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Warrior / DK / Rogue / Maybe priest
tanks should have multiple chars anyway
Prot War, Prot Pal for me (can always throw it all in and go Holy Pal if I need to hate myself)
has nothing to do with BFA
the only pain in the ass that seems really grindy at the start is the Champion of Azeroth rep. Other than that you can probably have 2-3 tanks ready for raid going mildly ham
what's the worst that can happen if you just have one tank? what do the other tanks potentially fill in
All your weaknesses
yeah thats my current plan tbh
^
i just dont like FOTMing
Every tank has specific weaknessess
I am going Monk/Bear/War as mains
So, for guilds that push progression, if you're the tank, you have whatever might endup being OP on deck, cause your primary pick might not have the cheese for that particular sammich
But I'll have all 6
Fair; I dont progress in any meaningful way though
if ocntent you do is trivial then doenst matter ofc
^
If you DON'T they will slot you with someone else
i've never tanked prog so i'm just asking, but if you have to switch tanks to kill a boss, doesn't that imply that something is broken about the game itself?
No
No
Its about having every advantage
its not saying that X tank can't be used to kill Y Boss
In EN Cenarius was a mother fucker for DK and DH
its saying Tank A has an abilith that allows you to have a situational advantage over Tank B
*Drake tanking
switching tank give you that little 1% that tip the scale between wipe and kill
So DKs just went on another class for the boss then went back
Tank IMO is a role you should be flexible on. Tank X can make Y boss easier b/c of Z ability even in a US 150 semi casual m guild, etc
Oh no I guess spear too
@dusk locust theres this idea that homogeneity is the equal to balance which is like the major reason I dont like when dev's listen to their player base
if any tank could do any encounter in same way, with same difciculty, THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM with the game
^^
^^
i wouldn't argue all tanks should be the same, just that they should all be capable of clearing content
You also want to be able to pick a tank to supplement your cotank
I cleared Heroic spell blade on Vengance before they were given enough tools to actually soak 2 of th spear things
any tank is capable of clearing raids
My cotank got all the spikey ones when we picked
Because you like rubbing sandpaper on your eyeballs Levko, thats why
I got the smoother ones
I mean, pure magic damage constantly - fun shiz
That's fine
picking war on augur, sure u could do it, but literally all warrior's weaknesses would be there and none of his strngths
so thats bad
just ignore it π
but i mean i wouldn't mind bringing up another tank if i'm about to run into trouble
IP make that fine
Any tank is, but having flexibility is good. My cotank was 100% VDH for all of M ABT and I swapped between Warr/DK/Monk throughout (depending on encounter obv)
At least they made it up to us with like, nearly all of TOS
Horrible raid, good for warriors tho
antorus too
Yeah
Warr was strong in ToS/ABT
mostly
I'll probably main Monk for Uldir, but if it sucks on Ghuun im ready to swap just for the kill
War was good in Legion
They just forgot that you cant maintain sell reflect as active mit when they designed night hold
there any bosses in uldir that stand out as being tricky for a war tank?
We we're fine in EN after nerf too
I think Ghuun will be tough for most tanks
and then that nerf
Nexii what's so bad about monk on Ghuun?
I've only gotten to see p1 during the first time they heroic tested
shit was overtuned af
I did it on a paladin
Going to guess Ghuun on prog is going to endup being another "Bring a BDK"
Yea prob just need to be babysat
like 3 tank fight
Bear probably be good with Ghuun oddly enough.
Yeah I think so too
Bear is lame now though
Bear has been lame since TBC
yeah but gutteral roars
Tbh during prog I could care less how boring something is
not sure why people ever thought it was an exciting thing π
If things die
Yeah
bear tank was let me not die real quick, btw heres some speed
Prog only lasts a month or two
which 100% made u feel like a god
get the bosses down
After that I can have fun
go back to Warrior
I don't see too many options for cheese on these fights TBH, outside of the standard paladin bubble/taunt with some debuffs (unless they do like they did for Aggramar)
Cheese this - ok, I've got a buff now luls
Solo tanking is only "cheese" I think
I've liked Uldir from what I did. Decent encounters. FD and Vectis were the two that stood out as "meh" really.
aren't raids generally overtuned on testing?
I'd assume
yeah, sometimes to test certain phases and such
They want to stress healers and tanks
You don't know yet?
Does that mean you haven't looked at fights or started writing strats yet?
im personally gonna look at the fights when bfa comes out, plenty of time, and i got tanks to adapt if necessary
raid wont be out at start anyway
guild has strats already
With strat pics and all
i kinda started writing up strats a few days ago
We just wait and steal strats from daytime raiders π
me?
Yeah we dont even have our roster yet lol
Yeah
Sure, why wouldn't I?
Leading is divvied up between role leads, π€ that the healer lead actually has his head on straight.
I remember you saying you don't really play and just TC
I wasn't quite serious π
Oh ok
My guilds super casual but everyone tries and at least 1 person in each role has a decent understanding of the role as a whole
I need to get my headphones and mic by raid
which lets at least get AotC (the epitome of skill) on every tier
Fun group though; everyones nice and tries their best π
But I assume you are ok with that?
plus we dont enforce classes at all
so I can do whatever we want
IDK if u ever tried to do heroic aggramar with 3 mages 4 monks and no DK
but we did
I actually perfer it nexii
that doesn't sound too bad tbh
Paralyze and sheep dont work on the adds zeppe
I mean heroic is pretty meh still
that's 1 CC short of having enough for all adds
Monks have sap so...
paralyze works
Ya
paralyze does work
It wasnt monks then
IDK
I was yelling a lot
thats all i remember
the point is we had to kill the adds to cc them
Gemhide would be the preferred secondsry trait right?
yup
Anyone found Iron Fortress and gemhide on a piece yet?
Tanks: Pally VDH Healers: monk pally drood DPS: 3 mages, 2 dh, 1 hunter, 1 rogue, 1 balance, 1 shadow
found it
There is a spreadsheet with all the gear
Is it pinned?
2x druid root
1x hunter trap
1x rogue blind
1x monk paralyze
1x paladin repentance
repentance doesn't work on the adds afaik
It doesn't~
but druids can root 2x each
oh right root
That's unfortunate
mass root and regular root
I've done H Aggramar with 2 monks 1 lock as our only CC, no BDK, was actually smoother with the DPS being given jobs to keep certain targets on the floor than when we had 4 locks and 5 hunters (and half of them would endup dead cause DERRRRRR)
When you're expecting CC, folks get lazy
when you gotta do stuff ERMAGHAWD
I mean, there was some touch n go with tank kiting going down to keep more than two from going in at once, but
Just do mythic, cc autobreaks, so you don't have to worry about it
if a key increases damage 100% and then another (15%?) due to tyrannical, is the boss doing 115% more damage? or is that calculated differently
you mean you have to worry more and are basically forced into bringing multiple DKs?
it's multiplicative
if an ability does 100 damage how much would it be after those increases
230
sep 4th right?
Thanks!
Sept 4th
intimidating shout shares DR with shockwave right
ah ok
"ice cream social across the street going on now"
"lf guild charta signup offer 5k"
982?
Anything more would be absurd!
i'm sad
Who cares its just night elves
oh darnit i have to leave discord now don't i
omg i care about night elves
night elf home is now stormwind
hmm indeed
Watch genn kick them all out and building a wall around Stormwind
looks good but horde's is better π
Thats objective
what does horde one look like?
don't talk shit about my bat !
i was disappointed it was a hippogryph for alliance π¦
i have SOOO many hippogryphs
Your bat is shit
gargoyle theme song plays
Echo location sucks
complain about Horde/Alliance bias on wowhea
the bat is cooler tbh..
i'm back playing alliance soon
just cause ITS NOT A STUPID HIPPOGRYPH
Oh yeah
i never wanna see another hippogrpyph horse or dragon mount ever again
my war stays horde, and i'll probably make a monk for ally side
seriously
lol my immersion
does the bat use the DH mount skeleton?
MSGA
hey the new horses look buff af
there are so many other animals to use as mounts that havent been used
giraffe, please
or like
um
im sure there is a giraffe mount
i dunno theres others
these horses look like they lift the canal boats instead of pull them
k i love rep mounts
i dont mind grinding rep
i hate rare drop mounts
and i hate gold mounts cause im poor
i made 1.2 mil
just do the same for bronto mount
but im saving up for AH mount
right
and i dunon when ill be able to sell 15sa again
i want bronto mount too
how many runs around was it for 1.2mil
i've accepted i've never get it
not with that attitude Thyme!
for 2 weeks we sold off realm for 210k a run
but then it was just sargerras for 100k a run
i have 862k going into BFA, i was incredibly lazy for gold making all throughout legion
yikes
same i only have like 1.5 mil
i mean i 100% get what you're saying
And im gonna use them for race change/tokens
hopefully we'll have time to do other stuff than just farming azerite and shit
i buy tokens for anything i need π
plus im horde so trying to sell keys is nearly impossible, majority of my income as of late is from mythic antorus sales
i'm horde too π
i wish i could sell mythic or heroic antorus
i have half the guild wanting to play alliance again, and half staying out as horde... so that will be interesting
its only like Β£270 for the brontus
same
lol
ITS NOT THAT BAD
What's wrong with prot? It's a little different sure and slower, but it's not yikes imo
only thing i cant get used to is IP π¦
IP/Demo/Avatar being on the GCD is annoying AF
you get used to it
Just takes getting used to. It's still a solid and fun class imo
wtf am I supposed to do with my rage now? Stop casting to put up IP? Dump into revenge?
dont use revenge unless its free
TC does more damage
so does devestate even
i have issues too though. i find it hard to weave defensives into my regular rotation now that theyre all on GCD
cant believe ppl buy 15s
just avatar pre pull
I'll sell people some 15s
@junior ivy if I'm not casting Rev I'm probably overcapped on rage
are you playing liveΓ
yea
Well dont get used to it
Your probably have a lot of haste to generate rage faster
Sometimes i struggle to have enough rage to IP once it wears off
on st
well yeah on bosses
I mean trash is usually no problem with iron fortress and bolster
I mean compared to Blood
which I just did a dungeon on at 110
Prot feels so much worse
maybe it's because I played prot before the patch
blood and prot are complete opposites ofplaystyle
Yeah just as levko said, bdk is complete opposite of warri
because it plays smoothly?
i paly both
or you cant play it well π
prot
considering I jsut red IV and walked into a dungeon lol
reading only gets u so far
talking about blood here
I raided prot for an entire tier
I knew how to play it properly before pre patch
post prepatch idk but it doesnt feel good is my point
probably not playing it perfectly but not that much changed
blood lost a shitload
Quite alot changed in playstyle actually
after artifact removal
Can't judge 120 classes in 110 content
so it'll feel better with fewer secondary stats?
With different encounters and azerite gear
Yes
It's a significant change that you can't adapt to in 5min
Gotta retrain your muscle memory
is kezan a horde city like ironforge?
Damage patterns and etc are also different
is it not a city
can i get there as alliance?
No
kk
Undercity is more like Ironforge
so is undercity gone tomorrow or
What are the best protection warrior talents for survivability
π
IV guide goes over them
.gg
I dunno, He might not know how to warrior /s
hes basically sco 2
yikes
You take that back
luckily he doesnt read the chat 
he doesn't have to π
Only 2 bans, small boye
π
Skyhold website will not host the prot warrior guide? It is exclusive to icy veins?
Dude that wrote it runs Skyhold.gg ? gg?
But I dunno the deals
only Marok and Archi know
Marok? Yes
IV and WoWHead require you to not use the content there for personal gain and etc since they pay you
So you can't just copy/paste the guide from the site
you didnt know that ikari? pretty sure he linked it back in #bfa-protection as HIS guide on IV
What if they just added .gg after every sentence in the guide
It'd be like a totally different thing
Like "ice ice baby" and "under pressure"
No
monkaS
Damn
Oof
Hey guys I am willing to reroll on prot warrior, but i am not sure whitch race is better Tauren or Orc i do both pvp and pve
tauren prot warrior all the way
but if you pvp as fury or arms orc will be better forthat
Racials inconsequential, being 12 feet tall during Avatar and getting everyone to beat on you while the Goblin rogue tears through their healers - Priceless.
Guys is it only me, or is prot warrior the most unfun spec to play since the prepatch
especially because of the GCD rework
only you
There is a section of the community who does not like how prot feels, I think we're just dandy gameplay wise, didn't like the superspammy play of ABT myself.
As for the most unfun spec
i thought i didn't like the spam either, but i was wrong apparently
have you tried Enhancement?
yes π
It wasn't the pace so much, it was the mindlessness of the spam really that struck me as annoying in ABT
Now its a pretty strong tick tock feel to it
what specs you running ikarikaze cause i feel squishy
That's a general tank thing tho, we're all squishier than normal
rather than we were.
the sky is falling just like every other prepatch
Blizzard tunes for endgame and things will feel better once you are leveled and geared
You are freshly-squished in legacy gear
you guys use devastator or booming voice? the guide says booming voice
I'll generally run 1 2 2 3 2 1 1...
@tired python BV all day
which is the cookiecutter
i looked at the rankings on wlogs and all the warriors use devastator
its a DPS increase
Maybe if youre trying to get 99% damage parses sure
not much of one, but enough to tip all of them to the top when they use it
if squish is your issue
I wouldn't use Devastator
squish is not the issue, clumsiness of the playstyle is my issue π
AM synergizes too well with BV and Bolster
really the only spec swap I make is to grab safeguard for M+
BV is likely a damage increase over deva in M+ as well, considering you'll be doing AoE damage for most of the instance
Which is something you wont see in raid logs ofc
kind've
it came down to a very fine line
since Devastator enables the gloves
which buffs TC
Right
but is not
Devastator also is a damage buff during UF avatar
worth taking for the 40 rage
cause you wont ever press devestate during that time
so if i'm good with survivability, i'm fine running devastator with gloves
more or less
Its really just a quality of life thing
Hate devastate that much - go ahead
make your healers work for their meal!
Noob question but did they stop awarding leggos with prepatch?
i still should be a ble to solol the begging of Kara for a mount run
nope
got one yesterday
kara run is the thing i just tried, got totally melted when i pulled the whole horseman room
Sure would be nice if blizz could give me some goddamn bouncy shoulders
was that on M0 Faz?
i used to just heroic leap on top of horseman and cleave all in like 15 seconds with BC before prepatch
π¦
yea and pennies hurt a lot more too
Line of Sight is everyones friend
playing peekaboo with half the trash in Kara
feelsbadman
killed the first part with no problems
problems arose on opera when i got perma disoriented and then the horseman room
LOS in pugs is the worst
so i'm guessing gloves+bracers on ST and vigor+bracers on AOE is the shit rn?
you try and do it and the monk just fists everything dies and bitches at you
yea just feels bad and clunky watching my healh just melt away
Belt + whatever unless you're devastator then Belt + gloves
Bracers are hit or miss, since your big spenders are on the GCD, they help a bit, but no where near the god tier self sustain we had prior to 8
with how low the CD is on DS tho, belt is pretty snazzy, even single target
devastator is totally viable rn imo
but thats only because of glove
+20% rage is a ton.
i really liked gloves and legs not sure what i want now
and tbh theres no good 2nd slot legendary to use π
its like belt
I mean, Archimonde's is solid
11 thanks
might aswell use the heirloom trinket from wod
That isn't a bad idea
yes it is :p
its a good trinket but stupdily niche
archimonde has a too tiny shiled on a too long cd
obviously balance issue, but like the reason it sucks is cuz other trinkets are already so god
good
hadn't checked did they double nerf KJs for Takns?
idk but i would probably use Sephuz over htose
or even Legs if theres any sexy spell reflects in the encounters
some
idk u rarely need 2 spell reflects
Tyrannical week and King Yammer lives for more than 1 Dark Slash
only one I can think of
yea but on the other bosses its junk
shade of medivh?
cuz 1 charge is more than enough
in upper karazhan it might be great
last boss is good with reflect too¨
and that sexy dot from eye
and last boss too yeah
make it stack with pants
:d
gotta love at yellign at ur dps not to interupt and theyre like
wuts wrong with him
Spell Reflect is so op
im surprised that mechanic is still a thing
spell reflect
Remember in wod when u could click it, walk into a pool of shit and the boss would get hit by the pool of shit?
might as well not exist
its just "good"
wtf is up with spell reflect
i did upper kara 21 last nightr
and on medihv
spell reflect did like NOTHING
ofc
we had to interrupt every piercing missiles
cuz missle is lots of shots
only reflects 1 missile now
wow
LOL
yeh we just interrupted them all
not the whole channel
but still theres the dot from the claw on helyra
and the dark slash
its shit on trash tho
but still its usefull
my healer tried to make me wear the special SR pants to upper kara 21
You reflect the last missle so you don't get that tasty debuff~
and i was like.. nah
im glad i didnt wear them
cause they woulda been useless
but healer argued
and thought i was making bad decision
Stuff can't kill you if its dead - tanking as prot right now?
Depends if ur gonna die to its dots
problem with SR imo is the dumb fact theyre trying to make it mitigate non reflectable hits
oh and it stops doing that after it reflects stuff
last boss is so hard
he was hard pre m+ kara even.
i didnt find it that bad before prepatch i dunno
last night it was insane
for p1 i felt like i was using CD after CD just to stay alive
and grievous didnt help
those orbs in p2, adds suddenly, interuptable beam etc, its hard to execute perfectly
always gonna have 1 idiot die to some bs.
we wiped like 3 times cause people would habve grievous going into the ;portals
and die as soon sas they got to ship
as*
I'd rather have it reduce all magic damage by 15%, and not reflect, than to have it be 20% and disappear the instant a trash mob sneezes at me with a low damage frost shock
Right
Spell reflect has always been super powerfull
it was just a odd "punch almost on cd"
dude
solution
dont make a boss doing arcane missle
and its not build to be reflected or mitigated
ot
well, the issue it trying to fit bfa tuning into legion tuning, long story short they don't mix
i did maw 21 yesterday too, and had no issues on first boss, where idn ormally need pants
yeh thats true
i didnt play legion prepatch
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well, actually i did, i was rushing to reach lvl 100
legion prepatch to me felt like doing timewalk raids and such
as legion prot
sit at 100% ignore pain all the time and do nothing
wont have that problem any more
By Illidan you mean Archimonde?
i know loved it
no talking timewalking
i cant remember numbers in wod they werent that extreme with ignore pain
but going from barrier > pain was the best thing ever.
yea now we're less then barrier
hhaha no
even current ip is way better than barrier imo
barrier had so many techical issues imo
But vengeance scaling
there was a 4set or something to get +100% better barrier doing last stand
and vengeance
that made it decent
but without that 4set i found barrier very very meh
especially considering shield block was so high cost
u were almost better off hitting execute π
i just dont get all the tanksing bits nerf
they dont wanan tanks self sustain
they want the tank/healer/dps roles to matter more
thats the reasons
ok sure fine but then why the i slands where spec not supossed to matter
compare to barrier i think the idea of ignore pain only reducing 50% is genius
shouldve been that in the start in my opinion
or maybe more like 60-70% 90% is just silly.
for example if u had 40k hp, shield barrier was 10k
u popped it and took a 10k auto attack
69%
i would litterally rather eat that to the face.
Tanks got a self sustain nerf - Healers got a throughput nerf (each point matters more) DPS got a personal responsibility nerf
throughput > 1shot mechanics.
But boss mechanics are usually oneshot mechanics π€
that was more to AgentSardan hehe
Not if they two shot you
Theyre all three-quarter-shots
i didnt know dps had a pesonal repsonsibiitly π
They didn't until this patch
Well it would be cooler if the boss mechanic was like a arcane missle
Theyre half-jigger mechanics, for the alcy crowd
just pulling you inside out
DPS standing in junk and not using personal CDs when they need it - overstrained healers
If game designers could stop making magic missile OP in literally every setting and system I would be so happy
annyoin to get 1shot as a DPS by something stoppid.
tbh HFC
had a lot of mechanics being like
Yeah, like was saidearlier, we're dealing with really heavy mechanics in Legion, while wearing our BFA pants
channeled rape
Is that a new honor talent
Shield Bash before the nerf?
Yes
m+ is such great content
instantly dying to a area effect spawning on you, thatsyour supposed to get out of
which one?
I haven't been one shot by anything instant
like truely unavoidable
I've derped and ate a tick of 10 sanguines stacked on eachother
well first week of m+ i did votw +9 or so
and first boss had a eyebeam spawning on the range dps just 1shotting the mages
never really played range dps so cant tell if its completely unavoidable
but i think ur supposed to take 1tick then get the fuck out of it
but as a tank not really cuz we're so op
You can avoid it
Just DPS things
Also mages have a little ability called Blink which works nicely for avoiding that kinda thing.
guys what great leggos for prot
The ones in the pinned guide
i have ebnough to buy two
Depends what youre trying to do
in the pre patch guide??
i want to raid tank M+ and just to have to kill stuff stay alive hahahaha
i dont have any atm just fury stuff
i got legs and helm for fury but for tank i dont have a clue on whats good
The prepatch guide breaks every one of them down pretty well
And in dungeons too
ok the first talent i have the shild slam one what u gusy think
punish but icy venis say in ot the fray but runs will be whn trhat talenmt will trylu rock
Itf is King
Of the little I could understand, I would say that Punish outshines in Single Target and 2 target situations, while Into the Fray can be very useful for M+, since unless you have constant godlike procs on shield, the Haste buff will outshine it
if you can get full effectiveness out of itf it's better, if not go punish
ok
i have punish cause im still doing stuff for mount and WQ for gear and rep for the loot boxes
so belt and gloves u say??
but i i equpi that means i will get devastor which i use a lot while shild slam is on cs and revange
ty guys for the info but one last question how does prot warriors do in bfa
Fine, still one of the most punishing but viable for keys and mythic raiding
what u mean by that
less forgiving if you make a mistake.
unlike brewmaster or guardian where it's incredibly lenient on the choices you make, tanks like prot warrior if you make a mistake you're essentially dead
that's definitely an exaggeration but it's the point of some tanks have a much easier time getting the same results than others
Note that ITF procs off friendly anything as well, so it's normally up when I'm doing WQs.
in that little spot at the bottom?
theoretically yes, but that's not how they allowed garrisons to work Β―_(γ)_/Β―
yeah, you are given a finite amount of plots. once you fill out those given spots it's done
you can replace the buildings with other buildings in those plots but once you upgrade to level 3 that's the set amount of plots you can have
what are some good buildings to have
i don't remember Β―_(γ)_/Β―
trading post allows for the auction house but other than that it's pretty irrelevant now
dear LORD ALMIGHTY why is ignore pain on the gcd
just why
playing prot has always been fun to me except for this clunky ass shit
QUESTION
i know im not allowed to use revenge unless its free
and even trhen its low priority
but what if im trying to get/keep aggro on a group of enemies?
like i feel like i need the aoe
^
ok, so it is okay to use revenge to pick up aggro
or if im gonna lose aggro
if TC is on cd
unless you are worried about dying
the case im thinkin about is boat man in maw of souls
beforee helya
whats jhis name?
his new adds come out
i was using revenge sometimes to pick them up
ya that's fine
also note that once you have aggro, more enemies will proc more free revenges
like marok isn't gonna come to your house and uninstall your game if you spend rage on revenge
lol
cool, i was just makin sure
btw tho im still confused about my opening
when i pull a boss
right now what i do is:
prolonged potion, 3 sec pull timer, avatar, charge in, demo shout, dimas, SS
my health drops so fast with IP up and SB, so i really have no idea whats going with class, ive never had this bad a dip in hp in legion
and then regular rotation
for M+
i'd get a taunt in there before SS
yeha sometimes the boss runs towards a dps at first lol
its scary
i guess i shoudl taunt
Legion m+ isn't rly balanced around your BFA toolkit
ye thats what i feel too
so there's some dangerous stuff...but SB has been pretty solid for me overall
even healers are asking me if my IP is up
prots felt pretty solid to me in m+ even once you reach the 20s. but using CDs properly is more important than it was with T21 SS/IP spamz
@junior ivy
eh it doesnt matter a whole lot
maybe its just my gear
but its more optimal to cast after charging
unless you really really need SB up an extra GCD sooner
ye get more thunderclaps in
it just feels like the opener is so SLOW
so much time goes bny trying to compelte the steps
so tbh i like intercept and a taunt+SS/TC before using that opener
just to establish threat
is that SS hitting with taunt on mob tho?
i think the paragraph under the opener is a key detail
first boss seat
3 peopel went inside
he took 600% dmg
died in 0.5 sec
nice one bliz
john madden would be proud of that penetration
Can someone explain how to get the right weights for prot please?
is it acutally possibler to avoid breath on draghon boss in DHT?
just circle around when he starts casting
he? she?
did I just assume the dragons gender?
I'd assume she on account of all the eggs unless dragon roll like seahorses do
i get the debnuff no matter what
gn
@junior ivy Move in to boss when he cast. Hug boss.
isnt that what i dont wanna do?
@junior ivy wait, you mean dragon? You dodge when he casts or use spell reflect
yeha dragon
Dodge or use spell reflect
Any 1 know why i take TONS of dmg on last boss in MoS? I dodge all shit on ground, cant be that. Healer need to spamheal.
Most abilitys that are casted can be side stepd, that is one of them @junior ivy
The tentacles on the last boss apply a bleed dot that can be spell reflected
Only the tank tentacles do it
With tyrannical they will hurt allot more
Make sure your dps prioritize them unless you are about to phase
Would you all suggest prot to someone new to tanking?
Prot warriors take more skill to play then other tanks imo, timing and rage management along with planning out CD's/calling externals then other tanks. Something most warriors dont consider also is the more offensive you play the more you are going to be avoiding dmg in the long run. (More rage for more mitigation/more stuns/int for less dmg taken/things dying faster due to you putting out more dmg)
Holding threat?
Holding threat comes to common sense
Thunder clap will be your go to, along with revenge when its free. (Applying demo shout with booming voice will help)If you are struggling apply another revenge, you need to have addons like a threat meter or name plates above the mobs your fighting showing a live status of your threat so you can see when dps are about to pull aggro on a mob and you can apply more dmg where necessary before the mob transitions onto the dps.
@junior ivy People have been racist in legion too, even though we did he highest dmg in raid by far all tank classes, healed as much as bdk, just they take more dmg.
We got a really Nice AoE buff now, its OP compared to what we had, def needed, even though healing is gone. Still just bdk who actually does some healing, other tank classes does not heal that much either. I play both bdk and prot warr. Aoe threat as bdk is reduced af.
Self healing is nice, but when your mitigation is trash compared to others it dosnt really make you any better. Same thing can be said for bear tanks, you have 10mill hp? thats cool, you also take twice the dmg i do
Prot warrior racism, boy I didn't expect to read that today
Ikr
well i mean, we idndt heal as much as bdk, i pushed war to 1.3mil hps on m hounds, bdk could go to 2
but your point still stands
Woke
If we had battle cry, (with or without the 2pce obviously with preferred even as a talent) IP not so shit and off GCD + better rage gen to actually be able to use our abilities I wouldn't be considering re-rolling another tank that "feels" funner to play
You wont do it though
also we lost bastion of aspect, the most amazing effect for tanks ever conceived
The ability to spam ip is what hurt me the most, I was outhealing the healers just because of it most of the time
just means shit healers
I mean, not really? Any trivial content IP and Inspiring Presence was easily enough to keep you near the top
Inspiring Presence doesn't/didn't work on yourself
sorry i didn't realise that's what was being talked about
I'll let it slide this time π
nice job macro
You a warrior now potato
i always played a warrior just an alt tho
π
We went back and cleared ToS tonight. Bolster makes KJ claws a joke hahja
they already were for warr
If your job tier pieces per piece are more than 15 ilvls more than tier pieces. Would you replace your tier?
Non
@spice saddle shields can't titanforge though only warforge
So good weapons and azerite pieces you can only get from high content
Really struggling to pick between Prot and guardian
How, from all I heard guardian is the most boring spec ever. And prot probably the most interactive spec
holy chicken nugget that was a dark side by sylvanas. I mean... damn. I dont wanna play horde π
That would be the siege. I suspect something hidden. I know it. Anduin will be corrupted!
i kinda started to feel bad for the alliance doing the quest
but then got camped at the end
so fuck them
lol
shouldve done killing blow to malfurion tbh
Burning the great trees will unprison something I am sure π
looking at prot representation in mythic and m+ makes me anxious, I really want to play warrior for dps but my m+ group has higher ambitions for bfa and I might need to tank some
how is it on prepatch and are things going to get better at 120?
I tried the new prot with my old t21 mindset and it looks poop, no damage, no rage gen, holes in mitigation
The gaps are what's killing it for me now. I can get over a slower playstyle, but having to roll a CD because my spec can't maintain a respectable mitigation up for a lot of situations feels terrible for me.
Same reason why I never had any interest in Paladin and now it's showing up on warrior
And the gaps are only going to get longer with lower haste lvls at 120
^, prot dmg is close to being broken
Midigation is nice, you need to play properly and proactively you can get 40sec of uptime ez if you chain CDs even more
And if you don't have rage gen on 120, you are doing something seriously wrong
If 100% uptime was obtainable on all tanks for their AM then AM would be pointless and they should just make it passive. I like the higher skill required to time AM correctly to not get screwed.
I'm not saying that all tanks should have the option to have 100 % up-time. The variety can be fine with proper balancing.
But it wouldn't be pointless.
The point is that you have to play well to achieve it - generate enough resources by proper "rotation", timing it well etc.
Good players would have 100 % up-time, worse players would not and they would take more damage or die as a result.
Agreed
With prot warris it'll be easy to distinguish a good one from a bad one this expac even more
Still catching up here but how come?
Those that roll CDs to those who don't or something with actual difficulty?
More about those that know the fights and those that are reacting to the fights imo
Pretty much dan, you are supposed to use LS actively, not as oh shit buttons
Same as SW
Yea I dislike not having an oh shit button but if you roll coodlowns there shouldn't be a shit moment in theory.
Well it depends on what fight/content you're doing. You'll use CDs a bit different in m+ than you will in raid fights but the main point is to reduce the damage coming in rather than react after it has come
I haven't read too much into the BFA raid stuff so what difference do you mean? Or just that you'll need AM up for specific abilities (but then that should be the case on m+ bosses too really)
Ah yeah true. More trash focus in 5 man's. Just wanted to clarify!
What's my main rage spender?
They could make it a resource management challenge to keep it up. That'd be pretty cool.
Then those who manage resources properly could obtain 100% and those who don't will fail. But the challenge could be to do enough damage to hold threat being forced to use resources on that as well as the AM. It's a little late for dreams right now though isn't it.
Guys. Which ally race has the best animations? I need to faction change to do the pre-quest since im all horde :p
Dranei are the only ones whose shoulders are big enough to compete with horde shoulders.
Draeni walk like they're on stilts with a 3rd one up the rear
Worgen combat stances are best for Alliance as well
cept for mebbie Dwarf
DIDorf. Get those lit beards and racials
Also I thought mount worked for both faction unlock if that's why you were gonna do both
