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strong forum
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crit + damage

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those are the pages

cyan bronze
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yea

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you are so right LOL

strong forum
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you game the crit + dmg as much as you can

cyan bronze
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they will do that

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100%

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I mean tbh that makes it a super good trinket for almost any circumstance

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Any for prot war

strong forum
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in m+ not as good

cyan bronze
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if there’s a lor of magic dmg you can run magic shield for like 30s

strong forum
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cuz you flip through pages quick

cyan bronze
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& then dmg the rest

strong forum
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turbo frequent dmg events will make you flip to magic absorb too quickly

cyan bronze
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isn’t it ppm?

strong forum
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so you have less dmg gain overall

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no

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its per dmg event

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on a 1sec CD

cyan bronze
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that’s what kele from druid disc said

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init

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1 sec cd

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what is flip cd?

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90?

strong forum
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ye

cyan bronze
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yeah idk

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maybe you don’t run it for keys? however.

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there is the monstrosity of house of cards

strong forum
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correct

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tome in raid

cyan bronze
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house of cards scrapfield combo wahoopogox

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starting to be a scrapfield lover on certain tanks

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vdh and bdk it’s still questionable I think but it’s so good for prot

maiden raptor
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does a parry count as a damage event?

strong forum
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uuuh...

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hard to tell

tardy abyss
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I think it does?

heavy sparrow
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when is Season 2 supposed o be released

jagged pier
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They havent given a date yet

cyan bronze
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likely early March late February

heavy sparrow
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makes sense

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still got some time to get to 3k io then

maiden raptor
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patch will be 18th or 25th, and season will start a week after

round pendant
vocal cave
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if it keeps the buffs it will be close

torn gulch
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can't be 18th as the turbulent timeways event finishes on the 25th

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25th is the earliest for patch

bleak breach
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So colossus seems the go now for 11.1 yeah?

frosty holly
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March 11th. Cus why not make us wait longer!

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( is my random guess )

strong forum
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if the dungeon/boss encounter has frequent magic dmg events and/or dots thane is better

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if its mostly blockable non-dot dmg, colossus is looking to quite potent

bleak breach
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Sounds hot

round pendant
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2025 and they still haven't addressed racials though

strong forum
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theyre buffing/ have buffed racials even!

round pendant
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they need to delete stoneform and shadowmeld 😔

strong forum
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theyve been barely relevant this xpac

round pendant
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Yeah I mean that's cool

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but they're irrelevant until they're not

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and then it's just annoying

jagged gust
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some snappy bois in uldaman were in fact the bane of my existence as a belf who can't stutter step

tiny atlas
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Shadowmeld yeah, but Stoneform didnt seem irrelevant at all. Some nasty bleeds and poisons out there.

strong forum
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?

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bleeds?

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where

round pendant
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only thing I can think of is siege of boralus

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lol

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but it doesn't hurt that bad

tiny atlas
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First boss GB for example. Siege the poisons. The bleeds(`?) the guys in DB ships and after first boss do.

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Siege Poisons are insane, and bleeds are strong as well.

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In "high" keys atleast.

strong forum
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mostly nice to haves imo

round pendant
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Everything that I noticed mainly was set up so you never had too many stacks

strong forum
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theres nothing else going on at first boss GB

round pendant
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unlike say, the crocs in uldaman

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where you just get infinitely fucked if the pack lives too long

strong forum
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the poisons in siege you should techically have a class that dispels you on cd

tiny atlas
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May i ask which level GB you did on War this season? My highest i tried is +14 and if you dont have bleed removal at all its more than enough to give you a hard time.

round pendant
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god, doing Algeth'ar Academy as a non-dwarf and with a holy priest

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no poison dispel critcake

tiny atlas
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Thats atleast my humble opinion

strong forum
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idk 13

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think i played colossus

tiny atlas
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But sure, you can play around it with other classes in group 100%.

strong forum
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was a meme key

tiny atlas
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Still think its insanely strong.

round pendant
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12 but we failed it

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not cause I died tho

tiny atlas
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GB a meme key? 😄

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I am doing it all wrong!

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😄

strong forum
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no, what i do

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the keys i play are all meme keys

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cuz i dont take keys seriously anymore

grave flower
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Anyone have a good WA for dark iron dwarf racial? I feel I’m missing a lot of dispells with it

strong forum
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generic CD tracker WA no?

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takes like 30seconds to setup

south zealot
strong forum
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real

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ive aged like 5 years in the past 2 years

south zealot
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i havent even played a key at all in months lol

strong forum
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i only did on my alt war cuz i wanted to have a 2nd war for alt runs

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but that one hit 638 ilvl in 2 weeks...

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and now needs nothing already

round pendant
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I might level my dwarf warrior

jagged gust
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Kinda hating my mechgnome

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cant leap up stairs and the transmogs suck

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but as much as I want to level up a dwarf, their run animation kills me

grave flower
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Was dracthyr. Now DI. But sort of want to go back. Liked being able to double jump as a warrior, even if it’s minimal

jagged gust
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move speed is so huge

grave flower
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Idk what % of move speed dracthyr get but I know it’s faster and it’s enjoyable. Plus….visage form xmog is great.

jagged gust
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I think it rounds out to like 15%? non-evokers get pretty nerfed but it's still pretty big

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tried looking it up and all I can find is a wowhead post to facebook lmao

dusky sentinel
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I have a feeling. All this cluttering with nerfs and buffs etc. We will come out Meta! Happy new year. U heared it here first!

grave flower
cyan bronze
tribal wharf
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UH dk bedding

strong forum
cyan bronze
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dont you mean

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ġīese

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old ass

unborn island
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M

bronze wraith
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I finally managed it

woven onyx
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why is it sometimes i feel unkillable and other times im just a pancake

sweet girder
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CD rotation and/or magical damage combination

sweet summit
woven onyx
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i think i just get no procs & im just rage starved and trying to live in packs but cant get any rage gen so i just flop lmao

cerulean tusk
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You don't flop cause no rage. You flop if your shieldblock drops, you get hit in the back, or you don't rotate your CDs well

woven onyx
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ye like im not getting any procs and my cds are on cd so my shieldblock & ip will drop because i have nothing left to help and im just struggling to stay alive with my lil rage

cerulean tusk
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Shieldblock will never drop because of bad RNG, you playing with heavy repurcautions?

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You got no actual logs on logs you linked sadge

woven onyx
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its mostly GB but i guess i parsed an 84 so i guess it /wasnt/ too bad so idk

sweet girder
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there is one at janu 27th

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and a grim batol same day

woven onyx
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it was from today

cerulean tusk
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If you are not 100% there on skill and gear yet, just take it

sweet girder
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You have 2 logs cause someone else did from one of your groups

woven onyx
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apparently the ones from today arent locked in

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i guess someone from the guild was logging when we did keys but cant look at em

woven onyx
cerulean tusk
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You can have 2.5 value of block charges running, so you can do that sure

woven onyx
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i usually have a decent/high uptime with them but GB literally is a struggle to keep them both up sometimes because im struggling with rage

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i sometimes shield charge & block then work on IP

cerulean tusk
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I normally pop two, just to have 20 sec left when I leave the pack and two charges

woven onyx
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i guess in 10+ you need to just use both charges instead of trying to cycle 1 charge and IP

cerulean tusk
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Just remember this: IP is a ragedump

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Shieldblock is not optional

woven onyx
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i try to keep shieldblock up then IP 2m+

jagged pier
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i mean your rage starved because your casts are low

cerulean tusk
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If you don't have 80 rage, just don't press IP, press revenge or anything to reset shieldslam

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Save yourself the pain

cerulean tusk
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Ignore pain is not important mitigation, it is a ragedump

woven onyx
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ill keep that in mind for my 12 NW tomorrow

cerulean tusk
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Once you get used to the rage eco - you will spam IP, but the goal is to press other buttons so you get the overflow to do so

woven onyx
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makes sense

pallid quiver
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18s without Endruing, 24s with

cerulean tusk
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Isn't it 2.5x?

pallid quiver
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no

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3x

cerulean tusk
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Neat

pallid quiver
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Bolster ignores the duration because of how it works

cerulean tusk
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Bolster keks

woven onyx
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i haven't touched warrior since like idk.... legion?? been playing feral & then warlock main for most of the xpac and decided to pick up prot because i always loved warr over other tanks

pallid quiver
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Unless PTR has made funnies I haven't heard yet

cerulean tusk
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Well, hell of a time to return to warrior

woven onyx
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its pretty easy but i guess on harder keys like GB then i want to choke myself out LMAO

tardy abyss
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GB is fine

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We have a much easier time there than other tanks

cerulean tusk
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Ye, but remember, GB is all about shieldwalling the tank busters and reflection thr spell busters

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Stormbolt the angry boys to reset their enrage

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GG eZ

woven onyx
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only time i tanked it wasss as guardian which you can easily just pull everythin & incarn and never die because you're doing 2-3m healing and everything

tardy abyss
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Well prot is the same

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Instead of healing we negate everything

cerulean tusk
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Warrior is guardian on steroids, we just don't take damage

woven onyx
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^

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i feel that sometimes

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GB made me feel like a pancake

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like certain pulls

tardy abyss
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On NW for example you can hit I believe more than 1.5M hps as pwar

cerulean tusk
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If I had to guess, you not reflecting the slashes

woven onyx
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urrrrrr mayb mayb

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its also like... 5am so

tardy abyss
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also molten fists

woven onyx
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im probably fried from doing keys all day

cerulean tusk
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Protip: before you pull the boss. Wait for the stun to hit the elementals giants before you pull

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They will die before the stun falls off, thanks to the dam% bonus

woven onyx
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ahh i never knew that

cerulean tusk
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Few does, it is one of those niche things to notice

woven onyx
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ive been playing demo straight so i have to worry about stupid warlock bugs in keys so LGSEGs i pay attention more for that

cerulean tusk
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🙏 prayers out that S2 bugs gets fixed

woven onyx
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🙏

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theres a random imp bug that your imps will like... go suicidal and just run at it and pull everything

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they wont despawn even if you sacrifice them and just run and run straight around on the 2nd boss around the circle

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they'll also spawn while you're on the flight in CoT and pull the 2 mobs at the start which teleport on you

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andd a bunch of other weird bugs with pets

cerulean tusk
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Always love when I play with locks, time to time I just see the Dungeon come running at me from nowhere

woven onyx
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LMAO yeah it was uhhhh a interesting find to see it for the very first time and i was confused then i saw my little kamikazi imp that would never despawn and just go run from the 1st boss room spawn and straight into the 2nd boss room circle pulling everything until it died

cyan bronze
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does this mechanic still exist in game

sweet summit
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doubt it

ionic fern
jagged gust
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That's so cute, they were trying to incentivize tanks to actually press defensives

little ermine
pallid quiver
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I think the mechanic technically exists in some foreign, forbidden spaghet code, because all the active mitigation check was is abilities that checked to see if you had whatever ability considered your active mitigation was active (Shield Block active, Death Strike recently used, etc iirc)

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And active mitigation as a design concept still exists, as it's a change in philosophy from simply being tanky to performing to be tanky; an example is instead of rage gen being tied to passive sources like being hit and white swings leading to you being able to spend rage on Shield Slam for threat, you instead generate rage with Shield Slam in order to send rage on your defensive abilities as a main focus

strong forum
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Some spaghetti code of Active Mitigation checks does indeed exist still in some dungeons

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But not in any current situation

urban portal
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recently used death strike is so funny

ebon geyser
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the chest that get unlocked after you finish the 3 WQ, is the ilvl fix or it depends on mine

brittle owl
brittle owl
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incentive was vengeance in MoP

abstract iris
dense remnant
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GB made me feel like a pancake as well, coming from bear for the first few times especially

kind urchin
bronze wraith
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Is colossus warrior going to be better in S2?

jagged gust
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It's getting some nice assists from talent tree rework

onyx vessel
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works better with tier set as well

jagged gust
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good SW uptime and revenge hits even harder now

onyx vessel
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kinda glad cuz colossus is fun af

onyx vessel
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wait im blind keks

tribal wharf
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ya i was about to say

toxic pewter
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what buff did defeners aegis get that is mentioned

onyx vessel
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shield wall got cd lowered

cyan bronze
toxic pewter
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oh right.. forgot about that.. interesting

tribal wharf
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im sure this is horribly cooked but i want to see someone do this

onyx vessel
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no armor weird

toxic pewter
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honestly they need to just remove massacre and make execute work on targets 35% or less hp by default

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the people are tired of massacre

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and even make shield block 8 sec by default

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that entire node needs to be replaced with something cooler

onyx vessel
cyan bronze
tribal wharf
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imo, should be once per monster spawns in above 90% hp

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you can once cast execute on him

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then very long cd on execute for that dude only

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unless procs

bronze wraith
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Can we run colossus in s2 finally? I love the ay style, but thane was just so much better

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It helped me kill zekvir and I really want to just place more of it now

strong forum
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i can colossus all of s1

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cuz it was more dammies

dusky canopy
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More dam bis

plush tendon
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also increased size

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BiS

onyx vessel
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sure you did nome gladge

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yeah increased size as a tauren get stuck in doorways no mount pogox

toxic pewter
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im something of a large fox myself

small steeple
cyan bronze
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That’s what my wife says

dusky canopy
tribal wharf
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some dude

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not me

dense remnant
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that guy is mental

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pressin swipe???

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while having mangle and moonfire procs up

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smh

tribal wharf
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i think it was during 9.x or 10.x normal raid

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but that blew my mind at the time ppl still play like that on retail

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no idea who he is

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smitty apparently

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i could understand someone notbinding anything and clicking everything in classic more i think

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cuz hes got f6 and shift E bound, so its not like he has nothing bound or is hiding binds on the buttons

sage yacht
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chat

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what is stat prio

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haste crit?

full plover
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STRENGTH BROTHER

plush tendon
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usually haste/crit

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side note; if you frequent the dps specs of warrior, you can use the same gear for prot

sage yacht
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pog alright

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thank you

tribal wharf
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stamina > all Kappa

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(the joke is if you get more stamina you are 99% getting ilvl, which is more dps anywya)

round pendant
tribal wharf
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crit ya

cerulean tusk
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Thanks to Yogi I gem and enchant pure stamina, why I do worse now?

plush tendon
tribal wharf
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hard to go wrong with switching between tank/healer and go to dps and crit for melee is typically, strong

woven onyx
round pendant
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haste is 2nd for fury but crit is the worst

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need mastery items

dense remnant
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but ye, biggest issue was just not always being able to soothe them myself which is what i was used to doing during my skardyn's farm on my druid

woven onyx
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i’m just used to being able to tank those packs like it’s nothing on the little time i did keys on my druid so LMAO i get my hesd clobbered in if i accidentally let SB fall or anything

dusky canopy
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Wait you felt more comfortable on bear!?

dense remnant
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you generally just incarn the bigger pulls and nothing hurts

woven onyx
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^

dense remnant
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but ofc currently im comparing 635 bear vs 605 prot warrior in my brain

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so that might have something to do with the difference

woven onyx
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regen and ironfur aren’t on cd during incarn so you just soam them and eating cereal while winning

dense remnant
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just a tiny bit 😄

woven onyx
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just a little

dense remnant
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but im getting at least a 20 ilvl upgrade on my shield today, so that should also help a little

livid oasis
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@waxen frigate rate my mog

tribal wharf
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if i was a betting man

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i would say 11.3 is going to be about the big crystall in the under the earth sky

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that is the sun and moon for them

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and bunch of people fight over it, but it ends up totally fruitless in the end

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too hot/dangerous to touch

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and then it blows up like movie

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i think i heard 11.3 might not happen though they may only do 11.2

clear crest
tribal wharf
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100 billion dollars

small steeple
tribal wharf
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i mean okay

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like, what other objects can you think of, beside dornogal, and dalaran

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and like, the spider city, but we already been there

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cuz the holy knights at the dungeon place are somewhat directly related to worshipping the crystal i think

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i think the pyscho lady crazy toe person

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she's going to do all what i descrbied

livid oasis
waxen frigate
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i like the overall theme

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but idk

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it's not quite fitting together

livid oasis
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i have no good leather mogs i need to lock in

waxen frigate
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like theres a lot of colors that are just slightly off

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and none of them really fit

jagged gust
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well have you tested it in game?

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Colours in the dressing room never match

tribal wharf
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then we can plug it in the game or on chrome wowhead 3d armor viwer

sweet summit
livid oasis
clear crest
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11.2 is K'aresh/ethereals and there's no 11.3

tribal wharf
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dunno wtf as a karesh is

jagged gust
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Spider birds it sounds like

tribal wharf
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two lights expansion? never heard of it

dusky canopy
tribal wharf
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ya

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like,

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the more i zoom in, the more i dont want to

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like a doom wad

plush tendon
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dats not the new expansion right? Its supposd to be called Midnight and be super Blood Elf right?

mighty valley
plush tendon
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good

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I want updated Silvermoon

brittle sail
tulip oar
wicked pollen
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what is an outland

tulip oar
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The zone of TBC and WoD.

dusky canopy
cyan bronze
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and it’s based on outlands/wod

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glad I could help solve that

tulip oar
tribal wharf
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wow TBC, sod

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thats what i get out of it, the only positive i can come to

bleak breach
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Wonder when we will find out 11.1 release date?

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We just started mythic queen, so hopefully still have time to kill.

plush tendon
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just be consistent with P1

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its where youll spend like 80% of your prog time

bleak breach
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Hopefully we do.
I think court took us like 270ish pulls.

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We got near transition a few times lastnight, but only had half the team left by then.

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It’s very quick when it goes wrong on P1 haha

hardy snow
bleak breach
jagged pier
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and now his internet provider is full down

dusky canopy
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Probably still have to put some ranged on a far spider to be able to kick some of the casts

hardy snow
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yea it's close, would be killed week ago if people turn on their monitors just once keks

hardy snow
dusky canopy
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Oh yeah you got kill in the bag!

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💪

hardy snow
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indeed killable any pull, but first we must get to p3 critcake

dusky canopy
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Our p1 was cursed too don’t worry

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Seems to be the trend

bleak breach
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Is there much different in p2 and p3? Or is p1 just the real stop gap?

pallid quiver
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P2 Myth Ansurek has funny teleport shenanigans ir something going on iirc

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But other than that and the essences, the fight is mostly the same, just more punishing if I remember right

bleak breach
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The tank buster is gnarly

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So unforgiving in mythic

plush tendon
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P2 is very similar, but theres a lot of ways one person can int the pull

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P3 is pretty simple overall though

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and scripted

bleak breach
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Ahh yep, so it’s pretty much get P1 down and the rest should come after?

plush tendon
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the extra damage and healing really makes P3 easy

bleak breach
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I guess heroic was like that too

plush tendon
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P1 is the majority of prog

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the more consistent you are at getting through P1 clean

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the faster youll prog and kill the boss

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P1 is basically dont greed, dont die

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profit

bleak breach
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The 1000% physical damage taken after liquify is lovely isnt it…

hardy snow
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finally xan

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and I've got bis shield okayge

bleak breach
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👑

bronze wraith
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Hell yeah. Good shit

jagged pier
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internet problems and dcs cant stop us

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top 10 on first kill

hardy snow
jagged pier
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i was playing defensivly kekW

hardy snow
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and running around to grab omited essence XD

jagged pier
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same

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had to do essence twice sad

strong forum
jagged pier
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189 okay

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or somthing like that

strong forum
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That's almost more than arms warri lol

jagged pier
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gunna be out of less next season

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gunna be me vs Sense

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i will always loose

strong forum
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I wish I could battle it out aswell

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But stuck dpsing

jagged pier
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Theres no battle i get one chance at the boss sense gets like 50

strong forum
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All it takes is once

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Except ovinax

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That bitch fickle

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I was so lucky that all our other pumpers cba'd doing Aoe or weren't there xdd

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Still only r2 tho Madgenow

bleak breach
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I didn’t get to do Ovinax

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Unless we get CE quick and reclear I won’t get it

jagged pier
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I missed court there for 300 pulls the one night of the entire tier im not there they kill it

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And i was on for a rank 1 on tje fight

bleak breach
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So it was a you problem 😜

jagged pier
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Nope

bleak breach
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Our court kill I was flying and then someone betrayed me so I was dead for 30 secs. 😭

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We killed the boss though so ggs

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Are you guys going to try to reclear at all Jakey?

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Or break til 11.1?

jagged pier
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Havent decided yet

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Probably still got like a month till patch

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Let alone season

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Might rest for a reset

bleak breach
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Yeah, not much to gain by reclearing I guess, I assume you’ve got a bench who needs CE?

jagged pier
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Yer a few

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Up to the officers to choose what happens tho

hardy snow
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it's always nice to try get ce for few walks who were absent on kill okayge

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and mount for yourself if not dropped at 1st time :>

jagged pier
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If u discount jania which was free at the end of bfa and nyoth which was also free

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I havent got a single one since starting getting ces in legion

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Didnt even get the raz hc mount skin last expansion

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The blue one

storm stone
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How we looking since the last set of ptr

jagged pier
storm stone
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So we’re feeling playable atleast

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Sweet

chilly brook
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One might even say we’re so back

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Colo gonna own

storm stone
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Can’t be doing worse than blood dks anyways

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People who are saying they’re good now are having a laugh

torn gulch
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every season they say bdk is good
and almost every season it falls apart at decent keys

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like clockwork

dusky canopy
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I feel like it will pretty much always be that way

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Because of DKs design it has to survive the hits up front and then heal it back

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And with the damage instances being limited to once it’s kinda L for them to do big pulls

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Well when the key is world first level

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I’m also yapping and have no idea if that’s true

hardy snow
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they didn't have issue surviving hits when they had 90%+ parry in SL clueless

dusky canopy
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Infinite parry op

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When’s our turn

jagged pier
tribal wharf
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i still think in hard core classic once per say, week, or month

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you die

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you have 6 minutes to be rezzed once and you spend minimum 12hrs res sickness

#

you die too many times that week (3?) you die for good

#

add extra panic

#

might take 3 minutes to kill boss

#

and then you have to be the right class and make it to the dude in time and cast it succesfully

#

if you die with the rez sickness or by like execute, consumed by dragon, etc, you dont come back at all

jagged pier
#

Tb and reveng too high ss too low

sage yacht
#

more ss also in aoe?

tribal wharf
#

gives most rage most consistantly, so yes

#

doesnt matter col or thane

#

thane more

mighty valley
amber cargo
#

how's prot looking on PTR right now?

pale badge
#

Aight ya'll I tried 15 DB

#

does anyone have advice for dealing with these fucknuts

#

do I just shieldwall on pull every pull with a nightfall shadowboy?

strong forum
#

can also be parried

round pendant
#

just yell HEALER ADJUST

#

wait, wrong game

heavy sparrow
obsidian girder
#

Any rumors when s2 will happen, maybe February ?

tardy abyss
#

At this point probably early March

jagged pier
#

The api says 4/5 th of march

jagged pier
#

But that could just be place holder dates in the database

#

So could be updated anytime

round pendant
#

honestly wow seasons are too long

left meteor
#

S2 starting in february would mean patch announcement today pretty much

#

Since it'd have to be 18th patch 25th raid

jagged pier
#

I mean pretty sure it was always planned for then

#

Just look at turbulent timways and plunderstorm end

left meteor
#

I think when I looked it up the Turbulent Timeways before Aberrus ended after the first week of 10.1, the Timeways for Amirdrassil ended the week before 10.2

#

It's almost definitely planned to be either first week of march or last week of feb, but we should know by tomorrow which one it is pretty much

lofty warren
#

pwar saved?

limpid tide
# lofty warren

Ignore pain absorb value needs increased. We want to press revenge according to blizzard, and they acknowledged rage economy should be tuned to allow it; that’s not the case yet.

hardy snow
# lofty warren pwar saved?

nope, it will be saved when they say in bluepost "We are sorry, we were wrong and based on your feedback we abort this stupid idea of changing Pwarr apm and shield slams resets."

round pendant
#

nah it's actually better now

#

blizz cooked

hardy snow
cerulean tusk
#

You are a kind and gentle souls. At best I would say I am glad they tried to cook

quiet monolith
#

Just not enough sustain

#

And lower apm feels boring now

hardy snow
#

from defensive perspective imo they should increase IP's cap, outisde of CDs we won't be using it much, so it would be good if we can gather more of it during CDs

round pendant
#

well I'm very on the side of "spamming IP isn't fun anyway"

#

which is most of the extra apm

hardy snow
round pendant
#

that doesn't happen

quiet monolith
#

The only spam part was spamming IP

#

Shield slam wasn't a problem

#

To me at least

hardy snow
#

To most I guess, for Thane indeed there were not much time to use revenge, but that was the whole point of taking Thane, and in Colossus revenge is already pretty good to press

#

All of the "issues" Blizz have with Prot's rotation exists in Thane and are totally solved in Colossus rn

quiet monolith
#

When you feel like your getting trucked in high keys I don't think your having a lot of rage to spend on things other than IP sometimes

hardy snow
#

That's weird to make big impact changes to the spec, because one of the hero talents isnt quite right 🤷‍♂️

quiet monolith
#

A more meaningful ignore pain that feels like a real button to press would be nice

round pendant
#

while keeping most of the IP spam

#

it's a bad decision sure

#

but they're not gonna rework IP

#

we gotta wait til 5 years from now when we finally get a rework

sharp gale
sharp gale
#

Considering their marketing promotion needs to get ready

torn gulch
#

Timewalking event finishes on the 25th so 25th is the earliest for patch

round pendant
#

no

#

Season starts a week after patch

#

18th is earliest for patch

sharp gale
#

And they will not launch the game right when monster hunter comes out

round pendant
sharp gale
#

18th march is what I bet

round pendant
#

seasons are too fuckin long

torn gulch
sharp gale
#

Except legion shenanigans

torn gulch
#

Nope df s1 was shorter

sharp gale
#

Or maybe shorter than legion

torn gulch
#

Under 5 months

round pendant
#

df s1 was 20 weeks

sharp gale
#

December- may for DF s1 to s2

round pendant
#

Legion didn't even have seasons huh

#

Did it?

#

They just patched whenever they felt like back then

sharp gale
torn gulch
#

Yes and this is longer than df s1

#

By a couple of weeks

sharp gale
#

We are season 40+ if I remember

#

From the total

#

PvP lords and wizards might have more clues

torn gulch
#

We are in t32 atm

sharp gale
#

Okok thx I thought it was around 40

left meteor
#

And I'm honestly not remembering they did in SL

torn gulch
#

But we had more than 32s because of fated

#

So we are at season 34

#

Tehnically

sharp gale
#

Fated are things I don’t care at all, idk if you feel the same

torn gulch
#

My opinion is that patch comes 25th/4th and season comes 4th/11th

#

That s why I said tehnically I will love for fated to never return

sharp gale
#

Pushing and raiding on fated season feels the same as raiding and pushing in prepatch

round pendant
#

I mean

#

I play the game for fun so fated is the same diff for me

#

I get to progress whatever with my buddies

jagged pier
#

Shkip fated

tired prairie
#

Why should i go spear instead of roar (more dmg and less CD)?

pallid quiver
#

Spear does more damage for Thane (assuming you have crit at all, since sometimes roar has simmed more for people)

pallid quiver
#

that's

really the reason to run it

round cliff
#

does colo run roar?

pallid quiver
#

There's no real notable interactions with spear

#

Yeah

round cliff
#

based

#

another point for colo

pallid quiver
#

Colo has a lot more value from bleeds and the synergy with bleeding

round cliff
#

im resubbing today ..

#

gotta learn colo

pallid quiver
#

It also doesn't have as much burst to put into spear windows on average, as well, since it's too busy just doing more dam at all times

round pendant
#

roar owns

tired prairie
#

thanks 🙂

round cliff
#

so im a raid tank now i think

#

when i dont have aggro im supposed to keep shield block up for damage yea?

#

do u run into uptime issues

pallid quiver
#

You need to make sure to save enough SB uptime and charges to ensure that you'll have it up during your time to tank

harsh trellis
# round cliff do u run into uptime issues

Depends on the fight, you should anticipate when you need to taunt and make sure you have a SB ready to go. but if its a fight where its just boss damage and boss swapping with no adds, no need to keep sb up, spend more on dmg dealers.

#

Grab the co-tank weak aura for Nerub Palace

#

set your co-tank as a focus to keep an eye on debuffs etc.

chilly brook
tribal wharf
#

COME GET ME YOU GOTTA REZ ME BRO!!!

#

hurrry!!!

#

and then FD resist and DI makes more sense

#

you fucked up, but there is still a CHANCE someone can come back to get you, and even if they do, wont be pretty

#

blizzard would have to decide what you can and cannot come back to life from

#

die from hit thats more than 95% of your life, you dont come back, excute head chop off, eaten by dragon, disolved in acid, fell into lava and cooked

#

try to imagine, you fight some raid boss and you lost 14 men some how, only 1 minute after combat leaves and 1 rezzer

sharp gale
tribal wharf
#

how do you prioritize whom to rez and whome to leave for dead?

#

absolute cinema for dungeons and raids on rp realm and onlyfangs

#

totally for serious when i say that

round cliff
tribal wharf
#

thats sort of exactly what i mean

#

the drama that ensues, if you rez your friend as compared to your best party members

harsh trellis
#

what drama?

#

lol

tribal wharf
#

maybe they give rez spells a 5 minute CD if it succesfully completes the cast

harsh trellis
#

what are we trying to troubleshoot here?

tribal wharf
#

im telling you, if it was the way i said there would be pure cinema

cerulean tusk
#

Well, prio order is basically:

  • Top prio targets, mechanic doers or tanks
  • Healers
  • Execute DPS in execute phase
  • DPS with all CDs ready
  • The guy who didnt whine at me in /whispers
junior viper
#

so next patch the ip rage spam is gone right?

cerulean tusk
#

Well, it kinda back

junior viper
#

cause im pretty casual, i only do 10s, next season will be 12

cerulean tusk
#

Without it, the spec falls apart by the seams for Thane

harsh trellis
#

do the new ptr changes go in today?

cerulean tusk
#

If you play casually, dont worry

junior viper
#

i bind ip to shield slam, that kind of casual

cerulean tusk
#

Totally ok, I wont judge

#

As long it is IP first, then Shieldslam

junior viper
#

aye it do be, dont get me wrong, im 635 ilvl on my three tanks, i just like warrior

tribal wharf
#

i get so angry that i forget my pain.......................

#

sure...................

#

makes total sense

junior viper
#

trying to get to 1.2m overall to reach my paladin

tribal wharf
#

not totally hamfisted logic at all

cerulean tusk
#

<@&257983573498265600>

#

Git em

smoky shuttle
#

Is ignore pain not like iron fur where you want to keep it up as much as possible? All guides seem to say to only dump rage into it if you're about to cap

round pendant
#

that basically keeps it up all the time

#

at least as thane

smoky shuttle
#

I guess in a big pull that makes sense

#

But are you trying to rush into the next pack in M+ with it up like iron fur or are damage, cooldowns, and procs more important?

round pendant
#

I literally never think about it as thane

#

shield block has to be up, shield wall if you're low on stuff and don't want to die

#

once the pack starts hitting you and you get rage IP naturally comes up

smoky shuttle
#

Ok, that makes sense. I probably just need more practice. Thanks

round cliff
cyan bronze
#

in a good worldsadge

round cliff
#

im aware that half or more of a typical raid is intoxicated and/or a non sentient being tho

jagged pier
dense remnant
#

im happy to report that i got some upgrades from yesterday's mythic raid, and i can feel going from 605 to 618 when tanking 10s ^^

#

613 → 636 shield, plus 584 siren isle trinket to 639 court trinket made prolly the biggest difference 🤔

#

there's no big setup/logic behind when to use the court trinket in m+, right?

#

just press on big pulls on pull, basically?

urban portal
#

Huge shield upgrade

urban portal
dense remnant
#

the 1st boss didnt drop a shield for me tho sadge

heavy temple
#

how can check how large my heal absorb was on queen
I popped wall and still had like 20+ Mil absorb on me on hc

dense remnant
#

606 → 636 weapon prolly also a pretty big upgrade

#

just pure stats

harsh trellis
#

why arent you guys crafting a shield

dense remnant
#

"you guys" meaning who?

dense remnant
sharp gale
#

Bc I think everyone crafts the shield imo

dense remnant
#

some roundabout ways of checking how much healing you got during a debuff

harsh trellis
harsh trellis
#

you could craft it

dense remnant
#

i had no reason to craft a shield when i knew i would be killing 1st boss mythic like the next day

#

i crafted after the first boss died

#

but ye, just saving time and crests

sharp gale
#

That’s a thing I thought for 1 sec than I was not patient enough

#

And shield dropped

pastel quest
#

Question about gem selection for prot warrior. I note that on wowhead, the advice is: "You'll want to use Culminating Blasphemite as your diamond gem, and Deadly Emerald in all other sockets."

But with the meta adding 181 of your primary stat , why would you not get different gem colors per socket? Why wouldn't socketing a Quick Emerald and Quick Ruby, which would net an extra 181 str not be prefered over the 98 loss in haste?

Thanks!

pastel quest
#

Doesnt that just sim dps though and not specifically address the increased survivability with more parry with the extra str?

dusky canopy
#

Correct, sims are only for optimized dps

jagged pier
#

And as surivibility comes from play u can survive with your top simming gear

#

Except sometimes honestly crit just saves you kekW

#

Literally at the end of queen mythic i was saved by crit, was tanking with the gorge debuff

#

3 parries boss dies

#

As u can see i take 1 melee for 8mil

#

Having like 12% vers would not have saved me

dusky canopy
#

Parrygodx

pastel quest
#

Thanks for the insight! appreciate it!

cerulean tusk
#

Go full Crit/Mastery, you be suprised how tanky you become

mental scarab
#

The old necrotic wayclueless all that crit

tribal wharf
#

to get into my weekly 10 no leaver atal dazar

#

fuckin bfa lol

brittle owl
jagged pier
#

Nope

steady karma
#

what about 16%? MarcThink

waxen frigate
brittle owl
#

this sounds a lot like Big Parry interest money garms

torn gulch
#

Mechagon Tinkerer’s Anti-Personnel Squirrel no longer usable while mind controlled.
priest strategy dead in mechagon next season

round pendant
#

lmao even more ptr dungeon nerfs

#

next season is gonna be so easy

#

😔

sharp gale
#

It required just 3 try’s

small steeple
# round pendant next season is gonna be so easy

saw this somewherehttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1080156432223195176/1336382254653505707/Giby2aJaYAEjpvN.png?ex=67a39a76&is=67a248f6&hm=eafd17cd3909668f802e539f8182807028676fb032c1cf22a1d16277546a5f39&

sharp gale
#

To delete that shit

sharp gale
small steeple
#

much smoother curve

round pendant
#

12s are way easier

#

but I was more talking about the dungeons themselves

sharp gale
#

I never saw them so I wouldn’t know if they are easy

small steeple
#

isn't the squirell mc change a nerf to play power there?

round pendant
#

Also do we even know what the base mythic scaling is

sharp gale
#

It’s just the group will not disband bc you don’t take a priest

round pendant
#

oh it's 1.25?

#

where did they find that info?

dusky canopy
#

This is Prot channel

sharp gale
round pendant
#

yeah but they said they adjusted m0 to compensate for it being overall easier

small steeple
sharp gale
round pendant
#

yeah but that doesn't say how much tougher it is compared to new m0

#

so unless we know that, the graph is basically useless

dusky canopy
sharp gale
#

It is 7% and 10% increase from the lvl before just for those who don’t understand

round pendant
#

Like imagine if new m0 is just straight up 1.5x the old m0

#

then the season will be the most insane season ever

#

I want the real number!!!

sharp gale
#

The real number is launch a mm0 on ptr I think

dusky canopy
#

14% + 7% = 23%

sharp gale
#

It is 7% harder each key lvl from the lvl before

#

Not increment 7%

round pendant
#

that's not even 7%

#

7% would be 22%

small steeple
#

its actually 1.14*1.07=1.2198

dusky canopy
#

Hollyyyy matthhhh

#

Hey cool phone auto corrects math problem for you

round pendant
#

well, 1.22 if you round up

dusky canopy
#

14% + 7% =0.21

round pendant
#

which I assume they do just round up vs down

small steeple
dusky canopy
#

I know I’m yapping for my own fun

round pendant
#

either way idk how they got 23%

sharp gale
#

The 7% they state in the blue post is the multiplicative change from the lvl before

round pendant
#

which it still isn't

small steeple
#

And this isn't taking into account m0 now being 1.25

sharp gale
#

Whatever, if you want to in crease 100 x 100% by 10% doing 100 x 110% is false

sharp gale
#

That’s what it mean when they say 7% each key then 10%

round pendant
#

1.07

  • 1.07 = 1.1449
  • 1.07 = 1.225
  • 1.07 = 1.31
  • 1.07 = 1.40
#

it adds up

small steeple
#

yup

round pendant
#

not sure why they round up for 23% tho

small steeple
#

typo like i said

round pendant
#

noway

#

blizzard would never make a typo

small steeple
#

i mean, they orignally had bdk gaining bear's survival insticts so...

sharp gale
#

Or just it does not do 3 decimals

#

Or whatever I know there is digit limitation for efficiency

small steeple
#

but thats just for formatting

#

it's saved and used as 1.225 i bet

tribal wharf
#

ya

#

hes right

#

decimal places and all

#

pesky

small steeple
#

at least it isn't as small as 10^-16, then we have to deal with machine precision and thats always messy

sharp gale
#

I don’t know how they do, wouldn’t they just multiply by 10^16 and just calculate things like that because I thought it was headache decimals in informatic

#

Just arbitrary move the , just for memory or whatever

round pendant
#

I still wanna know where the

#

new m0 being 1.25 came from

#

did he just pull it out of his ass?

#

or did blizz state it

sharp gale
#

You would just do how much hp they have before and after

small steeple
#

number isn't listed in post, but I'm sure it was datamined out

#

first bullet

#

so the 1.25 is relative to current m0 i believe

heavy temple
#

is there anything changing in regards to what consumes we use next patch?

jagged pier
#

nope

#

arguably u might want to run crit flask now instead of choas but ill just run what nome tells me

bleak breach
#

2nd that

#

No decent new embellishments released that I noticed?

storm stone
#

after looking through the mists of tirna scythe on the doc

#

and i feel like a moron cuz anima slash is reflectable

#

and that ability has been hurting me like shit on +8 onwards

#

i also realise ive been underestimating how strong the spell blocking CD is

urban bane
#

Spell block very good

lilac basalt
#

I use a WA which tells me when I can reflect something like that. I recommend it

storm stone
#

you got a link?

#

that would be immensely helpful

round pendant
#

things will never be the same

#

you've ascended

sharp gale
#

the post nut spell block clarity

small steeple
#

spell block makes ams look scrawny

lilac basalt
urban bane
#

I wouldnt go that far. AMS frequently trivializes and immunes a lot of mechanics. And if that interaction existed with SBlock or Reflect, they for sure would be turbo zapped from orbit.

#

Class fantasy innit gladge

mighty valley
#

it's a better defensive and a worse utility i guess is one way to put it

small steeple
small steeple
#

works with paladin spell blocking too

lilac basalt
#

ah I tried this, but then I went with Quazii's profile for the season

small steeple
torn gulch
#

Protection

Developer’s notes: Protection Warrior is a very active spec, requiring constant decision-making both for tanking decisions as well as managing cooldown resets and free ability uses. However, there are some elements of the current design that can lead to Protection Warrior being requiring more active play than we intend. Frequent Shield Slam cooldown resets are one part of the issue, as they occupy a large amount of the rotation and generate a significant amount of Rage. This leaves little room in the rotation to spend Rage on anything that uses the global cooldown, and coupled with most Protection major cooldowns generating a large amount of additional Rage, leads to using Ignore Pain frequently, even when it provides little or no mitigation value. To address this, we are reducing the frequency of Shield Slam cooldown resets and Rage generated by major cooldowns and in exchange, supplementing Rage generation from passive or rotational sources. It is our goal that this will make Protection easier to approach and play to start while still leaving plenty of room for skillful and active play at higher levels.
Chance to reset the cooldown on Shield Slam from Devastator and Strategist reduced to 25% (was 20%).
Ignore Pain’s icon now displays the remaining absorb amount as a percentage of the maximum absorb amount.
Punish reduces damage the punished target deals to you by 3% (was 4%).
bleak breach
#

So punish just reverted back to what it is in retail yeah?

hardy snow
bleak breach
#

Yep

chrome falcon
#

"This leaves little room in the rotation to spend Rage on anything that uses the global cooldown"

bleak breach
#

Ahh so live is 2% per stack

chrome falcon
#

Am I going insane

bleak breach
#

I thought it was 3

chrome falcon
#

Wtf do they mean "anything that uses the global cooldown"

#

we have 1 spender on the global cooldown

#

Don't we?

harsh trellis
#

PTR is still slow af

chrome falcon
#

How do you spend rage on the GCD other than revenge lol

errant oriole
#

"Chance to reset the cooldown on Shield Slam from Devastator and Strategist reduced to 25% (was 20%)." is this a typo?! lol

harsh trellis
#

even after the changes

hardy snow
chrome falcon
hardy snow
harsh trellis
errant oriole
#

right but would going from 20% to 25% be a buff? lol

vestal moat
#

damn why punish nerfed

hardy snow
errant oriole
#

i know what it is on live haha

mighty valley
errant oriole
#

well ok I get what you are saying now 😛

vague stump
hardy snow
vestal moat
#

ya i guess makes sense

errant oriole
#

its ok we will still rock and roll! we gonna be the shield wearing bears boys!

#

😛

sharp gale
sharp olive
#

1/3 to 1/6 to 1/4

high aspen
#

i feel like they have no idea what they are doing with prot

#

lol

sharp gale
#

they do what they stated initially

#

they want to lower apm (IP dump) and lower shield slam domination of rotation

hardy snow
#

they want us to use revenge and other spender abilites more clueless

#

they basically looked at thane and are trying to make it work like colossus works currently

harsh trellis
#

it still feels very slow

hardy snow
#

totally ignoring how these changes affects Colo

harsh trellis
#

shits proc'ing and you cant hit it because of the GCD now

sharp gale
jagged pier
#

I mean if they new colossus was a thing theu wouldnt talk about the spec has too high an apm

sharp gale
#

the tuning is 100% targeted to thane obviously

hardy snow
#

They could just tune both hero trees to be comparable in defense and offense, so they would achieve what they want with colosus and have faster paced thane for folks who actually do like that playstyle

#

But that would require thinking, analyzing and understanding how spec works in both hero talents

sharp gale
#

comparable is = ?

jagged pier
#

Look someone at bliz that doesnt play warrior, played thane for like 1 min and went yer too many buttons

hardy snow
#

And the intern working on changes just thinks hero talents are here to change colors and animation of spec deadge

sharp gale
#

because if it's =, you are asking maintaining a lunar eclipse

jagged pier
#

Then threw a nerf out without thinking

hardy snow
sharp gale
#

idk what i wish personnally regarding hero talents, do i want them to be specials in different content or whatever, or just 2 different gameplay but value comparable

jagged pier
#

One should be for keys one shoild be for raid

cerulean tusk
#

I dont like that

sharp gale
#

that's what i think in the "one hand"

strong needle
#

Which one of you slapped the warrior dev? Can you just apologize or something?

cerulean tusk
#

That would likely force me to play a hero spec I dont vibe with

sharp gale
#

like one is big dam in raid, the other it's key

jagged pier
harsh trellis
#

can we buy the new tier shtuff on the PTR?

hardy snow
jagged pier
#

Kind of funny weve had more blue post talk about our spec than the last 2 expansion combined for this one patch

strong needle
#

I just want big ZUGZUG many buttons. Why dev hate the zugzug sigh

jagged pier
#

Because they made changes prots dont like

sharp gale
#

if there is a position, the dude who is monk dev hit a gold mine

jagged pier
#

Eh?

#

They are going from one of the strongest tier sets

#

To one of the worst

#

They have ever had

sharp gale
# jagged pier Eh?

i mean gold mine as brew nothing ever happens, so the monk dev is paid to do nothing

jagged pier
#

True tbf

harsh trellis
#

Tier set vendor in Dorn on PTR

sharp gale
#

type the tuning patch in 10 min and ask tech dev to program change

#

6 digits pay check

#

bc it was on a weekend

hardy snow
errant oriole
#

so with all the complaints... prot warriors should still be able to do high keys

#

right? 😛

harsh trellis
#

yeah

#

it will be fine in the long run, its just clunky slow atm

jagged pier
#

If they keep the current tuning looe the 20% damage to SS this is gunna be funny

errant oriole
#

tbh I wish they would take away some of prot pallies utility then see how much people cry 😛

strong needle
#

The ability to do high keys and the enjoyment of the spec are not the same

errant oriole
#

I get what you are saying but idk still not as boring as bear 😛

strong needle
#

I mean sure but drinking human piss because it isn’t moose feces doesn’t make it good

bleak breach
errant oriole
#

lmao

bleak breach
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Early on

storm stone
harsh trellis
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the new class set is sort of cool just randomly procing a shield wall.

rough ridge
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Colossus bad in m+ right now or does it do ok?

tardy abyss
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Its ok if youre not doing super high keys

bleak breach
jagged pier
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Real cool

harsh trellis
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so you have a shield wall for when you do need it

urban bane
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you have shield wall when you do need it by... using it when you need it already though

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xdd

jagged pier
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U always have it for when u need it

harsh trellis
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Yep win win

jagged pier
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If you dont need sw, u dont need it

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So procing it randomly literally does nothing for us

harsh trellis
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it does the other things also though

jagged pier
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Doesnt even change how u olay

hardy snow
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It would be better if this shit proc just decrease CD instead of proc defensive at random moments

harsh trellis
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If you look theres a dmg increase luck opf the draw some other thing

bleak breach
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Now if it worked with the talent and procced avatar it would be good

harsh trellis
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that would be too good

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there is a trinket that does something like that thou

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increases your size and dmg by 20% or randomly shrinks you the same

bleak breach
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It would only be good if the proc rate was ridiculously high

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Not sure if I will ever live to see Prot war get a ridiculously good tier again

harsh trellis
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I just wish when shit procced that we didnt need to wait for the GCD

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like if it procs let us immediately hit it

bleak breach
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I agree procs should reset GCD.

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It’s super annoying in thane when you get the proc but then also need to proc strategist to use SS anyway

sharp gale
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the set should just proc avatar

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but maybe it's too bias toward 1 hero talent

bleak breach
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Tier effect is fine.
Requirement to proc it is the issue

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Should either be random proc on rage spent, damage dealt or per ability used.
Or even when strategist goes off.

ember token
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Hm, not sure if that was mentioned already but looks like they still didnt address the AM at all knowing we get less rage spend now?

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Didnt they 'mentioned' to look into it last week?

mighty valley
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They reduced the base cd of sw

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and gave us some damage comp for avatar

jagged gust
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Tier effect is 1ppm, you dont have to worry about how it procs

ember token
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Avatar is not just damage tho

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TC reduction, perfectly timed freedom etc

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It not just simple, give them some damage/reduce SW by 1min which was done due to IW more than this

hardy snow
urban portal
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well "all aspects of protection competitve"

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the TC reduction dont matter since we gonna be playing colossus soon anyways

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and you can always just aura buff some durability in

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but yeah having less freedom could suck

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even if a root mechanic is rare

hardy snow
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I guess they will increase (once again) amount of IP absorb per use

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I don't understand why they changed outburst to 250 rage deadge

bleak breach
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I worry about Indom as well

cerulean tusk
bleak breach
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Less rage is less healing from indom

hardy snow
bleak breach
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Battering ram should be half decent with the reduced cd

shut summit
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it is

urban bane
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Instigate stonks?

sharp gale
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shield charge cd is that reduced

silk pine
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Do we even need enduring defense?

cerulean tusk
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I would still play it on PTR, just cause safe, but there is prob a case to be made for not taking it

sharp gale
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colossus show of force + thunderlord + battering ram window is what i see

ember token
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SC spam probably will get nerfed if we get too much of it, and too much dmg from it...

jagged gust