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We can do all legion raids on mythic by our selves right
sameq uestion for bf rais. and nyalotha, do I need like a level 1 cape
I'm not 100% on Antorus but anything up to Tomb is very easy, though if you're undergeared or not very good, Kil'jaeden will still require you to do the orbs properly to not get knocked off
gotcha thanks
Antorus is doable solo, but you have to be... crafty for eonar
by that, i mean go fast when on ship
unless they've nerfed it since
Also uh.... what are the strength and weakness if we compare these 3 trinkets?
Signet brand (Smolderon)
Augury
Elementium pocket Anvil.
I wager it's been adjusted since the last time I touched it, since I do recall a change, but I could be wrong
Now we're playing the game
both pocket anvil and signet need ramp up time whereas Augury does not
but once stacked, Anvil and Signet are stonks
Anvil's also easier to stack, since you can control it outside of combat
Signet is also harder to keep going than anvil because it loses its stacks over time instead of keeping them the entire out of combat duration. Anvil also has the on-use which can refresh that duration if needed.
augury is also casino trinket
Hmmm then if I pick 1 trinket which is obviously rageheart, then the other just pick augury instead of brand or anvil?
isn't that overall a good trinket for tank? either raid or mythic?
its a good trinket for its purpose
It's outperformed defensively by treemouth, and offensively by the offensive trinkets
its does decent damage and a on demand shield, but its neither a full off or def trinket
It's a strong all around trinket
It does give both, but it's outclassed in specific niches
prob worth a 4th or 5th bullion pick
I love how bullions are like draft picks now XD
at 535 it will have an enormous absorb for what it is
still not as a good as treemouth
1.5m+vers
true
for that niche
Yeah, not a bad trinket at all; just out performed when looking for specific niches
and you're often, if given the choice, looking to specialize with your trinkets, so
i think at 20-25% vers it gives 1.8m absorb+ damage
it's a good all around thrinket
since position in raid I would have to do Mythic Fyrakk to get
personally, for prot war raid Id run signet and anvil
i will use my second bullion for it as i like it more than splinter and granyth
in M+ weekly keys, prob Anvil and boon/dreadplate?
higher push keys, Cheat+ Rageheart/Treemouth/Ward of Faceless
time to run hard mode this week and get vaporised by deios
doing 45m damage with one ability
i run with friends and they want all of it it takes like 1h it's not that bad
but deios hurts
again, for higher push keys thats like if you are pushing for title
otherwise, prob dont need cheat anyways (or get value)
Hmmm so no need to go defensive trinket for raid? I might have to look at it for 3rd/4th bullion since 2nd buy is the ring as suggested.
Anvil is easy enough to get at Mythic I level
My guild has no plan to do mythic though and I am not sure I should bother with it too? I'll look later if I got it on the heroic aberrus on sunday.
idk if I would bullion signe?
Mythic is dumb easy
honestly, if you are in a mythic raiding guild
I would ask your leadership to give some of the bosses a try
ah nah my guild doesn't have 20 people
well, heroic versions are fine
i don't even have a guild, pure pug life
I haven't seen how aberrus has treated pugs yet, but if it's like last week,
2nd boss might be a little hard, dunno
its ok just do defensive stance lol
i was pumped like that in DS
oh, I also forgot about guzzie
Guzzie should be a contested 3rd pick up

This is what Nom/Wowhead recommends
honestly, not a terrible list
manic is that good? I am considering augury for 3rd buy.
though Im not sure the value of Icon without a coordinated group
The guzzie is him
yea, Grieftorch=guzzie
no clue
but Guzzie be guzzling
and its does a metric shit ton of ST damage on demand and only gets stronger when people die
Also Gusto why your pick for raid is Signet/anvil, instead of augury/signet or augury/anvil?
For raid? They end up doing more
of course, fight length matters
so maybe Augury ends up better if fight lengths are shorter
anyone still using rezens? mine is still doing a ton of damage. Dont have many other offensive trinkets to use either
itll get outscaled by I level
loss of primary stat alone
yeah that is what i was thinking too
I still use it on my DK over a 509 Whelp thing though XD
even random trinkets with better +strength etc dont sim better
but there are so many good strength trinkes to bullion/get in raid
yeah i agree down the road it wont be as good. still loving it now tho haha
Im also not a fan of Augury personally... but if you like it, go for it; I would put Anvil ahead of Signet
easier to use, keep stacks up
Hello , wath would you recomand M+ with trinkets and wath for raid.. when playing prot ?
prob just scroll up a bit
the pin is uh... not bad but I prefer to see about people's choice like I asked you earlier. Why you choose X+Y combo instead of maybe A+B while they are all viable.
Aah sorry! My bad will check it out thanks
thats sort of the fun part about fated; with all these great options, there really isnt a wrong choice per say
If you wanted to craft a third piece for a flavor pocket, what's the recommended slot to do this assuming you already have crafted bracers and cloak? Between neck, belt, and boots I would assume it's neck?
Hi guys, for Uld any advice on how to survive the golem that does AOE and the puddle drop? It was dropping my friends when it casts even though we tried to LOS. Appreciate some guidance
is that forth boss?
It’s just a trash pack ☹️
Hello guys
Trucked in a +10
i question what trinket take from bulions
play prot on M+ and arms for raid witch guil
guild
sole flex trynket beter for now
that will be the best or smg diffrent
Guzzie pretty cool
I know Arms wants to secure Lego upgrade
and Prot wants Gholaks
both prob want Durina Ring
so, at best, this is prob the best 4th bullion
Guzzie is super sick
if u want more arms leaning, could go brand aswell high singletarget trinket for his raid, and decent trinket for prot dmg option m+ wise :l
Signet brand requires good fight length
and its bit more annoying in M+.... IDK, I like guzzie
then when people die you get resets

would be good while progging, and m+ is akward since gotta remain in combat. depends what ur doing more of/care about more
what key level give portal to dungeon these days
10
ok thank you
are groups expecting me to do some weird route in azure vault these days or what
Results of 8 days of season, look good imo, just need more haste and less mastery (uldaman neck may help)
I didn't get any complaints about a press W route last week
im just too old for these complicated ill pull entire rooms them jump down to some platform crap
just tiresome to me
I mean, yes you can just press W... but its less fun imo
Holy shit
Bro has zero haste
Azure is not that complicated though? I just do the M0 route without the jump from ring to 2nd boss plus triggering the first adds that's it the % is good enough
Pretty stacked though
we got it bois
20% crit 
bro is versatile
Sims REALLY want me to take the Dragon Games Equipment from my vault
Both the helm and the ring have sockets pre-installed
Taking something from the vault simmed higher than grabbing two sockets but
I'm rocking the Dreadplate and Icon combo rn
wait 522? I thought DOTI is not on the rotation list?
Hard Mode DOTI gives hero track gear
Hi.
Is this BIS list trustworthy?
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/protection-warrior-pve-tank-gear-best-in-slot?area=area_3
yes
the guide is made by mwahi who is one of the senior prot warrs in this discord
the cheat death?
it has only one function and that is ultra high keys
where if the tank dies key is over
hahahaha sneaky boy
"senior" you mean experienced or just old?

could someone tell me what breakpoints i should get my stats to? or point me to a guide?
experienced
i don't even know his age i can't call him old
How does theorycrafting even work, like, is it considered theorycrafting when I play Dagger prot warrior for single target dps?
Na that's just you doing less dps
u have an idea and then use math to prove ur idea is good
Theorycrafting involves math, sims, critical thinking and common sense
Well my idea was doing great til they introduced a cantrip non-dagger :(
Forced my hand
Try again next time I guess
just feelycraft off of raw intuition
I only have/can one of those
I just did an 8+ Azure Vualt and had a tough time w. the 4x Pack of Crystal Furys...I tried to use my stops to keep Piercing Shards from stacking, but couldnt stack enough stuns and my stacks got too high. Is there anything else i can do to better handle that pull, or do I need to rely on my group to help with stops?
Also, wasnt Intimidating shout spec...idk if that would work there as another stop
your group should help handle stops
however, I would like to suggest a alternative to that pull
Depending on gear though, definitely just livable with personal stops and defensives, I did it on my War at 490
This pull can be done over the quadra shard
It was last week, but I only ended up with 2 stacks with no one else in my group doing any stops, but I did also have Intim Shout
stops and purges on their buffs are the only way you do big fury pulls
theres nothing else
aside from the obvious cycle defensives when having more than x amount of stacks
@ionic fern howd i run into you when i trial something random 
Eh?
Oh. 😂
cool thanks guys for the input, was no issue on tyrannical last week, but smacked me pretty good this week
This chat is so peaceful
if you cant rely on your group, just stagger casts on multiple furies
as in dont get more than 2 stacks or by stunning just one
use stormbolt for that or hold your shockwave/fear for a 2nd cast instead of the 1st
very helpful thanks gives me some ideas for nex time
why is wowhead listing crit phial over vers one?
yer for most things
if its a boss like crawl u want vers
but generally crit is fine
but also more stats>less stats
mo stats mo better
Not full uptime tho
Less stats all the time =~ more stats some of the time
It's like 50% more stats and I almost never have lower than 80% uptime in any content regardless of spec
Hi is Gholak bis even for M++ ?
for everything
yes it is bis in all forms of content
thx i got scared for a min
The crit phial is less effective because I have so much crit already that it puts me into the next stage of DR
I just use tepid vers because I’m broke and I find the crit one makes such little difference it’s not worth my efforts
I’m in a love hate relationship with grieftorch, it’s cool to see your bloated damage numbers. But my OT just pops it whenever the hell he wants and there’s no holding threat off that thing
pop your own
or, even better
let him take threat and die
in order to reset your own grieftorch
it's a win win
just 4manned a nelth
mage died to trash after 2nd boss and left
lmao
this was a whole pug group too
thats a nice proc, and not yet max ilvl XD
You know it doesn't count if it's a +2 right
:p
best log title
meta classes, most notably mage
being either
too fucking good as players
or fucking garbage
0 in-between
Boomie doing that huge S3 dps
I keep seeing people flex numbers like that
And then i just look at them
like
it's fine to be happy you improved, but
tbf i did fucking terrible too
Don't act like you're in the 1% top players when you're nowhere near that
also i keep forgetting to unequip the dumbass cheat
Seems like the mage actually would've been good too if he was still at 135k even though eh was only there half the run, no?
It just devalues your actual achievement by making you look like a ponce
id say he was in 40% of the run so yeah almost half
Worse than someone who stayed the entire time and did 135k tho
He could've still be providing barriers and all
i mean 4 min over time with 4 people only for 60% of the run seems decent
blocked hit % is block uptime right?
effective block uptime
not general block uptime
both are important and one includes the other
This is good
so what youre displaying would need to be closer to 100%
oh damn ok
just general, you can see it in buffs
it does for dps and threat
ah ok
Blocked hits is what that image is showing. Uptime is found in buffs and is only relevant if there are periods where you are hitting mobs but aren't actually tanking (e.g. taunt swap bosses in raid)
yeap mostly
Since realistically you aren't likely to have a high blocked hits % if your uptime sucks
Unless you click off your buff between mob autos

From a raid perspective if I’m not doing mythic this tier, are anvil or signet brand worth it? Most of my fights are within 2-3 mins. Was just thinking grief torch and augury instead?
If I was playing prot this tier I would absolutely go grief
Probs even over Gholak or whatever the weap is called
Funny trinket go brrrrrrr
Feel like it's more of a
Unneeded threat gen vs 30 sec cd
thats your opinion
its still not close to being an important pick realistically
especially on week 2 of the expansion where everything and everyone will out threat you with upgraded weapons
and even moreso now that leggo can be upped
Gholak>grief every day of the week
yeah for sure
You’ll never replace Gholak and likely never get myth rank without bullions
Man, that's gonna be rough when I tank my keys later this week since prot is what I main in M+ and not what I bought weapon for
Meet back in a week and I'l let you know if I ever lose aggro in a dungeon 👍
im losing agro on 12s so
with a maxed hero strike twice (and awakened 4pc)
so good luck with that
since i raid as arms, i had to go leggo first
you guys keep agro?
for the most part
lost agro to the pres evo
but if im having slight issues
people that dont know or are new are absolutely losing every single bit of it
and ESPECIALLY people that didnt go gholak
because 400% damage on full health mob is incredible snap agro
If you’re getting a trink for keys I’d go augury or all totem
I got Leggo since I main Arms in raid
Gholak will be like a week 12 purchase if at all
They do massive amounts of damage in there, or signet/anvil but they’re harder to use because of uptime.
especially if it crits for 550k+ 😄
If you don’t main prot, you’re a good chance to get hero Gholak next week anyway. Which won’t be much worse then myth
Rerolled back to prot this patch and I was struggling with aggro a bit last week, but Gholak has solved a lot of that
Cannot say I ever lose aggro on pulls outside of first 3 gcd's on DH
Can they make Sigils generate aggro pls
Flame specifically
I'm premade with a Ret a lot of the time that doesn't give me a global. Though I would say generally that charge -> TC -> Shield Charge/Thunderous -> ? -> TC holds aggro decently well
? = aoe taunt 
I basically never pug, so I know how every person I play with plays, so I know when to front load GCD's into a pull depending on who I play with
I think the pally I play with just likes an excuse to press bubble 😄
most ret pallies are fucking idiots
trust cause my main alt is one
if they dont wait until shit is grouped up
they lose so much dps
and pull agro
its a lose/lose scenario
both for you AND for them
AND for the key
Ok, so you ranting about paladins, but what about...
||BDKs who pull 3 packs, dies, then blames the healer in partychat for not healing and then leaves.||
any single ret that pops wings and final reck into a pull deserve to die
flat out
warranted
extremely well deserved death
i started to hate doing keys with ret palas
they unload -0.1s into a pull
pull not grouped not set up properly they just go nuts
and i am left scrambling to taunt and regain aggro on targets
i have a feeling that dh tank toolkit is teaching very bad habits to a lot of dps
The classic
Bonus points if they have full runic power at the time
On that note, while healing a fast babboo +2, I had a bear just fall over and explode when I wasn't there for a single pack, and he just instantly rage quit
The group found a bdk after when we all went "well, no reason to not go again"
And the BDK didn't use death strike until the first boss of hoi
And he took kess damage than the bear.
I always see interesting things when I dont skip straight to 10s on my alts.
I wouldnt believe such stories like you are telling - but I have now seen what cesspits WoW contain of players frolicing in their ignorance.
... it worries me.
Is that me? Am I that, only to the ones a tier above myself?
Enough to make one lose sleep thinking about it... what if.
I mean we cleared with that bdk; he was easier to heal than the bear and he fell asleep at one point
As in literally just running forward visibly no cognitive faculties engaged
So it says more about the bear than the bdk
💀
since it has been a while for adding socekts to a neck do the the x 3 star first then the 2 star right?
the reasoning behind 2 star is that 1 star settings are more expensive cause people like to take advantage of others
and 2 stars are cheaper
so its cheaper to buy 2x 2star
than 1 of each
ok so odd question, it looks like I am above the haste cap but to go below I have to swap out lower ilevel stuff. Just stay above it?
yeah i dont think you have a choice
you could swap some gems maybe
and/or dont use wafting rune
ok sounds good
Buzzing rune and go crit verse sockets/enchants. About all you could do.
I had to change all my sockets and enchants at 1 stage last tier until I could swap some gear around.
i wish rend on thunderclap was baseline for Prot, so i can take crackling thunder talent
if they did that they'd have to replace 2 whole talents, you know blizzard is lazy 🙂
but yeah i do miss crackling, not because its needed but because of legion/bfa
nostalgia mostly
I miss banners and nelths fury
How do I get aggro fast on new spawn like the wolfs in Nok or the dragon whelps in rlp? I have problems grabbing and holding the aggro especially with paladin and dhs
when they full send as soon as the mobs spawn and I dont have mass taunt up I dont get the aggro
gholak
and/or do dps
on melidrussa use troar
or ravager
or challenging shout
with tclap
shouldn't be hard
beastcallers shouldnt be a problem cause the dogs wont really kill anyone
and even then, beastcallers are a waste to pull to begin with
take too long, spawned dogs dont give percent
its highly inefficient if you pull them
Oh then I need to overthink my pulls in that part
I will try holding my cds for the whelps next rlp and see how it goes
you shouldnt have an issue if you charge and tclap into slam with gholak
Okay, I always stood on the boss to start chipping on the shield and positioned myself between her and the whelp. will try to charge next time
your damage on the boss is reflect, which does nothing on shield phase
cause she doesnt cast while shes shielded
👍
@lusty grotto
ya boi jammin
got the priest to PI me right before 2nd pot and had fat ToM into full cds
nice
awe damnit!
i see
yeah mine are doing CE push in TWW
so they decided to chill for this season
hows the loot been
are you a thic chef!?
Bro literally same
still have s3 shit
Down reall bad
on trinkets
NoK/AA prison
all weekend
i just cant do the farm
it bores the shit outta me and
burns me out
also i fucking hate puzzle box
so it'll be RLP/Nok for me
I dont want it either
but its just to good
pre cast it isnt the end of the world for raid
kinda forces holding lego on pull too
so thats not the greatest
but sims too good
yeah i know
Anyone have a weakaura for tracking tier set procs/buffs?
ty
Where in Logs can I see the defensive impact of Enduring Dreadplate? Just kinda curious.
I don't think it shows up as a separate line anywhere outside of "Defensive Buffs".
Okay ty. I liked the damage on it, but was just wondering if I could see a raw number. Ty Mwahi
No raw numbers unfortunately, but it's really strong due to it mitigating damage after absorbs, not before. The plates also only break after the dreadplates and absorbs mitigation has take effect, so it really holds up for us due to IP etc.
You will reach a point where you take enough damage to start breaking the plates consistently tho, be it in m+ or w/e..at that point it mostly just turns into a DPS trinket.
Oh 100%, it felt great when it was up. But I guess that is a good point lol. Oh well hopefully by that point I've got good alternatives.
It still deals un-capped AoE damage as far as i know, which is amazing.
Hi mwahi

Good night mwahi 
Is it important to track it?
Depends on the person i guess.
I personally don't track it.
So how has Blizz not nerfed vdh yet? 
Feels like they are asleep at the wheel this season
this season?
you mean 1 whole season and 2 weeks of the recent one
so not just "this season"
so a whole 6 months almost
I usually don't mind one tank being better than the others, but VDH is just stupid right now.

it is stupid
but i dont think the magnitude is as big as previous expansions
just kinda weird how blizzard has ignored cc, buffs, and stuff thats not numbers since day 1 of WoW
also amount of defensives coughmage
At least the War Within tuning looks like it might be good for us? 
Based on past trends, just pray for a rework
^
What would you guys want in a rework? Like a wish list?
mop vengeance and shield barrier
do it you cowards
I've always felt our durability is fine but would like ways to gather mobs more easily, and some cool shit that other tanks can't do would be nice
-Provide competitive playstyle alternative for UF/Avatar, or better yet, make them baseline;
-Make AoE silence actually a silence similar to VDH and move it to General class tree;
-Make SR/TC baseline;
how 'bout blasting the shit out of enemies so hard dps get mad, that's cool shit other tanks can't do
For starters.
What did mop vengeance do?
In the current world we live in, I think these are all actual neat ideas, but I'm not sure if I want to live in our current world.
guess it depends on the landscape
scale your attack power to bonkers degrees with no cap, based on damage take before mitigation
it also indirectly encouraged you to stand in mechanics,
That sounds awesome and now I want it
because you'd do shit tons more damage and have stronger shield barriers, which is IP except a 100% absorb
So it's a mechanic that's never coming back and for good reason
Vdh can silence everyone in the universe, let me be a fourth dps xD
Oh, and give us banners. Thanks.
Vegeance ended up making it so tanks were the top DPS in the raid.
by a lot
And that's if you didn't stand in bad
I wants it
That's the real thing I want back and thought was super cool in MoP were all of its banners
I wanna stand in flaming diarrhea shit and pop off
I think that's also a neat way to give Prot War utility without taking away its class fantasy of big dude skilled in weapons go punchy and shouty
does gholak and shadowflame embellishments procc diurna? wowhead says the schools are fire, shadow
yes
cool ty
Actually, on the banner topic, I think it'd be super cool if there were like repeat effects or other affects if you intervene'd/charged a banner and what not
I think that avatar is one of the abilities associated with the concept of the warrior class, it should be either baseline or way higher on the talent trees
Its almost a capstone.
And give us a shout that provides BL 
this was useful, and we had an aoe pull on heroic leap on some version of the ptr on (shadowlands?)
does everyone have aggro problem? i have 511ilvl prot war, and sometiemes ret/havoc reap the aggro from me, even tho am using thunderous roar
Theyre extremely frontloaded
Most likely them ripping agro is on them
If they cant wait
When im playing havoc I wait till everything is +/- grouped, then I use sigil, the hunt and only then start doing real dps
So if they need to press their final reckoning or eye beam while youre still grouping let them die xd
but if it's like an enha with a flame shock application causing an aggro pull, you might want to press some buttons
And upgrade your weapon - more dmg = more threat 
my wep is 522, i think that is more than enough, looking at the first big pull of many dungeon, i can only pull like ~500k dps top while vdh doin 1 mil, feels like our class doesn't scale much compare to other
Scale with what?
👀
Most of our abilities are capped at 5 targets, with a drop-off after that.
yeah if only we can do more
i feel like 500k is low im pretty sure i did that in some pulls last season
i'm tellin' you, bring back mop vengeance, ezpz
it wouldn't even solve your immediate actual problem but blizz do it you cowards
Well low or not, everyone agrees vdh needs a nerf except vdhs xD
no one wanna be nerfed
i wouldnt mind being a tank powerhouse that deals 500k overall and can live anything
wouldnt wish it on any other class tho 
One of us should get a job a blizzard to give prot some serious love
does prot need serious love? other than dam ofc
I'm not a very good prot warrior player, I'm sure I'm leaving a lot of room for improvement but I'm still hitting 2k+ rio in the first rotation weeks of M+, I think prot warrior is in a good enough place from a general gameplay stance, VDH playijng with what could arguably be a cheat code utility kit is annoying but I feel like prot warrior is a good baseline
This opinion is not based in any hard data saying some tanks have it worse or better than prot warrior, just a personal anecdote
My issue is that we are like ~20k dps behind top tank specs in raid 
ppl just make mountains out of mole hills or whatever the saying is
truth is every tank is viable and tank balance has been in a good spot
at the very top the difference is like 1-2 key levels
As far as raids go, I'm there to survive, not to dole out damage. a 20k difference between tanks is a minor annoyance at best
If I want to think about things that made me hate the pwarrior kit, I'd be looking at mythic forgotten experiments and zskarn
those fights....they broke me trying to survive them
heard u liekd magic damge
We prog'd on Forgotten Experiments and I'd always die on the P2/P3, we had a ret paladin swap to tank and I got sat and the boss died 3 pulls later. Demoralizing as fuck
AA slows?
I guess I’m a less skilled prot war than a Bear. They are a world of difference imo. I’m maining a prot war this season instead of my Druid to see if it’s just lack of experience
auto attack slows
auto attack slows, few specs can slow attacks of boss
and on experiments dot was applied by aa
easy clear times
I...think we were using those but I could be wrong.
I remember me and my co-tank had some worked out moment for swaps at first boss, later on farm we didnt have two aa slows, instead of 3-4 stacks at swap I had 7 
Yeah I remember our "Strat" was always to clear at like 8 stacks or some insane amount
yer thts far too high
Regardless, same approach with 2 prot pallies and the boss was down, so I was feeling pretty shit after that fight
I mean u should have been fine mwahi was clearing at 11 as the lowest ilvl in his raid as well at the time
Sounds like you werent doing something correctly
100%
dont forget to ask for externals and healers to just pump you when you're close to clear 
on that point, I was told they didn't have any healing to spare because raid wide damage was so high during that P2 to P3 transition with the orbs and other debuffs
Literally on my death logs, I'd have like....dot levels of incoming healing aside from the ignore pains and spell reflect/blocks/shield wall whatever, we didn't have a holy paladin in the raid so no beacon healing either
But as far as externals go, I'm still pretty bad about calling for htem until it's too late, so that's definitely something I do wrong
Do you have logs or anything?
It was from S2, and I haven't gotten into Mythic raiding since then, so I just left it as being bad lol
The main thing on Experiments is to try to clear stacks before the intermissions. Carrying 6 stacks while you have nothing to generate Rage on means no Indom and IP healing, which is a problem
shouldnt really stop u raiding
It didn't stop me as much as getting too old and kids 🙂
Just don't have kids 4Head
The snip snip, like my healing, came too late
But in all honestly, I raided pretty hard back in Vanilla, I was pretty happy with myself that I could still be relevant in Dragonflight, I have no regrets, but definitely know there's another skill level from where I'm at, so I'm pushing that in M+ play
Speaking of, if anyone in here has gold burning a hole in your pocket and needs T3 crafting mats, reach out LOL
any recommendations on talents for m+ s4?

ty kind person
is there any world in which a ruby whelp shell is decent?
No.
sadge
Got one last night and couldnt trade it anyways
I guess its an easy flightstone discount
Yeah I've been hoarding things that I won't even use (as long as nobody else REALLY needs it) for the crest discounts
It has a ninja pulling issue in RLP as well
It never ninja pulled for me since I play with apes ass pulling the world every time 👍
cant ninja pull if you just pull everything at once
ill got a blazebinder Hoof on 506, a pocket anvil 509,chromatic Essence on 509 for offense trinkets.
and Splinter 499 and Dreadplate on 506.
Whats youre exp on m+8 and above, do i need some deff trinekts or do we have enough options to survive without and going for double off
always play anvil
take another of the first 3 if u want offensive
or ither of the other 2 if u want a defesnive option
doesnt really matter
Dreadplate is fun
100% keep anvil on
and OCE is cool
Splinter prob not needed until higher keys (like going into the high teens/20s)
in this case, ill keep splinter and dreadplate in my inventory and eq OCE+ Anvil for now
thanks
do give Dreadplate a go in some of the higher target count dungeons (like AA/Bracken)
it can do some pretty solid damage
but yea, OCE/Anvil is a solid setup anywhere
im right to atune the oce to versa or haste?
Haste
or sim
if you are playing with other OCE users in a premade, then you try to get all the buffs
Anyone know any good prot warrior streamers/youtubers? Trying to get back into and just feel like I’m struggling.
Does anyone know if you can get fligtstones if you like normal aberrus after clearing heroic/muthic?
yea
hell, you get flightstones from doing non-fated raids to
flightstones are super easy to come by, but also super frustrating since the 2k cap is WAY too low
should either be uncapped or like 20000
There are a few probably but I watch plkawar mostly
You say that, but the whole leggo situation fucked me and a lot of people since we upgraded weapons because we had no idea when they’d be available. I am in a fligtstone drought atm
Nextback is also a very good Prot Warrior
theres only really 3 and thats nomeratur, sense and plka. all links can be found in the faqs
Not that it matters that much, but my OCD is kicking in and i MUST write it here or else i will die unhappy or something like that.
This is from warrior stats page:
This is from gear and best in slot page:
and?
okay okay
nah i see the vision
👍🏼
gear and best in slot ☺️
just for clarification, the stat prio is the same in the two screenshots you shared. The important thing to notice is the "</>" and "=" usage. Haste is best. Verse/crit are equivalent and all three are better than mastery.
but as always

fixed
i also dont like how versatility is written before crit as well
even though vers = crit is the same as crit = vers
but still

tnx, that was quick!
ok, u got it totally 👍🏼
But how much haste do we want? Already sitting at 7k ^^
35-40%, otherwise too much dimishing returns, and you get an additional 10% from talent
7100 is the soft cap
as you approach that number, its prob best to look at other stats like crit, vers and even some mastery
dont say percents
percents dont DR
the sweet spot I find is somewhere between 6500-7100
then I sim and get crit/vers usually
yup
obviously sim to see what works best for you
say both if anything
no
yes
7k rating means nothing on its own
....
unless I have either prior knowledge or have to get a calculator
the number is better then the %
% is unhelpful when figuring out when you gonna hit DRs
and yea, you just hover over it on your character screen
no calculator needed

I am meaning in specific discussion, if I was in game, yeah sure I can check but in a conversation its easier to much mention the percentage, but I guess thats just me
you can also check in armory
also arctus isnt new
ive seen him around
and even if they were
they can ask how to check rating if they are extremely new
and we will tell them
no math needed
isn't 30% softcap for haste/crit? At 7100 aren't you wasting close to 1000 rating ?
30% is only the first dr (10%) You lose way less than 1k going to 7100
yup
does anyone use a co tank wa
just was wondering if they had an issue with experiments
mine tracks the explosion dot
for w/e reason

🤔
did you mean the dispel or the tank swap?
infused explosion
oh
i think you want something to track the dot on the raid
so you know when you can clear
is that right?
yeah you do, for mythic
I was like hmm, are there no strikes in lfr, while my co tank sitting at 20+ stacks

theres probably one in the liquid raid pack
or you can just make your own for that dot
I do! It didn’t work. Fights really fun staring at raid frames

Is it actually confirmed that the text on Gholak is correct? I can't for the life of me get a procc that does 5 times my lowest damage.
If my lowest hit on the puppets is 42k, I should at some point get a hit beyond 200k, no?
for clarification, that's the Vakash proccs obviously...
im assuming its maxed
343k crit isnt bad
171k normal max hit
are puppets max health?
cause thats when it does its 400% damage increase
read the text of the effect
Yeah the 42k hit is below 90%. The 171k hit is above 90%.
But if 42is as low as I can go... I would expect at least 210k normal procc above 90%.
It looks a lot like it's doing "increased to 400%" instead of "increased by 400%"
But I might overlook something here...
idk its doing the right damage
how is 42k increased by 400% below 200k for you?
42x4=168
42+4*42=210
42
increased by 100% = 84
increased by 200% = 126
increased by 300% = 168
increased by 400% = 210
why do we play Seal of Diurna's Chosen?? how do we proc it?
shadowflame embellishment/gholak/frostfire belt/trinkets that do fire or shadowflame damage/head enchant
Head enchant as well
ya true
ah okay
so it a high proc chance
anvil and signet too
okay thank you
Is it worth to try and meme a fyralath use on pull
wasnt there some stupid stuff with not being able to switch when its on CD
Boy do I fucking hate that
nome did you take a look at that guys math
so its nerfed by 1 step
I still don't get why they couldn't make a 1-h version alongside it
300% only
Also, what's nerfed?
gholak
Can you not equip a shield to pop it out
I did that in shadowlands
yeah makes sense
nah
Unlucky
Thanks a lot for checking.
if thats the case then its been that way since last season
They wont make a shield leggo anytime soon either, which is a major bummer, since it'll only apply to shaman, paladin, and us.
i wasnt even aware of it
but still
its gholak so, even if its to 400%
and not by, its our strongest weapon by far
yeah S thats kinda weird considering 2h str leggos only apply to 3 classes as well
so i dont think its an excuse
leggo bows cough cough
evoker leggo
cough cough
Hunter, paladin, warrior, death knight... I think that's 4.
Pretty sure Surv can use it.
Because Surv is shit
its not
Weird, why is nobody playing it?
but M Fyraak guilds dont usually just meme award it to hunters
people are
ive been seeing surv topping meters in keys easily
Weird. I haven't seen a single one.
Then again, I washed out of S3 after I got dropped by my guild.
Ever since they stopped having to use INT they've just snowballed into mental degeneracy.
We're old stupid, they're new stupid.
Surv is a melee spec for a ranged class. I've seen some so crazy damage, I just don't think they scale as well as other classes
Tangentially, why in the blue spirulina fuck does S3 and S4 tier not actually work together.
What a troll that is.
because blizz hates fun
God forbid gearing be smooth
I sure do love holding items in my bag so I can wait for 4p
I said f'it and just equiped what I had, the ilvl increase was worth it to me, even if the min-max wasn't
I'll get 4pc either this week or next guaranteed so not a big deal
yeah its a melee slot youre sacrificing
but then again
i dont think thats a consideration this season or even in s2-s3
because it would be unfair to people that have different set bonuses aka s1, like arms or rsham
Oh no
it makes 100% sense
warriors have a slight advantage
Surv is fucking hilarious
I honestly don't see the harm in it. People are getting 4-set week 1, so what's the difference in permitting it?
prot pally would be fucked too (not that they arent already)
not most people
its not a big deal
As opposed to it now being UNFAIR to us, because we can't do 2+2pc?
and its certainly not fun
That's what I mean, it's a meme season
I have a whole 1pc of S4 Tier
Why are they making gearing in a meme season more of a ball ache by making identical set bonuses not play nice at least during GEARING.
I can't think of a single sweaty clown that'll somehow miss out by the end of the season whose progress was somehow indelibly harmed because a few other classes can gear smoother with S3 4p
Eugh... it's just the kind of miserable equanimity that makes the game feel garbage instead of smooth and intuitive. Like, I get why, but this isn't RWF
Yeah. having gear sit in my bag because of ilvl but not sim ups feels like garbage
okie
kk
I personally don’t see a logical reason as to why season 3 and and s4 tier pieces can’t work together if they’re the same set bonus
It's mildly unfair for maybe two weeks to some classes.
Because we gotta sweat with hypercompetition in the meme post-season
worst case scenarios you get 4 piece next wednesday
i broke my old 4x489 for 3x522+522 but i was fairly lucky with m+ drops so i had items to catalyse
I'll probably get it tonight, still feels like ass to be staring at ups instead of using them. They axed shit like reforging so that people could just slap gear on and go - quite explicitly, in fact.
reforging was just an addon in the end
Maybe I'm more bent out of shape by the fact that they make conflicting design choices that fly in the face of reasons we lost neat shit.
Like - pick a fucking lane and stick to it, god damn.
touch grass moment
this season was made by the janitor and the unpaid intern
what do you expect
Fun season so far
have you seen how many bugs we had until now this season?
uh
Being a few days behind is just fomo
just a weird thing to complain
You will get all the same shit done just like everybody else
its better than I thought , but more or less biding time until MoP remix
when the obvious problem this season has is what homo mac said
fucking buggy as shit
You know you can contest multiple issues simultaneously, right?
but even Remix will be like a week of content
Like - you don't have to champion ONE thing at a time.
with the many different versions of WoW, their QA team must be spread pretty thin
A game can have multiple things wrong with it, and all of them can be valid criticisms
this season would've been so much better if we had awakened ToT properly scaled
instead of the 3 raids
or awakened nighthold
I vote ToT
Throne and or SoO are easily my all time top picks
Nighthold was doodoo
Such a good time in my wow experience
You know they'll entirely forget to make M staraugur work with Splock
or awakened icecrown citadel to celebrate the end of WOTLK
I'd fuck with awakened ICC if they added new mechanics
maybe with some polish on mechanics
Yeah that actually sounds like it'd slap if they reimagined a lot of the encounters to be familiar, but different.
but they can't change illuminated sigils on DH nevermind polishing an old raid for fated
Think BSV will be fixed for TWW? 
no
i hope that dh control get cut significantly then a lot of dps will get exposed on how trash they actually are
i've seen so many meta players that achieved title because they played with VDH
they would've never came close to title otherwise
That's honestly my biggest annoyance atm, the few keys that'll take me in the 9-11 range are just comatose
I feel like if I don't kick something or stop something, it wont get looked at
Having to tell people "hey just... hard CC the Dragonbone Axe and you can ignore the bleed entirely"
Is agony
So my buddy and I tried this we went through a key with a VDH and neither of us used our stops once except kick
Timed the key no problem
VDH is to much
10.2.7 patch notes came out didn’t you see
BSV is gonna be the new Never Surrender, guaranteed
Did an 11 AV with a Ret Paladin who pressed HOJ once yesterday
Even after I explicitly gave him a stop order
and i get 6 stacks and floorpov
bad tank
yep i'm sorry i am not a dh
Instant full rage bar IRL
We literally timed that key through pure spite from me and my guildie on his spriest
Yeah 2-man carry has been the going theme it feels like
We wiped to just ticking out on last boss because pally didn’t swap crystals and healer didn’t heal
usually 2-3 players are just asleep at the wheel drooling full hypnotoad style at the meter
Guildie and I pooled all our cooldowns as brew/shadow to get it done
a lot of bad players are getting carried by vdh and it annoys me to no end
i hope they get fucked next season
But it's cool guys, we're getting no utility in TWW
Well that's a lie, technically
aren't we getting intervene baseline again
so blizzard next time can see the effects of giving a tank too much control
I recall them making intervene not shit again
What'll happen is that when and if VDH gets the shitcan on its hilariously meta CC (which gets way dumber w/Opp roar from evoker), players will whinge and cry and whine about dungeon difficulty and how much they have to do.
And then dungeons will get nerfed or a bunch of DPS specs will get utility buffs
Granted, I've been gone since like week 6 S3
The thing is
That was just ppala before
Lmao
It did the same shit and vdh just exacerbated it
I would say VDH is like taking Prot Paladin and dialing it to 11
Yea
Blizz needs to decide if tanks should, as a baseline, have the ability to control a dungeon on their own
or should it be a group effort
tbh i wouldn't give a shit about vdh power
but it severely affects key availability for the other 5 tank specs all the way to mid-high level keys and that is the problem
I favor the later personally
this should never happen a 5 man group should control the dungeon as a 5 man unit not as a 1man unit+3 dps turrets+healer
I agree; but as of right now, VDH is the one man army
I play/main VDH right now, I find it super fun
but the double util sigil has to go
leave it double for dps sigils
but not for utility sigils
dh always had high dps as tanks
and that is fine
the change is simple: pump parry to 20%, make it double for only ED and SoF, and maybe reduce the CDR talent from 3-2 seconds
What’s sad is I don’t think I’ve even seen a BRM out in the wild for the past like 6 or 7 months
Imagine how those guys feel
brew is dead
Kinda dogshit
spec needs jesus
i did
equinox kekw
and the number of buttons is offputting to new players of the spec
it has so many buttons it's insane
i have space for like 50 binds and i'm afraid is not enough to play brew
its partly why I think VDH is doing so well (in terms of popularity); not a lot of buttons, but a lot of really impactful abilties
but overall, its a very low keybind spec
its such a easy tank to pick up and start playing and you arent overwhelmed when at the start
i've seen yoda do a pull on a 16 hoi like 2-3 days ago from the stairs after first boss all the way to second boss
that pull is only possible on a VDH how do other tanks even compete with something like that
🙂
Considering patch notes came out today
yea this season is over
with jack shit in it
And this is the entire “class changes” section

Yeah we’re not getting shit
my objective is just to do better than last season
i'll see if i even get invited to the keys i need





