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the amount of times I just press my tclap cause it's the next thing to do (if I didn't have outburst) and then realise mid button press
it basically just affects dps right?
Yep, but not by as much as you'd think depending on mob count
yeah it's more something you'll care to optimise once you're comfy with the spec
i do have to admit that it is pretty cool to do monster dps as a tank though
It technically affects survival, as SS gives a lot more rage than Thunder Clap
So it does both more damage and rage gen than thunder clap; it's exacerbated with outburst due to the scaling and limited nature of it
ig it'd still do less dam but it'd be nice if you sent SS for prio/st and tclap for aoe
That's called playing Thane smh
even though thunder blast still gives less rage
that's true
MT was nice in that you only really had to pay attention to vo in st
actually I have a better idea
outburst makes revenge also SS every mob it hits
and it gives rage

S3 tier set inc
infinite revenj
crazy how they had to make revenge just pump to make it feel good tho
I still think it kinda needs a redesign tho
This is definitely me playing the class wrong, but sometimes I get in a situation where I don't have clap or SS and I don't have enough rage for revenge, and I'm kind of just sitting there doing nothing
Yeah - probably pressing IP when you can't afford it
But I don't have enough knowledge on the class for anything they could change
When you don't have any CDs or Outburst on the horizon, you gotta adjust how much rage you bank to make sure you can keep pressing Revenge to maximize gcds and ss reset chances
Oh yeah that's probably it, I know the guide says to typically use it when you have like 60 to 80 rage or something, I'm probably using it when I have way less
For me the biggest issue is kinda exactly that, I see that I have like 80 rage, CDs just dropped, then I IP + Revenge aaaaand I'm dry
there are occasions in tough content where you need to know your IP status and make minor adjustments around it, but most new prot warriors are best served by ignoring the IP amount/duration entirely and just exclusively pressing it to avoid overcapping
which is why i highlight not overvaluing IP as a whole
the scenarios youre describing should only happen more commonly in ST
where youre often not gonna press revenge
aoe, go ham, since we get a lot of parries and free revenges and also refunds due to frothing since youre revenging a lot more due to the first one
st? you need to TC more to reset SS
and less revenges
IP often with the gallon of water I drink everyday
outside of ravager of course

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i ultra pulled cathedral except for 2 packs
dwarven i also ultra pulled
old town i didnt do huge pulls cause the stun can fuck you on casters
trade i killed casters then chained
caster dead? go next pack, caster dead? go next pack, etc
If the Bank is the area that's open just pull the whole zone and go LoS in the bank
Could be faster was a bit sloppy at the end part.
also bolster gives you fat ass reflects on trade mini boss and on mage quarter mini boss
and also
reflect split personality
and just walk through it
i got to alleria with a full sanity bar on mine last night
well 3 times really
i just got fucked on baits/bombs
yeah i just did what i did in bfa and start her on the side and just LoS so she comes over
as long as you reflect the sheeps its comfier
Idk nothing has HP kinda when u play prot war literally just 1 revenge dead
Idk I barely took any damage, A lot of times I just didn't use anything when I dropped low
sitting on 2x Shield Walls and just do 0 when @ 20%
as dps
nothing hurts you as a tank there lmao
it's fine ngl
Fury I was able to pull off some big pulls
just due to defensive + bladestorm
Er+bs really is a fantastic bit of utility
Hey guys, I was just wondering what trinket offers the best overall performance in m+ in terms of tankiness between a Chrombustible Bomb suit and the Ringing Ritual Mud
what does that even mean
bomb suit is the strongest of the 2 since it has a 1.5 min cd
that its on the guide
thats what it means
wowhead guide > bis gear > trinkets
that's the thing, is a 671 bomb suit better than a 684 ritual ?
yes
mud is only better on Floodgate and on very high priories vs dailcry
so overall bomb suit is better
1.5 min cd
what makes mud better on those dungeons ?
Bombsuit>Mud most of the time but Mud>Bombsuit sometimes
and its also a partial absorb which go dead last in mitigation
the CD reduction gives it a better CD overall ?
cdr
floodgate is filled with dots
what keys are you doing
that number
key level
+16 keys
Going to be honest
bomb suit
if you're asking about it then you don't need it lol
Tbh i already have the Pacemaker in mythic, i'm just wondering if it's worth using a dinar to get either Mud or Tome if i already have the bombsuit ilvl 671
like would that even be worth using a dinar for
notv when you can farm a mud
you can grab a jastor i guess
i already have mud, tome in heroic
and tome is good but I wouldn't run it in keys over pace
just grab a hero jastor
if you dont think youll find uses for myth tome
i.e. vault 12s
tome is probably better in Theater and Rookery since tank damage is pretty OK no ?
with pacemaker
and what's the use for Jastor as a tank ? not many prot wars play with it, it seems
im assuming you dont raid yea?
hero jastor sims generally high with full 10 stacks than a crafted, but you need to maintain combat
just not worth if youre dropping combat all the time
or on sub 5min encounters
we already went through this
it outsims crafted on 1.5
why would it not be
??
except for ToP, where do you drop combat?
how are you getting it's not good in M+?
it falls into the same place as Kezan
It's simply the best ring you have access to
well mastery is our worst stat, is the passive that good ?
so getting a free 850 stat over what you'd normally get isn't good now?
it means it has the least amount of impact of the four secondaries, its still fucking strong for us
i'm just asking, it doesn't look that good at first glance
like if you already have 5-6K mastery from the rest of your gear
getting +6K from jaster is not that good
im guessing ?
sim it
that's a large amount of AP....
and see for yourself
alright
getting 6k mastery from a ring is def good when your other stats are close to diminishing returns, you get more value out of it
that's also true
the sim will 100% recommend it
even then the stats are only 50% of what jastor offers
the other 50% is big
stats gud
we don't exactly care all that much about "perfect" stats
more stats more gudder
That goes for both damage and defense
makes sense
thanks for the information guys
i'll stay with my chromebustible trinket since i'm doing +16 keys atm 🙂
will check sims for the jastor
jastor gets outclassed by ilvl
he has no other picks
not for me 🙂
i have bloodoath signet and wick's golden loop both 671 ilvl
can craft also since i got a spark ready
you can just say hero track
craft a ring then 
i still dont know the ilvls in between
so youre telling me
if you replace a defensive trinket with 0 offensive benefit
with a trinket with mainstat + stat buff
it sims higher
crafted gang
lol
I’m torn between crafting ring or belt this week
also haste mastery
even more of a loss
then dont use the dinar
I mean too late
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'll live with getting the mythic one that no one wants off Gally because they all bought one

The monkey paw curls
with dh and prot whats best way to split tank jobs on mugzee? right now Im doing bombs, he is doing molten knuckle, line frontal we were trying both, but we will just have dispel from evoker so he will be taking it, is it fine or its better to swap something?
It never drops again
I'll live with that
splitting hairs once everything else is already upgraded and fully stacked
True
in the meantime I'll just carry the DPS on our prog kills as arms
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm basically getting kinda cucked anyways on dinars for at least one spec
what's new
I just want them to make the kill credit account wide
it's insane to me that if I want mythic gally loot on another tank I have to somehow weasel my way into the kill on like my monk
is hoc that much better than bomb sute for first dinar purchase?
why use dinar on bombsuit when the heroic version does everything you need it to
i can only buy heroic dinars yeah
i mean heroic bomb suit vs heroic hoc
i wont be raiding at all on this toon
house of cards is good for everything in every situation
bombsuit is a pure defensive trinket
What if, magic damage? 
press a defensive
Bleeds?
cuz those dont cost 6-10% dmg
ohh ok interesting good to know
what ability do we pair it with?
i will be only tanking up to probably like 10s
but thought maybe the extra defensive of teh bomb suit would be good
but if hoc is much better then ill get that
If ya die in a 10, no trinky in the game will make a difference to that scenario
your default state is tanky enough you just want to zug zug harder
ok good to know xD
any and all offensive cds
since we're a 1.5 min class
all our offensive stuff is on that timer
and we average 45s on avatar with proper rage management
demo is 1.5, ravager is 1.5, troar is 45s
demolish is usually shorter than
45s + 45s = 1.5 mins
or 1:30 mins
and thats why we dont prefer 2 min trinkets like signet of the priory
and instead prefer 1.5 min trinkets
ohhh interesting, thats good to know thanks
someone before said demolish is not 45sec too, is there something im doing different with my talents? my demo is 45sec cd
Almost have all 15s done and I haven't rly felt like I NEEDED a defensive trinket on any besides flood and priory. Will mud be sufficient up to 17s on those 2 and no defensive trinkets on all others? I run with a rsham or mw
Demolish is also annoying because if I cast same time as a knock back it uses my CD and doesn't prevent knock lol
What's the consensus for MT on Thunderlord Vs Show of Force? The latter seems to be stronger with a small reduction in surv + rage
huh
you play TL as Thane
period
youre thunderclapping a lot more
you want the demo shout cdr
ahhhh i see i see, thank you
huh????
Never happened to u?
yeah just sprocket
Not according to the game. Like chewie or first mini in priory I'll pop demo as it's casting and it knocks me back and uses my demo cd
it doesnt to me
Do it at the last second
What?
It's like 43
idk what to tell you then, your demolish is broken
Or maybe the knock is throwing me already and I press demolish
yeah in that case, it wont work
is jastor diamond good for us on hero track with the carte chips?
Really want to change main spec from Arms to fury. Currently doing both Arms and Prot M+14 keys. How bad it will be tank after i recraft my 6 crafted slots from Crit/Haste to Mastery/Haste ?
mostly not
mostly not
damn... im so confused what to buy dude
Why would u pick fury? Just don't tank anymore then lol
i only have hero options
did you look at the wowhead list
not really a huge impact
i got the jasper only because it was replacing a 609 ring
I'm much better at cocaine gaming than tracking bleeds
yeh i did, it says alot of myth stuff, then house of cards but i have hero eye of kezan and floodgate trink
im close dude, 3 more
So just wait
no i can get it for sure
did you look at the wowhead list or not
yeh number 4 just saw it, myth pacemaker
yeh that's a good one, ill hold out for that then
and #5
Is it better to max out myth track items I have or use gilded on a new craft
Like which first
Or does it matter
tome is good, i was using the hero track one, rly good single target
ive always just gone with whatever gives the most primary stat increase per increase but idk for prot
I’m pretty sure you wanna do shield, weapon, trinkets
But after that I can save gilded for a craft (neck or boots) or I can juice a myth track ring
shields > weapon > trinkets > helm=chest=legs > gloves=shoulders=belt=feet > bracers=cloak > rings=neck
thats the order of impact
stat pools start at helm=chest=legs
but you want ilvl on the others cause of the effects (trinkets) or cause ilvl means block and/or AP
or direct damage additions
What's best healer for prot warrior? Is it always oracle anyway since the shields help mitigate bleeds/magic dmg?
guys which trinket is better Eye of Kezan, Ringing Ritual Mud
or Chromebustible Bomb Suit?
and shaman isnt behind due to Skyfury
Oooo that’s interesting. I’ve seen others here mention Resto Druid
And then shaman for the buff like you mentioned
youre gonna need to provide more information and/or context
they are all good for very specific reasons
I just started playing and I don't have a trink yet
so what are you asking?
I don't know what I should get
ok do you mean for dinars?
what's everyone's opinions on Holy priest? The few times that I had holy priest as healer it actually was smooth.
yes
neither then
Shamans are good too because it's good to drink water 
everything hero track you can farm in 6s
I see that all the top tanks have different trinkets
so not worth a dinar
except for bomb suit which is a gally drop
so not as farmable
the only trinkets that have a very broad use case are tome + pacemaker but you can farm those in 6s
those "top tanks" have trinkets for very specific uses that may not apply to you
Okay, I got it. Thanks for the advice
Welp just got wrecked by rixxa on 16
If you saw me and the trinkets I'm using, I can tell you about my top tank strats @silk dawn but they may not apply to you
(I'm not a top tank, I'm just an idiot)
Was all going well until the third/4th charged shot overlapping with melees and the healer apparently not understanding that warriors have no self healing 🙂
I can listen, I'd be interested in learning something new
I'm just being silly, friend
Facts
I might be one of the best tanks doing 10's rn, unironically
But that's mostly because there are almost none doing them
thats usually the go to excuse when healers fall behind and cant keep up the group
or with damage in general, not only on the group
just remember algari healing pots are cheap 🙂
Shaman
Hard pass on holy. No pain supp
Did you have a warlock in your group or did you score a cookie before doing the dungeon
Like I said, I'm sure I fucked up something but like I just think they maybe didn't understand that you essentially need to spam heal a warrior tank
i had an rsham say that exact shit tn me on big momma
Is the mech supposed to even live to 4th charged shot....? Lol. Sounds like DPS issue
Had a warlock
guy was just pumping damage
This is also a fair point
can you explain how these trine combinations differ from each other?
Blasted me for not using my dwarf racial to sort the damage 😛
are you doing 19s?
9
then you dont need those trinket combinations
Lol what? Immune the magic dmg with dwarf racial?
Bro really linked 19s to ask about his 9s
Idk, maybe they thought it's a general DR thing
I got it, thanks again
are you NA
i swear this was the same guy that said shit to me on big momma
but could be a cousin
@unborn island did u time 16 priory already?
i did perfect fucking cd management too
322 might just be asking to learn about trinket selections
I get it isn't needed in a 9 but learning is still fun
Nope, and not NA
I have nightmares about first boss priory. I've never felt weaker
i got that, but the type of information we give him might be overwhelming and its still a very broad question
hes asking about 4 different trinkets
I was mostly responding to sorb. I should have just sent a reply to it
ah i see
I'm a dorf and now have a bombsuit, so I reckon it shouldn't be too awful?
Maybe. I'm going to try mud next time I do a high priory
Trying on 15 back with like 664 gear or something was rough AF
I timed 15 priory today tho with no defensive trinket
My 15 was also with tome + pacemaker
Think reasonable play + decent healer it's doable now even in a pug
Yeah...and then people are like 'gogogo pull all of the paladins on the next pull'
Meanwhile all CDs are on cd
I did the triple after. I just waited 15 seconds
For a shield wall charge and then avatar came up shortly after
Yeah, I managed it when I did mine too, but like...it's still iffy
Yeah so scary
I will never be convinced that pulling huge after priory 1st boss is the play. My resources are exhausted. Double pull is about as big as I'll go.
And grouping that is scary as well
U save lust for it and doing double double double is rly rough on healer
In my 14 I did double and we still timed it with 6 mins to spare or something
Idk, I have a theory that saving lust is a waste there
Like you could lust first boss and then get 4 lusts
In most groups
I think lust came up during the boss, wasn't there for start
And it would make my asshole less sore
Rooofl true
Are y'all pulling the entire last room
or are you pulling extra at the beginning and skipping a couple packs at the end
Yeah, I did a route where we pulled basically no casters before first boss
Like, a couple of packs chained into Shaynemail, and that was basically it
Hey Rhino, when you said double pull, do you mean the paladin pack at the front with a bunch of neophytes at the back ?
ok got it.
Keep in mind I'm in the 13's range
that's how i do it too
So my timer is far more forgiving than others here
I do full last room
At higher keys, u have to do the triple pull after first boss unfortunately
Or u won't time it / you'll die during doubles
I've been doing that also but I kinda think it might be better to pull extra stuff at the beginning and skip stuff at the end
I did that doubles in a 14 and was fine
ive depleted 17 priory twice now to the big paladin pull after first boss. one of those i walked out of first boss with avatar and nothing else and just died shortly after gathering, the other time i had cds and lived but the group died. absolutely hate that pull
putting the hardest pull of the dungeon right after a boss that rips through every one of my defensives is terrible
my younger brother is REEing at the fact we can SR cheese split personality on his 5 mask run
i just linked him Jakey's video a few mins ago and went "see how he does it without SR cheesing"
ive been laughing at the silence
When are we supposed to get greater enchant?
ive heard that either next week or the one after
Yeah it's kinda insane. Like I'm trying my best to survive for the whole boss fight and coming inches to death. Then I finish it and I'm like ok I have nothing left and now I have to triple pull
yup
im trying to figure out a way to put a breather pull before the paladins
but everything in that area either needed to be cleared to get to the boss or isn't really worth pulling
spell block
boss doesn't need spell block and you use spell block on the paladins
lets your sw recharge
etc
Boss doesn't need it? Doesn't lieutenant truck u with magic?
Does 7.5m damage on 15 and im pretty sure that's after spell reflect dr
it's not spell blockable iirc
Emberlanz? you cant spell block anything from her
So spell reflect does nothing as well?
Why doesn't spell block do anything against her tank buster?
because blizzard
they probably just flagged it as unblockable for funzies
just be glad that we have a lot of spell block use this season lol
shit was wild in DF
yeah those paladin packs are more about how many taco bell bongs your healer can handle
is soridormi still useless in horrific visions? She was massively increasing hp before afaik
any of you guys have a good priory route for 16/17? i feel like im doing a different route every time and they're all bad
you dont need her
nobody does
ok thanks
feels like any given pack in the dungeon will just randomly kill someone whether its a knight or a lightspawn or a bunch of casters or some lynxes or sharpshooters...
even healers can solo it, voidweaver owns it
Def don't pull any lynxes.... Caltrops are pug nightmares too but u have to get sharpshooters. Just get threat or someone dies
lynxes are avoidable
as in, you can just move out of their jumps
if someone dies to them, they just dont know about it
watching all 3 of my melee dps run out in the same direction then stand on top of each other and take 3x miniboss bleed....
lmao
holy shit
It's just as bad as watching first boss rookery all melees run same direction with circles and bomb each other
Is this real life
Iunno I've never pulled lynx in any of my priories
Does shield block’s buff pandemic when reapplied or does it work like demonic spikes for VDH?

They didn't need tank enough
no
it doesnt pandemic
it adds the full duration up to 3 times its base duration
which is the cap
any remaining seconds arent added
therefore not pandemic
Damn, I’ve been playing VDH and Pwarr as if their mit does pandemic rather than just add onto the prior buff at the full duration
I thought Yoda was joking when he said to just macro spikes onto some filler spell and not to think about it (I know why that’s bad). Then I saw him just sending spike charges on CD.
pandemic effects make more sense with dot types anyway
Aight, that’s helpful either way. Thank you!

yeah it's hard to press sb super wrong
but if you pretend it has a pandemic window you'll be slightly better
lmao yea
its mega cope, but im used to it
id rather not have a split second or gcd-long gap
Neither would I, I was just playing around shield charge and shield block’s cooldowns a little too much
gaps might not hurt with Fel Spikes, but they do hurt with SB
IE sitting on shield charge instead of just sending it on CD
well, i guess they do hurt with spikes, but you can just recover
especially with tier set
og walkman design is so cool dude... everything's too smooth now
The only VDH weirdness I can think of is using spikes while in meta but I guess the armor cap isn’t super worth sweating over
thats the best kind of chill
kinda weird if they do but it is what it is
ive been getting my VDH just playing with meta during spike gaps
which is what ive been always use to doing
gearing, not getting lol
10% chance to not take damage in an enormous MDI pull is OP no matter how you slice it
yeah true
sometimes i think about making one of those invicinble memes with frailty stacks, calcified, meta, beam compared to SB, but then i remember whos meta
"look at what they have to do for a fraction of our power... oh"
maybe with a prot toon with with his back turned lmao
What in the fck they gonna remove all addon?s
lmao
i know there is the pinned message of blockable and reflectable casts, but are there any plater profiles for tanks that make it easier or WAs, etc
or you do just memorize them over time basically
there are none
there's a reflectable WA but we dont generally recommend it
it might help to start out
but can put spells you dont generally want to reflect etc
ok, thanks. ill just basically try to memorize them from the list then dungeon by dungeon
Auto ion gets through with you you won't be able to know what is reflectable
easiest way is with experience
you just... naturally know
yeah i figured it was something like that
if its casted and its targetting you, its probably reflectable, if it has travel time, its 90% possibly reflectable
priory last boss casts? reflectable
caster casts on you from trash in that same dungeon? reflectable
anything else doesnt target you or w/e so its not important
you can even reflect the mages volley, if it happens to go off
not that it should but yea
volleys have travel time so reflectable, probably one of the few forms of aoe that can be reflected
just giving an example
very cool
im looking at the list
like ipas circle aoe is spell blockable i guess which is interesting
ill keep these all in mind
holy cow reckless delivery is blockable 😮
aoe
i mean i will start with really low mythics and then do 6-7s just to gear heroics - so the damage wont be hugem but still good to know when to block
Im getting mailed every week by someone not in my friendlist for the past 5 months and im not in trouble
On a char I don’t play, on a server I have only 1 char
There is one addon needed in the game for tank players
MDT
or at least a dungeon journal of the dungeon trashs
yeah i have that installed and ive been using keystoneguru or raiderio weekly pug friendly routes
symphony of the masks is account wide right? maybe i should do this on my bear tank way higher ilvl lol
ohh
character specific
well good to know, any shot of 632 roughly u think? prolly not
but you can buy the warbound drop item and just get warbound champ gear on runs
ok thanks
dannnnngggg i got to the second area the boss to 10% and lost insanity 😮
the champ warbound need 5 mask run achievement 
but i think just normal runs with 632 is fine
just don't invoke the npc and do it with no friends
bc i guess friends increase trashs hp too
Who is creepin on me in the monk discord
idk him it's been a while, i see kate is still there
I see you raid berg
Oh man I don’t have raidberg yet
yes thats what we were talking about
oh didn't know it was called symphony of masks
ye
but why do it now instead when you have the hole talent tree ready?
So he can flex on us shitters obviously
Why else?
Imagine not getting 5 mask achievement first week LOL
I would uninstall
It’s like not getting aotc first week
same reason as killing the delve boss the first week
I never killed delve boss. Delves and visions are trash content imo
whats a dwleve boss
Likely the things like Zekvir and the Gobbo dude from this time
i don't remember if i did it the first week tho
oh i think i forgot to do this season's boss
but i did it before he got nerfed maybe
i should do that soon
He got buffed in some ways for War specifically; you aren't/weren't able to reflect the fear thing for damage and what not after a point
i forgot too, i did couple trys before a raid and 1-3% fails, i didn't bother to try again, he is easy
that's the reason we try to do it the first week ^^
yes he is easy now
did i just read 25% thunderblast damage buff
and clap
🙏
i pray it's like demolish buff in ptr
Is this a viable strat to get heroic gear? Or do you have to basically out level the gear that it gives you, ie be 680 to do the five mask achievement?
Fury only i think unfortunately
not right now
maybe when the rest of the hourglass opens
you know we play colossus rn because of an arms buff
we played colo before that on PTR it just happened to be an extra benefit
the demolish buff isnt a big deal anyway
i believe nome did preemptive calcs if it was removed for prot
it was not much
i don't remember how much it was
sometimes I just wanna clap
that's why hopium is the way
yeah we will see
it was 30% damage buff on demolish for the nerds who wanted to know
Yeah, that's true
for overall it wasnt nearly as much
which is the only number that matters
if it was removed, that is
i trust you, i was afk / raid logging ansurek in january
It is spell block able
But still press SR tho, it’s free DR
What helm enchant is good?
🤔
Thanks
🙂
the 66% wall on stix
Oh yeah guys, dont forget to riot about prot not getting the WW buff

We need it buffed for our 2h builds, so please, go to twitter and rage
I'm not sure if it's just a visual thing, but I'm noticing on Stix that when I demolish, he's not getting the debuff on him properly. Sometimes he'll get no stacks, other times like 2-3
after getting the quest to choose enchant can you get the same enchant again?
i only have a champion helm rn
yes it costs 500 mementos
thanks
when bosses do tank busters - say like gorechop hateful strike - is shield block enough or do you need to have shield wall up too?
Mitigate when able and it makes sense. Do you need to? Did it kill you? Then yeah, it was needed.
alright thanks 🙂 bout to do my first +2 ToP i expect it to be painful
Just send things more often than not, and you can try to adjust things around over time
true, thats a good idea thanks
in the lower key levels you probably won't really notice which tankbusters are real and which ones matter less
then as you go up, keep an eye on your health bar and notice when your brain says OH FUCK
Can't think of a single tankbuster that one shots us before like 14 or 15s
Momma on pull 
Low keys are a ghost town
yeah.... i figure i should probably not start at higher keys though knowing ntohing about tanking lol
yeah im running my +2
Nice
just leveled to 80
i did put "new tank" in title... but idk best to honest imo
maybe i should do what "those" people do and put something like "gamers" or "pumpers only" as title
Just send it. Keep shield block up and you’ll be fine
Priory 1 boss dot smacks
And TOP last boss
2 bosses I can think of that shield block does nothing
technically last boss of top is blockable
Feels like it isn’t haha
It is half physical, which is blockable, and magic, which is blockable with spell block
That's due to the magic damage portion if you don't have spell block up
When you first encounter of it
If you have spell block up, you probably don't need anything else
Thanks for the tip that’s awesome
In need to learn what spell clack
Cds work on
I have a wa for spell reflect
The reflect sheet in pins should have everything documented now about what's blockable, with spell block and not
it would be cool if the rules on what was spell reflectable and what was spell blockable were consistent
but that's not the world we live in
We put 100+ pulls into Stix using the gentle touch raid leading method
I finally started just calling people out in an agitated manner and then we killed the boss two pulls later
What a concept, people need to be kicked in the shins to kill bosses ig
Sorry, let me rephrase
these people need to be kicked in the shins or they won’t use tempered pots in mythic prog
Is this a common experience or is my guild just kinda shitters
you had a specific problem and presented a specific soluation
i think sometimes people need to be jolted out of autopilot on long prog
yeah it worked out did my first +2 ToP first time tanking 😄 had some deaths.. but none were really my fauly i dont think. like one shots from the aoe scythes etc
We wiped at 0.8% to enrage and multiple dps went “oh man I shoulda used a tempered pot” 
I’m just venting cuz annoyed lol
congrats on getting there
Nice!
Love to hear it. Keep pushing!
mordrethas tank buster was brutal.. it felt way more brutal than the other bosses
no idea what its called my dbm just said defensive
once upon a time we could spell reflect it
sad they got rid of the ability to do that
Still not a bad idea to spell reflect on each once since it has a magic damage component
Remember that Spell Reflect is also a 25% Magic DR, super useful on a short cooldown
I remind our dps warriors a lot to use it for general magic mitigation and not just for the satisfying reflect
yeah it's actually a cracked defensive that dps barely think about lol
ill do that now
when you're starting out, just throw your defensives out
better than holding them for a rainy day that never comes
(especially now that we're running IO)
true lol - just holding them forever
This is huge, yeah. We get a lot of CDR on shield wall, and our defensives are generally pretty short cd
It’s better to just… take less damage. Then as you get more comfortable with the dungeons you learn where to get the most value out of things
Saving Wall for a scary pull, where spell block puts in overtime, etc
It’s all about getting in the reps :)
it's a weird thing, i feel like you learn better by being like "oh fuck that hurt, i wish my defensive wasn't on CD"
than you would if you never pressed it at all
Yeah, because now you’re aware of the spike and will be less likely to let it happen again
And prot is very proactive with its mitigation instead of reactive, so saving SW and then hitting it after you’ve been spiked doesn’t do much and encourages bad habits
just gotta ZUG
When I had my defensive up and I took no damage and everyone else did on an AOE I feel like a boss
Then I get hit by a tank buster without proper mitigation and I don't feel like a boss 🤣
So it's memorable
Yeah

Just hit all +12s and wondering about the myth trinkets. i dont raid. Currently running hero Tome and Pacemaker. Should i go hero bombsuit + Myth pacemaker?
If you need a defensive trinket,yes,bombsuit.
If not,tome+pacemaker is a solid combo.
My reflect WA comes up every time when mudslide is being cast on Floodgate. We cant just stand in it and reflect the dmg right...?
it deflects, you don’t take any damage but it doesn’t reflect any back to the boss
nice option to have if you get cornered or something but not a strat you should be actively trying to do
interesting
I hate to admit. I really suck at doing the leaping sparks on Gigazap. Someone always took the puddle i was trying to use and i had to keep running. Eventually i would get thunder punched into a electrified puddle and die.
take the one closest to u when puddles go out
claim ur territory ahead of time
then go back up to the terminal
If you play 2 melee dps'ers that ain't going to work.

I usually go to the one near me,and if it gets taken I leap to a further one.
The tank buster he does at the end of the rolling orbs is mitigated by spell reflect though yep?
yea. there is almost always others in the melee range. lol it's hard to claim a puddle. Someone will just use it anyway
Healer issue to be sure
Remember wall also sends avatar so technically shield wall is a dps cooldown
Sorry to bother but just a quick question for y'all:
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/vd5jFrQy3yfPAVeuxzGZz4
This is my sim, it's showing for me to use the Mythic Priory trinket and replace the heroic pacemaker, does that seem like the best play even when I can't guarantee my M+/raid groups will have a priory group?
What you siming? Fells quite low
I usually sim with no buffs
The next reset patch notes - the TC boost just applies to Fury? Or it will be picked by prot too?
Even so was Prot nerfed that much my 650 start of session was siming for 1.4-1.5m
It’s specifically listed under fury so most likely it’s fury tuning designed to increase m+ viability
Yeah, my face dropped after seeing Thane boost
In the actual blue post it’s listed under fury
yeah idk it's a ST 6min Patchwerk fight with no buffs 🤷♂️ just trying to figure out if I should replace pacemaker heroic with Mythic Priory without the priory full group
I would not expect it to apply to prot
Maybe it does and it’s a typo but usually they call those things out separately
prot WW buffs?!
It would be insane to boost MT TC/TB for prot by 25%
If it sims Better then I would if your looking for DPS macro it to your avtar
But rarely I seen one class spell boosted for a spec
Some weeks ago the Demolish buff was also only listed for Arms but worked on Prot too.
"WE ARE SO BACK" - Prot warr after next reset
Maybe we'll get Elemental Shaman treatment from S1
It was in January
I hope it is the same case here
Hi all, do we craft everforged defender with duskthread lining this season? I'm a bit late to the game 🙂
Miss information spread, so deleted
No plan to do that
Goal is +7 all
So yes, craft it 😉
I have the gilded from delves to craft at 675, should keep me busy for a month or so
Even if you would run 12s , you wan to buy missing trinkets
Also its only trinkets from dungeon available loot for dinars or i just didnt pay attention shield is available
Anyway shield craft is always first choice if you lack one and take dawn or dusk whatever sims tell you
🤛 many thanks all
you cant buy m+ shields or weapons with dinars, only raid ones
Damn
Depends on what you want to do !
If you want to keep gilded to craft 681 at once, keep them. If you need the 675 to better tanking, craft it first
Try to keep dinars for trinkets you can't get from looting (mythic track dung trinkets for example)
Dang.. I have to remember that
Short question since its class unrelated. Does Gem Positioning have any impact? Since Top Gear always suggest Swapping Head Gem with Belt Gem for me on DK
I don't plan to push anything. Just get some m+ to 7 or so and casual gaming
it does not have any difference, raidbots just always put them in that order
So crafty 675 shield if you can 🙂
😃
Hmmm mountain thane is slightly less DPS than Colossus but more survivability? And if these buffs work for prot then..... We swapping to MT?
prot didnt recieve buffs
That's what u think
idk whats with the copium lol
Did a 10 with a 670 fury war in it, it was just sad 😅
Mostly ok on bosses but any time we had to aoe he was barely above me
The difference as thane in surv is : you play thunderlord with a prio clap build
Yeah but.... Is it more survivability but less DPS?
20% less in AoE
So if those buffs work for prot, we gon' be big clappin
You are allowed to do keys as thane to verify ^^
So not more survivability and 20% less DPS right now?
That’s why we play colossus
I prefer thane gameplay in keys but the damage diff is too big for me
But I was pretty sure MT was close to Colossus in both survivability and DPS
in surv ir could be
20% in aoe is wild
but in damage it is behind
As said, you play thunderlord as MT, so you have that talent
you also have more rage, and you dont spam revenge as much so you can use IP more
I see
But you do 20% less damage so you leech 20% less, you convert 20% less damage in ip with BV, and, Colossus has 20% more IP per cast, so you need to cast 20% more IP to have the same as thane
thats true
Crazy
- thane don’t have the rage of S1 anymore it is less rage but yes still more than col because clap >revenge in the rotation
But i recommend thane for new prot players still
Because rage starving will kill you, and it’s easier to rage starve as col
New prot warriors need to learn so many things, I prefer to put good rage management in the back of the list
It's quite funny with rage management. Like I do my little 16s and don't worry about dying. I fail plenty of keys because other people die etc but it's rarely my going splat, and I do good DPS, so I figured I must be playing at least okay, right.
Then I went and looked at my logs Vs Sense logs and...I am just so bad by comparison
But I guess that's a good incentive to get better 🙂
That’s what is really good in WoW, you can always improve even more, we all are learning (even me I do really great in raid but the guys over me does way more, so I know I can perfect my gaming)
Even with 0 rage wasted btw 
is there a way to see wasted rage in logs?
Ressources, you change hit points into rage, and click on yourself
found it thanks
Motherlode 14 as example (you can look on wcl for specific dungeons or hero talent)
That's very efficient!
What does your rage look like over the key? (The chart)
Side note on Motherlode, last night I had the issue where I died on Rixxa and he healer went off on one.
I then did it again, and it was fine, we finished the key, but with 11 deaths, (mostly people standing in the fire) including the healer standing in the fire and dying with Razdunk on 1%.
We missed the timer by 3seconds lol
Obvs not the healer's fault, everyone else should have just not died, but that last death really stung.
Is the thunderblast for fury different spell compared to our thunderblast? Ie is the fury buff also buffing thane or naw?
1 Mountain thane talent increase whirlwind damage as prot, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do the same as in ptr
What happened on ptr of 11.1
That is really good rage management to avoid wastage and maintain like that. You must be a very good player.
Yeah, but that is often not to do with your own approach, rather external stuff
I also don't think there is a perfect equivalence there, like some stuff you go to 28% and then live, right
If you don't have BSV
Also, personally I often use BSV deliberately as an extra CD
Let me guess, peacekeeper, bleed on miniboss before 2nd boss, Rixxa, and standing in the fire on Razdunk?
Or just getting trucked by Razdunk autos?
Peacekeeper, second boss, rixxa and last boss (I slacked in an AoE )
Auto cannon made it procc but I remember I just stayed on the circle before, the auto just put me under bsv threshold
(It was 5 weeks ago, I don’t push so i slightly remember since it’s the only push ML I did since)
You don't play BSV for this?
For me it's a good way to show how many times you may fail as tank, but it can be used as defensive cd when last stand is on cd
Dailcry and Momma will trigger BSV no matter how good you play past 14/15s
Unless healer clutch pre PainSupress or ramp before Bleed/Electrocrush
But, yes, BsV makes us lazy in general and rest of the cases. Maybe also good Vs Orc Taskmaster in ML
So, if you triggered it in 10/11 it may be a sign to tell you that you're playing bad or you can just use it intentionnaly as a defensive cd ?
BsV should be played past 14/15 especially in PuGs where Disc priest forget they have 2 charges of Pain Suppress
Or help Rsham etc
In general SW with good CDR due to Shield Slam resets will carry you without BsV
I played with disc priest, maybe one or two casts of pain sup in the whole key ... that's why I prefer to play BSV; I prefer to be independant
At this point I'm telling discs to stop keeping PS for next expansion and use it in critical areas
But of you trigger BsV in 10s, that's a YOU problem. For ex chain pulling with shield block off
I have 100% SB and 75% IP uptime in Dailcry 14 and I still triggered BsV. Healer needs to pump there
They need to give ps to holy
Can somebody explain me how that first hit is supposed to not be a block? Is that just a wcl bug or am I missing something?
The mitigation is way too high if it's really no block
have myth track weapon and shield in vault both with crit/haste, currently have 681 crafted items, which one would u pick
I'm always pulling with shield block up (with SC or pressing SB button) but maybe I'm pulling to huge pack without SW up. Maybe I'm a bit to low geared?
No chance
that's cap
It’s not bad but it’s not any better than any other class
The buffs doing anything?
absolutely nothing
We're warriors we don't get buffed
only nerfed
Is it better to go for ringing ritual of mud myth track or bomb suit hero track? I don't raid and already have pacemaker mythtrack
Don't know if you picked since then but I would say shield
Hero bombsuit is better than myth mud
Got a hero jastors from the weekly box. Is it worth a damn on prot? Or is the heavy mastery to off putting for us to run. (Current 2 hero crit/haste rings)
Arms isn’t bad at all
It’s not melee meta but you’re not griefing by playing it
Also lol @ them buffing a skill for arms that arms doesn’t even use
genius shit
With the exceptions, I believe, of floodgate and priory
Sim it
Yeah it's slighly better for about one boss of each of those dungeons indeed
The two hardest bosses.
It’s good across those entire dungeons because there’s a lot of dots
You get the cdr for the majority of the dungeon which results in a lot more effective uses
I also feel like it’s easier to get hero bombsuit than it is myth mud. H Gally just kinda falls over at this point
But I’m also not disagreeing with hero bombsuit mostly being better. Just wanted to throw out a little more info
Guys, tell me what percentage of characteristics should I strive for prot war?
Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name (Fat Gary!)
Charisma very important prot stat , so skill full into it
)))))
stats? 16k haste with 4p (for Into The Fray), otherwise str > haste > crit >= vers > mastery
The parenthetical there meaning that if you don’t meet that, it’s good to go heavy repercussions instead
I understand, thank you very much, but is there a cap for versatility and crit or is it not so important?
No caps are particularly worth worrying about, even haste
Honestly, as long as you have stats, you're good
So once you have a comfortable amount of haste that lets you keep SB up with ITF, you can sim the rest
I just saw that players from the top 100 very often put versatility in craft items. Do you know why this is?
With or without flask ?
I'm only playing with swiftness to get more haste

Two reasons:
Once you have enough crit, which depends on how much other secondaries you have so can change with even the slightest change of gear, grabbing vers gives more damage
They just feel safer with vers because vers work on everything, therefore me safe. That's not particularly true, but it also goes to show that your secondary spread really doesn't matter for Prot War. They're all close enough that having stats of any kind is fine
The recommendation is pre-buffs
Anything that makes you less likely to mistime anything or make a mistake like missing a kick/not getting defensives back for a defensive rotation/etc is always good for pushing high keys, since those are what will brick your keys, not "will my tank live if I get 0.2% DR on this dot?"
Vers just feels bad since it's such a low stat value
like what is it like 200 per 1%?
all i know off the top of my head is that the DR portion is half the damage portion
so you have to work even harder to get reduction from it
Heya fellas, if i multi spec all 3 warr specs. And am only on my way to all +12 but no mythc raid. is it worth to just take hero house of cards if i dont raid at all on this char? - taking into account I do have hero funhouse lens
Feels like a sim angle to me - myth pacemaker vs hero house? Idk if our dps brothers and sisters like pacemaker or not though tbh
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If I have Demolish up but avatar wont be up for a while is it ok to pop a shield wall to get avatar to use demolish? Or is that a bad idea for a new tank (maybe need defensive for a boss coming up etc)
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On first pull we have 0 stacks of collosal might, but after that do we generally only want to use demolish with 10 stacks after that?
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I always forget to use shield charge.. when do you all generally use it? just when you need ignore pain?
@pallid quiver do you have any idea how much haste i would need to play itf without +2s of sb uptime
surely a large amount
- yes unless you need your SWs for upcoming busters/etc
- Just send demo on cd with as many amps as possible (but not at the expense of mitigating important things)
- shield charge on cd
oh enduring defenses
ok thanks 😄
between house of cards, peacemaker and tome which 2 would you pick for general use? both m+ and raid

