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yeah I imagine BFA will be a different suck as we lose our haste numbers/legendaries.
but I'll make do with it when I get there.
Is ignore pain still AP*3.5 *(1+vers) per cast?
Im going to tank mythic content in bfa and i was thinking about Rolling with prot war. But i have Been researching forums and youtube and they say that prot war is weaker both in myth+ and raid. My question is: Are prot warrior a viable choice for mythic prog and higher mythic keys without doing anything competetive progression
yes
people have been blowing warris weaknesses way out of proportion and without proper knowledge of how its supposed to be played
their main arguments are "sb downtime", "ip is bad" and "no self heal LUL"
IP is supposed to be a defensive rage dump
and SB downtime is supposed to be handled by CD management especially with the use of Bolster
So for the normal mythic raider it Will be no problem to Roll warrior
by no means
all the tanks are very close to each other in power, much closer than in legion
Good ty hear thank you m8 for an honest answer
The various youtuber almost scared me away from prot
and none of em have properly played prot
thats why
its all just assumptions from reading tooltips and playing the class for 5min
ANyone have any youtube or twitch record of latest raid testing with Prot PoV? Curious to see
Sense streams raid testing doesn't he. Haven't been on twitch in a while but he usually posts it on youtube as well.
Ultimately unless your doing MDI or World First Raiding play what you enjoy the most
What if ignore pain was a toggle that reduced damage by like 10% as long as it were on but drained rage while it's on? Then if you don't manage your rage well and run out it toggles off and goes on a 30 second cd or something. Just a random thought. With random numbers of course.
wasn't that a very early alpha implementation? i think?
The way they did it in alpha was that instead of taking health as damage it took rage instead. And it was on a 12 second cooldown no matter what.
So you could take like one big hit and it drained all your rage.
Don't think that would work either
You'd have to have it take a substantial amount per global and would lead to possible rage starving
that won't "fix" or change anything really...
IP off the gcd would make it pretty strong
Use it wrong? As a toggle it would be on as long as you don't suck at resource management.
Mine is 15% on beta OpieOP
As a toggle it would have to drain 20-30 rps
And if you took IP off the GCD you'd have to take Revenge off the GCD as well
You've never seen that type of mechanic in use have you? 5-10 rage per tick (gcd) would be about right. Then adjust the damage reduction to be fair with the rage drain.
5-10 per tick would be like.... 20-25%
Maybe that much
WITH azerite traits!
With traits lol
the main shift that really helped me get a feel for IP now was "it's a defensive rage dump, not AM"
Yeah that's literally all it is
i also use it to bolster other CDs, pooling, and maybe even capping for a second or two to combine it with SB or LS
i know capping is bad but.... i'm not talking about sitting on it through multiple SS/TC casts ๐
But a spell that is as strong as Barkskin, that you can toggle and drains minimal rage, that's stupid broken
i like the toggle concept, but i'd do it more like "lets you take x% of damage as rage instead. for every 1% damage it prevents, lose (3-5)rage"
(or an even "worse" ratio like 1:6-10 perhaps, haven't mathed it)
i'm not saying my way best way, just something that appealed to me ๐
A single hit would empty your bar from full
ok so my mathing sucks ballsack
i can work on that
but also, they could leave it the fuckalll alone and it wouldn't rustle me jimmies ๐
Draining rage Is a concept that only works if its capped
And with rage gen in bfa its not a reliable source for Dr
your logic has no place within my armchair dev seat friend ๐
i kid, thank you for helping point out the reasons it is broke (:
Npnp
or bake 4pce t21 into it baseline ๐
I was thinking more on the lines of a small constant damage reduction that drains a reasonable amount of rage per tick. Not excessive to the point of not being able to use other rage spending abilities but challenging to keep up while using them.
It's not a terrible idea, but you would be looking at 5% or less damage reduction, it wouldn't even be worth
The current IP is not bad when people see it for what it is and not something they formulated over Legion
I happen to like the idea of ignoring pain. Seeing as I used to fight and we were trained to ignore pain. It's a very realistic idea.
At the moment weโre more ignoring ignore pain
I don't mean the idea of the spell, just the use. People are complaining about it current IP with the vision that it should be big, up often, some peoples main AM, and that just isn't the case anymore. It's far far from that.
That last part was more towards the people that don't like it at all because it "doesn't make sense thematically". Thats more a forum and youtube thing though.
the spell that gets under my skin thematically is avatar
how the hell do normal dudes with swords know how to grow twice in size and turn their skin to stone
Avatar used to be kind of more a dwarfy/muradin thing
avatar needs a animation update
yeah it makes sense for dwarfs, the whole stoneform thing. but every other race it's just nonsensical
only dwarves get avatar. Problem solved
even if we didn't know it before legion, we are odyn's chosen, maybe we don't realize we're going into avatar state by some magik tomfoolery ๐
would be very easy to adjust the flavor too, it's just a damage boost/snare removal
or just make warrior a dwarf only class
inb4 wow the d&d 1e "bringing back races as classes 2020"
hell, make all the classes dwarf only and let horde be dwarves. World of Dorfcraft
not unopposed to this tbh
or just dorfs vs orcs ๐ค
maybe horde can be dark iron dwarves
dibs on dark iron and/or any felcrazed dorfs then
I just want to see hundreds of crazy drunk short people with beards duke it out
alliance vs horde vs dwarf?
they kinda barely get along as it is ๐
and wildhammer should be an allied race
same with earthen and iron dwarves
god i would love to play an iron dwarf
inb4 some orc/dorf halfbreed as next horde race "dorcs" or "oarfs" ๐
also, every dwarf toon should automatically get brewmaster as a 4th spec
and you are welcome for that mental image
God! This bugs me
i had rigged mine up to say "Halflife 4 pre-alpha" for a while ๐
My warri is dwarf since day 1 so I never thought about other races with Avatar
Yeah doesn't make whole lotta sense for others
I mean technically you can play 10min iron dwarf every 2 hrs atticus :p
I used the flask constantly but eventually got bored of it because no armor
guys in what state is prot warrior?
mine is in VA
no issues with IG being on GCD?
its not an issue
its working as intended
its a defensive ragedump
not your AM anymore
"AM" meaning?
active midigation
block
but if you dont know anything about current prot warri

that answers more than you can ask
aight xD
Right now Protection warrior is a tank spec
Blizzard may change it in future patches, though
Wat
Wut.
My brain hurt reading that. Maybe it was successful
too obvious troll
I'm actually a Dwarf, tbh
but it was a proper response to reystar
^^
urgh
you guys have time to use Ignore pain? I feel like I never have the time to use it. Always have either SS, revenge or TC up.
Yep, I use it
what you mean time
That's how it's supposed to be
there will never be a window where you cant use anything but IP
you have to make a decision if you want to have a defensive spell active
Yea right, guess I havent tanked anything to dofficult enough for me to give up an offensive spell
presses shield block in 2 consecutive GCDs
having 2 Shil Bloc at the same time mens 2x da armor bloc
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Sagif hacked the game and put shield block on the gcd
do ppl need to absolutely stack with you to survive through shared suffering on last boss of lower?
on tyrannical at least
doesnt matter anymore does it
Not in BFA they dont
@copper lion Yes, but you can avoid stacking by leaping out or intercepting
usually he would cast it again if he cant get it off
Keep in mind if you do try to avoid it he may cast it twice so be ready to intercept. If your dps is fast enough he will only do 1
Leap/intercept twards the end of his cast
Hey guys, I have some questions about trinkets, since I dont have Aggramar's Conviction I've been running Diima's 210. My other trinket kinda varies depending of the dg and if its a raid. But usually is that one from PK, its 215.
I have some DPS trinkets too, and I dont know if I should be using them:
230 Shadow-singed fang
220 Eye of Command
220 Hunger of the Pack
I read somewhere that dps trinkets for tanks dont work with it full capacity so I did some simulations on raidbots but its seems its not working properly for prots?
good pal
did i miss something?
lol
im lost
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k den
yes
Corey trusts me enough to move in, I trust him enough to do the same. @raven ore
Hmmm ๐ค
Hmmmm, let's get back on topic
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so at a gear level, where a cape that dropped in heroic was an actual upgrade ๐ i didn't like heroic lower >.<
Hello all. First time warrior here. Iโve always been a pure DPS guy before but for this expansion I wanted to finally tackle the challenge of tanking so I decided to go with the proper tank. ๐ I was wondering, how do you guys learn a new spec other than doing people pugs and hope you donโt get kicked because you are messing up? ๐
I usually try to learn a new class/spec solo in open world content then get in a group and just wing it. Let them know you're new to tanking. Most people will help you and work with you.
generally i join class discords, read its pins
then i try it out for myself
becasue practice is the best teacher
you cant really learn tanking by just reading a guide or reading answers
Makes sense. I am questing as Prot now to get used to the basics
Also do dungeons with my guild I suppose
Iโm max level but boosted so learning the basics
Jumping into dungeons is the best way
dungeons generally require pulling, using AM properly, grabbing aggro etc
so theyre best practice if you ask me
Just remember
The absolute worst that can happen is you get kicked
So who gives a shit
Best part is. Nobody kicks a tank ๐
On another note. Mad preach to @remote coral for using the perfect words to describe his desire
I'm probably just dumb and out of the loop but why did Shield Slam go from like 500% of AP to like 89% of AP from 7.2 to 8.0
Just looking at the changelog and wondering if I'm just misinterpreting it
You are
Lol im not
sweating
The % changed yes, but the relative strength is the same
They just changed all that stuff when they moved from the wdmg models
AP used to interact with wdmg, so they had to go back and rework the math to move it to the new model
They are also trying to bring down tank dmg in general so some is intended
we're all girls in here
Cause they don't want people like me topping the meter in a raid.
is discord fucked or do i see 2 Keladans?
The goal in legion was for tanks to have like 75% of the damage potential of an actual dps. There's so many bad dps that a lot of tanks were doing more damage than them so Blizzard said we can't be having that now... Nerf bat.
But that isnt really the tanks problem when people who play a dps class dont know how to dps with it
i think tanks dmg got nerfed cause you could do alot of dmg without sacrificing on survivability
Probably still gonna beat some dps though. Some people are pretty bad. Even when you try to help them so they can do more damage they don't listen. Then it's time to replace them because they aren't helping with progress. But if you do that then half the raid team leaves because they're bff's. So you end up having to carry people.
idk if its a valid comparison, but they removed self healing, or reduced it for many tanks, yet i see people dueling and dds healing themselves to full
there are tanks that still have alot of selfhealing
well yeah that was the plan
its not rude, its an emote
that's like saying "it's not rude, it's a word"
I mean that personโs name is Drtydeeds. I wouldnโt feel too bad
offense is taken not given I agree, but the response "it's an emote" is nonsensical
and I'd say spitting is rude just in general. even if you don't take offense it's just bad etiquette
going "dude chill it's just an emote" makes you look like an internet warrior edgelord
How is prot standing up against the other tank specs for prepatch?
Standing like a heavily armored beast that don't care about being hit... Because we ignores that pain.
I had to leave yesterday after hearing about the IP trait buff but not the results, how is it looking now?
what are these buffs ppl are talking about?
ddi we get buffed?
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I thought so, the IP trait was a boost to the actual damage absorption but a nerf to leech
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@cinder bridge youm ay be unaware, but an emote doesn't actually means youre being spit on in real life. Also, calling me an "internet warrior edgelord" doesn't make the best impression
I haven't tanked much since prepatch; did a bunch of reading, stepped into a Heroic, and ... it just didn't feel good. I hope something changes by level 120, yikes.
all that is irrelevant, saying something is not rude because it's an emote is just a fallacious way of seing it
so many people trying to justify dumb shit cause "dude it's just a symbol, dude they are just words, dude it's just X". sorry for coming out harshly over something relatively harmless
Question- Cath 2nd to last boss, the aoe, someone is insisting that spell reflect completely negates it- this seems incorrect to me
which boss is that again
thrashbite
doomatrix. the one that summons portals and does the aoe
gotta get into aggramars shield to dodge the aoe
Yes, sorry. It -shouldn't- work, because it's an aoe, but someone was saying that it does for no real reason
well there ya go lol ^
thyme
Where's that from, Thyme?
what resource is that
that's not why it shouldn't work
spell reflect and blockable spreadsheet that was pinned in legion
no longer because it's not BFA related
access denied
I was being sarcastic about that spitting emote but you guys took it to a whole new level of seriousness.
try again
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Still denied for me anyways
@kind urchin everyone understood that, talking about something else
And also chaotic energies is fully reflectable. Does about 4% of his health in damage. You guys have been burning the shield?
but that's neither her enor there
https://goo.gl/xtfCfX how about now, it was the link that was pinned
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Clarify Thyme- 'That's not why it shouldn't work'?
there are plenty of aoe abilities that are reflectable
there's no consistent nor strict rules on what is and is not reflectable
or why some physical abilities are reflectable
It reflects rapid rupture from the destructor tentacles in Maw as well and thats a physical bleed.
Who needs consistency?
not blizzard ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Also how some bleeds are affected by armor but others aren't
Yay
AoE abilities still don't consume Spell Reflection, right?
The amount of abilities that were reflectable in legion that people didn't know were is why I kept trying to tell people that warrior was stronger than they thought. Even most of the top streamers and youtubers never even used the toolkit to its full potential.
if the ability is reflected, it is consumed
the domatrax chaotic energy isnt actually an aoe
Lame
but afaik if SR is just used as DR, it's not consumed
Yeah, that's the way it worked pre-artifact anyways
That's a weapon trait I will miss.
If the spell isn't reflectable it reduces.
Probably the main one I missing
Maybe Scales of Earth, that was really OP on heavy AoE (like door strat on first boss in Nighthold)
Loved that fight.
after running a few M+, I'm just itching to start complaining about prot again, but I'll spare everybody!
I'm happy that the new nvidia driver update seems to improved frame rate on my 970 SLI setup, make sure to update if you're doing SLI
not only with SLI i also got better performance with gtx 960 now way better
Even with updated drivers on my 1070 I have to run dx11. Dx12 stutters.
Not that I really need dx12. Performance is fine. Would be nice if it worked right though.
@opaque pagoda you did keys on beta or live?
live
yeah but beta seems more fun with new dungeons + traits
my gear is really low yet its fine
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Did you taunt or heroic throw?
Heroic Throw still has an increased threat modifier, pretty sure
It does
Is there a way to see damage reflected with Spell Reflection in logs?
on live you dont use IP alot you use it once thanks to 4pc you dont take damage anymore so you always will have rage for revenge if needed
still even on beta IP isnt crazy good so you dont have to keep it up all the time
You aren't supposed to keep it up
Only reason to right now is because 4pc is kind of OP
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right now with 4pc use them together IP stacks really high
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Im only using IP before a big hit
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and you can extend block so long with bolster
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and kite the rest if you dont have anything
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i only picked shield slam trait that buffs your block aswell
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I'd just like IV baseline and I'd be content. Although heroic throw cleaving with a glyph would be tops
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it's a funny thing, back in bc for the wotlk prepatch we were fuggin thrilled beyond words to get devastate to replace sunder
Yeah I'm not a fan of it either but I can deal with it there are worse things classes have to do lol
granted it was still a talent
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Haha how times change. Imagine devestate did an armour or physical debuff, prot with melee comp would be insane
Yeah
i would not be opposed to a sunder armour mechanic again
I thought warriors should get it over monks tbh
DK should've gotten +10% AP like they used to have and warriors should've gotten Sunder Armor instead of Monk
Horn of Winter
Nah DH and monk aren't represented enough ๐
monk should have gotten a 10% move speed party buff
WW has that already, don't they?
you mean like WW...
does it still apply party-wide?
Yes
should be for all their specs then
Within range
Doesn't really make sense for brewmaster to get it since you're typically too far way for it to apply
but I could see MW getting it
Brew is just as close as ww is
Have you seen boss models?
Boss models are enormous still. I'm not even close enough to get 5 stacks of ITF on Aggramar
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I do
as it stands it's an aura tho, should be a castable buff, but eh
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Just saying that boss models are huge and BM isn't as close as WW
They won't be for long brew is real good
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There were a significant number on Argus anyways
Sure
brew is enjoyable to me, and I play every damn tank, except druid for obvious reasons
But Brew was probably the best tank from NH on
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And still no one played it
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I don't really like the stagger mechanic personally
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It's so amazing
It's really strong, I agree
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No argument there
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I just don't like it personally
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I sat there before raid started just stacking it
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I'm going to do warrior, druid, and DK as I have for the last few expansions
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Having the option to swap to druid on Star Augur or DK on Aggramar was really nice, though
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play all the tanks (except driud)
Just do both like mee
I just feel like I don't really have any decisions to make as BrM. Keep ISB up. Purify if I start taking too much damage. You play every encounter almost exactly the same way
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losing that helment feels real bad
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I just love BrM
It's been my favorite tank since MoP alpha
But I know most of that is nostalgia. Cause that monk is long dead
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panda monk hype
Yikes
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Zen med has to be the worst tank cd lol
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wonder if any of the boneheads who make mechanic change choices even playtest themselves
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Zen Med is just really situational
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its too situational is the problem I have with it
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So is a lot of you guys going with the Monk for raiding then
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leggo made it a straight up better shield wall
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Guard
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Yummy
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not too common to find those types of fights
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it's good on fights with casted aoes or explosions
definitely not uldir tho
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yeah, first one that comes to mind is Augur from NH
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or siege boss in hfc
was also kinda nice on krosus
bring pandaria era vengeance back!
but click on it
yeah, iz ded ๐ฆ
was up a couple of weeks ago
Any of you guys know the current good prot pally m+ spec
messing around on an alt havent played it in months lol
Any recommendations for Elvui imports as prot? I've been looking through wagio and haven't seen any I like that much
would imagine it's not terribly different than before with the paladin thing
import one you like the most then edit around to your likings, what i usually do @abstract quarry
ty!

So prot warrior not so good again in new expansion?
prot war is fine
that's a big bait
I was on my dk in front of org. Some guy told me "why the f u play dk, didnt u see the rankings? Monk/dh all the way"
I was like 
Everybody talking about dk, monks and dh right now
Nope, thats why im asking about it
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Same as legion. Alot of cds, solid dps
But judging a tank without having played one..
prot is good in beta
I have both dh and war done 9/11 myth before spring. And picking prot war as main tank was not good choice at start
havent done any high keys but i wasnt taking damage in +7/+8
prot was awesome in antorus man
the very short tl;dr is that if you have to ask if a class is good, then your choice doesn't matter in terms of strength or weakness
Doubt it was worse than dh in raids
as a prot you had the easiest time in antorus
Unless you played bad. Prot was great post NH
luckily bfa isnt ntorus 9/11 so that comparison is vapid
Or are we judging bfa level 120 classes based on wholly differently tuned content at 110
Play your personal best, mastering one in particular will help more than playing the top 0.1% class
All tank players should playy multiple tanks to benefit from their various strengths for different encounters
For some people some tanks will feel worse, like usual ๐ค But good thing is to have another option just in case of undertuning.
I want to fully switch from dh, cuz momentum build sucks for hardmode and nemesis dull af
And with new fury changes...
Hardmode=mythic?
Im going to prog with a monk and switch to warrior on reclears
I can only be sure that i will never play guardian (too boring) and paladin (too pink).
Yea mythic
Seen monks being completely murdered by stagger in raid test stream btw
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Stagger was a mistake
Anyway thanks
All depends on numbers tuning, stagger or not
Ill try prot
I mean if u want fotm go monk for prog. Like in legion
Ton of magic damage in encounter journal btw, demo shout does not work for ground/environment effects right?
I wish there was clear way to see what is affected and what is not, also, what is blockable what is not
Highly inconsistent all this
for it to be affected by DS the damage has to have a source other than being environmental
๐ Smart people will do spreadsheet of wtf is blockable, and i will use it!
blockable damage easy to figure out but spell reflect is so weird sometimes you can reflect aoe damage sometimes you dont take damage but no reflect
blizz is inconsistent about it
i have seen deflects, but it's not nearly as common as reflects.
yeah only once i think in legion curator ground damage
Deflect is good enoigh for me
I for once want to have alt tank that is less healer dependent, so i will go warr main/DH alt
Unless guild make me play Brewmasted, thats it ๐
Shit guild
If thats the case
You should swap tanks when necessary anyway for bosses
Nah, i am half joking tbh. I would refuse guardian or pala, but monk i like.
Makes sense then
I love my guild, but this love has its limits ๐
Well warrior is clearly healer dependant. I can currently survive 50s against raid level sparring partner with 4pT21
I rolled guardian/brewmaster for our guild restructurisation in Antorus. Was hard time for everyone so i wanted to releive stress as much as i can and play most optimal options.
As we no longer have our buffable IP
BfA i plan to play what i mained forever (warrior), and dh just for fun and m+ maybe. Unless some encounters/tank situation will require monk, then i play that.
50s without big (>1min) cds
Warrior is heal dependent, that is why i want less heal dependent alt
Ah now I see. Warrior main, DH alt
just recently I saw some buff on me that was talking about next IP absorb size increased by X, what's that about? I can't find anything like that in the spellbook or in the guide
is that just some type of resolve or is that a buggy thing?
Probably 4pt21
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https://puu.sh/B9yck/9db866943a.png yup spot on
I find those IP numbers incredibly underwhelming
the baseline ones
just unboxed protwarr a couple days ago and between IP on the gcd and BV in the same row as deva, this is pretty cancerous
I just hate that i have to choose between doing damage (rev) and be a LITTLE more protected. i want to do damage and being tank at the same time ๐
Same boat as druids
I just feel about devastate ain't nobody gottime for that
haha yes
You shouls see ip for what it is. Not what it was
IP makes me want to spank our hpala to just... work harder
I got dps to produce over here
Revenge does pitiful dps
Yeah i get it. I remember Blizzard post when they was sharing their tank philosophy sting that tanks shouldnt choose between the two, but it seems that is no longer valid.
When was that
I vaguely remember that ๐
somwhere in nighthold i think
same time we was supposed to do 75% of DPS's DPS
Oh well more variety in playstyles this way.
Anyone here ever quested as prot warrior during a new expansion? Was it painfully slow or was it ok? Since I am new to the specc I was thinking of questing as prot to get used to the abilites and hotkeys, etc. I'm not going to be racing for server first but I also don't want to take three times as long to get to max level ๐
I quested Pala dh warri dk and druid as Tank. Everything was Fine cause you can pull everything
ok thanks
tanks do less dps, but because you can pull more than a DD, it generally means the speed is equal
why are tanks so useless in wpvp now though
you can't pull that much more tbh
warrior dps specs are a bit broken for world content even
i miss leveling with vengeance
I tanked some m+ after a year break last night on my warr and it felt so clunky ๐ฆ
I never ended up ever using IP.. are you guys in the same boat?
nope
Like shield block was enough.. granted I was only doing +10
Hey. Every time I login, my addons are "experiencing a large number of problems," but I updated everything in twitch.
any advice? i really dont want to delete everything and start over
add on developers gotta keep fixing things for the new patch, or possible some of the addons you have were abandoned by the authors
shouldnt 8.0 + versions of addons hosted by twitch not cause such an error message?
fury, ty for input.
thought downloading 8.0 + addons would solve issue. seems to havent
could still be problems even with the 8.0 versions. And again, you might have addons enabled that authors have ditched completely
is there an addon channel? idk why im asking prot warriors
i guess beginning of this expansions, while i "re"learned prot warrior - people here reallyt helped
eh its not WA
are you using weak auras, out dated auras easily cause major performance spikes
hm
until a couple weeks after launch there will be addon issues
i really gotta clear out my WAs
have to wait until things stabilize
yeah i wouldnt be surprised if i got an old veng weaving WA
How important is it to use ignore pain? Last I tanked was in wotlk/cata and back then this didn't exsist. Do you only use it as rage dump or would you want to use it as much as possible as long as threat is fine?
Yeah you have to update the addon and all your auras.
my main concern is scrap addon
It's a rage dump
when u got a couple alts, manually clicking greys to delete kinda stinks
Rage dump mostly. It doesn't stack like it did in legion.
Or if you want a little bit more for a hit
xiro, w/e current warrior build, dont worry much about IP
so it wont make a very noticable difference in damage taken?
It still helps a very little bit to buffer damage but not as much.
You would just use it for a tank buster or dump rage
single tanking a raid boss, where aggro isn't an issue ...... when shield block is up, aggro isn't an issue, use IP
so probably never on aoe tanking
but in general dungeon scenarios ... you won't have a global cd to use on IP
Say you're almost capped, already have sb up or are saving it for a certain mechanic, and you have a revenge proc. Dump with ip.
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and all those "if" are just way too much for me. tanking aoe, ull know when there is just nothing left to do to save ur butt
then u use ip
after shield block
haha ๐
I pretty much started playing again right before the prepatch, so I saw a bit of the old IP and it felt quite strong, but then the patch came and it wasn't nearly as strong
but these guys know better than me. i slacked off a bit after argus died
I still use it a decent amount for damage smoothing.
I like this "new" (for me it's new :p) mechanic of "needing active mitigation" . It's not much different from an interrupt with another button but it's nice that we have something to actually look out for.
Interrupts are pretty much baked in muscle memory, the active mitigation I still need to get planted in :p
yah it's a nice nuance
Throwback to Klaxxi HC where I'd spent an entire expansion using active mitigation then there was that mechanic I had to SPECIFICALLY not use active mit for. Failed that like 30% of the time
Lol
I was under the impression they were likely doing away with AM checks?
i think so
and hopefully, some AM checks never made sense, rather have just a hard hitting tank-buster to force you to AM
So far I haven't seen any in Uldir
And I think Zeppe that is how they're going to do it
like, Tanks should have control over how we deal with a mechanic from a mixture of our toolkit, rather than it being dictated to us that a single ability has to be used to negate a massive negative effect. That's always felt somewhat of a "Onyxia Scale Cloak" type issue to me
nope it's still there
If you squint you can see it.
NL last boss check was so dumb
it pissed me off the first time i did it on a bear and MoU didn't work
like that's just teaching new tanks poorly
make them use physical mitigation vs magic abilities, why?
On, the AM check vs Molten Smash or whatever
yeah, I mean, hey, its blockable ๐
Ironfur does junk tho
or DS instead of EW
I like the idea of tankbusters that make you time cds in a certain order to always have one available.
Warriors are more the flipside, we always have a CD available (and are generally using it)
Blizzard, can I have as many off gcd cooldowns as a paladin in FFXIV? I'd like to have an entire hotbar dedicated to cds. Thank you in advance.
I prefer the toolkits of WoW, they're much more streamlined
I'm late to the party, but I definitely hope they do away with am checks
FFXIV seems to just have a lot of "this does exactly what this other thing does, but its not that other hting so HERES A BUTTON"
Everquest 2 has a ton of that.
well right, that is where EQ2 kinda got into trouble
I think on my 85 pal I had something like 38 abilities on my bar
and a lot of them did around the same effect
but they had different pieces to the "Heroic Combo"
or whatever the system was called
Where you could chain stuff together with other group members
So same idea then
But these are all solo, and the combo gives different threat and dmg
Were you a big EQ fan
I was, actually
I couldn't take EQ2 for long
It was more grindy than like, an asian MMO on release
it made Lineage II look fast
Lol
Are you looking forward to that Pantheon MMO? I read it's basically a spiritual successor to EQ
I saw some gameplay and every ability had a 12 second cd. And there weren't enough to have something to push all the time. If they did something about that then I'd think about it.
Yeah Rhino, I'm looking forward to it, some of my ex guildmates (from EQ) are actually developers on it heh. Much smaller community EQ was. Kinda like Cheers, everybody knows your name. So the top guilds on the servers tended to get recognition.
Did blizzard actually respond to the criticism around protection? I cant find anything either on US nor EU forums :/
Not for awhile
New criticism or like, from early beta?
In a round about way they responded by giving us small buffs?
RUN!
That's because the module isn't being maintained at the moment. It was showing up as like 2k dps so it was removed for the mean time
ah thats good, dont wanna feed the memes
ye
feed the memes
that way we will be very weak according to forums
and then we will get buffed
I would think that itโs hard to sim it
IP forces you to make awkward decisions about whether to do damage and build rage, or spend rage on fairly weak defensive options
Iโm not exactly sure what variables youโd use for โbaselineโ sim
Damage sims mostly unimportant for tanking.
right, I mean knowing the potential is good
unless those defensives give DPS, like SB
or Demo shout
Prot paladins seem to be capable of intense AoE DPS
But TC spam is certainly burst strong AoE burst too
TC spam best Spam
I donโt really like it that much, it feels a little awkward
My entire issue with Prot warriors is that you build all this rage that you canโt spend
TC spam time is one of the worst offenders
You have TONS of rage and no way to get rid of it without screwing up the cycle
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nothing major though
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Looking to go prot in BFA any advice
exactly nascent, thats what IP is for, rage dump
but in BFA you will not have as much rage, thus revenge will mostly be used only as the free proc, not as a dump
Right
It's moved further down my bars now, only use when not free during group encounters obvs
Im having second thoughts about levelin as prot, anyone leveled up to 120 on beta?
i did before they changed xp
well did it go well before?
yeah it was fine
Tl;Dr for Prot: stomp the yard
any good youtbue channels with BFA high prot war keys?
@autumn laurel fact
I'ma level prot just like I did in beta and pull everything I can find at one time.
Is it true prot tanks are not lookin good in bfa right now
oh god, this again
?
no one is looking good, the game is watered down to shitty american beer levels, there, now you don't have to wonder
what are you basing your opinion on?
defensively and offensively warrior is more than acceptable for mythics
i was told they are good for dps, but for defensive they are lacking compared to other tanks
not everyone is in #prot 24/7 like me, so dont dismiss questions you might have heard before @tiny sphinx
I kno im asking are warriors at the bottom compared to other tanks for defensive ?
also how will warrior tanks be in mythic raiding
same as before, punishing but viable
i think, from what i've seen, tanks will stay ina similar spot relatively
the prot warrior credo is: "least forgiving of mistakes" in giant 80 foot concrete font
pretty much
That's not to say we aren't good defensively
We are, especially now that most of the damage intake is both physical and blockable (with the few magic "tank busters" being reliably handled by our cooldowns, to a degree equal to or better than other tanks).
The problem is that if you aren't good, it's going to be extremely obvious.
I mean, all I want is to be invincible and to have mass grip, and infernal leap, self healing, bear form and stagger. How is that so much to ask? True balance.
When it comes to cooldowns and mitigation warrior is one of the best. If you play it well. If not you'll be tanking the floor a lot.
with booming BV making demoralizing shout a pseudo offensive CD should we be using it on cooldown or saving it?
or is it a per fight basis?
Situational.
If you know you won't need the dr for a mechanic before the cd is up. Pop that bad boy and lay some hate.
So I know people have stated that they haven't seen any Active Mitigation checks in Uldir. Is that also true for the dungeons you guys have tested?
When people are talking about AM checks, they mean shit like "You have to have SB / SotR / Ironfur / DS' shield, etc, active for the ability."
IIRC there aren't many / any of those.
Right. I just hadn't seen anyone mention dungeon bosses. Only Uldir
There are boss abilities you can/ should block but nothing like dagrul that sends you flying if not up
So if I wanna push Mythic+ to the limits should I bother leveling a warrior and hope for a buff or just roll DK now?
@misty rain : I will say this and leave it at this statement. If your goal is to simply push the weekly required completion for the max item level from the chest weekly then it does not matter what tank you play. I will however say if the Prot Warrior is your favorite tank and you enjoy it the most then play the Prot Warrior because in my opinion no one in here is going to tell you otherwise. I will however say that if your goal is to push the highest level of M+ dungeons possible and quite possibly go for the MDI then you are most likely better off playing one of the meta tanks. It really is a matter of what you intend to do in BFA and what your goals are.
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Exactly; warriors have great aoe dps..great for fast clearing and good threat generation..and great mobility for dungeons as well. But if you're trying to compete for top keys completed it becomes more about various 'tricks' to break certain key affixes or specific encounters...paladins and other tanks have better tricks for that..which is why they become more desirable at very difficult key levels.
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"bring the player, not the class" - blizzard before this whole shitshow
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pushing m+ is more about team synergy than class makeup
They've tried to schill that trash for a while jokan but it's never been really true...although any tank is sufficient for all content; pushing mythic raids early or pushing super tough challenge mode content (M+ etc) you need more specific classes.
if you know your party and know what they are capable of and communicate well you'll do just fine, and yes, class makeup does matter, but it's not the end-all beat-all approach
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can't be black and white about it
To be fair that's never going to change. You can't have dramatically different tanks/dps that have different utility and methods of doing damage..and have them perfectly balanced for everything.
Agreed @tiny sphinx but teams will always look for any tricks or gimmicks if you will to make runs more successful and will also always look for tanks with utility that favors there group make up. So while a well balanced group can complete high M+ as well as any tank. I find certain tanks will always be favored for the things they can bring to the group.
i mean if you're talking bleeding edge top 10 m+ teams, sure
At some point, when you're really pushing the limits of the content, the abilities you're able to bring to the table for the content matter a lot. So some class will come out on top as the better dps, better tank, better healer..etc. Sadly warriors just haven't been the 'better' tank for bleeding edge content for a long time.
"bleeding edge" is a funny term
As I stated in my initial post it really is about what your intended goals are
I'm just a stubborn ass and I literally have only had one toon on my account for as long as I've ever played WoW (since vanilla) and it's been a warrior. If you are seriously competitive you really have to have other tanks to bring to different encounters.
^Just level multiple tanks
However if you extend your 'goals' out to longer timelines, or aren't trying to do the most challenging mythic+, literally anything is viable.
lol
So what's the tank meta then?
yeah, gear up six tanks in tandem, solid strategy
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Krom...that's literally what seriously competitive raiders do.
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Maybe not 6 but usually like 3 or 4.
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they still ultimately pick one tank to funnel most of the gear to
I have all tanks leveled, except druid for obvious reasons
not DH?
(if you actually look at methods recruitment requirements I believe it's...your main, plus 3 raid ready alts..that you can play at a top competitive level)
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Yes they have 'main' tanks...but often those same players have multiple of the SAME tank type even. (for split runs)
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right now protection warriors are thoroughly mediocre and not very fun to play, the only reason to play one is a serious commitment to the class
If you're doing split runs...gearing a couple characters with Heroic raid quality loot is honestly pretty easy (just time invested is the key) and if you throw M+ into the mix, the ability to gear your alts really isn't 'hard' it's just a matter of playing wow like it's your job.
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? Not fun to play? that's subjective.
I liked the legion playstyle quite a bit
sure, it's subjective
but also, you know, true
I agree skull...with everything on gcd warrior feels clunky..but every tank is like that atm.

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Krom, you just said "my opinion is, you know, true'
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I just want charge off the GCD T.T
that's uhh? odd.
I've only played the plate classes, but warriors are by far the most changed in terms of playstyle
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Warriors also have a higher skill cap than most other tanks, or at least were during legion with IP off gcd, and demo shout etc...we had a lot of things to juggle.
I don't really feel like having a debate about what "fun" is
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What legos you boys think will be best for leveling?
"debating" subjectivity is pointless, just don't generalize and force your "true" opinion
legendary wrist improved the playstyle
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Bracers and belt?
I also think they should bake in never surrender for a higher absorb at low health
Krom, not asking you to define fun...but saying that your opinion of warriors being less fun than other classes, is 'truth' is crazy. It's purely subjective to the person.
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if they insist on keeping IP on the GCD, then it need to do damage so that it doesn't just feel like a pause button in your rotation
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@crystal night probably a mix of belt/bracers/shoulders/boots for mobility
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thats funny cause they praised the warriors for giving detail feedback on their forums compared to other classes
Tbf there is a difference in caring and following
They just read it all and just not agree
well, they do.
you just don't see them scouring public discords
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there's still a lot that goes on, it's not just about what pleases the player base
I agree on that; I honestly 'dislike' pushing my IP key...because I feel like I could have done something more 'useful' ...like damage...because IP feels so lackluster right now. Being off the GCD (regardless of how strong IP was or wasn't) allowed it to be funneled in as needed while playing the 'rest' of the warrior class. IE it was good.
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I guaran-fucking-tee you that IP on the GCD is a direct result of how they're designing other classes; they put abilities like light of the protector on the GCD (which is realistically a very minor difference) and now they're thinking "well, if we do that then we can't just leave IP off the GCD, even though it breaks the class"
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I subjectively disagree with you
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there is no rage dump
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you fill up your rage bar and sit on it
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Revenge and IP are both rage dumps
revenge is free most of the time
not a reliable dump, at least on aoe
Rage dump don't have to be off the gcd
and shield block is on an enormous cooldown
@undone sun TY brother!
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I don't agree the SB CD is enormous
It doesn't break the class it just turns us into a much 'slower' paced version of ourselves. Before a good warrior could have very high APM and be doing a lot of things both offensively and defensively...now, you're doing all those same things but it's like, they're all in a traffic jam with each other.
It's fits well into Warrior cds
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