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thanks
that is very minor
that sounds really painful to run a 10 now
focusing lens isnt that good for aoe, read the wowhead guide
it should explicitly say "use it for ST"
but 1-3% is consistent with other embelishments, also with DF embelishments
should kind of hard cap at around 5% or slightly less than
Focusing lens is BiS for your wallet, only gotta socket and gem your jewelry once the whole expansion xD
Like holy cow are gems and sockets expensive
yes i know, i was limited by the crafting slot
i think its about 55k flat for the current shield and 66k for the potential upgrade
what do you mean potential upgrade
maybe i am dumb, but i think that is the buff from the trinket?
just to be clear, your shield is your most important defensive piece
if youre sitting on a potential upgrade and you havent done it
youre losing a lot
because ilvl gains translate to block value which is massive
for surviving
if it is, it has 30% uptime and makes you dodge 14.85% instead of the base 5%
its roughly 10% additional dodge chance with 30% uptime
additional to what
base dodge of 5%
if you use colossus as a dwarf, do you just turn human because the sizes balance out?
base dodge is some classic andy shit
i am nelf, so i ahve a 2% dodge bonus, dont know where the other 3% are ocming from
but either way, it should be about 10% dodge with 30% uptime for other races as well
yeah thats bad
like we mentioned its probably much better on brew or bear
because they actually have some dodge
potentially on vdh as well, but not as much as the other 2
might be dumb queston but... do threadlinings stack? is there a reason we go 2 of them and not 1?
so 780 proc x2?
yup
its currently bugged like BSL was, where you have to reset the buff for it to take effect, but it does
I coom
when you initially equip both, i mean
I did one threadlining and a binding of bindings because I'm an idiot 😄
Any good/okay trinkets that drop for us in delves/delve vault?
The tank trink from delves is really nice. The candle decent too
larynx has extreme variance both good and bad
delve is way better as solo tier 8
solod ton of them at 597
ok yogi
hey lads out of curiosity, why is radiant power considered worse than depths
i assume the proc rate of depths is high enough to out damage radiant, but i'm unsure and if i'm right, i'm curious about the math
yer killin me nim
youre not exactly new lol
run 2 sims comparing them
you can check uptime on its results
i was hoping someone else asked the question before me and just had an answer handy before i go sim it myself
if you dont know where, i can point you in the right direction
fdk's are literally your best friend, their synergy with pwar is crazy
they bring everything you lack
also doing 2m dps in a SV is pretty good
wait
our boot enchants dont have speed on them this time around
life isnt worth it
absorb the blobs
everyone needs to
big oval chase around the room? oh. so me or dps
like, how many should each player take
im guessing 2 each
i don't think they have a strict number like algathar academy orbs did
and everyone needs to
probably some amount that generally kills player
yes, rotate the boss around the room, by the time you're done in 3 corners, one corner should clean up
each blob heals boss for like 6% so dont fuck up
okay, i forgot it worked like that, i was just trying to make sure the balls were far away from him
Anyone having a brutal time in necrotic wake?
One of the easier keys for pwar imo
What are you struggling with in there
Hey gamers, got a question about IP on Ansurek, does IP work as a heal to remove the Feast Heal absorb or are we reliant on getting healed out of it?
it doesnt
No
Yeah thanks, that is what I thought since it's never worked like that before
My raid leader trying to gaslight me into just pressing IP to heal out of it.
The more you mitigate the less you absorb
and IV
gunna attempt city 5
i mean technically pressing IP will heal you, but not from IP, but from Indom
07 rip bozo to me boys
it, uh, is not really going to be a noticeable impact on the absorb
were doomed
does spell block work on tentacles in grim batol? i know spell reflect does
it works
It won't let you clear if you're asking that
i really need to print that spell reflect guide off in high quality
If it works on the damage it deals, it would only work on the initial grab, so
spell block is effectively useless against GB tentacles
I was using spellblock for liquify to lower group damage taken and blowing the others on gorge
Seemed to be okay
Just popped an impending victory straight after and got spam healed
everything queen does is spell blockable
their magic portions
their physical portions are blockable
so with spell block you are covered for everything
provided people know they need to have SB up for it to work
Every pull is just a nightmare. Small adds ramp up dmg. Bone claw hitting like a freight train.
Sb up most of the time. Sw LW pots still just getting clapped
logs?
Yeah I’d say post logs because shield
Block/ignore pain should be doing a lot of work there and I’d suspect if you’re feeling trucked by trash your sb uptime is low
Necrotic Wake is one of the hardest keys for me, because I've only cleared it once.
I may have also only gotten NW as a key once, but
weird
Ahh thanks Nim
NW is one of the easier ones for me
Will start providing next run. So gutted 4. 10x fails
I think that combo seemed to work best for me anyway. Spellblock on liquify made group damage minuscule
Hardest part of nec wake is stitchflesh and you can do a lot to trivialize that by throwing 3 spears at
Him and lusting
yeah probably the best use of it Sokraxx
Roid what trinkets are ya using? Any chance for a armory profile
trinkets wont help you survive, logs will help you more
Unless you're currently using the poison trinket that stuns you if you don't deactivate it
then a different trinket would, in fact, help you survive
lol
Roidberg - area52 I think I’m in arms gear atm. But really like Nim said logs are the place to start
thats true i guess
Had a tank last tier in our raid who kept using some trinket that took her out of bear form. After 2 weeks of that fun I’m always wary of trinkets now
Uh
or treemouth or rageheart
I can look
during forge speakers in SV, does only one vent have safe space when all the lava there?
and the other ones covered
i wonder if it was spiteful storm lol
3 vents covered, one safe
I asked her, I don’t recall it being anything normal
Yeah
fucking weird lol
It was at the very start of s4 and on the first boss of Amir on mythic she kept just dying on adds and we couldn’t make sense of it
Eventually figured out she had some trinket on and when she popped it as a part of a macro, she shifted out of bearform
Just fell over lol
maybe a non-tank or dps trinket?
It was almost certainly a non tank or dps trinket lol
ok i thought so, thanks!
oh lmao that makes sense now
i was churning thinking of what it could possibly be
yeah healer trinkets will probably shift you out
or int
Also had a bm hunter in our raid who was trying to figure out why his dps was so low
Only had 1 pet
#imcasual
dont worry
i did 3 keys last night
with my friend SP
who did not
have his offhand equipped
LOL
8 into 10, 9 into 10
he figured it out after the 9 push
LOL
shit happens to everyone 🙂
Sp dps is doodoo anyway he prob didn’t even notice
Just keep that pi rolling
I main priest, I’m 615 and gotta struggle to break 1m overall but I can faceroll that as arms with janky ass gear 10 ilvls lower
lol yeah he was under by a considerable amouint
he was like fuck this im going to bed after he found out and told us
Is there a list of abilities that can be intervened this season, similar to the spell reflect/block spreadsheet? Thx team
Im playing Gnome for Prot warrior but some guild mates tell me Mechagnome is better.Any tierlist for prot warrior races?
no
Anything else? I was expecting it to work on the charging mobs in mists for example but no dice
aside from dwarf and night elf, most gains are marginal
mechagnome is just very slightly ahead of the rest
no
are we doing Colossus for M+?
nah we are playing this 🙂
#protection-faq and read the guides
mr nim ive been on a prot grind
so thats not the build^ ?
Anyone can show their keybinds?
People keep trying to tell me that most fotm players are actually better than they'd be on a class they like/are comfortable on
3 wipes to third Boss CoT IN A +9
I've literally never seen that outside of like actual top of top players
bc the shaman hewaler was pumping a FAT 500k hps overall
and 470k on the boss.
peopel got straight heal checked
and he wanted to blame everyone else in the party
Who is saying this? Lol it’s such a trap
As blizzard has gotten better with tuning that has more or less stopped being a thing
Classic Andy’s might expect something else though 🤷🏼♂️
my draenei racial did more healing to the havoc than the resto shaman did on our last pull
thats because its over powered
on alliance its basically expected you are that for healer
is meathook still good or nah
torn on what to farm. I've got horrible trinket options, but just a meathook
just got*
i'd say nelf for meld+water
plus drae racial is stronge ron tank bc its caster's maxhp based
but sitll, during a heal check it DEF shouldnt out heal a dedicated healer 
how do you mean water, nvm
earthen is pretty good for healer if you dont wanna buy waters
otherwise same ole nelf/dwarf
but, yes, i suppose that, i like human for extra spirit for more mana regen. i probably would like void elf, mechagnome, probably only lightforged as paladin
Both of those trinkets are very good so
spelunker hard capped at 606 so it wont go any higher unless i run more delves which i prob wont
Do earthen not have to drink?
they do
but they have their own stone they can drink from
they added that a week ago
cause they couldnt drink anything but mage water
huge oversight
they have a racial now that eats/drinks for them
is anyone else finding siege to be a slapper on higher keys?
thats what i said apb
the dots are rough, same with getting cursed.
yeah i tried a 10 siege and my pug group did not even make it to first boss
but I was tanking decently as far as I gather.. the healer seemed to stuggle a lot
I just rotate stuns on the guys that dot (and apply poison before 3rd boss) and if the dots land just SW.
if its not a pug, tell your DPS to focus them if your healer is struggling to keep you up.
the curse can at least be dispelled so, there's that
none of the bosses seem all that threatening if you dodge all ground effects
is there a cap on haste at the minute?
so just stack it to the sky i guess and sim for DPS if i'm surviving everything 😄
perfect
thank you! ❤️
and on another note, any idea why the shard is recommended on WOWhead as a good trinket, it's confusing tf outta me as to why i would want that much mastery
i have just been ignoring that 😄
lines up for every ravager and mastery is fine for damage
only slightly less weighted
^ & spear
macro it to spear/ravager and forget it
that isn;t like a biggo DPS one i mean
its not weird at all
its been that way for several exps
its a shitload of mastery that converts to AP
and crit block chance
i mean like beacon and stuff, you feel the impact
mastery to ravager/spear doesn't feel like it'll give me that umfpt feeling ^_^
mm the scum trinkie
for yogi? 7+
i only did 4 3's
cuz ill get 1/8 hero
vault
so thats a hero piece at the very leasty
i think
does anyone have a wa that announces spell reflect and how much it hit for
A modification of https://wago.io/SpellReflection that also allows the announcement of non-damaging reflects [deflect](h
thank you!!
what is wrong with the search in LFG?
seach for keys for 10-12 and I see no Grim Batol
is itf bugged? its giving me 10% haste instead of 8
do a search for only grim batol and I see 2
no wonder I can never find a key for it lol
Does spellblock do anything against the necrotic bolts in NW that put the heal absorb thing on you
blocks the initial damage, not the absorb after
ty
ItF is a % gain. Haste % gains are multiplicative. Meaning the more haste you have, the more haste it gives you.
Huh... not sure i follow. Because an 8% increase of my haste shouldn't be 10% either
In other words, if you have 0% haste, then it would give you 8% haste. If you have 20% haste, then it'll give you 9.6% haste.
Every haste bonus in the game works that way. It's not unique to ItF. Thus it is intuitive if you're aware of how haste effects work.
I'm guessing if it wasn't multiplicative it would need to give a lot more than 8% to be competitive
Eh, 8% haste for 1 point is still very good. But the talent would be relatively weaker the more haste you had (compared to how it works currently I mean)
8% haste for 1 talent point is insanely good
So if i understand it right haste bonses give their flat amount plus that flat percentage x your current haste
No
If I have 20% haste, then the calculation would be 1.2 x 1.08 = haste with ItF
assuming full stacks ofc
Same applies to something like bloodlust. If I have 20% haste, then with bloodlust I have 1.2 x 1.3 = 1.56, or 56% haste
If I also have ItF, then it would be 1.2 x 1.3 x 1.08 = 1.68 or 68% haste
This only applies to haste % gains though. It won't apply to haste rating gains, and it doesn't apply to other stats, even if they're % gains.
Other stat % gains are just flat +x% (e.g. if I have 20% crit and gain a buff that gives me 8% crit, I have 28% crit)
Anyone able to give me some tips in 10 mists, mainly the 5 packs going thru the maze, i seem to get slapped stupid... Only been back tanking a few weeks, can 2 chest a 9, into a 10 and everything but the last few add packs in maze smack me
spell reflect the anima slash
reflect anima slash
or spell block it
^
Ok i think our ways of calculating come up with the same results with different methods, regardless thanks for the lesson
it does giga damage
TY!!
ty
if your healer is setting up routes you should be pulling pack to pack with IP stacked-high, can always SW as you enter a pack also if the openers are slappin you around
if youre dying to something, figure out what exactly it is and check the reflect/blockable sheet on #protection-faq
always do that and youll be good
Much appreciated!
Sorry if this has been asked before, I've tried google but can't really find anything: has anyone played around with Rod of the Sun King? I got it from BT timewalking and it's hero track so it was a big ilvl upgrade, I know it has no stats but STR on it, but the proc seems to happen constantly, I'm able to practically spam IP and I'm still flooded with rage
Does anything reduce the CD of spell block? Or is the a flat 1min ECD
Also, most likely a bring a log angle but I'm pulling about 100k dps overall less than my BDK, usually averaging 550k overall at 605ilvl. Just wondering what are the common pitfalls or mistakes that new pwarrs make?
A non-zero amount of people, including the people I get to play with on the regular
Meta chasing mindset is very strong
Bring a log, especially if you mean M+ damage overalls, but BDK does do more damage than P War
Common pitfalls are oversending on Rev/IP, sending outbursts on the wrong spells, and just plain pulling smaller than possible
@mellow quartz @limber arrow We can intervene the heaving wretch breath on the first boss of NW? Even though it's nature damage?
been like that since SL
they stand behind the boss you intervene them and SR and you stand on the other side
no one takes any damage whatsoever
how can they stand behind the boss when the boss turns to them to puke
cast time
they just run behind him
so boss faces them
you stand on the other side
i understand the trinket list is in the wowhead article, however are there any M+ defensive trinkets we like
there are none from M+
Can you spell reflect the Fox add on Mistcaller. Had a scenario come up where I think I did but I'm not certain
no
you can reflect the pulse aoe from the illusions though
and potentially the balls, but untested
actually no
you can only spell block those 2
does anyone know if you can diffuse tentacles as well?
as a monk
in GT
like the stun?
Diffuse normally requires you to have the debuff on you in the first place, and since it stuns you...
You can intervene spellblock someone to negate their magic damage from the pulse AoE?
Which color am I?
Is Reactive Webbed Escutcheon bad? Has no stamina or secondaries and the Equip effect seems lackluster at best
(delves shield)
The intervene magic shield feels might small
what's the best way to handle the odd man out add on bloodbound? separate dps?
Is guardian just an easier prot warrior? Just rolled a bear and it seems like a prot warrior with less buttons 🤷🏻♂️
always has been
It is trash, yes.
just bought mythic boots from a dude for an undisclosed amount
also killed mythic bloodbound horror with a pug
Fuck yeah.
Addressed an issue where Dread Captain Lockwood cannot be snared by some class spells.
idk who was talking about it earlier
but tclap should work now
What’s your guys’ average overall damage on 10s?
I feel like mine is low as shit 😭
whats ur dam
600-700 depending on key
should be over 700k pretty much always
Im watching Tattman do 800-1m and im just 😭😭
I should start logging for sure
yo, is there a FAQ covering ITF vs HR and the choice nodes on MT hero tree?
i checked FAQ and didnt see nor in the pins
Is anima slash reflectable ?
Basic thing is that you need more haste for ITF in order to get block uptime in M+
There's pretty much zero choice on the MT choice nodes, also; the multi-target Storm Bolt is actively detrimental, and the other nodes are outclassed by Flashing/Thorim's
Anima Slash in Mists is reflectable, yes
That’s gonna feel so much better lol Ty
Man thought I found a group that could comprehend getting to the end of siege
Just for the hunter to stand in melee for every single damn aoe, and the healer to dispel them there
All embelish do, they arent realy impactfull
Depends on content, but its like what ? 900 random stat ? Wont make any bigg difference either imho
We did it boys
cracked
whats the stream?
is prot warrior the highest dps tank?
Is it worth considering Bitter Immunity this season for certain dungeons?
I've been meaning to learn prot just so I can get into some FUCKIN keys
Wtf is that tier list ? It looks like its based on dps yet highest ones are C tier ? xd
I was also wondering that but didn't wanna sound stupid by pointing it out and having something obvious pointed out that means I'm wrong :x
yeah i heard the same about having haste for ITF i was wondering what haste value people were going to then swapping to ITF? and then the choice node mostly was regarding demo shout gives tblast that node
but i can see the synergy between flashing skies and thorims might to get more rage gen
Hitting shield block doesn't reset shield slam right ?
correct
It's traditionally been 40% without any buffs
so particularly unfeasible to reach this season
Oof, I'm hitting a target dummy for 30k less than my sim.
Oh ok thanks for the info
are you using execute
your sim uses execute
hey guys if your fighting getting a second good ring would that be considered a worth while second craft ?
Appreciated that's what I thought
Had a buddy wondering why I would hold block charges while having block active, it's like why press it if it's up
just another way to spend rage
Just don't cap charges basically
Fixed an issue with Piercing Strike debuff not increasing Piercing Strike’s damage. Piercing Strike debuff now persists through death."
Was this a thing on normal as well? No wonder it was tickling
anyone know if theres any hack/tech for the 3rd boss in city?
do we soak all orbs?
if we do, the pulse is killing us
Def want to soak the orbs yes
Yes u need to soak each, they heal boss for like 6-8%
Also u need all people to soak them not just tank
Theoretically, everyone grabs 1, then healer can use their aoe heal option of choice to clear the absorb
We are sharing the soaks, but I think the heal debuff is just too much for our healer I guess? In a 10
finally got a shield to replace the shitty delve one with no stamina
why in gods name would i want 2k armor over like 300k hp
I literally just got a weapon on heroic track finally
just took me going behind the back of all my friends to hit a key smh
Can I intervene the adds on dragon boss of grim batol? So it doesnt trigger the groupwide damage
does the add have to melee its target or just touch them
Deserved, they bricked my key seventeen times
random pugs are better on average smh
hey btw anyone cook a way to not literally blow the fuck up on grim batol?
on the last pack before the boss*
final boss*
have shield block up and use a defensive
i just attempted a 10 with friends and i literally instantly drop down to like 20% WITH shield block active lmao
The little zergling type things shouldn't live too long
shield wall and shield block*
It's also one of the scariest pulls for heals/DPS due to the corrupt cast absolutely slapping the shit out of everyone
You almost guaranteed had some hit you from behind, then
which is probably the single hardest thing about that pull
There's so many that the mobs readjust extremely often,
So it's very easy to get some behind you
Im getting used to kiting those , charge in pop ava sb and shield wall, do some dmg then kite and let dmger kill then
also
scale of 1-10 am i a bad person for not using intervene and opting for the triple stormbolt thing?
You're hurting yourself with that one, even
You can't control the only 2 extra stuns, and it also increases CD on storm bolt
so you get less directed stuns on what you want
this much i know, but it feels like god's blessing so many times, and i'm just asking how life is for the intervene gamers out there
It's better to have the intervene talent and not even use it than having the storm bolt talent most of the time
this is an interestin idea
i was mainly fishing for how often people intervene, or how many edge cases people have had where they noticed it
i don't think i'm breaking the meta or anything and i know the math has been done, but i was wondering for the more simple minded folk like myself
You preferably can send it almost on CD; it's helpful if you have melee to do so
is it off gcd?
Ye
You don't even charge if they're close enough,
Hence having melee is a big ease of use
I wouldn't fuss over it as much if you have all ranged with you
There are cases where it is usable on rangeds also, like last boss in gb , or siege once u done with tour tentacle
Good morning, guys I'm switching to protect warrior, would anyone be willing to send me some good videos so I can learn it ? Or talents on m+ thank you all very much. Or if there would be
if anyone would give me individual attention, thank you again.
There's not really many videos other than POVs of gameplay, but the Wowhead and IV guides are both very good
Come with talent loadouts and all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0TN9fL_R0 you can use this
Blockable/Reflectable spreadsheet: https://tinyurl.com/TWWreflects
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Talents
2:51 - Stats
3:03 - The basics
3:24 - UI & tracking
3:48 - Keep these on cooldown
5:10 - Cooldowns
5:59 - Defensives
6:49 - Tips
7:47 - Gameplay
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anyways gamers
friends are calling me a bitch for using defensive stance in m+
chat am i a bitch
do i need to be a battle stance enjoyer
oh i just read i can stance dance.
great, thank you so much ...I hope I can do it 😬 I'm a bit afraid of it
i shall no longer be a bitch
Just call them bitches back for not doing enough dps and needing tank dps to save them
Staying alive is priority #1
There's like no scary packs in any of the dungeons
switch to dstance as an extra defensive cooldown
then switch back
is switching on the gcd?
Yeah^. It really depends on what key levels you're doing and how comfortable with the class you are
im still really new to the game and i only started playing prot warrior this expansion
but i like limit testing
no
but sometimes idk if something is my fault or just healer's fault
i usually blame myself
Perpetually taking 20% more damage for 3% crit is a big mistake unless you are overgearing and/or very experienced with the spec
Is there a list somewhere of intervene techs? Similar to the spell reflect sheet
Keeping shield block up as much as you can and not getting hit in the back are very important for prot war.
How is the correct play a "big mistake"
If you're dying because you're in bstance you're just playing wrong and should fix that
im waiting for warcraft logs to work properly so i can try and analyze my gameplay
If it's the healers fault there's nothing to learn. Always think about what you could do better
Don't be too harsh on yourself tho
shit happens
Why I qualified it with overgearing content or being very good with cd management
It used to cost an additional 5% DMG to sit in dstance
Now there's really no reason not to
Well no, you said "very experienced with the spec". Very little experience is required to simply keep shield block up and do your rotation
The spec isn't significantly harder for not using dstance
Well, that's why I said it hardly matters; but it's still objectively the correct play to not use dstance if you don't have to
yeahhh
i got a hero shield yesterday
finally
after 6 days of non stop keys and no hero loot eod
and it didnt even drop for me, i got it traded fucking miracle
but yeah that first pull
even with a 3/6 hero shield fucking hurts
gonna be a fun week
at least jumpy boys dont jump anymore
Based on my experiences, first pull is ez clap; can add in gatekeepers and everything 🙂
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/vm1AJrxhB3Zn9jpY#fight=20&type=damage-done&graphperf=2
Can someone tell me why my dmg is so horrid ? 
:C
careful my pug dps will do just that
Without even looking at anything else, you aren't even pressing a button a minute
Almost every melee spec in the game should have at least 60 CPM, so you need to press more buttons without even looking at anything else
Especially since Prot War is one of the faster specs in the game
Hey, his active CPM is 63.5!
To trigger shield slam
That's more than 1 a minute!
Yeah you definitely don't press revenge more than thunder clap
all of your APM is low
I mean, technically, you will press revenge more than thunder clap
since you'll be sending a lot of blasts
yeah i guess youre right
god why did they have to make it a new ability
his breakdown is pretty decent
so his revenge isnt done incorrectly
its just too low APM all around
also low ilvl weapon
You also sent about a third of your outbursts on TC, which can hurt your numbers a lot
well considerably
But still better than others we've seen
The biggest thing is just pressing faster and more buttons; catch Shield Slams better
To get more Thunder Blasts and rage, to get you more shield slams/avatar/etc
Wil do
it's about the same
looks about the same
Damn
literally never leave shield slam off cooldown
The biggest help would be to spend like 5-15 minutes and no more at a dummy every day or every few hours
with thane that is really easy
my city of threads logs would like to have a chat with you about that
Guess I'll try that
so easy that ive been thinking about how 15 apm should move to 17 apm just because of the triple reset
Also are you not using Ravager/Champion's Spear as much as you can?
13 spears in 38 mins
I don't think I do 😵
seems kinda low
I think you should keep saying 15, since M+ can have RP downtime and "party decided to commit mass ritualistic suicide" downtime
maybe nim or luerce can show you one of their logs as a comparison
I've been playing like doodoo myself
oohhh so thats what i can call it when my frost dk walks into GB adds
How do you check that on wcl?
Under damage done, select yourself. There's a source aura filter right above the damage done breakdown; select outburst
hi what should i craft for shield slot everforged defender with dusnkthread lining or beledars bulwark
tyty
All casts of Shield Slam, Thunder Blast, or Thunder Clap are how many times you sent Outburst on each
since using one of those abilities consumes it
Everforged; Embel options are better and you can choose to remove it later, even
oh I'll just look at one of nome's logs
ok ty
Heavily depends on what pulls are looking like, since it's worh sending outbursts on Blast, but you want as few as possible sent on Clap
Unless you're doing bungo AOE a lot
Nome seems to send like 80% of his on SS
In general in a key, since you'll spend a decent amount of time swinging at bosses, you'll likely send more on SS overall
And you also prefer SS over TC in AOE
Thank y'all for the help ❤️
But not blast
So you'll send it on SS a lot more than Clap, and likely more than Blast
Would love to see a good log ngl
Most of my 11 up there were for gathering add purposes, since pug skeddadlin'
You guys know some good videos of prot warriors ?
Sense normally has POVs
Critcake did a few keys early on as Prot,
And if Pika is active right now, that's another good one
Comparing myself to nome is why I did decent damage throughout all of DF
Nome's done more keys as Arms than Prot recently, but he streams, as well
then I started slacking off and I'm back to being bad again
I did horrible in my Threads run; I wasted 548 rage ;-;
he plays both
There's some logs where he's thane
Ah found one thanks
Yeah, he's been playing around with both. Makes sense, since he keeps coming around to say how he's not really scared of anything in keys, which is about the same as I feel.
accurate
sure but thunderblast should be significantly higher than it is
oh that was an old as fuck reply
mb
bc its great
a ton of rage
thunderblast is usually more damage but not more prio damage/rage
rage gives a ton of hidden damage
someone come carry my +2 GB so I can get a +10 before the end of the night, kthx
er
+8 GB
carry it to a two chest for a +10 key
i swear i can thunk
Maybe when the US has its next civil war and I become a political refugee, Jakey
you can do non-bountifuls for hero vault right? my brain is giga melted right now and ive been gaslighting myself for like 10 mins
Should be able to, yeah
ye
Just need to be the right tier
yea t8
I think if DPS/Heals brick this one, I'm gonna give up this week and just play farm games instead
Are yall opening vault as dps or prot? Wondering what trinkets id miss out on if I went prot instead of arms/fury for mythic plus loot if I already have crafted shield
i feel like dps trinkets are not very useful right now, and most that are useful also drop for prot, like sacbrood
khardros doesnt drop for prot
i think i will open as prot cause my myth gear will come from m+, if you done 4 bosses on mythic and have shield, might be worth going for arms
mandate also doesnt drop for prot
is it good for prot?
yes
of course it is
the only reason to open as prot right now is myth shield
not trinkets
it actually timed
barely missed the +2 tho
by like 10 seconds
im running meat hook and sacbrood currently, but hook feels very underwhelming, it barely does more than 1.5%
but it also give 2.4k str
well its giving u strength too
Damage that gets soaked into your normal abilities isn't very interesting or fun, but it's very useful
but it gives the same amount of strength as other trinkets, so should compare its use with other trinkets
Bro has myths in his vault q.q
doesnt matter, i cant open as prot anyway because of raid
dumb question because i cant remember:
what does xxx (yyy) mean on logs for avg cast/hit?
What you guys think if I am fighting getting another good ring is it worth a craft at this point... 619 version I mean
is brann's max level still 38?
Probably not? There's not many sparks around yet
47
doubt it
I dont see how
btw, im not aware if there is a cap, just that max lvl possible is 47 now
well, my first attempts were at like, ilvl 600 with a level 28 brann, and it wasn't impossible, but it was too tedious and reliant on brann targetting eggs
surely with 11 more ilvls and about 12 more brann levels, considerable progress can be made
its doable as dps with brann as a healer
maybe in colossus in 620 ilvl?
Maybe, you're still gonna get your shit pushed in the entire time
Even when you figure out how many CDs you need to hold on to to break the egg, you still need to be able to survive the melees
so about vault, now im confused. Do we open in prot in hopes of myth shield or do we open in arms in hopes of good trinkets and craft shield
uhh, tried it a little, feels a little easier than when i last tried it
i don't have any mythic raid slots, only m+
myth shield if you did 10s
and/or myth raid
otherwise arms/fury
thats pretty much it
are 3 ilvls in shield so important?
yes
got you, thank you
jfc
oops, censored message
zekvir is a NOT SO NICE PERSON (person's behind)
after trying him twice on ?? i went to do a bountiful on tier 11 and he decided to spawn
we hooked up once and now he thinks we're married or what
Current tier 11 feels like the old tier 8, absolute slog
I bet it took like 5 minutes to get him to despawn too
Actually current tier 11 may still be easier, still a slog
Is that the easy or hard mode?
hard
Oh yeah miss me with that enough time to do that with higher I lvl 😅 does that give something else than the easy mode ?
it makes an ugly mount purple or something
Damn I need that 
Just gonna park it next to my other 249 mounts
Hello guys quick question, how to make the last boss in ara kara easier? people always get griped in and cced by the swirlies/ and or steal other peoples pools
poke more of the small guys
I'm pretty sure you can make it so there's more pools than people
So if you run out of pools by that point,
There's someone actively griefing you
At any rate, no +10 for me this week
DPS refuse to use defensives, and I can't solo bosses fast enough
Excuse you?
The blimp is fucking amazing
It's killer on the ozone layer, tho
nome how do i make friends who play this game who aren't so ego'd out that they can't improve
i need to up my shit talking game
the only game i work is shit posting
I'll probably unsub for the season tomorrow; behind on the loot treadmill, so I cannot be assed trying to catch up
They really made gearing a lot slower this season
Like the initial burst felt faster than usual, but the actual end grind feels like ass
Especially if you're stuck slumming it in 6-8 town, wondering if people are gonna interrupt today or not, so you can't even get those crests
Ye
I knew I'd probably only play a week or two of season proper when I saw the crest amounts go up
Because gear treadmill is the single reason why I stop playing WoW; I just wanna press buttons
As in the crafted shield with crests
mount is guaranteed or
Yeah, it's an achievement mount
suiii
looks like a mage tower boss
speaking of mage tower
it took me like 40 tries to get prot done
absolute aids
I don't find the tank mage tower particularly engaging at all
It's mostly just annoying
i didnt have food drums flask nothing i tried raw dogging it
The entire thing is a game to maximize DPS in small burst windows to get through P1 as fast as possible
Have you done tank druid one?
Im curious because I might make an alt
mage tower is a joke nowadays
yeah just need consumables but fckin expensive rn D:
u need 0 consumes for mage tower
Not any time recently
Beating zekvir t2 or "??" is not easy these days
So it's quite a rewarding thing to get
nah hes asking about mage tower
Ah
They should all be hilariously easy
Especially cuz the current mainstat food isn't re-scaled
So you just use that, and you're extremely overpowered for it
crazy, looks like I was right about unholy being better than frost
in what context
frost needs to be played very well and have a tank with good understanding of cd timers to be great
unholy owns tho
yeah and frost gets cucked by their dps variation
5 minute fight and you still have a +/- 30% dps range lol
At what tier of mythic+ does DPS start interupting? and not blame the warrior for missing interupts?
Stuck at m+7/8s on my warr. 611 item lvl. 4 tier pieces 3 of which heroic.
I interupt everything i can, but forexample in NW, i had a run yesterday on a +7 with a rogue DPS did 4 interupts through the instance, i did 43... like.. at what skill level does DPS start using their kicks?
People never start interrupting
they dont
If you're pugging there's always some clown who decides he's gonna make everything harder for everyone
Best thing to do is when you meet someone good, add them and actually ask them to do keys in future
99% of people stop pugging right before they find good players
reapers mark
god bless
its freaking tiresome, @round pendant yeah i have done that with a few healers who i have been playing well with. Wish i had a fixed team to run with.
you can always save anima orbs for interrupt heavy encounters
and pull 1 collector at a time upstairs
I am, usually saves it for 2nd. boss.
interrupt goresplatter stormbolt drain 1 tick in
I actually don't get saving it all on 2nd boss
personally im using all my stuns, and kick, and spell reflect constantly on cooldown.
when you can position yourself with only 1 mage in range that can be cced or interrupted by a range
true, but that requires the rest of your group to do the same.
they kind of have to if boss is there
The after effects of vdh soloing aoe stops for 2 seasons
if a dps isn't happy to cleave down adds they're probably in emergency and need an ambulance
Hello why do top pwar uses ITF in high keys, i eard it was not quite good for S1 with hast actuals numbers ? (sorry for spelling)
btw pug shamans aren't casting bloodlust or buffing skyfury
Cuz rn you get haste buff from affix frequently enough to carry block uptime
And keys are easy enough on weekly key level that you don't get punished for a handful of seconds of block downtime
i see, thanks for the fast answer 😄
17 drums gone in 2 days of pugging with shamans
many ppl unfortunately aren't using their class buffs
611 ilvl is more than enough
I got 611 yesterday by crafting a 636 weapon and I did 10s on wednesday already I think
a fun one
is when a dps dk jsut slams out abom limb while gooped
before the suck
:>
yeaaah shammy is the new fotm
Nice! i am considering crafting a weapon 636 weapon aswell, i got the shield from queen HC. and upped it this week.
What trinkets are yall running if you dont mind me asking, ive been trying to get the one from NW, which is apparently super strong. but no luck yet. atm im running Ceaseless swarmgland and ara-kara sacbrood.
how much overall dps you guys hitting in dungs?
600=800K
4pc?
I have 4pc yep
900k-1mil
Is Skyterror Reality that Good? I use it on CD on Targets where i can use the Full duration and it does Like 2% Overall
It's better on ST than aoe
Feels like it does nothing when pressing the Button
can easily do a milli if i had real prot 1h and shield
It's not like mandate that crits for 10million in 1 big pump
man, im really sucking then
605 ilevel and im getting like 420k overall DPS in dungeons
instructions unclear, i do no overall because that implies i finish a dungeon
Blaze it
certain fights with lots of small mobs i hit much higher but the average is that
nomer u play arms at all this patch?
He raids as arms and has certainly attempted to play Arms in keys
king shit
Which is a whole 2 times in keys so far
not as king shit
those did not go well
And 90% of heroic
Nah I have a chill timed av9, but I'm mostly tank prison in keys
But I finally got a shield traded
No more paper shield
So instead of losing 10hp I will now lose 0 hp
I've recently actually taken damage.
Player knockbacks are scary when uncalled

Does anyone know if casting jumper cables while tanking prevents me from blocking/dodging/parrying?
It does
Ok so don't even bother buying them as tank
nome i need you to say yes so I can keep pushing the costs on to my friends
They don't need to know I thought the exact same thing as what you just said
I'll buy some just in case, but isn't it almost always better for a dps to res?
What if no one else can res
i mean the DPS does more damage than you if they're playing well, and the above
Cuz they're busy
And you're not busy
Or they're just plain bad or lazy
Or turbo slow
More often than not they're just turbo slow
There's even times where you're literally not being whacked at all in both raid and dungeons
1st boss of Siege, there could be no adds up and boss is fixated on someone else
I guess
literally hit you at all
I was trying to show that there is some times where there's literally no excuse
Literally no excuse
Anyone else ever git hit with the boss frontal stacked behind the pillar at the exact same time a tidal wave was coming on the 3rd boss in siege? - Didnt even know that could happen - that one got us good lol
yeah happened a few times to me as well.
always happens a couple of minutes in the fight
It's the 3rd Tidal Wave overlap.
good to know lol none of us were ready for that one
Jeah,it's a tricky one,but once people know to expect it, it's not bad.
you can see it on dbm or lw timers
95% encounters in wow are solved by looking at ability timer bars
sorry, there's no room on my screen for those, i need the space for my seven details windows all about my damage
not really into macros
how can i combine a trinket with spear?
nvm found it chees anyway
Is there anyone here who could help me learn prot. Warriors for golds
Press shield slam a lot, don't overcap rage, press IP if you're close to capping, keep shield block up
that's
about all you need
yeah i mean, keep up shield block, shield slam on cooldown, thunderclap on cooldown. keep up IP.. try not to die.
cooldowns on cooldown
yeah
just, pop everything, and then, kill shit, and pop everything.
while doing what i mentioned before.
then stuff die and you dont.. usually.
pray the dps kills stuff before the stuff kills you
oh, i forgot, also, use interupt, its a mythical very rare button for most people in lower keys, but it will make you not dead on a lot of trash mobs and bosses.
and spell reflect is your friend, nothing beats the boss beating itself
basically, put all spells on hotbars, and click all of them on cooldown.
then you will win
and use battlestance, because, fuck 16% less dmg taken!
Sad though we got no big boss reflect this season. Compared when we do NO or HOI.
I'm at 605 and do like 350 👍👍

We can be bad together
Yay
I have updated one, can share it with you tonight once im home 🙂
Pls share with me too
Will sshare once home, its just one change in a pack tbh. so quite simple
But route is smallest issue
Dps refusing to kill adds in the 2 and 3 boss fight are the real issue
If I would do 1m dps I could do it myself

I'll stream a nw10 in ~2hrs
See how it goes, wanna get 2.5k for my particle effects
its easy on a tank
I know
tho when I pulled 3 boneflayers it wasnt easy on a tank
But I only did a 9 so far
hi folks, For Dungeon is crit vers emb better or the single target one
Crit/vers
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