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700k even
I bet*
its 6%
Nome doing 6% = 600k, 100% = 10000k DPS 
YES
hey there are pulls where you can break 10mil rn so i see no flaws in this math
you just gotta get silly with the little cinderbrew bees or the rats after 2nd boss in motherlode... but all the time!
I’m down to 25% UB haste and manage fine with ITF. Def trying to farm CM neck and chest, though. I’m down bad for haste.
If youre not pressing more buttons than fury as prot what are you doing?
Based
Hi guys, stats to Raid and M+ is equals ?
I’m losing my mind for the neck
so a couple of beers in, i feel like i'm feeling the zug, any good prot warrior channels you can recommend (not quazii)?
Still doing well. I’ve not even attempted a 10 yet. Smashed a 9 ToP, at least. We’re gonna push this weekend.
Oh I didn’t read
Lmao that’s tragic.
Yep I do one cinderbrew on dk and then one key on warrior bc I’m becoming crazy
I’ve kinda been not farming too hard cuz I’m afraid of burnout. Leading a vanilla guild and that’s kinda exhausting. It’s HR simulator with like an hour and a half of raiding once a week.
I did 60 keys on my dk im starting to calm down bc can burnout
Tack on losing basically every item of value from raid on rolls and it’s getting to me a lil
Thought I had a cute lil house of cards with a 95 only to have a dude roll a 100
I’ve doing good so far got almost all my items bis and got my pacemaker to hero
Do 12s, or you wont get a neck
i will start to push on my prot when i gets tier and don't need hero items anymore
next week i get harbringer for runed crest on dk and surely tier on my war
i have a question regarding the trinket and its stacks: does it matter at how many stacks I use it? or does it only matter what side it's on?
stacks dont matter from what ive been told and noticed with it
its just a counter to when it flips
"stacks"
are only when you flip pages
trhe stack itself doesnt do anything
its just your counter until you flip mode
How do you guys set brann up for lower ilvl delves 8+?
Uhh
I mean it kinda doesn't matter you fly through them
As tank you can do them super easy
Even with low ilvl
Healer or dps? I’ve only ran them as vdh this season and that spec kinda busted atm
Does it even matter? lol
I just left mine as dps to make it go a bit faster cause I don't think I died
Nice sounds good, Ty
Is there a different M+ build when you get 4s?
you can drop ravager for battering ram
not the best tuning but the graph makes it look worse than it is
here comes the anti warr propaganda never fails
i mean if u think we arent getting nuked from orbit when the race is over. i dont know what to tell u
buff monk, all three specs need to be top tier
its all fake news this community is always out to get us
not even the most popular tank in m+
and the second least popular in raid
but nah lets nerf it

honestly vdh andd prot pala the ones that need nerfs
would it be a good Idea to macro IP and shield slam together?
no
u will rage starve
if u want to macro SS to IP so u snipe resets, and still have another SS bind. thats fine
ok thats what I thought. thanks
Yikes I have been running that IP + SS for a while 😮
I will remove it
u have 3 SWs
LS and IV
u have so much
all the healer needs to do is make sure to dispell u
i did an 11 priory after being traumatized from that bleed on like, 5s, but i didn’t even notice it. if the healer has eyes you should be good so long as you’re not trolling
Since there are only 10% of prot wars in the world that have timed that they feel your pain lol
the dumb trick is to make sure the healer knows to insta dispel divine judgement
seemed fine to me

why do ppl think that on the second week of a season things wouldnt hurt, this stuff is tuned to be done in like 675 gearwell probably not that high but a lot of pplwill only do them at that ilvl ish
You could try being a dwarf as well, or running with an evoker
But yeah, it just trucks
Didn’t hurt much in my 10/11, just rotating CDs and having a healer that actually presses their dispel
the mini boss at the end was much scarier on 10 than the first boss was
but it doesnt really seem like a hard dungeon for tank overall, its mostly on the healer to deal with sharpshooter/impale/leap/sacred toll/purification damage in every pack
Healers seem to be sink or swim this season
is there some condition for the second boss in priory to actually cast his shield, i feel like he doesnt as long as i stay in melee. just says the voice line and nothing happens
it just really fucks my dps trying to use personals on that shit with pyre rolling into it
He’s not that bad, unless you’re just not pressing CDs on his fiery strike or w/e it’s called
im debating on the fuck them healers build
dropping indom so i can take both battering ram AND ravager
its works, healers gotta babysit you alittle, but some big incoming damage really makes them panic lmao
But I mean “big” for warrior is usually still lower than other class’ “big” since we mitigate a lot.
honestly didnt notice a difference dropping indom yesterday compared to having it the day before
Eyes weak aura is the hardest one for people to use
apparently they made it so another spark fragment is available this week?
citation please
blizz leaving me in a pickle
was planning on craft 2H for DK next week
but now I can craft 2H
but what if I get 2h in vault

do I still just hold?
you send the 15 crests and 2000 valorstones you would have ripped into maxing the wep into something else
This will always be a q. If u get in vault. Its 3 ilvl upgrade happy day
Wasted sparks but at least not crests
Im basically trying to get my DK geared for Mythic Trash boi
so as much power for that as possible... wep is biggest uppie
Well. Ofc best is to wait. But its always best. So u can wait forever
second spark poggies
I got my 1st 2hander week 13 last time
thin im just gonna rip it on a belt since ive never gotten another drop
im not used to having the first 2h in the raid being off the wall boss
So its always a gamble.
U put acendance on 2h
maybe i lucksack into reverb wep in box or drop next week
And get a bracer at 639 isnworth it
thank you
at least according to my sim, for prot warrior, going crafted 1H + ascension and sending the 15 unused crests into my myth helm is exactly the same dps as sending all 75 crests into maxing a myth wep and using the spark and free runed crests on boots with dawnthread
kinda a lot of words to say, just send it bruh
wait, so we are crafting main hand?
i was gonna craft wrists lol
I have socked wrist and belt already so not in a rush to lock those in
i usually craft wrist and shield, and put my embellish on those since i usually dont switch those out
when using spark to craft a weapon does it matter if i make sword axe etc?
no
bad idea imo
you're going to want to roll prot loot spec until you get a shield in vault
3ilvl on shield is still worth fishing for
I dunno I feel like taking a 3 ilvl upgrade over other potential lock ins not really? I agree with prot vault though...
the chase trinkets can drop as prot so doesn't much matter, the Arms vault was because all the tank trinkets fucking sucked
why is this not marking the dudes in cinderbrew?
block big important stat
yeah sure
comes from nothing else
but we're talking 2nd week
absolutely not lol
yeah I don't have a problem with crafting a shield
the problem I have is with "I put embellish on this because I won't replace it"
if you already crafted a shield I don't know if taking 3 ilvl over shield would be worth over getting a myth track replacement for a hero track slot
this early*
i made that mistake once a while ago, with vault shield. never again
right, which is why going hero track to crafted/myth is huge
but crafted to myth not huge
tripple got it
you craft and embellish your shield unless you know that youre gonna get a mythic shield in the first two weeks
I'm not advocating that you have to choose it early in the season, lots of shields to fish for in vault
important? sure. As good as going from hero trinket/helm/legs/chest to myth? no shot
I've never died because my shield block value was too low
I've died because I fucking suck
or you embellish the two pieces that you know you won't replace like bracers and cloak?
question - can anyone explain why Heaviestweight Title Belt is now BiS over recrafting the BiS Everforged belt from s1?
but regardless, just do prot vaults
yeah i do prot vaults anyways
embellish isn't hugely important in the first couple of weeks
myth tome alone is worth it
yeah, when i need 2nd embellish IF i replace my shield, ill craft another item, which is likely when im swimming in sparks
yeah that myth tome gonna elude me for a hot minute
i wouldnt take a plus 3 ilvl shield upgrade over something like that
personally myth seaforium pacemaker>tome
getting myth shield in vault when other options suck is goated, but getting it when there's another good option is decision paralysis time
there it is. wisdom of the day
that's awful take wtf you mean
it's not
just depends on what you're doing
padding?
tome loses value in keys
especially the higher you go
the longer packs live, the less time you spend in swords
it's a good trinket for sure, just less good in keys compared to other options
im guessing for the high crit budget, and some verse, since by now, if u have the other bis- you will be overloaded on haste
meaning with, crafted belt you dont need that haste/crit
I just think giving up the ST dam for AOE dam is a throw, and I'm not sure I really agree with the pack's living longer thing unless you're taking naps between pulls
Jakey said the same thing about it losing value in higher keys
crit also applies to single target dam btw
which is what seaforium is, just a massive crit amp
there's still no contest in ST vs tome
what is everyone making with their sparks right now?
and if you sim 10 target's for 5 min vs 10 targets for 2 min the delta between tomb and pacemaker is the same
so I still don't see the "higher keys" arguement
that's not how that works
I crafted a shield first and I’m considering crafting a weapon next
okay enlighten me
But I’m also not going to see any myth track items yet
first of all did you put the proper apl in for tome?
yeah brother
okay great
second portion of that, raidbots is literally simming just hitting the target
I thought of that too
not the hits taken that impact the trinket
simming prot with no damage taken makes zero sense, that wouldn't account for our rage gen
the only argument I see is Pacemaker scales with target count where tome doesn't, if anything tome scales inversely, which I get. But tome is giga enough that doesn't seem to matter
what's target haste?
spent all my crests... cant even craft 2nd item
we do not have a threshold to meet, but it does drop in value after, aroundish 18500, but youll have to sim it
lol I agree it looses value, that's obvious, I'm not arguing that. I still think even with reduced value it's not worth swapping it out for something else
number of targets matters more than fight length
It would absolutely be worth swapping out for house of cards and pacemaker
Can you explain how the tome works exactly please? I am confused
what part is confusing
This correct?
how you use it? or how it works?
well check wowhead for how you use it
I think it’s kinda weak for one person to provide sims and the other person to just link to comments in discord. The why is important
you sit in swords, you get hit and after a certain amount of hits it swaps to shield. you press it again to force it back to swords and get increased damage from swords for 20 seconds.
as for how it works, when you get meleed it stacks up to 50
at 50 it flips modes
you can force a flip by using the on-use
you want to force it when it's in shield mode
more melees = changes faster
So I don't want to get the shield part from it...?
if it changes faster than the CD is up, that's a loss for you
ok it's weak to link to the guys who actually maintain the spec guides

Yeah because there was no reasoning at all
which happens a lot in 11s
Griff
at least in my experience
I've given the reasoning
So the tome is strictly dps trinket..?
ideally, good uptime, and great trinket if you maintain it as swords
its only a good trinket if u also use the shield part
Then why did the sim not agree? What’s the sim missing? Or what is the simmer missing?
Basically all I'm saying here is Tome gives you more value in ST than pacemaker gives you in AOE, without giving up much because we do giga AOE anyways
wait so doing the swap but on the shield part is viable?
so like sit on shield and swap to shield if u get swords?
i value ST damage a lot more than AOE on prot warr
its all viable if u live

and time your keys, or beat the raid in my case
fair
the less you use swords, the less great it becomes
at its WORST, its actually still a pretty damn decent trink
but if the pack is full magic damage it might be cool to use the shield no?
i mean i dont
Stop trying to make shield a thing
noobish question: does shield reflect magic damage mitigation reduce damage from ticking dots (creeping death or whatever) from creepers in DFC for the 5s it is active? I know it prevents one dot application, just curious if it also reduces damage
i drop some defensives and IP (im mountain thane so i have rage) and still use swords
It’s never gonna be a thing
Man f you dude
i just want the cinder brew mug trink to be honest.
F you so hard
I tried a big pull with lust at the beginning and we had a cleanup on the bar room floor
damn bro, why u say this
it's so bad
it looks so fun tho
it heals less than indom which is bad in itself, and you get like 1000 strength out of it, that's it
if I wanted to simp I'd play aug
it's totally rng who gets the stat and when
man, i never get good trinkets. ever, in any expansion. let me have this
you know what i got? 33 gotdamn cloaks, every season
a 678 stein sims for -150k dps less than my 658 tome
what do you think about funhouse lens?
it's good
FHL is good yeah
can't even log in
yeah i actually have FHL, thats why im asking. it might be the only good trinket i get for the next 5 years lol
funhouse lens is probably our best on use outside of house of cards
sadly it maxes out at hero track
im honestly surprised some delve trinks are good since they are only hero
well they are good until you get a myth version of a comparable trinket
which will be never. could i offer u a cloak?
I got lucky and got a heroic mechano-core amplifier so I don't need to farm pacemaker
because i'm going to keep tome, as I've made pretty clear lol
aw damn yeah i got a heroic mechocore too
pacemaker and amplifier sim exactly the same for me
I like my trinkets 
theyre decent trinkets
there's great trinkets wdym
amplifier sims almost double what pacemaker does for me
hmm let me check again
im being a salty bixch
apparently I can't log into the game cool
has anyone lused and liked the bombsuit?
from delves
yeah I guess rn pacemaker is -7k over amplifier, unexpected https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/ro2iTyQDuXbYCjsQAyTP1B
this is punish though because I don't like thinking about shield block on prog
Big tough guy, huh? Big tough guy
Big pp
I just want a hero haste/crit ring so I can get rid of cyrce's
I even didn’t farm these, it’s the only trinkets I dropped
which ring would you pick (equal ilvl)?
crit/haste
vers/mastery/leech
sim it
Simp it
They have a lot of courage to be pink, I respect them
If I wasn’t lazy I’d make a prot paladin and RP in all m+ and nonstop chain pull. Tack on the Crusader title. “The Crusade waits for no man.”
was going to swap spec
hi everyone!
Small question, what stats are you using? im starting +9 and we getting into heroic with my guild so i want to optimize my build going into higher keystones and even m+ raiding
Idk if we have the strength to manage the goth hello kitty hpriest that comes with the duty
Optimal stats is more ilvl
or just do it in top-gear and copy your armory talents
there's an extremely unlikely chance that whatever you have doesn't have ilvl increases, and Str slaps all other stats in value
i know, but i mean secondary stats once i get good gear
Realistically, you just sim for most damage
sadly not as much anymore
one day blizz will be able to consistantly make main stat always bis
All secondaries are close enough that there's not really any major difference
Just look for haste shit and sim what you got
Other than rings and tier, almost all of my chars sim more off ilvl than any combination of stats
Haste is typically first amongst equals. Sim to be sure because no one knows your exact loadout.
Floodgate good dungeon to farm for hero track loot imo
I don't think Floodgate is real
It’s just a good dungeon imo. Shits fun.
is dawnthread lining not scaling with us?
US servers down?
well for prot that's not due to strength, that's due to close secondary dps gains per point
but strength is not going to be your highest dps stat anymore
Motherlode, priory, and rookery are the dungeons on my shit list so far
unless your gear is garbo
you're really nitpicking at this point, Trrriple
because higher ilvl means higher of both
you can't suddenly disentangle str from secondaries
Im sitting with 2 sparks on my warrior, the thought of crafting is stronk but I want to wait lel
thanks, im going hard on haste but last season i went haste+crit and was a lot of fun, i was looking on wlogs and people were doing haste+mastery, after that crit and almost no vers
eh fair,
but
and Str slaps all other stats in value
is just flat wrong so
they come together as a package outside of trinkets, and trinkets have other considerations
Yeah it’s more that ilvl is slaps than strength alone
yep
I sent a crafted shield and will send crafted bracers. Both were my embellish pieces last season. Legit never saw a myth track shield.
You have a spark half given next to catalyst
that's how RNG goes
Ya, gonna send bracers when I’m out of my wage cage.
sim bugging out kekw
Very excited tbh.
Im waiting my warrior to be done with hero piece farm / tier to craft
Since it’s my alt this tier
that is some big fuckin dam right there
Inb4 you can save for next week and do the exploit again

I’m contemplating sending a VDH
anyone else not get Gallagio Highroller's Bombstone for getting 2500
mine just showed up in my bags instantly, maybe relog?
apparently it doesn't like putting in the custom APL
Im hesitating to try vdh tbh, but for now 2 char takes me enough of my time
you can copy mine (From Nom) If you need Griff
I’m waiting for my war to be in a better spot before I do
I copied and pasted from nom's message
ohh lol i was searcing for bombstone like the achievement says but the item is a boomstone
Need this character in maintenance mode

you need the whole apl, just just the little action line
maybe obvious, but just in case
Yeah you can’t put just 1 line
just funny that it bugged out, I'll just delete and repaste
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/7XKEbjwkLvF2zjPnL84AeW
if you want the apl i just steal it from nome sim
it fixed itself
I have bigger pp ilvl than him 👿
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/8WXYbMsMUAk1bZcGETdWaL
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/gc3kmDT27pWPbJ5f1VdkkQ
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/9Tj5Y7GfFX8Yt9Xc8XjkkA
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/oxtUqYaHUqs1FkpTRk6duv
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/5166csBrHmUvrNa4skCaax
So TLDR anything 3 targets or less tome is better. Up to 3.8% in pure 3m boss fight (for my character). Seaforium+House of Cards is anywhere from 1%-2% better everywhere else.
yep that pretty much agrees with my findings
You spend most of the dungeon not in 3 targets or less
Idk you make the choice on whether 40-50k extra single target is worth it or doing consistently more damage everywhere else
Yep, I want the ST dam
same reason I run authority of the depths over the other one
looks like you do too 
I just had extra enchants 😛
haven't bothered actually looking at the difference between the two since getting a new weapon
same as it's always been
I tend to prefer multi target dam and letting my dps handle single.
depths = ST radiant power = aoe
I’ll experiment more this season
I wonder if that secondary stats ones are worth it now / soon with more gear
yeah I meant more how much of a difference it maths out to be
it was like 8k or so last time I checked
in ST that is
I don't look at AOE stuff too much, that tends to just work out
new pb in a 10 babey
all I know is I won't get tired of how much dps complain about me riding their ass in damage
how are you meant to do corridor creepers in cleft? i thought u just had to kite them away from the recently dead mobs but that did not help
the dot hurts
yeah but how do i deal with it?
we timed so it's not the end of the world but they hurt a lot on 10 lol
get healed, run away, or SR one to stop the refresh
run away screaming, pull as little of them as possible
also the sleeping ones give count but don't give the stacking dot
the screaming part is important
i see
so those are free af to pull into boss
I’ve been using ritual mud trinket in DFC. Big shield allows time to kite, and it being a debuff means it comes off CD quite fast. That’s one of the only scary parts of the dungeon ime.
yeah it's pretty free otherwise
@chilly brook you may find this interesting
but that was scary
I feel this on an emotional level
It’s def a big investment for a portion of the dungeon that you want to be as small as possible
The trinket, I mean
haste enchant kinda goated?
I just hate risking that part
guess I should do all the chants
20k difference in aoe vs like 30k in st
we must be seeing something different
oh
sorry that's a difference message you responded to
TLDR radiant power doesn't look worth
yeah maybe?
Depending on your gear, this will change, but actually pretty interesting
ST:
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/fMgrqojSX8YvALZzJSLkJF
AOE:
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/wpVXm2n41Nm7VTebPHYGHD
less delta between aoe and st
colossus goes brr
do note these include a wep change, so these values are inflated, it's the same wep so relative to each other the same
yea
why is this sword not discounted??? for upgrades?
yea delta is nicer between the two on the crit enchant
Might because be because it's a 1h and your shield is lower....?
damn, that's unfortunate... i feel like i've upgrades weapons a lot
need both slots at whatever level for stuff to be discounted
seems odd since upgrading a 2 hander first discounted 1hander and shield
crafting shield would discount the 1 hander if u were considering that most likely though
Every spec (except Fury) needs to level both main and offhand up before getting discounts
Since there's specs tha dual wield (Enha, Frost DK, Rogues), specs that use 2Hs (a lot), specs that use 1H and Shield,
So you need both slots up to stay relatively fair
A 2H costs more to upgrade than a 1H or Shield as a compromise
But if it just drops at a higher level, that bypasses that a bit
just like how if you use 2H, you only need 1 hand slot drop at all to be done
Fury's the exception since they need two 2Hs, so they get a freebie pass since somebody has to if there's a rule breaker like Fury
can anyone provide a bit of insight on why getting a high ilevel shield (or crafting one) is better early than a weapon? (according to wowhead if I am reading correctly)
block value
the bulk of pwar mitigation is block, it only comes from your shield
early in season living is usually more of an issue than damming, so shield is usually the smart move. It's not a throw to craft wep first if you want the dam more
thanks for the clarity, I appreciate that! Makes sense to me
1 hander or 2nd thread item better for 2nd craft with shield crafted 1st
depends if you want the immediate dam of a crafted wep vs locking in a permanant slot for the season
crafted wep isn't BiS
If you're gonna run fury for vault i'd wait another week to craft main hand just in case you get lucky
for myself, by the time I care about the delta between myth wep and crafted wep, I'm swimming in sparks and crests so I don't really care about the "waste"
I crafted a shield, waiting on 2nd vault for if I craft a weapon or 2nd embellish in bracer/cloak slot
I'm just running another sim rn to double check my numbers, but overall embellishes are a big nothing burger in terms of gains and you shouldn't be too concerned over them
yeah taking a 9ilvl loss on bracers to hold on to my S1 embellish is a .7% dps gain (With worse stats on the new bracers)
anyone having problems logging into battle net?
apparently there's some issues
nmv NA is fucked again isnt it
yeah just checked even liquid is fucked
#gingiemp
Between the power outage, and now servers being down twice in the last two days Liquid having a good time lol
yeah
the power thing i can understand but every single season there's a fucking DDoS
unbelievable
oh shit critcake got banned?
wtf
i just got home from the office wtf is going on lol
he seems pretty stressed on the video
of course he would be, he earns some money playing the game and streaming
iirc hes not a full time streamer but he does
Let's wait to see what happens
nothing will happen really
I'll play devils advocate but if i was on his place, i would not be so nervous knowing i did nothing wrong and have a platform
He seems VERY nervous
Maybe he did not cheat per se
nah
but used something that he knew could be detected as cheat
critcake has been playing for years
so it's a gray area
servers up nim
its a false positive for sure
sweet ty
But he is well known
im in
I had an auto clicker program running while playing wow, always wondered how likely it is to trigger something so long as I don't press the execute function
I don't cheat in wow, I'm just oddly addicted to cookie clicker
Flase ban for “hacking”
Coincidentally on the same server as the gallywix exploiters so I’d assume it’s somehow related
That is the type of stuff i'm talking about
I don't think he cheated
But i think he did use something for convenience that could trigger a ban
And he's nervous because it's kind of a gray area
i mean for all we know blizzard banning some random shit like hall effect keyboards
ohhh
then in that case, false flag
I've read that the "exploit" was using macros to use spells that should not be possible to use
my brother got a 6 month ban for a macro to target a vendor and buy an item that he was manually clicking they are really cracking down nowadays
More of an oopsie from blizz
if there was a ban wave then its likely the DDoS is related, though its weird that its only happening on NA servers
I don't think he was nervous at all. He was just in disbelieve since he just lost an account with over 1000 days /played for no reason.
the appropriate response to an unreasonable ban as a warrior main should be rage no 😛
Critcake is chill humble guy
yeah
but he did look like he is gonna summit1g smash his monitor at any moment. As would I in his situation ngl
Hey guys, how do I balance Shield Block and Ignore Pain, could someone help me with this? I'm having some trouble in Mythic +
Or if someone have any video, would be grateful
Shield block is always important
Ignore pain only to be used if you are gonna max your rage really
Yeah - try to have shield block up at all times you're taking melee damage
Press IP when your rage is high to make sure you don't overcap
You can generally keep it that simple
Silly hacker man!!
what are you guys going for crafting this week?
just got my wrists crafted
cant decide the second piece
do you have access to a big shield via other means
not really...only have a regular hero shield from Priory
but I do have a crappy weapon from last season
shield's the most important defensive slot, weapon will probably give you the biggest damage boost for Right Now
but tbh damage is unlikely to be what's holding you back
maybe just wait til next vault since it's late in the week
soooo is prot war going to pull a prot pally and become meta once it can live high keys?
i really dont want to get griefed and reroll lol
warrior or paladin this is the question
just no more than m+ 10 and focused to M raid
technically
since we're the raid tank
we're "meta"
keys is a whole nother topic
its been a while since we've been hard slotted into RWF tank slots
honestly only due to WW being good
otherwise Arms would be taking up the warrior slots
guys, champion track Seaforium pacemaker or hero track scrapfield 9001 ? 😄
sim
sim sims damage, not survivability
so?
use pacemaker for easy keys, scrap for whenever you feel you need the help to survive
its not hard
otherwise, sim
still not sure of crit impact on parry
Don’t think too hard, keep sb up, and bang.
when it says mudslide is “reflectable” what exactly does that entail
for the most part if its not crit rating it doesnt add parry
I dont think it does damage back but you can block it 100%
Does anybody else struggle with rage generation in keys? I feel like if I pull less than 6 mobs, I'm struggling for rage.
Only tried it once though so no idea what sense meant
oh it is crit rating
proc adds like 2-3% parry
so its minimal in comparison to scrap i guess
@sour flicker
need to sim item lvl impact
yes
yeah i just don't think the rwf meta matters for raid tanks at all lmao
got a feeling that pacemaker is still better cause im heavy on haste
likely
you'd be surprised how many mythic guilds go with copy pasted rosters
its ridiculous
prove it
i mean not talking about top guilds like yours
i dont raid anymore
ur right tho ppl blindly follow what they see on twitch for no reason
what's everyone crafting after 1hand?
yeah thats what i meant
shield then 1 hand
why arent you raiding choco?
@south zealot ty
taking a break?
true
theres a handful of good 2 day guilds but im probably not good enough for them
pfft lol, of course you are
is there too much dps difference between colosus and mountin for m+?
maybe back in the day
yes
im a magus now
😮
yeah it's a decent gap in aoe
in favor of colossus
enough to compete with lazy dps
pacemaker 645 in each scenario is better than scrapfield dpswise
colossus did that last patch too
is rotation change when we switch to colossus?
less impact on thunderclap more on revenge
we still use thundeclap on cd right?
Pack gathering requires your dps to hold their cocks for a moment
should I focus on keeping my old 4 set, or should I upgrade every piece as I get it and go for ilvl? or where can I find the answer? 😛
sim
sim
Sim.
Colossus is fun in keys, just making sure you have rage since its not as massive snap threat with TC thane
🤝
Feel like I can't keep IP up in larger pulls without spamming the hell out of it.
i thought I can only sim for dps not survivability?
for tier, dps = surv
^
s1 tier defensive set bonuses suck dick
Further, for survival, you’re best off jumping ilvl almost always.
In reality, survival is more buttons than gear until truly pushing big keys and big content
I'm struggling to do much past a 10
yeah the 4 piece is just 3% less dmg and some harder claps, which does sound good, but now I have 3 pieces that are +30 ilvl but they would break my set, and most have haste crit or haste verse
There also seems to be a bunch of “cc and jump” so a stacking dot can fall off
yeah i am starting to feel that
just sim tbh
^
sim is likely to recommend 2pc from s1
i actually prefer lower ilvl with much haste than higher ilvl with low haste
until you get 2pc etc
How close is mountain thane compared to colossus in aoe?
15% gap
with colossus being higher right?
Gotten this 4 times farming for tome lol
no sry
Colossus bangs hard, highly recommend swapping.
thats for single
no, youre right
i tried it this 10, it def bangs hard but i find mountain thane a lot more fun lol
hate to be a bother but how do I sim? I have the /simc command and use raidbots, but that sims for dps doesnt it?
15%-20% on aoe for colossus
The play style adjustment isn’t too big.
way to show off lol
😄
yeah colossus def does more damage but i hate the spell revenge, wish they would rework it lol
i was so surprised that I looted it
If you’re dying you’re failing in SB uptime, improper use of CDs/rage/team isn’t helping when they should.
colossus has always banged
How is it?
why
its just a frontal cone
a colossal frontal cone no pun intended
One of those is occurring.
oh im not dying a whole lot, I just hate having 3 pieces in my bags that are 30 ilvl higher than my set pieces
sim
The previous phase set was pretty cheeks.
i just always hated revenge
1 target patchwerk 3 mins
correct
5 target patchwerk 1.5 or 1 min
you dont sim for survivability
thats it
You’re not likely to lose defensiveness with 3 30+ ilvl increases dude.
That’s a metric fuckton of stats
dude trust me u will surive longer and do more damage getting rid of that last tier set for that much of an increase
The previous season set was kinda cheeks. Equip your new purples and go be happy. This is too much thought.
^
weeee hurray i will
3m instead of 5?
stam gains alone u will be better lol
5m is fine
lastly I am on raidbots, how do I set a sim for the multi target 5 min thing
Should i be pressing demolish at start of pulls at 0 stacks or wait for 10?
i full send it with avatar + demo at the start
I send at beginning. Demo shout/ava -> demolish
and then just wait for demo (because likely avatar will be up) for subsequent
When demolish comes off cd you would prob be close to 10 stacks right?
itll be at 10
Prolly at 10 stacks before it’s off cd
if youre playing correctly
Ya
Any pro tips for better rage generation? Mainly on ST boss fights
use shield slam whenevr you can
5 bosses?
Don’t starve yourself on IP and revenge.
Be a lil patient.
yea colossus you're pressing revege more right? where mountain thane it's more shield slams?
Thane is more tclap/tblast
fight length = 1min or 1.5 min
Both have high prio on SS
also make sure you have M+ talents picked
so bosses 1, fight length 1 or 1.5?
5 bosses
AOE = 5x patchwerks, 1 min or 1.5 min
ST = 1x patchwerk, 3 mins (5 mins also works for wowaudit)
So are there moments where i'll just be sitting on my hands waiting?
gotcha gotcha, thanks a lot nimchip
yeah its an aoe sim so you need more than 1 target heh
Feel like a 659 ilvl, I shouldn't be getting clapped as hard as I am in a 10. I'm definitely spending my rage like a dumby.
probably a skill issue
Do i still want to use flask of alchemical chaos as colossus, or do i want to use tempered aggression?
i use alc chaos but you can sim if you want to
i feel like you should have literally 0 issues surviving regardless of how youre spending your rage
probably a big cooldown misusage rather than a rage misuage
assuming you arent overcapping rage, just overspending it
even if you are, shouldnt really struggle living in just a 10
I know I'm pressing IP way too often, but isn't it important to keep it up?
Hmm I just made a 2H 675, but upgrading my 1h and shield still requires runed & gilded crests, I can't upgrade with just valorstones, is this intentional? 🤔
put the 2h in both slots
Weapon slots are weapon slots. Doesn't matter what type is in it
it has never been
hello mates, what craft did you make with your first two sparks?
Shield for me
🤷
this worked + cheers
i did shield too but for the second, i dont know, maybe weapon ?

Just got trolled in floodgate
Trinket drops
In 10
642 warbound version
Absolute trolls
I used my gilded upgrading my tome and now have to wait to recraft my shield T.T
man i feel like im struggling hard with rage generation, any tips? do i just need more haste for globals, often feel like i have to afk wait for rage to build to dump on ip/rev and wait for tc/ss
granted only doing 0s for gear 620 ilvl atm
You are pressing too much of your spenders then
is there normally downtime in the rotation or is it my haste? sometimes im leaping just to charge for rage
doesnt feel normal
It’s not your haste
sounds good
you know what else is colossal?
ur 4head
late response but IP uptime isn’t as important as maximizing longer term rage generation by making sure you’re always pressing buttons
gotta get as many ss reset chances as possible
Thanks for the response
if you press IP because you panic about losing uptime now, you’re hurting future you
I tanked on a DH for 3 expansions and I main fury now, I just tank for keys to help guildies. Prot plays way different than DH
occasionally it’s right to press IP to survive something RIGHT NOW that would otherwise kill you but most of the time, you shouldn’t overthink “ip uptime”
I focus too much on IP uptime
sb is your “keep this up always” buff
Yeah I would prio SB over IP, but I'd spam IP too much and get fucked with a 2-3 second SB void
yeah your whole engine sputters to a halt when you can’t press buttons
we get SO much from every point of rage spent that you want to keep it flowing
I felt like prot played better last season. I only did a few keys as prot tho
In terms of button mashing
Could be all in my head tho 😂
last season’s thane had such bonkers rage gen and so few gaps to be filled with revenge that you really could just wildly press IP and be mostly fine
the rule of thumb was roughly the same (press IP to prevent overcap) but that was just… most of the time lol
Well, I hit 2500, but I need to redo my play style to push any higher.
hey fellas new to prot, mthane i find simple to play and not bad dam like 1.4m overall in 7s. collossus i kinda find it hard to get threat and gather adds cause i cant spam thunderblast. any tips?
How am i supposed to live Priory first Boss on a 14? just tried it and i run out of defensives at around 30% and external doesnt cover enough time. Im not a dwarf, do i need an evoker?
Roar and shout are your friends. Also, tell DPS to pull their fingers off their keyboard for 2 seconds
roar i get but what does shout to gather packs?
yeeeaaahhh gathering is honestly where colossus is the weakest, in a perfect world dps just holds a moment til you’ve planted
hahah roger this bro ty
nvm i thought challening shout says challening roar 😄
yer the shoot adds in priory so annoying!
😉
those the ones that jump? Folks should gather on you for them
Think he meant the sharpshooters

does immovable object proc off the tierset?
no
what you people are spending your sparks into? idk if to make a crafted shield or just do a 2handed because my luck has been quite bad for it
Anyone else love 4 set gameplay being suboptimal for pretty much everything beyond 2 target cleave? Love being punished for trying to play around the shield charge reset when all I should be doing is spamming revenge 
(yeah i kind of need a 2h, i have to dps in raid 😦
Guys, are we pushing whirlwind in m+?
I mean if you want
you absolutely shouldnt
and it would be a bad idea to
in any scenario
It’s not really suboptimal, you want to revenge as much as you can but you still want to shield slam virtually on CD especially during tierset procs. Depending on crit rating it’s guaranteed crit which is big damage and double colossus smash stacks. Plus you need rage to revenge more.
I'll have to test it again, last night just spamming revenge on 5 targets was netting me 4+ mil while fishing for shield slams with revenge and tclap tended to lower the overall dmg
Men I need advice
now that I can craft another piece what should I do
Wep or just a random piece
listen to your heart
Well yea tclap is solely for applying rend and fishing for shield slams when low on rage with no procs, but hitting shield slam is going to net you more survivability and more damage in the long run. If im capped on rage I just send the excess on ignore pain rather than ignore shield slam. If you ignore any generating you’ll end up dry and no room for ignore pains.
listen to your baguette
I'm crafting a helm, cuz tier has no haste
Should the crafted be wep with my shield or
i didn't do a single craft bc warrior is still in hero track farm
with tier set do we want to stop getting crit at 25% or that doesnt matter
Even sims prove you want to essentially hit TC on CD, let alone SS
tbh i use almost TC on cd to build rage for more revenge
you get diminishing returns the closer to 25% you go
sounds like it might be
a sim angle
nah when there is enough targets i just revenge brrrrr
i dump in revenge (will stop when things hurt ofc)
in shadowlands you could choose which miniboss to get on the last set, is that still the case since they removed the shield wall ability they had?
dont think we know yet
I'm in yeah it's nice because we need that damage to maintain control of the situation when doing medium to large pulls
quick question from someone out of the loop: how dead is mountain thane prot? i see zero people playing it anymore, is it completely unplayable?
it’s probably a touch more survivable while doing a good bit less damage in aoe
nothing in the game is “completely unplayable” but most people are just trying to do big damage in m+
makes sense. my gear is still in the 630s so was curious if i could live 10s better with thane over the other until i gear up. appreciate it
they are mighty tempting
is this too much IP for a 12 theater? i did much less damage than i do in like, a 10
idk if i don't trust myself, or don't trust my healer
Did you die or lose threat or fail key?
we timed by a minute lol
Me when I remove my internet access from my house
shit why did I have to be on Tich
Archon shows most ppl changed to Colosus.. I'm maybe behind.. is it much better than MT in keys now?
damage
when do you guys taunt swap on lockenstock? we were trying to have 1 tank take stacks, then 2nd tank taunt for the bomb, 1st tank taunt back while the 2nd tank took it out, then have 2nd tank take the boss when he got back, but that just drs taunt pretty much immediately
this is on heroic
Would be doing double duskthread embellish on belt/boots be dumb or are those okay pieces to do them on?
kinda only 2 options i can do rn with current gear lol
We just swap after each bomb pop something big for it
guys, coming back to prot war since last season, now that we use colossus we spam revenge instead on TC ?
or we keep our rotation like we used to
Embellishments are such a tiny thing overall it doesn't matter.
Ok I have officially made the conversion from being a Vers soy to a Crit chad
Crit = life
what weekly quest actually give the spark this week (not the free one) is it the TW one?
i kinda wish they would remove them lmao
when playing colossus, do you use demolish on CD? does it roughly line up with demo shout or is it just the opener and then both whenever?
The 100 thingy in front of Dornogal tavern
First one on 3 stacks, then on CD after that
God I love Colossus
Anyone know the RPPM on Cinderbrew Stein?
https://www.wowhead.com/spell=446648/cinderbrew-stein always check wowhead
Occasionally share a drink with allies who assist you in combat, granting them 54 of their primary stat for 15 sec and absorbing 1065 damage. You take a sip as well, granting 29 <Primary Stat> and absorbing 5467 damage.When you fall below 50% health, you take an emergency sip. This may only occur once every 1 min.Valid only for tank specializati...
i am finally a 4pc enjoyer
c:
still no tome 
or neck

how to live corridor creepers on a 13 dfc?
i bet you were in battle stance and you have a godly healer carrying your a s s
imagine not being perma battle stance

what wierd ? the guy is in battlestance and he has gigachad members interrupting everything and godly healer or how come he beats 2 dps . we know colo is godly damage but not like this
Just take the first stacks on the chin, then leap away for the reset using wall and IP to keep it safe.
Using intervene to get away is also decent.
Up to you to feel out when you need to reset tho, I only done 11. 8+ is when it becomes dangerous in my experience
no need to be a dick about it
I am confused, why the Madge? Nim tldr me 
what dick ya nim what dick , i bet you haven't done any +12 with random pugs in battlestance , go do it and come talk here linking your meter pragging about it

i need to upload every log of me playing colo
I did another 13 million on first pack of cinderbrew
im bursting as high as other dps with full cds
Ye, playing Fury with BDK made me sad 😢
Tank doing damage = FUN
True and real
Even on my warrior (not geared yet) I like it
As long tank is a bit behind equal skilled/geared DPS, tanks should be able to pump
Feels good being able to carry a bad dps as tank, instead of the key being dead
Yeah when I do 2.8m in actual skill group, the others are 3.5+
I don’t mind being a little behind
Being ahead would be wrong fr
But I hope my presence in cinderbrew 8-10s (so being top damage sometime) will not create trouble eheh
I need that fucking neck
@cerulean tusk @sharp gale @wicked pollen @lusty grotto you don't understand a thing i have tried to do +10s as a colo prot and i memorized all optimal routes with pulls etc on internet the problem is in pugs if you do some chunky of 2 packs pulls or for example first pull with bl , alot of members doesn't bother to interrupt or cc the adds or use defensive that resulted in alot of wipes and deaths , it's not about the numbers it about how you play correctly
A lot of bruised egoes in low keys till I get my flood trinky
Mass stun
i need to marry you
I still have no clue why you are mad
you wouldnt want people to be toxic cause you yourself did well
no i actually want to ask you one question i don't understand until now
Maybe Notche is underperforming? If so, just don't worry about it. It is week 2, ppl and you will become better with time
Yeah pug life, people pull the patrol sometime in my floodgates on the first pull, or miss a kick, I don’t see the point of what you are saying
Miss a trickshot 
I don’t pull them on the first pull
Yep i prefer having a billion more melee hitters by grabbing the pack behind the shack
I do the same, get em for the mass AoE and perfect %
I want to see the dps of my group doing 10m+ with only 1 caster
@lusty grotto @cerulean tusk let's say you funky or Nimp started motherlorde +10 or higher and you have an optimal route planned in your head to time it with ease you decided to bloodlust pull first packs based on the most upvoted route on the internet but you kept wiping cause interrupts or cc were less at this point do you blame yourself as a tank and take the shame that you pricked the key or you go like a chicken pulling each pack 1 time which is never presented in any +10 route , or let's say you kill the first boss of motherlorde you went to pull the extractor and another pack with him , people kept dying couldn't handle it cause its 2 packs plus the pulsy guy on ground now what do you feel , are you a bad tank cause you did a regular 2 packs based on the guides or you should slow down and pull 1 pack each like a sissy at +10
uhh
I have no route for Motherlode I press W
Ok, I am still confused. Why are you attacking a another guy for doing well
i feel guilt when the group dies espically if they are guildies and have killed bosses in mythic raid , my brain think of them as a highly people but i can't comprehend it when we can't handle 3 packs with lust or just a regular 2 packs
i died last
idk i always double pull after 1st boss
Ofc you can feel guilty, you think you wiped solely because of you, or that if a wipe could have been prevented by you (routing) it means you caused it ?
So Notche, why were you mad at the guy linking his little ego boost moment?
Gameplay is all about adapting and learning, just go again and it will be sorted out
if they are having problems around the ground aoes, just pull the double to 1st boss room
thanks for the tip
yeah i mean funky is right, there's no need to be mad at others for unrelated reasons
Double extractor = I want to punish casters with hell 
impossible , have you done it ?
Sometime I do
It was the standard pull for quite a few routes. Just stagger so melee get to happy feet DPS
Not recommend for sure 
@livid granite you need to calm the fuck down
ya Gio i love you ya gio but the guy pragged too much tbh
???
i have infinite logs of me doing better than him
thats nothing
0 reason to bring anyone down
But for context @livid granite : I don’t push, I lurk in 10s on bdk, I might push when my war is rdy
i feel like im missing something, he only posted a screenie and said he loves colossus, i dont see the problem witht hat
there is nothing wrong with that
Coretin sent one message being proud of himself, and that was too much?
i feel that we wipe sometimes cause as a warrior we don't have tools like bdk or dh that grabs all mobs in one place
Yeah I feel bad in priory with my warrior / the first area
why though



