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there is a bug if you ask a craft without putting rank max required, it eats your crests or smth
well did a dungeon and no one died. or got close to.
but normal means diddly squat in the scheme of things.
Oh wow I made a shield today and said rank 5 and it worked.. that sucks though for people that happening to 😔
I had 285 ilvl item crafted for me today and it worked fine
Armor looks great on female Mag'har, its why i picked it lmao
any 2900 tanks na (est) want to join mythic team? (2965 resto druid here)
Why would you hope that
because sleep is important 
It'd make the difference on a fight that plays out almost identically/if you're just simply lucky 🙂
but most of parsing is abusing the mechanics of an encounter anyhow, so
what do you guys think about void elf teleport for making pulls?
I'm not a tank, but honestly after it got buffed probs not bad
the teleport got buffed?
i'm just not sure how to use it as a prot
Point it at the next pack as the one ur finishing is dying, pop it and pull it
What are yalls take on the 4th apex talent for prot? There is quite a few good talents on the spec side that I always thought it felt bad having to stick 4 into apex. Have been playing 3 so far.
No reason to not take the 4th point, its a lot of damage plus its the only defensive value out of the whole apex.
There isnt a single point worth more you can move it into
Before when the DR was tied to the 1st point, there were theoretically builds that could give up pieces of the apex but even then it was losing a lot of damage for some marginal defensive gains elsewhere
If execute was good it may be a different story but

For mythics plus should i focus stats Haste > Critical Strike = Versatility > Mastery
top warriors on raider io are taking it, was kinda of following their builds for m+
anyone using knight commanders palisade crafted shield have any comments regarding the effect? ive found it quite underwhelming but then its better than a 285 shield with no effect right
Mine did 350k over the course of m10 seat and absorbed 190k damage
You’re almost always better just going with the generic embellishments rather than the baked-in ones
Man, this season BSV is mandatory even in 10s if you wanna pull bigger
Was hoping to have both TaN and Shield block value but guess not
Are people going haste/vers or crit?
man, i can't get a trinket for shit
what is that
I mean its not
yes
omg i just ruined a heroic run. feels bad
ffs i hit my challenging shout skill on accident while trying to grab aggro in voidspire 1st boss
grabbed the boss and the adds
-_-
had to leave after that everyone wasn't too happy with me since i messed up just before.
wanted to vent. thanks for listening
Things like that are what is wrong with most of gaming. There's no tolerance for mistakes, retrying, learning and getting better. What the hell man. Be lucky you didn't continue with them, because sure as hell it wouldn't have been a fun time running a damn game with them, even if it's about progression. Rant over
Haste/crit.
Happens to the best of us. I've messed up a couple of mythic bosses like that. 😄
The adds on the first boss goes to the tank that has the highest amount of stacks
So do not worry on trying to grab aggro
They will get to ya
Wow. See i remember hearing it in a video but got a little overwhelmed with everything going on
Ok so no need to taunt at all. Makes sense
After the third add gets free, it will cast a debuff on you
So just use your thunderclap to deal some damage and keep the aggro after the debuff goes off
And use your defensives
Cause if you don't have a high ilvl, their hits will hurt a lot
Demoralizing Shout and Shield Wall combo
Right on. Thank you piccolo
you're welcome
what should i drop to get crackling thunder?
Bounding stride, max rage, Shockwave cd redux, 10% more healing. Whatever you'd like.
I finally beat the nemesis ??. All it took was 10 more item level and 2 piece bonus
This combo i like holy
Academy, the trash between Vexamus and the main plaza: all casts are being interrupted, all defensivess are up (Shield Block, Ignore Pain), the fight is on (mobs are at 40-60% HP), and I’m sitting comfortably at 80-100% HP. No big dmg Spikes. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I take a massive hit and drop to 20-30% HP.
​Unfortunately, I haven't been able to check the logs yet.
I heard of another tank making similar experience. Can you guys say anything about this?
gotta stun the corrupted manafiends
I know the battleaxes used to apply bleed but now its just straight arcane damage per hit
You can go in the MDT and right click the mob and see their abilities to check and confirm with warcraft logs if this is true
Yeah I have to study Logs etc next time. I'm here just to see if this happend to anyone else
Btw - what's this addon
Mythic dungeon tools
Oh uhh, Chonky character sheet
Thanks!
hello !
Icyveins says this is the initial rotation for AoE, does anyone know why revenge and not shield slam ?
Basically as the article says it's a rotation for gaining aggro not for pumping giga dmg
And as @wicked pollen said, Shield Slam without your apex talent is just a ST ability, so you didn't get too much aggro for AoE
Optimal is casting sslam and TC alternating isn't it?
Even of we sit on multiple charges
i have 0 clue
but using Thunder blast gives you the apex talent for the next shield slam, so wouldn't it be better to shield slam and then use revenge ?
i mash my keybaoard
You cast Revenge, because Shield Charge gives you a free revenge
It's more wide than the apex
So better for getting aggro
Ofc dmg wise better to do TB and Shield Slam
but aggro > damage
your damage as tank is irrelevant compared to your dps living
that's right, i didn't know the range was wider on revenge
And the article is just for starters, after time you get your own style
Not much but a little wider
hi everyone, i jsut checked wowhead and archon.gg to see rotation. they dont use shield block at all? just spam ignore pain as much as possible
I'm sure both of those imply as close to 100% uptime on shield block as possible while actively tanking.
ya im not sure if they consider it rotational
it'll be highest priority when getting hit, and still high when not
Im hesitant between the 285 craft of shield or weapon. I'm tented to go weapon because wprot is already tanky enough and want to max to 288 with weekly vault the shield, but at the same time there is not a single shield with Haste+Crit in the entire lootpool, while the hast+crit 1h is fairly accessible in M+ seat (i'm doing mostly m+). Any reco ?
the 3% leech or the bandage talent imo
Most important stat by a mile on a shield is shield block value, so ilvl is king.
If you got a good chance to get the Shield from raid early, I would craft something other than it.
If you dont, then I would craft the Shield and maybe waste a shard from the vault shield pick next reset 
Well, week is soon over. You could just hold till after vault

Cant you craft both with 4 shards?
funky ayuda me
What do you mean
wym
It used to be bugged, giving only value on VR
Maybe it still is. It is quite pointless
okay
Happy clapping
With 4 Set Revenge is Free after SC
Me personally I'm satisfied with it being only day 3 or 4. I'm personally just going to wait to open vault and decide there
theres more days left in the week than days that passed man :D
well ig not if ur na

does nightmare prey itself give heroic gear or does it give the item that lets you get a map in delve that is heroic itself
The weekly quest for 3 nightmare hunts rewards the item that summons the Nemesis to your delve who drops the map that lets you get the heroic trove
Is there a minimum haste cap to have 100% block shield uptime?
So do the bosses need weakauras
I haven’t watched any of the mythic bosses, but I’m wondering if Blizzard successfully designed their bosses with the addon purge in mind
If I'm in full hero gear, whats the point of holding crests?
love doing keys with pugs and DPS standing in every puddle and killing the whole party smh
so far it seems like an easy raid
but we dont have the last 2 bosses yet
most bosses so far have been 10 pull bosses for the guilds doing them
One of the things I remember was the higher end raiding community praising the loss of weakauras because they said they didn’t really wanna use those things anyway and only did because they needed to
But it kinda looks like all three of the RWF guilds are still using them
there arent weakauras telling you what to do or assigning roles
so u need to actually pay attention to if u get something and make a decision
but reminders and timers are all still there
Gotcha
they havent had many mechanics that stand out for that
Isn’t that what max is there to do. Be the timeline and reminderer
itd be something like paladins soaks, something assigning where to go and splitting groups accordingly or something
ya RL is the dbm
It seems like they made an easy raid and made all these addon changes just for the big three guilds to still end up using all the same stuff
There is and they will likely not be released to public
But Blizz will nerf the raid before it matter
So there are mechanics that require weakauras
The paladins dispels
That’s unfortunate
they will likely nerf that
They have kick WA for saladbar kicks but not required at all
I might be late to the party but I've been doing a little tanking to make keys fast. And personally I feel like the 4set absolutely sucks. Am I alone in this ?
Got it yesterday, haven"t tanked any key since. Is it just a free revenge proc ?
almost every tier set sucks, not really an outlier
it's just some free damage
first season of expansion tier sets are usually underwhelming.
Yeah agree. But I think most of the dps ones are actually decent well I like the fury one anyway. A similar effect on reducing the cooldown on shield charge would be very nice imo.
from a noob perspective it is seen as big boost that your major dmg CD is increased by 100%
just the way its worded
save 50%
everyones excited
its like how in nexus you get 300% dps
for more than 2 seconds
who the hell doesnt want that
nope
I want to see what I can do on my own merit
whatever do biggest dmg output from me and my team
Not after getting boosted by some light show
i will ALWAYS take that option and go the nuclear route
that, and first boss of nexus
ppl randomly die, mostly to the orb crash it seems
and i wonder how much of that is me placing boss right, and marked doing its job
seems like it has big potential to be insta wipe on tyranical 10-15s lol
Talking about trinkets, how good are the Darkmoon trinkets if crafted at 285?
Looking at Bloodmallet they seem to be pretty good
or, i would put that on, if you want to be slightly more live more
old me would want it for "311 haste" disregarding proc and 12 seconds
If the haste would always procc would be fun
so, you could probably have 311 haste, at random mind you, 30% ish of the time
Staying with 250 heart and the main stat on use pvp trinket with 1 min cd and crit as constant stat
come on more patron orders
hang on i got some similiar trinkets, 1 sec
i have this on warrior
That globule definettly looks much more fun than the egg
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/pzP69xHA1ZWYBGnk?fight=3&type=damage-done&source=16
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/CRX8ygjHT6YMNKrZ?fight=37&source=3&type=damage-done
Hey can someone help me figure how why i do 20k less dps than this guy
Why am i getting turbo gapped
Is it literally just gear? I don't want to just blame gear but i'm actually getting fucking owned and i think i'm pretty good at this game
oh i was running HR the whole night
on a boss that melee swings 10 times in the entire encounter
ok honestly ignore me my talent setup is griefing hard
no worries
just be sure to add "raid" and "keys" to your build name
or HR ITF or some shit some abbreviation of abilities u took
I still don't get why the gap is that big off like two different talent choices and 8 ilvls
yeah i guess he got 12 more slams in 1 minute shorter encounter
well his fight is 1 min shorter lol
yo! how terrible is though as nails? i dont see anyone using it
tough as nails is way overtuned
Crit luck a bit maybe
every build should have that talent i think
Hard to tell on phone
But they have 4 more ss cast per mintue than h and 1 more cpm of tc at least
Over a fight thats a bit
idk how you tested it, was on 12/13 and it bassicaly does nothing
it should be doing like 5% of your damage
that's pretty good for a passive halfway up the tree
He has 10 more ilvl than you, likely better trinkets to dps, you wiped, and then I would need to check timeline but phone so awful to do
like wtf else are you gonna pick, deep wounds? sudden death?
ah i guess we have a different perspective on overtuned 😄
mmm in the sense that mine is right and yours is wrong yeah
sorry that was rude
but yeah
To much damage for 1 point
And is more damage than execute + execute talent even on st
thank you blizzard i love our talent tree 🙂
yeah this dude has heroic alnseer lmao??
idk i do suck though alas
what content are you playing exactly? mythic prog or m+?
I mean hes running masscre and hardly presses execute
So he could change talents and do more damage

He killed the boss 1 min before your wipe, likely splits guild
Likely better prot too, just lazy to check on phone tho sorry
Timeline / replay is cursed on little screen
yeah nah if i could go back in time 10 minutes and actually look at my talents before babyraging i would do
very obvious where my mistakes are (the talent tree lol)
as long as im pressing buttons basically correctly idc
Both
More tc than SSs
1 less tc a min than that guy
And 4 less SSs a min than that guy
U dont play apex
im putting that down to his kill being a minute faster and me forgetting to pick ITF
U literally just send ss
But hes also running hr
As i said
He can have better talents
And do more
Masscre is also dead
He had that

i picked massacre he didn't

Its under sheid slam
ah ok dropdown i see
this guy seems to be playing around phalanx as well though
it was a higher % of his damage
He doesnt
so how is phalanx a higher % of his damage that's confusing

maybe its the ilvl difference
nah
Yeah he is 270
i mean yes to some extent but
i can't analyse and improve that so why worry about it
it actually looks like i have more haste too so idk
He does 8% more dps than you just by ilvl
I mean relatively he has more casts per mintue of both
So he will relativley have more phalanx
So it will be higher
yeah but he did 50% more damage
so hes just always using abilities
When you add up multiplicative % gains, you can easily do 50% more than someone else
vs you not using abilities
I mean he also had 20 vo procs versus your 22 in a mintue longer fight
ok well how does that happen
because i wasted 2 rage and he was like 140
i guess just the cpm thing again
Well when u generate 85 more rage a mintue it adds up
hmm
is there a skill element to getting burst of power procs
this dude got 19 and i got 10
and my fight was a minute longer
is he using
no
almost double the amount does seem kinda high.. hmm
like if it was 2 or 3 thats prob rng
yah 3 rage one much better
yeah idk if this dude got 27 more free shield slam procs
that makes a bit of difference
yeah i haven't really stressed too much about my parses since dragonflight
But still haveing more tc casts than ss casts is wrong
burst of power is too stupid
yeah im gonna go look at some other pulls to see if that's a consistent problem
thee other guy had more clap casts I take it?
cuz the def will proc lightning strikes more right
S2 it was reliant on tier set did it proc at the right time did it proc enough, s3 was basically did u get free tbs and bursts
All skill gone
na revenge tc and exe
ss doesnt


It's literally one of the more exciting tanks wdym. Have you even played a blood dk
It's always been like that lol. They reset when you time a key
No way this is your first expac having portals?
do i vendor or na?
the only portal i have is WCM lol
cuz that for me is the easiest dungeon of all time
not for team
wcm is as easy as running vanilla mario 1
Nice ragebait , giving you 7,5/10
I cooked with onions last night
Washed my hands thrice and a shower later and I still smell hints of onion on my fingers
Did u taste them
Your fingers
We got onioned up

Interesting
I bet you made some good food
Is it the damage from Judgement that can be reflected on Lightblinded Vanguard?
@jagged pier are you doing dungeons or nah
Yes, and exorcism i hear
Thanks!
That maxroll guide needs to be updated
I went to it to answer the question and saw so many question marks lol
not updated 2 weeks
Ya i just remembered it being talked about and i told my guild’s warrior
someone in my group ask me why i leaping for charge
then i realized i was doing it
and give him explanation i was being messy with it
funny how being called out breaks behavoirs
Someone called me out and called me bad
Some
Then i became good
Y?
Like a switch
In AA are you doing the full plant room, full book room at the arcane boss, and a giga pull at the end?
Or are these twerps griefing
Scary
Because these pulls do not seem to be working
what is the best way to pull the end in aa
like those knights do giga dam
how many should i have at one time max
I did the 3 at stairs alone, then 2 at door into boss
ok
Idk stealth pot it and pull other stuff. The spinny idiots can kick rocks
that is kinda what i do
interesting
You pulled the spinny idiots into the boss
Ya
i do a skip of the 2 snake guys after bird boss
My entire friends list would evict me
so i sort of have to pull at end
ya doin just 1 is actually prob better
I feel like every AA change made it worse
Bleed added to plant room, can’t Los snakes, spinny idiots
My friends quitting
Its safe to slow down rn, timers arent that rushed
did they change aa final boss
cuz i swear it is shooting little ball orbs more than it used to or something
whole room is flooded with them
I think so
Maybe it’s the group doing oopsies
I fought boss on wall and moved it around room
yeah i move her around a lot
last boss AA I just bring her to a corner
And leave her there forever
team drops pools in that corner and then we shift to next corner
Oh
but that trash before last boss in AA is aids now
Ya it helps to be stacked wherever u do it
well, in a 10 yesterday I did just end up pulling all of it
from the stairs to the door at once
XD
But the snakes are lame now, apparently the birds hurt, the book arena seems worse
Augusto standing in spinny idiot to get more death strike value
Are you doing vampire tree or cold tree
Hey guys. Was wondering if you could help me with something. I'm one of those people who SUCKS at making macros lol. What would the macro be for a button to swap between Defensive Stance and Battle Stance? Like can I put it on Control + Mouse Button 5 for example, and it'll switch between each both stances on the same button? Like from one stance to another and back?
It was my favorite in DF
I wish i could help but i havent left defensive stance in years
Thank you!
No

good looking guys. much appreciated!
it's just a small improvement i'm going to work on. would like to eek out as much damage as possible, so finding moments to swap between would be good. and it's helpful if it's on one button so i can do it quickly to make it easier.
i'm pretty solid at cat weaving still, so comparatively it's not too much extra mental stack
and just know, even though it doesn't let me, i'm thumb upping your posts in my heart. 😂
Feel like lot of tank swaps keep the OT with a hefty debuff or dot. Not sure leaving defensive stance is the right call in most fights this tier
Good for questing tho
not in most of them. but definitely some spots when i take almost no damage. i take very little damage it seems to begin with on most fights. think i rarely drop below 75% hp.
and when i dont' have aggro or debuffs, would be good to get a bit more damage in
Idk in voidspire, bosses 1, 2, 3 all have debuffs with dots or + damage taken. Bosses 4 and 5 you’re never off tanking. Haven’t tried 6 yet
I’m with you in concept tho. Parses are parses 🫡
any tip to deal with AA's first pull ?
Which part
bleeds
it hurts af
He said first pull smh
Yeah it’s a brutal pull. You can survive it for a bit but it’s kind of a dps check
What key level are you in
12
How close is your timer on an 11
Because if you can spare extra time it may be worth it to just not do the whole pull
nah, go big or go home, I don't do chicken pulls
interesting, I tried to leap away when it cast, but it still hit me
based
I guess the flower needs to be in melee range to be able to cast it
I mean u need to kite in a few dungeons tbh
Skyreach too for the bleed
But that debuff is far shorter
I miss CnS tclap root
So its more of a 2 step
goated
Literally works on nothing
Are they stupid????

Do you even need to ask
Yam when are you doing dungeons with me
I hate when people do dat
2:30 pm
So 5 hours
I normally can’t get online until like 8/9 pm
So that’s 1/2 am for you lol
Probably never
Maybe on the weekends
It’d be fun to get some Skyhold NA EU crossover groups together
just come to NA
you can play with Canadians and Americans
much better than Frenchies

Can you say that
I will play with you, Jakey 
Then you can tank my keys and I get to braindead DPS
Why? They have up a long time ago to stop us
I see what you did there
I have barely even touched my bear so far 
im also like 97% sure Jakey is English
Pash only likes specs when they’re fringe
Jakey is a brit, makes sense
Cat are you Dutch?
Norwegian
Rhino fevereshly looking up the map atm
"wait, this isnt in the EU"
Mind blown
Honestly
I was gonna ask if that was the same thing
But I didn’t want to offend anyone
Norway is in Europe, northern part. Not part of the EU
I've been put on priest duty for my raid so I'm playing shadow rn
We get snow, sure but also summers with no end, 20-24hour sun uptime baby
Pash a shadow of his former self
Do you have dark curtains to block out the sun to make it easier to sleep
Or does the sun have no effect on your sleep abilities
Yep, big old double layer, make it pitch black
But i dont need em where i live now, as I am currently in the South
I am a weak southern

Nop, prob could find it, but we about that milk/cheese and hard bread
Hard bread is interesting
With the extra flat 5% haste should we almost always be taking ITF in Algethar?
If you want to, sure, also isnt it 3% in m+?
Tasty and doesnt spoil, soften it with milk and the kids enjoy it easily as well
That is Belgium no?
I had em, yeah
Bit too sweet for my tastes, but I get the charm
We dont have the OG no
Just brand spinoff
Its 3% haste now, and for now its probably safer to stick to HR. You can play around with it though, as long as you're maintaining SB uptime you're good
what was the line again
Gonna take some time to block some users here but eventually Ill get only useful content I suppose
Still geeked over that

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen pash get blocked
I know, crazy work
Two groups are 7/9 M before I’ve even stepped foot in Heroic
APB forgot me at the starting line
It’s good to see me left behind!?
What the heck, bear
We’re both part of the animal kingdom
not first week but it is done
poggarino
now what do i do
play deadlock
part of me wants to burn all these champ crests on upgrading this shitter champ gear cuz i know champ crests are more or less useless but also, farming hero pieces and saving crests 
If you’re gonna play deadlock you should play the slime dude
I play Warden
Saving crests for what? Youll have 3k next weekend
i love deadlock but im still too intimadated by it
something about it just seems very high skill game
I'm too traumatized by turbo boost optimizing
Yeah, i dont know why they add Turbo in 4 weeks if everybody is so over M+ by then
I mean, they're not doing a turbo boost in the same way as before so its not a big deal but still
Yeah, its more like turbo min-max for BiS hunt. But BiS for what? Your main will be over-saturated by then due to current content difficulty being so low
You can use voidforge on alts I guess
Raid nerf as it always is
So they dont need to nerf mechanis to much
Easier for tuning
stats wise, is there a soft/hard haste cap? like 25%? 30%? or just as much as humanly possible? lol
There is not. We reccomend simming your character
The only stat number worth noting is 1188 haste, to swap from HR to ITF
There are meaningful diminishing returns thresholds but we ain't reaching them this patch
I wonder how puggable M is this time
Since people are saying it’s so easy
Is it like easy for the crazy good guilds
Or is it easy generally too
Its easy for the top guilds
But thats always the case for like the first 6-7 anyway
And easy, but can stack 4 hunters and 3 warlocks

there are still mechanics that will destroy pugs, the inc damage just seems way too low for rwf healers
ok good to know! thanks
OKAY, garfrost is a bit tricky
we wiped to him on 6 some how (EOD hero track gear, dodges fort)
only slightly
dps has to put the boulder not near a green puddle
Which video guide would y'all recommend for someone that has never played warrior, I'm not familiar with content creators besides dorki when it comes to tanks and he doesn't have one for warrior yet
Here’s how to play Protection Warrior in Season 1 of Midnight!
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i like his content
he has indom in one of his builds tho, generaly we dont take that
his description of the rotation is pretty bad
I filled tank on heroic for saladbar, ended up solo tanking him from 20-30 million HP
and once for a half phase at like half hp, had to brez the other tank
pretty sure I got bopped at one point, feels good, 1st time tanking this xpac
2 am shitshow pug, 2nd attempt
Me too, i literally have held all crests and had to be forced to spend

I have 150 Myth crests and 220 hero crests on my DK

and nothing to slam
game hates me
Ya i finally sent a tiny bit of hero crests
I'm supposed to send on only 3/6 hero pieces
Ya ive been unlucky and only had a couple pieces
I did my pantaloons
And that might be the only one
i am team send all crests
I was also asked to main swap from Pal to DK
Rip
For raid tank?
yea
potentially may be asked to go Prot War
at some point

all depends on tuning right now though
we did Mythic Voracious last night
and shit was trucking me on DK
granted I was like I level 260
but still
Tbf when our tanks were asked to prep and upkeep bdks, there wasnt supposed to be a chance of me tanking
i have a monk, but he is pretty much too weak overall
but good thing I was playing blood
Do you feel that 260% buff
we hit enrage on that boss
Oh is it a damage check
doesnt help me that thane fury has rend and not clap in 1button rotation
not that i use that thing
i use it to try to get idea of what to cast next for dps
but the first four mythic fights we are doing will be free by next reset
and thats a promise
i dont i promise
Ya we dont have our raid night till monday and we’ll be heading to mythic
We’ll be pretty boosted by m+ all week
first boss is basically same as heroic
theres a healer dispell
and dps have to full focus the add
second boss just be ethical and do call outs for the add drops to break walls
and chim, if you get there, be super diligent about fear casts
and, as a war, spec into your fear remove thing
That caused us more problems than id like to admit
there are two fear adds in the intermission
so make sure people are super aware, have dks to grip
and range interrupts ready
i appreciate all the info
Ill spread the word so that we can not waste time on dummy things
I think our roster for myth will he pushed tonight
Did I make the cut
Ya

Mandl doesn’t seem very excited about bdk
But Augusto acts like bdk is strong
I wonder if Mandl is being too critical
BDK isn’t great, but it’s perfectly viable
I think it’s more the feel
It feels kinda clunky
But it’d need like a full rework
Blood is a spec that I think blizzard is still trying to work out how they want it to play
At least for raid, my biggest gripe is ST damage and just general tankiness
For keys… well I could probably write a 100 page dissertation on that
Still totally fine doing weekly 12s
The playstyle doesn’t translate to infinitely scaling content
Because eventually you just go splat
Generally faster than mitigation tanks
But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing
Just depends if you need every tank to be able to do the highest possible key or not
Mit tanks have a much more predictable damages intake profile
It’s why you hear healers be super happy they have a war or brew
But with BDK you gotta let Jesus take the wheel
I do think sometimes there are tanks that don’t care at all about like pushing the limit of what they can do and are completely content to just do weekly 12s for the most part
BDK can really shine in that category of tank player
Just optimizing those routes and gameplay in that level of key.
all specs are capable of doing 12s
but balance really only comes into question when pushing limits
for the vast majority of players, you can play whatever you want with whatever you want
as long as you understand the general idea of your class and spec and have a vauge idea of the content youll be good
Yeh I think everyone knows everything can do 12s
like I aint gonna throw a fit that a brewmaster can tank a 12 better then me
like, whoop di doo
we both can do it
I think most people can say the same thing about world first keys too though
is shield specialization not worth it despite the block value increase?
naw, those world first keys are insane
thats where balance and comp start mattering
Idc that x class can do world first keys. Whoop di doo. I don’t even wanna do ‘em
i'm so tempted to change race to earthen to get 3.5% physycal damage reduction x.x
i dont run it
I might get yelled at
but I run BSV over shield spec

i was just looking at one of the top prot m+ runs and it looked like he sac'd shield spec to put a point in TaN so i wasnt sure if that was standard
That’s crazy
granted it looks like china realm and they do crazy stuff over there
i figured it was a pretty substanital tradeoff
you can see the trade off on your character sheet
its like 4% phys dam mitigation
if memory serves me right
whats the average gain from TaN in a key?
is null spawn boss in delves random in delves or they have to be bountiful
random unless u have bacon
We take both TaN and shield spec
yes
But we don’t take BSV
so theres no way to trigger him without becon
dang
If you want that you move a flex point
nope
the flex point for BSV is bloodsurge, BB or Tan depending what u have
The flex point is not shield spec
tecnically TaN is the right choice is u want pure defence standpoint
as its just damage
Na already won the race of world best guild? They're so fast nowadays
nope thats just mid tier boss
i mean the last expansion and this raids have been so lame i miss the 30 days plus of race like in vanilla
7% overall from TaN, i can't see myself playing without tan, i rather drop enduring alacrity
Ppl too sweaty for 30d race. Pretty sure doing wow is literally their job
ring ring hello midnight falls is the final boss
i wish it was my job
You think you do but you dont. Try having to level 20 characters and like 7 of them being the same spec.
can someone help, I've crafted a weapon at 285 with devouring embelishment, now do I craft shield with darkmoon or arcanoweave?
LOL true. anyway, how are u guys feeling in 12's this week? pretty easy or is any dungeon more challenging?
one thing that max said the other day stuck with me , you will never have the satisfaction or enjoyment of the game since you never identify with a class , you never enjoy a class or spec
Not sure who midnight falls is but when I look at journal I see that crown as the last one. Maybe there are multiple race to world sweatiest guild achievements available now? Sounds like the eus still have a chance to get one 

There’s no 30 days of prog racing, itd be 27 days of prep and 3 days of prog. Nobody wants to watch that
I 2 chested +11s with 251 ilvl so its pretty easy now. So much diff from s1 tww
It’s better this way if people want to push higher they still can
Meanwhile lower people can still make progress
And get achievements
apbased yet again
i mean even now rwf is crap, i do get that blizz is making stuff easier and easier has time goes but idk like boss dying in barely any pulls
We havent even seen the prog bosses yet
I got aotc but green parsed ugh
Idk what youre expecting
I gotta redo it now
These bosses will still take pulls for normal guilds
Youre looking at the best guilds in the world
Heroic dragons literally destroying entire raids for two weeks straight
Fact: if every raid was easy like emerald nightmare id probably do myth raid. Not that I like it but it would be less of a time commitment
idk i guess a closer race i guess
never thought id see the day where the NA headstart actually unambiguously determines the race outcome but here we are
The last race was insanely close…
The race hasnt even really started yet
Youre literally calling ggs on the race at 7/9
It's honestly so funny cuz it's like get fear out soak gloom boss dies
That's why they should put the sweat ppl whose job it is to do wow into tournament realm, crank the difficulty up to 1000, and for everyone else give easy/semi soft bosses. The sweat ppl would actually probably like that too bc then they wouldnt have to spend all their time selling carries to finance their sweatiness
i guess i want anoter edge of my seat race like fyrakk was
Is 4/4 apex for prot the move in higher keys?
Last boss i think echo had a sub 1% pull, and many many sub 5% pulls
It was close
i mean true but like max said until tues they can grind infite ilvl
i mean i dont see why QD would be any different, this is clearly a departure from the past in terms of blizz' philosophy on the encounter design they've intentionally made everything easier and the mythic splits for top guilds will trivailize whatever is in the last two bosses
It’s the play always. Take all 4 points
Theyll tune around it for the race
It’s always tuned for the race
America realm winning so bigly. Heard that if America wins all the races this patch they are legally required to rename it to race to world 2nd bc 1st place is already reserved
they panic hotfixed pallies and alleria to make them artificially harder for the race and it made no difference at all lol its too late for this tier
The less time the race to world first lasts the better I’m tired of twitchers and YouTubers in life
You guys are tripping
they did their addon change and missed the mark trying to balance that with raid design, its not the end of the world but it is what it is
Too late for the race
they seem to be panic fixing alot ot things
🦅
Imagine seeing fract die last season and saying the race is cooked and its too late
they can try again next patch and it will probably be better
Am i being baited
last season is not this season - the game has changed
people always doom about stupid things
the day keys went live the bombs boss 2 seat had 3 varitions on appearance
I have to be getting baited
first it was jelly beach balls
then it was spikey basketballs
and then finally large spiked balls
all in 1 day
you can either doom or cope those are the two options here
or just making assumptions about things you dont know
if you make any claim about QD you are by definition making an assumption thats what we are all doing
some are assuming it will be a lot harder some are assuming it will be more of the same with only a marginal increase in difficulty
We know nothing about the part of the raid that actually matters
When has the race been decided
By middle bosses
All guilds will be on equal ground by the time the race starts
Racers should be put into tournament realm, blizz crank the difficulty up to 1000 or add a whole bunch of unfair mechanics as they please, and for everyone else give easy/semi soft bosses.
The racer ppl would actually probably like that too bc then they wouldnt have to spend all their time selling carries so they can buy all the boes at the start.
Blizz wouldnt be forced to make raids unfair to satisfy the race ppl at the expense of e eryone else
Theyll all run splits and gear
when have the first 7 bosses all been taken down in like 100 combined pulls lol
not even a mid-raid wall or prog boss
i would like to see this tbh
i want the WF raiders to really suffer
I mean most walls early on end up needing to be nerfed because of oversight
And those have never decided a race
Yes
I been legit running from that dumb ball
You stepped too far to the left, raid wipe. You didnt interrupt the 0.3 second cast? Raid wipe
rwf is never gonna be an official blizzard event, they're not gonna make tournament realms for it
raid wipes if no one soaks it
Back to work im done getting baited
True. America realm win againe 
usa usa usa
I’m not baiting!
part of why anyone gives a shit is because it's on the same servers as anyone else
I really did think I was supposed to dodge it!
Not u lmao

Nothing about that ball screams touch me





