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fathom oasis
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ok ok

round pendant
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it's better to just slowly go and thunderclap as you go rather than go as fast as possible

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I make sure to hit every mob on the way to the bridge

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you lose a few seconds by being slow but you save your randoms from getting themselves killed

bleak scaffold
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I just do it plitted :/ down the stairs up to the platform and trying to cath the first caster

round pendant
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it's fine but it desyncs lust/cds

bleak scaffold
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Running 10 at the moment

round pendant
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since they added those poison spiders, you kinda gotta get threat since the healer will be having to heal people during the gather

bleak scaffold
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So it's fine

round pendant
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yea 10s are chill just W key xeos

fathom oasis
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i guess you could also do this (chaining the caster pat as it paths close) and send BL+CDs even before miniboss

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never tried it though

round pendant
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My brain is just like

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if you're gonna do that why not just send it and take the mini too

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as pwar you can just aoe kick the casters and get everything right under the mini ezpz

fathom oasis
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it's 2 less casters (1 caster + miniboss), so almost no casts. Also, pull is big enough you don't feel bad by sending BL

bleak scaffold
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there is 1 caster in patrol

fathom oasis
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but yeah

round pendant
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I'd feel bad not sending lust on mini

bleak scaffold
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I'm not the best player, doing as I can with the people I have "helping" me ^^

round pendant
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3 casters usually works fine in pugs

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you as the tank just lock in on the shrill

bleak scaffold
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You get the PUGs you deserve πŸ˜„

round pendant
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and shockwave barrages

fathom oasis
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when im saving kick for shrill and i'm out of stuns but i see a spider full channeling barrage

round pendant
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classic

fathom oasis
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then you decide to kick barrage and hope some dps can kick shrill

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shrill goes off

round pendant
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it's just a shit dungeon

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if any dungeon needed caster adjustments like hoa got, it's this

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the patrols on the platform after first boss are obnoxious too

fathom oasis
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i personally hate patrols

bleak scaffold
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I mean, why put all of this on the tank ? there are 3 people that can manage kick ... you put all on 1 player, and then if he misses the slightest it's a shitstorm

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I'm excluding healer because he has other priorities πŸ˜„

round pendant
round pendant
fathom oasis
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that 1 patrol in the last room in priory is so zzz

round pendant
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I like that pull tbh

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triple mage shockwave aoe kick volley

fathom oasis
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but if it's on one of the corners you need to wait

bleak scaffold
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It depends for everyone I guess πŸ™‚

round pendant
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eh you just kill the solo mage pack and wait in that case

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makes the double pull easier

fathom oasis
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unless you pull em with miniboss? but i think that's ilegal

bleak scaffold
plush tendon
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most people have someone CC the far attendant

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like Poly, repent, imprison whatever

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so its only 1 caster and mini boss

round pendant
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without a dk and with clueless puggers it just leaves it there casting for an eternity when you chain into pull 2

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it slowed everything down so bad

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ig I'm privileged tho cause I mostly play wow with 1-2 other people so the 2-3 puggers just have to deal with the remaining mechanics

plush tendon
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you just cc, leave it there

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and never do it

round pendant
warm plinth
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Yeah no, that attendant is close enough that virtually every pug is going to break the cc or at the very least get in combat with it

round pendant
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yeah that's what happened in mine

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it got broken near the end of the pull

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it was such a grief

mellow yoke
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What I do in my pugs is usually DH cage it, then usually at the end of pull dh cage goes down and he patrols down and we go past him

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rarely fails in my pugs idk

plush tendon
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and, quite frankly, if we are worred about CC breaking or something... key is prob not high enough to actually need to do that pull

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just split in two

round pendant
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or we can do all 3 casters

plush tendon
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theres no reason to brick the key on the first pull

round pendant
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it's ez

warm plinth
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I just don't do the miniboss pull at the start. Optimal or not. It's the same nonsense as the workshop first pull. It's unnecessary to time the key and has a very high failure rate.

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Let the high key people worry about that kind of pull

plush tendon
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anything 15 and lower

round pendant
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well mechagon had a pretty lenient timer

plush tendon
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you really dont need to do it

mellow yoke
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I mean low keys you can just go around and pull anything that moves and still time it with time to spare

round pendant
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yeah and 15s and up pugs should be able to handle 3 casters

mellow yoke
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people blast all CDs first pull on mobs that dont do anyything

plush tendon
mellow yoke
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then they have to do miniboss+ 2 casters

plush tendon
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but its either that, or wipe to the big pull

mellow yoke
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without BL/CDs

plush tendon
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weve all seen it

mellow yoke
blazing ridge
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If you need to do it on later keys I would just brute force it, it isnt that hard, just sap G11 and the first pull is ez

mellow yoke
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rather than lose time like that

plush tendon
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it just depends on key level

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you doing a weekly 12

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split in 2

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doing a 16, people should know what to do

warm plinth
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Frankly it's not the casters that are the failure point in most pugs. It's just people wanting to start attacking shit well before they should

mellow yoke
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and throw a few TB/TC

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then I proceed

round pendant
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I just clap the mobs as I go and even throw a troar just before the bridge

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to hit the fliers that for some reason don't social aggro properly

warm plinth
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Yeah except then everyone assumes you're stopping there and there are still mobs coming in from up top, and then you end up having to stay there anyway

mellow yoke
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I dont like taking fliers

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fliers are a reason people die

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cus of the bleed

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and we talking abt this and I get invited to arakara

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smh

round pendant
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then as I cross the bridge I throw a rally while gathering the lil guys

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then I walk up to double caster, aoe kick

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then mini

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worked every time so far

warm plinth
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I would love for us to have an actual not shit speed pot again

round pendant
lusty grotto
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yeah id love to have a good speed pot

fathom oasis
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i just make sure to communicate before starting

mellow yoke
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Yeah

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I'll be a slightly faster forrest gump with a speed pot

fathom oasis
lusty grotto
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BFA speed pot or bust

warm plinth
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Skystep potion my beloved

mellow yoke
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man what these people

round pendant
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I actually think the third miniboss is the hardest

mellow yoke
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Join a group and instantly say I got a friend

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and when u dont invite their friend they leave

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just duo q atp wtf

fathom oasis
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shady strats to bypass rio/ilvl/whatever check

mellow yoke
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Thing is this shit dont work in higher keys

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Like atp im playing with the same 50 or so players everyday

fathom oasis
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you miss all the shots you don't take

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i guess

hardy snow
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720>710

warm plinth
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Overvaluing a defensive cantrip, couldn't be skyhold

round pendant
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I got the hero boots on my rogue peepo

fathom oasis
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as much as 720 > 710, i'd definitely prioritize replacing other low ilvl slots rather than boots, if I already had the heroic cantrip ones

mellow yoke
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BDK detected

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how much is ur overall

cerulean tusk
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Pretty low

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like 4.5m to 5.5m on avg

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some 6m highrolls, but no monk (8-10m) situations

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this is a pretty standard Tome farm run

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If you go higher keys, dps increases

mellow yoke
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tbh they need to entirely rework BDK

cerulean tusk
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Luckilly DPS expontentially increases their value keks

mellow yoke
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I dont see it becoming meta any time soon

cerulean tusk
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BDK just need DS to not work as clunky as it does now with Vampiric Strike

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Also, remove the DS nerf

plush tendon
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BDK needs some TLC

cerulean tusk
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And buff Will of the Necro to 70% to stop oneshots

plush tendon
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it can be pretty miserable to play

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at least, when I compare it to my Prot Pal and Prot War

cerulean tusk
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Few thing is as misserable as BDK, as when someoen AoE stuns all, and you cant move to stagger

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Death tolls for thee, Death Knight

plush tendon
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hopfully in midnight they look at BDK

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but my worry is they are just gonna target FDK and Unholy for some nerfs

cerulean tusk
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At least remove the DS consumes the dam taken portion of the kit

plush tendon
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honestly, both those specs are little indestructable

cerulean tusk
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ruins the most fun part of it

harsh trellis
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Fdk is fun af

plush tendon
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I agree

cerulean tusk
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Who cares about FDK?

plush tendon
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but both are way too tanky for DPS

mellow yoke
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Nerfs? Hell nah. Blizzard aint leaving DKs without atleast 1 meta spec

harsh trellis
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I took my pos low level fdk out to try and ended up gearing it out.

cerulean tusk
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I just want QoL changes, BDK as is, is fine

cerulean tusk
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stop the oneshot (will buff) and return the fun high dopamine gameplay minmax

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And we guchi

lusty grotto
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Who cares about BDK?

plush tendon
cerulean tusk
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RAT!

lusty grotto
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leave my FDK homies alone

plush tendon
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Frost very fun

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wish it were rider frost

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but oh well

harsh trellis
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I just like how spammy it is. But im goin back into my prot war brain.

fathom oasis
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tbh it's odd that BDK isn't gaining more track this season, DS is usually busted when we reach end patch stats

cerulean tusk
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Cause they ruined Death Strike

cerulean tusk
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And Vamp Strike mechanic ruins the flow

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its pretty grim

mellow yoke
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Also, it's being way overshadowed by other tanks

fathom oasis
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then we get an end of the expansion DS nerf, into shit expansion start with DS nerfed

mellow yoke
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so that's another reason

harsh trellis
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Bdk needs a couple of things to be awesome. Mainly a charge ability. A shield for offhand and battle shout.

fathom oasis
plush tendon
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prob not

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the last time BDK was the meta M+ tank was because of way overtuned tier set

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in S3 of SL

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but theres nothing that ties Death Strike healing to gear

shut stone
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I have a 704 weapon and shield. Should I craft a 720 weapon or shield first? For M+

lusty grotto
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shield first

mellow yoke
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Shield

shut stone
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Ty

lusty grotto
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but yes do both

plush tendon
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but also, tomorrow is reset

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soooo

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you could wait a day

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see if vault gods are good

lusty grotto
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especially if you dont get or have access to myth tracks

mellow yoke
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but

shut stone
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Good point

mellow yoke
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if he is european

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it's the next day

shut stone
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I’ll wait

plush tendon
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im like 78% sure hes NA

mellow yoke
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ok I looked into his profile picture

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You could be right

shut stone
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Yes NA lol

plush tendon
mellow yoke
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why this server so NA dominated

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😭

lusty grotto
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its not

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but its NA morning

plush tendon
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its 10am on a Monday east coast NA

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we're all at work

lusty grotto
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you guys are on the wee hours or whatever

plush tendon
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avoiding being productive

mellow yoke
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It's bulgaria independence day so

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I got the day off

lusty grotto
plush tendon
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I have to make hard phone calls

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today sucks already

lusty grotto
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except the million meetings i have

plush tendon
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but im getting ramen after work

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soooooo

hazy pivot
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hi! why do guides show mastery ring from raid is bis? didn't think we'd want any mastery

lusty grotto
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because the bis set is just that... a "set", it needs every piece in it to be considered, otherwise you sim

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and mastery isnt bad

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its last in prio, but still very good for us

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all secondaries are

hazy pivot
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simming for tanks work fine? do we sim dungeon route?

lusty grotto
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no

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and yes all tanks sim

plush tendon
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we sim like a dps

mellow yoke
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tank simming is simming only dps

plush tendon
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1 target 5 min

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5 target 1:00/1:30

mellow yoke
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but higher dps usually = higher survivability

lusty grotto
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the only thing you dont really sim are Shields and pure defensive trinkets like Mud, for example

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everything else you throw into the clanker

hazy pivot
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appreciate it, ty guys

lusty grotto
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but shields youre using ilvl > all anyway

hazy pivot
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i just went with a crafted one

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ty very much

plush tendon
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my Paladin is really juiced

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but his boots....

hazy pivot
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thats the most alliance character I've ever seen

fathom oasis
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5set new meta?

plush tendon
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Ima make him a blood elf in Midnight

plush tendon
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we need new pantaloons

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I just got the hands yesterday in a Mythic pug

bleak scaffold
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Don't shit on minions !

plush tendon
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but its legit impossible to find boots

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I swear to god

bleak scaffold
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If you had minions crocs on your paladin you'll be happy !

plush tendon
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granted I did just sell mythic boe boots for 750k

bleak scaffold
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πŸ₯³

patent scroll
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Mythic BoEs exist? peepologs

plush tendon
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I should be farming mythic boes

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mythic boe rings are going for a arm and a leg

fathom oasis
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fdk bis stats i think

torpid dome
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how much does an arm and a leg cost nowadays?

patent scroll
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They have random stats though

plush tendon
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hope for good random stats

fathom oasis
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ah, the most expensive ones i think

bleak scaffold
plush tendon
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there is distinct lack of mastery/crit rings/necks this tier

fathom oasis
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crit mastery i think? can't remember

patent scroll
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I mean admittedly we did get one ring, like a week before you could trade them ratge

torpid dome
plush tendon
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prob 5-6 mill

torpid dome
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ufff

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would you guys sell it if you get one?

plush tendon
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100%

patent scroll
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Absolutely

jagged pier
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1000%

bleak scaffold
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I mean if you get a BOE Myth, it means you are running Myth raid and have more chance to get one from vault/loot sooooo

plush tendon
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id sell it, buy it again, just to sell it a second time

lusty grotto
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but yeah i would sell, fuck it

jagged pier
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if u keep a boe u get or buy boes u are just dumb

bleak scaffold
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πŸ€‘

lime spruce
plush tendon
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after this reset

fathom oasis
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would you take a myth ring or €250 in blizz cash

plush tendon
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if Paladin cant get boots from Mythic raid or HM...

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we crafting some

jagged pier
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i already did

plush tendon
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my war crafts are a little behind

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since we sent on wep and shield

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and replaced them

lime spruce
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Oof

plush tendon
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now I got bracers and belt

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and I kind of want to try some fury

fathom oasis
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heresy

lime spruce
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Is fury the prot retirement home

lusty grotto
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i did 2h into bracers for fury first

fathom oasis
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straight into carpal tunnel territory

lusty grotto
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so 4th spark was shield for me since ive been unlucky and cant open vaults with prot

plush tendon
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Id like to pratice my dps chops a bit

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been playing tank so long

fathom oasis
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although i guess prot has more APM currently?

plush tendon
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I should be able to dps on a whim

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and not be a complete dunderhead

plush tendon
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I can already heal up to 12s on my cool resto shaman

jagged pier
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ramapage counts as 3 casts or logs

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unless they fixed it

lime spruce
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I tried Arms again on ?? Ky’veza and wooooooo was I rusty

jagged pier
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like spirits for shadow count as a cast

fathom oasis
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but like, how many buttons are you actually pressing a minute

jagged pier
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81

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ish

lime spruce
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No way fury has higher APM than Prot right?

plush tendon
blazing ridge
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yeah 80s sounds about right

lime spruce
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W/ all the oGCD rage dumping we have to do

lusty grotto
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its similar

plush tendon
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both are high APM classes

lusty grotto
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prot pally too

plush tendon
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yea, Prot Paladin pressing lots of buttons

lime spruce
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Switching my oGCD mit to mouse wheel scrolling is the best QoL thing I’ve done for myself, wish I knew to do that before my grind lol

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It feels sane to play again

lusty grotto
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πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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R and F work just fine for me

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and like ghash mentioned

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i like having camera control

fathom oasis
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SS on Q, TB on E

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QEQEQEQE

lusty grotto
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they said ogcds

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so SB and IP

lime spruce
fathom oasis
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just macro them to SS and TB

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embrace the QEQEQE

lusty grotto
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NO

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/ban Nephtus

lusty grotto
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no

bleak scaffold
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I'm curious, how are you binds ? :x I mean you move ZQSD (sorry ZASD for the US), using the keys around, first digits 1 to or 5 and then with Shift, Ctrl ?

lusty grotto
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this is seriosuly banned

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there is no embracing, youre doing it wrong if you do that

fathom oasis
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all you'd need to do after that is just macro Shield Wall and LS as well, for optimal uptime

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from the creators of the 1 button rotation

coarse bay
bleak scaffold
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W πŸ˜„ my bad

lime spruce
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I’m calling a wellness check on you @fathom oasis

fathom oasis
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i jest, i jest

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OR DO I

solid sun
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SS 1, TC/TB 2, Revenge 3, SB 4, Execute 5, taunt 6, IP E

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With an mmo mouse

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So cozy comfy

lime spruce
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I’m a weirdo I have all my base keys on letters and I use 1-4 and shift 1-4 for cooldowns

lusty grotto
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i dont use an mmo mouse

fathom oasis
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my oGCDs are on X,C and my generators are on Q,E. Send help pls

lusty grotto
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but 3-4-5-R-F are prime real estate for skills i use a lot

lime spruce
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C is interrupt

fathom oasis
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mouse button for interrupt here

lime spruce
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I have charge on R because it’s been there for me since 2005

cerulean tusk
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3-4 and shift 3-4 is prime spots

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5 is a bit out of the way, and perfect for execute

plush tendon
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wait, yall keybind?

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I thought clicking was the way

lime spruce
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Given how much class pruning is coming in Midnight I may use leveling to re-do my binds somewhat substantially

bleak scaffold
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I'm trying to! clicking too much :x

fathom oasis
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i wonder how high you could get your apm by using your mouse, exclusively

lime spruce
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Wait you guys are clicking?
/cast Avatar

bleak scaffold
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Or i need to change keyboard because I'm hitting caps lock when trying to shift ...

jagged pier
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no i type it out

plush tendon
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I use a rockband drum set

solid sun
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I wonder how ridiculous typing out abilities would be

lusty grotto
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thats it

plush tendon
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for my rotation

solid sun
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Like imagine just doing a single boss and typing out all of your casts and uses

bleak scaffold
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it's not easy to fetch them from the book you know ... (that is a joke)

fathom oasis
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i need an MDI-style competition where competitors are only allowed to type out their spells

coarse bay
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I was on my dk and my click casting wasnt working so i had to spellbook 2 bresses

plush tendon
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I dont think they be able to complete a dungeon

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one spelling mistake and you lose one of your 5 second GCDs

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XD

fathom oasis
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just have your most used skill* saved to your clipboard

lusty grotto
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windows key + V is so good

plush tendon
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interrupts would be non existent

lusty grotto
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best thing to come out of Win11

solid sun
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What’s the easiest boss in the pool this season

fathom oasis
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what, that's present on W10

solid sun
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For the entire group

plush tendon
lusty grotto
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also the one thing i miss on my linux/mac rigs

lime spruce
jagged pier
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jagged pier
lusty grotto
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im serious

solid sun
# plush tendon Halkias

So do all of Halls normally with the single caveat being that you must do Halkias with all casts and uses typed out

lime spruce
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Wait a second

solid sun
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Could you do it

lime spruce
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You can disable the windows popup w/ the windows key can’t you

fathom oasis
lime spruce
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I literally never thought to use that button I thought you were messing

plush tendon
lusty grotto
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what

plush tendon
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its perfectly alligns with my current skill level

lusty grotto
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Windows key + V is universal clipboard

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which is fucking great

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just press it

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right now

fathom oasis
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yes

lime spruce
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The hell is this???

lusty grotto
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everything youve copied

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and can paste

solid sun
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Would it break my game because rn if I go to my appearances window my game freaks out. Universal Clipboard sounds potentially disastrous

fathom oasis
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Win+V has saved my ass plenty of times

lusty grotto
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it is so good

lime spruce
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Literally never knew about this

fathom oasis
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type first time pass from pass manager > forget to save it > overwrite it pasting something else > panic

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it does create some issues where sensitive data that goes through the clipboard stays there for longer than you might want

past summit
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I use threat plates for frames, the target frames appear over the mobs. Are there any addons that will arrange the enemy plates into a grid, similar to a healer's raid frames?

lime spruce
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I don’t think an addon like that exists and if it does I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone good use it in streams or VODs

lusty grotto
lime spruce
lusty grotto
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if there is a solution, blizzard is actively working against it

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so i advice to not look into this

lime spruce
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My guess is you're trying to solve nameplate clutter and trying to click around to make sure you're interrupting / stunning the right targets or whatever

lusty grotto
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the best you can do is use boss frames, but not for trash

lime spruce
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there are more effective ways to accomplish that then by trying to click through nameplate clutter

solid sun
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I think most of us use plater or something like that because you can have the enemy nameplates to change color based on what they’re aggroed to. Like you or another tank or a non-tank

past summit
lime spruce
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namely knowing who your main target is and using a focus target

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Yep you want to solve that through picking your main target as you pull and using focus targets

past summit
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its not an issue when there are only 2 targets, but when there are many it gets difficult

lime spruce
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weirdly enough the UI not letting you do that is actually teaching you how to approach the game better

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you *generally shouldn't be pulling more than 2 targets that NEED to be kicked and if you are you should be in a coordinated group where you can communicate that stuff

past summit
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in any case, if there are no addons it is a moot point

lime spruce
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yeah but as soon as you asked I figured I knew what problem you were trying to solve and that's the bigger issue

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my #1 lesson in pugging to 3k this season was that our job is much less about surviving tank damage and much more about understanding how to manipulate packs w/ casters and archers into the free melee mobs

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and knowing that you really only want to pull 2 at most (at least for pugging) helped me a shitton

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It helped me understand why the routes are how they are too, it's not just "mob health efficiency"

lusty grotto
lime spruce
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you can pug well into 3k without even using focus targets but marking the second caster for your dps to interrupt

lusty grotto
#

and/or use a kick macro with focus target kick as default and a mod for non-focus kick

#

any combination of that helps a lot

lime spruce
#

Yeah

#

We don't have the CDs to support bouncing around trying to interrupt 6 different guys anyway

#

I had the same frustration as you @past summit so I get it, and nameplate clutter still drives me crazy, but it's actually not the problem it seems like

solid sun
#

How much more difficult is H Dimmy over the normal version

#

I think we’re gonna extend since we killed Saladbar on Tuesday so we can just push for aotc but I’m wondering how likely it is we will have time after killing him for extra activities

lusty grotto
#

extending heroic is a bad idea

#

you need loot

solid sun
#

If we don’t extend we would just do the skip. They have no desire to rekill most bosses outside of the spider

lusty grotto
#

well they should

solid sun
#

Even though they claim they enjoy wow they try to play it as little as possible

lusty grotto
#

heroic dimmy is a step up in diffy

#

but largely the same

#

most notably intermission and p2 changes

solid sun
#

P1 is the same?

lusty grotto
#

that i recall yes

#

well

#

no, actually there's no poop drops in normal

#

so all phases have something new

solid sun
#

Perfect

#

We never did missiles right on Saladbar

#

We killed because the bdk and I could live

#

So this should go swimmingly lol

lusty grotto
#

poop drops and prepositioning in p1, the adds and frontals/miniboss circle in transition, and the tank pulls in p2

#

i think thats about it

#

maybe im wrong about intermission

#

and that was largely the same

#

idk

solid sun
#

Send good vibes for my sanity tomorrow

lusty grotto
#

i wish i could but it sounds like you guys are fucked

#

especially if not farming gear for it

solid sun
#

Our β€œgroup composition ilvl” is 710

plush tendon
#

wait.... extendo on heroic

lime spruce
#

has anyone else tried to play VDH but struggled to transpose the Prot mitigation kit onto it

lusty grotto
#

no i play both regularly

#

wait

plush tendon
#

Im meh on VDH this patch

lusty grotto
#

what do you mean by transpose

plush tendon
#

I just do 4 keys a week on him

#

but, idk

cerulean tusk
#

Spike = block, and so on

lusty grotto
#

just put demon spikes on your shield block bind yes

lime spruce
#

yeah like that, I get that with spikes it's the other buttons I feel less certain I'm getting right

lusty grotto
#

spike gap inc? use Fel Dev

#

and then use Meta on CD, its not really hard tbh

lime spruce
#

is metamorph closer to shield wall or last stand

lusty grotto
#

its stronger than LS

#

way stronger

#

so it can be a wall

#

but brand is a better wall

solid sun
#

Do you not send meta almost on cd and plan around it

#

I would think you rarely would want to sit on it

lusty grotto
#

when i say brand i mean fiery brand

#

also there's a lot more emphasys on stacking frailty

#

than punish for us

#

super important to do so as vdh

plush tendon
#

you can plan pulls around your meta timing

lusty grotto
#

yup

solid sun
#

I assumed so

plush tendon
#

the thing to get used to about VDH is that they dont really have the same number of CDs as a Prot War

#

its basicaly fiery brand, fel dev, meta

lusty grotto
#

i mean they do

#

immo aura is MDR

#

there is slightly more reliance on having spikes + frailty up sure

#

but available at all times, youre right

#

since cdr is scarse, if it exists

lime spruce
#

I think it's frailty that my prot brain is having hte most trouble trusting

#

like I see the number, number look good, but because I'm not really pressing mit button per se it's spooky

lusty grotto
#

shouldnt be, cause youre already stacking punish as warrior

lime spruce
#

bro code tells me I'm obligated to out myself here I have no idea what Punish is

lusty grotto
#

and frailty is just something that happens from shear + SoF amongst others, just tunnel what hits you hardest

#

put it in your talents search

cerulean tusk
lime spruce
#

Ohhh okay I did know that

#

am I supposed to be tab targeting around to spread that?

cerulean tusk
#

Nop, effect stacks

plush tendon
#

I never think about punish

#

its there, its exists

lime spruce
#

okay yah taht's how I've been treating it

plush tendon
#

talent gives SS damage

#

good enough for me

cerulean tusk
#

well, stacking is the wrong word, per se. It stacks and overlap, but dont extend

lime spruce
#

"cool it makes bosses hit me a little less hard"

#

I mean like if I'm in a group of melee should I be trying to spread it around, it hasn't mattered yet really

#

feels more like a single target mitigator

plush tendon
#

yea, as long as your pressing SS on CD

cerulean tusk
#

dont think about it

plush tendon
#

theres not much else to think about

cerulean tusk
#

it is just there

lime spruce
#

great

#

yeah by comparison frailty feels a lot more relevant to how to understand VDH

#

and why it lives in big pulls

plush tendon
#

so, with VDH the biggest thing to be concerned with is soul gen and soul abosorbtion

#

in AoE

lime spruce
#

and for whatever reason my brain understands "you take 20% less damage from all sources" more than "enemies deal 20% less damage to you"

#

Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

plush tendon
#

in ST Frality is more important

lime spruce
#

🀣 see this is why I'm all jacked up

lusty grotto
#

nah frailty is important in both

#

you have more than enough tools to spread frailty in aoe

#

But be mindful of prio targetting, because frailty does get more stacks on whatever you're targetting

#

And of course, get the funnel right as reaver

sinful copper
#

What is this stinky dh talk

lusty grotto
#

Whatever you glaive should always be the prio target and should never be some little critter that's about to die, and you always go fracture into shear soul cleave after for the brrr combo

#

At least this season due to tier

lime spruce
#

prot I actually understood well enough to learn that piece so now coming in other tanks I have better context to play them with

lusty grotto
#

OK sorbitol is right, enough dh talk

lime spruce
#

yeah yeah

#

why you gotta be named sorbitol though

#

bad memories mang

lime spruce
#

I miss all the haste on my main warr 😭 actually have to think about when to smash active mit button on [redacted other toons]

lusty grotto
#

fixed

round pendant
#

oh jesus that's an old message

#

why does discord just not scroll to the latest

coarse bay
#

:0

round pendant
#

I should post my keybinds

coarse bay
#

Yuh

#

Show and tell

lofty warren
#

How get blizz to buff pwar even though they are fine like they did for bm hunters?

round pendant
#

can't

#

good players play pwar so they don't look undertuned on wcl

round pendant
#

keep in mind this is usually all hidden

lofty warren
#

So we need to have yodar not touch pwar anymore. Idk how such things can be done

round pendant
#

yoda touching pwar will help our case in getting buffed

coarse bay
# round pendant

Looks good, ive always played mmo mouse so i dont use that many keyboard binds

lofty warren
bleak scaffold
#

Never tried mmo mouse. I always as afraid to press 2 keys at once :x

#

You have like the razer naga? With 10-12 buttons in the side right?

lofty warren
#

Also alt 5 for avatar is yucky unless ur using a mmo mouse

coarse bay
#

My naga stopped working, im using corsair scimitar again rn, ive used scimitars for like 10ish years

lofty warren
#

Naga with the buttons is my favorite. I used corsair but multiple times all my settings memory got reset and it was a pain reconfiguring

coarse bay
#

The naga feels so good, but it stopped working pretty quick after buying so i didnt want to try another

coarse bay
bleak scaffold
#

Maybe I’ll give it a try thank you guys

undone beacon
#

mmo mouse is for chumps real gamers use an ergonomic ball mouse

shrewd grove
#

I use V as in aVatar

round pendant
#

shift+6 is fine for me and I have womanly hands

#

but I don't press it, that spell isn't even talented this season

#

alt+6 was awful tho, so I made it alt+e instead

shrewd grove
#

6 bound and alt bindings but no F? 😱

round pendant
#

I just don't need any more buttons otherwise I'd add alt+qrf in there somewhere

jagged gust
#

I play with a guy who uses the numpad for camera movement, so he's got two hands on the keyboard and maps half their abilities to 0-9...

coarse bay
#

Any time i try changing a bind to be better, i always drop back into muscle memory and need to go back. I do ignore pain on 3 and leap on r, i tried putting ignore pain on r like my other tanks but just cant

#

Tried moving grip from r on my dk and went a whole key wondering why my grip macro wasnt working

plush tendon
#

unironically, one of the best ways to learn new binds is make a new toon

coarse bay
#

I dont need more :0

plush tendon
#

and each time you get a new spell, put them on the new bind you like

#

well, you just delete after

coarse bay
#

I already have every class, and duplicates. Dreading legion remix

#

I think my biggest bind regrets is t for trinkets and y for pots

#

But i started that in legion

dawn herald
#

is pacemaker better than astral antenna?

coarse bay
#

I think usually antenna is better as long as u arent missing the orbs, but def sim it

dawn herald
#

thanks

undone beacon
idle copper
#

is it a tier token or crafting spark on the next reset?

undone beacon
#

Catalyst next reset

idle copper
#

ty

round pendant
coarse bay
#

Tbh if i move my ignore pain, ill have so few buttons on my mouse, idk what id do

#

I did force the change on my pally last season thanks to the tier set tho

oak ivy
#

i have a 12 button mouse but i only use 6 of them, the other 6 feel super weird to get to

remote tusk
round pendant
#

them's not the same

remote tusk
#

keybinds, not the same abilities bound to the key

#

just unsure why you'd keep dead abilities on some

sinful copper
#

i've been doing lfr, normal, and heroic soul hunters every week and still no boots. should i just craft a pair or is that a waste? lol

round pendant
remote tusk
lusty grotto
#

you want ilvl not vet tracks

sinful copper
#

yeah thats what i figured

round pendant
#

wait what

undone beacon
#

It’s not a waste to craft boots

round pendant
#

it's a waste to spend that time not crafting boots

undone beacon
#

It’s a waste to farm reshii boots

sinful copper
#

huh?

remote tusk
lusty grotto
#

a waste to farm soul hunters boots

round pendant
#

unless you play fury/arms

#

ig

lusty grotto
#

not even close

#

sim them and youll see

undone beacon
#

I think Nim meant it’s a waste to farm boots instead of craft, not a waste to craft

sinful copper
#

ohhhh okay, that was confusing

lusty grotto
#

they are a good dps increase for dps roles, but not at anything under hero track

round pendant
#

crafted boots > hero reshi boots

sinful copper
#

damn for real?

undone beacon
#

Yeah

lusty grotto
#

any ilvl increase is better

round pendant
#

yeah the cantrip is just whatever

#

for tanks

lusty grotto
#

the cantrip is a nice bonus but you dont really want to sac ilvl for it

sinful copper
#

okay cool, so ill just craft boots at reset then, in case i get some

round pendant
#

that's the play

mellow yoke
#

3 score away from 3600 sadge

round pendant
#

beg blizzard to nerf ara-kara timer

mellow yoke
#

I just timed arak

undone beacon
#

Blizzard should add 18 minutes to every timer cuz I said so

mellow yoke
#

With 2 mins

lusty grotto
#

AK timer is fine

#

dont fucking go right (and dont pull bloodguards that dont need to be pulled)

#

problem solved

#

we've gone over this

jagged pier
undone beacon
#

Hard mode TV week 1 experience

sinful copper
#

@mellow yoke how many times do you press revenge in a key? do u even bother using the proc revenges?

orchid narwhal
#

Yk its crazy how much better good players are

orchid narwhal
#

I just timed 17 halls and I was like damn that felt good

#

Then I realized I wasted 7,000 rage

#

Wp noob tank

round pendant
#

7000 holy

mellow yoke
#

How do u manage that

orchid narwhal
#

Yea literally lmfao

round pendant
#

that's like 30% or something

orchid narwhal
#

well i know what i did

#

i was shotcalling for the first time cuz ive started inviting people into discord for keys

#

and tbh that has made the 17s feel like 14s

#

like straight up

#

so i wasnt really looking too much beyond just hitting buttons at my rotation

sinful copper
orchid narwhal
#

But alos I wanetd to try this talent

mellow yoke
orchid narwhal
#

And ngl i know its objectively WORSE, but it feels so much better

mellow yoke
#

If smaller pulls less

#

On big pulls I press it a lot

round pendant
orchid narwhal
#

w nothing

coarse bay
round pendant
#

ITF should feel fine πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

orchid narwhal
#

Thats what I mean by objectively it should be okay

#

but its just smthn else to track, which is a bit hard when shotcalling

#

bleh

#

this way i could juts forget abt it

coarse bay
#

Still a ton of wasted rage, spam that IP for me

jagged gust
#

as long as the dungeon is timed you do you, boo

orchid narwhal
#

Yea for sure

#

Its a lot to get better at

mellow yoke
#

Wasted rage equals less shield wall

#

And avatar

cerulean tusk
#

Crit/Mast is underrated, and is fun as a sidebuild

orchid narwhal
#

Yea for sure

round pendant
#

You're a fun sidebuild

orchid narwhal
#

Just stuff I gotta work at improving

cerulean tusk
#

D'aww, Yam so wholesome lately

jagged gust
#

took me until this xpac to realize the power of the low haste build

orchid narwhal
#

I gotta figure out a different keybind for things, I think some more important things are too far out of my range

#

Ngl though its fun, going from outlaw rogue to prot war in one month

#

Lots to press, lots of mistakes to make, lots of fun

round pendant
#

huh

jagged gust
#

outlaw rogue is best rogue

round pendant
#

outlaw is way harder

jagged gust
#

you're on the right path

round pendant
#

pwar should feel like a walk in the park

orchid narwhal
#

Mmmm

#

Idk comes easier to me

#

Rogue in general comes p easy to me

#

Its my main, Im just playing tank cuz i wanna do more M+

round pendant
#

what tank should I learn

#

bdk or vdh

cerulean tusk
#

BDK, 100%

orchid narwhal
#

vdh sorta boring rotationally

cerulean tusk
#

Pwarrior and BDK are polar opposites, so is great for that reason alone

orchid narwhal
#

throw glaice fracture soul cleave ggs u mastered the offensive rotation

round pendant
#

so much effort gearing a character from s1 tho

orchid narwhal
#

675 gear in like 20 min

#

Just go to all the renown vendors and grab weathered crests

#

Then craft it

#

Grab trinkets from siren isles

#

Do arathi highlands for whatever you can't fill in

round pendant
#

my alts never got those rep rewards refreshed

#

and idk why

orchid narwhal
#

Are you on NA

round pendant
#

nah

orchid narwhal
#

I'll carry your dh through a 10 before reset if you need one

#

Damn sadga

#

On another note, being able to call spell reflect

#

laughing what the fuck is that

coarse bay
#

Why choose one tank and not do all

nocturne spindle
#

what was that even reflecting

#

priory last boss?

lusty grotto
#

thats what happens when you do no damage

#

also

#

its very likely priory since you can reflect 2 different bosses

nocturne spindle
#

whats the 2nd thing you can reflect?

#

miniboss fireballs???

cerulean tusk
#

Shield throw thingie and targets

lusty grotto
#

2nd boss ...

nocturne spindle
#

oh

#

neat

round pendant
#

imagine getting declined from a 7 when I've done it on 12

cerulean tusk
#

Cause u bad

#

and should feel bad

round pendant
#

clearly

orchid narwhal
#

That is one boss

#

3rd boss of halls

solid sun
#

I knew it was halls!

#

Spell reflect blasts off into infinity on that boss it’s so sick

lusty grotto
#

yup

solid sun
#

I’ve finally got my team to just ignore kicks on that boss and I handle all of em solo

orchid narwhal
#

Actually crazy how much it does

#

I knew people were talking abouit spell reflect as this massive time save in higher keys

#

but ive never had comms in a key before until like an hour ago

#

and i am sh ocked LOL

#

im literally a 4th dps

#

And prot war dmg is already giga

solid sun
#

My healer doesn’t want to do halls without pwar because they hate if that boss goes too long

#

And they’re big happy when they see all that spell reflect damage cutting the boss kill time down

shut summit
#

uhhh proly not til turbo boost, haven't really been playing that much, just sporadically

solid sun
#

Did you participate in the fellowship beta? I think that was this past weekend right?

lusty grotto
cerulean tusk
#

NL last boss SR gladge

lusty grotto
#

just last boss?

#

cause all of the bosses were reflectable there, except maybe for the first one

undone beacon
#

Halls of Infusion boss melter beam

#

mmmmmm

cerulean tusk
#

Melter beam?

undone beacon
#

Yeeee the uhhhh channel that water boy did

round pendant
#

I'm retiring from healing

#

These clowns are just getting hit by everything imaginable

#

I hate low keys

undone beacon
#

Just heal harder 4head

round pendant
#

and getting into groups on my rogue is just absolutely demoralizing

violet ginkgo
mellow yoke
#

How about

#

Its prot warr meta

#

Every ssn

#

And other tanks are just inferior

#

Actually this season is nice

#

There is much more variation

#

To anything

frosty mango
#

Yes prot wars are unreasonably tanky

#

-# that’s sarcasm

coarse bay
#

Last season wasnt bad with tank variety, people just pay too much attention to the bleeding edge meta

frosty mango
#

If only there were some data that could tell us whether or not variety was bad

#

Someone should get on that

coarse bay
#

Ok maybe not variety, but viability

mellow yoke
#

Physical comps last season were just so few

coarse bay
#

For a large majority of people, any tank was fine

mellow yoke
#

Im talking

#

Big boy keys

#

Variety

#

You see some prot pals

#

Some brews

#

Hell even a few VDHs every once and then

#

Last season was VDH or no invite

vocal cave
#

whats your cd plan for mythic salhadaar 1st phase?

frosty mango
#

Every tank is viable every season at every level

#

That hasn’t changed in many years

mellow yoke
#

I mean

coarse bay
#

Once a β€œmeta comp” is figured out and decided on, itll be the same as every season

mellow yoke
#

Have you tanked psf 1st boss with PPal last season

frosty mango
#

When the was the last season a tank didn’t title

mellow yoke
#

1 mistake and it was ggs

frosty mango
#

And there were in fact many paladins who did so at very high key levels which means it’s perfectly viable lol

mellow yoke
#

There was

#

Around 6 PPals

#

Last season

#

That title’d

#

Against how much VDHs

coarse bay
#

And many of the top tanks couldve done it as pally too, its just teams rolling the absolute best

#

Thats how meta works

frosty mango
#

The conversation is dangerous because it just feeds into the already dumb community sentiment that the only thing that’s viable is meta, which fuels fotm rerolls every season

lusty grotto
frosty mango
#

It’s a fact that basically every season, every tank is viable, and no tank is necessarily β€œbetter” than another in a vacuum.

lusty grotto
#

thats not how meta works

#

meta works on group synergy

frosty mango
#

It’s the comp interaction that decides what meta is

lusty grotto
#

period

#

tank pick isnt made because of x and y reason belonging to the tank, they are picked because they synergize

#

FDK meta? Battle Shout + Skyfury

coarse bay
#

Ya, and none of the top tanks will play pally if there is a better tank for the comp. Doesnt mean a pally cant do it

lusty grotto
#

sure, we're not saying that at all

mellow yoke
#

I mean ofc people can do it

#

However

coarse bay
#

I was just arguing viability and he brought up the metrics at the top

mellow yoke
#

It is much harder

frosty mango
#

It isn’t though

lusty grotto
#

the question "whether a tank can do it or not" is not something thats relevant nowdays, not even in DF

frosty mango
#

It isn’t harder

mellow yoke
#

But if u pug

#

Its borderline impossible

frosty mango
#

But that is a community problem

#

Not a viability or game design problem

mellow yoke
#

Meta is just the comp people decided to run, not the only viable one

frosty mango
#

Which brings me back to why those types of conversations just feed that issue

lusty grotto
#

yeah its pointless

frosty mango
#

I’m like ultra anti streamer sentiment don’t mind me lol

mellow yoke
#

If you dont go meta you are kind of neglected

lusty grotto
#

people will copy without thought because they think having x, y and z class makes it easier, so "apparent" lack of friction always pulls in decision making

mellow yoke
#

I personally rerolled warr this season

#

But i went in with the mentality to chase high score

#

So I just play only warrior

#

And try to master it

jagged pier
#

what happens when meta changes?

mellow yoke
#

If this season meta changes ill stick with warr

#

Since im alr comitted

#
  • no time for other chars
undone beacon
#

Reject β€œmeta” return to bear

mellow yoke
#

When was bear last meta

vocal cave
#

df s2

mellow yoke
#

Bear is cool tank

undone beacon
#

Right now cuz I’m playing it

#

Easy

gray mirage
#

Has anyone had issues taunting H dim? I taunt him as I’m getting knocked back when dbm says to taunt. I’m pulling more than double the dps of the other tank yet I’m not getting agro and at times it’s telling me I’m too close to taunt which makes no sense to me

undone beacon
#

I’m gearing an aug evoker rn, maybe if I’m bored I’ll push io on it

coarse bay
#

Just keep all tanks geared, or at least vaulting. Play what u want to later

undone beacon
undone beacon
#

I keep 2-3 tanks in the wings and then dick around on Hunter or mage in my spare time

#

I also just don’t like playing BDK or VDH so I’m not gonna force myself to

mellow yoke
#

I have

#

2 days a week

#

I cant fit 4x 8x10

#

And raiding

undone beacon
#

Not with that attitude

mellow yoke
#

And pushing rio

digital salmon
#

and 4 kids and 2 wives

undone beacon
#

Multibox six different tanks at the same time easy

plush tendon
#

yea, theres too much woe is me in here right now

#

just zug zug

tepid raptor
#

oi, i got some issues where i cant see when enemies is buffed by some aura or shit on platers. For instance tacticians rage buff. Any tips on how to get them? I got naows package

undone beacon
#

If you can’t play VDH and prot warr at the same time you’re bad

digital salmon
#

Pull and Elon musk and pay some guy to push ro for you

undone beacon
#

But what if you were playing it at the same time as prot warr

#

Easy

mellow yoke
#

Hm

torn ginkgo
#

does Intervene work on the physical portion of Vanquish (big cone frontal on Nexus king)? our comp is not amazing for externals and just wondered if it worked

mellow yoke
#

Why do you need externals

#

For vanquish

#

Is that mythic

tepid raptor
#

oi, i got some issues where i cant see when enemies is buffed by some aura or shit on platers. For instance tacticians rage buff. Any tips on how to get them? I got naows package

torn ginkgo
jagged pier
#

its not blockable so i doubt it

mellow yoke
jagged pier
#

i mean

#

we SR it

orchid narwhal
#

Update your stuff

torn ginkgo
jagged pier
#

it deflects the whole thing

orchid narwhal
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Jf its still not working after that, find a different plater

mellow yoke
torn ginkgo
jagged pier
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i doubt it will do anything

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as u have ot be within 10 yards which your unlikely to be

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and a monk should be able to solo it right?

mellow yoke
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Well, try it

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Doubt it works

round pendant
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I'm gonna crash out

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I need a guild lmao

plush tendon
jagged pier
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do it

round pendant
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no

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I won't

round pendant
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I'm not allowed to play dps because half the tanks in pugs are incompetent as hell

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and getting into groups is miserable as always

jagged pier
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why u think i tank. i just anggy so go back to tank

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i was supposed to dps first tier

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and go annoyed by boss 2

round pendant
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I just wonder what goes through these peoples' heads

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it really can't be much

mellow yoke
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Idk why they removed the one button rotation WA

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That shows when people use it

jagged pier
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because its toxic towards ppl that use it

mellow yoke
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Thats community issue

jagged pier
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im tell u, u are playing with ppl useing no blizzard one buttons

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and u have no clue

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so it really doesnt matter

mellow yoke
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Bro

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U cant tell me

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People at 700+ ilvl

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Are doing well below tank damage

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And not using OBR

jagged pier
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we have proof of top io warriors using one button macros

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so shruge

mellow yoke
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Thats

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Much different

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From OBR

jagged pier
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its not it one button

undone beacon
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people that do well below tank damage are prob not using OBR, it takes a special kind of not hitting buttons properly

mellow yoke
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Obr does a wrong rotation

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And has a gcd penalty

jagged pier
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but for some classes its not really a dps loss

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or doesnt effect them as much

mellow yoke
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I mean

coarse bay
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I dont think any class performs well with it

jagged pier
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no one button macro or thing will ever perform at the top

mellow yoke
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For some with a simpler rotation

coarse bay
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The tettles thing isnt something good to go off of

jagged pier
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this is a one button macro for prot

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used in high push keys in the past

coarse bay
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Oh nice

jagged pier
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its just shows u dont need to top perfom to do high keys

orchid narwhal
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Take it from me

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I just did a 18 halls where i wasted 4500 rage

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Im setting records

mellow yoke
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An improvement from 7000 wasted

jagged pier
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can just focus on mechanics and intuprts with one button if u loose like 10% too not wipe a key probably fine