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jagged pier
pearl zinc
dry skiff
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sorry about the confusion this class in 2 days old xD power gearing my alts

jagged pier
lunar flare
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I rebound this to shift+scroll, took some re learning for a couple days but now I am a dirty scroll wheel IP gamer

fair sonnet
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could use double modifier for that though 🤔

somber hollow
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been playing war since wednesday, are there any other useful macros like ignore pain + shield slam?

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had to reroll fast from prot pala as our bdk kept ripping my aggro, trying to make it as easy as possible until i feel comfortable on it

spark patrol
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I strongly advise against macro IP with anything. You will end up in one of the 3 situations:

  1. not enough rage for SB or heal when you need it, which is worst case scenario
  2. no rage for revenge when both SS and TC are on cd, and you sit with 100 stack IP not using anything
  3. no rage to refresh IP between pulls in M+
jagged pier
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i think u miss understand the macro hes talking about

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u are macroing SS to IP

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it replaces your IP bind

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u still have a SS bind

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that macro just snipes SS resets when u press IP

slender bison
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The most important warrior macro in 2025 is /abandon keks

spark patrol
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In that case it does make sense, yes

jagged pier
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it never better because of this

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yep

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4% magic dr also not gunna do anthing

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otherwise we would have raved about spellbreaker

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we dont know

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they never say

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from what we can gather

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its im not dying i dont need it

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but they coose EA over it

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or bloodbourne

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which both provide less

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thant shield spec

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like we looked at Senses 18 gambit if he didnt have shield spec he would have taken like ~160k dps a second more basically

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slightly less because not accounting for crit blocks etc but close to that number

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a second tho

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5 seconds uve taken an extra 1 mill damage

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ish

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thats more mana being spent etc etc

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and that wasnt even looking into the extra damage the magic damage would do

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cause IP will stop less magic dam as your are taking more blockable damage

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bloodborune or EA

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yes

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I dont know where ppl are getting builds that dont have both but have bloodborune

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because thats not what we recommend

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better than most

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but BB is useless unless your colossus

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thats not providing u anything really

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your not buffing bleed damage like colossus

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ye

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right yer your not going to notice the bloodbournce difference

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thats a tiny part of your damage

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because your now taking more blockable damage because u dont have shield spec

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your IP now absorbs more damage

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that t wasnt before

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u never not taking shield spec, your actively making IP weakier against magic damage not taking it

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albeit a small amount it will do less against magic if u dont have shield spec

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its not the block chance we care about

finite harbor
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the block value is higher

jagged pier
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the block value

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u block 16% more blockable damage

finite harbor
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more blocked, less damage absorbed by IP, more IP to absorb magic damage

rugged plover
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Hia, not a warrior but rather a healer and I need some clarification - should a prot warrior be in battle stance for say 45% of a key (he's kinda taking giga damage and i feel like I'm putting a lot of healing into him). Sorry if this is not the place to ask.

jagged pier
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well if u dont have shield block up, which we dont sometimes because we odont have free uptime now

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it will give u more blocks when u dont have it up

rugged plover
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13, he's 710

jagged pier
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no

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he should just be in d stance

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its 20% reduced damage perma

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its dumb not to be in it

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in raid or low keys 10/11 lower

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sure perfectly fine

rugged plover
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thank you ❤️

jagged pier
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np

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thats fine

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thats means bloodborune isnt worse then because your arent running ITF as bleeds are hasted

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that very irrelevant

slender bison
rugged plover
viscid lantern
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can someone DM me the thane execute m+ build? Tyvm 🙂

jagged pier
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its on wowhead

viscid lantern
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which one?

jagged pier
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the weekly key build

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u can swap instigate for SD if u so wish

viscid lantern
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nice ty

fathom oasis
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basically these 3 talents I believe

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hmm, true

torpid dome
fathom oasis
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i think that's the wowhead build though? ill double check

torpid dome
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or is it more so a thing of "learn the pull, learn how much dmg you'll take there" kind of thing

jagged pier
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i think 3% crit is pointless outside of raid parsing

fathom oasis
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well, it's 20% less damage taken vs 1.5% more damage done right? sounds like you have to be cruising for it to be worth

torpid dome
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yeah that's an easy trade-off for the ease of mind lmao

fathom oasis
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many people just don't even want to devote brainpower to stance swapping and just stay in d-stance the whole key. If you want to min max you can always find a few moments in every key where damage taken is irrelevant and you can push a bit of damage

torpid dome
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makes sense

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I'll go into d-stance indeed

fathom oasis
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but then again, if you are not taking damage maybe you should just be pulling more instead of going b-stance 🙂

viscid lantern
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need to focus on zug zug

torpid dome
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pull bigger in d stance to increase dps

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just need to compare pulls so that DPS stays alive Pepexecute

fathom oasis
jagged pier
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parry and dodge before block

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i dont dont know how VDH works maybe u are just parrying the thing more on VDH out of luck

strong forum
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Vdh with good amount of crit has like 60% avoidance

slender bison
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You're taking 16% fel spikes parry too? VDH has crit stat too

strong forum
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Cuz vdh gets parry and dodge

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Don't forget dodge

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You have like 35% parry and 25% dodge with demon spikes up

slender bison
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Idk, current parry for warr is like 35% something based on crit rating in optimal gear

strong forum
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Correct

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Vdh is the only tank that has both parry and dodge, usually it's str tanks get parry, and agi tanks get dodge

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Si

fathom oasis
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shockwave into heroic leap xd

slender bison
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It's same issue we had with Taskmaster orc in Motherlode

fathom oasis
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those bastards charge at you, too

slender bison
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Honestly, you shouldn't have more than 3 of those guys in the whole route

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This pull is a mess 15+

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Just fly, it takes 10 sec after church pull

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It's a S1 archaic pull

fathom oasis
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i've been trying this out:

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it's a bit of a mess routing wise, but flying lets you route whatever

slender bison
fathom oasis
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yeah, that pull 6 is nightmare fuel

slender bison
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Guessing you do 9 and heroic leap to 10 after shades are dead, but DPS is exhausted so it's basically wasting time

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3 mobs pack pulls are illegal unless you do 8s

fathom oasis
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CDs are kinda spent after miniboss in 8, but yeah that's the idea

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i stole it from someone here, actually

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wouldn't be able to recall who

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i was doing 6 like this before

slender bison
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Ask for key level. As lots of priory 2 knights maps were passed around there last season

fathom oasis
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13 range

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which is kinda where im at

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always open to trying to stuff out anyways, love the suggestions

slender bison
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11 sucks if the patrol is all the way on the other side when you land so you have to chase after them and lose aggro

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Also you do 10 which is a hard fight, then 11 another hard one and then the big boss. Use 8 as break pull after 10 then do boss

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And 6 is brutal to do as DPS won't have CDs for the church boss

solid sun
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Tank died to melees during Heroic Fraccy-T. I suspect it was due to not having shield block up but how would I verify that in a log?

high latch
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I'm saying this from the top of my head, so let me know if that's not quite right and I'll check exactly what the different tabs are called.

vast mulch
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Does anyone have any good routes they swear by on keystone guru? I tend to use the pug friendly and they’re not as pug friendly as I hope

high latch
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I think some of the most common go-tos are Quaziis, Yodas and Tactyks. But there are lots to choose from.

coral crane
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Definitely recommend those 3

solid sun
high latch
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Yeah probably. Sounds like an element they would hide if your screen is too small. You can link me the log in a DM or something if you want me to check.

urban bane
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you can also check under the deaths screen what buffs they had up when they died

lusty grotto
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☝️

high latch
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That's easier than how I usually do it.

chrome falcon
carmine topaz
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I'm still at 2set so I switched to colossus until the reset. How much do I need to rethink my life if revenge was my 2nd most damaging ability followed by Brand of Ceasless Ire and only then Shield Slam ><

lusty grotto
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demolish should be higher

chrome falcon
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well they said 2nd most

lusty grotto
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but that doesnt seem too far off

chrome falcon
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so i assume that means demolish was top

carmine topaz
lusty grotto
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yeah yeah

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thats fine then

undone beacon
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Sounds about right, Brand does a lot of damage

carmine topaz
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this was in a priory 10

ionic umbra
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!macro

lusty grotto
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yup that's a good starting breakdown

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just gotta come to terms with colossus lack of snap agro until you get 4pc

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if you didnt play s2, that is

plush tendon
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I like this

carmine topaz
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last time I played warrior was in BFA lol, and not much either

lusty grotto
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but that breakdown seems pretty decently correct

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just get 4pc next reset

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and swap

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thane is more akin to BFA prot

lunar flare
lusty grotto
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colossus is basically legion prot

lunar flare
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So I now split it in two parts just in case

carmine topaz
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yeah, cant wait for the reset, was really sad when I couldnt get a token from LRF or Normal or HC

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the dreaded 3/4

lunar flare
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Where do you tank it? Maybe I'm setting the group up to fail

lusty grotto
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right in the middle

pulsar epoch
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guys im new to prot war do we mainly play battle stance or balanced or defensive?

lusty grotto
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i also have never seen that

plush tendon
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yea, literally where the 6 is

lunar flare
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Yeah that's what I do, so idk what's happening

lusty grotto
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always in defensive stance

plush tendon
lusty grotto
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you only do battle stance if youre parsing specifically in raids when youre not actively tanking the boss or adds

plush tendon
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not being mindful of where they are standing?

lunar flare
pulsar epoch
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thank you a lot

lusty grotto
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just pull it back if youre woried about body pulls

plush tendon
lunar flare
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Yeah but people spaz out on the stairs too, I try to avoid any ramp style surface where the purple circles clip through

plush tendon
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more like player error

lunar flare
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I can dodge them, others cant

lusty grotto
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you cant fix that

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thats on them

plush tendon
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oooo, Nim, Im starting my resto shaman healer journey

lunar flare
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You're right, but I want to do everything within my (reasonable) control to prevent them spazzing out

lusty grotto
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thats out of your control

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period

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just go agane

plush tendon
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what key level are we at anyway?

lunar flare
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13

lusty grotto
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lol

plush tendon
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so yea, a couple of mistakes wont kill the key

lusty grotto
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if people are fucking up on that specific pull at 13...

plush tendon
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but thats a standard pull

lusty grotto
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you dont want to send them up

lunar flare
plush tendon
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wondering how the hell someone made it that far

lusty grotto
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they will learn more by you not accomodating for their mistakes

lunar flare
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I just had someone die 4 times to circles in floodgate and every time its "there was terrain i got stuck on" "that was a bug" etc

plush tendon
lusty grotto
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tbf

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i do believe the terrain shit

lunar flare
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Yes, once or twice

lusty grotto
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ML was ridiculous with the signs

lunar flare
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I deffo got stuck on random shit in ML

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I hated that place

plush tendon
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I had someone die to the electric pool on the second pull of Floodgate

lusty grotto
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LOL

lunar flare
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How

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Is that possible

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Disengaged in?

lusty grotto
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that def hasnt happened to me while leaping

plush tendon
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naw, they just walked into it

lusty grotto
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ever

plush tendon
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for uptime or something

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idk

lusty grotto
plush tendon
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people do stupid shit all the time

lunar flare
plush tendon
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it was also a guildie.... but its fine

lunar flare
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At least then u can laugh about it

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It's funny if a friend does it

plush tendon
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im about to terrorize some weekly keys on my newly minted resto shaman

lusty grotto
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best of luck Augusto

lunar flare
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God speed

plush tendon
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from my guild

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actually pretty funny

lusty grotto
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speaking of which i had a rsham nuke a 14 HOA last night, perfect run, motherfucker died to last boss statue move

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just before the soak

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LOL

plush tendon
lunar flare
plush tendon
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HoA needs a nerf to the count/mob health %/and the obliterators

lunar flare
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Am I going mad, but I swear in Shadowlands HoA you just like...went invis after first boss and went straight to the stairs to second boss?

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I'm not imagining that right

lusty grotto
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no

lunar flare
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I don't remember halls being so...dense

lusty grotto
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i remember that

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and i didnt play that much on SL

plush tendon
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the upped the % required

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heck, we even had bats

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to do big damage

lusty grotto
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oh true

lunar flare
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Oh yeah you had venthyr control them

lusty grotto
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holy i had forgotten about those

lunar flare
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"any vent"

plush tendon
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having a Venthyr was required for every group

lusty grotto
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the garg MC?

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ye

lunar flare
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same with lanterns in sanguine depths right

plush tendon
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SD and HoA buffs were goated

lusty grotto
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yup

lunar flare
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I feel like the gargoyles take forever to kill and give like

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No count

plush tendon
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they also need to nerf the % on Ara

lusty grotto
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you dont pull gargs

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because of that reason

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unless you can combo into bosses

plush tendon
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I will never forgive the playerbase for choosing Ara as a dungeon for this season

lunar flare
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Yes I am now realising that, I just struggle with halls generally so its a weak point for me

chrome falcon
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it's actually really cool to do 50% less damage

plush tendon
chrome falcon
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yeah it's awful

lusty grotto
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fucking dogshit dungeon for sure

plush tendon
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we couldve had Cinderbrew or like a updated Stonevault

lunar flare
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Ara kara was fine in s1, what happened

chrome falcon
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there are like 4 pulls in that dungeon that are almost good

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and then they put a 50% DR mob in there

lunar flare
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Give me autistic robot dwarf dungeon again

chrome falcon
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ara kara was always awful for anything other than a weekly 10

plush tendon
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People liked Ara in S1 just because of Sac Brood

chrome falcon
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but the average person voting in that poll was a weekly 10 andy

lunar flare
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I mean yeah it's always a bit meh, but it was better than whatever it is now

plush tendon
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which has been, and will always be, a mid trinket at best

chrome falcon
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yeah

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just the most boring stat stick in existence

lunar flare
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Last time they let people vote for dungeons we got fucking grimrail in SL S4

plush tendon
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Cinderbrew and Stonevault wouldve been so much better

lunar flare
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Why do they do it

chrome falcon
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grimrail was a good dungeon

lunar flare
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Take that back

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Immediately

chrome falcon
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grimrail was unironically a good m+

fallen marlin
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S1 dungeons was so f hard,s3 are so easy if you ask me

chrome falcon
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tanks are just stronger now

lunar flare
plush tendon
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I would say the dungeons are easier right now... but we had the dogshit that is Mist and that one Cata dungeon in season 1

chrome falcon
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grimrail was a good m+ and every single patch should have a similar dungeon

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that is just short and linear

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not every dungeon needs a 40 minute timer and 18 different patrols to avoid/pull

plush tendon
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and Necrotic Wake

lunar flare
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Yeah I'm all for linear short dungeons 100%, just not ones where my camera is going mental

plush tendon
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honestly, fuck those places

lunar flare
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I enjoyed ruby life pools

plush tendon
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I did as well

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only healers hated that place

lunar flare
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And the funny sideways mounted up bug

plush tendon
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or people who didnt understand how last boss worked

lunar flare
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I swear if they bring back azure vault in midnight

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I will be most upset

plush tendon
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I like Azure

chrome falcon
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does anyone else think m+ should have no patrols ever

lunar flare
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Yes

chrome falcon
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or is that an extremist opinion

lunar flare
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No patrols, or things that run off and socially aggro other things

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Or teleporting lizards

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Bin them all

chrome falcon
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patrols are just like

weak bronze
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Man I am having the hardest time picking a tank between the prots

chrome falcon
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oh lmao you don't have a rogue and this patrol is wrong? yeah you lose 30 seconds buddy

lunar flare
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Yes that is irritating

weak bronze
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I am healing on shaman dps on lock don’t got time anymore kruthers

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Kruthers

lunar flare
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huh

lusty grotto
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is that

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english

weak bronze
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Is snap aggro still a huge issue. Sorry phone corrects my dumb ass saying

lusty grotto
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for thane it never was

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for colossus it remains

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but you play thane with 4pc

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the only issue is target caps but you can easily get around it

plush tendon
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aggro is not really a issue for prot

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Thunderblast cranks

harsh trellis
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all the time

plush tendon
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aggro can be a bit spooky if you dont have a thunderblast or Avatar at the start of a pull

harsh trellis
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it just happens all the time

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the only time aggro is an issue is if you have a pack.. and then some ranged dps just sits out in the back field blasting away at the one ranged mob that needs a kick but nobody kicks

weak bronze
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Hmmm

lusty grotto
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its a target cap issue if agro is an issue

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and/or being vastly outgeared

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like always

harsh trellis
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Also... I freaking love running spear with thane now

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especially on gambit

plush tendon
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Spear is too much work

harsh trellis
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not at all

plush tendon
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DRoar is up more often

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and I just press

lusty grotto
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spear is a good call for the first part

plush tendon
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are you holding spear for when little dudes start running?k

lusty grotto
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i should def try it

lunar flare
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Ooh

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That's not a bad idea

harsh trellis
plush tendon
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eh, Ill prob keep playing Droar

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Gambit first area im out of in like 3 minutes

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the scariest thing there is pufferfish in the water

harsh trellis
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I think the only key that gives me any sort of meh feeling is HoA

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the rest of the dungeons this season are very chill

lunar flare
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I really like Eco Dome, it's probs my fave

harsh trellis
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eco dome is nice

lunar flare
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I like any dungeon with grass

lusty grotto
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LOL

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grass makes everything better, you say?

lunar flare
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Hell yeah

harsh trellis
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I have my reservations about all of the animal quests we are doing on the side

plush tendon
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Eco is good, Gambit has always been fun, Streets... well its been turbo nerfed so hard to have a opinion now

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Priory has grown on me a little

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HoA is fun... but the timer and trash count is out of whack

lunar flare
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Priory is decent, feels quite reasonable, at least at the level I'm at

plush tendon
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Ara Kara can go to hell

undone beacon
plush tendon
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and Dawnbreaker is good minus the bugs that people get

lusty grotto
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dawn breaker boats still buggy as fuck, ara kara bloodguards make everything ass, hoa kicks/runners/garg body pulls/eviscerators are aids

lunar flare
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Rest is fine

plush tendon
frosty mango
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A little late to the party but for aggro, once you get to a key level where your dps are consistently cranking you really need to game thunder blast procs and avatar when pulling

frosty mango
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If you go into a new pull with no blast up you will 100% lose threat

plush tendon
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no thunderblast makes me a sad panda

lusty grotto
harsh trellis
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(taking down notes on how to intentionally kill the demon hunter in group)

lunar flare
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You don't need notes

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He will find a way

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To do it himself

harsh trellis
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lol

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then bitch

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and complain

jagged pier
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didnt even do grimrail at the lvl to get portal cause i already had it

lunar flare
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Always

jagged pier
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from WoD

harsh trellis
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22 mins under a 30 min key, he dies on last boss. starts /abandon

lusty grotto
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grimrail was fucking ass

plush tendon
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I dont think we had dungeon portals from WoD

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did we?

lusty grotto
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CM

lunar flare
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Maybe challenge mode or something?

lusty grotto
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yes we did

lunar flare
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Ye

jagged pier
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yer CMs gave them

plush tendon
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oh, I was a noob in WoD still

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I hung out in my garrison

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with my army of alts

jagged pier
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bis content

plush tendon
lunar flare
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I've watched so many videos on the cut content from that expansion

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Could have been so sick

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If they just

plush tendon
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I had a lot of fun in WoD

lunar flare
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...made stuff

plush tendon
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I liked my garrison

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and raid logging worked fine for me

jagged pier
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housing gunna be goated

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expect cant make gold in them

plush tendon
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dude, so excited for housing

lunar flare
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Give me AH vendor in my player house and then I never have to sit in Dornogal and hear earthen yawning ever again

plush tendon
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Im going to be the head of my guild HoA

harsh trellis
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people upset that neighborhoods can be horde or alliance only

fathom oasis
undone beacon
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oh guys i found a new epic bug in streets on oasis in the first add wave

plush tendon
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make sure everyone follows the rules of the neighborhood

fathom oasis
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trying to get a consistent route for the area after halkias is such a headache

lunar flare
lusty grotto
harsh trellis
lunar flare
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Or looking at things the wrong way

harsh trellis
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omg

plush tendon
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pull it all

lunar flare
undone beacon
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They key was bricked anyways because we were all blasted off our ass but like... lmao very cool oasis

plush tendon
fathom oasis
plush tendon
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the anklebiters

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so you want lust

plush tendon
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or pull a different one

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not a huge deal

ionic umbra
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!wa

lusty grotto
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gargoyles are banned

fathom oasis
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that's what i mean though

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why have a patrol that cover the whole area

chrome falcon
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i don't even have grimrail in the bottom half of all dungeons for me

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basically just 25 minutes of nonstop combat

fathom oasis
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i like consistent routes, and that's why i dislike patrols

chrome falcon
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those shaman mobs were bad for sure

undone beacon
chrome falcon
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and the last boss was horrifically overtuned for a long while

lusty grotto
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we're not talking about difficulty

lunar flare
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Everyone knows the worst dungeon is, by far, De other Side

fathom oasis
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specially one were the mob can literally go invulnerable for 20s lol

lusty grotto
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matta

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it was just ass

chrome falcon
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yeah i know

round pendant
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did someone say HoA is the only meh dungeon

chrome falcon
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i liked it

undone beacon
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Clearly someone didnt have the glory of dropping a Resonating Arrow on a pack and then hiding behind boxes and spamming Aimed Shot

round pendant
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I disrespectfully disagree

chrome falcon
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i don't need to be mentally overworked by knowing a r oute every run

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grimrail you just walked in, pulled every pack but 1 and walked to the end

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i am pro grimrail based on that aspect of the design alone

lunar flare
#

On a scale of 1-10 how grim is grimrail

chrome falcon
#

the camera angles were obviously objectively bad

lusty grotto
#

yes thats why it was bad

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its not because it was press W

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or because it was hard

fathom oasis
#

i like my grim at 10, bring back s1 grim batol

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before the recolors

#

tentacle fiesta

lunar flare
#

Deadmines M+ is the only thing I want in this life

lusty grotto
#

it was because the camera was aids, the bugs on 2nd boss were aids, the body pulls on the big guy were aids

lunar flare
#

Ion H pls listen to me

round pendant
#

(from happiness)

lusty grotto
#

the dreadlord pull was pretty cool on the 1st boss at least

lunar flare
lusty grotto
#

iykyk

chrome falcon
#

oh we did have dreadlords in that season didn't we

#

that was an affix for sure

round pendant
#

worst keys this season are dawn and ara-kara btw

fathom oasis
#

was deadmines ever in the m+ pool?

lunar flare
#

No

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But it SHOULD BE

chrome falcon
round pendant
#

have we even see anything pre-cata in m+?

lusty grotto
#

no

lunar flare
#

Nah I think cata is as far back as they go

frosty mango
chrome falcon
#

nothing pre cata no

round pendant
#

tho didn't deadmines get reworked in cata

lusty grotto
#

yes

lunar flare
#

Yes, so it's technically on the table

fathom oasis
#

it did

#

last boss is like 5 bosses

chrome falcon
#

"reworked" in the sense that they changed mobs

round pendant
#

I prefer og deadmines though

chrome falcon
#

it's still architecturally the same place

lusty grotto
#

i dont think there's been a rework that changes architecture

fathom oasis
#

wailing caverns

lusty grotto
#

uhhh...

undone beacon
#

Or combining it I guess

round pendant
#

gimme a s4 that's like entirely classic dungeons

fathom oasis
#

yeah, sm changed quite radically on mop too

frosty mango
#

I don’t think they will do tw deadmines bc the dungeon design wasn’t built with that in mind…they really didn’t start thinking about how dungeon design factors into play before like cata…..mop really

chrome falcon
#

yeah MoP scarlet monastery has new architecture right

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or maybe im crazy

lusty grotto
#

not really

#

it was just split/combined

chrome falcon
#

nah i guess they just added boxes and stuff

lusty grotto
#

when it comes to assets its the same ones

#

so architectural changes were instance based

chrome falcon
frosty mango
#

Like deadmines has tons of choke points so people would literally just do massive pulls and then Los them to a choke point and aoe them into the ground

chrome falcon
#

17 packs of mages spamming fireball and pirates spamming Shoot

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an entire dungeon like the start of priory

fathom oasis
#

herod went from being at the end, to being in the middle, many hallways were discarded, rooms slightly changed

fathom oasis
#

i think scholomance may have had some rerouting too

round pendant
#

everything from mob behaviour to timer can be adjusted to make it a good experience

frosty mango
round pendant
#

There's a reason those old classic dungeons are the most memorable

undone beacon
#

I want a season that is Seat of the Trium, Cathedral of Eternal Night, Tol'Dagor, Grimrail Depot, Auchindoun, City of Threads, Siege of Niuzao Temple, and idk Uldaman

#

God's best season

round pendant
#

and it's not cause I played them as a kid, because I didn't

lusty grotto
round pendant
#

already got you there nim

lusty grotto
#

which is not good for M+

#

im with Roid, those dungeons are no bueno for keys

fathom oasis
#

siege of niuzao RP 🤢

frosty mango
#

Don’t even joke

chrome falcon
#

i'd fuck with auchindoun

lusty grotto
#

bear doing some fishing i see

chrome falcon
#

and cathedral

frosty mango
#

I dunno imo anything pre mop would be ass for m+

lusty grotto
#

give me new dungeons

chrome falcon
#

i assume we mean WoD auchindoun

round pendant
#

Nah my praise of classic dungeons is about how freeform they are, you can argue that's antithetical to m+ but I don't necessarily think it has to be

lusty grotto
#

flood and ecodome are bangers

#

new dungeons please

#

not the same old

chrome falcon
#

ecodome owns definitely

undone beacon
lusty grotto
#

unless its grim batol levels of redesign

#

which is good

chrome falcon
#

i'm glad we're not doing megadungeons again

lofty warren
#

Eco domed gives me hope that they can make new dungeons that aren't 💩

chrome falcon
#

new dungeons on average are always the best

round pendant
#

yeah flood and eco give me hope for next expansion's dungeons being 8/8 bangers

frosty mango
#

Well they made city of threads recently too

#

So

chrome falcon
#

megadungeons being garbage for m+ is an exception

frosty mango
#

Don’t get your hopes up

lusty grotto
fathom oasis
#

last boss aside, i unironically enjoyed grim batol in S1

chrome falcon
neon elk
#

Tbf i hate ecodome because if those annoying little shits jumping and porting evrrywhere rvery other gcd..

round pendant
lofty warren
#

Cot and stonevault so bad

round pendant
#

I liked stonevault

chrome falcon
#

i don't know why people hated stonevault

#

corridors full of mobs

chrome falcon
#

peak dungeon design

undone beacon
#

Flood and Eco-Dome are banger dungeons. Half the initial dungeons felt like they were designed to be done once as a story experience and then never again tbh

lusty grotto
#

they hated the heal checks

fathom oasis
#

i enjoy current state tazavesh too

lusty grotto
#

im guessing

undone beacon
#

Like, CoT did not feel like it was designed for M+

fathom oasis
#

idk if it's over-nerfed

lusty grotto
#

but the dungeon is fine

chrome falcon
#

most people who pushed CoT agreed that it was a good high key

#

the RP section is just a fucking crime against m+

lofty warren
#

The last room before last boss stonevault and the casters that fear before boss 1 so aids in stonevault

lusty grotto
#

it was good after the heal checks were adjusted

fathom oasis
#

RP sections are good (imo) if you can route them while you do other stuff

round pendant
#

is anyone else struggling 3rd pull in 2nd boss room priory this season btw

fathom oasis
#

like

#

optimizing the trading in Streets

lusty grotto
#

pepega hasnt tried spell reflecting

round pendant
#

last season it was np and this season it's just destroying my groups

chrome falcon
round pendant
#

(it's the casters)

lofty warren
#

Hope they never bring back stonevault it's down in the f tier with kings rest

fathom oasis
#

like sending someone to start it while you gather up stuff in mail room

lusty grotto
#

grim batol and SV are A tier, sorry pepega your time is up in Skyhold, time to move on

undone beacon
#

My favorite thing in streets is going up to last boss and then sticking my thumb up my butt for 30 seconds for RP

lusty grotto
#

off to fel hammer with you

chrome falcon
#

grim batol was good generally but had some real issues

frosty mango
lofty warren
#

Its not even as low of that one bfa dungeon where you had to death run where the 3rd boss mind controls someone

frosty mango
#

They need to use defensives for the triple toll and the healer needs to be prepped, or they’re gonna fall over

fathom oasis
#

like soleah's gambit, constantly staring at the air wating for a portal

chrome falcon
#

challenge modes specifically had this kind of RP turned off

#

i don't know why m+ aren't the same

undone beacon
#

speak for yourself, thats the perfect time to do a shot or take a bite of mongolian beef or

fathom oasis
chrome falcon
#

if i'm ever not hitting mobs for more than 10 seconds it's a total failure

chrome falcon
round pendant
#

if I'm tanking I put in work saving that pull and it's still a struggle

#

but on my rogue it's just.. never good

fathom oasis
undone beacon
round pendant
#

I feel like you shouldn't need perfect coordination like that in a 12 or you wipe but eh

#

I might just do left-left and right-right instead of left-right left-right

chrome falcon
#

yes

#

you should do that

#

the second left + right pack

round pendant
#

that way it's 2 packs of 3 casters instead of 2 casters into 4 casters

chrome falcon
#

is like 5 casters or something absurd

undone beacon
#

I just chain back and forth based on how many casters are still alive and how much i hate my healer

lofty warren
#

Do all shamans have poison removing totem and how fast does it remove? In ara Kara ppl are bleeding out during poison debuff in my 14 failed attempt

chrome falcon
#

4 casters without extreme co-ordination is extremely illegal

round pendant
#

not to mention we had a shadow priest

fathom oasis
#

sometimes you need to poke your head at the ones waiting upstairs and throw an axe at their face, you know?

lusty grotto
undone beacon
#

Let me edit an explosion onto it so your hunger goes away or smthn

round pendant
#

god I spent ages making a chat addon and then the baganator guy just made one that's better like a month later

#

life is too hard

lusty grotto
#

ill just have 2nd breakfast

#

sorry brunch

#

sorry idk what its called these days

dawn shoal
#

What hurts so badly about the blood warper pull after big momma?

frosty mango
#

Still a dps issue lol

frosty mango
#

Unless you’re a monk then you just press chiji

lusty grotto
#

the only thing that hurts us in that dungeon are the dot stacks not being dispelled

chrome falcon
#

huge amount of damage + healing absorb

#

neither of which we can really do much against

#

plus the soldier debuffs

dawn shoal
chrome falcon
#

you're basically a dps on that pull taking a shitload of magic damage

#

and your healer has no time to help you

#

plus you might be low on CDs after big momma

frosty mango
#

Similar to the sentinels in eco the bloodwarper should be getting hard burned down with funnel

lusty grotto
frosty mango
#

It shouldn’t get more than one warp cast off

chrome falcon
#

when were you guys going to tell me you can outrange the sentinels arcane slash btw

#

i've been facetanking those on 18s

lusty grotto
#

sir

#

its in the sheet

#

youre supposed to check it

frosty mango
round pendant
frosty mango
#

That’s true for basically all frontal cones

dawn shoal
#

It’s weird because on VDH I just never feel anything besides the swamp face hits

chrome falcon
#

i check this stuff with my face

dawn shoal
#

It’s a very different feeling having that much less self heal

chrome falcon
#

i'm a feeder not a follower

#

man eco dome got way easier when i realised that was outrangeable now it's chill as fuck

frosty mango
#

Notable exception is the halls last boss which has seemingly infinite range on its frontal

round pendant
#

On sin rogue in pugs I started prioing casters and my keys are going smoother cause no one kicks em

#

so I just kill em

#

but idk if that's actually good

#

it's good when you got a fdk with 4 kicks in the entire key

frosty mango
#

I play dk/arcane/dh for those keys and the arc and dh just melt the prio mobs

#

Nothing better than watching an arcane mage completely melt a sentinel in eco dome in like 4 seconds

round pendant
#

yeah it feels good when you feel your funnel working

undone beacon
frosty mango
#

Eco is also a great dungeon for getting trash into bosses

frosty mango
lusty grotto
round pendant
#

I just hate how I feel like as pwar I'm carrying the group sometimes

ionic nimbus
frosty mango
#

I play pwar/rsham/dk/arcane/dh for prio dungeons and I swap the arcane for ret on aoe dungeons

#

That’s been my best performing comp by far this season

round pendant
#

yeah dk + dh is just good this season it feels

#

sham is always nice with pwar

frosty mango
#

Triple melee cleave in halls is great

lusty grotto
#

and with hdh

ionic nimbus
frosty mango
#

There’s very little hard prio there so having the ret over the arcane means you have three dps sending 20m+ on aoe packs

solid sun
#

Roid

frosty mango
#

I didn’t do it

solid sun
#

How are you pulling trash into bosses in eco

#

All of the bosses are locked

lusty grotto
#

no

round pendant
#

first boss prob not right

lusty grotto
#

you can pull trash unto all 3

round pendant
#

wtf are you pulling to 1?

harsh trellis
round pendant
#

oh right

lusty grotto
#

first boss the 2 coneheads, 2nd boss just kill mid pack to activate before the rest of the trash

round pendant
#

yeah that's prob worth with funnel boys in your comp

#

I've been griefing my shp friend

lusty grotto
#

3rd boss you can pull the phase dudes if you want to

solid sun
#

Don’t they die in like 4 seconds

harsh trellis
#

2nd boss i pull the 2 casters on the left into it.

frosty mango
#

First boss you grab the two dog guys at the gate and drag them in

Second boss you pull the two pack pat to the left of the boss for first phase, then the pack on the hill after intermission, third boss you grab the 2 phase blades in

solid sun
#

How much funnel do they provide

round pendant
#

a lot

solid sun
#

If they die super fast how

frosty mango
lusty grotto
#

anything you can pull into a boss is high value

frosty mango
#

The dogs on first boss live for like 2 mins

#

Usually

lusty grotto
#

sir they are coneheads

round pendant
#

for sin, having some trash like doubles the damage you to do the boss for the duration they're alive

chrome falcon
#

those are dogs

#

gargons in halls are also dogs

solid sun
#

They don’t have four legs

#

Need four legs to be dogs

frosty mango
solid sun
#

So what’s correctly

chrome falcon
#

don't hit them

lusty grotto
#

dont kill them

frosty mango
#

Not blowing them up

solid sun
#

Because I’ll need to coach the squad

chrome falcon
#

unless you're funnelling off them

harsh trellis
round pendant
#

that's kinda hard for some specs

harsh trellis
#

Thats it

solid sun
#

Yeah but like is it as simple as not targeting them

harsh trellis
#

The dh will challenge you

#

They will need to dps

lusty grotto
#

the dh needs to hit them

#

they need glaive up for funnel

#

thats not a bad thing

chrome falcon
#

the boss is huge

#

melee that can't avoid cleaving can go stand behind it

solid sun
#

Wait so the dps that don’t funnel are expected to not cleave the coneheads

round pendant
#

yes

solid sun
#

Like not even a little bit

chrome falcon
#

yes that's the point

#

why would they hit them

#

they do nothing

round pendant
#

you'll never have this work in a pug tho

lunar flare
solid sun
#

My assumption is like a BM Hunter is going to cleave them

#

Because their pets stomp in an aoe

#

And I don’t think a BM Hunter is a funnel spec

#

But I also only play pwar and brew

round pendant
#

BM funnels a lil afaik

#

they barb shot the trash

#

and get more damage on boss

cunning summit
#

@.yoloswagginz

solid sun
#

What about ret paladins

#

Are they considered a funnel spec

lusty grotto
#

no

lunar flare
#

I keep seeing the word funnel at lot since starting to tank but I have no idea what is a funnel spec and what isn’t

#

I just pull stuff into the boss and assume I’m doing good

chrome falcon
#

dh shadowpriest rogue are the big ones

#

arcane mage (?) i think also

solid sun
#

Well tbf

#

I feel like it’s the dps players’ jobs to know what to do

#

It isn’t really our job imo

chrome falcon
#

you are a tank

#

everything is your job

solid sun
#

But we can provide them mobs to funnel with

#

Nah that’s silly

chrome falcon
#

sure

#

it's also realistic

solid sun
#

I don’t play that game most of the time

nocturne spindle
#

Dh is funnel now

solid sun
#

One of the main reasons there’s such a tank shortage is people don’t want all the responsibility

#

We should encourage that to change

chrome falcon
#

sure i wish

solid sun
#

Dps players can have responsibilities and things they need to know, too

chrome falcon
#

i'd push title if i didn't have to do 90% of the work

round pendant
#

But a lot of it is on the tank sure

#

but you don't need a good tank for <12s

#

almost any yolo route works

#

it's actually bad dps players griefing those keys

solid sun
#

There’s no reason the tank has to do 90% of the work.

#

The tank doesn’t have to make the route

#

Happy doesn’t

#

The tank doesn’t have to know what funnels and what doesn’t

chrome falcon
#

it's very logical that the tank decides those things in a pug environment

#

you want 3 dps and a healer telling you what to pull before every run?

solid sun
#

They already do

round pendant
#

and again, you don't HAVE to know what funnels and what doesn't for <12s lol

solid sun
#

IE aggressively pinging things

regal yarrow
#

How is the visual indicator for blood pools on the second boss of halls of atonement not showing still broken?? It's kind of an important one to not make an incredibly frustrating key

carmine topaz
#

Can anybody tell me if I'm able to create a little weakaura for myself to track Ignore Pain shield amount with a progress bar specifically? Just using the ui options given by WA, no custom LUA code

round pendant
chrome falcon
#

whether IP is up or not should never factor in your decision making

carmine topaz
#

really?

chrome falcon
#

yes

round pendant
#

It's not complicated

regal yarrow
#

If you're worried about your IP your haste is probably way too low

solid sun
#

If you’re worried about IP you’re worrying about the wrong things. It’s a rage dump.

carmine topaz
#

I'm worried about uptime

chrome falcon
#

don't be.

#

you press the button when you have an excess of rage (all the time)

regal yarrow
#

If you have enough haste, ignore pain is at minimum between every second GCD

solid sun
#

Idk what you’re on about

undone beacon
carmine topaz
#

All good, I'm very very new to tanking and just looking to absorb all the info I can

#

VO?

chrome falcon
#

outburst

carmine topaz
#

oh violent outburst

#

got ya

chrome falcon
#

just play prot like a dps most of the time

#

every rage you overcap is bad

#

press ignore pain to avoid overcapping

viral jackal
#

Why does everyone say "sim your character to see what stats are best"

but then you go to raidbots and use the stats and raidbots is like "we strongly advise against using stat sims"

Should I just ignore raidbots message?

regal yarrow
#

If you log your runs you can check your block percentage by looking at your damage taken and hovering over melee hits. The best players are blocking 80-85% of attacks

round pendant
#

Rage above 70? IP (if SS/Tclap are usable, otherwise you could use revenge)

jagged pier
#

low 90s u can get too for sure

#

80-85% seems a bit low tbh

carmine topaz
#

yeah, I've set up warcraft logs and check runs frequently with wowanalyzer even thought it's not updated for the specifics of the spec yet

chrome falcon
#

prot warrior literally has 3 rules:

  1. keep shield block up (don't back tank)
  2. use defensives on big unavoidable hits
  3. maximise rage generated and rage spent
regal yarrow
#

Top runs have been 75-80 up until this season.

chrome falcon
#

the text on ignore pain is basically just "spend 35 rage"

round pendant
frigid plume
jagged pier
#

bro no u had free 95% blocked hits because of tier sets

carmine topaz
#

I made myself a weakaura to ping an annoying sound whenever I have enough rage, a shield block stack and no shield block up

carmine topaz
round pendant
#

Basically, got a drop? sim it with top gear to see if it's better

regal yarrow
#

Vicentius has 70% of attacks blocked in his 18 ara-kara.

chrome falcon
round pendant
#

or use droptimizer to see what pieces of gear from the content you're about to do are worth rolling on

jagged pier
#

then thats bad

chrome falcon
#

put me in an 18 ara kara with that group and i'll be 85% minimum

round pendant
round pendant
#

82.26%

chrome falcon
#

82%

jagged pier
#

what r u smoking he has 82%

chrome falcon
#

hover over "Hits" (2486)

round pendant
#

Nah everyone makes this mistake at first

chrome falcon
#

68% of his damage taken from melee swings was blocked

#

but that's not the same as the raw number of hits blocked

jagged pier
#

which is still down from last season

chrome falcon
#

yeah that's still pretty low

jagged pier
#

last season you would get 92+

#

i mean tbf aras a dungeon with a lot of back hits

#

when gathering

chrome falcon
#

yes

mellow bridge
#

11% not blocked while SB is up

#

smh

jagged pier
#

his echo is 87% which is much better

#

im pretty sure with really trying u can get over 90% but good would be 85% +

#

lower than that its back hits or not managing

#

or both

mellow bridge
#

my priory yep

chrome falcon
#

easy to get hit in the back in ara kara

mellow bridge
#

ara-kara is pretty bad for backhits

#

i was at like 89% there too in my run

chrome falcon
#

bloods on last boss, grouping before first boss

lofty warren
#

How does the ur healer keep up with poison dot on ara Kara first area?

round pendant
#

I've not looked at my blocked % this season

#

time to humble myself

chrome falcon
#

don't pull 800 engorged crawlers

high latch
round pendant
#

anything more = scary

chrome falcon
#

^ depending on how many poison dispels you have

#

if you have a shaman and a ret paladin go crazy

round pendant
#

oh nvm I guess I'm doing alright

lofty warren
#

Can dps sham dispel too?

high latch
#

Only if they have totem talented

#

And it has a long CD

round pendant
#

I'm happy with 92% considering how often I feel like I'm fucking up SB management since this is the first season I've had to think about it

lofty warren
#

Ok ty

tardy juniper
#

Is Loomithar's Living SIlk a good trinket for tanking?

#

Seems quite useful for group utility

neon elk
#

I would say it should see some uses in higher keys later in season, or maybe even now in less coorodinated groups

#

But u are sacrificing quite a lot

zinc peak
#

Anyone feel like teaching me routes in the near future? I’ve been using maps from keystone guru but I need to physically run the route and study another tanks habits 😩

#

I manage at lower keys but feel like I am fucking up hard in 10 and up

lusty grotto
#

until you can identify the packs in keystone or threechest

round pendant
#

what dungeon and key level was this btw

lusty grotto
#

HOA

frosty mango
round pendant
#

key level? peepo

lusty grotto
#

14

frosty mango
#

If your spriest doesn’t have psychic link by a mile they’re just not dotting things lol

lusty grotto
#

yam is asking cause of flay insanity probably

zinc peak
tame jasper
#

What's the length of taunt (and others like DH torment) on bosses? It should be 3 sec forced attacking the player who taunted right?

round pendant
#

but his psychic link is nowhere near that in 12/13s

high latch
round pendant
#

but idk how vw vs archon affects that either

tame jasper
high latch
tame jasper
#

I have 3 in 15sec in mind, but I might wrong. And that's not what I'm actual thinking about.

#

We just had some curious situations at Loomithar yesterday where the boss sometimes even ingored the first tank switch. so we try to find hints in the raw logs and saw that there are taunt debuffs of less than 3 sec

lusty grotto
#

they are just not doing them in the window

#

there's nothing else to look at

#

if you want to look at DRs just use this

#

the taunt window for myth loomi is very short

#

they sleep for a second and its gone

#

if youre using liquid tell them to taunt just before the taunt bar disappears

tame jasper
#

we use Nothern Sky

#

but I guess it's the same there

lusty grotto
#

ok well then i cant help you

#

i have no idea how NSky displays it

tame jasper
#

So I will talk to myself and the other tank

lusty grotto
#

either way DR shouldnt be an issue unless they are taunting in between blast cds

tame jasper
#

To focus more to taunt "on point"

tame jasper
lusty grotto
#

use the WA

#

next time and youll see

#

its just late taunts

tame jasper
#

Will try, thank you 🙂

frozen berry
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Are the adds on dragon boss in gambit tauntable or do they fixate the healer/dps?

frozen berry
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In hardmode is the best thing to just kill them or try and cc for 2nd breath?

frosty mango
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They are scary trying to handle them for two breath rotations

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They don’t have much health so you can just melt them

mellow yoke
real laurel
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I tried to find something about this trinket but it sims realllyy well for my prot warr, is this a sim bait? couldnt find anything on this discord

mellow yoke
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what's the value

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with normal ilvl

real laurel
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ah sorry

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basically 1800 crit with 99% uptime if you have no downtime in fights

lusty grotto
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not too bad

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but still falls behind

mellow yoke
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if ur good

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u can get

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90% uptime on Tome

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which is 3k crit

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and it also deals damage

frosty mango
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It’s not simbait, it’s basically the same as soleahs and I’d expect it to sim similarly

lusty grotto
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yeah pretty much

real laurel
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i figured, thank you

lusty grotto
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its low A rank

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i would say

frosty mango
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Soleahs is just better tho

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Less overhead

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Press button and go, lol

lusty grotto
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and the reason why youre not seeing it anywhere is because its very obviously a timewalking raid trinket

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since its not available every time, we tend to not place it on rankings etc

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but you did good simming it

real laurel
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the cataclysm ones arent

frosty mango
lusty grotto
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bloodmallet are just sims

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without any flexibility

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or rather, at the mercy of what they put in

frosty mango
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Relative comparison yes but they are simmed at bis profile and it’s highly likely what’s best on that list may not be best for you at any given time

real laurel
frosty mango
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With the exception of like massively op trinkets like tome

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For example a sacbrood would rate highly on bloodmallet but sim considerably lower for me because I have tons of haste

warm plinth
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You're a massively op trinket like tome

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Fuckin gottem

frosty mango
lusty grotto
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fucking bear had me going for an early lunch

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pretty sure i had that trinket in cata

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and used it a lot

hardy viper
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Have they removed the dmg penalty from using defensive stance?

lusty grotto
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yes

hardy viper
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Damn

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Did not know that

lusty grotto
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this expansion

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the whole expansion has had no damage penalty

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thats why barely touch battle stance