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Hmm, is there a haste % you can reach to always have shield block up? If running Into The Fray
To have it up 100% of the time at all times, it's like 35-40% or something
To have it up effectively 100% (blocking everything you can block), it depends per damage profile, but usually around 30% or so.
This is before any buffs or anything, by the way
Weird, wonder what I'm doing wrong. No idea what changed. Feel like I used to have it up all the time, but today it falls off
i have 35% haste unbuffed
The other major source of SB comes from Shield Charge, which you need to use on CD, if you're rocking ITF
Yeah, I use that for to start the pull
If mobs are almost dead, i don't use it again, but i use it on CD
When Prot Pali isnt 20% better then every other tank. Prot Pali mains are rioting in the streets
I Hope they riot, it means it is unplayable/shit, like brewmaster, one day my friend will be rewarded to be otp on something that needs to be broken
Brew is hardly unplayable or shit
You know what I mean, high keys 15s+ you still have the usual brew issue, stagger not tuned to be hit by 10 targets that hard (tuned toward raid) and you need a healer who just accepts it
It will always be that way unless they do what they did with Aug and make a passive to buff stagger or something else in 5 man content
Which when i think about it sounds like a pretty decent idea tbh
100% specific group content aura shit is the solution, because it can just become broken so quick in raid
Maybe the actual move would be 5 man content buff to celestial fortune
My friend is coping Blizz knows it’s the solution and is cooking, I find it funny, 3 expansions he is waiting his turn
I mean rn brew is like in the potentially best spot it’s been in m+ since s2?3? of BFA
Celestial fortune is the crit (duplicate heals) if I remember ?
Yea
Realistically you could probably do a little bit of both
All tanks are really in good shape tbh (maybe I’m wrong), just group content tuning on some and they are all good
Good shape comparing past seasons ofc
For brew I think they can just give a flat dodge % in group content (im always trying to find the laziest thing yes)
Did he just get one tapped by a single melee swing
Yeah lol
Sense posted this earlier and mentioned it was his friend rerolling to paladin
tbf doesnt seem like he had conc or sotr up and it may have been a hit from the back

Ppl noticing they can get banned for be toxic in m+ now
They flipping
Got told insane tanking yesterday when it was a run of all time
Buddeh its okay to say im bad i getting
best feel, so comfy 
@jagged pier thanks for the advice yesterday on remembering enchants whens imming, really helped me out alot, did not consider that or embelishments at all.
Np
guys are having full crit build is bad ? should i take care of my versa stat too for high keys ?
Doesn't matter
For tanking what's the step up from 11s to 12s ?
With like 627 ilvl and relatively speaking 100% uptime of SB and IP and decent rotation of other defensives.
You won't feel that much of a difference
Guessing just harder to get into a pug
Until you got some 12s done yeah
U wont feel any difference except their own presseved difference they difference u feel is the extra 20% damage and hp from the affix stats wont change that
Youll always feel the jump
But having more vers will do next to nothing except maybe a placebo effect and if thats works for yah that works for yah 
Lol, fair aha
Gotta finish timing 11s first aha
The difficulty jump from every key level past 12 feels harsher than from 11 to 12 imo
Good to know, thank you
I've found tanking 11s is much easier then healing them on a hpriest.
Hpriest sucks
Yeah rerolled tank once I got 2700, didn't wanna disc heal aha
Yeah really enjoying tanking. Think it suits my play style a bit more than healing
Would you guys say prot warr is in a good state to push high keys? (Ofcourse none of the tank specs are close to prot pala in dmg, so timing within time will be harder with other tanks cause you lose flat dmg), but the survivability for Prot warr, its above average or hows it looking?
Prot warrior is the same as any tabk in termw of defensive capabilities the same
As all 5 other tanks
Like any tank is the same as all other tank
Tuning very good defensive wise
Okey, thats good to hear, thought Brew and DH for example had hard time surviving higher keys compare other tanks
Brew takes the most damage that they can't handle on their own last I checked, but in exchange, they don't really get spiked like some other tanks, just due to how stagger works
don't hold me to that, though, and they 100% can still survive fine
DH I am a dum dum about and don't know squat
Hi! Should I take these instead of the tier shoulders? I already have myth Stitchflesh and crafted ring, but I'm having a hard time deciding if I should take the socket or these instead
I thought prot war also not get spiked?
Socket maybe. But try sim the ring first.
Correct, but there's also less self-healing on average than Brew in terms of actual healing. It's kind of funky.
I was more referring to the like VDH/BDK group, who are a little spikier, but in exchange can just heal up
BDK being a much more obvious example
It's all pretty close, I'd be tempted by the socket, or the 3ilvls on ring
They’re also just easier to heal because of celestial fortune duplicating heals
Tried simming it and it seems that both rings sim lower than the crafted one and on top of that I would loose either alot of haste or 3% parry so socket it is I guess
Hello, I have hero shoulders + cloak and wondering if I should craft 636 shoulders or cloak next... any recommendation for this please? Thank you very much! 🙏
shoulders will give you more stats
if everything is upgraded you can craft cloak
i don't like crafting tier slots/high budget armor
But whats the point of that if he has nothing to upgrade anyway
Shoulders are objectively better
Its terrible
The worst of course, that mace one hand myth seems more intersting.
nah already made a 636 one
this one is good though no?
Its alright
Sure but I can't really say I'm motivated enough this expansion to chase 3 ilevel. not a fan
yeah fair point actually
Well true... can't disagree with that.. this season is quite a mess for upgrades.
any1 wanting to play multiply specs are fucked by the gilded crafting system for min maxing. not as bad as in shadowlands but still meh
not to mention getting the rare neck/cloak allows you bypass the gilded crest system. needing on mythic pieces with shit stats is also the way to skip the 619 to 623 cost
i wouldn't care if the game didn't cap the weekly cap and respected my time
made a second warr to recover from wasted gilded and it's so much higher itemlevel than my regular main already
Would also be great if the achievement threshhold for the crest discount would be 636 instead of 639
¯_(ツ)_/¯
not sure what you mean by that?
too many systems 'you gotta know' or fall behind by
Theres an av that gives your alts discounts
isn't that only for valorstones?
That makes your upgrade cost 10 instead of 15 crests
Uhh, I think the gilded one reduces crests? Not sure
Point is, for some reason all of them take crafted items into account except the gilded one
i have no fucking clue. but if that's true the gilded gets reduced on alts, then your alts can get even higher ilevel than mains due to gilded cap
lmao
Cap isnt an issue for lots of people at this point
I havent farmed any crests this week but if I did I would be sitting on 105 crests
I find valorstone's to be the bigger annoyance right now
same here, got no use of gilded this week. used 15 to upgrade weapon from 623 > 639. thats it.
First big pull of mists I'm getting kinda clapped on a 12. Any tips ? Is it the pugs not stacking ? I am avoiding ground circles best I can
are you getting dispelled
Need to get dispelled, but you can reflect a lot of the soul splits. Get the spell cds on nameplates WA, watch the soul split tracker, and if it comes off cd before spell reflect is off cd, move out of range slightly for a little bit, pop spell reflect when up, and move back in. Should reflect back onto both.
Often the timer is about 2s longer than spell reflect CD
Thanks ! I assume spell block would also do a lot of work ?
yes
You can pop spell block fairly early since it has a 30 seconds duration and that pull doesnt last long
What counts as a spell for Spell Block? For instance does Dorlitas Igneous Hammer count as a spell?
also pinned in case you lose it
how bad is it to play Roar nstead of spear for prot in keys and/or raid? 🤔
I mean if you are colossus you play roar, I assume this is for thane question?
I saw a few % loss
1-2
The big thing is
-10% stam at most
As you cannot really afford stam points with roar
I really don’t think roar is enough snapthreat util to justify it anywhere outside of maybe ara kara
But I’m sus on that
Hello, would you use CHAMPION Swarmlord's Authority as 2nd trinket (with Ara) over any other trinkets of HERO or MYTH quality or is there something worth using over this? Thank you very much!
What other trinkets
why would you want to use champion swarmlord? at least do heroic.
And try some Heroic Transmitter it's good
Swamplords ain't worth to use over other trinkets
Thanks! Thought the sheet only included Spell Reflect so did not take a look before 😄
basically any m+ trinkets (so hero or myth if I get them in vault), I only play m+, I don't raid
Then seek mark of khadros or skar’s shard pair it with sacbrood
I have hero Skarmorak Shard
thank you 😃
Run that
Then seek hero/myth sacbrood
Did the Colossus changes make it better than Thane for Prot?
I have Myth Sacbrood so it's all about the 2nd trinket 😃
Whats more up to date? the wowhead mountain thane m+ build or the one on in the discord info?
theyre different
Hey guys, I am new to the prot party. Checked some guides and got a bit confused. For m+ I wanna play mountain thane, that pretty much clear.
Do I skill dragon roar side or spear? Found information in both directions. Same goes for battle scared veteran vs ravager.
Anyone can help me on this
roar vs spear is a crit question
spear with higher crit and roar otherwise
bsv can work fine as a safety net but know you're losing a lot of rage and damage from dropping ravager
Okay so go ravager until I start pushing anything high, as a rule of thumb
spear because its less buttons to push :-)
its the same amount of buttons
Okay good. Can you explain the crit thing
if u have 25% ish crit or more
nah, shorter cd, more buttons
u run spear
prob just a % crit
Crit thing? simple spear boost your crit damage so if you got more crit chance means more damage.
this is base or include +3% from the battlestance?
18k-20k if your new
Is it correct that we use deadly emerald in all sockets with culminating blasphemite? Just seems like an anti-pattern.
20k
Oh okay. Good to know
for the extra .1% damage yes, but in reality u take the speed gem and stack different gems for the SPEEED
I use 4 different gem with elusive, then rest filled with deadly
Last question for now, haste/crit is fine overall ? Or any point where I really want versa ?
Ah I see this must be a raid tank thing I"m looking at
crit vs vers is comfort feel nither does anything big for u
u wont feel the levels of vers u can get
Okay so both is fine basically
vers reduces all damage but you could get owned by unblockable hits
after strength and haste stats do very little sruvivability
which parry is good
Okay got that
jakey did i speak misinformation
if u like vers and having more vers makes u feel safer and u play better because of it then its fine
but having 15% ver wont do anything for u really at all
this also goes for things like bsv and swarmlords trinket etc
but in reality u should understand what each thing actually does and doesnt do for u
Thanks for your kind help here.
u didnt speak misinformation but its not the whole truth or completely correct
yes vers is all damage it reduces everything equally, magic, phyiscal etc etc sounds really good and is really good. But its the highest rating so u need the most amount of stat to get 1% of vers compared to other stats and we do mitigate stuff through other stats.
The reason why crit is rating so highly is because regardless of unblocked or blocked it just stops the damage pre mit so u take no damage form like a melee (yes its rng) but thanks to statics when u are getting hit by mutliple melees at a time like 99% of the time in m+ u will parry and as u stop an entire damage event over the course of a dungeon it probably adds up to more damage reduction than like 15% vers will give. sure its only on physical damage we are strong against already, but it does mean your IP will get eatn less quickly and actually effect the magic and dot damage which we are good against more as the physical hits u are parrying just dont eat at the IP shield at all.
ty pookie
So what haste do you take into the fray and why? I’ve heard several different #’s
I’m at 15k unbuffed because I can’t seem to get a haste neck
35%-ish unbuffed
there all always gonna be gaps in sb uptime with itf, bigger the lower your haste is
if you’re v mindful of it, you can get away with using itf at slightly lower haste, just making sure the sb gaps aren’t happening when you’re in any danger
but also itf is stronger at higher haste, just how flat haste works on top of rating
18k-20k rating
i still think so many players would be better served by running hr just to have one less thing to think about lol
if u are new to the spec i highly recommend waiting till your closer to 20k
they would
but the top players dont run HR so it must be bad right
whenever i play hr
i get to blast damage
without worrying about block
its so nice
itf im worrying if i drop i explode
i also dont haev enough haste
20k haste is like max haste items in every slot other then tier
I’m 630 and I’m missing shoulders and neck for haste and I’ve got 14.5k
neck is huge
i play siege db and its not enough
NW ring and the haste mastery ring (which dungeon?) are really nice
Thx, it gives lot of haste, I was stuck with it for fury spec until this week vault
But farm an item in gb

not by choice ofc
What’s up on the raid for you ?
5/8
no raid other than reclear
thanksgiving
i showed up to raid on laptop basic wa
4/8 log off 
Oh ok lol, 0 pulls kyvesa ?
I’ve raided once in a McDonalds on my laptop
30-59
they didnt say anything about you staying there for 3 hours
No because I was ordering shit
I felt like cartman when I raised my hand he came up to me
To take my order
Yes there is not a lot of people in my town who goes to McDo the evening middle of the week
this might be a really hard question, but would anyone be able to estimate the % of more damage taken when playing colossus vs thane?
Mainly dependant on how much you spend on Revenge .
@ionic fern do you actually prio tc over revenge for colossus
tc feels like it does 0 dmg but idk
is tc more likely to reset ss than revenge?
No but your not going ti have any rage to spend on revenge well less rage anyways
doesnt cost rage to do so
this was implied in the question yes
aight
kk
Can't really estimate how much squishier X is
Bout some
Can’t really put a value on how fun hitting demolish is tho
You can only bring in the facts that thane:
- generates 40-60% more rage
- Demo shout up a lot more frequently
- Demo shout 5% stronger
- 8% dmg reduction with ~80% uptime from using TB
No stam point
Colossus only has the 5% baseline dmg reduction, 20% stronger IP and the 10% DR from demolish every now and again
That you can take possibly
The rage also fuels lower CDR on shield wall, as well, so if def CD rotation is strict, you might feel it there
Yeah colossus also can't pick 1/2 endurance training
Yeah and I’m also not taking spell block or indomitable if I’m playing colossus 

The key damage is insane with this build nom..
Yeah my healer can cope I’m parsing
thats the spirit
Can't stress enough how bad thane feels in keys
dropping findomitable is insane
I like both my shield charge capstones bro
remember when we didnt take ea?
You would think differently if you saw the damage
Bloodsurge instead of sw talent might be a damage loss. Not sure
Didn’t sim it
Wasn’t sure what would net more rage tbh
So you can revenge spam infinitely
is bloodborne actually meaningful for colossus
Ye
Nome gatekeeps those on Wowhead from tasting the nectar he desires, that of Colossus gameplay, by making them scavenger hunt for their builds
wait people actually play colossus?
Diva the record to beat is 1.61mil without Aug
In what key
Any
I did a lot of dmg in some of my keys yday..
None logged and idk what my overall was
I did 1.4mil in GB, 1.5/1.6mil in ara, 1.6mil in mists
ilvl?
635
I was parsing with this build yday in heroic tho
I got 99 at 629
Ye if dmg is your goal thane is just whack
Ofc
Am not finery maxing
Trolling or
I’m at like 2 or 3% dmg buff idk
I have enough finery for the next 3 buffs already in bags
Think I have like 40 in bag LOL
I haven't entered raid enough to get fineries
It's at like 10% now
I was
not in bstance
no finery
629
no combat pot
Bruh
nome what page were you playing for the colo m+blast •
Are you playing execute build
was it just not both sc talents
Nom
Full execute on every boss ye
Colossus execute lowkey doesn’t feel that great to me?
Numbers be numbering
I tried that double ravager cook
All builds should use seismic regardless
I realized that
"cook"
You mean dogshit
I hit the bong and talented the worst talent I could of
Ohno
It felt cool as fuck for the first 3 demolish casts
He's a bonghead
they should
but you see some crackhead kinda builds out in the wild
And then I actually wanted to kms for the 2 after
nome do you have a log of your colo blasta key
90% of my m+ logs are colossus
Cuz I just don't play thane anymore
Shit does no damage
are you a mists only enjoyer
Nome doesn't push because CBA
Almost ye
bc i might have just clicked wrong uneon
so he's solidly in Colo Prio town of weekly keys
I play thane when I like lightning
Idk just give demolish cdr for less dmg
thats disgusting
And the tree is better for m+
But then we can go no vers and full haste/crit and we are still fine? For M+ content that is, I have all my crafted items as haste/vers now, could it be better to just recraft to haste/crit? (gold isnt an issue)
Or just buff thane damage 
It's a sim angle, always
I mean
That doesn’t really solve the issue
Of colossus not being great in push keys
How do I sim as tank tho?
You could go full Mast/Crit or whatever and be perfectly fine. Not optimal, but fine
Same as DPS
for dps, we always sim dps
You can't sim for tankiness due to it depending on damage profiles
Well that will give best dmg output
yes you can go full haste/crit and be omega fine in keys
not survivability, so that feels just like a bait
And all stats are good defensively, anyhow
crit is the best defensive stat for ultra pulls
isnt that what people always claim they want to be tanky for
There's no point to attempting to mega min-max secondary stats since none are bad defensively
no they say they want to be strong against bleeds and magic, prot war's weakness
anyhow, excuse them while they never press spell block, reflect, or shield wall
Maxxing mastery for those giga Spell Block reductions (Not me having mostly fury gear still)
It’s only bait if you sim a defensive trinket (which are bad(this tier)) vs a dmg trinket
Okey, then I just recraft my items to haste/crit
you dont have to
does this mean that 70% of incoming damage goes to my ignore pain pool OR that the size of the ignore pain pool is 20% larger but it still prevents 50% of incoming damage?
20% larger
You get 20% more per ignore pain
instead of 100k its 120k type deal
Would 70% IP absorb shield make colossus all that much stronger
I genuinely don’t know how much it would change tbh
It would still only absorb x amount of damage in the end
yeah
doesnt matter in case of near oneshots
Oh true
cuz say the ability does 50mil
Yeah idk that wouldn’t do much of anything
doesnt fucking matter if you reduce it by 5mil with 70 or 50%
IP would already be le gone
xd
Man colossus is 
it would only matter if the ability is say 5mil hit
Just give it a passive 90% dr
and you have say 4mil IP
Btw, if we would wanna spec BSV and we are using the talent example from Wowhead M+, which talent are we removing for it? Ravager?
any choice you make to get BSV
sucks
you will lose 5%+ dmg in whatever choice you make
Okey, so if we can avoid taking it, we do it, otherwise we accept losing dmg?
If you give up Ravager, you also lose a lot of burst rage at the start of a pull, and SC loses you a stop venue
^
it just sucks either way
to get a fake cheat
we didnt need it in DF, even when if wouldnt have been bugged, and you dont need it now
It can be a real strong talent, but it's not an actual cheat and hasn't been fully proven to be needed yet
I've yet to see a log where it's been hard required. If it was, game's in bad times zone
I see, ty for the answers!
Well it has when u take a beam in DB without pressing a defensive it eill keep u alive then 
It's normally 1.2 mins or so for a lot of people getting use of it like that
Gotcha
In that case, we wanna have embell that gives crit above 80% and not vers, if Im planning to go haste/crit that is?
my sim says vers embellish
The vers one might actually edge it out if you've got all haste/crit gear otherwise
cuz without that embellish i have a mighty 700 vers on my gear
There's funny balances with how stats work. Without going too in-depth, getting more of one stat makes the others more valuable. Hence why simming stuff is recommended so often, since it auto does the math work for you and your very specific situation
its just basic math
the less you have of X the more effective gain is increasing it
the more you have of Y the less effective gain is increasing that
Listen, Nome, I don't even expect basic single-digit arithmetic from people no more
that's beyond your average American
thank god im not american
What if I want battle scarred veteran cus it has a fucking dope name?

then youre roleplaying and anything goes
just send it
You're living the real life
Let’s freaking go
Yea, I will sim and check, but I have 10,5k vers atm, 6k crit and 18k haste, can switch 4,4k vers to crit if I want, another 1,2k vers to crit after I craft 2 more items
Talents immovable object
Gets pulled by Ansurek or even the trash outside Princess
wanted to play colossus for the whole "be passively tankier + have a slower/easier playstyle" vibe but it seems painful and thane feels 10x better

It’s a good talent tbh if you specifically want avatar everytime you hit shield wall and shield wall everytime you press avatar
theres a reason why i said that colossus is harder

it is absolutely broken
like disgustingly broken talent
IF you can play around it
cuz then youre just immortal
Like if the metric is getting shieldwall when you hit avatar and avatar when you shield wall
It’s 10/10
but you also lose disgusting amounts of damage + 90% of SW procs are rather fake
doesnt
When I was first reading prot talents
I was like “that combo has to be insanely broken and why prot is so tanky”
Doesn’t work
Should be like that tbh
THATS WHATS HAPPENING
I think we should get that, but every time we proc shield wall or avatar, we just get a megaxucute that just cleavves every enemy in front of us for 50% max HP damage; 100% on a crit
Thank you but I would like my tierset idea from a few days ago instead
If you get bonus crit damage, the damage just rolls over and stores on your next auto attack, and hits the next enemy for all the overflow damage
another question, why does thane play champion's spear and colossus plays thunderous roar? i thought colossus was more crit-focused so spear would make more sense on it, also more rage generation which is one of its main problems
.
Colossus benefits from the bleeds and all
Thane deals more damage with spear with optimal stats
U can squeeze a lot of burst into spear
overall it's effectively "Sims better" for both with complete bis gear
Alot of vo’s and tbs with thane
Also
Troar syncs nicely with colossus
You get it every set vs every other w spear
colossus gets frequent dmg amps specifically for bleeds and overall dmg
so its better to have 45sec roar buff bleeds + demolish buff everytime
ima try dummy slappage with spear rq
Nom what is your revenge split in keys typically
yeah but do you do 1.15mil dps in dawnbreaker
Idk I do a lot
Idk if I logged any of my col keys from yday
I did not. Gg.
I was top damage in one of the farm keys with an aug tho
Beat a 634 fdk
Can we rework ravager capstone to be double ravager+ 20% increased(instead of decreased) dmg+ the extra rage vs 45 sec ravager nom
Wtf is banner
I only know the pvp banner
I did not
This one is rly fun tho
I love prot war tho might be my new long term main
let me tell you about peak
It’s like they made bear but fun 
the time when pwar played the best
in the past 4 expansions
ignore the ally buffing part
lmao
how can i do this?
seems like a nice tool
thats just sims
Was it a lot of mastery
You needed like, 16 external rage per second to keep 100% uptime on it
Was this possible
Conq Banner granted ~10% mastery 15% str (?) (via conduit) and 4 rage per second
with glory legendary, you could extend banner
if you played and charge weaved optimally
in combination with
and shield slamming and spamming IP properly
you could infinitely maintain banner
Oh that is poggers
The charge weaving is easier than it sounds like due to the increased move speed
My allies always fast as fuck
and effectively have a permanent 30% dmg buff for yourself
no the ally buff didnt extend
it was only a personal
Oh.
you never gave a fuck about buffing others
it was your personal permanent 30% dmg buff
That is pretty peak
Everyone else was always like, "Wow, it's so nice of our Warrior tank to keep buffing us 🙂 "
also turning you into the 2nd strongest execute class
in the entire game
cuz you generated up to 1000 rage per minute
Is the first me, but on prot war
However, if you were bad and couldn't keep up with like the 100 CPM, your performance go big down
but it was such a high skill ceiling that 99.8% of prot warriors couldnt play it properly
When was this
maybe 99.9%
SL?
SL S3-4
shadowlands s3 and s4
best time to play pwar ever
it was 20x harder than any other tank
it was so much fun 
can i see numbers for thane too? or any site to look at things like this
then there was BDK across the road at the same time
which cracked out damage and defenses for minimal effort
waiko sims are a personal thing to simulate how much dmg your character does in the given parameters
How are the Europeans celebrating Thanksgiving?
oh damn
I’m forcing them to
any good place to learn about sims?
Even I’m celebrating(secretly American)
@jagged pier post the copy pasta
seems like a crazy tool
we dont
Eat my boy
They should hunt the rowdy Americans and eat them
which one?
We already do
the sim pasta
But thanksgiving is a world wide holiday .?
How do i log ?
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that's some real MURKIKA brain right there
It's to celebrate when America defeated the Indians and brought freedom to the world if I recall
I swear I’m not that murika
Ye
"brought together freedom to the world"
Give or take
Hello, would anyone be willing to explain how to "cheese" the 1st Ara boss? I noticed people in high keys tank is very close to the eggs and the boss never eats the adds. How exactly does this work please? Thank you very much for your time, much appreciated! ❤️
you just stand close enough but not too close to the eggs

thats all there is to it
You effectively edge the spiders
its just so the dps and yourself dont have to waste too much time running around
just drag the boss onto the spiders and call it a healer issue, ez
thats all there is to it
No you have to edge the spiders
But then you have to, like, play the game instead of going full no thoughts head empty
Just heal through the murder damage, ez
What if I’m playing league of legends can I willump and nunu q a spider on first boss of ara kara
There we go, there's the brainrot
It has to escape somehow
if you’re playing league of legends you likely have clinical depression. please see a doctor
It’s like I cast ignore pain to release rage but I cast discord sentences and enter key to release brain rot
is there a way to tell if I'm at the right range? if they reach the boss hitbox, he eats them right. And if the boss is too far, he will go eat them too right? How can I tell the right range where none of that happens?
Boy do I have news for you
Not only do I, it’s resilient
Boss doesnt eat them if theyre too far
thats the hard part, generally yeah i guess the bosses hitbox ring is fairly close
but that also requires your DPS to NOT lead the adds into the boss
and CC them etc etc
requires a lot of trust
ok thank you!
does shieldwall and bark stack their dmg reductions?
or does the higher wall cancel out bark?
Stack
ty
Multiplicatively, by the way, so it's not 50% + 20%
But it becomes less effective technically (reducing 50 mil dmg is more reduction than 40 mil)
so does the add get eaten only if it passes through the boss hitbox? does the boss never eat it from farther than that? And the adds always fixate and follow players and never go to the boss? So technically unless a player kites the add through boss, they should never get eaten, is that correct?
yup thats correct
Yes except, if your group takes too long to kill them all it will leap around and eat the ones left.
this was great, thanks a lot
is there a way to simulate (for example) a BiS prot warrior doing their optimal rotation?
so i can compare optimal things without my mistakes influencing the log
whats the new leavers thing about in keys
or its just guys that join and leave at soon as it starts
i feel like its different story when you die on trash, die on boss, die with lust on retry
thats exactly what the sim does
this is the ST breakdown
nah the joke is, lead asks if ++ possible, I say depends how often you die and they die 4 times
on how big of a pull
pretty chill, first 2 chargers with big one. Then chained middle pack into stairs pack after 1-2 mobs were dead

is this bugged? Im pretty sure we did 10
but even ingame it says 10 xD
did you deplete the key
no it was still +1
Recent tuning for prot didn't change anything in terms of tanking M+ did it?
correct
Anyone else noticed when leaving a timewalking dungeon, you still have some dot on you that kills you then?
For levelling dungeons
Happened like 5 times on my timewalking journey 10-71
Yesterday
Also shaman spirit link is super broken when you’re like level 30 with 80s together
Wiped us
wat
There’s that razorfen dungeon with the spirit link boss that randomly kills you all one out of ten times while leveling
ok so I have 1 hero and 1 Champ ring
and 90 Gilded Crests
How do I make the 2 rings?
People talk about
Hey guys, how are ya?
Question im new to prot warrior and wowhead says to take spear on the right side of the warrior tree for mythic + but a large majority of the top prots on raiderio take thunderous roar can some explain why?
Also i feel like im not generating fury very quickly. Im using thunderclap and shield slam on cd. Maintianing shield block and dumping the rest into ingnore pain. Only really use revenge on the free proc. Also keep demo shout on cd with shield charge. Is there something im missing or is this just how prot is?
It's because you're sending everything on IP
You're getting less IP because you're spending everything on IP
Revenge is there specifically to kickstart your rotation when SS and TC are on CD
You always need enough rage to cast Revenge, or else you run out of rage and do nothing
Spear does more damage if properly statted, but Roar is up more often for aggro purposes. It's also easier to use Roar since you don't have to aim
The people pushing highest level keys don't necessarily care about completely optimizing Prot War performance; they care about timing keys, and being the best at a given spec is not the limiting factor in keys
Im sorry if this is a dumb question but why is revenge used to Kickstart the rotation?
It resets SS CD
So it, over time, costs less rage, lets you gen more rage, which is the focus of the spec
Ooooo i didnt know it reset it
Thanks guys youre the best and whats a good haste threshhold to go spec into the fray?
Somewhere in the range of 30-40% haste pre-buff. The less used you are to the spec and actually managing shield block, as well as the more you need block to be up to have 100% effective uptime, the more haste you need
Hey i was wondering im still pretty new to Prot im 626 and im wanting to get more dmg out of my tank
press more buttons/swap to colossus
With zero context, we can't really tell you anything
Check wowhead for the rotation and beat the dummies for practice
Logs or no one can help you
@tardy abyss @sturdy heart Thank you very much!
One last question - if the adds live too long then the boss goes eat them even if they're super far, let's say at the opposite side of the platform, right? So the adds simply need to die in time, else they'll get eaten no matter what?
There is no timer on adds, they can be here the whole fight (that’s what people tried to do in the first weeks)
They don’t run towards the boss, they fixate players
And the boss doesn’t go eat them
Sorry i got busy like right as i asked
They are posted now but they are wonky
Nothing in em
Hey guys, I am getting my fresh warri ready for m+. I can craft a 606 item and a 619 one right away.
Shield 619 and weapon 606 or the other way around is the best bet ?
shield is better to have higher ilvl
only piece where youll get block value from = better survivability
Okay thx
Can you embellish shields?
who needs a weapon anyway
yeah
Question regarding the princess because i got lost - my co-tank told me that i should stand exactly at position X when dropping the portal on certain marker in mythic.
Isn't it, that princess drops the portal, and not the tank? So as long as the boss is positioned exactly on that marker, it doesnt matter where i stand?
Afaik the boss drops it yes
Well at least the guide images say that, in a video I just watched it drops on the tank
On that timestamp you can see it https://youtu.be/Wf68ilKFUMw?si=oM6vrdNxuE0LCtrw&t=116
Weakaura - https://wago.io/NSNerubarPalace
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then my co is giving me wrong infos
.. Shes perfectly on that off-center purple mark and he insists that is tand on the rectangle shape when dropping - but i cant since theres dagger and orbs flying
Check the video
Its super weird
But its not the biggest issue if its only the tank portal not being on the marker
As long as not every portal is off its workable with
@onyx pike I keep not hitting the reply button kek
It does seem to be the tank but with some weird delays
now i gotta work on my cd usage, should be fine with Wall on every rotation + Last Stand / Spell Block
its just weird to me that spell block takes effect on that debuff
u very much can u just need to dodge
but as it doesnt drop an add
it just needs to be in the kinda correct place
not exactly on the correct place
so my position doesn't matter in the end?
Does matter but its not super strict
You wont wipe becaue the tank one is off a few pixel
thats what i thought
but was my first play xp on her yesterday with a new guild so i just took the flak 
it does matter
because if u position the portal wrong u will get sucked into one and die
its very forgiving on the exact position for the suck in - as long as you dont forget and put it center 😅
heya, do i want to sit battle stance or toggle into defensive stance at the start of bigger packs in keys
Technically you want to be in Battle Stance as often as possible, using Def Stance more like a defensive CD.
But it's also only a difference of 3% crit
so if you're doing any relevant key levels for your gear/skill, there's very minimal reason to not be in def stance
What is the best way of tanking the Chopper Redhook boss fight in Siege of Boralus? (As a prot Warrior) I currently mostly focus on getting aggro/threat on the spawned mobs and occasionally attacking the boss once he is stunned. The shooters makes it a bit hard to group up the mobs and bring them to the boss, especially since i try to avoid getting the cleavers long range "cone" attack hitting the other players.
You want them to be cleaved down as much as you can really. And you want to be focusing boss damage during the amp as best as you can
yep, just take aggro from the adds
If you have really spread bombs you should also be ready to use the add to pop the 3rd bomb
Kill the shooter asap (sometimes the dps swap to those to help you get rid of it) and then you can bring the melee mobs to the boss, but remember to face them AWAY from the boss. If you don’t then it can happen the boss will pull the group in and the mobs will frontal everyone. Or you can just stay away with them and tank them
the boss does yea, the way you can think is that she makes clones of herself that drop portals, and she is obv one of the 'entities' that drops a portal
made it make sense for me
@strong forum
ran a key on this build
i did
alot of dmg
tho i think if i didnt hard troll 1/4th of my windows i would of done more dmg than u did in ur run
but you refuse to play execute?
i was told on st devastator was more and never simmed it
tbh
the ss resets give you so much extra to dump on execute
but i imagine
check log
dunno
and rage of ss and devastator
@wicked pollen
simmed it yesterday and imp wall was 100 dps better
is this the cook
init
so if you count the fact that SW is much MUUUCH shorter CD with it
that second sc talent beans bro
wtf is that
its more dmg than bolster..
or idk
maybe sb uptime
true
not having bloodsurge is illegal as colossus
its how arms players cope with execute not dealing damage
this is for thane
easier to spam execute

I just play Double Shield wall as it feels safer in Pugs
ok
skarm was pretty funny with fully stacked jugg
and 6x orbs
during execute
with her eating like 4 shards

oh yeah
Prot is really easy to do negative dmg on
ye
which patches was it that warlock imp pet was op for stand and cast fireball over and over and mages had frost bolt (both in the past)
i think if i come back wow, i think will have to be like, similiar one of those situations
frostfire bolt?
i think both was cata :S
but ya, holy shit cata was fun when it first come out
except for theres some boss and you like go inside the stomach or something and bunch of different color oozes and some hard boss
that and pre-nerf the abilities in heroic dungeons, literal 1 shot dps my rogue, many others
In heroic ?
ye hc queen
It’s because 90% of people who do heroic are bad

It’s the same as dps, you come in 605-610 ilvl it’s not crazy to do purple parses (there is a lot more dps players)
Sorry but I played this game for too long, I know ilvl explain almost 90% of playerbase damage in heroic , bad gameplay is carried by overgear
Het guys I have a question. I am ilvl 630 at the moment and it's it's going very well. But with the fray buff I have 50% haste. I was thinking of recrafting all my haste verse gear to verse/crit. What do you guys think I should do
It is harder to go from 95s to 99s than 0 to 90s parses
Keep stacking haste, there is no big diminishing returns yet
Even more 😱
Is elemental focusing lens still worth it for an everforged longsword?
is there anything else better for a weapon?
dusk/dawn
will do you better
its more versatile and raid has so many multitarget encounters that its also simply more damage
I dont see that as an option for a weapon is that the radiance ones?
killed mythic sikran 3 times now, we just get very unlucky having polearms drop x2 every week
is it worth going over the penalty with haste stats ?
Yes because haste is more than 10%+ better than the other stats
thankss
I never saw someone with enough haste to be at the 20% diminishing return yet so 🤷♂️
is this thane or colossus?

either way, its cause ignore small adds whereas you clapped on them, a lot
i guess
I had 0 dps on my side
Cuz like 6 fell off or died to wrest

Also funny that you're exactly 1 spot below my alt
never punished
what game
hi, i come looking for help, im trying to push my alt tank to +10s, i can do 8/9s fine, but i seem to get destroyed on 10s, i dont know if i have something wrong with gear/spec, my ilvl is just low or im just not pressing the correct buttons (likely)
i wonder if anyone can take a look and see if they see anything wrong
no, is there an easy way to get that or i need an addon?
i haven't played since cata, not up to date
that link should explain how to do it
i see, well, i didn't have advanced combat logging enabled
its fine i found a log that someone uploaded
you are getting hit a lot without shield block up or from behind
you should be casting a lot more try to aim for +14 of ss and ip
can you link that thing you are looking at
only 360 game
2010-2011.... not that old!! cope
its pertty old ya, but its fun, probably looks good in 480p game on crt, dunno
what is it though
ignore the fortnite shit
is there any good weak aura/addon to track shield block uptime and ignore pain ?
thanks that helps me already
its rogue zelda 50 dungeon floors, escape if you can!
most weakaura packs for warrior have
or just go to wago.io
ok i guess this works, first bar is uptime of shield block, below is ignore pain, thanks, i'll try to keep more close eye to this
huys, is htis any good for warrs?
And, specially, for Prot warrs?
I think is considered one of the BiS trinkets of strength classes
yah
Arakara and mark of khaadros would be better?
prob, sim
In the end we sim like dps and choose best dps?
This is what raidbots said, but I dislike it so I'm not gonna equip that trinket >:
Sacbrood is for sure.. if you got shard then maybe shard assuming mark and shard is same ilvl.
or re-sim it without the larynx
Can anyone answer this question, please?
Generally tank trinkets this season are pretty bad. Khardros is at 1 minute 30 cooldown which is not that bad and also same as ravager/spear, so you can have a pretty nice setup of AoE damage (mastery being the worst doesn't mean it is bad)
I answered it above
Thank you so much, he was not getting any replies / he's new so I figured I'd reach out and try my luck to find him an answer, thank you so much for your reply!! ❤️
Technically speaking when you boost your mastery you also increasing your damage because mastery for prot increase atk power and crit block.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=219316/ceaseless-swarmgland?bonus=10390#see-also
is the above any good for mitigation?
Currently using the below
https://www.wowhead.com/item=212450/swarmlords-authority
Both will be at 623
This epic trinket of item level 571 goes in the "Trinket" slot. It is looted from Anub'arash. In the Trinkets category. Added in World of Warcraft: The War Within.




