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well yeah
thats pretty expected cuz youre simming a 40sec pull
youre simming a guaranteed value trinket vs a trinket with rng procs and uptime over a VERY short duration
im surprised its only 1mil
ok fine, someone said said sim 5t 40s for M+ gear choices
thats fucking stupid
if you wanna sim m+ you have to do
1t 3min for boss encounters with lust
5t 1.5min for average length m+ pull without lust
10t 40s with lust
6-8t 6-10min for average AoE output without lust
I do two sims: 1 target 5 mins + 5 stargets 1:30
even for fury thats stupid
youre missing the update
better
sticker using bastards give me a gif
How do you feel on p-war vs p-pal? I’ve been playing both and the tankiness of warrior feels amazing but then the utility of pal feels good
okay but ill link the godtier gif for prot
You come to the house of Prot Warr and ask about Prot Pal
Oh you want a god tier Prot gif one sec let me find it
Your answer shall be unbiased and true
Prot Pal is poopoo prot war is giga, easy
I like both right now

I only play prot war
i havent played ppally since bfa s2
Prot War feels beefier, does more damage, and better to play
Prot Pal... well fuck lightsmith, but throwing shields is fun
whenever i play something that actually takes damage my legs break IRL
this is the way
Nomes to fast
DEVASTATE
so other tanks are literally illegal
try bear then nome i promise its cool and epic
It’s kinda neat how we had the exact same god tier gif in mind just different versions
now if you want an OBJECTIVE opinion
Ppal requires infinitely more skill to play and has a vastly higher skill ceiling, is more beneficial for your group success when keys actually get hard (not before turbo boost and max ilvl)
Pwar right now is good because its tanky and does damg
thats about it
Prot War is just perfect
perfect tank, everything else wishes it was as good
also, good hero talents
MT and Col both fun
pwar is the simple answer RIGHT NOW
but eventually pwar will probably fall off again in favour of other tanks
like it always does
I'm going to say it.
After playing for like, years of BDK.
I can only agree with Augusto.
My BDK is being converted to Frost or Unholy this week
if I see no BDK changes
as someone who has played BDK since I started playing this game in Cata.... im very sadge
Or I could play Col
and make Revenge go brrr
its almost the same thing
just replace two As with two Es
Hmmmm
rage based tanks
I never realized how shiny both of those arms are and honestly its freakin me out a bit
thats from Rocky right?
its called lighting and oil
or just pure sweat
"we're nerfing prot warriors rage generation"
"we're removing spellblock"
Nah it's from Predator. It's Arnold and Carl Weathers
imagine this season cpm without the rage nerf tho 
I only know that because I just watched that movie for the first time a few months ago and was like HEY THAT'S THAT MEME
this is me rewatching old simpsons
only reason why pwar cpm is currently high is cuz fury shared a useless tierset with us
100%
question if a prot war is not main tanking on mythic loom how much does not getting hit affect rage generation for the warrior and dps?
Could be worse... COULD BE WORSE.......
we generate 3 rage each time we get hit
Very little. We only get 3 rage per melee hit and raid bosses hit slow
( 1 second cooldown )
ok currently we have myself as brew not maintanking and they would like me to switch roles with him.
It shouldn't have any meaningful impact on their damage
Pwar vs Ppal, refer to it whenever you think about playing pink class.
pallies have blunts? sign me up
Ya I tank with a monk and he always asks to start with boss something about his rotation doing more damage when he has the boss but all my big thunderblast and execute crits he has to spam taunt to keep aggro at the start of every boss 😅
The guy cranks though 99s to 100 every fight i barely beat him most of the time thier single target is crazy
I made my own tome tracker cause I found myself ignoring it
now it pops up glowing and screaming at me if it's off cd and is on shield mode

Need to get one made like the lizard meme whenever in shield mode
Tome
Tome
Tome
Tome
Tome

hmm how many stacks for me to not press it
🤔
I usually don't press it if I'm at 40 stacks but idk if that's ideal or if it's just strictly always better to press it
The tank with poop dps should start loomi
Imo warrior should tank second bc you have huge tether damage
The wa doesn't tell you to swap if you already have 40 stacks
I assume it's because it's gonna cycle soon anyway and it'd be kind of a waste to put it on cd to only save a little time
yeah I'm making my own wa cause I just don't want it showing all the time
He can’t purify if he doesn’t take damage so it kinda scuffs his dps as moh
I only want it to pop up to tell me to press it
Does the quality of an embellishment affect the stats it gives or only ease of crafting
Ya that's why I always tell our MM hunters to MD him off the rip so he can get the uptime he wants
Just ease of crafting
which one you referring to btw?
cause the one I have has no such criteria
I would send you mine but it’s kinda offensive
It has horns and screeches until I put it back in sword mode
i mean myth loomithar you should be taking the bosses first tank buster so that you can immediately 180 and burst both adds
its free execute damage
and we are way better burst on that than a brewmaster
it's okay I figured it out
I just made a custom trigger function
shield buff + (<40 stacks or no stack buff) + trinket ready = it pops up in the middle of my screen and yells at me
@dusky canopy kinda lowcost one
Adding noises to my WAs improved my gameplay way more than it should’ve

Yeah it's op
As long as they make sense and you know what they're for lol

I’ve had to add a lot more sounds since maining monk
Then I played Rsham and wonder why anyone plays anything but that
Rsham is goated for pugging M+ especially
Too many tools to fix fuck ups. Then I go back to my disc priest and cry
Rsham is the most brainless healer ever
It has almost no buttons, tools for everything, does truckloads of dps, ranged kick, can’t oom
feels so nice playing with them tho
And lust, and a really sick raid buff
And self res
Just can't stop fucking winning
I’m literally sweating on my monk to rip 1.2-1.3m dps in a key
I pull 2m on carry keys on the sham
With like 10% of the effort
Raid? lol here’s 10m raw hps while I spam lava burst
Warrior is still my beloved though
Sounds like I need an rsham alt
I bricked some poor guys 16 streets the other night bc it was 3am and I accidentally took a proxy strike to the back on the first pack
One tapped me
You do. Its great for when you want to nap on an alt
Oof. Been there
my 16 streets bricked cause i watched the casters murder themselves on the reflect
i cri
I agree. But also ain't nobody that does tank want to @cursor friendless to cast spells on them. That is healer job
They removed spell block because it was hard to use, by that logic obviously they are going to remove prot paladins 4head
😂
Think about it
Removal of skill ceiling skills
Addon removal
One button rotation
Blizz is slowly turning wow into a gacha
There is logical inconsistentcy between removing spell black and not removing spell reflect
shield block and spell reflect next
bacuse same reason as spell block, doesnt work on everything and too hard to know what it does and doesnt work on

By the end of the next 2 expansions wow will be a mobile game and you’ll just control it like the old garrison table 

What doesnt shield block work on? Bleeds?
lots of physical things
We don’t know we’re too stupid to figure it out
That’s the official blizzard answer
thats why sense does it for us
Hail sense
So I've been wasting rage on sb all this time? Is a weak aura that tells you so i can not shield block?
love this, good raid
Are you running hunker down in raid?
nah
nah u just swap shield talent for an execute talent
Fair
like cleave if u need it/want it
I’m already doing that for most add fights
In m+ if shield block is available is there any time where it shouldn't be pushed because it won't give any defensive or offensive value?
nah u just boss damage honestly
no.
when are you not taking melee hits in m+? also it always gives you shield slam damage
Don’t pop any cages until they auto pop, lust, profit
I mean
Yes
If you’re not fighting something lol
dunno why Jakey said sb not useful then maybe it's some raid thing idk
But if you are in combat sb should be up
jakey didn't say shield block is not useful lol
He’s talking about raid and you still want it up because it’s a sizable dps loss to not have it up
His comment was purely about the defensive value of block in manaforge
Jakey don’t uno reverse pepega
This man is about to roll into a key and not press sb and be like “jakey said so” lol
Ok got it. Still press it ty I was confused
yeah like. it's irritating that our primary active mit doesn't work on a lot of tankbusters
when some other tanks don't give a shit
but sb is still strong against the majority of damage you take in a key lol
Why is it like that?
i dunno, if we reduced tons of tankbusters by 40% ish naturally, they'd have to come up with some other way to threaten us
Ppal has some sort of spell block thing from shield feel like pwar should have that too
gun
Yeah like removing spell block
i think gun should be blockable
Lava
I think we should have a gun and shield tank
Tinker tank, gun and shield, tank brann as a model
I think we should have a shield and boomerang tank
Tank brann gun and shield would go hard
monhun gunlance
Boomerangs would go so hard
both kthanks
its been so long since we've had a new tank
I was hoping that midnight would give a 4th spec to most classes and shaman tank would rise
Spellbreaker the random mmochampion poster said it
When pwar casts shield he should put a wall that makes him immune from all damage and debufs for duration. Also any friendlies behind the wall also benefit from it and it works against riad bosses
Isn’t it ffxiv that the paladin job can like spread a shield to prevent the group from taking damage
Prot warriors press a button on their shield and the thing grows like Goku’s stick
Big shield for the whole gang
That was called dragon soul teir set
imagine bleeding out on the floor and holding up a shield to try and stop the flow
LOL
Ss or it didn't happen

I dislike that
Good
weak auras are a crutch. plater is a crutch. meters are a crutch. We play raw base ui as blizzard intended. in-game cooldown manager. Vibe tanking
Idk the idiot one or whatever it's called
The best thing is right
the 9 icons isn't a clean division of the length of the rage bar
the ingame personal resource display+ personal cooldowns enabled is actually pretty good for pwar atleast
"I vibe tank and I do fine"
Player who regularly doesnt time his 8s, pulls 1mil overall DPS, and never uses shield block
tbh pwar is so simple you don't need any WAs beyond just a sb tracker to do decently well
I just can't stand having action bars visible
You don't. But I find most people who can't be fucked to learn to set up a WA, also can't be fucked to learn a rotation
Yeah that's fair
Is this an offer or an observation because....
I end up grabbing Afenars and tweaking it
it's fun, at least my UI doesn't look like anybody elses 
I just use Nome’s
It's good
I thought I’d do as much damage as him if I used it
That hasn’t happened yet
Very curious indeed
@plush tendon you inspired me yesterday to nut up and try my first +10, well we +2'd it 😂 actually easier than most 7s-9s I've done
So, I got myth chest in vault... should I craft legs? sim says dps = neck but for pure survivability the stats from legs are better or?
(currently at 5/5 set)
youre myth 5/5?
no, but was thinking to drop to 4/5 set
Hell yeah bro when you play the game with gamers everything is easier
yeah I think chest is the worst tier slot so
is it all hero track?
and what ilvl is your neck
704
everything is 704 except myth items
oh that reminds me I need to craft my wrists
we need more info
do you have 2x dawn or dusk? or a combination of the two?
is your shield/1h crafted or myth track?
I’ll dusk your dawn!!
Crafted wep/shield
Both embellishements.
704 in every spot except gloves that are 704 champ, chest/shoulder myth track.
23k+ haste
where is your 2nd embelishment
wep/shield
you have ascendance?
probably recrafting ascending away with new craft
yeah make bracers
m+ focus
Why wrists? lowest stat budget isnt it? planning to throw 720 craft.
already grabbed
in 2 weeks your next craft will depend on whether you have a myth track shield available
if you do, then craft belt with dusk/dawn
if you dont, then craft lowest ilvl or whatever sims highest without an embelishment
ok
the moment you get a myth track shield, you replace crafted, regardless of if it has an embelishment or not
same with weapon
yeah basically 723 wrists/belt don't beat 720 with embellishments right?
they do not
I always end up crafting jewellery tho cause I never get lucky with myth jewellery
would a max damage low key farm build go high mastery?
yeah if it's low keys it's not living long enough for the bleeds to do much for you
ok just trying to understand sims then, its telling me to pick mastery gear which im seeing nobody do
a little bit of mastery is good
so going from zero mastery to some mastery is a decent increase
If you have a lot of haste/crit then mast/vers will start being worth more due to diminishing returns
That’s why it’s so important to sim
also the sim tends to undervalue haste after 20k, which is fine for it and also due to the time duration of the sim, but since we're human we need a lot more. The only stat you dont really follow through with its recommendations is haste.
Hi guys what are the best stats (for thane prot - M+) to add on the crafted shield ? 🙂
open the wowhead guide, its right on the summary page under the builds
I just slap crit haste on all my crafted pieces
Haste crit I see 🙂
and we want 24k for 100% shield block uptime right? any point going over that? seems im at 26.5k unbuffed
you can sim it tho
Did you put any embellishment on the shield ?
there's no such thing as 100% uptime
with ITF this season
you just stop at around 27k
i dont think it sucks
I have just under 25k and average around 94% uptime. And for the downtime I always have a plan.
ITF is fun, but HR is super comfy.
we warned during DF and early TWW that yoloing SB wasnt the right call
im doing fine with 22k
gaps will be less than but they will always exist
Yeah I always recommend 21-25k. Before then ITF is a bit iffy.
How much sb uptime is available now?
as much as youre capable of squeezing in
With HR = 100%
With ITF and capped haste = around 95% ish?
Tbh I don't even think about it if I see i have an sb available i push the button
When should you hold it?
when mobs are about to die
If the pack will die and leave you with a bunch of sb duration outside of combat
Or when you have something to compensate
I mean.. It works for me. I sometimes let it drop for a second with wall up to recover CD.
the best you can do is step out
Of course, if you're not taking melee hits it doesn't matter
There are ways around the small gaps other than just letting Jesus take the wheel, is my point.
this isnt new though, its the way we played in previous expansions
Very true
I mean you will waste some shield wall but that's less important than not going into a pack without SB
I think it's.. okay?
not the end of the world in most keys
depends on the key level i suppose
Usually there isn't a big gap between packs but yea I get not wanting unused duration
I hate kiting, I don't wanna step out 😠
youre not gonna SL kite
Sl s1 kiting so bad
its very minimal
its just been a while since we've had to do it so it seems more impactful
In my case it's more if I'm sitting on 2 charges and know I don't need them any time soon, I send one and let SB cooldown recover for just a second or so. It's rare it's necessary though. You usually recover enough between pulls or during intermissions.
Only time I kite this season is when we fail to interrupt the beast master in hoa and he makes his dogs big and red
on the start of the pull you almost always have an SC charge ready
anyway
and since youre avatar'ing for burst, youre sending it
Sometimes when I know enemy is gonna spawn adds and I only have 1x aoe ability i sometimes will hold the aoe ability for a few seconds until the mobs come so I can get aggro. Is that wrong?
Like thunder roar or aoe stomp or even recenge
I sometimes use Roar during gather, but the shorter CD TC while Avatar is active is usually plenty.
Like if everything is on cd and aoe stomp is available and mobs are coming im holding aoe stomp
if the adds are dangerous sure, i'll sandbag a thunderblast for a couple seconds to insta secure threat
i dont think revenge should be up there since its available all the time anyway
But yeah, it's better to suboptimally use for example Roar than to have your party grab aggro and insta die.
Yea. Think of like boss 1 when he spawns adds or the middle big spider in ara Kara
just clap
Boss 1 in efo dom
just clap
oh i thought you meant getting aggro on the ara kara boss 1 adds
which uh
don't do that
Yeah they just fixate
yeah they're just walking to the boss
not anymore
No, they walk to their fixate target
they fixate players
i guess if he gets the rest of the party killed
oh
wouldnt put it past pepega to assassinate with baits 
my friend assassinated my +12 ara kara yesterday
I said over voice
"make sure to stand at the eggs boys"
I tried to do the cleave strat with a pug... Never again..
I'm talking about boss 1 eco dome or the MiNI boss in ara Kara that stands where boss 1 does
he stood behind the boss
yeah the mini boss, just clap the adds
also tell everyone to sit under the mini
i dont personally hold any other cd for those, i just send
For sure. Your first priority is to not have your party members die, no matter how you achieve it.
But what if my DH hunts into the first mini boss and dies?
You will probably have clap available, but there are options
it only really matters if you're not in avatar but yes it's nice to make sure you can tag them all when they spawn
So it is okay to hold clap for a few seconds when though the prio list says it should be pushed to get aggro 
I've been struggling maintaining threat lately
I shield slam, thunder clap, shield charge
and I still lose aggro to the pumper DK
i wouldnt hold it, but you do you
"A few seconds" sounds like too much. The CD isn't that long.
you will almost always have a tool to get them, provided people are in range
I'd hold it for a second, maybe two. Outside of Avatar.
So if everything is on cd for another 10seconda and mobs coming in 3 seconds and you have clap. You use clap?
what's the cooldown on thunderclap
Before they come
is it 10 seconds
im not gonna entertain that scenario
because its very niche
and it might not happen
Yeah that's a bit of a stretch
its ridiculously hypothetical
Happens to me a bunch ? 🙁
use clap
I mean
revenge is also always available and will be sufficient unless your dps has decided to hold aoe cooldowns to go fucking nuts on these meaningless adds
and a shield slam/ tier proc will just give you a TB
Ok so just send the clap and hope you have the rage for revenge which you probably will
If you're in that 0.01% scenario where holding TC is your only option then that's fine. It doesn't matter enough to think too hard about it.
Think I sometimes "autopilot" and spend rage on sb and ip instead of just ip to prevent capping
yeah, I do hold clap/blast for a single gcd if adds are about to spawn but not really more than that
Same
Why don't you just use revenge?
Clap has much longer range and is 360 degrees, and does much more damage.
i mean, the add damage matters, and it locks in threat better
it's just not SO much of an improvement that I'm gonna sit on it for several seconds
because revenge is there in a pinch
Yea that's what I found too. I'll sacrifice 0.01% of my dps to ensure good threat
That's completely fine.
i've seen your gameplay videos yogi
Are you hitting revenge?
??
I realized yesterday form comparing my logs with some of the top prot m+ players that I was having threat issues because I only hit revenge when it procced
thats aint it
And they hit it like every 5 seconds
not as thane
tbf, yam did post a weakaura with demolish on it earlier 🤔
Ain't no way revenge every 5 sec
It suuuure looks like it
Yeah you gotta be really unlucky with proccs to have to Revenge that often
5-8
its def not
the proc is irrelevant but it's still bottom of prio list
just whenever everything else is on cd
/ deep wounds
not revenging is not why you're getting out agroed
As Col that would be true. You'd use Revenge a lot. But not as MT.
Shield slam, dragon shout, shield charge alone would prevent revenge every 3rd global imo
I'm talking about M+ threat
I don't have 4p
Maybe had the wrong context
And demolish for the other tlanet
so are we
Without 4pc it's a different game
colossus snap threat is worse, your squad gotta let you gather in peace
Col is stronger than MT before 4pc. You can try that.
4pc is what gives MT so many Thunder Blasts.
god I wish we had emotes here
he knows that
he aint exactly new
yeah I've only really noticed it since the average person is like 710 in my groups now
they pump so fucking hard so fast and my first few globals aren't enough lmao
If you don't need to aoe interrupt sometimes I'll push aoe interrupt just for aoe aggro if the havoc or fdk are going way too ham on some mob(s)
and I'm like HUH
yeah your first few globals suck sadly
ideally they'd wait til all is gathered and your feet are planted but
this is dps we're talking about
You can try asking your party to hold for a couple of seconds, but that may not work...
Hah, I was gonna ask the same thing, people keep ripping threat when I'm pulling -.-
Wasn't an issue until 11+
don't they want to maximize targets hit??? it's win win!!
If you literally run past a mob and have "aggro" and healer is spamming heals is it ever possible the healer will get aggro?
and its still not an issue, if peope do it and die, they deserve it and its not your problem
you have to basically only have body pulled for healer threat to pull
If you only ran past it, yes
this isnt the first time ive said this
Yes just body pulled and the rdruid got aggro while I was running around on mount gathering and then he died
That can happen. Until you deal damage to them, you have 0 threat.
are you gathering and setting the pulls? is dps popping cds and ripping? thats not your problem, thats a them problem.
Any heals will pull that off you.
tell your healer not to hot you if you have to body pull
but also like, try and hit with something
a drive-by gcd
This is one of the reasons I don't like the first big pull in AK. Some people just can't wait to rip aggro before you've gathered and then the key is fucked.
That would require me to dismount tho
if you're mounted they should be mounted too
Yes. Should.
Tbh I don't even do a good pull 1 in AK because ppl keep ripping aggro and dying so I just do a baby pull 1 up to the bridge but not beyond
Any good resource for Colossus builds? Which talents are swappable and when?
the charges from the little dudes hit hard as fuck if youre sitting, and while youre mounted youre effectlively sitting
nobody should be mounted
much less the healer
Is jastor still good at all? Or just do ilvl
mounted counts as sitting? i did not know that
i saw healers get deleted in s1 due to that reason
In ak nobody should be mounted?
If you run first they will only go on you. The party has to stay a few yard behind you.
for the first pull
depends on sim, but be careful with the equip bug
the wowhead builds are fine I think... the swaps between easy key build and push key build are roughly the same for thane and colossus
Looking at Kira's talents on murlok.io I see he doesn't run Shockwave, is that highly coordinated group tech or should I also drop it for +10-12 pug life
On first pull ak I am mounted to go down stairs then clap the guys to the right then I jump to the bridge and that is my p1. I remember doing good p1s where I dis all that plus went beyond the bridge and got the caster mobs too
ask kira
Don't drop Shockwave
we cant answer for him
we can only answer for what we recommend, which is NOT what hes using
hi asking for my prot warr tank friend, he mentioned some issues since start of reset that he has problems with shield block uptime, especially in big pulls he loses it a few times, was there any change or any clue whats happening?
ask him what haste rating he has unbuffed
since the start of this weekly reset? no balance changes
if hes below 21k, have him switch Into The fray with Heavy Repercussions
gotta be a gear/play problem
Easy solution is to run Heavy Repercussions talent
Who intl the heck would not want to use shockwave?
maybe he just now dropped s2 tier set?
Yeah Shockwave is great
hes probably avoiding stun DR
but agian
that's not something we can answer
its his logic, depending on his setup
Gotcha fair enough
if you have a consistent comp that has enough aoe cc for the dungeon I can imagine it not being needed but like
that's not most pugs lol
Yeah, they have their niche setups. Stats from Murlok and Archon is neat, but you need to understand the reasons behind their choices to actually use it yourself.
hes 23k with into fray, was it a vault upgrade with big haste?
Yeah I was wondering if there was well-known reasoning behind it or if I was missing something, appreciate the feedbakc
Then he should be fine. Maybe he's not using Shield Charge enough?
Itf needs to be dropped after you get 21k haste i think
but niiiim if theyre rank 1 and i do what they do i will be rank 1 too
I pinged two packs last night, pulled first one and the mage unloaded instantly and I was like ????? and his buddy goes "maybe ping before the pull"
wrong
Sorry what is the rule? I'll make a note
23k haste should be fine, he just needs to be a little more intentional with SB presses than last season
Or maybe it can be a pin?
its the other way around
It's the opposite. You don't use ITF until at least 21k.
the thing is, he was fine for last weeks and even last season, it was just a problem this week and still is
Last season we had infinite uptime because of our old set and Col build. We don't anymore.
Last weeks though.. No clue.
is there some count to check details for shield charge? like i t has 45 sec divided by key duration i suppose
what content was this?
no
SC is bugged on combat logging
youre not gonna get accurate numbers
on both details and logs
send a log over and we can see if he's doing something wack (unless it's never pressing sc)
Either way, if he's struggling with SB uptime just have him go Heavy Repercussions. It's not that much weaker, and it's easy 100% uptime.
at the cost of rage intake and dps
ok ill tell him and we check it out how it works out
Yes, ITF with enough haste is better if you're able to keep acceptable uptime with it. But if not, you don't have much choice..
dont have any logs sadly
I'm 709 ilvl and have so it sounds like itf only when you're like really geared/optimized
Haste
22.56%
Total Rating:
13,304
13k is way too low for ITF.
13k at 709 is tragic
yeah that is... brutal
Go HR, be happy, get 21-25k, try ITF again
I'm a HR stan at all haste levels, cuz im a lazy prick
Sad pwar can't get no haste gear
maybe if you put on clothes
kinda ominous ngl
what've you crafted so far?
HR is comfy. But ITF make you zoom.
2x weapons crafted
insane, carry on
ah and thanks guys for the really fast help/answers, didnt expect it tbh 😄 have a good weekend
Your stats are very ..balanced. I think it would actually be OK if you just run HR over ITF.
what if you gemmed and socketed
with that haste, def hr
pepega pepega'ing
Haste crit but I don't slot some garbage champion track vers mastery gear
prot warr discord a buncha nerds we got u
In time you'll get jewlery with haste which is where the majority comes from. Then you can reevaluate.
Right now only one of your rings has haste and it's the minority stat. Not great for chasing haste.
Soon {little tm}
some of us are doom nerds
i mean, clearly
PFP and all
yeah if your next craft is a ring/neck you'll get a big jump
But i can't craft unless I get a myrhic weapon/shield to use right?
You can craft every other week when you get a new spark
The only limit is that you can only have 2 embellished pieces.
You should actually have a spare spark now? Or have you crafted more than weap and shield (which are good first choices)?
Ohh you can have 6 crafted items equipped as long as they aren't embellish?
You can have all slots except 1 trinket be crafted technically
You wouldn't want that, but you can.
And I wouldn't recommend the crafted trinket. It's pretty bad.
Ohh that's good to know i have a spark sitting around now. Any reason to not put it on neck? That's still a champ track with bad secondaries
Sounds like a good choice to me.
Anyone have a good augment rune reminder for the permanent augment rune?
does cursed stone idol drop for prot warrior
I use https://wago.io/jNjrKl3US for all my consumables and buffs. Don't know if it covers the permanent augment rune, but I think it does.
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It does not. You have to set your loot spec to arms or fury to have a chance of getting it.
do you have crafted weapon and shield?
or better?
Yes sir crafted and don't have any other myrhic weapon
if so, craft bracers with embelishment
and remove any embelishments from weapon if they have them, with a recraft
Any reason to do that instead of neck? My weapon has some embellish. Guessing that the one going on the new craft is going to be different from the one on weapon?
Huh that's neat
The "correct" setup is to get a Myth shield and weapon, then craft embellished bracers and belt. Short term a neck would be much stronger.
yes it'll be dawn/dusk
but since you can only equip 2 embelishments at a time, you need to remove your weapon's
you cannot put dawn/dusk on neck, and you can farm neck in gambit or streets
since vanilla
Being seated makes mobs 100% crit you. But didn't know being mounted does the same..
I never knew that
Never heard that before.
its not that you take more damage
its that you cant block/dodge etc, if you have an rsham and they are mounted they will get gibbed
if its any other healer aside from rsham/hpal and any dodge/parry minimal mechanics, you just prevent extra damage coming in and minimizing heals which will draw threat
there is zero reason to mount for that pull anyway, you have to wait for us or your tank which will most certainly not be mounted
You can't doge or block is enemy hits your butt too I think
im glad you're retaining some stuff
If im lazy and don't want to waist time recrafting and just keep embellished as is. How much value is lost?
you will have to do it eventually
so just get it done
but a crafted bracer with dawn or dusk will outsim a myth bracer
and you cant equip one if you have ascendance on your weapon
just find a blacksmith to do both
Ascendance is decent, but not optimal. For a solid answer you can sim it, but I would say very little.
For the simplest and biggest upgrade, craft neck. For the longer term gains craft bracer with thread and recraft away the embellishment on your sword.
You can farm one too. Both the Gambit one and Streets one is good.
there's like 5 or 6 different drops
How are you guys handling Assa rogues in general during pulls? I honestly dont know if the pull reset is worth it over the whole team overall procs for chain pulling
try your best to drop combat
you shouldnt be doing ALL the time
but at least try to
thats it
Agreed, but I got one who was crying reset after each 6-8 pack wtf
We got procs and momentum
They love restealthing between every pull so I try to accommodate that where possible, but if it slows you down too much don't.
if youre already dropping combat, then his cries mean nothing
No way you can please Assa rogue in Gambit until Titan boss trash
you can, if they play their part
if they go out of their way to kill runners
if they dont, then they have no business bitching about it
just let em yap
How I see it is that if you expect to only lose a few seconds of combat time by not chain pulling, then that is worth it for the assa to do their thing. But if you're losing like 20sec then no way.
Rogues so mad at Dans logic
They can cry me a river, or go outlaw
😂
I never stop pulling so that the rog can restealth maybe that's wrong but.. it's his problem he picked a spec that requires restealth and it's probably overall dps gain to keep on big pulling instead of stopping idk
That is wrong. Your group would overall gain a lot of damage if you allow them to restealth where it makes sense.
Yes, but take on-hands examples: Priory is a chain fest until Aemya and 1st boss. Dont get me started on Cathedral pulls. Unless heal is OOM. Floodgate also. Phys/Melee comp demands more stuff into the meat grinder. Resetting combat seems anti-pattern. Or maybe I just like Outlaw/Sub rogues idk
Gambit you can chain up until 1st boss
With big DPS uptime
Sometimes I think assa rogues are old mechanics from a pre-M+ world long gone
In gambit im I combat 100% between start and boss 1.. maybe that's why the rog was doing bad damage and I was getting mad at him
It also very much depends on your comp and the skill of your assa rogue. If they suck, then it doesn't matter anyway. Or if your group is entirely AoE padders, then you'll be stuck with that one tanky mob left for a minute if you want to drop combat for them.
nah that aint it
Yep. Sounds about right.
Nobody pulls at 0.01%. More like 30-40%, but got it
guys, I have Void Pactstone, Incorporeal Warpclaw, Sacbrood, and Secret Technique. all hero tracks. which one would best combine with myth Tome for m+ for Thane? i don't raid on war, so no access to raid trinkets. mostly caring about pumping big on trash ofc 
wheres the quote
sim
I was actually talking about the tanks that do wait to chain pull until their current pull is almost dead. Then it's probably a good idea to let your assa reset.
LOL

Sacbrood or Secret Technique. Probably the latter. But sim it like Nim said.

Yo, ima sound pretty dumb probably but couldnt find it in my talents or in the guide im following, does warr do something to reduce avatar cooldown?
It feels like it comes up only a couple secs after the thunderous roar
Look at the talent Anger Managment
Hey folks, was wondering if someone knowledgeable could help me out with some gearing advice on my protection warrior. Atm still stuck on new 2-set + old 2-set. Got myth track tierpiece shoulders in vault, regular myth track chestpiece and then Tome of Light's Devotion on myth track (currently have heroic track Technique, Pacemaker and Sacbrood). Have old tierchest 684 and new heroic track tiershoulders. What do you think would net me the best upgrade? 🙂 Can make 4-set from next week even if I dont receive a piece in the vault.
I would pick tome as thats gona be bis in 99% of time , u will most likely get another mythic armor along the way, tome not so much
ah man idk how to link it but nimchip has a vault pick guide he posted
ya thats probably the choice if i remember right
You really think that Tome is that good? I had it last season myth track but never really enjoyed it much in all honesty
Felt like pacemaker was more consistent with a defensive trinket in higher keys
U dont need defensive trinket until very high keys , and tome is bis in ST, and thats what most keys are bricked at
But he its your sub , u do u
Yeah that's true, planning on getting around to the higher keys though, last season highest I got was 18 and felt like the defensive trinkets were mandatory at that point tbh
Afaik no one really plays Tome for it's defensive verse yeah?
Na u play it as dps trinket
Its defensive part is w/e
Also compared to last season u dont need defensive trinkets "that much"
hahaha i was trying to find the link to the nimchip vault decision post dude has 203k messages and im on page 10 and gave up looking for it
Yeah true, MT isn't nearly as ragestarved as colossus
Appreciate you trying though 😄
Hmm, true, I do feel as if the higher ignore pain uptime is a blessing though, makes it a lot easier to manage heavy dmg
For tome of lights devotion we are looking for max crit side uptime, right?
Yes
Yeah to mirror whats been said, Tome is a very powerful offensive trinket. Theres really not a lot of good defensive trinkets this season, and prot is naturally very tanky so grabbing a tome this early is huge
Take tome now and make 4pc next week and you will be juiced
Gotcha, thanks for input, Pash 🙂
Getting back into Warrior here after a year or so off. Are we still stance weaving in keys/raid?
the gain of going into bstance is SUPER small nowadays
you can do it if it's completely free dmg intake wise but if thinking about it makes you lose a few globals it's already not really worth it
it's just 3% crit chance
Damn. Okay. Makes sense. I was just hoping to weave and PUMP
Short answer: no. Long answer: not worth it
Hello all. I was wondering if i could get a few tips to tank nexus king in hc as prot warr. With blizz kindly removing our spell block. I find sometimes difficult to survive the boss phase 1 tank mechanic, even with 24kk health, there are times were i pop more than one cd, including shield wall, and he still takes about 70% of my health with the attack. Specially on bad rng where he starts inmediatly with the soak on the other tank, forcing me to some times eat 2 frontal cones before my own soak.
you can just spell reflect one frontal and not take any dmg
They removed the damage penalty from Dstance, so going to Bstance is losing like 15% free dr for... 3% crit. You can do it in raid to parse chimp but in keys its not worth
I do Bstance in raid, just play defansives on tank busters
on weeklys im also in Bstance unless it's a really hard pull
but damage increase is minimal
I mean if your taking 2 frontals your as tanks are doing something wrong, u jist taunt every cast and u can never get the same
Thank you
Make sure shield block is also up, vanquish has both a physical and a magic damage component
And yeah what Jakey said, there should never be a situation where you take 2 vanquishes
Thinking thats bloclable is funny
U should check the sheet
As tanks you gotta Taunt every mechanic
No way dont do this to me
conquer 1 - taunt - vanquish 1 - taunt - vanquish 2 - taunt - conquer 2
I coulda sworn
Check the sheet
There like 2 in the whole raid
That are blockable
Oh my god why
Wellll fuck you keep SB up anyways for shield slam damage bonus nerd
Thoughts on this route for a 16?
But that mechanic is ither aabb, bbaa, abba or baab, it can never be abab so taunting every cast works
4 will kill someone
Looks pretty standard, other than double architect on 4. That sucks
I take the snipers + soldiers/hyenas next to pull 1 and drag them into 2 once snipers are handled
embrace the crabs
we love crabs?
the only thing that bugs me about this gif is halondrus is standing on the water and not a beach
Thing is, the order its rng, quick, and taunt has an 8s cd. There was literally one time where one tank got the soak, i then pulled it from him, i got cleaved, he pulled it and then he got the second soak again, he had to adjust and run to my own group to soak it. Another time i got the first soak, he got the cleave, i pulled again, got the cleave, and then got the soak again because his taunt cd was still a little over 1s left when he casted.
Thats why we decided to then wait for soak before pulling, and remain with it until we got our own soak.
Some times giving us double cleave before soak.
Its designed to be a bit tight, you just taunt after the ability starts on the other tank
It wont swap mid cast
doesnt matter
taunt after every one
that's the way to go
and
taunt cd is good
cus inbetween
Its designed to be taunted every cast unless your really slow between the 2 of u there are no issues
Ye. Refer to my epic clip of my guilds first kill on heroic
(We are kinda bad but its okay)
The only issue with my raid clips is that I'm the raidlead so i have to listen to myself jabber on
That a problem?
I love rewatching my clips cuz they're hilarious
Love my own content 
I have the nasally voice of a token cartoon nerd nome
nobody likes their own voice
I don't hate mine
well narcissists do
Nome does it seems
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to be fair thats funny lol
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This one is just perfect foreshadowing
LMAO
LOL
hi i just started gearing my warrior, do i craft wep or shield first?
I raidlead because nobody else can be fucked to do callouts lol
shield
ive had so many of those happen
writhing armor band or duskthread
Ye I did the same thing back in SL
Generally you want both weapon + shield
shield, wep, then whatever item lvl is lowest
real men use pouch of grenades or whatever its called
the fantasy of randomly pulling a bomb out from behind your shield... peak
Me in cod:mw2 be like behind my riot shield
But what about a bad rng order?. Like, i get soak, he pulls and get cleave, then i pull and get soak again. Can't that happen?
Impossible
there's a preset of combinations
that the boss does
Maybe dumb question, but as earthen is stam or haste better with the ingest mineral racial?
if you taunt every time it resolves without going twice on the same tank
run those 4 patterns through your head with a taunt on each one, nobody gets the same one
Can spell reflect toward end of cast of frontal and it will deflect both frontals you happen to take two frontals in a row
stam is never better
ever
Ok 👌
They can’t eat normal food as far as I know right
yeah but
it doesnt matter how much it gives
im not saying stam is better
theres no benefit from going stam
just curious how much it gives
We want the heavy mastery raid ring?
Kinda depends what your other stats are
sim angle yea
But u dont need it for its efect ( if we talk about that ring)
Or that one is haste heavy ?
what types of damage are counted as cosmic damage
We sim 5 target patchwerk for that too?
m+ I mean
i mean sure but it doesnt matter
5 target patchwerk 1.5 mins or 1 min
if youre worried about raid loot, youre running droptimizer
Just sim ST and make your life easier
and if thats the case 1t 5min or 3min is fine
Is there a rough number of mastery we want to hit?
no
no
numbers are whatever sims suggest
Noted, thank you
theres no target points for secondaries
outside of 27k for haste
which should be your hard stop
Noted, thanks for the help. I just got the haste vers ring from Hard mode tasavesh, will help my
stats
tanking low keys is a certain type of hell that cant quite be described
The type of keys where you are 50% of the entire groups damage and nobody else uses a single kick or cc?
thats the one
Love those
Sadly such runs are even in higher keys ,people either dont CC or they all CC at once
if they ever put classic shadowlands in again i would probably play it
knowing all the things i know now
shadowlands owned
its like classic wow ( i dont play, cuz i played 2004 wow, before chained flight paths)
it was better in its final form where they released classic with the later patch
and shadowlands was slightyl more tolerable in final patch as well
hey guys does hekilli work for prot? like just for your basic damage rotation, I know defensive cooldowns and such should be managed separately
like, it would probably be absolute hell for developer, but theres so many dungeons at this point could have all of the keystones be from different old expansion, and you'd still never see repeats for weeks, hell cuz youd have to like tune them, add a curse to this pack remove a curse from that pack
I think wow has to focus on 1 or max 2 versions of the game
Like at the start of this season
Anniversary realms got Ahn Qiraj
MoP released
and that just splits up the playerbase
Another tuning without nerf
shadowlands with the ripcord pulled from the start and without conduit power slaps
shadowlands with a few months shaved off the middle patch too
Is 'Everforged Longsword" a good choice of 1H for crafting with spark ? 🙂
well, it seems that the people who thought it was harder to get 3k this season were not imagining things. I was mathing some math and apparently they reduced the score from 11 to 12 by 5 points, so every key 12 and higher actually gives 5 less points than last season
sure
any 1h is
Doesn't matter which everforged weapon you pick; they're the same
as long as it has strength
Yes, was about to say that XD
good to know, thanks for this info
another small question, not sure if this happens often or is it just me. Some times i taunt a boss for a swap mechanic while they are casting something, but they don't take the taunt and continue attacking their current target. anyone knows why this happens?. It happened to me several times both in phase 1 and when trying to pull it off the other tank on the bite/breath mechanic.
Suprised there is no prot warrior damage nerf. Expecting more tuning for sure on the top boys
they'll send us back to the dumpster soon enough
when was the last time we were dumpster lol
yeah im surprised
there are 0 nerfs in this tuning pass
the nerfs will come
they've only posted the buffs
If you’re being out DPS’d significantly, the taunt will only hold for a second or so as your aggro won’t be high enough.
last time shadowlands?
Like...S1 shadowlands? When every tank besides VDH "sucked" (but in reality everything was just overtuned and VDH was the best at kiting)
right, they targeted the floor, not the top
as they should generally do outside of egregiousness
Shadowlands S1 was genuinely one of the worst seasons of M+ I've ever played
right there next to SL S4 and DF S4
No idea about SL season 4, I left after S2 was nearly as bad. And after the sylvanas raid had drained my will to live
500 runs of necrotic wake and i only got the mount from the quantum box in dragonflight :(
sorry to remind everyone that that was five years ago
it happens in loomi
but dont worry too much about it
its just loomi and saladbar because the taunts are fast and have a tight window






