primary-alt

uneven mason
toxic tiger
lusty grotto
#

you took 11 stacks

#

youre gonna die if you dont have defensives/externals at that point

#

is this a pug or a guild?

#

if its a guild, have one of your DKs go insidious chill

#

your warlock is doing okay since they are putting curse of weakness as they should

uneven mason
toxic tiger
#

guild and yea you're right

#

yea my co tank died and i had to take a few more

uneven mason
#

Even with CDs rolling 11 stacks is death unless you're getting tunneled by heals and not tanking

lusty grotto
#

yup

#

you need to cycle defensives at around the 7+ stack mark

toxic tiger
#

okok, i guess i didnt realize i took 11 stacks

uneven mason
#

Like if the other tank dies your healers need to stack externals on you

#

Being open in communication with healers on externals is pro gameplay

lusty grotto
#

also

#

you triple cleared

#

???

toxic tiger
#

yes

toxic tiger
#

that was... a movement malfunction

uneven mason
#

I use my "squealing girl " voice to call for ps

lusty grotto
#

yikes yea

#

thats a nono

#

even a double clear is a nono

toxic tiger
#

yee i know

lusty grotto
#

do you have the WA

toxic tiger
#

was not planned

uneven mason
#

But yeah need to slow that bosses attacks

lusty grotto
toxic tiger
#

i dont no, i track the debuff thoug

lusty grotto
#

it'll just spam /say so make sure you have chat bubbles

#

thats not tracking the debuff

#

its so you know where your cotank is

#

so you dont double or yikes triple clear by accident

toxic tiger
#

oooh

uneven mason
toxic tiger
#

ah well i dont need it anymore now xD

lusty grotto
#

of course it has some added whatever

toxic tiger
#

but thanks

thick gazelle
#

Thats not, I was playing gdruid all seasson

#

I mean, thats not the way im dying

lusty grotto
#

what seems to be the issue

#

do you have logs?

uneven mason
#

12 hours later...

lusty grotto
#

well they necro'd it

#

either way i couldnt see anyone addressing the original claim

uneven mason
#

Like how often are you hitting IP

lusty grotto
#

shall we play the prot warrior bingo ikari?

uneven mason
#

"overspending on revenge"

dusky canopy
#

Not enough WW

uneven mason
#

Low ilvl shield

lusty grotto
#

well its 437 so i dont think that's it

uneven mason
#

Hmm

lusty grotto
#

oh no

#

i misread

#

hes 433 lmaooo

uneven mason
#

His shield might be 447 or 395

lusty grotto
#

so yeah the low ilvl shield is still in play

uneven mason
#

Because average

#

At that ilvl could be running itf and creating gaps

#

Without tier

uneven mason
lusty grotto
#

this is one of those

#

that we will never hear about again, i reckon

#

or we will get "i forgot to log"

uneven mason
#

But my bingo card

lusty grotto
#

😢

#

true

uneven mason
lusty tiger
#

Ip spam

lusty grotto
#

not using spell block

#

tied with sb uptime

#

unkicked casts

#

not being dwarf

thick gazelle
lusty grotto
#

well we can scratch that from the bingo card

lusty tiger
#

lol

thick gazelle
#

I'm a main healer btw, trying just to have fun as a tank sometimes

lusty grotto
#

so which is the run?

thick gazelle
#

BH

lusty grotto
#

no logs, only leaderboard

thick gazelle
#

fk

lusty grotto
#

ok neltharus has a log i guess

#

BAD (in neltharus)

#

and of course 0 blazing slashes blocked because no spell block

#

of course this is only a 13

#

ilvl 424 shield

#

bad

thick gazelle
#

trying to get another, probably crafting up to 447 today

thick gazelle
#

should i replace battle scared to spell block?

uneven mason
#

Shield is like half our defensive budget

lusty grotto
#

shield is the #1 thing you have to craft as a prot warrior

uneven mason
#

You're letting SB drop while being meleed

lusty grotto
#

the first upgrade

uneven mason
#

Which is just going to get you slapped

thick gazelle
#

noticed that some days ago

#

some pulls rn I got a 2-3sec window sometimes without sb

lusty grotto
#

my dude

#

you casted

#

SIX

#

last stands

#

on the entire dungeon

uneven mason
#

Switch itf to hr

lusty grotto
#

read what your tier does

thick gazelle
lusty grotto
#

and read what this does

#

in comparison

#

i casted

uneven mason
#

Into the fray , to heavy repercussions

#

It'll solve part of your block problem

lusty grotto
#

24 Last stands on a Nelth run

#

vs your 6

uneven mason
#

And macro last stand to shield slam

#

Because it's what I do

lusty grotto
uneven mason
lusty grotto
#

cast more last stands

thick gazelle
lusty grotto
#

on cd basically

#

otherwise you have bolster for no reason

uneven mason
#

Only 4 sw

lusty grotto
#

and your tier is not being used at all

uneven mason
#

Ls and sw should be up in that 20ish range

#

Prot warriors #2 rule is just send it

#

#1 is don't turn your back

uneven mason
#

Swap da to impenetrable wall, it'll dramatically improve your rage budget and give you sw every minute or so

thick gazelle
#

Ok, thanks for the help, It will be pretty useful. Knowing the class aswell

#

Really yhanks for your healp

#

appreciated that

knotty vortex
#

2xshadowflame embellishments going to be for ST and AOE ?

timber nest
#

Both

lusty grotto
#

2x shadowlame OR 1x shadowflame and unstable frostfire belt

knotty vortex
#

yeah thats for this patch not next

lusty grotto
#

both options are good and have been good since s2

#

doesnt matter

#

thats for next patch as well

#

there's no changes in that regard

orchid adder
#

Is shadow flame still the projected go to for s3 with the nerfs?

lusty grotto
#

the nerfs dont matter at all

#

they are scaling adjustments

orchid adder
#

Ah

lusty grotto
#

our s2 embelishments wont change into s3

#

therefore

strong forum
#

slight caveat there

#

since crafted items are now 3ilvl lower

orchid adder
#

Ok. I was kinda disappointed by the nerfs but didn’t consider that it’s just scaling adjustment.

strong forum
#

i dont think crafting belt is that hot anymore

#

cuz its more of a stat loss

#

than bracers/cloak for shadowflame

#

same goes for shield even in the event of shield of hearth simming well now

lusty grotto
#

so thats why its not like that in the faq

#

but i mean that also assumes you can get vault/mythic raid slots filled

strong forum
#

well yeah its "BiS"

blissful iris
#

thanks a lot for that.. I have been swapping to warrior cause we needed battle shout and iv been holding out on crafting cause i was unsure

lusty grotto
#

and 90% of the people here wont see those

strong forum
#

sure but its not harmful to just say just send 2x SF

#

ykno

#

saves some headaches

lusty grotto
#

i guess

blazing condor
#

logged onto my rogue for the first time in like 10 years

#

turns out i have almost completed fangs of the father + have 1 glaive + eye of sulfuras

#

and this was my tmog bank (before collection was a thing)

#

shits wild

lusty grotto
#

bro if i logged into my first alts

#

my brain would melt

strong forum
#

yeah some of my characters banks/void storage are filled with old stuff

lusty grotto
#

i have an abandoned mage, priest and druid

signal sequoia
#

idk if this got brought up yet @strong forum but what do you think about this things for tanks

strong forum
#

yeah nah

signal sequoia
#

got buffed by a lot today seems p good now

#

really?

#

for push keys

strong forum
#

theres just better options

signal sequoia
#

nothing that lets you also save the dps noobs from 1 shots

strong forum
#

signet, infinite more dmg
fyrakk, infinite more dmg, comparable absorb
(even tho i hate em) cheat death

#

this trinket at best is a healer trinket

#

for say disc priest

#

cuz the disc doesnt have any defensives

#

so the disc gotta use absorb trinkets for himself to survive keys

signal sequoia
#

you can put it on other people too though

strong forum
#

sure

#

but did you see any tank run ward from abberus in keys?

lusty grotto
#

we dont use echo trinket either

#

yea

#

thats a healer trinket

strong forum
#

like losing 7-15% dmg

lusty grotto
#

both of them are

strong forum
#

just to get a situational absorb for someone else

#

is a big yikes

lusty grotto
#

right, its even worse than ward cause you cant even put it on yourself

strong forum
#

you can put it on yourself

lusty grotto
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iirc

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ah

strong forum
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so its not mega useless

lusty grotto
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well i stand corrected

strong forum
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but quite weak

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compared to fyrakk

lusty grotto
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there's no treemouth equivalent though right?