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broken crater
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it got buffed this reset

strong forum
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where arms buff then

round pendant
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bm is fuckin stoopid

broken crater
dusky canopy
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Arch may or may not have inclined there was sandbagging involved on the BM side

strong forum
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we shall stand tall

broken crater
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time to try something new

strong forum
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what did this aug exploit

round pendant
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beast mastery where 60% of your damage comes from.. uhh big arrow

strong forum
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this

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looks exceedingly sus

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bamkin and aug top?

mortal cypress
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BM Dark Ranger got a yuuuuuuuge buff on its main spell as the spec was unplayable: all bm were Pack Leader

strong forum
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you mean to tell me, that "5"% buff to bamkin suddenly do top end damage

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from being bottom 2

fossil horizon
broken crater
dusky canopy
coarse kernel
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I'm assuming I missed the discussion already, but what was the verdict on Yoda's video claiming that Netherprism was 2nd best trinket for every tank except VDH and Tome wasn't even on his list?

strong forum
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im aware of such a phenomenon just didnt think it would flip this quickly

mortal cypress
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the game is buggy as fuck....going back to hunter, if you literally dont press a button and wait for your main spell to come off CD if 0.5secs is left and have loads of "dead time" in a fight, like multiple seconds it adds up to, you 2.5% more dps...."always be casting" doesnt apply

round pendant
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Just rember: if Yoda said it, it's probably wrong peepoBlush

round pendant
broken crater
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0.5s is nothing and youre likely already missing that just from mechanics. not necessarily a bug either, some specs pool for an extended time (sub) and look literally afk

round pendant
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I love just autoattacking as rogue sometimes

broken crater
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i love doing sub 1m damage for 30s because sb is about to be ready

mortal cypress
broken crater
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ok but times can change and even then

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0.5s is literally nothing

mortal cypress
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it is over an entire fight....lots of dead time which is weird as BM cos its supposed to be like playing warrior

strong forum
mortal cypress
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always spamming abilities

shrewd grove
strong forum
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cuz like, the trinket does a mediocre amount of damage and provides nothing while building stacks

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unlike the god tier trinket casters had in s1 which gave you stats even while building stacks

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and tanks arent like casters who have mega potent offensive CDs to make it worth their while to gather stacks over extended period of time

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so while not using the trinket, youre legitimately missing out on 7% of mainstat or secondary stat

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and tanks want consistency and not big boom trinkets

round pendant
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I want grieftorch

strong forum
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we will never have another grieftorch

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or good raw dmg trinkets

round pendant
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Don't

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I can't handle it

strong forum
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cuz tank aura

round pendant
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they need to remove that shit

strong forum
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its so fucking useless

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cuz all it does is "yeah okay we want stat sticks"

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for healer and tanks alike

round pendant
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who fucking cares if our trinket that does 5% of our dps does 7.5% instead

strong forum
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unless they design GOOD tank/healer only trinkets

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for netherprism iirc the discussion was that you ideally just want to use the trinket on CD, at which point its just a worse antenna

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or close to it

broken crater
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loomithar trinket enters the chat

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(they manage to do good healer trinkest, so why not tank trinkets)

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(but also this expansion had a bunch of good tank trinkets, and dragonflight at least had augury)

round pendant
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I don't like how the sickest trinkets are raid only

tribal wharf
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dragon flight had dreadplates

strong forum
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yeah surprisingly we had 2 good tank trinkets so far

broken crater
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song as old as time

strong forum
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3 actually

tribal wharf
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that was really good, the one from lair 60s cd was good too when it was that season

fathom oasis
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If tome turns out to be bad, after hunting it for over x50 (so far) priories, I'm going to be upset

round pendant
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it's not bad

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It's S++ tier

strong forum
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tome is insanely good, for single target

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in keys its not as op

broken crater
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how could it turn out bad

strong forum
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but still very useful if used correctly

broken crater
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its proven from last patch already and hasnt changed

round pendant
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It's still nice for prio targets in m+ when my friends are awful at focusing the knight

strong forum
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technically s1

broken crater
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ok boomer

strong forum
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i tried to sell i to many people

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but only few believed

mellow bridge
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it did get nerfed a bit

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but ye it's still bis for ST

bleak scaffold
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Isn't the brand a good tank trinket ? it's a DPS for tank

mellow bridge
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wouldnt use it in m+ personally

strong forum
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ye it was nerfed by 25% in s2

fathom oasis
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I enjoyed larynx (lynx? Cant remember the exact name) from s1

strong forum
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larynx was fun ye

round pendant
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I mean, I gotta raid to get anything that's better than tome in m+ I think

tribal wharf
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3.5 million dmg per tick

round pendant
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maybe I could try idol

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Idol is prob nice

fathom oasis
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Pacemaker+brand in pure aoe?

broken crater
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nom why are you not playing btw

fathom oasis
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Or antenna

strong forum
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cuz games shit

azure crag
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I'm still convinced blizzard only makes good tank trinkets by accident

strong forum
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cba dunning kruger raiding

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cba keys

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so nothing to do

broken crater
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the heck is dunning kruger raiding

fathom oasis
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Dunning krueger raiding? x)

mellow bridge
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pick 2

tribal wharf
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i lost more faith recently about wow

broken crater
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reroll from priest confirmed

tribal wharf
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they said they want to move away from dramatic world ending events

round pendant
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I have a soleah's but I doubt it beats tome's usefulness

strong forum
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i just dont find raiding enjoyable outside of farm idk

tribal wharf
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and focous on the mundane day to day events

round pendant
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tome is 120k dps and that's excluding the crit

broken crater
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i mean farm is just logs

round pendant
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and 170k on st

strong forum
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exactly

mellow bridge
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not a fan of tome's uptime if you pull large enough 🤷‍♂️

tribal wharf
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and im like ........ (poop noise)

broken crater
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fair ig

mellow bridge
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was fine on dh last season cuz parry l0l

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but on pwarr, meh

strong forum
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fucking comp this

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comp that

mellow bridge
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ye not a fan of all the comp restrictions either

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"oh you dont have a 2nd lock/dk for dimmy D? Well you better gear one then Catge"

broken crater
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you 👏 will 👏 2 👏 dks 👏 and 👏 4 👏 mages 👏 and 👏 you 👏 will 👏 like 👏 it 👏

strong forum
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go on the gear treadmill for 16weeks

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"ah yea btw turbo boost"

round pendant
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classic

mellow bridge
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fuck turbo boost

round pendant
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I hated turbo boost day one and everyone was like "nah it's good"

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turns out I was right

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again

strong forum
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but also "yeah okay we're 10 ilvl behind people from RWF doing this boss so we lets spend 4hrs throwing ourself against this and waste to ricky restricted forgetting to blink"

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and then ALL the drama

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c-b-a

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i just wanna vibe and kill

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not wipe and vomit

round pendant
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no one likes my suggestions for how they could redesign endgame

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:^(

strong forum
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just make mythic farmable

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done

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remove weekly IDs

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game would instantly be more enjoyable

broken crater
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wouldnt change anything for later bosses or me personally

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but also fuck turbo boost

round pendant
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add 10 man mythic, remove locks, remove LFR and Normal greensloth

strong forum
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would change raiding for 98% of raiders as you can farm loot until you are done and THEN prog

broken crater
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no point in removing lower difficulties

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theres an audience for it and game needs entry points

strong forum
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10 man

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god bless

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yes

tribal wharf
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i swear the worst feeling in all of wow is you are logging on at monday 11:47 to do your weekly 10 or 20 orw hatever it is now

bleak scaffold
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Yes, but what about FOMO and players paying the subscription ?! You are looking at how have fun and Bli² is looking on how to get $

tribal wharf
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and then you get your key group ready at 2:38am and it starts at 3:07am tuesday and then you start running it and then you lag out

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and then the key isfucked,

round pendant
strong forum
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not for power

round pendant
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am I the only one that feels this way

deft mortar
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Rejoice, it happened

tribal wharf
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so you try again at 7 am and the server shut down mid key

strong forum
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theres people scared of +2s

deft mortar
tribal wharf
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and you got no vau lt

broken crater
deft mortar
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I am probably the highest unbuffed HP player in the world

broken crater
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since they design for heroic or mythic first and then remove mechanics for lower

round pendant
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I don't get how they're "entry points" when they play themselves and don't teach you anything

deft mortar
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Finally hit 30M

round pendant
strong forum
strong forum
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cuz like

broken crater
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for someone who has never stepped into a raid, its a wildly different environment than questing

strong forum
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just the virtue of having seen a handful of mechanics by doing it on a lower difficulty

deft mortar
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Is there a ranking for max hp?

strong forum
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relaxes me shitton for mythic

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i hate going in blind into raiding

tribal wharf
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the way i play wow, is basically like the guild doesnt exist unless i want to do raiding

bleak scaffold
frosty mango
tribal wharf
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and i barely did/do much raiding past few years anywas

strong forum
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so remove that restriction

broken crater
strong forum
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remove loot fomo, instead make good cosmetic fomo

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i crave the cosmetics

round pendant
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they really shouldn't force you to clear mythic raid for myth trinkets from dinars imo

strong forum
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LET ME STYLE ON NERDS

undone beacon
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mage tower my behated

dusky canopy
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I’d be happy to infinitely farm mythic ilvl too

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At the very least base mythic ilvl

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Could still have crests be a thing

round pendant
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I mean with the turbo boost they negate everything anyway

strong forum
round pendant
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so there's basically no harm in week 1 myth loot from keys imo

strong forum
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cuz you werent there

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:^)

bleak scaffold
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I agree with you on how to make the game better for players ! just saying why, i think, bli² will not do it ^^

undone beacon
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jokes on you nerd i am metallica

strong forum
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why the ²

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is that supposed to look like a z

broken crater
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looks like a z and its a 2 -> 2z

bleak scaffold
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cause i'm lazy blibli or bli²

undone beacon
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blizzard squared

strong forum
broken crater
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typing ² is inherently harder to type than zz cmm

round pendant
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how do you even type that

strong forum
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unless its in autocorrect already

tribal wharf
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blizzard grammarly when?

broken crater
bleak scaffold
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Cause you are on qwerty man, on azerty it's just before the 1 key 😄 (yes i'm french so i'm on azerty)

broken crater
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on eu keyboard at least

tribal wharf
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i want an auto correct in wow chat but one that doesnt turn arthas into arthritis!

strong forum
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dafuq

round pendant
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I'm on US layout

deft mortar
broken crater
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stamina buff is more hp yes

dusky canopy
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WTH is an “azerty “

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TIL

broken crater
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keyboard layout

dusky canopy
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😂

round pendant
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french layout

broken crater
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qwertz
qwerty
azerty

tribal wharf
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that is a very real thing

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there is also one starts with D

dusky canopy
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Ahh yes googling

round pendant
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dvorak?

dusky canopy
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Pretty neat

deft mortar
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48M with last stand, rally, and steadfast

tribal wharf
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yep,

deft mortar
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probably can hit 70M with shaman + priest + frontline

tribal wharf
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keyboards is a rabbithole and a half

bleak scaffold
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OMT ! 48M ...

azure crag
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raid boss

broken crater
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omt? oh my thanos?

bleak scaffold
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O My Thor

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Sorry I missed Legion, was playing it back for transmog and found funny that they put Thor as Warrior's god 😄

dusky canopy
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One man thick

acoustic hearth
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Don’t forget your Aug buff

rough nest
deft mortar
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damn now I gotta try just how high it can go buffed

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I feel ready for LFR

dusky canopy
bleak scaffold
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Don't go too fast ! you need at least 50M unbuffed for LFR 😉

round pendant
deft mortar
round pendant
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You can kinda just brain-off everything until keys and heroic raid

deft mortar
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also versatality maxxing

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to increase effective max hp

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as a side fun thing

strong forum
deft mortar
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but I think I can take on any tank buster ez in the game without CDs

strong forum
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3 day old char btw

acoustic hearth
bleak scaffold
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Have you done LFR ? :x I mean, don't look how it is for you but how others are playing. I think LFR is good for people that discover the game and early stuff alts.

deft mortar
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I didnt step foot in the raid yet

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excited to try it out

round pendant
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yeah same

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it seems like a cool raid tho

acoustic hearth
bleak scaffold
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When you know the game and run normal raid it's already boring :/

acoustic hearth
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People are so fucking stupid and refuse to look at fights before quing

deft mortar
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I like raid for the visiuals and fun mechanics to explore

acoustic hearth
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Then get mad that shocker 3 hours of lfr Dimi prog

deft mortar
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i tag nome for any question

round pendant
deft mortar
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bro needs a salary off this shit

acoustic hearth
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At least you are asking someone

round pendant
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You don't need to read or learn anything until suddenly you hit that wall

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The game is awful at teaching people how to play

deft mortar
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things that actually kill you without any dmg is my bane

acoustic hearth
deft mortar
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like gettign thrown off the platform etc.

bleak scaffold
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Of course it is, it relies on social interactions .... I hate people ...

acoustic hearth
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Trying to teach some friends though, they refuse to learn

round pendant
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Yeah that's a classic

acoustic hearth
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My buddy refused to put bop and freedom on his bars bc “too many buttons”

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Dawg your a ret pala

round pendant
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usually the longer they've been playing the harder they refuse to learn too

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Game gets harder at endgame and all the boomers that never had to learn suddenly can't win as easily but don't want to adapt

fathom oasis
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Boomers catching strays

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For no reason

acoustic hearth
deft mortar
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💀

round pendant
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I just think if you WANT to clear some content you should also want to learn to be able to do so

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can't have one without the other

bleak scaffold
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I don't know for you, but I played Vanilla, levelling experience was horrific! so fricking looooooooooooooooooooooong. And now, you create a char and 3h after you are max level, what the hell happened ? wasn't there a middle ground ?

round pendant
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My friend has me call out basic mechanics in m+ (like big aoe dam in a boss fight) because he cba fixing his scuffed healer UI (Healbot btw) he's used for the last 15 years

bleak scaffold
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You cannot learn the game nor your char having new comp every 2minutes ...

round pendant
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it's like greensloth

acoustic hearth
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Make leveling longer

fathom oasis
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You only level to max in 3h if you buy a boost

acoustic hearth
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And have war band exp buff go up in value to like 50%

fathom oasis
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Also, people who enjoy leveling have the classic servers to enjoy

bleak scaffold
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Not 3h for real of course, but it's too fast!

acoustic hearth
round pendant
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nice discord just broke

acoustic hearth
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Someone made a vid of going from level 10-80 in 2 hours

fathom oasis
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Idk why that's bad, you can keep doing quests as much as you want

acoustic hearth
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Just flying and getting “discovered a new zone” exp

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I have hope for the new leveling

fathom oasis
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I don't see how spamming dungeons for a few extra hours per level is good

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Or doing any repetitive content for exp

acoustic hearth
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With it being dragonflight from start to finish including story mode raids

bleak scaffold
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It's just that leveling adds new comp over time, so you can learn to use the malong the way and not be overwelmed by 20comps and talents all at once.

acoustic hearth
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But let Alts fuck off in timewalking for 15 min to hit max lvl

fathom oasis
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First time players are forced to do DF

acoustic hearth
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I mean like

fathom oasis
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Everyone else can do whatever expansion they want

acoustic hearth
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In ff14 you can’t go to tbc until you did every single fucking quest in classic including the raid and patch quests

round pendant
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It's already like that isn't it?

fathom oasis
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Why keep them from doing so

bleak scaffold
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Middle ground guys 🙂 Let's give at least first leveling a bit longer than it is right now for new players

round pendant
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The issue isn't really the speed at which you hit max level imo

fathom oasis
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But why

bleak scaffold
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Why XP at all then ?

fathom oasis
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Just let every person pace themselves however they want

bleak scaffold
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Just give max level, full comp and talents and jump then

round pendant
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the issue is how no content requires any neuron activation until suddenly your bad performance ruins everyone elses experience

acoustic hearth
fathom oasis
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Some people enjoy the lore, so let them quest all the way through

acoustic hearth
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Just something that actually gets noobs to figure their shit out

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This is how you kick

fathom oasis
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Spending more time where talents and skillsets are all over the place wont make them improve

acoustic hearth
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Kick the mob 3 times consistently or get 1 shot and have to restart

fathom oasis
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Also, only people who want to improve will do so

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Some people are content doing delves with a 1-button rotation assistant

round pendant
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There should be something in place that introduces people to common dungeon/raid mechanics tho

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like kicking, ccs, swirlies

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and it should be pass/fail

fathom oasis
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Follower dungeons

round pendant
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yeah follower dungeons don't do that

fathom oasis
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Kyvezaa/whatever boss is current

round pendant
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but they're a good idea fundamentally

fathom oasis
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In delves

tribal wharf
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i still think

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all dungeons should be in the LFD for the expansion sort of thing

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when new dungeon comes out you can do that in LFD from day 1

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as a fresh whatever you call it minus 5 or minus 10 lvls

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the freehold experience basically

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cuz then you have all 5 people doing it as casual content

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so you are forced to learn it wholy and properly

mighty valley
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my guess is they tried out the Proving Grounds in mop and it didn't have enough of an effect for the dev time

tribal wharf
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i really really think for the first season of expansion

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only new expansion dungeons

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period

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for like mythic mode and m+

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i think that is so utterly crucial

mighty valley
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they did that for years

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then changed it

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and the change was well received

tribal wharf
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i think a variety of keys is good

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just not for season 1

high latch
mighty valley
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yeah, people learn better by just trying real stuff, and they resent features that looks like homework

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everyone else just has to deal with people learning in real time

solid sun
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Well maybe midnight will change that

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Maybe the player base will be sick as heck and everyone instinctively knows how to be great because hey have a house to rest in

pine lotus
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OSRS has done a pretty decent job lately at introducing lower level pvm content

solid sun
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What’s pvm

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Player vs monster?

high latch
pine lotus
frosty mango
high latch
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Kind of, but when a large portion of your paying customers are pissed, it doesn't matter what the intention is.

frosty mango
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if they cant do PG then blizz should tune the low end of m+ to meet the skill level of those players

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m+ scales infinitely so its not like this is a problem

slender bison
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Mythic+ is easier than ever and that's the new status quo for keeping subs up

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Enough elitism

pine lotus
slender bison
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Go do 20 keys

frosty mango
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its not elitism, im literally saying blizz has the perfect system in place for all players

high latch
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They can move the goalpost as much as they want. If they make lower M+ easier then it just means they'll get to higher keys faster and we're back to square one.

frosty mango
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why would any player be gatekept from m+

frosty mango
high latch
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But it is. Because it will affect other players which affects their income.

slender bison
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Yeah, that's a you problem because you can't keep up with key level of ok players

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Don't do 10s for crests in week 6 and complain that players are shit

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Do 16s

frosty mango
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if you have a scaling system that scales infinitely as long as you tune the floor to be approachable for the majority of the playerbase then its accessible and skill levels solve themselves

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players will rise to the level they are capable of doing

slender bison
high latch
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I agree that's how it would be in a perfect world. But people are entitled as all hell.

frosty mango
hardy snow
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The issue is players wants to do content not aprioprate for their skill level because they are watching streamers playing it easily, Blizzard cant fix that.

high latch
frosty mango
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they really cant do much more to add content to the game, theres truckloads of content and nearly all of it scales lol

hardy snow
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Not being skilled enough to do +12 or +14 is fine.

frosty mango
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if people want to complain let them complain but theres not much else blizz can do for them

slender bison
frosty mango
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I think PG was kinda dumb, it wasnt representative of the gameplay you would find in a time gated key scenario.

if blizz wants to gatekeep certain key levels then IMO they should lock keys to current + 1

high latch
frosty mango
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if youve done a 12 priory then you can queue for a 13

bleak scaffold
frosty mango
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I personally think IO is stupid too because its a flawed numerical representation of assumed skill

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it means literally nothing at the low end

slender bison
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Just push to your level and if in 5 keys you have shit players, then that's your level

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Democracy

high latch
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Yes, I believe they'll simply let it be. The current system works as well as you could hope for.

slender bison
frosty mango
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it has never been a good system

solid sun
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Well now hold on

frosty mango
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a 2900 io player with 300 completed keys is 99.999999999999999999% of the time going to be a vastly better player than a 3k player with 10 completed keys

slender bison
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It was never perfect, but a 3k player used to came with certains guarantees for a run

solid sun
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The dungeon score changes color and when I become orange I feel like the system is correctly calling me legendary

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So

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I think it’s at least decent

solid sun
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Hey thanks you too

frosty mango
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blizz should delete IO and just show you how many completed keys a person has in a given level

strong forum
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getting 3k really doesnt take more than 10 keys

solid sun
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You say such hurtful things

strong forum
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so someone struggling to get to 3k with 300 keys is a bit of a red flag, atleast for my view of the game

mighty valley
frosty mango
strong forum
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depends who you are 😄

frosty mango
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you cant run the key alone

bleak scaffold
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The problem on the number of run you make is the starting point.

solid sun
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I’m not 3k yet but we are fine pumping out 10s and 11a for vault

strong forum
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most of the 3k in 10 keys people arent pugging anyway

solid sun
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Am I one of the red flags…

strong forum
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like me

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i dont pug

bleak scaffold
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I played till MOP, so I don't know any of the old dungeons, take bit of runs to know them 🙂

strong forum
frosty mango
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I think the real world answer is its somewhere in the middle, someone has low completed keys but high rating, prob not a good pick

someone has a bunch of completed keys and a high rating, prob a safe pick

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but I do think IO as a numerical representation is vastly more harmful than helpful

strong forum
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well its more helpful than having nothing

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cuz ilvl is useless

frosty mango
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if blizz weighted it better or put more into it, I'd be more approving of it

strong forum
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its an inkling of representation of ability

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over straight up nothing

high latch
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How could they improve it? Make it more like typical MMR where your score can decrease with poor performances?

strong forum
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same as you can expect an 8/8M raider to atleast know how to do damage over someone who is only 2/8M

frosty mango
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with a max of x keys

solid sun
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We need Dota 2 stats. Each player has a tracker for average interrupts per key, average damage per key, average healing per key, etc etc etc

strong forum
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that would require per-spec lists

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and you knowing what the fuck those mean

solid sun
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All the numbers

strong forum
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people can already not read logs

high latch
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We kinda do have that. You can always look up players on Warcraftlogs, but ain't nobody got time for that.

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And not everyone logs, but it is quite common.

frosty mango
#

not really for keys

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I dont think theres really enough people logging keys to get a true sense of the dataset

#

given the scaling and dynamic nature of m+ we'd need hundreds of thousands to really arrive at any real conclusion

bleak scaffold
#

At the end, if you need a doctorate in WoW to make a group it's not a game anymore ...

solid sun
#

I volunteer myself

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I’ll do the runs

high latch
solid sun
#

You’re a hard balance to keep

#

Owned

high latch
#

Oof, good one

frosty mango
#

IMO for M+ score

First key completion at a given level gives a base score (lets say a +10 is 100 points)

Each key level is 20 point spread (+11 is 120 points)

For each key you complete at a given level, you get a point bonus, up to half of the next tier, with a bonus for multi chesting too). So if you do 10 +10 priories, you get 1 point per completion up to a max of 110 points, 2 additional bonus points for +2 and +3, bringing you to 115 max in a bracket

#

it isnt foolproof, but it would provide a significantly better window into a player's familiarity and relative skill in a given dungeon set if we're looking at a single number

sick sentinel
#

is there anyway to potentially check how much rage im getting from bloodsurge

frosty mango
#

if you log it can be drilled down to that level

sick sentinel
#

ty ty

#

wanted to see how much im getting and if its worth to run it

#

it most likely is but still

strong forum
#

It's depending on pull size 7-12% of rage gain

frosty mango
#

usually 7-11% of my rage gain

#

nom is too fast

slender bison
#

Or tanks have shit 110% routes

strong forum
#

And some don't learn the dungeon even after 3 full seasons

#

Which is baffling

frosty mango
frosty mango
#

what are you gonna do 🤷

nocturne spindle
#

i dont know my class because i forgot i have aoe fear removal for that one stupid ass mob in manaforge

#

🙂

jade hazel
#

Took me a longer time then it should’ve to understand mitigating/using defensives and understanding when damage is coming in matters so much to staying alive. Rather than just be a dump dps hoping my healer saves the day. Also most dps have no idea how much a healer or tank does to save their asses.

mighty valley
#

yeah, some people aren't aware of the damage moments, others might be aware but their brains are fully taken up by trying to do their rotation and they don't remember/notice the tell for incoming damage

#

many factors

neon elk
#

It should be hella good if all higher ranked ( like above 3k rio) people played tank or healer before, to give them some sense how much they can help by doing bare minimum

bleak scaffold
#

My dps knows : I do nothing haha. You did the bed!

#

Save the cheerleader! Sorry that’s a different one, save the healer!

solid sun
#

Sometimes you do the bed

#

What can ya do

#

Besides the bed

jade hazel
neon elk
#

I mean , sometimes yes it happens , but today i had a random fella that had 9 out of 10 deaths

slender bison
bleak scaffold
#

We need a good laugh! Isn’t it god damn funny to see a dos running away with mobs on his ass instead of running towards the tank?!

slender bison
#

The average wow player skill went up by a ton due to M+ alone

#

Due to accountability

jade hazel
#

Hot take also: wow is a hard game

mighty valley
#

hard is a sliding scale, but yeah, it's easy to take for granted the things you know when you've been doing them for years/decades

jade hazel
#

Yup

neon elk
#

I would not realy say hard , more like complicated , but that can also be both i guess

#

But if u are somehow capable human playing slightly above average isnt that hard and is not rocket science

slender bison
neon elk
#

I guess , dont know that many new players

mighty valley
#

it's eye opening to see a truly new player try wow for the first time

#

stuff like... auto attacks don't make sense to some people at first

slender bison
#

Game is layered. Tons of PvE players ego goes out the window once they encounter PvP players who actually know the class.

#

Anyway, FYI its the tanks' fault for not talenting Piercing Howl for Gambit 1st area keks

neon elk
#

How much is howl slow again?

slender bison
#

70%

echo egret
#

About to start progression on nexus-King hc.
In phase 1, is it okay to taunt swap after each cast ?

neon elk
#

Not worth the talent for that, never had issue with it there tbf

proven mantle
#

is the void pactstone a bait? hmmNod

neon elk
#

Curious what else u had i group there when they blamed u for that

solid sun
#

I’m just tired of so much being expected of our role in keys

jade hazel
solid sun
#

Maybe that’s a community problem or maybe that’s a design problem but either way it feels like I’m not allowed to turn my brain off

nocturne spindle
#

i mean

solid sun
#

I need Roid to take over

nocturne spindle
#

just by nature of the role itll happen

mighty valley
#

For weekly keys there needs to be like... two brains active total across five people

nocturne spindle
#

the person who does all the pulling will be in charge of it all

mighty valley
#

Some people can contribute a portion of their brain

solid sun
mighty valley
#

These are all buddies?

solid sun
#

Yeh. Maybe a pug here or there

shadow wagon
#

how do i make my team stop kicking when I have reflect up?

jagged pier
#

U dont

#

They just will

acoustic hearth
#

And make sure u taunt mid cast

echo egret
#

ok thx

acoustic hearth
#

So if ur 2nd tank, boss is casting buster 1 u taunt, boss is casting buster 2 at you, other tank taunts,

maiden forge
#

question, loomithar's living silk trinket is technically usable by all roles right? even though healers are the only one's it drops for

#

i saw it has haste and is nasty with helping everyone live in keys

tranquil otter
#

Hi guys. When reshi wraps the cloak pops, it shows a massive shield and its so hard to see how much % hp you actually have because of this massive shield on the hp bar. Any1 know a solution?

neon elk
sterile orbit
#

i assume an addon is doing that cause i use default character frame and i have the opposite i see my hp and have no idea % of shield

warm plinth
solid sun
#

Doot

#

Hit me with a few of your takes on different dps specs

warm plinth
#

Wdym

#

Take on what exactly

dense cradle
echo egret
#

Same item level, i'm easily ripping aggro from my druid cotank. What solution ?

maiden forge
warm plinth
#

Tell him to seek improvement or just chill depending on the vibe of the guild and the likelihood that he'll actually try to improve.

mighty valley
echo egret
dense cradle
#

Yeah

maiden forge
#

they arent doing enough damage to hold aggro

dense cradle
#

Alot of bear players i’ve noticed are

#

not the greatest…

#

there are some absolute freaks at it but i swear its such a dry tank spec

undone beacon
#

As a big bear man myself

#

I can advise

echo egret
#

Not yet, it's our first night playing together (he just swapped from DK)

solid sun
# warm plinth Take on what exactly

What are your thoughts on some of the dps specs. What do you find fun, what do you find particularly well designed or easy to perform, etc

bleak scaffold
#

Bear need to get better, in the meantime you need to hold yourself when switch happens :/

undone beacon
bleak scaffold
#

It's your job both to have tank swap working

solid sun
mighty valley
#

hmm seems like you have broad tastes

#

or you're indecisive

dense cradle
#

Yeah its kind of all over

#

ret is a spec more if you’re 4 beers deep and half afk

restive oak
#

i'm watching sense's forgeweaver kill, and i much prefer the pylon energy presentation from his northern sky wa, but my guild uses liquid, is there anyway i can get liquid to present the pylon energy like that? or another individual wa that does?

dense cradle
#

Outlaw is welp full on crackhead start to finish

#

if you think fury is fast just wait

restive oak
#

outlaw is like double fury apm

strong forum
#

fury aint fast

#

fury is just spammy

#

like straight up

#

4-4-4-4-1-4-4-4-4-1

dense cradle
#

fury and havoc both are spammy

#

though ig havoc is more particular in what you hit

undone beacon
#

i did a 12 flood earlier as fury cuz everyone is like "fury so big now" and i was not enjoying it

#

back to survival for dps

strong forum
#

i will always hate on fury

dense cradle
#

its more a playstyle if you enjoy hitting

strong forum
#

absolute garbage design philosophy

dense cradle
#

the same 2-3 buttons

#

forever

restive oak
#

i haven't played fury for a minute, but i feel current build seems pretty fun

strong forum
#

current build is literally 1 button

undone beacon
#

It just doesnt feel satisfying to play? Like conceptually swining around two big ass weapons and smacking people while spinning sounds awesome but in practice it feels so.... blegh

restive oak
#

bro, it's 2

dense cradle
#

meanwhile ret pov

#

is there more than 1 red nameplate?

strong forum
#

i will never understand how completely absence of any critical thought is fun

dense cradle
#

divine storm

#

x100000

strong forum
#

im here to play piano

#

not to fucking

undone beacon
#

nome is here not to fucking, confirmed

strong forum
#

i aint in 8+ years

#

you make what you will with that information

dense cradle
#

i mean to me peak of drooler tier

#

is fdk and ret

strong forum
#

ret is peak drooling yes

#

fury is very close

solid sun
strong forum
#

and idk fdk

dense cradle
#

shut down the discord

jade hazel
strong forum
#

arms buffs when

#

BM is just more ranged ret

#

equal braindamage

cedar egret
#

destro lock is very simple too

dense cradle
#

mm is the only real hunter spec

jade hazel
#

They somehow dumbed it down more this season

dense cradle
#

i dont acknowledge hunters with pets

strong forum
#

i dont acknowledge hunter

solid sun
#

Survival is fun

strong forum
#

they are always players who you dont even notice are in your raid or guild

dense cradle
#

someone has to do the mechanics

jade hazel
#

I love a good bm hunter in m+ now

strong forum
#

they are just a nameplate

#

NPC for all i know

jade hazel
dense cradle
#

real challenge

#

ask a boomie to count to 4

jade hazel
#

Feel like this raid has like, the least mechanics of any raid I’ve done

strong forum
#

vault of the wardens

dense cradle
#

for melee kinda

strong forum
#

100% has less

#

not wardens

dense cradle
#

incarnates?

strong forum
#

fucking

#

incarnates

#

ye

dense cradle
#

idk half our ranged were dead on terros

strong forum
#

that raid legit doesnt exist on mythic except for raszageth a tiny bit

dense cradle
#

every week

strong forum
#

legit 0 mechanics entire raid

#

just follow boss, hit boss

#

dont stand in bad

#

WOOP

#

boss dead

dense cradle
#

kurog lmao

#

asking people to not die

#

on rings

strong forum
#

what rings

#

boss just dies

solid sun
#

Didn’t you have to take your lightning to the mountains and step in lava before you got frozen in the council boss

#

Does that not count

strong forum
#

you see

#

you dont play ice zone

#

and just kill the boss before that

dense cradle
#

no he means council

strong forum
#

ah that one was just FULL ON ZUG

dense cradle
#

idk our ranged just stood on everyone with lightning

#

and gave everyone aids

strong forum
#

just stand all in the same spot

#

and send the boss home

#

that one was legit 0 mechanics

#

ohno i have 6 stacks, ok i clear we safe

dense cradle
#

yeah i mean you could just stand on the rock

strong forum
#

ohno i have 1 stack, ok i clear we safe

dense cradle
#

if it was next to the boss

strong forum
#

like the boss only applied 10 stacks

#

as long as you cleared ONCE at ANY point

#

youre fine

#

or you just get broken out by dps

#

or not

#

and just watch from the sidelines

#

completely irrelevant boss

dense cradle
#

theres a few dps specs which i swear

solid sun
#

Y’all def play a different game than me :/

dense cradle
#

people only do bad dps on

#

because they dont press abilities

#

every gcd

solid sun
#

My group currently can’t kill H Saladbar. Does he have mechanics in your game

strong forum
#

you can fullpug heroic raid since day1 no?

#

like always

dense cradle
#

not last 2 i think

#

but first 6 are freelo

strong forum
#

nah pretty sure you can pug

#

you always can

solid sun
#

H pugs are 6/8 consistently. Some can get the last two but it def isn’t consistent

dense cradle
#

i’ve watched dks die

#

to the winds push

#

thats an achievement

strong forum
#

yeah okay but those are like demon pugs, im talking HoF/m+ title player pugs

solid sun
#

How do I get into those

pallid quiver
#

network

#

be a part of HoF/M+ Title groups

strong forum
#

make friends

#

by talking shit in discord

#

and you get into, what is now #5 guild in the world as a trial (no longer am)

pallid quiver
#

or just don't raid because it's too much of a pain into the ass

undone beacon
#

im still waiting on that wizard rhino smh

dense cradle
#

i feel demon m+ pugs are worse

#

in terms of my braincells dying

solid sun
#

My only wow friends that don’t suck live here. Can we do a full pwar raid

strong forum
#

we used to do full warrior raids

#

but people kinda stopped

pallid quiver
#

I find DPS players as a whole on NA pugs do better in raid than M+, but tanks are god awful in raids compared to M+

solid sun
pallid quiver
#

career raid tanks are like often the worst players, skillwise and mentality/personality wise, I ever run into

solid sun
#

I started as a dps player

#

But none of my friends will tank

#

So now here I am

undone beacon
#

I started tanking cuz my guild died and i got tired of waiting in dps queues

strong forum
#

most tanks started out as dps

#

who got tired of shit tanks

#

and then became the shit tanks other people are tired of

pallid quiver
#

and most of those were also shit tanks

#

ye

#

nome and me on the same brain cell

dense cradle
#

and the rest of the dhs in group…

undone beacon
#

if only they had the boots

pallid quiver
dense cradle
#

yeah

#

mage players

#

half my damage

#

usually

pallid quiver
#

Ret

solid sun
#

Mage players are often scams

dense cradle
#

rets arent good for shit

solid sun
#

Resto Druids are also fake

dense cradle
#

except padding on useless crap

#

i swear ret is an active detriment

steady spruce
#

Guys, is this week's affix a tank mechanic

Cause every other player seems to run away afraid i take their orb

dense cradle
#

to faster times

solid sun
#

We have one ret friend and he consistently blasts immediately as I gather

#

And no matter how many times I tell him not to he just says it’s my responsibility to hold aggro lol

dense cradle
#

tell him to bop

solid sun
#

He also pads on anything I pull to the boss for funnel and while I don’t really know ret I feel like he’s griefing the funnel specs

#

Because I don’t think ret actually funnels but maybe they do

#

I just default to hes intentionally being a dick

undone beacon
#

sounds like a great friend to me

solid sun
dense cradle
#

idk pally players

#

have main character syndrome

#

alot

strong forum
#

the turnaround on ret is so funny

#

it was one of the most dead specs in the game for multiple expansions

#

and then they reworked it in DF

#

and became #1 most played spec in the game

undone beacon
#

DF was a canon expansion for ret

strong forum
#

cuz of how simple is it

dense cradle
#

I feel like it was always relatively popular

#

even for a “bad” spec

strong forum
#

in pvp maybe

#

not in pve

pallid quiver
#

It 100% was always popular with at least the casual crowd

dense cradle
#

like i think ret has always had more popularity

#

than specs like enh surv or feral

solid sun
#

Rogue feels pretty low pop these days

dense cradle
pallid quiver
#

They may not have entered M+, maybe not even raids, but Rets were in town errywhere

frosty mango
#

Ironically survival is the anti ret

#

It was popular until blizz reworked it into something no one asked for

dense cradle
#

like i’ve always put ret in the same usefulness as those super niche specs

undone beacon
#

Its always the year of the spear now though

dense cradle
#

but way more people played ret

#

than feral

solid sun
#

Melee survival is so sick

dense cradle
#

rogue has always been super underplayed

#

even if its conventionally one of the “good” melee

strong forum
dense cradle
#

it also sucks ass at solo content so not a good selling point to casuals

strong forum
#

rogue was always insanely popular

#

until DF

dense cradle
#

i would disagree outside of meme shit in pvp

#

honestly

undone beacon
#

what the hell is up with alch stone here

strong forum
#

you probably have gazillion crit

dense cradle
#

like i feel the most popularity it has had was when tomb mandated multiple

#

or bfa making shroud good for pathing

solid sun
#

Didn’t you stack rogues for that troll priest guy in Uldir

dense cradle
#

yeah one boss

frosty mango
dense cradle
#

alot couldnt play sub proper

#

if i personally got the run out mechanic we missed the push

#

the other rogues not so much

undone beacon
#

I feel like a spark on an alch stone is a bad investment when I'm still trying to get brand but i was just not expecting that haha

dense cradle
#

that passive existed entirety of legion rework

#

they just made a boss you could abuse it on

#

then realized its potentially problematic

#

in bfa

#

and now you’re basically a nuke cd spec every 90s

#

and tank damage outside cds

tranquil otter
#

@sterile orbit ty

sterile orbit
#

np

west ferry
#

Do tier 11 delves take a lot of time for you guys too or am I doing something bad? Upwards of 30-40 minutes

#

Also if I don’t have brann as healing i tend to die if I pull a lot

#

Also I have 3/4 tierset should I run tane or colossus?

lusty grotto
#

you should run colossus if you dont have 4pc

#

well

#

optimally

#

you can run either if you want, its entirely up to you

#

but colossus does more damage without 4pc

#

and usually we just run Brann as dps

#

the only notable examples are where we need a dispel like Zekvir

#

where we swap to healer

#

that was just a real edge case in s1

mighty valley
#

I can still pull pretty big in an 11 so long as I actually pay attention to mechanics, stuff like exploding spores will fuck you up

manic idol
#

how does prot actually feel this season? i played it a bit last season but i felt so reliant on the healer being decent to stay alive since there is very little self healing even tho the dmg reduc is really good im used to tanks like guardian and veng

mighty valley
#

But also like, there's not much point in going above 8... gilded crests I guess but you get so few, should just get them from m+

lusty grotto
#

if you didnt manage SB correctly you will still have those issues

hard wolf
#

is it time for the socket? had a bad week in terms of completion so no good vault

lusty grotto
#

are you trolling

#

you must be since you posted an antenna

manic idol
hard wolf
#

i have read ppl really disliking it cause of the spawning of orbs and the must moves to get them. Plus the ring sims better

lusty grotto
lusty grotto
mighty valley
lusty grotto
hard wolf
lusty grotto
manic idol
#

had like less then 10% haste at the time

hard wolf
lusty grotto
#

its most def NOT a stat issue

#

100% not a stat issue at all

mighty valley
#

well, it could be a playing wrong build for your stats issue

manic idol
lusty grotto
#

do you have all 4?

#

antenna is superior to pacemaker, and only falls behind to tome on pure ST

#

so you have brand and...?

mighty valley
#

if it's an alt you just started playing, it's most likely just you not being used to the flow of the spec yet

#

plus no one kicking in low keys

manic idol
#

its just weird to me that almost every other tank i can play at a compitent level accept warrior which seems to be the tankiest

#

maybe its the tism

lusty grotto
#

why am i having this discussion though, im just flabbergasted someone would say "oh yeah ill just pick socket" over an antenna

hard wolf
#

i mean I did trigger you fast enough tbh

lusty grotto
#

theres enough stupid here to discern trolling

#

i did say it was trolling right off the bat

toxic gyro
lusty grotto
#

thats what we call that

warm plinth
# solid sun What are your thoughts on some of the dps specs. What do you find fun, what do y...

Uhhhh, I like outlaw rogue, destruction warlock, fury warrior (sometimes), frost mage. I think the easiest spec I've played is beast mastery, which I enjoy but that's mostly because I'm not good at the game yet i want to contribute appropriately, so easy specs are the way to go. I'm not sure I am the person to talk to about good design. I can usually identify something that isn't good more than what's well designed. An example is like...outlaw requiring a lot more concentration than most other specs, or the pack leader 4 piece.

hard wolf
#

I was gonna pick the antenna and then I got here in the middle of the convo about how not optimal it is in M+ to have to move to get the orb etc. and then second thoughts poped

lusty grotto
#

link the post

warm plinth
#

Both of those are things I'd change. But I couldn't tell you what is well-designed or not. I've always just been like is this fun. If it is, I like it and think it's cool

hard wolf
lusty grotto
#

i just wanna know who the fuck keeps complaining about doing something for a trinket, game is too hard i guess

mellow yoke
warm plinth
#

Is the antenna is better than pace statement based on before or after the bug or whatever that was making it sim higher

tribal wharf
#

looking back on it its insane how hard everything batman from 80's 90s and early 2000's was. some of the best actors and performances of all time

mellow yoke
#

how often would you not be able to move in a situation

hard wolf
#

maybe when you are close to ninja pull more

lusty grotto
#

i guess @torpid dome never played transmitter

#

cause HEH

mellow yoke
#

and if ur tanking pull close to another pack

#

it's on you

#

honestly

lusty grotto
#

im just wondering why a one line opinion would invalidate a sweeping agreement between just about all our guides and every single warrior on a trinket

pallid quiver
#

i think antenna's bad because i don't have it

lament osprey
#

Same

hard wolf
#

haha you are really upset about it. I am just happy I got the right answer

lusty grotto
#

if you keep going i will be

#

but by all means take the socket

mellow yoke
#

I'd rather move a few times a pull

#

and be up 16k crit

#

ngl

warm plinth
#

Dragon games equipment my beloved

#

I loved that trinket. Shame it wasnt better damage or at least not physical

acoustic hearth
#

Isn’t antenna kinda mid?

lusty grotto
acoustic hearth
#

Like it’s good

#

But

lusty grotto
#

now thats just very bad trolling

warm plinth
#

Yeah but it has to be good and fun, not just good

acoustic hearth
#

Pacemaker and soleah are about equal in overall value

warm plinth
#

Er

hard wolf
#

i get what you say. but I cant understand why it doesnt sim better for me. Do I have to do anything specific for it?

warm plinth
#

Not just fun

acoustic hearth
#

Like tanking your gonna miss quite a bit of the procs

solid sun
#

Remember that legion trinket. Draught if lost souls or whatever. That thing clapped. I think they nerfed it like 17 times the next tier

lusty grotto
#

you gotta be fucking kidding me

#

how is this a thing

lusty grotto
#

"antenna is mid"

warm plinth
#

The animation was awesome too

acoustic hearth
#

At least it’s mid for dh

lusty grotto
#

did i sleep on a discussion somewhere

#

is this the new meme?

warm plinth
#

The new meme is everyone is pepega now

lusty grotto
#

yeah apparently

warm plinth
#

These are his alt accounts

solid sun
#

Antenna was oversimming. Is that where this is coming from?

warm plinth
#

Well that's where my comment came from

#

Idk about the rest

lament osprey
#

I’m going add fuel to fire with a ring

acoustic hearth
lament osprey
#

Jastor still bis

acoustic hearth
#

A-

lusty grotto
#

we're not VDH

#

stop linking that shit here

hard wolf
warm plinth
#

Yes what are your current trinkets

lusty grotto
warm plinth
#

And what are you simming scenario wise

acoustic hearth
lusty grotto
#

are you simming ST?

#

cause it will fall behind to tome obviously

acoustic hearth
#

Is it not the same issue that all tanks would have

lusty grotto
#

now sim 5 target patchwerk

acoustic hearth
#

Not getting to pick up the proc

hard wolf
#

Patchwerk 3 bosses 1.5m

warm plinth
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Because that seems impossible to me that any trinket is 25% worse than another at same ilevel

lusty grotto
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link sim

acoustic hearth
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Case closed

warm plinth
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Ok besides a literal trash trinket

acoustic hearth
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😭😭😭

solid sun
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I wish I could play outlaw

warm plinth
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You can play outlaw

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Just might not be good at it 🙂

solid sun
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Facts

lament osprey
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For st do yall sim 3 min or 5 min?

warm plinth
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I love the spec but im trash at it

lusty grotto
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both are fine

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but 3 mins is slightly more accurate

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slightly

warm plinth
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I do 3 mins because it's the average m+ length for boss fights

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Or as close as it gets anyway

lusty grotto
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i just do 5 mins because i dont give a shit

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and because wow audit requires 5 mins anyway

solid sun
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What the heck is wow audit

warm plinth
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Wow audit?

solid sun
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Is the Azeroth irs after you?

lusty grotto
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myth guild things

warm plinth
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Nim I will help with your tax debt

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Don't let them garnish your wages

lusty grotto
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uhh

warm plinth
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WoW tax debt, to be clear

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I'm poor irl

lusty grotto
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i have a free pass today to go full blown rager

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one sec

solid sun
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What happened

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Should I put ear muffs on

solid sun
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Happy bday

lusty grotto
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on this cursed day yes

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ty

solid sun
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Why is it cursed

lusty grotto
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im afraid to answer that

pallid quiver
warm plinth
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I thought we established it was the azeroth irs

solid sun
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lol

warm plinth
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Luerce trying to change the facts

acoustic hearth
lusty grotto
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youre an idiot

acoustic hearth
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XD 🤣

lusty grotto
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go back to fel hammer

warm plinth
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Happy 18th birthday Nimchip

solid sun
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Ecks dee

acoustic hearth
warm plinth
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You're finally a man

lusty grotto
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just so you know japanese cartoons are not allowed here

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by me

warm plinth
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Except for alcohol and cigarettes*

solid sun
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In three years you can finally drink legally

lusty grotto
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oh boy

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i cant wait

warm plinth
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Nim has been drinking since he was a small lad

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It's required to survive skyhold

lusty grotto
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i love my apple juice and my sippy cup

solid sun
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Just a wee lad, drinking bourbon on the booster seat

warm plinth
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We spike his apple juice with vodka

solid sun
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I could see nim covering his pancakes or waffles in maple flavored whiskey

warm plinth
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So this one time I was in home ec right

lusty grotto
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hair of the dog is the best hangover cure after pho

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so yes, i'd love it

warm plinth
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And I loathe cooked carrots but we were making maple glazed carrots