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ember arrow
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i can testify in m+

uneven mason
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Most of the Opinion vids that were like WARRIOR SUK, were sitting on their CDs, and not observing their SB uptime

chrome harbor
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prot in legion also had a pretty big gap in performance depending onthe person playing it

uneven mason
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these are the same folks that are playing warrior alts in ABT and are used to dumping 6000rage per minute into IP so you never actually take damage

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which isn't our playstyle at all

dull wagon
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On a side note, with SB, is it best to keep one charge always on cooldown and save the other for heavier dmg windows, or should both be kept on CD always?

uneven mason
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You should use it when you're getting beat in the face, but know that you're going to need something in the gap (like a Demoshout + rolling 2 IPs)

wild hamlet
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So is there a new guide up somewhere to check out the new information?

uneven mason
olive fiber
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Pins bro

wild hamlet
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Oh sorry >_<

uneven mason
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skyhold.gg

wild hamlet
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I am trying to decide between prot war and prot pala as I only have the time for one really. I love the mobility of the warrior but I love the flare of a paladin so not sure what to do 😄

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I have also heard that Warriors are clunky

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is this true?

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I mean I will jump in and try both out for myself

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but I just wondered if they are clunky actually or just clunky at low haste etc.

uneven mason
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Clunky is a matter of opinion, I mean, is she fat, or thicc?

dull wagon
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They made many CDs on the global cooldown now, across all classes, which will definitely have a different feel than what you're used to.

uneven mason
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The real question is

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Do you want to sound like a wind chime being beaten with a feather duster

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or do you want to sound like you just crushed a dudes skull with a car door

olive fiber
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You never disappoint

lyric sigil
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how are we looking for bfa?

olive fiber
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Swole

lyric sigil
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really? good dps and surv?

kind notch
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I believe he said "swole"

dull wagon
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For what it's worth, recently I was struggling with that exact same question - prot warrior vs prot pally, and I made my mind up for prot warrior.
For me it was primarily down to mobility and CD mechanics - Warrior feels more fun to me to play. Although I do have to say Avenger's Shield is awesome. 😃

uneven mason
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Yes, but don't say it too loud, FOTM bois might come and mess us up

lyric sigil
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cause bear seems boring as fuck again dk have the heals and brewmaster is still brew. im hoping we can top some charts this time

uneven mason
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Warriors topped charts in Legion wat you on?

lyric sigil
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and are we going devastor or are we not talenting it this time? and for the highest keys they primarly wanted dk and bears it was sad

olive fiber
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Battle shout and rallying cry. DKs can take their 40 runic power brez and suck it

lyric sigil
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we could do great single target dps and aoe in legion

dull wagon
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Devastator is 💩

lyric sigil
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not enough haste to be viable

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?

uneven mason
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No its just dogshit

kind notch
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booming voice ftw.

chrome harbor
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I wouldn't say devastator is shit, because shit at least fertalizes the ground. Devastator is pretty much flavor text

uneven mason
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no amount of haste makes Devastator good

kind notch
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100% maybe.

lyric sigil
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i thought it was better all through legion?

uneven mason
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Devastator is there for folks who want to be super lazy and have open GCDs

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it was

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when it generated 5 rage and had the same reset % as Devastate

lyric sigil
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got it so they nerfed it in bfa

chrome harbor
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oh yea

uneven mason
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I wouldn't say they nerfed it

chrome harbor
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it got devastated by bfa changes

lyric sigil
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so we are back to fishing for resets?

uneven mason
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I'd say they took it out back, tossed a tire around its neck and gave it a Brazilian necklace.

astral crystal
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it's not quite as bad

chrome harbor
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sorta, I found that I still wasnt hitting devastate as much as I wanted too just because I had other stuff to hit

astral crystal
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since tclap and revenge also reset ss

chrome harbor
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dem GCD changes

uneven mason
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Devastator gives you basically about 5 GCDs per minute dead air

dull wagon
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Devastate now doesn't do anything for improving rage gen or anything - really only a filler if you have nothing else to push, for chance to reset shield slam CD.

uneven mason
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but its value is really hampered by the fact that you're going to be clipping SnB Procs from Devastate, into SnB procs you already get from hitting Revenge or TC anyway

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Devastate has always been a rarely used filler.

chrome harbor
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Would be nice if devastate had an additional effect but I feel like that horse as been beaten enought hat it would have had one by now if they were okay with it

main vault
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Resetting SS is additional

acoustic sparrow
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blizz could've done something neat like making Devastator function like our leggo gloves...but instead they opted for the "let's make this talent useless" route

uneven mason
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Yeah Yarzu, Devastate is there to fish for SnB procs, has been since uh, WoTLK.

chrome harbor
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such a missed oppertunity

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though its original purpose was to replace sunder spam

olive fiber
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Make sunder great again

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Didn’t using devastate apply sunder?

astral crystal
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yes

chrome harbor
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I think at first it refreshed sunder, the it applied... its been a while memory gets fuzy around the 10 year mark

olive fiber
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A sunder debuff would be cool. Oh wait, they just gave that to monks

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Rip

chrome harbor
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wait really? or is that just their 'class utility' like we have battleshout

round hornet
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It's the class utility

olive fiber
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Yup

round hornet
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All monks have it

waxen ibex
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Yo guys, I'm finding myself going back to my Warrior for BfA. Atm I'm struggling to find/make a WA for Prot showing IP absorb amounts, couldn't see a working one in pins.

olive fiber
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5% physical damage increase and DH’s got magic

waxen ibex
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Do any of you happen to have a working one?

olive fiber
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I’m switching to prot from fury, I’m in the same boat.

ashen trellis
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The numbers are too small atm

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its breaking all Wa's

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Im going to be fixing mine tonight

uneven mason
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Just gotta tell it to not round to the nearest million

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hehe

full spruce
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Anyone monkeying around on the BETA while servers are down notice Avatar is missing?

shut summit
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respec to arms/fury and back

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just some bug

full spruce
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thx 😃

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Thought it was a break in the system so went to see if 1 button BrM still working...still boring tank mode

cinder nova
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Sco made another tank ranking video :^)

main vault
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I hate you

strong forum
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lets go and get triggered shall we

cinder nova
strong forum
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no he didnt

cinder nova
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He did.

strong forum
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thats old news

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literally 2 days old

main vault
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Jesus

cinder nova
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days

main vault
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This guy

cinder nova
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old news

strong forum
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TRIGGERED

main vault
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It was releaszed 3 days ago

cinder nova
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Do you consider the i7-7700 old news?

main vault
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I do

uneven mason
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what about the 8086

main vault
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The 8700 is out now

strong forum
uneven mason
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8086

cinder nova
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We know his vid is garbo, it's just I find it bizarre most people here think 3 days qualifies as old.

strong forum
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well for me it is

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since its 95% the same vid as his twitch clip some week(s) ago

main vault
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Fopr 90% of tanks it is

cinder nova
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Well I guess humans do perceive their lifespans logarithmically.

main vault
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Are you an extraterrestrial?

cinder nova
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Aliums

main vault
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The flower?

cinder nova
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7th dimensional space skele

calm ermine
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what kind of build are we looking at for the bfa talents?

uneven mason
strong forum
topaz ember
strong forum
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except bolster is blue now

topaz ember
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comming soon on tier 3 looks strong

strong forum
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hah

uneven mason
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The funny thing is

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That was an early beta build

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and its still the "go to"

fallen gazelle
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it's just dragon's roar

strong forum
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yea old AF picture, same build

topaz ember
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i miss dragon roar why cant it just be baseline

uneven mason
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Like, you could probably be fine taking punish or ITF (ITF FEELS better), and tier 30 and 75 are up to you

chrome harbor
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I like the extra range on TC myself

uneven mason
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Dragons Roar hits pretty hard

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so, there is an argument to use it over UF in some situations

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by pretty hard I mean, its like slapping everything around you with a train

thorny laurel
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I am really sad Devastator is not the go to talent, I hate spamming a button that has no CD

shut summit
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good thing you dont spam it then

thorny laurel
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Haha ye I should have removed the word spamming

cloud bone
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which one is on the gcd still heroic leap or intercept?

thorny laurel
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intercept

cinder nova
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Devastate just feels awful every time you press it.

cloud bone
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cool thanks

thorny laurel
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Its the Furious Slash of protection

cinder nova
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Not really

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Even FS did something

thorny laurel
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well devastate does something as well

cinder nova
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Devastate just does petty damage

thorny laurel
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resetting SS

cinder nova
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So does 2 other abilities

cloud bone
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one costs rage to use tho

cinder nova
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What FS was unique to FS. It was BLP for thirst crits

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Devastate needs something more than an RNG reset. It just feels garbage

topaz ember
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i have been play prot for a long time and the button i used to have devastate on is now broken

cinder nova
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Lol

topaz ember
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now i might have to get a new mouse

astral crystal
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i've been thinking of getting a meme mmo mouse

cinder nova
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Just get a game pad then lol

topaz ember
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yea or just bind all spells to your num pad

undone sun
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Ez

topaz ember
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i knew one guy who had his movement keys and all his spell on his num pad and used the mouse with his left hand

cinder nova
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Left handed

topaz ember
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yea

kind urchin
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I use an Orbweaver.

chrome harbor
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I use rdfg to move so I have more of the keyboard

topaz ember
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i use voice commands to move so i have all of the keyboard

chrome harbor
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if its anything like siri idk how movement intense fights would be

novel temple
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How we looking boys and girls?

main vault
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Same as we have been

novel temple
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So trash iirc from beta

main vault
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you must not have played betas for 2-3 months

vocal nimbus
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go and test

novel temple
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I haven’t

vocal nimbus
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🤷

novel temple
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Which is why I’m asking

main vault
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War is fine

novel temple
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What about prot

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I know arms’ll be fine

main vault
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Obv what I was talking about...

cinder nova
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Boring, but fine

worthy yoke
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Boring is relative

undone sun
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Subjective

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Boring is subjective

sick sentinel
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^

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GCD slows the gameplay but its still fun with new talents i think

novel temple
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Cool

cinder nova
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"New"

sick sentinel
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at least way better then way it was in alpha

cinder nova
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Not hard to improve on garbage tbh

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Then again Surv was bad all of legion

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So I guess for blizzard it can be

cobalt turret
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so far - which tank spec is most effective vs magic damage (dots and moderate to low hits) ?

stark sage
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every tank's magic defensives took pretty massive nerfs, I believe prot is in a good spot relative to the other tanks

robust urchin
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Thanks to all the Americans here for Beta testing the pre patch for EU

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😃

undone sun
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It's not even up yet for na haHaa

silk mortar
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Wha

robust urchin
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It isnt?

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Its almost evening

stark sage
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its morning for me

fallen gazelle
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it's still 4:15 out based on the post

dull wagon
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The maintenance is scheduled to continue up to 4 more hours

timid jay
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How are you gonna test the patch for us if your servers arent even up?

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😡

fresh dragon
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yo

main vault
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It was at least an 8 hours maintenance

fresh dragon
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they didnt patch US???

jade socket
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anyone know if they patched NA yet??

dull wagon
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Servers are currently down and being updated.

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They haven't come back yet.

jade socket
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@timid jay

fresh dragon
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oh ok

jade socket
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Tell me

timid jay
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Idk

jade socket
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😡

timid jay
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Lemme do some math on it

fierce juniper
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pls

timid jay
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So its 8.0.0 right?

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The patch

fierce juniper
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nah

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8.0.1

timid jay
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Oh shit

fresh dragon
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@fierce juniper thanks for ur guide on icy-veins... i read it all this morning..

fierce juniper
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np friend

undone sun
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It's 10am pst, servers still have 4-5 hours of downtime

timid jay
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So the date is 2018-07-17, or 1994. The patch is 8.0.1 or 801. 1994/801=~2.48

astral crystal
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w-what are we going to do for 5 hours...

timid jay
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So servers are up in 2.5h

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Roughly

verbal socket
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3 pm pst, is 4:09 hours away

vocal nimbus
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@timid jay did you drink?

timid jay
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Only pure grain alcohol and rainwater

fierce juniper
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cosmo this is why you're orange

verbal socket
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  • or - few extra hours of maintenance 😁
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Mostly +

undone sun
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Lol

timid jay
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Prominent member of the community btw

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oh damn, I did the calculations wrong

fierce juniper
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SERVERS ARE UP

timid jay
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It should have been 2.5minutes

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Not hours

fierce juniper
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lol

undone sun
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Hmmm

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I'd bet money servers are unstable as fuck

fierce juniper
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yeah...

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my character list isn't loading

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oh

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jk

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there it is

astral crystal
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AAAAAAAAA IT'S HAPPENING

fresh dragon
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lol

timid jay
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So

tiny spear
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Is it 7:54 in the US atm?

timid jay
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Anyone can check out dungeon journal for mythic antorus and t21 2p?

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Guess wowhead should update soon enough anyway

vocal nimbus
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Is 4p still broken in the prepatch?

fierce juniper
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ill find out in just a sec

stone imp
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Anyone happen to know if the legendary vendor legendaries are all BoA so you can buy for alts?

fierce juniper
timid jay
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Lol

fierce juniper
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2 piece still broken

olive fiber
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Rip

fierce juniper
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4 piece still busted

timid jay
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They actually didnt change it

fierce juniper
vocal nimbus
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WTF

fresh dragon
olive fiber
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:POGGERS:

vocal nimbus
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marok able to use global emotes

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mod abuse

olive fiber
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Lmao

wanton sentinel
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You can spend the extra time updating addons

tender relic
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as a filthy casual who has not played since wotlk, what is this set?

timid jay
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Its t21

fresh dragon
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its the T21 of Legion

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(antorus raid)

timid jay
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Basically what most of us are running around with atm

astral crystal
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how i intercept macro now

timid jay
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@fierce juniper how much health do you have? Around 50k?

fresh dragon
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z-perl is not update atm ç_ç

timid jay
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8k Ip seems 👌

fierce juniper
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yep

tender relic
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thanks

fierce juniper
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49.3k

timid jay
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Mind taking a look at mythic foe breaker?

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In journal

fresh dragon
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@fierce juniper argus mount is still BoP and untradable??

strong forum
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still got 9.3m hp

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OpieOP

fierce juniper
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probably

strong forum
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Kappa

junior ivy
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omg everythying is new im so overwhelmed lol

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my addons are so messed up i could cry lmao

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i have no unit frames

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D:

ashen trellis
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My self and like 15 other warriors i know reported the 2 set on ptr and beta mutliple times as a bug. They had legit months to fix/ change it and they didn't address it. Im pretty sure its staying as is at this point lol

strong forum
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i fail to see the problem

ashen trellis
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what?

strong forum
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yea t21 2p is not working

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buhu

stark sage
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the 4pc is the real problem

strong forum
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eh

tribal shale
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hell yeah server is back

timid jay
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Someone look at mythic foe breaker in journal please 😢

strong forum
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not like it matters

ashen trellis
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why are you accepting that a billion dollar company cant change their game for current gear?

timid jay
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I wanna check numbers

strong forum
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cuz its only gonna matter for 4 weeks of the game wherein no progress is done in any way

ashen trellis
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i know its not a big deal

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But still

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its the small things

strong forum
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only done it once before

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you give the community a finger and the community takes the hand

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they've never changed sets in retrospect except t18 as i was informed

ashen trellis
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I just hold them to a higher standard. A standard that a multi billion dollar gaming company should be held to

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but i know it wont get fixed

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im just ranting

strong forum
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cuz its not a bug

stark sage
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yeah its just unbalanced

fresh dragon
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so.. are we OP or not? 😄

undone sun
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No

fresh dragon
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:V

ashen trellis
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We still do a dick ton of dmg

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with UF

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lets go

fierce juniper
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yikers

timid jay
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That cant be right

fierce juniper
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its not

timid jay
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Thanks though 👌

strong forum
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rip argus kills

fierce juniper
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yeah all the dungeon journal values are way off

timid jay
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Oh well, gues I'll have to wait to get numbers

ashen trellis
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Is Argus' cleave a decent number or still un changed?

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im just wondering how it will be taking 4-6 stacks now with out NF

fierce juniper
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i would not be surprised at all if its super undertuned

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and it might be to the point where you can solo tank mythic argus

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oh actually

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imagine

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the rents

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at like

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15 stacks

timid jay
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If the ptr.wowhead numbers are correct, you probably only need a tank for positioning

fierce juniper
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lol

timid jay
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Those numbers said rent souls did ~800 damage

fierce juniper
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fair

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i guess anyone can soak them

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or rather

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it doesnt matter if you soak them

timid jay
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Yeah but all the numbers seemed extremely undertuned compared to the screenshot you linked

tribal shale
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i guess i can finally play warrior with gloves

obsidian sedge
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why isnt avatar in my spell book when there is a talent that is referencing avatar

tribal shale
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after 2 years

timid jay
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I dont know what to believe now

ashen trellis
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You weren't using gloves? @tribal shale

strong forum
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or he didnt get em

ashen trellis
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yea

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We can finally stop using the belt today

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or continue

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to have a free demo whenever

shut summit
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@obsidian sedge respec to fury/arms then back to prot

obsidian sedge
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ok ty

dim gulch
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swap specs

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was able to get to show up when i went back to prot

cosmic cargo
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so

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what leggies for pre-patch?

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(mostly curious about dps)

fierce juniper
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Legendary usage hasn't really changed

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Still Gloves + Belt

cosmic cargo
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i see

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i would assume gloves lose a lot of value since you devastate quite little

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but i guess they're effect being so strong compensates

tulip arch
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I considering using bracers for some self healing in warmode

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For the first half of leveling at least

astral crystal
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bracers are pretty garbo right now

crisp slate
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UI destroyed

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great

tribal shale
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@ashen trellis Well, prot was my alt, and I didn't played throughout the whole expansion, I had to have some breaks

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so yeah, I wasn't using gloves

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do we already have an ingame community?

undone sun
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The problem with the communities is that they're region and faction locked

astral crystal
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you can make bnet tag communities

timid jay
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Those are still region wide

uneven mason
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Wouldn't legs have a better overall survivability boost now?

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I mean, gloves would be kind've meh

strong forum
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nice, chosen just failed cuz we had little to no dps

uneven mason
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wat

strong forum
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technically wiped on odyn but managed to kill him so now im fucked

acoustic sparrow
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Toweliee's group is getting wrecked by heroic dogs.

fierce juniper
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Legs only provide 1 additional charge of Shield Block for the entire fight. You only gain more than that when you let it cooldown past 2 charges.

strong forum
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^

fierce juniper
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Also, I think you guys are underestimating how much you'll cast Devastate, particularly on single-target.

strong forum
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now that i have id on odyn mythic, but died i can no longer get chosen yes?

uneven mason
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I suppose

primal crypt
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servers are up...

uneven mason
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Chosen is gone Nomeratur

strong forum
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not on EU

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but yes for me now

uneven mason
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Oh yeah

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you're boned

strong forum
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ah well

uneven mason
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well

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actually if you all reset it

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before killing Odyn

strong forum
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he died

uneven mason
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you can get it back

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RIP

strong forum
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literally 2 sec after i died

uneven mason
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Totes other folks fault

strong forum
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got knocked in the air and couldnt charge odyn, panicked and forgot to leap

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story of my life

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ah no, leap was on CD i could've charged a player though i think

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so it is kinda my fault

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but yeah i was 6th in damage as tank, no way we would've gotten it anyway so 🤷

uneven mason
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I mean, Mythic Helya only requires around 300k DPS

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so

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Its a mechanics fight

strong forum
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yea but proper players

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so you have to outgear hard to make it

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i suppose i would've lived it all

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but falldamage ruined me

stark sage
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eh you could outgear all you want, people still needed to know what was going on

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for helya

uneven mason
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You can't outgear getting hit for 27million cause dude borked orbs

strong forum
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monka

uneven mason
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or not soaking slams, or purple

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and folks just ADDing and letting adds pop

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I suppose you can out gear the adds

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mostly its the purple, and the orbs

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mostly orbs

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But dying on Odyn, thats rough

strong forum
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was a shot in the dark, it failed, not mad

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well 1/3 died and then unluck on my part i guess

uneven mason
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had a genius who decided to relog during clearing trash

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then cried that they lost their buff

strong forum
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had a mark, tried to leap to the others, got knocked up mid leap and... yea

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welp

stark sage
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our group had trouble with the tentacle slams, but that seemed to be an issue with trying to get chosen with 12 people

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and not having enough extra bodies

radiant valley
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to all warriors u are damn extra guys if u managed to get ur mage tower apperance lol x) i just seems cant get, it's horrible how low my dps is and i get raped by variss <_<"

strong forum
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what ilvl you at

radiant valley
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915 x) just boosted that character a week ago for the apperance that i find quite cool but it seems i wont get it ^^

arctic sedge
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so how does warrior feel bois

strong forum
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fresh warri is prob the hardest

stark sage
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have you watched videos or read guides on the tower

strong forum
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did it with 898 after 160 tries

radiant valley
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i watched guides and read wowhead guid

lusty grotto
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looks like i'm back on warrior boys

radiant valley
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i already done it on prot dh and blood

lusty grotto
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got mage tower on 6 chars, on all tanks

radiant valley
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gg ^^

lusty grotto
#

a week ago 😄

radiant valley
#

i always get fucked by the spirit stuff

lusty grotto
#

?

radiant valley
#

on variss i mean ^^

strong forum
#

the nether horrors

lusty grotto
#

are you impending victory?

strong forum
#

impending doenst help tbh

#

well theres nothing else

radiant valley
#

yep i do on the eyes for self healing

lusty grotto
#

um yea it does

radiant valley
#

but i feel like i cant generate enough rage

strong forum
#

just dont kill the eyes instantly

#

kill them to get a VR

lusty grotto
#

tbf i did it when it came out, so im not sure if anything has changed

radiant valley
#

i must always have enough rage for IP but i cant enough :x

strong forum
#

only HP got reduced

lusty grotto
#

are you putting all 3 stacks of thunderclap on variss?

#

how many stacks are you taking

strong forum
#

dont forget spell reflect and use VR after every nether horror and eye

lusty grotto
#

are you killing an eye after a rend and healing with IV?

strong forum
#

yea dont get more than 5 stacks

lusty grotto
#

only use Spell Reflect with Nether Horrors

radiant valley
#

ok i will try

#

but is there a way to get more rage ?

strong forum
#

t21 2p

lusty grotto
#

press shield slam harder

#

use demo shout

real monolith
#

wait, you guys eu or something?

#

or is the tower still up

strong forum
#

i dont remember rage being a problem tbh

#

EU yea

real monolith
#

neat

lusty grotto
#

Demo shout with Booming Voice = instant rage

#

iirc

real monolith
#

its big

lusty grotto
#
  • more dmg
radiant valley
#

on my war it seems to be, well my stats are fucked up so i guess that's why

real monolith
#

warrior felt like one of the easiest, impossible to be knocked off

strong forum
radiant valley
#

yep using those talent

lusty grotto
#

so use demo shout for rage if you're starved

radiant valley
#

oh i went with avatar

strong forum
#

1.5m cd for 20% or perma 10% dmg buff?

#

i rather take perma 10

lusty grotto
#

otherwise you should have been using SS constantly not sure why you are starving so much... don't mash revenge if you need IP

#

i can't remember what i used on that row

real monolith
#

avatar is fine, i think i used that for p2

#

but i was also undergeared

radiant valley
#

i took avatar since i could make a macro for prepot avatar shout and try to burst as much as possible

lusty grotto
#

probably RF

strong forum
#

what leggos you got

topaz ember
#

a dps just killed me in world pvp

radiant valley
#

the ring from argus x)

topaz ember
#

its a sad day

strong forum
#

also try to get 2p

#

then go do emissary and stuff

#

try to get a leggo

lusty grotto
#

he's short on time though

strong forum
#

like 10hrs

#

should be enough

lusty grotto
#

oh

#

i see, i'm US

strong forum
#

actually .. its 4 hrs

#

but still

lusty grotto
#

he should more than out gear it by now though

strong forum
#

getting a proper leggo should be giga ez

#

since its 1st leggo

lusty grotto
#

if his problem is rage gen, he's not using the right abilities

strong forum
#

915ilvl is appropriate ilvl

#

not outgearing much

radiant valley
#

i already done argus NM and got only got worse gears or gold

strong forum
#

do lfr

radiant valley
#

done too ^^

strong forum
#

not even 2 pieces

radiant valley
#

only thing left is hero but i am too low for that xd

strong forum
#

did you not ask others

#

2p is > everything

radiant valley
#

i got back and its not even tier set

#

well i joined a guild run so they was kinda trading between themselves only

strong forum
#

rip man

#

get a leggo

mint vessel
#

Am i crazy? I cant find Avatar in my spellbook

strong forum
#

respec

radiant valley
#

the problem is i can only wear 2leggo ^^"

strong forum
#

exactly

radiant valley
#

only 1**

strong forum
#

oh.

#

well still better than ring

#

anything but rings and legs would be better

radiant valley
#

not much left to do

#

lfr done normal too

strong forum
#

emissary?

radiant valley
#

emissaries as well

strong forum
#

invasions

#

do those

#

on argus

lusty grotto
#

just prioritise Shield Slam above all else, don't use 10 rage Ignore Pains....

strong forum
#

well IP needs 20 rage minimum OpieOP

lusty grotto
#

standard prot warrior stuff

strong forum
#

but yeah, prot warri is hardest challenge imo

lusty grotto
#

was just a figure of speech

strong forum
#

only challenge that took me more than 15 tries

#

literally

lusty grotto
#

only took me long cause i did it when it came out

strong forum
#

same

#

did it may 2017

olive fiber
#

Is the mage tower still up?

strong forum
#

on EU

warm plinth
#

For EU

topaz ember
#

is prot battle cry just gone?

strong forum
#

yes

olive fiber
#

Ooooh

topaz ember
#

rip

radiant valley
#

pray that i drop some leg on the invasion lol

strong forum
#

pray for bracers

warm plinth
#

Prepatch is live on NA. I guess servers are up already.

strong forum
#

yea

topaz ember
#

servers are up im loged in

olive fiber
#

We still using bracer/gloves in prepatch?

radiant valley
#

i wonder if it's worth to pay for a +15 PL only plate wearers, i may get some nice shit

real monolith
#

bracer gloves?

#

we didn't use gloves on live

warm plinth
#

Gloves/belt or bracers for def

undone sun
#

Defensively, probably

#

No outrageous combos with the new changes

strong forum
#

you didnt use gloves on live? wtf

radiant valley
#

isn't aggramar boots better for leveling with sephuz ?

olive fiber
#

Gloves increased slam right?

real monolith
#

i mean i had really good tomb 4 pc

warm plinth
#

4pc t4 for surv because it's overpowered unless they fixed it

#

T21*

real monolith
#

so i used 4pc 2pc belt bracers or belt arch

topaz ember
#

moonguard just crashed on na

strong forum
#

too much sex

topaz ember
#

rip

undone sun
#

Gloves were/are #1 for damage

strong forum
#

dmg is where its at brother

undone sun
#

Belt for multitrget and #2 for DPS, ahr is hard to get perfected

real monolith
#

i never really got a 2nd piece to dethrone 4pc 2pc so never really thought about it haha

strong forum
#

thats a little much rage dont you think

#

im perma capped on rage

#

on ST

real monolith
#

thats what i thought the gloves did

#

i felt fine tho, just spammed ip a lot

lusty grotto
#

only thing i'm not looking forward to is spamming devastateagain 😦

strong forum
#

as one does with t21 2p

#

you dont spam it

warm plinth
#

RIP t21 2pc :(

strong forum
#

hardly will have time to

real monolith
#

you rarely press devastate

strong forum
#

in a dungeon almost never

real monolith
#

yeah

strong forum
#

in ST a bit

lusty grotto
#

what i'm saying is.. rip devastator

real monolith
#

i mean, im happier i dont have to track swing timers for prot anymore

#

now arms though

strong forum
#

im thinking devastator is worth it at 30% haste

undone sun
#

You didn't anyways

warm plinth
#

You never did

topaz ember
#

xD

real monolith
#

i thought you did in nh

undone sun
#

Swing timers weren't ever relevant for prot

real monolith
#

rip

#

i mean i didnt after nh

undone sun
#

Maybe for a week, but the math was revised shortly after

real monolith
#

i still had the WA for it tho

astral crystal
#

it was definitely a shilled idea that you had to track swing timers for optimal procs

#

i remember that shit

real monolith
#

yeah

#

i remember going "this is dumb" and stopped caring

astral crystal
#

same kek

real monolith
#

it didnt feel like my devastator damage dropped when i stopped waiting for it, so i just thought that it was like super min/max

undone sun
#

It turned out to be a DPS loss and a very minor rps gain

lusty grotto
#

it wasn't min/max ever

strong forum
#

you guys dont think devastator could be worth at like 30% haste without ITF

#

cuz why do you need 45% haste tbh

real monolith
#

you need 50% for 100% sb uptime

uneven mason
#

No

undone sun
#

No...

tribal shale
#

lol just tried to do upper

uneven mason
#

Devastator will never be worth it.

real monolith
#

oh i thought that was what marok said

tribal shale
#

curator did 1M damage on overload

strong forum
#

nice prepatch

uneven mason
#

There is next to no situation where Devastator surpasses BV

topaz ember
#

I'm going to try and run dragon soul wish me luck

uneven mason
#

Because the more haste you have

strong forum
#

oh yeah, i forgot its next to BV

#

for some reason

uneven mason
#

the better BV becomes

strong forum
#

im mega stupid and thought it was on ITF row

#

WTF IS WRONG WITH ME

#

WTF

lusty grotto
#

yep which is why i said i was gonna miss devastator

uneven mason
#

Like those situations are like "But X becaomes good at Y stat right?" But the same stats increase the competing talents as well ><

strong forum
#

ya no i for some reason thought its 15% vs devastator

#

dont ask me how

#

i didnt eat much today

undone sun
strong forum
#

EXCUSE ME

uneven mason
#

But yeah Devastator has no balls, they took it out back and shot it, then lit it on fire, crushed it with a steamroller

tribal shale
#

So devastator is bad now?

undone sun
#

Yes

tribal shale
#

i really don't like pressing devastate :/

strong forum
#

you dont have to

#

you rarely will

#

chill

#

unless in ST

uneven mason
#

Devastator is bad because the benefit it provides is negated most of the time by OTHER things providing that benefit and overwriting/already providing the same thing

tribal shale
#

the shield block 30 rage cost is strange

undone sun
#

Used to be more

radiant valley
#

whats the chance that PullNBear name is already taken ;o ?

tribal shale
#

i know

lusty grotto
#

i hadn't used devastate in so long, i had forgotten it was on the GCD

tribal shale
#

60 in wod right?

undone sun
#

40-45 in alpha BFA

uneven mason
#

it was 40 in BFA Alpha

#

heh

tribal shale
#

but i'm so used to 15

uneven mason
#

was rough

topaz ember
#

charge on the GCD makes me sad

tribal shale
#

IP on gcd feels awful

strong forum
#

aaah

uneven mason
#

Everyone remember when Shield Block stopped 2 attacks, and if you didn't time it right you'd get crushed?

strong forum
#

the newbs are coming

uneven mason
#

Pepperidge farms remembers

real monolith
#

new ip feels a lot better than old ip

undone sun
#

?

topaz ember
#

what

real monolith
#

like to use

strong forum
#

the newbies are coming, hide

real monolith
#

old ip was just "spam this"

#

now it's like a short 50% dr

uneven mason
#

Old IP was tied to my mouse wheel

strong forum
#

i had it on F

topaz ember
#

old ip meant never die ever

real monolith
#

it feels like it has an identity

uneven mason
#

Old IP meant you were either at full health or dead

lusty grotto
#

no more non-DR stuns 😦

#

😢

stark sage
#

warbringer was nerfed on live a while ago

lusty grotto
#

really?

undone sun
#

Yeah

stark sage
#

yup

lusty grotto
#

well fuck

tribal shale
#

so do we already have an ingame community?

undone sun
#

Before the latest MDI

#

No

tribal shale
#

is this even going to be a thing?

undone sun
#

Communities see region and faction locked

#

Are*

warm plinth
#

Use 4pc T21 until they fix it and you'll basically feel the same way from what I've been reading. The AP scaling or whatever on the bonus wasn't fixed so you get a massive IP every time you block. As long as you refresh it every 12 seconds, you basically don't run out of IP ever.

real monolith
#

and also need to be bnet friends to invite or something

#

yeah

#

i don't see it being the same before tonight

#

but they did let DH have super op spirit bomb for a week so who knows

lusty grotto
#

yeah it seems communities are just extensions of guilds really, like FF's linkshells or whatever they were called

#

whoa lagged out

warm plinth
#

Communities are basically like a Discord server for you and your friends as I understand it. Chat/voice chat for a specific group of people.

cobalt rivet
#

XJK

prisma crane
#

2 things @fierce juniper 1) this can crit? nice! 2) should add 2-min CD if using bolster, unless the tooltip is wrong?

tribal shale
#

is anyone else missing the shit out of mobs?

weary notch
#

LS heal can crit

tribal shale
#

Im playing my mage and my ice lance misses 50% of the time

weary notch
#

Also, who borked Discord. Can only log in on mobile.

coral dew
#

newb here

#

How is rage generated outside of abilities?

#

On hits taken?

olive fiber
#

And given

#

Sounds kinky

prisma crane
#

"outside of abilities"

coral dew
#

is that new as of this patch?

prisma crane
#

yes, dmg taken by melee hits, as opposed to dmg taken

coral dew
#

I havent played since end of Wrath. Please excuse me lol

prisma crane
#

so basically, as far as i see it, it's worse than previously on casters, but better against many melees

#

but iirc it has an icd?

olive fiber
#

Pretty sure

#

Like a second

prisma crane
#

kk, thought so, anyways, it's passive, you'll get the hang of it

weary notch
#

Can’t log into WoW of course, because somebody let everyone know the servers were up, and now everyone is trying to log in at once

coral dew
#

So cycle the normal rage generating abilities and + the rage recieved from hits now and juggle IP and SB?

#

I noticed thier more expensive now rage wise

fierce juniper
#

@prisma crane Yeah I'll fix that. Should be 3 min

prisma crane
#

you said since wrath but asking questions as if you played for a while before today

#

kk, thanks!

coral dew
#

ive been playing for a week

prisma crane
#

ah, ok well

coral dew
#

I learn fast I guess lol

prisma crane
#

it'll be close to that week

#

costs adjusted

#

and ofc it'll be a bit slower

#

a lot slower if you were like some of us and geared and had 2p T21

coral dew
#

I see

#

Okay but in general the same idea just with a slightly different tempo?

prisma crane
#

mhm

coral dew
#

Word, thanks fellas

prisma crane
#

you'll have to focus more on saving rage for SB and IP will be less spammy

upper spoke
#

so when wow launches, just throw highest ilvl relics in weapons and youre good to go?

primal crypt
#

WTF ARE THESE CHANGES

prisma crane
#

but if you played in wrath, saving for SB was bigger back then

#

yep

#

ilvl > all

primal crypt
#

Can't even log into the servers :(

upper spoke
#

rip +6% block chance

prisma crane
#

they went back down

#

well

#

block % increase is still present

primal crypt
#

Weak auras finally updated

upper spoke
#

not from bastion relics

primal crypt
#

For those interested

prisma crane
#

well

upper spoke
#

right?

prisma crane
#

you can get higher than 44% base theoretically

#

but crit block is capped at 85%

#

block value is back in the game

upper spoke
#

but the +2% block chance from bastion relic is gone

#

correct?

prisma crane
#

correct

lusty grotto
#

mmmm PTSD anub set

prisma crane
#

but your shield has a block value

lusty grotto
#

hmmmm

prisma crane
#

so that BV will add to your block %

#

added to the base 30%*

upper spoke
#

every prot warrior has the same shield, modified by ilvl of relics id assume

prisma crane
#

i should have kept more of my "shit" relics

warm plinth
#

Isn't BV for block amount, not chance?

#

Block chance is still mastery iirc

uneven mason
#

Block chance is mastery yes

prisma crane
#

fixed, thanks

uneven mason
#

as is critical block chance

warm plinth
#

Oh I see it was just a mistype; context clues! lol

prisma crane
#

mhm !

warm plinth
#

Btw, hi Krotos. Long time no see. ✊

uneven mason
#

Block value (its Block Rating) is a stat decided by a calculation based on your shields Armor

prisma crane
#

yea lol

#

it's been a while

ember arrow
#

o/

timid jay
#

Oh yeah

uneven mason
#

which is 1.5*armor

warm plinth
#

Sup Lev!

ember arrow
#

happy reunion

timid jay
#

Any of you americans what to have some fun?`

prisma crane
#

im deciding what i want to do in BFA, going to start off taking raiding a bit more casually though lol

ember arrow
#

excuse me im EU

prisma crane
#

oh?

warm plinth
#

The block value calc uses the same type of calculation as armor DR

#

It uses a k value just like armor does

prisma crane
#

you have NA account?

olive fiber
#

Ominous

ember arrow
#

nope

prisma crane
#

but Cosmo wanted to know if we want to have fun

uneven mason
#

Block mitigation, uses the same calculation and DR as armor, it also has the same 85% Mitigation cap as Armor

timid jay
#

So if any NA person could find out the K value for 113 mobs that would be great

#

👌

lusty grotto
#

fun detected, nerf inc

prisma crane
#

lol

warm plinth
#

Right

prisma crane
#

rip

undone sun
#

No fun allowed

#

B&

prisma crane
#

well servers are down atm afaik

warm plinth
#

We need to put out the bat signal for Macro

#

He'll save us.

timid jay
#

Couldnt do testing on beta with raids disabled

#

😢

prisma crane
#

hmm

#

well if i remember ill check tonight

#

but will probably at that point be just as easy for you to check tomorrow

ember arrow
#

so prepatch is squish, irp artifacts and class changes?

prisma crane
#

yea

undone sun
#

Personal loot

prisma crane
#

im hoping Argus is nerfed through the floor

#

i have some friends i want to pug it with

undone sun
#

Have fun with that

#

🤣

static horizon
#

So, I'm a noob, Trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. On the Greater Sparring dummy, I've charged, popped avatar prior shield block, bash thunderclap, then ignore pain and I'm already down to 1/3 of my HP, is that normal or am I doing something just completelty wrong

prisma crane
#

well last stat squish trivialized the shit out of SoO

#

so we'll see how it goes tonight

timid jay
#

@static horizon you NA or EU?

static horizon
#

NA

timid jay
#

I'm going with fucked tuning on dummies

lusty grotto
#

yeah

warm plinth
#

Well, IP used to be 90% and is now 50%, and I doubt dummies were a priority in the tuning

lusty grotto
#

was just typing that

ember arrow
#

nerf dummies

undone sun
#

Dummies new raid boss confirmed

lusty grotto
#

dummies working as intended

ember arrow
#

oh brb ctying on forums

static horizon
#

Ok, so them hitting for 17k isn't intended then

lusty grotto
#

that's an official blizzard response guys, i promise

weary notch
#

dummies have been like that since beta started

warm plinth
#

When you kill Argus, he tells you that the real boss fight is just beginning. Greater Sparring Dummy does superhero landing from sky

lusty grotto
#

painnnnnn

weary notch
#

let's start the 10 stack dummy challenge

warm plinth
#

If they missed overcharge on Curator, I can't wait to find out what they missed in ATB 😂

weary notch
#

pretty much the only time you'll ever use IV

prisma crane
#

not anymore

#

all those times are gone now too

lusty grotto
#

what diff did you do curator at?

prisma crane
#

since IV competes with better

lusty grotto
#

m+ i'm assuming

warm plinth
#

I didn't. Just heard about it.

lusty grotto
#

oh

little rain
#

Our Tier is a hard RIP atm right? set bonus is D-E-D ded?

lusty grotto
#

"hey guys i think it's for m+ only and because of tyrannical" /splat

ember arrow
#

4p is broken

warm plinth
#

4-pc is OP, but 2pc is worthless

lusty grotto
#

on heroic

ember arrow
#

2p is broke

little rain
#

oh? 4p scaling busted op atm or something?

warm plinth
#

Yeah

ember arrow
#

every time u block u double ur IP

weary notch
#

blizz trollin. They need to change the 2PC to activate on ravager

warm plinth
#

Yeah because that wouldn't be trolling at all 😂

prisma crane
#

make it activate during avatar

lusty grotto
#

guys let's not talk about it

prisma crane
#

20sec uptime

#

wtb

lusty grotto
#

shhhhhhh

warm plinth
#

Hnnnggggh

little rain
#

So 4p is worth using or just equip highest ilvl and be done with it?

weary notch
#

yes

warm plinth
#

There would literally be an auditory moan from your character every time you cast Avatar

#

And the mob would just run away

ember arrow
#

GachiBass

warm plinth
#

Defensively I imagine 4pc would be worth quite a bit

lusty grotto
#

singing the "fuck this shit im out" song

warm plinth
#

Until it's fixed

prisma crane
#

well atm it's nutty valuable

#

i wonder if they'll even bother fixing it

signal plover
#

Doubt it

prisma crane
#

since nothing matters during prepatch

ember arrow
#

tbh for BFA we shoulda gone back in levels

warm plinth
#

Tier bonuses are deactivated in BfA right?

ember arrow
#

otherwise losing 70% of power makes 0 sense

signal plover
#

At 115 or w/e

lusty grotto
#

immersion ruined

warm plinth
#

Oh, they stay in til 115?

signal plover
#

Bro we turned in our nuclear weapons

lusty grotto
#

haha

ember arrow
#

and got nerfguns

#

nerfed nerfguns

warm plinth
#

Idk, I've already been through one stat squish. You'll get used to it.

signal plover
#

Tbh idk if tier deactivates with leggos or at 111

#

Ya that's nbd

lusty grotto
#

now now guys, no more nukes when you're fighting against the other faction, here take this

warm plinth
#

Have you guys read anything about the new azerite traits? Some of them look pretty interesting.

signal plover
#

Can't wait to farm shields

lusty grotto
#

ugh

signal plover
#

Azerite powers seem a little slot and forget to me tbh

lusty grotto
#

goddamn it thanks for reminding me

warm plinth
#

They are. They're a permanent selection just like NLC traits

lusty grotto
#

PTSD when shields NEVER fucking dropped

warm plinth
#

But you can have multiple pieces with different traits if I understand correctly

undone sun
#

I think you can change a trait but each time it costs more

prisma crane
#

worse PTSD, giving all shields to fucking glad warriors only to have them nerfed wk 1 and never used

lusty grotto
#

rofl

warm plinth
#

Oh, I believe my info is from alpha so it's probably outdated then.

lusty grotto
#

i'm a glad warrior 😦

#

or was rather

brittle timber
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ion said some stuff like the best trait for each spec will be on different pieces so we're gonna want em all

prisma crane
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that was FOTD spec

lusty grotto
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ohhh right

warm plinth
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Well when I said multiple pieces, I meant multiples of the same slot

lusty grotto
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the whole dps spec

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i had forgotten about that stance

warm plinth
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So you could have an azerite set for doing WQs, an azerite set for dungeons, an azerite set for raids, etc.

brittle timber
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and we're gonna be able to stack em with same trait in different slots in some cases

warm plinth
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Yeah

undone sun
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Yes

lusty grotto
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say it with me guys: rip bag space

signal plover
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And everything is personal loot so

warm plinth
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They'll be just like relic traits really. Each spec is going to have certain traits that are must haves

signal plover
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Have fun farming ya savages

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I don't think k I've seen an azerite traits that's as impactful as some of our gold traits were

prisma crane
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btw, i remember seeing bolster as crit blocks, but i think im just old and remembering wrong, either way, i only see now that it basically adds jsut block to its duration correct? not a super NF anymore?

warm plinth
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I was reading through the ~700ish they've datamined (though a lot are repeats) on wowhead. Some seem pretty strong.

lusty grotto
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i wonder if that will kill dps offspec'ing for me

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having no bag space for everything

signal plover
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Bolster is not guaranteed crit blocks

prisma crane
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kk

warm plinth
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Not sure about before, but Bolster is just shield block now. No crit block guarantee

signal plover
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But the blocks during bolster can crit

prisma crane
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yea

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next follow up, i asked a while ago, may have been missed

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does that block count as AM or we get fucked like with NF?

brittle timber
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what happened to crit block being double the block rating and not just adouble block?

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honestly, it just seems crazy strong

signal plover
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For AM check?

warm plinth
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I'm not for sure but I doubt it counts.

prisma crane
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yea

signal plover
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I don't think they're doing AM checks this time around

undone sun
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Don't even know if am checks are prevelent

prisma crane
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ah, ok, then its moot anyways

warm plinth
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Unless the buff you get is actually called Shield Block and has the same spell ID, which seems unlikely.

lusty grotto
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what makes you guys think AM checks won't be a thing?

warm plinth
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I'm sad that Reflective Plating is gone 😦

signal plover
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Haven't seen em in any dungeons yet tbh

lusty grotto
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oh

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interesting

warm plinth
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I'm pretty sure I saw an Azerite trait that lets you reflect two spells though 🤔 Don't quote me on that; I was pretty tired when I was reading them.

prisma crane
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i hate that that was changed back

signal plover
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Ya gleaming baseline wouldda been nice

prisma crane
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fine, the 50% down to 20% is just tuning ill get over it

signal plover
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Prolly OP

prisma crane
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but all spells is what made it fun

warm plinth
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Yeah, I don't care about the DR. Just want the all spells back

prisma crane
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back are we to the days of nearly impossible timing if you have several casters on you

warm plinth
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Yep...we did not miss you!

prisma crane
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gotta reflect the "big" hit, not the tiny one that sneaks in...

signal plover
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Just gotta play it smart

prisma crane
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oh i remember how it used to work, just annoying is all

signal plover
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Honestly BFA prot warr screams "know every fight detail and play it smart"

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And that's aight

prisma crane
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sounds like "warrior"

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not just BFA

warm plinth
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Yeah but it's still possible to not reflect what you want to because a small faster projectile sneaks in

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We'll get over it. Hugging our knees in the fetal position, but we'll get over it.

prisma crane
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idk, and with the GCD shit, cant even leap, fear, charge back in a quick succession

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oh well

undone sun
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Welcome to bfa

warm plinth
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I'm a little annoyed that they didn't just make the all targets cower baseline for Intimidating Shout

undone sun
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Have fun not having fun

prisma crane
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it's bullshit

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and probably going to make me play a lot less

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but we'll see

undone sun
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Thyme to raidlog

signal plover
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Ybdo that when u can out it on a talent and give "choice"

warm plinth
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Ikr

chilly brook
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You know what else is bullshit?

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That I can’t log in.....

warm plinth
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Welcome to every pre-patch ever

prisma crane
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i got over every other change that happened, i learn here, just sucks

signal plover
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Raiding on patch day #bravesouls

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We said fuck it til thrs

warm plinth
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Yeah I think the GCD thing is gonna be the most impactful on my enjoyment tbh. I can even handle having to cast Devastate again. But charge alone being on GCD is pretty gross.

lusty grotto
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same

undone sun
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Leap was on gcd, that felt really bad.
IP still feels bad

warm plinth
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Anyone that tanked dungeons on PTR, how is threat?

strong forum
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I think I won't chat a while in here, can't handle all the new peeps xD

signal plover
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New peeps?

prisma crane
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new? i see mostly old faces

strong forum
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People who haven't played beta

vocal nimbus
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🤔

strong forum
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I was in bfa chat for the longest time but

vocal nimbus
undone sun
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Bound to be a lot of new people with a new expac