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Well if you didn't put in your own APL, it's still a useless sim unless I'm misunderstanding something
@royal cobalt Did you download the latest nightly build or compile the code yourself?
What are you simming with?
What SimC build?
Because if you didnt download it directly from the github and compile it yourself the belt isnt implemented
If you dont want to compile it yourself, you can download the latest nightly build and use the following overrides:
override.spell_data=effect.275827.base_value=50
override.spell_data=effect.210836.base_value=10
Still wont have TWF or TGV implemented though
How accurate is this going to be for simming purposes without an APL?
alrighty ty
Okay that's what I thought
Not that hard to make a decent APL for us though, prot warriors dps rotation isnt that complicated
No but I'm not simc literate at all so I'll wait until someone smarter than me creates ones
one*
Probably the recommended option
I was under the impression that the entire prot rotation was a priority thing
Is Melekus working on an APL or is his work finished with the SimC implementations and now we're waiting for someone like Akmandor to do it?
Who is writing it? I want to buy them a virtual cake for their hard work
Melekus fixed the implementation
Melekus did the SimC implementations I believe
as apposed to a set order some abilities should be cast in
APL is up to the TC's
^, melekus did the backend of SimC while we're doing the APL part of it
Super grateful for Melekus's hard work. Don't want to rudely ping but hopefully he knows how much we all appreciate the work he put in for us.
im sure he'd appreciate it
Could link a basic ST APL if you want to
Been tinkering a bit with one, probably going to be further improvements to the APL once one is released
Is that where our focus would be probably, in creating the APLs? Primarily single target? Or will there likely be a multi-target one as well?
Should I take simc's pawn string for dps as prot with a grain of salt?
Yes
Definitely
Always take a pawn string with a grain of salt
Best is just resimming all gear, even that should be taken with a grain of salt
If you have a huge margin of error do a target_error= sim
type that into import?
Be prepared for a very long simtime if you want extremely accurate numbers
But yeah, add target_error=0.05 into the simc file
ok ty
The lower you go the more accurate and longer sim time obviously
what APL are you using?
until now i used raidbots weekly build
seems okay but apparently inconsistent for prot
Idk if the weekly build has any of the fixes
Nightly build has some at least
and the APL for that isnt really any good iirc
Uhm yeah, I'd never ever recommend AMR to anyone
Guess their wiki for formulas is good, but thats about it
that was the 3rd scythe
Mythic?
haha
Nothing strange about it
84(1-0.44)*0.5=23.52
Roughly 23.5M damage if you did a normal block and 50% DR from armor
Ofc without versa and avoidance
(provided you have 7/7 in bastion)
Fucked the math ๐
So then same formula but replace .44 with .38 I think (I'm so not a math person)
Ain't nobody got time fo' dat
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pv6xnZQKFwzAUzPvKmXtGje8zMLQasQK9dpA0YgONd4/edit#gid=1731903220
Theres a spreadsheet for it made by faide, might be some errors in it but for the normal scythe damage it should be fine
Guardian
Stats, Traits, Calculated Values, IF Base Mod, 0. 65
Armor( in bear form), 11062, Name, Rank, Armor per Ironfur, 8960. 22
HP( in bear form), 13314755, Reinforced Fur, 4, DR from Armor( base), 0. 5753666909, Bear form DR, 0. 06
Versatility, 7552, Sharpened Instincts, 4, DR from Armor...
If you're on mythic argus you should really try to get 7/7 in bastion
Tfw the only good relic I've gotten lately was a 970 on my guardian that has Thrash in T3. Think my war's weapon is like 954 :/
i just came back from taking a break from wow and it seems that we still have to use the t20 set ;/
i am so sad right now
don't have to
is it a big difference?
defensively it can be pretty useful on some fights, but not a requirement by anymeans
hmmm
defensively its good, for straight domage, you'd use 2pc t21
and if i wanted to go do tos
what is the ilvl difference that i should be looking at
from being worth or not worth to equip t20
Tbh, I see no reason to go back and farm t20
Sure, if you get sick TF's on t20 it'll be worth it but might as well just aim for t21 4p since that more than covers our survivability needs
ok thanks guys
t21 4pc isnt as bad as we initially thought it would be
Mostly because it was changed once antorus released
wasn't that the whole current IP changed to next IP?
Your new pic is ๐ Marky
my friends put captions on it
As they should
It was changed to include a buff to your next IP
Buffs your current IP if you have one up, if you dont your next IP is buffed
ah sweet
on PTR it was only if you had one up
I definitely feel way stronger using the higher ilvl t21. It's actually pretty dope ๐ค
yeah if I feel myself riding the danger zone often, I'll end up swapping to t21 4pc, but with proper play (in heroic) I can just mongo my way through
Hey guys do we have a guide on how to analyse logs for tanks? I stated tanking HC and got 4 bosses in but some of them just one-shot me a few times and keen to understand why
Started*
We have people to analyze logs. Chances are you're not using Shield Block for something you should be using Shield Block for though
What to use SB on is not always obvious
Also my Co-tank is a DH thats 20ilvl above me, he keeps pulling aggro of me and keen to see that as well
Im not sure how to link my logs....๐คจ
Yeah, if you have logs, feel free to link them here. No way should any tank be peeling off of us, even if you don't have T21
Just go to your logs and paste the address here
Yeah, unless they're private, we should be able to see them
This os what the GM gave me Logs are up. Let me know if they don't match what other's had.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/guilds/88724
Does that work?
My char name is Keepzup
Yep
So first thing I see is really poor Shield Block uptime
You have 23.38% uptime which is like...less than half what it should be. And your % of blocked hits is around that number too
They didn't do advanced logging so I can't see: what tier/legendaries? AHR is apparent but nothing else
On dogs, which I'm assuming is one of the ones you were randomly getting 1-shot on, your Shield Block is the culprit again. You need to have Shield Block or Neltharion's Fury active for every single Maw; you only blocked 25% of them (I bet your healers loved that :x)
You also have Vengeance talented, which means you should have equal numbers of casts of Revenge and Ignore Pain. You have tons more IP casts than Revenge which means you're not even getting anything out of that talent more than half the time.
iis shard of rokmora ever good?
Not unless it's way higher than any other trinket you have; then it might be better by the strength alone, for DPS
I feel like I do not have enough rage for both SB and IP
SB costs minimal rage. And you would have way more rage available if you weren't wasting the Vengeance talent
True thanks mate something I need to look into
Can you fill me in on your talents/tier/legendaries? I can't see due to no advanced logging
O have the standard talent build with anger management. I have bad leggos at the moment. I have the ring that gives me additional talent and the 30% absorb trinket.
I have 2 Tier 21 pc
Res is M+ gear
looks like you still have vengeance though, with t21 switch to booming voice
I have veng and booming due to the leggo ring
He has the talent ring so he's getting vengeance from that
ah
You have no other alternatives to those?
I mean, AHR really isn't terrible for DPS if you can pop it consistently. But the ring is definitely not one you want to use if you have the option once you get T21
No Im still farming leggos
Alright
firstly, did we die? fairly obvious.
second, did we cap rage? we lose alot of DPS and EHP/HPS when we cap rage
what's our blocked melee hits percentage? the higher the better, not to be confused with shield block uptime.
if taken (it should be in all cases right now), what's our renewed fury uptime? we should be getting around 80% on most fights.
If vengeance is taken, (with T21 we dont take this), how many times did we cast revenge and IP, we're aiming for the same amount.
Are we SS'ing on cooldown?
with t21 and AM(should always have AM) are we using BC on cd, and are we dumping rage whilst it is?
are our TC stacks falling off?
are taunt swaps clean?
are we using the correct mitigation for the ability? Nelths for big blockable, SR for big magic, DS for small magic, LS or SW for big unblockable.
I can't see your rage (again, due to no advanced logging; they should really fix that), but you're also overcapping rage a ton
Which you can see by looking at your rage and going to the events tab. Anywhere you see an (O:#) after an event, it means you wasted rage
k help
i got an iron relic
955
no bastion
current iron relic
950
bastion
help.
Don't replace it
keep bastion
not right now you don't
@sick sentinel I think your two primary focuses should be using Shield Block more (specifically on hard hitting abilities like Burning/Corrupting Maw on dogs and the 2nd Expose Weakness on AHC, but your general uptime needs to go way up as well), and making sure you don't overcap rage. That's going to make a big difference. Replace that legendary ring ASAP too. Also, either start logging yourself with Advanced Combat Logging enabled, or tell whoever is logging to enable it
I have a 960 relic doing sweet nothing in my bags right now because my 930 has bastion
if you want to compare, check this old log of mine out, no t21 and using vengeance
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Is there a CrucibleWeight string for Prot?
No there's not; we only recently got "working" sims for DPS so it may happen in the future but can't say for usre.
sure*
Alright, thanks
Even if we got a crucibleweight string, it would only be fof offense and you might aswell sim it yoirself then
imo it's pretty straight forward what we can get out of our relics
@scenic dune @warm plinth thanks for all the tips and stuff I do wrong. I felt like suck a fail in that raid. Ill get WA to help me track those two things SB en Veng/IP. Ill have a look at those logs today thanks.
if you want to have a giggle, check out my NH parses
For Garothi you can just cast Shield Block as much as possible while tanking the boss
There's nothing specific you need to block
then I got blasted first week of ToS and came here
I need 25% haste for 100% SB uptime right?
No
no
cant do it
you can have 100% effective uptime
You just need SB up as much as possible while tanking, but especially for certain abilities that can be blocked, such as Burning Maw
IIRC you can actually have 100% uptime while tanking on High Command
You only have the boss for like 20 seconds at a time
If your co tank is paying attention
oh, 100% effective uptime
Yeah, effective. Just while tanking the boss
not literally 100% uptime throughout the entire fight
Right
Not every boss has that short of a tanking uptime though. Like Portal Keeper I imagine you won't always have 100%, but I don't think it's really her melees that are dangerous anyway; it's the Rift DoT
yup
you don't exactly notice that SB isn't active until you get hit by something that's big and blockable
"lookin' at you, maw"
otherwise I just make sure that I have SB up for BC lul
I've been kinda jonesing to get my feet wet in at least normal ATB lately, but it just seems like potentially wasted time. I like killing bosses but my primary goal is loot so it's a bummer to spend a few hours killing things and not even get anything
sounds like I should join you when im not working
mongo through some bosses
wait
you're US, right?
aight cool
I play weird hours though; I work nights
im in New Zealand so that works in my favor
You play on US servers from there? How's your ping?
yup, 150ms
Oh, 150 isn't too bad
I don't notice it
I'd even play a caster on 150
275-300 is where I hit my breaking point. I was around 220ms when I played on EU and by like a month in, I didn't even notice it.
Meanwhile in group with someone from Barthilas, 3k ping
yeah there's 150MS with good internet, and then there's getting 150MS on a server that would normally give you 20ms
I've never gotten that bad of ping. But I can't heal in OCE groups. I usually get up to around 310-315 in those and it feels like shit
ahahahaa
@scenic dune Im NZ as well!
Tanking idc though; I'm mashing buttons anyway
asuh dude
the only places where my ping has been a detriment is fast things like the guitar hero phase on maiden
and like getting out of storm in coven
I wish I had Guitar Hero ๐ค
yeah you learn to be real quick to react on higher pings, or so I've found
Did a 23 Kara upper last night, that mana worm sucks lol. We stomped curator and medivh then spent 25 mins on the stupid worm -_-
Yeah for high tyr, immunities are basically mandatory since the stacks tick so hard
what leggos are you guys running for mythic vari if you are escorting?
offensive ones
our warrior only has bracers as far as prot leggos go he has all of the arms ones
what would you suggest from that pool
As much as ypu can get, the more the merrier
With the usual caviat of not dropping ilvl for it since raw amount of stats still matter more
what about trading my 4-piece bonus for 5% extra haste?
4pc is definitely stronger defensively
npnp
ty for the help with the legendary suggestions btw
I'm an ex mythic arms war who left during tomb, just came back now and thinking of just casually tanking mythic 10-15+ each week till bfa how does prot warrior stack up for that? I've got t20 and im running manny bracers as well as soul of the battle lord atm.
What item level are you?
any tank is more than viable for 15s, keystones are more about the player until you get to mid-to-high 20s
im 944, using immortality and Khaz'goroths as my trinkets since I didnt have any tank trinkets
15s should be easily doable. Read up in the pins to make sure you're up to date on what talents to use and stuff. I would strongly suggest getting a hold of 2pc T21 as soon as possible and ditching the soul ring when you can.
Gloves/Bracers/Belt are the top three (not in that order)
belt is by far the best in aoe scenarios
ohh yeah
in m+ belt would be baller
what about the walls fell for survivability?
it's fine, more useable with t21 and the second best option with the tier combo but doesn't beat any of the three mentioned above
Easy to get legendaries now if you do content. With essences you can get a guaranteed legendary every 1-2 weeks (depending on how much content you do)
And that's not counting your regular drops
Im just going to be doing weekly normal and see how far I can pug heroic. I play ffxiv more seriously and just wanted to play wow in my ffxiv downtime
aside from m+ and dailies of course
Farming for leggo myself at the moment, if you clear Antorus and do the daily quests and the daily HC with daily PVP you can get a leggo a week and sometimes two a week
@undone sun Whats the highest M+ you have done?
uh i think a 21, idk i don't really push that much
Is there a dps trinket spreadsheet for prot?
#Soon
oh alright
So, Ive been thinking about switching from maining boomkin to Prot warrior. I have however, noticed a large influx of tanks in the game. Is it worth it to go tank?
if it suits your interests/needs, sure
Yeah
cool
Almost definitely, though I guess if it took you like 4 hours it might not
I think the answer @rotund token needs is HELL YEAH MAKE THE SWITCH!!! Prot warrior 4 lyfe!
Then yeah, it'll easily beat the +15
yay
Level means more than any other metric used to calculate score. Chests hardly matter, though I believe there is a small bonus for doing it in time vs out of time.
An in time 19 would be 209 I believe, so you're looking at probably low-mid 190s for doing it out of the timer (estimating). A +15 is only like 151.5
Assuming right on time
i killed mythic helya tonight ๐
Sorry, 19 in time is 236, not 209. I'm a failure
Here ya go. This is the base scores for each level of M+ if you did it exactly in time.
lol
@warm plinth Do you use WA?
Not really. I have one for Prolonged Power potions to remind me to use them but other than that, not on my warrior.
weak auras comes in handy for me on a lot of stuff
antorus, sephuz, dot reminder on guardian druid, mage tower
I use some on my mistweaver...if I was a good prot warrior I'd probably use a Scales tracker
But idgaf
haha
i try to keep as minimal of a ui as possible
sometimes ill delete some strings
There are a few WA that are really good that are listed in the guide.
The ones Macro and Hamsda created for all the tanks are pretty comprehensive and show you pretty much everything you need, buff-wise
^ There are a few suites I've tried that are pretty solid; I just don't feel like I need quite that much information.
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i feel like its impossible to make boig progress though
with m+ score
do i gotta do eveyr dungeon on a +18?
i believe every dungeon at 19 is 3k
Yeah every dungeon at 19 is 3065 if you do it exactly on time
Well out of time is definitely a substantial loss. That 19 would be 236 if it were in time instead of 201.2 out of time
The 18 would be 214 instead of 184
Then you have several 15s to replace yet
It's meant to be hard. What would be the point if it were easy?
its toooo hard lol
thats the fun on M+
Doing past +15 is literally just for the sake of challenge (and I guess possible extra drops)
constantly pushing your limit
one of the dps in my cos 19 siad i was bad tongiht ๐ฆ
I get told I'm bad weekly ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
yep
If you think they're right, get better. If you don't, fuck them
and you cant be expected to play perfectly all the time anyways
i've definitely fucked up lots of keys with my group
hes probably right
What walls? ๐ค
Yeah she said court
The only ring I can think of is maybe the center area of the first boss
So maybe they mean the streetsweeper
๐คท๐ผ
no idea what walls hes talkin about lol
wall of clones? idk lol
we wiped once on last boss which caused us to miss timer
we've changed our lust timings to make the timer way easier
Maybe he means the piercing gale lines?
@junior ivy You can check out "the thorough tank " channel on youtube, to get some more knowledge
If healer was standing in mid, he'd be baiting blade surges there which means more criss-cross of lines for the gales
lust the docks pull, lust thhe second miniboss with a pack of 3, lust last boss
hogo is that the australian guy?
i watched his video for seat. i should check out his others
Quite frankly he discribes some pulls as "easy" when i wouldn't do them, and the other way around, it's missing a lot of details i think become important after a while, but it's pretty nice
Yeah, seat is actually terrible for warrior
seat is terrible*
i gotta get a seat done but im scared
am i better off tomorrow or tuesday?
i just wanna do 15 or 16
I'd rather do Seat this week than next
next week is gonna suck for it too
The day I understood i could reflect most of the mobs, was the day i understood it was doable for a warrior
this week definitely easier
I meant the video is terrible ^^
I mean, if you don't reflect the blops on +20 fortified, you're gonna die, that's all
Yeah he doesn't mention much in the way of class specific stuff that often, if ever. But still decent beginner guides to the dungeons.
You need to know that if you want to be able to survive
yeah i ddint know that
The Famished Broken in the trash around the first boss cast Dark Withering which is a stacking 10% damage taken debuff. You can reflect it as a warrior.
The guy plays DH, he doesn't know trhose kind of things
(monk/pal too i think, anyway)
He just silences/kites them as a DH so he doesn't have to worry about it :p
exactly
When i have some time, i'll try to hit up Thyme so we can update his spreadshit for reflect on trashs, that's pretty important too
(like the ghost on UK/LK start)
Meh. I've started using SR for those, but I still get pissed off that healers don't dispel the DoT
I wonder if it doesn't show by default or something
that's why i reflect them
It's annoying to do a higher fortified key and I'm getting trucked by it when they could just dispel it
And that's a pretty nice input of dommage
I really want the pants soon so I can giggle at Upper Kara
Yeah, it's not the same instance with them to be honest
I don't have chest or prydaz yet
I think I'm left with two good ones and 3 bad actually
I wonder if we could use the chest on some trashs to save another person
Could get legs or bracers, but then I could get chest, prydaz, or...blanking on the last one tbh lol
bracer aren't as important as they seems
I mean, the effect is there I guess. But chances are you would've saved them just with Safeguard anyway, so the absorb would be next to meaningless
I mean, depending on if the healer realise he doesn't need to help you that much
Safeguard absorb only aa, right?
no
Safeguard absorbs anything
There are some things you can't reliably use it on but yeah you can do dumb shit with it
Like Nightmare Bolt you'd have to have pretty killer reflexes for it to work, since you have to intercept prior to the cast starting
(And i was thinking of stuff like the lantern spell in VoTW, especially on raging)
that's not called reflexes but premonition :')
Lantern spell? Oh, you mean the miniboss?
yeup, before second elevator
For example, i'm pretty sure there's other things
even last cos boss
Imprison really is no big deal if people do the mechanic right. You can group soak it or use root removals to get out of it
druid typooh and dk grip can interrupt the cast of the cage as well
Ah good to know. Actually wasn't aware of that.
might be more, i don't really know, like tbh i didn't know root can
Now I feel like a dick for not gripping it on my DK D:
lol
There are a lot of little tricks you wouldn't think of that just aren't common knowledge; I learn new ones every week it seems like
yeh
I just learned the other day that you can disorient Glaivyanna to delay her Meta
I know, but i do most on my mm+ in pugs, so you know, you often have to compensate when you can
I mostly pug as well. :d
@warm plinth You're talking about first miniboss on votw right?
Yes he is.
Yeah, first miniboss
Very nice to know, she hits really hard on high keys
Imo it's a lot better to start off with pugs since then you learn how derp people can be so you know what to expect and preemptively do something about it next time around.
Note the delay part. She will try to recast it like 6-10 seconds later. The cast time is also rather quick so you have to make sure you're not mid-global to actually get it off. Knockbacks don't work either; has to be a disorient.
And later if you find a decent group it's like "OH SHIT. PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY BE GOOD"
But still, on high keys, 6-10 seconds of no meta is amazing
@ionic fern Of course, it's also nice to learn some new things
can pally still repent her @ 30% to mitigate meta cast?
@warm plinth In 21 last night, on raging, she did 10M ~ by aa
So 6-10 sec, is freaking amazing :')
Probably but that'd be nearly impossible to time well. And it's actually somewhere between 50 and 60% that she casts it initially.
Rather use Blinding Light for the insta-disorient
^
Her cast time is less than a global for my guardian. I had to basically wait out the cast once she hit 60% so I could actually interrupt it
How about 2nd boss azshara for the chest?
Or be a man and tank it.
Lol
I mean, i my charges to clean the tornadoes so far, but it could help someone survive
Yeah not like we really need them for anything else soon after.
Without the torso :p
Again, Safeguard will help even without the chest
Why would you clear the tornadoes?
On high tyranical, sometimes you don't have enough, especially if dps stand on them and remove them aswell
I've only done EOA on +21 but we've never had any space problems.
run inside, and charge/leap out
Depend on the pops, level of the key, dps of the group, and people removing them aswell
Btw, i got a tornado pop ON a mot, just before her cast once
And they go close to people, so you also prevent them to get bump
Idk I'd rather use my intercepts with CDs to help squishy DPS but it depends on group comp
I usually have some anyway, regardless of the key level
Nop', i actually discovered it on a spreadshit this week
As you said, every week i find out something :')
Ooooh, spreadsheet? What spreadsheet ๐ฎ
I have one that has a lot of hunter specific stuff (but also general tricks too)
Scent of Blood Blockable Melee
Intercept Fenryr's target completely avoiding the need to kite
On the blocable one
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Oh, right
I forgot it was mentioned on there
Thyme stealing my thunder and shit
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That's what he does, that's why he's stormforged and you aren't, i guess :/
Touche ๐ญ
Odyn didn't chose you !
I'm not stormforged because I don't actually know anything. I just parrot what others say faster than they can because I type faster.
So it doesn't have anything to do with the nordic god? :(
Nope. I mean, I have no aspiration to be Stormforged or anything else anyway. I just use Discord to kill time at work instead of, you know, working.
As we do all
Replace working by "something you should be doing then" :/
So I just chill around like 5-6 different discord channels lol
Unholy should I just send you a list of my Discord servers so you can join all of them?
I think you're missing a couple
๐ it's like you know how i got stormforged
I'm not stormforged because I don't actually know anything. I just parrot what others say faster than they can because I type faster.
Class*
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Iโm active in 5 class discordโs and the recruitment discord
The rest are random server Iโm in
Servers*
๐ I didn't mean to steal your story Thyme
lol
Yeah I was gonna say I've seen you in blood, vengeance, and now here tonight
btw learning is mostly what you described
Iโm on all tank discords
But pally one
Cause I hear itโs useless (not sure)
And I donโt play pally so
I have only glanced at the pally discord but it seems pretty toxic tbh
I am in it for the resources
I see what you did there...
I left Dreamgrove because I barely touch my guardian anymore
And idk what I can learn from there beyond get 3 thrash relics, which I know already. There's not much you can learn as a Guardian.
you can learn what to use mark of ursol on!
I've started doing shit like weeklies and dailly heroics on mine again but idk that I'll really do anything relevant until the expansion to see how they are.
You have to hit thrash harder
Too soon mgll, too soon
Too late mgll, too late
I feel like he doesn't have enough defensive tool
(for mm+ at least)
the only "interesting thing they have, is the kite potential
I don't like playing my druid because a.) it's mindless and b.) they melt like the cartoon bad guy in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
When magic hits them
Yeup
I mainly play a dk
Which makes them utterly unfun in M+
Doesn't help you in DHT 2nd boss for exemple
Yeah my DK is actually my highest ilevel toon
Eh, I mean you have Frenzied Regen for that so I don't think that's bad
It's more trash packs than anything else for me
Shade sucks as a guardian though
Yeah, but if you don't get hit hard, FR doesn't do much
Have to waste interrupts on it because you have nothing to avoid the debuff with
Yeah, I have a WA that tells me how much my FR will heal me for
And it usually sucks
So for things like Grip, you just eat a few ticks, then pop it
Honestly most of being a good guardian is knowing when to press FR and when not to press FR
And i get bored on my BDK, although i didn't gear him much
Especially coming from virtually any other tank besides monk, you have to get used to actually needing to be healed
But that's part of the design; their mastery increases healing done to them
Besides monk?
Yeah, monks also need healing
I said it weird too so I understand lol
Dumb unholy being dumb again
Hey, you have an excuse, you haven't slept in 8 years or whatever
LOL
Nah I got good 10 hour sleep today so Iโm happy
But I need to be awake in 2 hours
So Iโm fucked in that department
RIP
I feel so bad when ever i play my warrior due to how i am dependant on healers. ๐ฆ
The fact that i don't have bracers doesn't help tho
.:D
The thing I learned recently
Guess that depends on content and shit but I don't really feel that dependent on my healer in M+ on my warrior
Most healer heal you regardless anyway, so... you're not missing out on much
Is that the best healing sniper is the god dam panth trinket
I mean, I definitely need healing compared to my DK or my DH, but it's nothing compared to my druid
Some healer forget to heal you at all on the other hand, when you have wrists
warriors only dont need healing with wrists when the incoming damage is fairly trivilal
Ofc healers heal you regardless but i just don't have the "Oh shit, i'm low , lemme smash hotp" for example.
Just depends on the damage intake. If it's bursts followed by nothing, you can self-maintain pretty well if you time BC and shit (take Travex's video he shared recently for example)
Hey. Quick question. Is 4p t20+2p t21 still worth it if t20 is low ilevel (910-915)? For survivability. Mythic Antorus. Compared to full ilevel 4p t21 setup i am losing 10 ilevels (from 960 to 950). I looked @ Guide in pins, and it says it is still better for survival, but that much loss of ilevel concern me. Sorry if stupid.
I would just stick with 4pc T21 personally
sup crusher? still workin ?
Nope. I'm at home atm
Ive been tanking alot more for my guild lately, running 2p r21 with haste offpieces, you think i should go for 4pc instead? 
Mostly mythic tier pieces
Stopped using the t20 4pc t21 2pc setup a while ago since i never remember to pop BR
No harm in using it if you think you need the extra survivability then. If not, stick with what you're using.
the biggest hit would be on the legs, going from 970 to 945 if i remember right
ive kind of been testing stuff out on the farm bosses
What damage potion should i be using for prot in m plus?
Prolonged power
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Congratulations!
Nicely done Trav
What is it though?
looks like m+ logs
I believe its parses for all keys overall for tanks. Someone from my MDI group dm'd me with it. It's not overall completion score but ill take what I can get for now lol.
hold that protflag up dude! we believe in u .. haha ๐ช
Trying bud, we're 7th in US atm for proving grounds but we'll fall when time trials start prolly. Assumedly all blood dks then.
No DH's from US?
is there some place i could check best leggos to use for individual tasks? M+/raids/ST/AoE etc
Does someone know how to reproduce Hyrja's bug by any chance? I can't do it everytime
Which bug?
BUG ou BEAU JEU - Hyrja - Halls of Valor MM+ 17 PoV by Moggrosh, Hunter MM http://theamazingzoo.fr/ My WeakAura can be find here : https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Is that the one to like cross her empowerments up?
yeup
On some pugs it's required by leader, on others healers are like "don't, i can handle it" and fail
There's no real reason to do the bug...
She still gets fully empowered arc/expel
And those are the dangerous part of the fight
Hey guys I just looted destniy drivers, how bad is it (i'm currently using The walls fell and quest ring, with prydaz a,d soul in my bags)? equiping DD would make me lose t214P
It's the only legendary in the game that is 100% useless as anything but a stat stick
It's dangerous oneshot wise, but healing eye of the vortex in high tyranical keys is very tough
And you're sure she does arc/expel on the oposite side?
I haven't done it myself but have been told by several people that the only purpose the bug serves is to reduce the damage of the storm
Which isn't the hard part of the fight
174 M on 5 people, for one storm
You can see in the video she still does the proper ability for her empowerment state
Idk, I'll let Travex share his opinion on the matter since he actually has experience at that level. The deaths I see on high keys aren't from the storm though; they're from expel mostly
The deaths come from ->Storm->people low from storm->Insta arch/expel.
What are you considering being high keys?
Over 20
Alright, on the same page on that, and yet we disagree
Fact is a DPSer has around 6m health ->a tick can take it down to half.
even in fortified weeks i see healers ask for pridaz/versagear/avoid
People overestimate the effect of tyrannical as far as ability damage
It's the thing that leads UP to the deaths.
Tyrannical isn't hard because of the 15% damage; it's hard because of the 40% extra health, which equates to more dealing with the bad stuff
A tyrannical key is the same as a fortified two levels lower
As far as boss damage goes
Hyrja recks parties since most people use defensives during storm and even after that people are around 30-50% health..and then the RNG of Arc/expell comes in and just oneshots someone unless the healer has godlike reflexes to top the person instantly.
That too
Maybe in your groups, that's the case.
I've watched tons of high level M+ runs, and there's very rarely a death because of a storm+ability combo. It's either ability+ability combo, or just outright getting 1-shot because of a lack of defensive. Most groups you see are full HP after storm.
"watched" as of videos? Like premade group where they can adapt? :p
Its a very valuable thing to do, absolutely. having the storm do almost no dmg is insane. People still need to properly gear and cd for the st casts but every1 will b topped faster, ur healer will have more mana and cds to prevent deaths
Well there you have it.
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Travex actually does high keys, and he says it's worth doing. So it's worth doing.
Alright x)
@little rain by any chance, do you know exactly how to do it? I can't seem to do it everytime
This was on +21..fortified however. Eye of Storm damage.
I rememberd i loged a HoV on my pally.:')
And this is what i was talking about..Storm+ability
AFAIK you just have her on one side of the middle, and then right before the special, you move her to the other side.
second after storm- arcing bolt for 5m
Taking into consideration most DPS'ers have 6m hp.
Yeah, I wasn't arguing that the storm wasn't dangerous
I thought we were talking about organized groups, since it seems the majority of keys that high are done with stable groups.
I wish i had a organized group. ๐ฆ I'm bound to pugging..only done up to +23. ๐ฆ
Yeah I imagine it's hard to even find a PUG higher than that
@restive scroll We only started playing with that strat tgis week but it seemed like being somewhat close to the mid, letting her get 1 stack, waiting 1 second then leaping over was working, but the sample size of pulls was small - I still have to go back and perfect the pull
@little rain What do you use to see her stacks? I've tried several things to get it to show but I still can't see her damn stacks -_-
I dont have any significant ui mods, not sure i can help there XD I assume you have elvui or something?
Yeah, I added the mystic empowerments to the white list but that didn't seem to work. Guess I'll just have to keep trying
@little rain I didn't do something that precise, but sometimes i get a shield of light doing something close to that
which means that she stacks more before storm, so it's worse
I got it too, but it's nothing consistant
Really throws you off on higher keys when you need to use SR for it and you're not prepared lol
Especially since you don't have it for the next one
Yep
hah, coming back to my warrior after a long time, I legit have 940 legendaries on her. Mannoroth are near OP right?
depending on context, but they are still nice overall anyway
Definitely the strongest defensive legendary in most cases
Figured as much, seems to be doing solid healing for me
@ionic fern same boat as me then :) I've learned a lot from doing bosses on 22/23 this week. Mostly,that they hurt
feels bad in the trial of style when you're the only one that matches the theme but only get third place hah
i stopped to discuss the issue if i smth. matches the theme or not long ago ๐ค teachers had the power to be right! lul
fuck yeah prot family. i said we starting mythic prog this week and we 2 shot Garothi LOL ez mode
anyone know how to make a macro to intercept to a certain target?
#showtooltip /cast [@playername] Intercept
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dogs 48 % first pull lol
LOL 2 shot it
fuck me mythic shoulda done this years ago
I mean, Antorus wasn't out then ๐ค lol
I like Antorus ๐ป
Kinda tired of it tbh, finding heroic pugs that just sit down and clear the place in 1.5 hours is trying
Unless something changes, I'm not going to be doing mythic
Hah, groups find female gnome warriors so adorable
buuuutt.... I still really like M+
so true @maiden ravine I remember back in WOTLK our other tank was a Gnome Prot Warrior. Watching this tiny thing tank Sapphiron was hilarious
Yeah, I'm working on all mage tower appearances, 11/36 so far. Done BrM and Guardian in the tanks so far. Prot warrior is next
ignore pain feels so broken sometimes
Is there a legendary that is able to perform as good as the belt in combination with Mannoroth's? I should probably just use the belt, but i have a 975 haste/mastery belt i don't want to leave in my bag
Which context? Do you want to switch for mm progress? high keys? [...] (for dps? survivability?)
oh right, should have mentioned that i only tank mythic+, 16-17 ish keys
So, mostly dps?
Gloves are good on single target, but it's hard to beat belt on big packs
Legs are pretty usefull for survivability given how much you can reflect in mm+
Frankly, i swap between 4/5 legendaries in mm+ , so if you just want to nobrain it, i'd go with gloves
Yeah it's not as simple as 1 set of legendaries, but for a casual tank like myself i'll stick to the gloves
Thanks ๐
On big packs you really can't beat the belt. Drastically increased uptime on Demo Shout is wayyyyyy better than 20% increased SS or TC after an auto attack
Hands+belt, swap in bracers/legs where required. EG third boss of seat = legs and bracers. And then run speed set
Tonight was good to me ๐
Nice on both accounts
Cheers haha
I've been super lucky on our heroic runs. The stand out is a 975 Diimas. R a w r
fuck yeah nice
Yeah dude. On aoe that thing is a monster. With BC and what not it crits for like 2.5mil
I plugged heroic coven 5 times this week + guild clear still no trinket :( every week spend all my coins on it
I got my 3rd one tonight lol. All 945 but tonights had speed on it as well lol
i run heroic coven since opening of argus, and have yet to see one drop for myself and i reroll coven 2-3x a week
not including mythic... i'm just not meant to get diimas :c
same tho..odd coinsink
Our guild hasn't seen a legendary trinket drop and we've cleared every week since release.
I've only seen 1 drop on a pug on my alt
Have you seen the tank trinket on your warrior tho?
No ๐ญ
But you have the dps one so you should go angry boy instead
@compact geyser we havenโt had any drop. Another guild on our server had 3 in 3 weeks. They thought they were a 100% drop until the week they didnโt get one
I have both trinkets now. Just waiting and praying for the legendary one.
Same.
@tepid chasm haha very funny
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Nope
what would u guys consider bis tier and farm legendaries? movement speed + heavy damage? what if u want to throw in self-sustain (just add bracers)?
last night i tried t20 2p + t21 2p + leg gloves/shoulders
and bear tartare
could exchange leg gloves for feet, but leg shoulders still would restrict access to 4p/2p
Yo Cosmo, how did your weekend raid go?
wow nice!
Hoping he goes down next reset, once we hit the 10min mark with BL should be easy kill
yea, your DPS is so much higher than ours, man, i'm hoping it goes down this wk too, but we'll have to see
last raid day of the week we started looking somewhat stable in P3
You spying on our logs? ๐
yea i just looked it up
on your 22% pull you were 13% ahead of us, but only like 30ish seconds further into the fight
p1 without BL is gonna be extremely tight
how much haste is too much haste?
when you are sacrificing ilvl for it
i have this 980 crit vers +5% rage neck, 35ilvl above a haste+mastery, i'm newbie i don't know how to proper evaluate stats for prot, all i know is that i nee high haste for shield block
980 for sure
and you dont really need haste for block uptime, its more for the rage generation
oh thanks
A well time shield wall, demo shout, or nelth fury can help cover shield block gaps if/when needed
demo shout should more or less be used on CD, for the rage
but if you can forsee a case where its the only CD you would have available and you need something, then sure
Yeah I guess I worded that wrong, meant more if I have demo active and Iโm not taking a big hit then itโs ok to roll with it for a few seconds and some IP
Anyone who done a realm/faction change knows how to get their UI with them? I copy pasted the folder from my WTF file to the other server..but still nothing
Not using elvui btw
you didnt have a backup folder?
another thing, is nelt lair bad for prot or it is me that sucks way too much
@vital fulcrum no
@bitter jay obv you ๐ but no, it's not a particularly bad dungeon for us, and if you have arat's you can SR quite a bit on the back 3 bosses
i had problems with first boss and and with that pack with a green stone dude
i've never used spell reflect before lol
that's too bad, that's what makes us pretty strong in mm+
Check out the pinned messages, you'll see that you can do loads on boss
@bitter jay r u getting hit by the cone of spikes?
stun or displace the mob and it will cancel its cast, no reason to eat it
First boss shouldn't be an issue, the shard cast doesn't track the tank so move out if it.
The hulking giants do track the tanks however so you want to stun it every time you get knocked back
If you don't have stun, just use a big CD, not much else you can do
you will probobly have a stun for each one as a prot war
dunno what else to use on for those packs
How so @round hornet ?
Warbringer
Always run with shockwave
you will have more stuns w/ warbringer
Warbringer doesn't seem that good and even more with raging week
And it's off the Dr of other stuns
Oh
WB all the time. ๐
It's off the dr, seriously
anyways, even with shockwave you can always ask someone else in your grp to use theirs
alright, that's pretty nice then :')
knockback like typhoon and stuff also work
These are 2 mobs packs, only one shockwave avaiable
It's miles better than the other
Well, if it's off DR, yeah
2 charges, off Dr, stuns enemies when you intercept a nearby melee
It's by far the most preferred in keystone's
Yeup, I just thought it was on DR, which would have been extremely bad (seemed logical to me it was)
Pets as well including the Shadow Priest octopus looking thing.
lol
for the green rock dudes, just make sure ur at max melee range and when they knock you back move away slightly first, otherwise you'll be too close to charge in for the stun
otherwise intercept a melee or have the healer stand close
What is a good ilvl for the mage tower challenge ?
can be done as low as 890, obviously the higher the better
funny, you need 890 to get T21 (LFR), assuming the worst luck ever, but 2 legos, your gear excluding the 2 legendaries and 2p T21 would have to be around 870 average to maintain 890 overall
that'd be the weirdest way to do the mage tower with T21 and still low AF ilvl
Could get average around 900 with unsullied gear. That wouldn't be impossible to have mostly unsullied gear and a couple legendaries
obviously things are still up in the air, but what's the story on the current allied races for tanks?
pretty marginal as most racials are, highmountain's DR racial is scaled for BFA so currently is pretty lackluster
DiD's fireblood is pretty good but not game breaking, zandalari and maghar orc are tbd afaik
with belt how many targets do you need to prio TC over SS?
wondering mostly about BC duration
if your goal is dps, you'd probably see more dmg from TC than SS with as little as 2, but certainly at 3
during BC
belt or no belt
is it ever worth survivability wise?
On multiple targets with the belt yeah, TC is very beneficial survivability wise. Assuming Demo Shout is on cooldown and you're benefitting from the CDR the belt provides
so for the 'Coven of Shivarra' bossfight, what's the best way to reduce damage from a 'Fiery Strike' or 'Flash Freeze?'
Spell reflect
Oh, I guess I read this wrong, cause i thought you can't reflect/block it https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS0Qz3UUx42xfoK_HLnSHihtlXKg-qQk-RYox2TOdDwgJ98Go8zvjJTuY0NWqCiM5mSxWiHogfRQM0-/pubhtml#
You cannot reflect it but spell reflect still mitigates magic damage by 50%
it doesnt reflect but if you mouseover the spell you will see it reduces damage too
Right, my mistake. I just read it wrong =/
No worries
Everything in blue on that sheet is magic damage and can be reduced by spell reflect
Trying to get a better hang of PW, so I'm studying up all I can about them.
Sure. Feel free to message here with any questions. There's almost always people around to help
so each tank specializes in something better than the other. Is mobility the one thing warriors can do better than others, or is it something else?
Warriors are pretty mobile for sure. Maybe not more so than monks with their incessant rolling
Warriors excel at mitigating sustained physical damage and burst magic damage
monk and vdh have as much or more mobility
DH too, that's right
i mean mobility is either quality og life
or when u fuck up
most mechanics can be walked out of
Well, getting from pack to pack, or picking up new adds etc
my usage of leap is 99% to get to addsquicker
ye but i mean it doesnt affect surv much
That's what I imagine he's asking
I merely asked cause everytime I asked non warrior tanks their opinions on their specialty, they usually say mobility
so I thought I ask here to hear ya thoughts lol
also it might be useful to note that rather than saying sustained physical damage its probobly better to say blockable damage? Since theres physical damage that is unblockable
which isn't something warriors deal especially well with
I didn't think he was asking specifically about survivability. Seemed more generic
warr main weakness is bleeds
that last longer than 12 sec
physical bleeds are usually worse
because they ignore armor
if its blockable we dont feel ANY dmg
yeah, I wasn't asking about survivability. more of just a generalization of mobility
True true. Forging strike is a good example of this
it does poop dmg wit some IP
Yeah, but you can't cheese it the way you can Foe Breaker though
i just came home from work
70 hours this week
so im here few hours and fun continues
so i didnt follow convo till now
He was just asking what we think warriors' niche is in terms of tanking
the main thing warriors do different than others is they can make big absorb shields.
And about our mobility
blocking is shared with prot paladin, mobility overlaps with monk/dh
Yeah, I wouldn't bank on my paladin block saving me from death
Plus it mitigates less than warriors too now that we have Bastion
block is pretty unique to warr as main metigation
pala block is like parry is for dk
or dodge for bear
its their bonus passive metigation
so, what's the best two legendaries for both single target boss fights and aoe/adds?
depends
u want to do dps or surv
ST dps is gloves/AHR
or gloves/belt
ST surv is wrists/gloves or wrists/TWF wit setcombo or without for more SW
aoe dps is gloves/belt or belt/sephuz
aoe surv is wrists/belt
mainly want to survive since I seem to drop when I get hit by something incredibly hard
I'll worry about dps when i git gud
lol
If you're getting chunked hard that usually means you're not using active mitigation right
played right war doesnt get chunked
But I'd say bracers and The Walls Fell would be a good combo for you. It's more forgiving since you can use shield wall more to cover big hits/mistakes
Yeah, it's strong if done right but punishing if you fuck up
"If you're getting chunked hard that usually means you're not using active mitigation right"
Yeah pretty much. I've mostly in going in blind, not knowing what I need to use a cd for, and which one I can use shield block/ignore pain. In truth, even though I got the cunning trinket, I've been cautious about using shield wall
but this is why I'm looking up this info now

my summon worked
I don't do anything here ๐ญ
i said WE
yeah, I got shifting cosmic sliver as my trinket
ouch
it's pretty good >.>;;
I also have the diima's glacial aegis as well
Have a look at the trinket guide in the pins
Diimas is good
there are usually better options for every fight over scs
i'm sorry Thyme
i didn't mean to offend you D:
I have, and looked at it
there hasn't been any other drops for me other then aegis
but yeah, I've been trying to get some other drops. just hasn't happen
A good item level haste stat stick will also help. Roll relinquished trinkets for it
is scs that bad tho? o.o;;
it's not terrible, just there's never a point where it's necessary
especially with the CDR we gain from AM
If you use SW in CD its decent for overall EHRPS reduction
You are using Anger Management right @versed heron
But its nothing really good at all
@fleet galleon Yes, I am
Okay good
What's your second toon?
dk
second prot warrior
hmm
was thinking of paladin
it so hard because i wanna play allied race
but they cant be pala
Highmountain Tauren can't but regular tauren can? ๐ค
atm LFD is OP as prot pala

