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round pendant
coarse bay
cerulean tusk
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Number of posts =/= time spent

coarse bay
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Yappers

cerulean tusk
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My point ^

round pendant
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Considering I send like 5 messages per sentence

cerulean tusk
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Nah

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I win

round pendant
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oh okay

cerulean tusk
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good

tribal wharf
cerulean tusk
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wait

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how

round pendant
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That's insane

coarse bay
cerulean tusk
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I yap a lot, in all the channels

round pendant
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I feel like I hardly see yogi

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but maybe I tune it out?

coarse bay
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Yogi will randomly send a lot of messages

tribal wharf
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could be? i pop in and type a bunch of messages and then leave for like 3 hours 6 hours

round pendant
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all my messages are in here

coarse bay
warm plinth
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A lot of people who have tons of messages are because they

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type

tribal wharf
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oh, i have more msg than that overall

warm plinth
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like this

cerulean tusk
coarse bay
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People

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Do

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Type like

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This

cerulean tusk
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We know

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and?

tribal wharf
round pendant
# warm plinth like this

I'm less bad about it in servers but in all my DMs I have like 50% more messages than my friends do because I press enter too much

ivory barn
round pendant
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or they just hate me

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idk, haven't figured that out yet

warm plinth
tribal wharf
coarse bay
tribal wharf
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of 37k counted times

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less than 500 messages total about doom

warm plinth
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but tbf, I've been in here since Legion (though I left at one point for a while)

coarse bay
tribal wharf
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almost like its not REALLY my favorite game ever lol

round pendant
cerulean tusk
round pendant
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no

coarse bay
round pendant
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don't

tribal wharf
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tree?

cerulean tusk
tribal wharf
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what

cerulean tusk
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filling

ivory barn
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281k for a token? I'd blow through that in a week

coarse bay
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Woodcutting when

tribal wharf
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oh ya lumber?

woeful stone
coarse bay
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Why cant i cut my own axe handle

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From a tree

tribal wharf
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i remember having a good old ranty crash out about lumber, and the state of wow

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at midnight luanch

coarse bay
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And being told we can cut trees

cerulean tusk
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"they dont do lumbering correctly, reeeee"

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yep

tribal wharf
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let the demons loose that day

cerulean tusk
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Good thing Yogi is a changed man

tribal wharf
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i was mad about the entirity of wow, but ya lol

tribal wharf
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like the repair bill thing

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im not gunna get into the god damn lumber thing

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but that truly does piss me off

crude notch
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Do I win?

coarse bay
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Yogi i heard u have a nice desk

coarse bay
crude notch
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Just increased my messages by 9% this year

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Holy

cerulean tusk
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STOP

tribal wharf
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i need/want slutty desk TM

cerulean tusk
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YOU MAKING IT WORSE

crude notch
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Lmao

tribal wharf
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this is what comes up for yogi tree searchg

cerulean tusk
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nice white squares

tribal wharf
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my attempts to fix pwar

cerulean tusk
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this is so disgusting and wrong

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#1/4Gang

undone beacon
autumn roost
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I think I should write a boomers guide to prot warrior since nim is saying I'm doing it so well

tribal wharf
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this is going to take forever

tribal wharf
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because its really 0/13

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i would really like the get the entire sets one day

ivory barn
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Quest experience is being buffed KEKW

tribal wharf
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how about if you do hard mode solo quest exp up

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cuz hard mode world is coming

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wont be much of an issue for capital G gamer

ivory barn
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Hard mode sounds worse than legion heroic tier

tribal wharf
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if it helps players to learn im all for it

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cant just aggro 40 monsters aoe fest between 3 ppl takes 20 seconds

ivory barn
stone tundra
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But i did do them will challenges enabled

tribal wharf
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besides leashing you really could od that as lvl 60 in lvl 17 dungeon stockades

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due to way scaling was in pre 1.12

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there was still a slight chance they might kill you

jagged pier
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unlock all the challenges then just run on top tier with them all on

autumn roost
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It's super easy

undone beacon
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I just got enough accolades while doing the void assault meta achieve

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Since you have to do 50 of the stupid assault WQs anyways

ivory barn
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at least silvermoon isnt a slideshow for me anymore

final jackal
ivory barn
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Pash, it changed again lol. this is 100% the keeper

final jackal
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Sounds like a perfect activity for the handheld.. Im afraid to tank M+/raid on it and have been strictly using it for xmog farming and leveling alts

autumn roost
charred ivy
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do you guys usually go full ring in skyreach in start? feels like hard and also hard not get hit in back there.

shrewd cosmos
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Do you do whole platform

harsh trellis
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before the first boss?

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so before the first boss, is the entire room

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the last boss I would not suggest pulling the entire platform

shrewd cosmos
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No first pull

harsh trellis
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first pull I pull up to the 3 wind guys

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everything

shrewd cosmos
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Do you gather all of the platform or you split it in 2

harsh trellis
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then there are the last 3 I just chain those into the 2 at the top of the stairs

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then I pull all the casters and the big dude together

shrewd cosmos
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I do the same

compact silo
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does prot war have the lowest dmg of all tanks rn?

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pala, druid and monk doing almost as much as dps

shrewd cosmos
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Yes we do less dmg then other tanks

compact silo
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sad

shrewd cosmos
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Not in Seat but yes

compact silo
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cuz of nails?

shrewd cosmos
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Spell Reflect it is crazy in Seat

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Also Pit if the group let you SR Liches Icy blast

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Also Skyreach last boss 7 mil SR dmg

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So yeah spell reflect is not calculated in Archon so don't pay too much attention on this site and play your game

charred ivy
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man skyreach feels like such a shit as prot warri. trying get it on 16

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many keys feel ez

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this is shit

shrewd cosmos
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You have 2 hard packs this dungeon

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1 - st boss is AFK, 2-nd Boss AFK, 3-th Boss - move from the egg then AFK, 4-th boss Spell Reflect

frosty mango
shrewd cosmos
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Sry my bad

frosty mango
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Archon just just a log aggregator, it absolutely accounts for spell reflect

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It’s bad for other reasons, don’t get me wrong

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lol

shrewd cosmos
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It is calculated there but not in sims

frosty mango
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Outside of that it isn’t bad

frosty mango
shrewd cosmos
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I know my point was different I was trying to explain something else

frosty mango
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We do not do significantly less damage than other tanks, looking at logs doesn’t tell the entire picture, because there are overwhelmingly less warrior parses than monk and Druid

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Probably fair to say that most of the people playing warrior are playing it sub optimally which drives logs down given the low number of parses

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We definitely could use a little love but the sky isn’t falling and people think pwar is somehow vastly below other classes doesn’t do us any favors

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For example if I pick a random key (Windrunner 16) and pick the rank 50 pwar parse which is 99%, that dude wasted 15% of his rage and had 71% blocked hits, so objectively he played terribly

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Yet got a 99 parse bc of low representation

dusky sentinel
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The fact that u need to que up for 15 dungeons on +10 to get invited cause "warrior is bad" kinda proves everything u need to know

frosty mango
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Yeah and that sentiment is precisely because people say shit like “oh Druids are crushing us” without looking at any data whatsoever

undone beacon
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Something something community perception built on content creators and aggregate sites something something

charred ivy
plush tendon
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also, the current iteration of guardian is literally just thrash-moonfire-ironfur

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tbh, its a pretty degen build that people are playing and blizz has already confirmed that it wont be staying

frosty mango
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If you put all of the top tier Druid and brew players on warrior then logs would flip to warriors doing more damage because skill/meta gaming is a much bigger driver of dps than tank dps balance which honestly hasn’t been bad for some time (barring the week of wierd Druid buffs we had this tier)

verbal lance
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hey guys, kinda noob prot warr here and I feel like the spec is a lot of fun but tbh I am looking to see if I can macro some keys together to make it easier on my keybinds (and wrists) - I've seen some people macro SB to Shield Slam, is that really viable? also could I macro IP to slam or clap, for example, without gimping the spec entirely or losing too much control?

plush tendon
frosty mango
plush tendon
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the only macro that is acceptable is adding SS to your IP button

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so you can snipe SS resets

frosty mango
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^ not the same as macroing ip to ss

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Don’t confuse that lol

plush tendon
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also, if you are having wrist pain, thats a hardware and position issue

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which we cant address

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but you should for sure look into fixing that with a new keyboard or something else

frosty mango
# verbal lance hey guys, kinda noob prot warr here and I feel like the spec is a lot of fun but...

Macroing sb to ss will be “easier” in lower level content you would likely not see a real difference but as content level climbs, the small gaps in shield block that it would lead to will become much more noticeable. Doing this in raid is a sizable issue as well on some fights.

Macroing ip to thunderclap is the other common one and this will just lead to you rage starving yourself and not being able to press shield block when needed

Doing this in a 7-10 is one thing and probably won’t lead to a major issue

Doing it in a 17 or 18 will be very noticeable because you’ll die

harsh trellis
ivory barn
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Gonna go attempt warrior in hardcore

jagged gust
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Eewww

ivory barn
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Guild doesn't think I'll make it to level 10

jagged gust
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Do you know how long it takes to get a warrior to 10 in vanilla? 🤢

ivory barn
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Yes, I played vanilla

frosty mango
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Get an extra 48 levels too

jagged gust
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I got to level 6 before I quit 😂 just running back and forth across the map for quests

frosty mango
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Leveling in classic is for the birds lol

jagged gust
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Hahaha

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Oh Norm

round pendant
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I don't understand people wanting crutches

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When I was learning to ride a bike as a child I wanted to get off of training wheels as fast as possible so I just didn't use them

verbal lance
autumn roost
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96% uptime on sb

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I'm old and cannot maintain the apm necessary to play prot warrior in its current iteration and use that macro and have no issues

frosty mango
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Not for shield block

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Uptime while in combat is

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Small gaps have large implications

autumn roost
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It's good enough to time vibe 16s where I have no idea what I'm doing and to tank mythic lura. I absolutely believe you that for extremely optimal play you lose something with those small gaps, but realistically it's having no effect on my ability to do these encounters

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And if someone is saying that the mashing of ib is causing them physical pain, then I think telling them to get gud is not a helpful response

frosty mango
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We didn’t say git gud and that’s not what he said

autumn roost
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"make this easier on my wrists"

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"if you are having wrist pain, that's a hardware and position issue which we can't address"

fringe mural
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he's having wrist pain because of his hand and arm position not because of ip

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i have ip bound to my mousewheel so no matter how many ips i have to use, i'll never get wrist pain

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spells you use a lot should be bound to keys that are easy on your joints

jagged gust
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Yeah arm height to desk is the culprit for me

verbal lance
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ye tbf they did say it's probably a hardware issue, which is fair, I didn't really read that as "git gud" just more of a "nothing we can do" which is probably true

fringe mural
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for example ss is really often used and is in my case bound to 3

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but any key that will not have you move the fingers a lot around is fine

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so anything near wasd

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Where your left hand should rest

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or the cursed bind one key to the right

verbal lance
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but your response @autumn roost is kind of reassuring? maybe I'll try something macro'd out and if I can stilll do the content I wanna do then why not take the small optimization hit

jagged gust
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Oh wait, I have something for this moment

frosty mango
autumn roost
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I agree it's suboptimal but IDC if it is if it makes my life easier and does the content I need to do

warm plinth
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Recommendations don't take accessibility into account anyway. If you HAVE to do something or you can't even play the spec, then who tf are we to say you shouldn't?

crisp ocean
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whats the addon that gives a summary of the dungeon after its done?

verbal lance
autumn roost
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Just one lol and they're going to yell at me for it

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Mash that and thunder clap and vibe

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I want to stress again that they're absolutely right that it's suboptimal but I'm okay with that

frosty mango
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Bruh I feel for your healers

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lol

autumn roost
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My healers DPS in my keys lmao

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In my pit, my third day as prot warrior, "you are the sturdiest prot warrior I've played with" lmao

frosty mango
sharp gale
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I suspect most of the bad rep is bc of that talent + literally no hand players

autumn roost
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In keys I use the shield block extension one

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In raid I use into the fray

sharp gale
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Yeah in raid it’s not that big risk

frosty mango
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I’m not sure it’s possible to die in raid as a tank without standing in bad or messing up a mechanic

sharp gale
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without ?

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I can already take almost every spell in my face as fury, I think ppl need to rly want it to die as tank due to dodge mechs

frosty mango
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That’s what I mean

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Like unless you eat a bad taunt mech or stand in omega bad I don’t think you can die

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Even if you press no buttons

sharp gale
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On Lura I can take a glaive in my face if I pot in the middle

chrome linden
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Anyone have any links to tank centric guides to the raids?

lone turret
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anyone got any cool solutions for making shield charge and charge the same keybind but also function properly?

lusty grotto
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you can use modifiers

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but these 2 spells arent the same thing

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charge is your gap closer, SC is a nuke/SB provider

silk pagoda
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hi all, preferred dungeon to use bonus rolls on for prot warrior?

lusty grotto
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are you a new warrior

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or do you have myth weapon and shield?

silk pagoda
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no no, just not a prot player usually

lusty grotto
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so im guessing you dont have myth weapon and shield

silk pagoda
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i do not no

lusty grotto
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seems pretty simple to figure out then

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there's 2 dungeons that award both

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you hit one of those

silk pagoda
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alright, then i guess just hit others for other gear if needed?

lusty grotto
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once you get both shield and 1h, and whatever you got in between the rolls you can use droptimizer

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in raidbots

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and just do the one that has the most upgrades

silk pagoda
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will do, appreciated thank you

rocky crest
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any prot war doing 19's and up ?

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how are you feeling the survivability ?

crisp ocean
lone wren
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what 2 to choose for learnign keys 10-12

lusty grotto
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you dont need defensive trinkets for 12s

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purely defensive trinkets, i mean

lone wren
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ok so the other 2 then

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are they decent for dps if i even find a hc two hander?

lusty grotto
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thats a sim question

lone wren
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once i get a 2 hander...

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double oen hander fury does not exist no?

lusty grotto
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no

frosty mango
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Rip the dream

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We can mog 1 handers now

fringe mural
tribal wharf
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i feel personally offended

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nah, its just a gdruid lol

jagged gust
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That's how the furry pipeline starts

deft relic
stoic hound
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sims say Acuity of the Ren'dorei is superior to Berserker's Rage but considering haste increases survivability, I'm not sure if I should follow sim, what weapon ench do you use? I checked top prot warriors and only 1 out of 7 uses berserker rage

fringe mural
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Str increases survivability too

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so str proc gud

undone beacon
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STR >> Haste > crit ~ mast ~ vers

stoic hound
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ok thank you guys

maiden ravine
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I hate that I've gotten addicted to having glide as warrior

wooden spruce
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are dracthyrs racials good for warrs? mainly pve

jagged gust
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The knockups are nice to have but the long CDs make them a bit more niche in usage, movespeed is fantastic for tanks in general

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It's no dwarven bleed removal but it's not a bad race either

wooden spruce
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im dont wanna play dwarf tbh and im thinking of going human (again) but scalies got my attention only for the glade lol

jagged gust
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Yeah I'm not enjoying my dwarf anymore, the mogs are just... Awful

tribal wharf
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total blasphemy

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out of this channel

jagged gust
wooden spruce
tribal wharf
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dwarf has some of the better options for transmog

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put a pair of bracers on gnome, its going to be 23 pixels total

jagged gust
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It's the shoulders constantly clipping into my gloves that bothers me the most, but also weapons clipping into the ground and everything looking squished

tribal wharf
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put it on the cow andits gunna have horns sticking out of your helmet

wooden spruce
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nah i played dwarf till cata, its nice to change races

but i dunno if i should do the best fantasy game class, plain human fighter or go scalie route haha

jagged gust
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I mean scalie has both, vibe check it

sullen palm
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can anyone link a full damage talent set ?

wooden spruce
tribal wharf
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i still think its more of a lizard than a dragon

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i tend to think old dragon

harsh trellis
sullen palm
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mt

jagged gust
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Should have a racial to turn you into one of the big boys while flying

wooden spruce
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what do the boyz and girlz say? human or gekko

jagged gust
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gekko

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get that +15% run speed or w/e it equates up to

wooden spruce
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hmm true
i was only gonna go human for the stun removal tbh

maiden ravine
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Plus you can do the Skyreach skip more easily

jagged gust
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it also made doing the snap pull in Theatre of Pain a lot easier

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RIP snapping

sullen palm
maiden ravine
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I'm a weirdo who likes Dracthyr forms

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I think my warrior looks great in both her forms plus you can set outfits for each now

undone beacon
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Being able to have a different outfit for visage and drac is super nice

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Means I can use both forms without looking like a total doofus

jagged gust
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Warrior talents aren't really built for variety anymore, hard to drop anything to gain more DPS.

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Defenders Aegis is the easiest point to drop

wooden spruce
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arent human racials worth it thou? 2% extra in all

jagged gust
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nah

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everythings basically equal

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except vulpera

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they ass

stoic hound
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all my characters are dwarfs

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with the same name lol

stable kernel
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Dwarf or Human is the way

wooden spruce
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gonna try drachtyr, i used gold on the race change so i'll see if i like it, if not im going back to human

maiden ravine
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I'd rather take Vulpera's details bait racial over undead having nothing, same with Nightborne for non casters

maiden ravine
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?

crude notch
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Eating corpses of the dead is 100% best racial hush yo mouf

lusty grotto
ivory barn
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made it to level 10 and killed hogger, pally style LOL

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Grievous is a choice lol

crude notch
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did they change something about block ggoing into midnight?

lusty grotto
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no

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why do you ask

crude notch
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oh disregard i forgot how block works 🙂

lusty grotto
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how dare you jordan

crude notch
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ye i was like i got this myth shield from a roll and number no go up

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🙂

bright oyster
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hold on you're cooking

late trellis
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for lura, if you're kicking using the macro, is there a way to position yourself on lura to where you don't just get stuck button mashing interrupt for 3 sec trying to kick?

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coz of the short kick range

wooden spruce
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whelp, im enjoying pwarr after ignoring my meta lover ex-friends, and its been so much fun

lone wren
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Do reflect shield helps with magic damage dots too?

echo egret
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I'm not a dwarf and I get bullied for splitting the first pull of AA in a 17... pugger's life is starting to get on my nerves.

winged zenith
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Just reroll to arms

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Prot is dead on 18+

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When you pugging

echo egret
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it is not dead because of Prot's kit. It is dead because of puggers themselves.

winged zenith
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I switched this week and already doing 19s

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Yes that why I said switch

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Our gears are same

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Just get 2h from pit using voidcores

maiden quiver
winged zenith
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yes pray prot is good next season

echo egret
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I'm just impressed at the number of people who can't focus a skull target - who don't even analyze that killing that target will diminish the pressure on the group.

stable kernel
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i have a prot dwarf and a nelf arms the arms gets accepted more

untold tangle
sharp rover
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If you NEED to pull the entire room on a +17 to beat the timer then your team clearly has other issues

plush tendon
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Id rather die then not put the whole room

jagged pier
vital vale
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there is a trick to pulling 3x lashers without dwarf and without aug pretty easily even in high keys

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it worked for me like a charm

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Just reroll guardian

celest mesa
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I've seen some top prot warriors only tracking an ignore pain bar and not a shield block and shield wall bar also. Why is that?

jagged pier
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They might track sb as an icon

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If they arent tracking it, thats dumb

stable kernel
hollow patio
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Tbf you can reset without being dwarf. Any evoker, paladin or spec with taunt works but it's not as easy as pressing dwarf ofc.

main walrus
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or should i just craft second ring and back ?

heavy sparrow
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Look at that lil guy

lofty warren
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How does he go through life without dwarf

main walrus
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bearely

fringe mural
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mob groups be like Aaaaw we can't kill him

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Come on guys let's just autohit and not cast to not be mean

main walrus
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I mostly use toys because i'm too small to be seen

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what about dungeons tho, should i go roll in NXP or Seat ?

undone beacon
main walrus
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yeah ... thank you tho

past summit
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on the first big pull in algethar, when should you kite?

blissful ravine
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Yoo, Iam lf vods of a prot warrior that runs high keys where I could copy+pasta the pulls and gathering of pulls from. Iam especially interested in like the first 10 gcds and early movements of a pull 🙂

main walrus
past summit
main walrus
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they can't all start casting if you're away, and your aiming to get it to 0 stacks so it does not really matter who is casting

fringe mural
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people here said a good course of action is jump away before the first 3 run out so you don't get 5

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and then go back in

unkempt pebble
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They dont cast at the same time

main walrus
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if you're struggling at keeping them close at each other, try starting your pull from the center ( where the boss is ) and not running all the way from left to right

fringe mural
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well they kinda do if you pull them right or not?

past summit
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anyone know a good video of this?

fringe mural
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i think i watched a topicx video on the pull

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that was pretty good

past summit
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I watched one by sha and he just said "make sure to pull them properly" ... but thats all he said

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i will check topicx

unkempt pebble
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Sha also showed how to kite

fringe mural
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ah no it was awoo

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minute 1

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there he is showing how he does the pull

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it was very thorough

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the entire guide

past summit
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Struggling with the trash counts or the brutal tank busters in Algeth'ar Academy? This comprehensive tank guide covers everything you need to know to time your keys in World of Warcraft: Midnight Season 1. Whether you're a Protection Paladin, VDH, or Blood DK, these routes and tips are designed for maximum efficiency and PuG Keys.

In this vide...

▶ Play video
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he just kind of dodges the circles, he doesn't kite the debuff

unkempt pebble
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Most important note is that your dps focuses on one lasher

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So until one dies you can have evoker help you, or start kiting at 3 stacks

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Kite until debuff has 3-4s remaining and it should reset before next one gets applied

past summit
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kind of hard to get more than one kite since heroic leap cd is 30 sec

unkempt pebble
fringe mural
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if it's still not dead after that, your dps suck

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it's not your fault then

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if you have to kite twice you might as well reset

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two lashers can only stack up to 3 iirc

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not to 5

past summit
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its pugs man, pugs dont know what they are doing

fringe mural
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what difficulty are we talking about?

past summit
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14-16

fringe mural
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if it's that bad and the dps is fine you can always split the pull

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time should still be enough

past summit
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usually I run down a strategy with theam ahead of time, they fail to kill lashers and then they blame me for sucking

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pugs.

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so i am just looking for a way to deal with this shit so I can kite instead of this

coarse bay
#

You can also comm ahead of time to focus the marked lasher and put a skull on one

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If thats what you expect from them

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Pugs dont coordinate without coordination

past summit
#

yeah, i usually try to mark the 3 lashers

coarse bay
#

Not the 3

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One

past summit
#

I go skull X triangle and tell them to focus skull

coarse bay
#

U do a single lasher, then when it dies u can mark another after

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Dont confuse them

past summit
#

whats confusing about focus skull?

coarse bay
#

Theyre dumb

past summit
#

well clearly

coarse bay
#

I mean even when focus is called most specs dont have a way to prio without giving up pad i think

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So people cant resist

past summit
#

i think what is happening is everyone always tries to burst their aoe to push their numbers instead of single target dps

coarse bay
#

Like he said if u do everything as best you can and it still fails

stoic hound
#

Sim says vers+mastery shield gives +50 dps compared to crit+vers one, I’m not sure which one should I upgrade to 298 regarding the better survivability

elfin plume
#

How does prot compare to a spec like brewmaster? I know brew is better but in what aspects is it better?

elfin plume
#

Kind of just wondering how prot feels right now. Use to play it a ton and want to again, but I am scared to invest the time gearing if it is really bad currently 😵‍💫 appreciate any responses in advance!

plush tendon
#

likewise, I really enjoy Prot War, but Im not a fan of brew

elfin plume
ivory barn
#

If you enjoy it, play it. Unless you are pushing a R1 or 1% title doea it really matter

true idol
#

its more fun getting invites

elfin plume
undone beacon
#

Prot isn’t leagues shittier, it’s fine. It’s not the meta pick this season but it’s viable enough to play well at a high level

tribal wharf
stoic hound
#

wow, just noticed, our damage gonna be buffed, cool

plush tendon
#

i havnt pushed high keys this season, but from a bit of osmosis learning I do know that the dungeon set this go around has some tough mechs for Prot War

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also, Arms is very good so a lot of off meta groups are slotting a dps war making Prot even less popular

opaque oriole
#

Anyone know if the buff to colossus also includes revenge on ptr? 😃

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Or only SS

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Disregarding blue text

elfin plume
opaque oriole
plush tendon
#

fury is viable, but arms does REALLY good aoe damage now

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and, if you give em funnel

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then can be good on bosses

lone wren
#

So far still noob nd learn protection but I struggle with those damn bleeds and dots.

harsh cypress
#

Dwarf for bleeding:DD

lone wren
#

Why the worse looking races have the best racials ?
Bring back unnerfed troll racials

tribal wharf
#

enjoy the lunch hour ppl

toxic pewter
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lol

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that my kind of meal

echo egret
#

How do you approach the pulls in AA with several magical weapons ? My recent tries on +17 were "charge in, die in 1 second".

stoic hound
#

spell reflect on cd

coarse bay
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are you charging in past them, getting backshot

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and with no defensives?

#

those battleaxes hurt

dusty orchid
echo egret
frosty mango
frosty mango
#

If you roll up to a boss with 1300+ haste and almost no crit you’ll do absolute dogshit boss dps

plush tendon
#

its basically just swapping neck and a ring

frosty mango
plush tendon
#

Fury wants Mastery so its the same deal

frosty mango
#

Yea but fury doesn’t suffer as badly as arms

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You can be down bad as arms on bosses with bad crit lol

plush tendon
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or no funnel

frosty mango
#

Yea collat is so big

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Espec with how much ss uptime we have this tier

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Fury requires no brain just unga bunga press cooldown

maiden ravine
#

The arms trick is just play slayer in keys haha.

stable kernel
#

ye i mainly play slayer cus i dont like doing 50k boss dps on colo if no funnelokayge

compact silo
#

does tan deal damage when you dodge or parry?

strong forum
#

well it says when you block

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and you only block a hit that you dont parry!

compact silo
#

but yeah ty

cerulean tusk
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Less crit, more mastery, more ToN dam

fringe mural
#

just go for haste/mastery, enjoy

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and switch to fury with perfect stats if needed

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no gear switch necessary 😄

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If you wear puzzle box and solar flare prism you dont even need to swap trinkets, just weapon

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fury has the same stat prio as blockmaster prot

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critmaster prot is for arms enjoyers

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it's pretty neat you just need to decide what offspec you like more

fallen fern
#

Anyone here know if you can still Immune the Aspect of the end cast in Mythic crown of cosmos?

solid sigil
#

Shield Block up 100% of the time is the goal. Where's that leave IG? Legit just use it as a rage spender? When I need to choose defense over offense (Revenge)? Is it possible to have IG up near 100% of the time?

fallen fern
lusty grotto
#

yeah we wouldn tknow

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we just reflect it

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youre in warrior disc not hammer of wrath

fallen fern
lusty grotto
#

it used to be

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but it was removed from our reflect sheet so maybe it it doesn't work anymore

fallen fern
#

Let's hope so, so I don't have to feel stupid 🙂

undone beacon
#

They made that change like right after HoF VS closed

tribal wharf
#

blizzard trying to 1 shot my bank account

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not that i only have 85$

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cuz its the type of thing i might buy

heavy sparrow
vocal junco
#

I’ll have to check the shop, are there other patterns for key caps?

tribal wharf
#

sylvannas

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i think they should do all the major major story characters illidian and malfurion tryande such

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1 for each class would be cool

heavy sparrow
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$120 CAD

tribal wharf
#

if u got the $ for it or just like it, sure go for it

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uther for paladin, even though long dead, maybe anduin

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valeera for rogue

harsh trellis
chilly brook
#

<@&257983573498265600>

past summit
#

are there any working threat meters right now, like Omen?

chilly brook
past summit
#

retail

chilly brook
#

There's an in game threat % that you can have show

past summit
#

yeah, I am looking for a meter like omen or details, not a tooltip

chilly brook
#

but threat is for the most part not even worth looking at unless there's a massive disparity between your damage and the other tank in raid

past summit
#

either one exists or it doesnt ... if anyone knows about one please let me know

chilly brook
past summit
#

feel free to dm me if someone sees this later

cerulean tusk
#

Same reason ppl want an addon to track IP numericaly. So Information for informations sake

Dont question it Hydrate

broken marsh
#

What enchants should I run? I saw a lot of leech recommend but a lot of the top players have avoidance

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head/shoulders/feet

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Notably mdi

frosty mango
#

Avoidance will get better as you go up because it’s percent based reduction on aoe

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If you’re running lower/mid tier content in pugs leech will prob be fine - unless you’re running coordinated top end keys I’m not sure it really matters one way or another

broken marsh
#

What about myth raid

fringe mural
#

and the rest of the aoe that is supposed to kill your dps and healers will barely tickle you as a tank

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i'd like speed to run out of stuff more tbh

broken marsh
#

mm good call, especially now that im on beloren the speed could help a lot

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ty

frosty mango
#

Leech is great for parsing but shit for mechanics

broken marsh
#

how is it good for parsing

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Wouldn't more uptime on boss via speed be better

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Also how do I sim what gem is better, when I do this it doesn't actually sim anything

polar wedge
#

any tips for nexus point to help with all the heal absorb on the left side in keys around 16? Apart from using IV and SR on cd? Specific talents maybe? Idk if I have bad healers but it's hard, they can't keep up

broken marsh
#

FTF is good for that dungeon

harsh trellis
#

but also in platynator

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but if youre lookin at threat theres an issue with play

frosty mango
#

Like vorasius circle

broken marsh
#

You can eat that anyways?

coarse bay
#

And is pointless

frosty mango
#

Yea but there particularly your healers will prob be out of range

broken marsh
#

Are you saying like w/o the leech you would die so you would do less dmg

frosty mango
#

Ya if someone is losing threat a meter ain’t gonna help lol

frosty mango
#

Again like I said I prefer speed I think it’s the superior tert almost always in raid

broken marsh
#

parsing = dmg tho so I don't see how that would help, in fact speed would be probably better for parsing there as you could dps ads then get back on boss faster

frosty mango
#

Don’t think the speed would matter for parsing there it would save you like 1 second

broken marsh
#

unless ur talking about the healing parse in which case idek xdd

undone beacon
#

You could make a million arguments for why each tert is "best" for parsing but the reality is none of them matter for parsing peepo

frosty mango
#

Helps a lot for doing mechs on prog tho

undone beacon
#

An extra .5% speed wont improve your parse

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Its all very very very minor

broken marsh
#

The difference b/w an 100 and 99 parse is a few .1%

undone beacon
#

The difference between a 100 and a 99 is rng

broken marsh
#

Kapppaaa

coarse bay
#

100%

undone beacon
#

More procs, more resets, more crits

polar wedge
coarse bay
#

Like 97+ is rng

undone beacon
#

Anything in the yellow/pink/orange range is pretty volatile

broken marsh
#

idk about hta

coarse bay
#

I did arcane last season and it has a 17% variance

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U could play perf

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And purple

broken marsh
#

Ye but on prot warrior?

coarse bay
#

Rng in all specs

broken marsh
#

I find that a little hard to believe

coarse bay
#

To a point

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Less procs

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Loses 100

broken marsh
#

Sure, I could maybe see the difference of like 99 to 100

coarse bay
#

Less crits

broken marsh
#

but you can 99 parse w/o rng and w/o perfect play

coarse bay
#

99 parse without perfect play

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Is rng

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Point proven

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And also

broken marsh
#

I have full 99 parses and I most certainly did not play perfect lol

coarse bay
#

It depends on the kill

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Guild matters for most spec parses

#

Kill time etc

undone beacon
#

full 99 on myth? crazy

broken marsh
#

None of that is rng

#

full 99 on hc 90+ on myth but havent done march yet

coarse bay
#

Full 99 on heroic is literally just blasting with a guild

broken marsh
#

i dont think any of my 99 were with guild

#

Yea on average i did a little worse with guild

coarse bay
#

Idk prot is probably on the lower end with rng variance

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But its there

broken marsh
#

I mean there are consistent 100 parsers even in mythic so I don't think it is that rng, even for other classes

coarse bay
#

Ok for most people its rng

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There are some people that parse extremely well consistently

broken marsh
#

That isnt how that works...

coarse bay
#

And theyre in top guilds

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And are top players

broken marsh
#

If they consistently parse well and are top players that means skill got them the parse. Not rng

coarse bay
#

Brother

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Are they 100 average

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Like all kills not just best parse

broken marsh
#

I mean I know quite a few people who once they get the top parse dont try and push for it every time lol...

#

Like I got 99 parse on myth chimera and stopped caring about it, im sure plenty others feel the same

frosty mango
#

I tried for r1 parses in undermine on my Druid

#

I did eventually get them all but it was so rng

undone beacon
#

This is a wildly pedantic argument so instead how about this

frosty mango
#

Well I didn’t get gally bc they were mean and made me do mechs

#

Oooh pretty

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How’s it do for shadow

#

I have it on war and I use gloves to proc but it does like no damage. Tasty haste tho

undone beacon
#

Even on spriest the proc doesnt do much but the haste is so nice

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and the bit of damage is nice

broken marsh
#

how do u sim gems this isnt working

undone beacon
#

are there gems in ur gear already

broken marsh
#

ye

undone beacon
#

Click on the + and hit "remove gem" in the sim

frosty mango
#

I wish raidbots had a public api

viscid lantern
#

hi , are icy veins and wowhead guides updated? Just started lvling my war. Thanks

undone beacon
#

Icy veins yes, wowhead no

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Use icyveins

viscid lantern
round pendant
crude notch
#

so when does blizz give up the bit and give us spell block back?

round pendant
#

That would increase depth

#

Can't be having that

ivory acorn
#

Stupid choices, stupid consequnces

winged zenith
#

Yes practice prot this season hope it will be better next season

lusty grotto
#

okie

lone wren
opaque oriole
#

Is the healing from defensive stance in warcraftlogs the full value of stance mastery?

cold tapir
lone wren
ionic fern
#

You can see the parried attacks by hovering over the "Miss" %.

lone wren
#

A ok I see it was fine or too little I had issues with magic fire dots

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Rest was fine

sullen palm
#

anyone know why I cant see stack for adds on miniboss on mythic crown of cosmos

#

?

opaque oriole
ionic fern
cold tapir
naive ravine
#

Stance mastery would suffer proabably from smth called survivor bias

fringe mural
#

you mean the one with the holes in the returning airplanes?

#

that was wild

naive ravine
#

The airplanes is one of the first itteration

fringe mural
#

it's great to do with students

#

that specific example

naive ravine
#

(Corona is antoher great example)

fringe mural
#

Yeah true

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or the plague lol

naive ravine
#

Yeah

fringe mural
#

but in this particular case what do you mean, the people that didn't take it died from heavy tankbusters?

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or the ones that didn't switch back to def stance in time

#

so they have no sucessful log to show

naive ravine
#

You would have to look at all the logs, even the ones that are not kills (progression) to see the true value of Stance mastery

#

Ofc the top logs without it have killed it

fringe mural
#

isn't that pretty much the case with bsv too?

naive ravine
#

Its not that fitting, its in a figurative

naive ravine
fringe mural
#

you'd have to compare the percentage of actual kills among people who took bsv vs those who don't

naive ravine
#

No, of actual tries

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Cuz the ones that didnt take it and there for didnt make it

fringe mural
#

Okay i probably phrased that wrong

naive ravine
#

Its so ass to see in logs

fringe mural
#

i was saying you'd have to say the bsv takers have 90% kills of their tries and the non bsv takers have 70% or smth like that

opaque oriole
fringe mural
#

then you know how much bsv is better than not taking it

naive ravine
#

Ah yeah know i get it

fringe mural
#

The only situation where you wouldn't need to factor that in is when half the people take it and the other half doesnt

#

then if you see more logs with def stance/bsv it's that much better because the completed kills show you

harsh trellis
#

I don't like the new icy veins look

fringe mural
#

they're changing it back then

#

i find it confusing that it's not really icy anymore

#

just black

harsh trellis
fringe mural
# harsh trellis for real?

Yeah for sure, i sent them a screenshot of your discord message and they said 'well, if nav doesn't like it, let's rewind it'

harsh trellis
untold tangle
#

Lol

ionic fern
harsh trellis
frosty mango
#

They had to redesign the site so all the wowhead refugees they hire have something to work on

frosty mango
#

Zam layoffs inc folks from wowhead, dont think its confirmed how many

#

But if they laid off the site director that’s probably indicative of something, can’t imagine they had a large staff

harsh trellis
#

end of an era

#

sheesh

heavy sparrow
#

Wild times

sonic crag
#

They gonna make some money on that database sell though

undone beacon
#

Wasn’t Perc like the heart and soul of that website

#

Damn

tribal wharf
#

apparently they doubled the price of PSN

#

i dont play playstation, but thats crazy

fringe mural
#

hm

#

Is archim migrating over to iv then too?

#

so we can just forfeit wowhead as warriors completely

unreal shoal
#

Archim writes the guides for both

lone wren
#

T’amènes are better wowhead or icy veins?

undone beacon
#

We use Icyveins

wanton mason
#

Hi I am a traumatized former prot warrior who plays pretty much every other tank than prot war. Last I played it was during SL with the reprisal legendary where you had to charge/intervene spam for whatever reason. Is there any remnant of that left in the kit?

undone beacon
#

No

lone wren
undone beacon
#

Charge generates rage but you're not bobbing and weaving like the Reprisal/Necro Banner days

wanton mason
#

Hmm but it doesnt generate it to the point where optimal play requires you to walk away/charge back in, right?

#

Cause that was dreadful

undone beacon
#

It does not. You have much more efficient rage generation from other sources

wanton mason
#

And otherwise back in the day I made a vulpera for nose of trouble cause it had pretty good value in m+. I'm guessing Dwarf is kinda a better choice now?

undone beacon
#

Dwarf is the M+ pick, but unless you're pushing keys in the 20 or up range it doesnt matter what race you pick

#

Vulpera is the wrong choice regardless imo but i am personally deeply biased against them

wanton mason
#

Been dabbling into 19s only so far on a few chars

#

Aye Idk maybe it's some sort of QoL feel

#

The output it shows in heal looks so high if anything

#

Must be nice on pulls which is where I often use CDs eitherway on other tanks

#

But yeah for AA alone I'll probs run Dwarf, cheers

undone beacon
#

Its inconsequential in the long run

#

But again most race picks are so

#

Pick what you vibe with most, or pick dwarf haha

wanton mason
#

Aye Idk I dont vibe with my tauren monk in AA 1st pull without an evoker unless I zoom through the map haha

#

Dwarf it is 🫡

harsh trellis
harsh trellis
#

dont even need to race change

wanton mason
#

I'm not familiar with the hero talents since I last played in SL. Does it cleanse or sth?

harsh trellis
#

it just heals

wanton mason
#

And I'd make a new one so no need to buy any 😬

#

Ahh but surely cant sit through 5 stacks in higher keys tho

harsh trellis
#

for the first pull in AA you have to ask the group to stack tight on you

#

and then the puddles are all nice and tight

wanton mason
#

Yeah that's all fine

harsh trellis
#

have them all focus 1 laster

wanton mason
#

Of course

harsh trellis
#

and then just slowly back up with colossus

#

I dont even play thane anymore

#

its not worth the headache

#

and the omg im gonna effing die

undone beacon
#

To be fair, Thane is still the preferred talent set for pwarr in keys

wanton mason
#

What key levels you doing?

harsh trellis
#

only 17s

#

so not high keys

wanton mason
#

Yeahhhh okay

undone beacon
#

If you prefer Col and its working for you, thats good. But in higher keys Col doesnt cut it

wanton mason
#

Nah you get battered in higher keys by 5 stacks if the lasher dont die in time

harsh trellis
#

number 1 prot war is colossus

wanton mason
#

After ur cds

undone beacon
#

Theres one guy playing Col at highest level and thats great for him but

#

For the vast majority Thane is going to perform better with the kit it has and the design of the dungeons

harsh trellis
#

Right, its always best to play with the playstyle youre comfortable with

#

and im not sellin an mlm or anything for colossus, I just found it worked better for me

naive ravine
undone beacon
#

Colossus pyramid scheme

naive ravine
#

Its mwahi

undone beacon
#

Fuckin cutco colossus

frosty mango
#

thane will definitely get you more damage

undone beacon
frosty mango
#

demolish big brrrr though

naive ravine
#

Oh

undone beacon
#

Thane remains the reccomended option

harsh trellis
#

Demolish is your big dps and heal

undone beacon
#

I didnt say Col doesnt cut it defensively, it just doesnt tend to bring more to the table than Thane does

naive ravine
#

Cuz rank 1 prot war is playing MT

frosty mango
undone beacon
#

Roid dont argue semantics with me cmon

frosty mango
#

its been like

#

4 days

#

i need to meet my quota

undone beacon
#

I'mma thrash you

#

This is you

frosty mango
#

cant you arent a bear anymore

naive ravine
frosty mango
#

get out of here whitebar

undone beacon
#

Fuck you got me

frosty mango
harsh trellis
naive ravine
#

Yeah you are stupid

#

XDD

undone beacon
#

My crown parse was gigashit and we're not going back to crown for a while so, that'll be a stain on my record until we reclear lol

naive ravine
#

Why does it matter where they play

#

They play the same game

tribal wharf
#

where you always have silver for basic and plus , or gold for advanced, and i guess like streaming maybe, i see ps5 has game streaming

harsh trellis
#

in a key atm

harsh trellis
# tribal wharf is it like xbox live now

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Most PlayStation users are still overpaying for PS Plus without even realising it. Sony repeats several major discount periods every year, includin...

▶ Play video
#

if you want psn

#

just wait for their sales

#

and you can stack

tribal wharf
#

he said he just had to log in and the price went to normal

#

but he shared a screenshot where logged out the price was literal double

harsh trellis
#

I really like psn,

#

get to test out games I want physical copies of also

tribal wharf
#

i like windows and xbox live

#

shit just fuckin works lol

harsh trellis
#

I've been with xbl since alpha and its also pretty good

tribal wharf
#

i think xbox is the lesser of 3 evils

harsh trellis
#

2002 "I've got great hands"

tribal wharf
#

in general

harsh trellis
#

Its certainly more robust and less robusted than m365

tribal wharf
#

betwen xbox psn and nintendo

#

pc different beast

frosty mango
#

Xbox has pc game pass which if you enjoy games generally is insane value

tawdry herald
#

did Avatar previously have a root/snare removal component on it?

#

or some talent that was removed?

jagged pier
#

it got removed from avatar this expansion

tribal wharf
#

4 hours tomorrow lol god damnit

#

ugghhh at least i caught it early

vocal junco
#

Ah the highs and lows: I love how some days I’m a key bricking machine and I’m told to quit tanking and other days I’m timing keys left and right

ivory barn
#

Warrior will have a - tblast instead of +

harsh trellis
#

And what level keys?

fringe mural
#

also pumps has updated the 12.0.5 guardian guide so the guide writers seem to be active on iv outside of warrior too

unreal shoal
#

Oops, I thought this was one of the dps channels T_T

#

I'm not sure which superhero writes the prot guides

fringe mural
#

no, we don't do that here

fringe mural
#

he's the prot mvp

vocal junco
tawdry herald
jagged pier
#

not really

#

we have fearless but it works on like 1 thing

tawdry herald
#

yeah that sucks, i dont think ive even seen tank get targeted by the DoT in Pit. so its only useful for the Chains, which arent a huge issue for the tank anyways?

#

i guess the circles on left side NPX if tank can get that, never paid attention if it targets them or not

#

the verbiage says "movement-speed impairing effects" and not "movement impairing effects" which sounds like a distinction between slows and roots respectively

#

so if it only removes slows blizz really hates warriors

lusty grotto
#

npx slows dont target tanks unless the group is dead

#

its just chains

#

and chains themselves deal jack shit damage to tanks until much higher keys

stray sonnet
#

does prot war have more surviviability than blood dk?

lusty grotto
#

thats a very broad question to answer

#

the context for it matters a lot

stray sonnet
#

for m+

lusty grotto
#

still broad

#

vault keys? 15s? 20s? r1 keys?

stray sonnet
#

let's say 20s

lusty grotto
#

do you do 20s?

stray sonnet
#

no i'm j/w

lusty grotto
#

BDKs can do fine in 20s, but after that they can fall off due to how their kit works

#

we're in skyhold though so if you want a more concrete answer you would have to go to their 2 discords

lone turret
#

is it really leech > avoidance??

coarse bay
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Avoidance doesnt do much for tanks

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Speed pretty cool too wicked

frosty mango
coarse bay
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Ya

frosty mango
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Speed is king tho

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Zoom zoom

frosty mango
lusty grotto
toxic pewter
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lmao

fringe mural
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that is more important to me than the dead druid tbh 😄

lusty grotto
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theyre allowed as long as they're predictions

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exwindtools does it and/or mini cc

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its legal for now

stoic hound
lusty grotto
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yea

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they work but it assumes regular cd

fringe mural
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oh ok

harsh cypress
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What number for shield block uptime should I be trying fo?

fringe mural
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your number of blocked hits should be 95%+

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which is an effective shield block uptime of nearly 100% and around 0-5% back hits

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the better you get, the less backshots you take and the higher your effective shield block uptime goes to 100%

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effective means it only has to be up when you actually get hit

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not during running to another pack or while the enemy is doing a transition/long cast

stable kernel
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Ive been running Heavy Rep but I dont have 1188 haste or whatever it is for itf and its pretty easy to keep up very close if not 100% shield block

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but yea main skill thing is not getting buttshot

lusty grotto
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but 90% at a bare minimum, ideally 95+ like grossmummrich said

heavy sparrow
harsh cypress
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I must be getting backshot to pieces, my blocked hits are only about 65...which seems very low

lusty grotto
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link log

harsh cypress
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does this link work

lusty grotto
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you have 85% effective block

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and you got back hit around 115 times

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while youre under what we consider the bare minimum, youre not that low

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no idea where youre getting the 65 from

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you should be hovering over Melee hits

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out of the 164 unblocked hits you took, 115 were back hits, the rest were just hits taken while SB was not up (which could also be back hits but at that point it does not matter)

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so to answer what you were wondering, yes back hits are pulling your effective block downwards

chrome linden
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can anyone offer some tips on the 1st pull left side of npx

lusty grotto
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Second Wind + BSV

arctic hearth
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if you're pulling the 6 defenders, you're gonna have to kite

lusty grotto
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dont kite

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while its a strategy, it kills the lust pull

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your dps wont be able to dps shit down

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your healer needs to pump heals

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use stops liberally

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if you need to kite, make sure you kite around a circle

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do not leap to africa

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and use SR on cd as well

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if you've got a MW, make sure they ring you

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to catch up

arctic hearth
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MW does make those pulls pretty free

lusty grotto
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so does any healer that use the haste buff

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the pylon one, ive seen some god tiered healers using it and the absorb is nothing to worry about

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but this is not something someone on a 10-12 will do

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nor should be expected of them

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healers just need to know they need to pump tank heals, thats it

harsh cypress
undone beacon
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Look at this fuckass bird

vital vale
compact palm
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chat do i bleach my eyes

ivory barn
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WW as prot

vital vale
vital vale
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blame blizzard

compact palm
undone beacon
ivory barn
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it does, sadly

coarse bay
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Are

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You doing here

forest dragon
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I haven’t timed it on anything higher than an 18, but it seems to work at that level fine

compact palm