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Because it’s capped 3 ilvl lower

Ilvl is massive on shields
And weapons (minus cantrips)
Ah ok
Or like whatever your embellishment is going to be
so its no like bis craft slot that I should use sparks on
I’m sure there’s a BiS embellishment
im confused if were posed to upgrade gear this week or not upgrade until next week.
shield isn't a bad craft
I am really enjoying protection warrior in "The War Within" expansion.
yeah but also a guaranteed shield upgrade is still good
there's plenty of sparks to come
Yes but also ultimately a throwaway craft
That's only if you get the 3ilvl higher shield
I never even got a shield drop last season
Is it though? If we save for long enough those sparks are going to be useless
from vault or otherwise
And for the X amount of time until then, you have a good shield
but yeah I'm not a minmaxer in that regard
I wouldn’t consider a shield craft unless just really unlucky
Especially with myth track shield off first boss
Very puggable
Especially this season
Still, you get unlucky for 2 weeks and a shield craft still wouldn't be a bad idea ;^)
Your call at the end of the day
Several different ways to build yourself up, most of them end up at the same spot
Even mythic? Man they're really pushing for more accessibility this xpac
IMO I’d just do raid before doing anything crafting wise
Pretty sure it’s all difficulties
so sad so sad
Don’t remember when it starts though
Went 6/8 normal last night and thought it was mostly a fun raid. I wasn’t a huge fan of feeding the boss in the first fight but otherwise enjoyed what we experienced
Whats S1 pug scene look like? I feel like pugging aotc shouldn't be impossible, but I'm basing that off later season experiences
The nexus princess was really neat
Starts at 3% damage and healing buff and caps at 18% sometime down the road
I feel like it’s hard to gauge the pug scene atm
The pugs we invited were all helpful and chill
Can I sacrifice one of my Duskthread Linings to make the Binding of Binding ring?
I feel like that embellishment isnt fantastic
and I already have one on my shield
haste vers 💀
Well actually it looks like I put the crit one on 😄
Haste vers 💀
haha, i am going to recraft. it was the stats I was missing the most of when I made it with my shit heroic gear haha
I know I know.. I want Vers Mas 🙃
I'll put crit on the fucking shield lol, is binding of binding viable?
Dont we want haste over mastery?
crit is the correct one no?
yes lol
there is no haste afaik
its Haste Crit
Haste > vers > Crit > mastery?
I think it's Haste > Crit > Vers
We're talking protection?
yes
So Crit and vers is almost the same then
no crit is way better for dps
haste crit
not a big fan of the deathbringer talents for bdk
i think
ah yes, i see now why i dont like the hero tree
oh god, its even worse than i thought
idk how people still don't know the stat prio
ilvl >>> haste > crit >= vers > mastery ||sim yourself||
Fumble mains
idk deathbringer slaps
San Layn is cringe AF
yeah that was silly
Queen Ans was a really fun
heroic is also pretty easy
out of the first 4, the 2nd was prob the hardest
Is it Duskthread or Dawn embelish?
do you need to escort in order to get loot from world boss?
no
I thought the same thing cause I didn't even get gold lol
Anyway
Who thought siege of boralus was a good dungeon
I'm gonna beat up blizzard
no one
This seems almost required for a M+ tank
the wave boss is DOG shit
Wonder what the icd is
well that's good cuz siege of boralus
might singlehandedly make me hate this season
I aint feeling the old dungeons they added
except maybe Grim Batol
Ill give that one a chance... but the others, naw Im good
I haven’t run an old dungeon yet myself
Probably will do some tonight after I spend my T8 delve keys
last boss of grim batol is kinda like
last boss of atal dazar
except
not dogshit
rng
Grim Batol is just cool to me
🥺 hey i'm some tonight
Didn’t get arakara sak last night but watched a guildy loot it so that was cool
Excited for M+ season to start
whats best method to grind up delves without using keys
can i just run them over n over to level
Wdym grind up delves
ok so just look at tooltip and dont run bountiful
You never have to use a key on delves, you optionally can use them only on bountifuls
yea, but if you run and complete a bontiful delve, you cant do it again
so you want to do non-bontiful till 8
then do the 4 bontifuls and use keys
Go and run the underwater one in the spider zone it takes like 3-5 minutes
i gotta say the jump from heroic to m) was a surpise
inb4 he loots the 0.12% chance to get a map on a lower tier delve
My guildies and I went from t4-7 in less than 30 minutes
actually so fucked up
or maybe i got so lazy doing the heroics
i literally used zero defenses in those heroics
and not i took some damage
finished 4 or so on my baer as well who literally hit 80 yesterday
and did them in green ah gear
at 558
so it aint that hard
They’re not impossible but you have to think a little
i think it was more the healers
just like i really need a heal sometimes
and they wasnt used to it
i literally used zero defenses in those heroics
i used them in the m)
🤨
m0
the thing that was a little shocking was how fast my IP got used up
just had to pool more rage and stopped caring if i was overcapped
remind me again i wanna do raid and all i can before getting the weekly caches or no
The fact they added 2 mobs right at the start of the 3rd boss is aids in Siege
the whole spell int thing they changed in TWW really sucks too, doesnt stop them from casting it just slows it down
in dungs
Doesn't matter, the weekly chest loot is always just veteran gear
Says so specifically in the tooltips
Can add me later idr
I have Nim
So we’ll be able to group
I game at 8cst daily typically
Just changed that
Real
with my loot rng i would be at like 620 rn stg
got like 9 pieces out of the 4 delves and 3 m0s last night
and still no map!!!!
you run the delves in groups or solo as prot
i'd be happy to get a weapon, just sitting at stupid 593 weap 
i thougth they worked like visions sorta
We had a 5 man last night and bran was with us still
Bran is with you from the group leader
i heard it scales kinda wonky with 5 people tbh, seems like it'd be faster with just 2
nim and i did three of them with him tanking and i playing ele yesterday and it was fairly fast
I did it all solo at abt 584, was fine
it's just significantly faster to duo but maybe depends on your brann level too
Which tier are we not using?
i got a weapon from lfr, should i craft a shield
I love both bear and prot. I think pwar is a little sturdier but bear has motw so if you play with a group that doesn't have a druid its a good choice.
How do u guys survive stiging Swarm on last boss in dreadpit Delve 8 (currently 586 ilvl prot War)
thought very heavily on it this season but just gonna see how keyge go
Am I griefing if I craft both shield and 1h this week?
Not really
Just could get screwed by balancing if you use embellishments that get nerfed
Long term it won’t matter you’ll have more sparks than you’ll want to use
Short term gamble to craft before heroic week tuning
Basically
I can see guides mentioning the shield, however not a weapon.. Is that just because you can't add the suggested embellishments to the weapon
so can i craft boys?xd
My advice is to hold until heroic week tuning is done
Yeh.. Can't you recraft with a different embellishment?
You can recraft without losing spark yes
so its fine?
You just lock yourself into the gear slot that you use the spark on
I would craft whatever nome suggests on the wowhead guide
Typically you want crafts on low stat budget items
If you’re not ever going to see myth track items because of whatever level you play at then craft shield/weapon (imo)
Because you can craft myth track with the right crests
t10 delves are insane
How do u guys survive stiging Swarm on last boss in dreadpit Delve 8 (currently 586 ilvl prot War)
what are you opening up your chests in for the delves prot and hoping for shield?
didnt do that one t8, we just tried it t10 and died to zekvir
I currently still open for arms if I get 2h weapon it's nice because once you upgrade it, the upgrade for 1h and shield is discounted and no longer use crest.
U skipping it on t8 or?
you can do tiers on other delves
doesnt have to be all the tiers on each one
we did waterworks up to 8, then did the 4 bountiful ones at 8
ok that makes sense, I have a ton of keys so maybe ill split it up
do we save keys for higher delve?
We should do a 2/3/9 raid group where its all protection warriors besides 3 healer priests
Also, higher delves reward higher ilvl right? So id assume so
for coffers
Keys are for 8 and up, the loot is the same
i believe level 8 is the only gear level everything after that is cosmetics
so dont do bountifuls until you unlock 8
Pretty much
how good is swarmlords?
I see so we better do 8 t8 delves per week for good loot in vault
The one Iam
Talking about is a bountiful
This week yes. After this week likely just want to do keys and heroic/myth raid
How do u guys survive stiging Swarm on last boss in dreadpit Delve 8 (currently 586 ilvl prot War)
I am not sure next week I can already do the heroic XD, also my guild is not doing mythic, less stress.
Lemme just hit up mythic raid nbd lol
eh, theyll be relevent
for alts and stuff
easy way to fill up the vault
if you dont want to run 4 M+
alts 
wow players the only cooked ppl who are like "yeah it's normal to play this game 20 hours a week"
"bit casual tbh"
I raid 9 hours a week...
but delves are great for people who dont wanna M+ but still wanna get some pretty solid gear
which is what I think the point of them is
tbh i wonder how many casual players are actually doing it
like actually casual players
and not people who are just going to be doing high keys/prepping for mythic raid next week
I think the difficulty for actual casuals is way too high
actually time to read /r/wow's thoughts on tier 8 delves
Duoing them seemed pretty easy
What is the best method to do the delves? 1 tank 1 healer 2 dps?
No one takes battle scarred veteran but it seems good i assume there is a reason
bsv has always been bad
it's uncontrollable, and controlling your defensives is good 👍
Ill ask my roommate tonight
hes a super casual player
see how he likes it
Lmao tru. Just saying the gear is not optimal beyond this week if you are able to do reasonable keys and esp if you myth raiding.

well, looks like delves are good content for them then XD
they can progress through delves all season

yeah the delves r not for me
i just find them incredibly tedious
i just want to keyge already..
I would be so depressed if i was stuck on delve 3 and 4s
Im not saying that. Speaking for myself here lol
granted... if I couldnt do a tier 3 delve... I prob would be kicked from my guild
but theres different expectations
I think itll be a good way to casually gear some alts though which is cool
yea
Me and my friend just did 1 tank 1 dps
can go to sleep on a Saturday night but dont wanna commit to doing a key
Was fairly easy, no deaths
hop in, slam a delve
No way, I’d fight for you 
I need someone to make me look good 

Tier 8 solo delve was pretty chill except web bolts
when into the frey is better then heavy repercussions?
When shield block uptime good
at what haste
35% unbuffed haste for regular use.
i liked spiders before. they were bros. ate mosquitoes and shit
Now i hate spiders
evil motherfuckers. waste my time. not give me delve map
😡
I'm like 56i or something
568
But I didn't do bountiful solo. Was just regular t8
Idk if that affects difficulty
Or maybe it was idfk
Also got one. Fuck
What are u guys finding the hardes mythinc fights so far
And why is it the city of echos final boss
Is this the one where she does a black hole that you counter by stepping in the puddle and getting rooted
Easy fight tbh
If yes it got a lot easier after I told my team you can unroot yourself by CCing the little blood ad duders
Just move around in a circle and spell reflect the dot or the root
The fight is easy, what is hard is people not having any clue there
Ty
Give it 2 or 3 days and it will be fine
Had bigger issues with people doing first boss in Ara Kara lol
Had to solo finish it
which dungeon is ara kara again
I get the two spider dungeons confused constantly rn
the one with the nice trinket
yeah
It’s the one called ara-Kara
In the spider zone
Thanks
Right next to the summon stone for that dungeon
I hope you sleep with your back against the wall tonight
Because I will be coming for you.
Ara kara has the stairs dropping down into webs first area. 3 mini boss spiders and giant spider first boss
City of threads is the dumb one with all the shit RP finding spy's
Ahh
Ara kara is the bullshit caster trash with the 3 uh
like fear spider dudes that you have to kill before first boss
i have no idea what the mechanics of that place is haven't done it on mythic yet
first boss on heroic always died before it did any mechanics
It’s really not bad imo
I mostly enjoy it but I have no idea how m+ is gonna feel
My caster friends didn’t appreciate the second boss very much but idk if that’s because they’re cry babies or if it legit sucks for them
should we craft smth or not ? with spark

ye the pin is from 8/29
who
Lots of race to world first folks have crafted. Meaning they believe tuning is over. If you wanna be safe tho wait another week.
thane still >= colossus ? raid wise ?
Thane Felt alot better in raid than colossus in my opinion
a lot more rage to spend
which one is better punish or execute build ?
well, its not even the x.1 patch
im sure whatever spice or thing delves are missing will get added
well if you execute thane will do better since more rage means you can use it more frequent on execute
They are only a thing this week anyway if you do m+
can you farm bountiful delves if you run out of keys?
The wowhead guide puts revenge as higher prio than execute even when playing Colossus, is that a mistake? We are supposed to use execute in ST right?
I mean you still can get the 2 smaller boxes, but not the big box.
but after i complete the bountiful i dont see it there anymore
does anyone else agree with the wowhead guide saying macroing ignore pain to shield slam is a good idea?
It doesn't want you to make shield slam also cast ignore pain
Shield Slam must remain a separate bind
yeah what myrtu said
Myrtuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
sowwy 
got it
that's not what it says so yeah 
It also says to apply deep wounds in AoE or fish for SS resets
Execute takes prio at 4 or less targets, especially if deep wounds is active
Well he said ST so deep wound is always active from our autoattack
Yeah but I just assumed we're always fishing for SS resets anyway
Also weird phrasing it that way because execute can reset SS too
is it better than torghast? who knows..
war fronts
islands
Can reset SS yes but the rage cost is x2 revenge, so use it carefully if not on sudden death proc
i did 6 bountiful delves and 4 trinkets what the fuck
damn grats!!! I didnt get anything lol
not sure how I have 3 of these

random drop from bountiful chests
is kej or cryslals more valuable on the whole
cuz i know u can exchange 2k kej for 1k crystal or 200 for 100 and vice a versa
Are t8s pretty easy as prot at 578 ilvl or should I grab some more gear?
well if your healer are quite good then should be OK
I did t8 at 568, but only done the webbed victim one so far
Silk something
Only semi challenging end boss was the waterworks at low ilvl
how the fuck do you get spark shards?
Died once cause I didn’t pay attention and ran out of the candle/circle thing without refreshing it lol
Pretty much any content that rewards you with gear
that end boss in waterworks does so much aoe dmg
weekly chests, delve chests (doesn't have to be the locked ones), m0s, heroics even, lfr
like the only thing you can't get a spark out of is like.. just... regular WQs I guess?
you can get two per week @proper roost
Are you asking a question or... telling me for some reason
Because you can't, you get half a spark per week. You can just catch up and get however many sparks you are behind to catch up on
how are we feeling with m0 out?
like there is finally something to do
Just tried to do Siege of Boralus with a horde (we're ally)
seems to not work?

on m0 obv
It works fine
Did it yesterday (me alliance, 4 horde)
The entrances are different. The horde entrance is southeastish of boralus on a little dock
guys how do we see how much damage we reflected in the log? I mean on which part I should see?
my log wasnt working at all did you have to update it? usually it starts logging automatically when entering a dung but it didnt do that yesterday
Select enemy and then look for damage taken. It will show the damage per ability so you would figure out which abilities you reflected and see how much damage they did.
In details you can see it more easily as its own line.
Which part you find hard?
what’s that
the second boss does alot of melee dmg during swords but its truly skill issue
some shit about during swords phase he stacks a buff that goes to like 5, and its at 5 that he hits for 9m
so its you use wall or have a cd put on you to live it
3rd boss is rough but its a skill issue, ranged dps needs to get on the adds and someone needs to slow said adds or group = kaboom
Grim Batol
they claim its changed but it looks basically the same last as i went
spells that kill you are 60 fps and prettier, thats about it
Nothing changed from beta
All the bosses are easy as a tank once you know what’s going on.
If you try and tank the 1000% damage increase mace you will have a bad time
yup, especially as prot warrior
logic = block attack or you die > group dies > failure > dissapointment
GB for the tank is all about the trash. Once you know which mobs are destroying you it’s easier.
Just bring decurses. Pulled 4-5 at a time in 12’s on beta
What are you guys crafting?
the "elite" tall standing drakanids will enrage and hurt like hell
The big ogres ramping enrage just wait a few stacks and stormbolt it. The stun duration resets the enrage stacks
Any idea why the mismatch? T7 delve.
this is not surpising to me as life long warcraft player
even since wc1 orges use blood lust type magics
spell descriptions are usually base damage before difficulty modifiers
i still remember first time figuring out how powerful bloodlust is in wc2, wc3 ladder
thought GB was fine
the newer dungeons seem more harshly tuned than any of the old ones imo
well shit man this is starting toget intimidating. where do i learn these dungeons as a new tank?
(that being said, it's all fine)
yeah, went into gb blind with a pretty low ilvl group, some Learning Moments but everything's manageable
Reflect/kick/stun?
looks like a bug i didnt have that issue
What’s the bug? Spells do way more damage than melee hits due to block
Looks normal
It’s scaled to a tier 7 like m+ scaling
which slots are the best for us to fill with crafted gear?
ya, if u show me a picture of an ogre with a mace, and you ask me what he does, i say he enrages
oh is it a curse
and 99% of time im right on that
its not scaled that much i got hit by that and didnt die lol
Delves in generally just feel whonky. Even some difficulties below my ilvl just seem a strungle if the delve has a bunch of casters in it. 15min solo dungeon advert seems grossly oversold. :/
why a shield if you dont mind me asking?
You have like 6m hp and the hit show 2.5m so yeah
Block is our most important stat
Single biggest thing to help you defensively
ah yeah thats a good point, i see that he didnt die
right bit dont crafted item generally have lower ilvl?
spell tooltips are always like this
You will swap it out with mythic track down the line
Level 8 delves say ‘minimum ilvl recommended 600’ which ilvl were you at?
then a max level piece yeah
but youre not getting a max ilvl shield immediately 99.9% of the time
578, and 8 was ez pz 
Same for me
But he complained it wasn’t a ‘solo experience’
I went in as Fury tho, not prot
Mate I struggled on a T4 delve (545) while at ~573ilvl. The specific delve is the one with the light movement/charge mechanic in Hallowfall.
Hey man, I'm reporting you to blizzard for abuse. Minimum is 600, got it bud? don't let me see your face around here again
Solod some T8s yeserday on my other warr at like ~575 without much issues, and others were a huge struggle.
More of a skill issue then 🤷♂️
Some things hurt more than others. Adapt and overcome.
Maybe. Still new to the game, but could handle the lower key mythics with friends at the very end of DF when i started, so didn't expect solo content to put me in the dirt constantly.
do u send demolish on cd?
yep, unless locking yourself in place would get you killed
it should basically always get stacked to 10 by doing normal rotation
ok and if u open on raid boss? do i use it insta or get few stacks for the % increase
the high damage mobs/spells in delves are very opaque, it's not really your fault - just have to go pull by pull and see what each does tho
like, it's not the melee from anything that'll kill you
it's always the spells
the wowhead guide recommends waiting for 3 or more stacks, seems fine
and a lot of mobs do instant unkickable/unavoidable ones
and instant oneshot abilities on bosses that aren't always intuitive 😄
I didnt know what you ment by myth track for a sec but you are talking about ilvl range for gear such as veteran and champion. so craft a shield until then and then swap it out got it
well, i don't know if i've run into any delve bosses so far where their oneshot mechanics were that unclear, but yeah
crafted shield is gonna be a competitive ilvl unless you're doing mythic raiding
mostly just the trash i think
Yes upgrade track ‘myth’ like ‘veteran’
crafting neck is generally safe since we don't really have good necks from raid/m+ right?
If you don’t know what myth track is you probably don’t mythic raid so just craft a shield lol
Anything but tier slots is fine
Okay, okay… but I need someone else to do it first…
🤨
I have a question on wowhead it says to Macro Shield slam and ignore pain does this make a difference vs separating them?
read the full description of what the macro is for
Right below where it says the macro itself
thats my ppal
i pull something i would normally pull on dk or pwar and he turns to dust
Had ppal tanking all my m0 world tour, was no issues
So I add it where my ignore pain normally goes
Yes. You still have a shield slam button, and then that macro replaces your IP button
@magic meadow
Grats yogi
i really want that on warr
forbidden leech candle ....
well, its for a bdk, i dunno if bdk uses cirt
It's their best stat
sorry, it's like their second worst stat
i was just typying
😔
Bdk just want stats. It’s not like pwar and our love of haste
haste 5%>Crit=vers=mastery>haste
Really fucked up what they did to bdk
they fear even a fraction of the bdk players...
Isn’t the Haste 5% build dependent too
Granted iirc one of the hero talents sucks ass so
Yeah it’s cooked
some people like doin level 4 delves
if youre playing san layn you shouldnt care about stats bc you dont care about winning
hey choco are u going to try to get title this season
probably not these dungeons fucking blow
so true who made them bring siege of boralus
Yeah
I liked mists in sl but
Very different player now than I was then
every tww dungeon is complete shit
wow...
Keep yourself safe
besides the rookery where only the first boss is shit
Cinderbrew and Priory are great if they tone down the aoes a bit
Rookery is fine
Dawnbreaker and Candle are kinda ass but they’re thematically cool at least
City of threads is dogshit and belongs in the dumpster
Arakara is fine
S4 old dungeons shouldve been Grim Batl, Ankehet Old Kingdom, Shrine of Storms
I don’t even remember the last one but it’s probably ok
i literally cannot think of a single redeeming quality about any wotlk dungeon
they were thematic
priory is completely unplayable as a melee
Yes the consecrate is a problem for sure
But if that gets toned down it’s a banger
I like that a lot of the new dungeons are 3 bosses
threads is indeed garbage
I loathe that dungeon
the only redeeming quality of that dungeon is first boss just janking whoever is standing in africa all the time
True
first boss yank is extremely funny
i just want to do keys with my good friend nimchip
they’d have to do so much work to bring any wotlk dungeons into m+, so many absolute nothing bosses
are we going for shield and bracers with our sparks or rather weapon and shield?
the changes for Grim Batol are kinda cool imo
mechanics wise I mean
could do something similar, just make them different
There is a really good WA for the dragon flying part that will show you how many hits of button 1 and 2 is needed to each pack
delver's bounty chests are only visible to you right?
only visible to the player that hasnt done it
like if i pop one i'm the only one that'll get the hidden chest?
sry if i'm confusing, i mean the map drop
Hey guys ! I have a quick question on gearing. I don't have a ton of time to play so I want to make sure I'm doing things optimally in terms of gearing and which raid/m+/delve to run. I was looking into askmrrobot but I wanted your alls opinion on how to figure this stuff out?
oh i have no idea
not ask mr robot
I do mostly dungeons so do I do the dungeon slice for raid bots?
Okay
I'll look into this. Thank you very much
I have one friend I play with he says just to copy murloc.io
But it doesn't really lead me in any direction just shows bis
That friend didn’t give good advice
I feel so envious of everyone. Havent had a single hour to play for a week now 😦
Murloc.io is just a popularity tracker
What’s actually best for your individual character requires simming and some critical thinking
Devastate/Devastor has like a 20% to reset its cd if i dont remember wrong.
The mountain thane ability i think will do that
agree, cata dungeons just have more to work with as a starting point
is it a bug?
no
can u turn delve gear into tier or no
No, the reset ur thinking of comes from devastator while mountain thane just removed the cd for two slams
Which also causes the glow
At least that's my understanding of it, someone may know otherwise
so longtime tank here rerolling prot war for the first time because my 15 year main of bdk is too button bloat
anything cool to know about prot?
we suck at taking magic damage.
2 charges, vene and a leap is pretty mobile sure.
how easy is it to double-gear as prot/arms to be able to flex for my guild
tier just changes stats
pretty easy
U can play prot in arms gear
Easy if its not world first.
Literally same stat prio
And even then stats arent thar important for tanks
In general
It wont block you
prot warrior has a pretty large amount of buttons
do we use intervene?
if you can intervene something or have the thane talent that gives a (very) small shirld
shield
yeah
otherwise no
best 2 slots for embellishment with spark?
do i press it whenever i can or just if someone is very low?
in a raid setting, vene the main tank before a tank buster.
idk I guess that should kind of answer everything no
it's off gcd
if you don't lose uptime, it's free
if you do, it's not free
I wondered because back in DF bdk wanted almost opposite gear/embelish to both dps specs & it was a pain
Its 3 am, just got off work, need to go up at 9 for a business meeting, yet my brain is like, "you can sneak in just an hour of wow, it wont hurt, you will be tired regardless" xD
cant relate
Embellishes are really weak in TWW, it won't really matter.
dogs dont work
I found room for binds for almost everything on prot but bdk especially is just needlessly complex rn
best 2 slots for embellishment with spark?
Also, literally CE players use suboptimal m+ embellishes and shit all the time because they're tryharding for raid or vice versa and do fine
its my own business so its pretty chill, its just never enough time.
it does not matter at all
Raid bots is telling me this, I take it this doesn't matter ?
I havent tryharded since like, mop, lmao
the most important thing by many magnitudes is how good you press the buttons
and that amplifies the more casual you are
you sim dps correct
is prot more forgiving to minor errors than blood?
Ty
modern blood is pretty forgiving for minor errors
i mean i'd say that was literally the entire point of the DS nerf
was that they could shift more DR into their passive instead of onto DS
A minor error for prot generally means letting SB drop or taking back hits, which generally kills you at higher levels
I dont know if I agree
if anything, the rework made it harder for bad blood dks
my context is wod/legion blood dk so 
bad players literally just didn't play bdk they were useless
do i prio execute over shield slam when enemy is below 20% in mythic dungeons or only in raids?
you can no longer just spam death strike
since you can only take advantage of a damage event once for healing/blood shield
would that we could return to those times, bring back 3 runes again to confuse the boomers
Correct you sim tank for dps gains just like a dps would
blood also still suffers from the issue of having to mitigate damage that already happened & thus being vulnerable to being stat checked
depends what you consider a minor error for prot
So what is actually the easiest and most forgiving tank rn?
bear
I think Prot War is the easiest
as always
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Prot War is easier then bear
bear actually has to think about if they wanna spend rage on more ironfur or raze/maul
the floor for bear is really high
same with Prot War
yeah for the dad casual its prob bear & prot as highest skill floor tanks
prot and bear are both very easy, prot is higher apm and bear is easier to completely grief on id say
though caveat to bear
Hey all. Just some quick questions around Revenge:
- How high a priority is using the free Revenge procs, as opposed to Shield Slam/Thunder Blast
- Assuming you swap to Execute in that phase, do you just sit on the free Revenge procs, or use those and go back to Execute after?
prot doesnt feel as high apm as blood & maybe that is because prot doesnt have a billion buttons that could be de-bloated
free revenge is basically useless
yes exe replaces revenge, the proc means nothing
it doesnt change priority ever
Thought so. Didn't seem very important at all
you use the free revenge in execute if you have no rage and no ss/thunderclap available
which is rare but can happen
but Ive played blood for so long I wonder if I played all the fun out & prot just feels fresh after 15 years on the same spec
Gotcha. Just feels very odd to sit on a proc, but is what it is
the issue with the proc is that sometimes its arguably a loss
blood does get a free 10% haste from boneshield
to not spend the rage
Fury/Arms/Prot all have one ability that they hope they don't have to use but will anyways when none of their resets proc
haste is just low rn
youll get to 80ish apm by the end of the expansion
even more in big m+ pulls
bc you cannot physically spend enough rage
Every GCD paired with an IP, can't wait
I think for me the feeling is pressing the same button(s) a lot (prot) vs keybindinf an absurd rube goldberg machine (blood)
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I feel that
Tombstone and Bonestorm too much
me no like the 'spend boneshield, get CDR playstyle'
I was going to level blood as the last tank but you are talking me out of it xD
and consumption/blooddrinker, and the new one from deathbringer that should just be an add-on to soul reaper
consumption/blooddrinker Im ok with
Zamn
soul reaper Im meh on for all dk specs
its basically just a way to spend 5 boneshields
if it didnt do that... we prob wouldnt use it
bonestorm now does that to
it started SL S3

bdk isnt a bad tank, Id still rather play it than brew or pally
Blood is still super fun
I just feel like blood requires too many keybinds for things you press once per minute
& could consolidate them
yes
yes
San Layn should not be played
vampire too over powered imo
I actually quite like pally. Not sure why everyone hates it so much
blehh
they killed sanlayn in tuning
they killed San Layn when they made it
this shit makes me want to beat my head against a wall as a solo prot in 8s
I like pally mechanically but math says theyre trailing the pack badly rn
shouldve been swarming mists and DKs wings
yall would cry playing wod dk smh my head
I played WoD BDK
I played wod bdk
I think I played necrotic plague unholy more though
isnt pally higher than warr on dps?
ppl overplay consecrate all the time

I cant even remember that far back
that was a solid 14 years ago

that was the expac that added active mitigation checks but (pressed death strike in the last 4.5s) didnt become bloods AM check until WoD S1
I think it's purely from a m+ perspective
so if the boss had an AM check mechanic
you had to hope your blood shield held
nope after mop they fixed it for bdk
but man was klaxxi paragons bs
I felt it when they changed it and hated it but it feels pretty fluid now, dont really notice it THAT much.
this is literally such an old complaint
bdk had to keep blood shield up
I dont like all the focus they have put on judgement
smh my head choco posting like, what, BFA era ppal design critique
Avengers shield is the cool Paladin ability
give me hero talents about Avengers shield
not judgement and hammers
at least it still silences right

the cool one is the, damnit, forget the name, the one that shoots out 5 avengers shields, nothing is more fun to press in wow.
Divine Toll
yes
purse full o bricks
Was too good of a Cov Ability
kinda hoping protadin gets a little more buff love
I think the shield of the righteous is a bit feelsybad to press for how short its window is
but at least you arent brew
exactly and it not giving hp was the start of the end
atleast from my understanding

brew is insanely fun
its pretty good now and its with no haste.
I have never understood brews appeal despite leveling it every expac trying to see the hype
in terms of fun I liked War=DK>VDH=Bear>Paladin
only thing fun with vdh is double jump and glide :x
Fel Dev is fun
my uh dk gettin slammed lfr
yes, its pretty fun, cant lie
there was a dungeon run last expac that I watched the war tank basically make all the war mobility look effortless
man basically teleported
so I decided to give it a try this go round
Havent played bdk since wotlk lol but mine is:
Warr=Pala. VDH. Monk. Bear.
prot pally & bdk teach the same fundamentals
will demo shout reduce the damage of DoT effects on prot (like bleeds) if it debuffs the right mob? If so, will this dynamically update the DoT damage if I use it after the bleed is applied?
theyre both low mobility high reach
if you like prot you will like blood
wheelchair tanks
Ive always been fond on pala and warr. Just disliked the whole rune system and never got around to play it after changes.
I am glad I have my Paladin though
judgement gonna look sweet
can sit in Dornagal looking fly AF
Im talking in terms of how they set up pulls less than the way they mitigate
Is shield block shorter now?
Having issues keeping it up aobe 88%
Without the missing hp scaling talent, wog is so lackluster
war>=brew>>>>bdk>vdh>ppal>bear
Pally to me is so fun because youre an immortal god with good utility that feels fun to use and good support too.
ppal being the everything tank is cool to me
I get the util and support stuff
but immortal god.... eh
the real question is most mobile between vdh brew and pwar
VDH or Brew
Pwar charge is only useful going in one direction
or if targeting something
Infernal Leap is anywhere
same with roll
You can bubble, loh, spellwarding, splash around wogs on yourself.
You can just avoid a lot of damage and abilities, but pack to pack, not so immortal no
yeh
if out of CDs, time to leave
mobility on a tank only matters if tanks suck
Its a little bit squisher than warr for sure but it feels more gear/scaling related. But i dont know the ins and out of tanks in such a deep way.
speed
on pally feels like you have empty gcds due to low haste, sure you can hammer, blinding light etc.
But feels like hopo generation is low and sotr is suffering due to it.
on a BDK can be a bit of a challange to get good distance on your own
as a VDH I can just double leap
or just going up the plateforms in the intermission
were u even alive during legion wtf...
i was like 12 and played a havoc dh
when momentum is back, so is egirlchoco

just got this off a delve. Anyone tested it yet and know if the absorb is off total mob dmg or for each individual mob in a multi mob scenario?
I have to sleep anyhow but weird with the heroics... gn 🙂
that shit is going to feel so good when we manage to critical block it
just does like, 2 million
less
this decent?
probably not good
at least
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5 thousand times today
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lol thats what the disc is for. but i usually type in the search bar " this good" or stuff and find what i need tehre
I personally enjoy reading nim answer the same question 60 different ways
So keep em coming

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