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my highest key is like 16 in SL S1
I had every single 22 and most 23's timed
and would sat
3 hours in que
to get invited to my last 22
i just didnt give a shit about the expansion after some point
which would get bricked on first pull (hov)
i think i got 3k on my dk and just stopped playing it bc i kept getting omega farmed by the last pack in jade serpent
oh you mean DF s1
whoever made that pack is my mortal enemy
that pack was just illegal

i never got my karazhan portal lol
i completed 5 lower karazhans ever and none of them were in time
hooooly
oh wait i timed a +9 nvm
that key week 2 was unbelievably hard
oh yeah
i mean just completing it week 2 on the firs tyran week was almost impossible
good times
my s1 tank keys
i think it was harder on na than eu bc of the boss rotation was different
what happened
23 mins
ahhaha
literally timeable
bunch of stupid mistakes man
rdm 
oh yeah the auto attack thing
man that was a fun season
it was great
not bad
what a chad
didn't someone here run a 20 basically naked back in SL?
naowh ran a 20 with green gear
like 340 ilv
iirc
in s1
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((in a key where tank dmg doesnt exist))
there are 0 tankbusters and hardly any mobs to tank besides a handful of auto attacks
it also took him like 3 or 4 tries
pretty new to tanking, is this normal for +7s?
yes
i remember the BFA one
yes
dont look at interrupts
last 3 groups all the same
interrupts and ccs dont matter
if you truly want to track those
you track the ones that are ready RIGHT NOW via omnicd
people in low keys dont care or are simply too bad to know
and also
as a tank
I like to "snipe" that stuff
I interrupt 1 cast and there's nothing else and 4 other people kicked it after me
when youre doing keys in a pug, just play as if your group would never stun or CC anything
its also a 7, they could have been zooming it
have people died from interruptable things is 1 thing
and kicks wont hurt them cause of gear
yeah but like 17 deaths last key
no bolstering either
in 7s lots of people dont care
did you still time?
yeah
ok
basically its like this
the only people who pug +7s are people who arent good enough to go higher
so you cant expect much
yah
could be gear farmers, maybe looking for a stormlash for the DH or trinkets
but 7s not many players there
some people are just unlucky
statistically
(my DH got stormlash last week) after spamming that shit
yea
8s or 9s
just run 8s for weeklies
cause i had done all my vault keys
u do that shit for week 1, maybe week 2
yes but statistically
fuck your statistics 
thats 1 out of 50 people
i just dont give enough of a shit
that actually farm things
to spam 1 key specifically
I did in s3
if i get it, cool
if i didnt, i will prioritise that dungeon for weeklies
but im not gonna sit there doing it outside of weeklies
it makes bashing your skull agains the wall, seem fun and healthy
yeah idk why i still do it on my 3 toons
but i get it done fast so its nbd
however, when you think about it
i could be doing literally anything else
💪
bh 16 into 18av after raid into nokhud 19 which I'm holding onto
because not interested
tho in our av
think i have hoi 16
and you aint catching me doing that with a pug
1st pull nok in a 19 with bolstering sounds super fun
liek I still cannot fathom
how he's able to do that
he was doing 100k single target

legend
group carried wcyd
vs 500 spirit bombs
whole key
he did like 240k overall with aug
man
I dont get it
how can u be just so bad and yet play so high
cuz they dont care
no I mean
I just dont understand it
I feel tankier on my vdh
when I do more damage
because I do stuff correctly
get more soulcrush stacks
or whatever else u can
and press button
super weird
why do you guys call it soulcrush and not frailty, it throws my brain on a loop
0 research
while me and sp were doing 1.5-2m in a pull
he was doing 300k
unironically
I dont get it how are u able to survive
i start gaslightning myself, "soulcrush stacks???? tf"
yeah but I feel like
thats basically every tank no? like
true and real
which means passive healing vs autoconsume
which also means passive DR from painbringer
do negative damage
the french guy?

"defensive"
I dont wanna drop any names nor do I actually remember his name tho I could check
i member his name
and then also
oh true
I mean
but that was the botter
"thunderclip hits aoe, Shieldslam only hits 1 target"
holding onto demo shout
so i press thunderclap
for like a minute

that seems like a "defensive" playstyle
only press defensives when you need them
hmm i wonder which NA guy you mean

I mean I could check but like I said I dont wanna drop any names here either way
was it nimchip?
yes
ive seen people sit on rageheart on a boss that doesnt do tank dmg
and also sit in defensive stance
oh ya you right
doing 90k DPS

or sitting on avatar
or literally any offensive CD
just because
its like
yeah i mean i dont think we can ever stop that
top players are doing damage not just because the key requires it from a tank
STG the best tank players are dps players
but also because proper play
i wish keys actually required tank damage to time
but when u hold
get fucked
i got some free feet pics
dont
thats kinda like ban
ok so
after looking over his key
right now
he didnt send demo shout
for 11 MINUTES
title player btw

goes to show, tanks can get carried by their teams
more about clearing the dungeon than playing properly and also the above
I weep inside for some healers in some keys I've seen vods of
just be a mana/heal vacuum, nbd
-100k dps for the healer
the dps has to be working 3 times harder
is that why ur healer is always oom nim
shouldnt even be allowed to play m+
wat
"see guys rageheart is OP it does 10% of my damage"
que
ah you were on leymor
so not counting lashers
yes
is 80k dps TO LEYMOR
correcto
so am i
if I would have to hold for 1 second

it just so happens to be that roar is up for adds
the adds dont have to die
tho I played a 15 yday on my mage as I'm trying to learn frost so off speccing a bit
and tank literally complained after small adds not dying on leymor
yeh bud they melee for 15k thats why u died
not because of sitting in a puddle
or somehow dying from a boss melee
lol
but its my highest dmg taken

thats what you got spellblock for on that boss
but u also just expect them to die and move where u wanna be last second
wait can u spellblock that
holy
yes
you can just rotate wall and spellblock on it ez
yes
and the swirlies spawn under your feet
well with that choco
ohhh myrtu confused me
or just leap
and dont eat any dmg

but muh uptime
uptime dn
need to keep banner up
like I said I would understand
if his bad damage
is because of him kitinmg
like sure
u have to kite something
its bolstering
but the guy did no dam on bosses either
also daily reminder that av absolutely sucks donkey dick for melee players
I'm in constant fear of dying after pressing lego
nowhere nearly as much as other dungeons
nah
its ass
frontals everywhere
puddles everywhere
multiple bosses u have to lose uptime
tank didnt drag the boss to cleave the add not a single time
myrt come tank 15hoi
stop being soft
I wanted to go to sleep at 2am
nvm they kicked me
but I got called for weeklies
LOOO
this is what the note said after they kicked me
ok ig ill go fuck myself
cuz its rly hard to just invite an aug
also I just cba tanking on bolstering its not fun
I dont like running around
because mobs can melee me for 3 million
i mostly dont want to do tyr hoi
cuz
3rd boss is turbo RNG if healer can actually heal
or not
yes
took me 3 tries this week
to time 18 hoi
first augless we died at 50%
healer struggled so fucking hard
healers can highroll good dps who use defensives
bc basically every boss doesnt need healing
sir?
2nd uhh we had some diff issues but healer like just barely managed to heal after I pressed every defensive known to magekind on cooldown
outside of getting topped up between being oneshot
yeah i know i was saying thats why its rng
hoi is 100% healer dungeon
100% is an overstatement
most wipes on tyrannical
do come from 3rd boss
from my experience
100% healer and your priest mding the dragons dungeon
outside of that theres nothing
miniboss hurted me
just iv noob
because I didnt wanna press defensives
lol
ye I mean I didnt proc anywhere
maybe first pull when expulse went out so nobody was ccing the adds so I had like 3 stacks of demo shout + I sat in like 3 frontals I procced but yeah generally pretty chill key for tanks
i felt so bad for this ret pally in my key
i just couldnt hold threat on shit lol
well like 60% of the time i was fine
hah

so far 2 deaths to threat
Ew vengeance it’s only okay if i play the broken Spec hmmph
I am legally obligated to say this is indeed a joke
4min into the key
Well
That’s the last resort special
All that dmg and DR given up by dropping frailty stacks? ITS FREE REAL ESTATE you’re so much tankier bc you can die twice!!
last resort is unbelievably bad
Agreed
i never realized how bad it is until i started playing dh
It’s rooough man lol.
I couldn’t even consider nerfing my own frailty stacks either considering how awkward aggro feels on VDH SoF bug for the wiiiiin
But god the constant DR lost too, just so you can ‘die’ again is such a big trap
I played
Not even 1 key
I was gonna tank AA
Figured ill try last resort
Went to random pack on m0
Spammed some spirit bombs
Im so sorry to hear you make that mistake
Said fuck this and went back to soulcrush
But imagine if you died there! You could’ve died like 3-4 times in a key in cool down with that talent!!
Never mind the fact you’ll die so much more often bc if the DR + effectively weaker leech loss
…
Or that there’s a bigger issue if you’re realistically triggering chest so much you need two in a key
honestly most don’t even need scales for their key level
I'm having a really hard time translating prot abilities to dh, feels like it's gonna take me a long time to learn my utility
Well the most common DH ability I see
Is running five miles ahead of the group, infernal striking into the enemy pack, and dying bc you didn’t pool a bomb, SoF before going in, and dropped spikes
I hope that helps
On a serious note, what is it specifically? Like managing their cc? Idk if it’s appropriate for me to go too DH brain in the discord, but it couldn’t hurt to ask around in there DH disc for specifics
what is what specifically
or do you mean why do people play last resort?
cuz the answer is simple
its way way way easier to play
you cant really fuck it up and lets you thus play safer in big pulls where majority is melee dmg to fuck you over
cuz you dont need to play as well to just live
you do way less dmg
but its easier to live
no, I meant what is it william was struggling w/ on vdh
but ty too, lol
I appreciate the response nonetheless
And I guess I have to agree its definitely 'easier', though I think I'd get bored if vdh devolved to pure spiritbomb feed the demon spikes spam
in 19s and 20s you appreciate the braindeadness
atleast my friend does cuz hes calling stops n shit
and apparently melees start to hurt VDHs in those keys
cant relate cuz pwar privilege
VDHs hated WCM, meanwhile its pwars favourite key cuz nothing does damage
and you just vibe

I was heavy into my pally last season, and also quite loved wcm
Yeah I can see the attractiveness in the 'brainoff' of last resort. Its definitely better if you're playing 'bare minimum mechanical execution'
but
I also feel you do also desire a bit more of an...aware healer for external help, that makes it iffy for pugs imo
but also the elvels where you truly benefit from brain off last resort style arent pug lvl anymore
Avg pug player running last resort though is an awful idea
a good healer has always an eye on his tank
but also
a good tank shouldnt need any attention whatsoever
like at all
a healer should know where a tank can take damage and thus you play around that fact yoruself
but also a tank never takes dmg when the group needs healing aswell
its always ONLY tank
or ONLY group
never both at the same time
Uldaman first giga pull is kinda both with bleeds + casts.
Sure.
and the bleeds are on the tank
In an ideal world.
vdh has like 50% parry just immune all bleeds gg
you either take no damage or get fucking obliterated
Can't argue with that.
well i feel if ur both doing that giga pull And chain lightning is going off
there's a bigger issue bc isnt that gig apull just spam stops and prayge?
But i guess there's time while everyone's running for it to happen
i dont remember who i was watching but saw a dh just die in a second bc they took 12 melees from the 13 mobs they were fighting
if you have enough instances
unlucky go next
parry does become reliable
and what do big pulls include
lotta dmg instances
and nobody arguing in good faith
would try to RNG their way through a tankbuster
you cover those with CDs
if you dont have enough CDs, find more
that one is a bit special
much more likely to parry 1/4 than 1/1
cuz its a 4 part combo
yeah
you dont pre-use CDs there
you see how many stacks you get
and "react" accordingly
not like you got a choice either
cuz its a bleed
so the only thing we have is dwarf/evoker cleanse/bop/shieldwall
and then obv demoshout/IP/LS
now this is a pull i can get behind
the trees got bolstered so big they were literally taller than the doorways 
incap is impressively weak
nah sorry its target capped to 5
even if it wasnt capped it would still be weak
can get incorp with menace talent
i should say, u can solo it with just shout with menace talent
?
just incase you were running 5 warriors and 3 of them were afk
yeah but then u cant use the sidearm choice node for more damage to the enemy you kick
wont have as much uptime

holy tech
yes try it on next incorp week you will be very disappointed
LMAO
why
1st one isnt really a big deal
but yeah silence is really strong with how many kicks u need on every mob
The SIlence issue could be easily fixed.
Just give the mob a lock-out after being interrupted once.
Not this "oh, you interrupted me, let me re-cast instantly" crap.
oh yeah regarding that... isn't interrupt usually "Prevent cast from the same class spell for x secs." but why sometimes some mob can recast before that x secs expired?
bc blizzard seems to think spamming kicks makes for fun difficulty
im pretty sure in all of the shadowlands dungeons, every single enemy in every single dungeon did something
some of them were just little baby tank busters that were irrelevant
but everything had some mechanic, and the majority of them had to be stopped
its just not a fun source of difficulty imo
honestly...
not a bad wya of putting it lol
I honestly dont hate any on their own, in a vacuum
But together? with illuminated eugh
tsk cuts too soon
i wanted to see how giant the frogs got xD
not that big bc the dps ended up dying and needed to get brez after a couple thing died
so a handful of bolstering wore off by the time the pack died
i mena thats just normal
i only pull 1 big boi at a time and dont skip first one

slow route
wait wtf they invised to the vikings in uldaman

Westie??????!
east?
hello fren
Have you been here all this time?
I see

first ever +400k
in AA 14
but doenst count with aug?
and i droped my anvil like 10 times xdd
damn bruh
yep
because it will be details has SR damage logs doesnt
etc
but logs is always more accurate
I mean like
had a log with no priests or augs, yet in logs everyone did ~50k less overall
yer it will do
theres lots of damage u do that isnt damage or removed for reasons on logs etc
but logs is literally just the game data
the update interval on details does not affect it in any way right
nah
aight, just makin sure
u will find details like your person details will swing in your favour
not sure how or why
🤷
was just weird to see ngl
like between pulls?
Yes.
Guys what do you think about the all totem master trinket? Since i cant sim the def value of it, does someone use it?
all of them
💀
If you were to go for a dps trinket for m+ most ppl will go anvil/grieftorch/alltotem
wee arent using trinkets for defensive purposes
well technically its just the second to last but we arent dhs cant do the chains so u have to open all the doors
Well depends on the content you do
so u have to kill them all
I remember when you couldnt solo reliquary of souls
need that bulwark mog
That shit was ass having to pug for BT
expensive
tbc was my first expansion i had alot of fun
but i watned to quit in bt
tbc classic*
BT is the worst dungeon for prot pala
it was not fun'
At a certain point i prefer to, im running Kazzara and Anvil now but in uncertain if switch anvilt to heart/totem
Prolly heart is the way to go but i hate to lose dmg ahahah
Just dont know if it is good defensively
heart is a dps trinket hiding behind a defensive trinket - use it 100%
Ye you prolly right
u already have your defensive trinket
with enduring
Im tired of chasing staks on anvil
😝
And it seems that totem is the best combo with enduring
it didnt perform as i hoped it would in ulda with a 5 stack the entire way
Dmg wise
Still good dmg thi
But ye i feel you
its good damage yes but the down side is losing a 5 stack almost means any other trinket would have been better
Prolly the shield from the heart on top of the pulsing dmg is better
Specially to push
Ye And some dung are impossible to keep up
you dont use the shield defensively tho - you use it for damage - i prsonally like to pop it going into a pull to help with gathering and not being 1 shot from behind
if you actually want DR you use enduring
So your best call to match the enduringv
(Im doing Kurog mythic tonight so i might be lucky without having to use a bullion)
This is still valid use of it
I feel treemouth is a little overkill
but if u want a defensive option that is the best one
Thanks for the tips, ill give it a shot a couple of runs to check before spending the bullions
Hi un new in warrior protection
Someone have a video of the correct rotation in M+?
No we don't have it
there isnt really such a thing as correct rotation as what button u press next depends on the situation u are in the rage u have etc etc
Next week sounds like push week
every week is push week
Yes let me refrase … next week sounds like a less frustrating push week
are u dealing with incorp? 😄
err, why is the first option of the hidden appearance not unlocked but the rest is?
not showing up in my transmog library either
wait, don't tell me the rest unlocked because i did those requirement with another spec's hidden artifact?
correct
to get the original you’ll need to actually go and get it from the cave in highmountain
Does Gholak's shadowflame dmg increase vault ring proc rate significantly?
i mean it will proc the ring so if u dont have gholaks your ring will on average do less as u wont porc the ring as much
significantly 🤷 cant say
but u should have gholaks anyway its by far our best wep
I understand... but I'm not prot main, that's why
its that good that if you ever tank, you want it
i mean u can just grab a hc one from amerdrsal next time its awakened
and its better than anything else if u dont want a buy it
Quick question about Melissandra in RLP. Is it just prot warriors that have a bit of trouble with her? Or is it every tank? Or is it just me?
she is all magic damage, so prot war mitagation doesnt really work too well on her
but spell block is goated
its a hard tank boss in general
Yeah, whenever spell block is active it's fairly cheese but
think the only tank that gets away with it is bdk
other than that, just a bit of misshap with defensives and it's like.. you plummet.
seldomly do I step out of it unfortunately
wheres that meme of the VDH running into RLP saying 'first RLP of the season' and gets one tapped by that boss


bro i did that a few days ago
that first hit from her is a train
melee and cast in 0.1 seconds insta dead
I personally think shes the hardest fight in FLP
second boss is pretty rinse and repeat
and third boss.... if you know how to position in p1 its pretty simple
and p2.... well you are dead anyways if you dont pop all your big buttons when you get fire
2nd boss is hard if your healer refuses to heal you

idk why but sometimes i just do not get healed at all on that fight
would you generally pop something like shield wall or last stand on chillstorm? Since you're getting chunked with that + the frigid shads
but yeah with a good cd rotation youre chilling
you can reflect the damage from chill storm
yes
if you face your character to it
That's my question - I'm talking to my healer friend and they're saying that seldomly do they ever look at tanks on that fight
that's why they're wondering if it's a prot war thing
the damage on 2nd boss varies based on your parrys
1-2 stacks of the bleed is chill
3-4 not as chill
vdh will basically never need healing on that boss
pop a CD when you have 3-4 or dwarf
even if they get 4 stacks which is highly unlikely, they have spikes and meta up for every single one
so u are just fine
spikes doesnt work for it
Are we still talking about melissandra?
Prot War doesnt need direct heals on any of the fights
I guess I'm just not managing my defensives correctly there
Since if I'm having issues on a 14, what do you do on a 18
a couple of hots, proper CD usage, jumping into D-Stance goes a long way
I mean I'm always in Dstance and you do get passive healing
So I presume it's defensive management
i think what helped me was knowing that during chillstorm she casts 3-4 shards in a row, so a wall/spell block during that is pretty ideal since it's also removing most of the aoe damage thats coming in at the same time
is grieftorch a right pick ?
just wondering if I should pick it over fyrak
Well the fryakk teinkets arent even our best options for anything
grieftorch does good damage
more if ppl die
downside is that you cant block or parry whileusing
so need to know when to use it safely
Im enjoying augury
yer but your missing strength on it
everything else doing like 5-8% less damage
i don't think it's that bad... crit amounts to something.
thats why i said 5-8%
u loose like 8% strength with quick maths
or i would if i used augrary
cba calulating the crit
augury adds about 5% crit
augury is good damage its just not the absolute best, there are better options
yeah if u want a completely passive setup for whatever reason, all totem and augury will do pretty large da,
dam
have the benefit of not even worrying about combat with something like signet brand
My setup is All-Totem+Dreadplate
@lusty grotto my unholy dk arc is going well now. Im slowly getting whats going on and how do react to stuff!
cool
id much rather give it a try outside of remix, i didnt quite get it
gonna stay Blood for remix pretty much
understandable, I think you will like it if you like "strict" prios and ramp like play style
what key
sanguine diff 
is dungeon party finder that bad or the problem is with me
id say the problem is with you since you dont trust an 11 year old site called warcraftlogs over discord
but i could be wrong
Especially with talents like that,
no
You'll certainly proc it a lot without any block uptime
So you'll get value out of it
But you're also more at risk of dying from no block, so
That fellow has one block uptime talent out of 4
BSV now works retroactively on damage if you haven't heard, DK Necropolis style,
that guy is griefing bc he wont have enough sb uptime
and the wrong shield wall talent
wait dude ninurta is using that
You do need to compensate for the loss of Shield Charge block talent, though, usually by grabbing Bolster
LMAO
i don't know who that is, but i assume they push higher keys
just know his name bc hes always been higher io than me this season
my new trend i hate
in my bh keys
Ranged dps standing max range baiting slime spawns a light year away and maing zeor effort to bring them in or cc, or interrupt the casts
a real fun one
so i wont play the game on reckless weeks understood
spiteful...
that's the +7 affix they get rid of?
not bolstering?
or double fortified i mean sanguine?
soemtimes i wonder if we're actually playing the same game as the devs
ngl i already hated like a third of the affixes we have now
Now i hate most of them in tww, and the dungeon pool

dude i havent heard a single positive take on these affixes
what if we're all wrong
what if this is the best
What I don’t like about it is the positive side boosts demon hunter like every week basically
Most forms of damage benefit from DH buff
chaos damage and radiant or whatever the fuck its called
is like all types of damage
whatever the enemyis weakest to?
right
or am i making shit up for free
Yo I think they're funny as fuck
I'll ball with them; they're completely wacko and not at all what I thought the game needed
@lusty grotto
but "Hey kids, just stock up on Arcane Mages and Boomies this week, specs are balanced 🙂 "
10/10
Tbf I’m happy to take these new ones instead of the ones they “retired”
Sanguine and bolstering both suck yeah
nobody likes when mobs are stuyck in sanguine bc they have an 8 second channcel you cant stop in any way
noboy likes how much time a couple sanguine ticks waste
I think the reason they picked the +7 affixes they did was to try and keep the affixes that aren't entirely trivialized/unable to be interacted with by some specs/talents, while also removing affixes that, ultimately, didn't affect too much, like storming
ppl have been asking for less oppressive affixes/straight up positive affixes for a long time
and they just said fuck you and removed the easy affixes
They want you to have to play around +7 affixes, but not like have "Shaman drop poison totem, warrior pee on a bed"
I think the intent behind what they wanted is clear,
but things like Sanguine just suck ass as a whole
Entangling volcanic instead of bolstering sanguine









