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sick sentinel
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honestly, always swimming in rage using the legendary belt and high haste. Constant uptime use of demo shout with Booming Voice/Morale Killer/Tclap spam/Anger Management w/ use of Avatar+Unstoppable Force. Never feel desperate for rage in any 2+ target situation.

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And even ST target/bosses feels fine with it.

strong forum
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yea, on live

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beta is a little different ST

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but its not bad

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its okayish

sick sentinel
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yeah I imagine BFA will be a different suck as we lose our haste numbers/legendaries.

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but I'll make do with it when I get there.

strong forum
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its just how it is

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im pumped af

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8.5 days, then its go time

feral frost
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Is ignore pain still AP*3.5 *(1+vers) per cast?

nimble solar
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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

strong forum
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yes

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people have been blowing warris weaknesses way out of proportion and without proper knowledge of how its supposed to be played

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their main arguments are "sb downtime", "ip is bad" and "no self heal LUL"

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IP is supposed to be a defensive rage dump

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and SB downtime is supposed to be handled by CD management especially with the use of Bolster

nimble solar
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So for the normal mythic raider it Will be no problem to Roll warrior

strong forum
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by no means

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all the tanks are very close to each other in power, much closer than in legion

nimble solar
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Good ty hear thank you m8 for an honest answer

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The various youtuber almost scared me away from prot

strong forum
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and none of em have properly played prot

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thats why

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its all just assumptions from reading tooltips and playing the class for 5min

tight tree
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ANyone have any youtube or twitch record of latest raid testing with Prot PoV? Curious to see

kind urchin
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Sense streams raid testing doesn't he. Haven't been on twitch in a while but he usually posts it on youtube as well.

waxen cradle
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Ultimately unless your doing MDI or World First Raiding play what you enjoy the most

sick sentinel
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Or, do like the Chinese

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Go MDI without meta

kind urchin
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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.

amber siren
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wasn't that a very early alpha implementation? i think?

kind urchin
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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.

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So you could take like one big hit and it drained all your rage.

main vault
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Don't think that would work either

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You'd have to have it take a substantial amount per global and would lead to possible rage starving

signal plover
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Just take it off gcd

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Move on

somber dragon
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that won't "fix" or change anything really...

main vault
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You still won't use it much, it'll just feel better when you do

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No real difference

astral crystal
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IP off the gcd would make it pretty strong

main vault
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It would still be a ~10-13% absorb

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It would just be easier to use it wrong

kind urchin
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Use it wrong? As a toggle it would be on as long as you don't suck at resource management.

strong forum
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Mine is 15% on beta OpieOP

main vault
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As a toggle it would have to drain 20-30 rps

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And if you took IP off the GCD you'd have to take Revenge off the GCD as well

kind urchin
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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.

somber dragon
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5-10 per tick would be like.... 20-25%

main vault
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Maybe that much

somber dragon
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WITH azerite traits!

main vault
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With traits lol

somber dragon
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the main shift that really helped me get a feel for IP now was "it's a defensive rage dump, not AM"

main vault
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Yeah that's literally all it is

somber dragon
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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

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i know capping is bad but.... i'm not talking about sitting on it through multiple SS/TC casts ๐Ÿ˜„

main vault
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But a spell that is as strong as Barkskin, that you can toggle and drains minimal rage, that's stupid broken

somber dragon
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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"

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(or an even "worse" ratio like 1:6-10 perhaps, haven't mathed it)

strong forum
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Eh.

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That sounds horrible

somber dragon
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i'm not saying my way best way, just something that appealed to me ๐Ÿ˜„

main vault
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A single hit would empty your bar from full

strong forum
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Yup

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You wouldn't be able to use anything

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Insta drained

somber dragon
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ok so my mathing sucks ballsack

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i can work on that

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but also, they could leave it the fuckalll alone and it wouldn't rustle me jimmies ๐Ÿ˜„

strong forum
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Draining rage Is a concept that only works if its capped

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And with rage gen in bfa its not a reliable source for Dr

somber dragon
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your logic has no place within my armchair dev seat friend ๐Ÿ˜„

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i kid, thank you for helping point out the reasons it is broke (:

strong forum
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Npnp

merry cave
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or bake 4pce t21 into it baseline ๐Ÿ˜›

kind urchin
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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.

main vault
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It's not a terrible idea, but you would be looking at 5% or less damage reduction, it wouldn't even be worth

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The current IP is not bad when people see it for what it is and not something they formulated over Legion

kind urchin
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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.

dark junco
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At the moment weโ€™re more ignoring ignore pain

main vault
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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.

kind urchin
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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.

main vault
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Yeah thematically it's fine

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Obv just taken from D3 but still, it works

hasty cradle
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the spell that gets under my skin thematically is avatar

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how the hell do normal dudes with swords know how to grow twice in size and turn their skin to stone

brittle timber
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Avatar used to be kind of more a dwarfy/muradin thing

ashen sparrow
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avatar needs a animation update

hasty cradle
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yeah it makes sense for dwarfs, the whole stoneform thing. but every other race it's just nonsensical

weary notch
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only dwarves get avatar. Problem solved

somber dragon
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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 ๐Ÿ˜„

hasty cradle
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would be very easy to adjust the flavor too, it's just a damage boost/snare removal

weary notch
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or just make warrior a dwarf only class

somber dragon
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inb4 wow the d&d 1e "bringing back races as classes 2020"

weary notch
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hell, make all the classes dwarf only and let horde be dwarves. World of Dorfcraft

hasty cradle
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not unopposed to this tbh

somber dragon
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or just dorfs vs orcs ๐Ÿค”

weary notch
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maybe horde can be dark iron dwarves

somber dragon
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dibs on dark iron and/or any felcrazed dorfs then

hasty cradle
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introduce lightforged dwarves

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void dwarves

weary notch
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I just want to see hundreds of crazy drunk short people with beards duke it out

astral crystal
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dwarves should have their own factions tbh

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faction*

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there's enough variation

weary notch
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alliance vs horde vs dwarf?

somber dragon
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they kinda barely get along as it is ๐Ÿ˜„

astral crystal
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and wildhammer should be an allied race

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same with earthen and iron dwarves

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god i would love to play an iron dwarf

somber dragon
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inb4 some orc/dorf halfbreed as next horde race "dorcs" or "oarfs" ๐Ÿ˜„

weary notch
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also, every dwarf toon should automatically get brewmaster as a 4th spec

somber dragon
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and you are welcome for that mental image

weary notch
somber dragon
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i had rigged mine up to say "Halflife 4 pre-alpha" for a while ๐Ÿ˜„

strong forum
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My warri is dwarf since day 1 so I never thought about other races with Avatar

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Yeah doesn't make whole lotta sense for others

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I mean technically you can play 10min iron dwarf every 2 hrs atticus :p

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I used the flask constantly but eventually got bored of it because no armor

tardy oak
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guys in what state is prot warrior?

weary notch
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mine is in VA

strong forum
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state is good

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very tank

tardy oak
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no issues with IG being on GCD?

strong forum
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its not an issue

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its working as intended

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its a defensive ragedump

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not your AM anymore

tardy oak
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"AM" meaning?

strong forum
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active midigation

tardy oak
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ahh i c

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and whats our active mitigation now then

strong forum
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block

somber dragon
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it serves a different purpose

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shield block

strong forum
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but if you dont know anything about current prot warri

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that answers more than you can ask

tardy oak
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aight xD

sick sentinel
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Right now Protection warrior is a tank spec

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Blizzard may change it in future patches, though

ember arrow
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Wat

blazing dirge
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Wut.

strong forum
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troll has been attempted

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troll has failed

blazing dirge
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My brain hurt reading that. Maybe it was successful

strong forum
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too obvious troll

sick sentinel
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I'm actually a Dwarf, tbh

strong forum
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MA BOI

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o/

sick sentinel
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\o

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o/\o

strong forum
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but it was a proper response to reystar

sick sentinel
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^^

main vault
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Hmm Troll War

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Interesting

strong forum
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if i were forced to play horde

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it would either be troll or nightborne for me

sick sentinel
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urgh

distant sleet
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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.

sick sentinel
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Yep, I use it

strong forum
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what you mean time

main vault
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That's how it's supposed to be

strong forum
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there will never be a window where you cant use anything but IP

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you have to make a decision if you want to have a defensive spell active

distant sleet
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Yea right, guess I havent tanked anything to dofficult enough for me to give up an offensive spell

sick sentinel
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presses shield block in 2 consecutive GCDs

having 2 Shil Bloc at the same time mens 2x da armor bloc

main vault
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๐Ÿค”

kind urchin
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Sagif hacked the game and put shield block on the gcd

strong forum
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otherwise prot would be too easy ykno

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needs more gcds

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too strong

copper lion
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do ppl need to absolutely stack with you to survive through shared suffering on last boss of lower?

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on tyrannical at least

strong forum
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doesnt matter anymore does it

main vault
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Not in BFA they dont

errant ledge
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@copper lion Yes, but you can avoid stacking by leaping out or intercepting

strong forum
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usually he would cast it again if he cant get it off

errant ledge
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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

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Leap/intercept twards the end of his cast

stone hull
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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?

strong forum
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use stat sticks

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its not gonna matter anymore at this point, its 8 days to bfa

fierce juniper
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good pal

strong forum
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did i miss something?

fierce juniper
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lol

strong forum
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im lost

fierce juniper
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yes

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yes

raven ore
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๐Ÿ‘Œ

strong forum
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k den

hot locust
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yes

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Corey trusts me enough to move in, I trust him enough to do the same. @raven ore

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Hmmm ๐Ÿค”

blazing dune
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Hmmmm, let's get back on topic

undone sun
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๐Ÿค”

strong forum
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erm so. is warri a tank marok

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haHAA

somber dragon
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so at a gear level, where a cape that dropped in heroic was an actual upgrade ๐Ÿ˜„ i didn't like heroic lower >.<

remote coral
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Hello all. First time warrior here. Iโ€™ve 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. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I was wondering, how do you guys learn a new spec other than doing people pugs and hope you donโ€™t get kicked because you are messing up? ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

kind urchin
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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.

ember arrow
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generally i join class discords, read its pins

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then i try it out for myself

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becasue practice is the best teacher

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you cant really learn tanking by just reading a guide or reading answers

remote coral
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Makes sense. I am questing as Prot now to get used to the basics

ember arrow
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ye thats a good start

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are u max level or still levleing

remote coral
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Also do dungeons with my guild I suppose

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Iโ€™m max level but boosted so learning the basics

main vault
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Jumping into dungeons is the best way

ember arrow
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dungeons generally require pulling, using AM properly, grabbing aggro etc

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so theyre best practice if you ask me

remote coral
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Yeah for sure.

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Well Iโ€™m looking forward to it ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Thanks for the tips so far

main vault
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Just remember

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The absolute worst that can happen is you get kicked

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So who gives a shit

dusky sentinel
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Best part is. Nobody kicks a tank ๐Ÿ˜‚

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On another note. Mad preach to @remote coral for using the perfect words to describe his desire

coral dew
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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

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Just looking at the changelog and wondering if I'm just misinterpreting it

main vault
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You are

coral dew
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Oh

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How so

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Don't give up on me Nexii.

main vault
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Lol im not

coral dew
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sweating

main vault
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The % changed yes, but the relative strength is the same

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They just changed all that stuff when they moved from the wdmg models

coral dew
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Okay that makes sense, just caught my eye while I was digging through stuff

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Ty

main vault
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AP used to interact with wdmg, so they had to go back and rework the math to move it to the new model

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They are also trying to bring down tank dmg in general so some is intended

astral crystal
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we're all girls in here

kind urchin
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Cause they don't want people like me topping the meter in a raid.

sweet kettle
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is discord fucked or do i see 2 Keladans?

kind urchin
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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.

sweet kettle
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But that isnt really the tanks problem when people who play a dps class dont know how to dps with it

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i think tanks dmg got nerfed cause you could do alot of dmg without sacrificing on survivability

kind urchin
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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.

broken kite
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That's just life

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MMOrpg :)

ember arrow
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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

sweet kettle
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there are tanks that still have alot of selfhealing

ember arrow
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i didnt say that it got removed

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i said it got reduced

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alot

sweet kettle
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well yeah that was the plan

junior ivy
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this is what people do when youre a gnome in warrior class hall

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๐Ÿ˜ฆ

kind urchin
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Thats just rude.

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Did you bite their shins?

ember arrow
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its not rude, its an emote

cinder bridge
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that's like saying "it's not rude, it's a word"

sick sentinel
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I mean that personโ€™s name is Drtydeeds. I wouldnโ€™t feel too bad

ember arrow
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you choose to find something rude

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nothing is rude inherently

cinder bridge
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offense is taken not given I agree, but the response "it's an emote" is nonsensical

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and I'd say spitting is rude just in general. even if you don't take offense it's just bad etiquette

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going "dude chill it's just an emote" makes you look like an internet warrior edgelord

umbral sluice
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How is prot standing up against the other tank specs for prepatch?

kind urchin
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Standing like a heavily armored beast that don't care about being hit... Because we ignores that pain.

unique echo
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I had to leave yesterday after hearing about the IP trait buff but not the results, how is it looking now?

cinder bridge
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what are these buffs ppl are talking about?

junior ivy
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ddi we get buffed?

sick sentinel
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unique echo
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I thought so, the IP trait was a boost to the actual damage absorption but a nerf to leech

sick sentinel
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ember arrow
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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

valid trout
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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.

cinder bridge
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all that is irrelevant, saying something is not rude because it's an emote is just a fallacious way of seing it

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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

green elbow
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Question- Cath 2nd to last boss, the aoe, someone is insisting that spell reflect completely negates it- this seems incorrect to me

cinder bridge
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which boss is that again

undone sun
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thrashbite

winged marsh
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doomatrix. the one that summons portals and does the aoe

undone sun
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oh

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second to last

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yeah, domatrax

winged marsh
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gotta get into aggramars shield to dodge the aoe

undone sun
green elbow
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Yes, sorry. It -shouldn't- work, because it's an aoe, but someone was saying that it does for no real reason

winged marsh
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well there ya go lol ^

cinder bridge
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thyme

green elbow
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Where's that from, Thyme?

cinder bridge
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what resource is that

undone sun
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that's not why it shouldn't work

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spell reflect and blockable spreadsheet that was pinned in legion

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no longer because it's not BFA related

cinder bridge
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access denied

kind urchin
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I was being sarcastic about that spitting emote but you guys took it to a whole new level of seriousness.

undone sun
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try again

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wheat bronze
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Still denied for me anyways

cinder bridge
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@kind urchin everyone understood that, talking about something else

kind urchin
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And also chaotic energies is fully reflectable. Does about 4% of his health in damage. You guys have been burning the shield?

cinder bridge
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but that's neither her enor there

undone sun
sick sentinel
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wheat bronze
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Yeah, that's good

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This is much prettier since the last time I looked at it

green elbow
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Clarify Thyme- 'That's not why it shouldn't work'?

undone sun
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there are plenty of aoe abilities that are reflectable

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there's no consistent nor strict rules on what is and is not reflectable

wheat bronze
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or why some physical abilities are reflectable

undone sun
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some magic is blockable (for warrior)

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it's highly inconsistent

kind urchin
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It reflects rapid rupture from the destructor tentacles in Maw as well and thats a physical bleed.

undone sun
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yup

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Guarm's breath in ToV was reflectable even though it was AOE

wheat bronze
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Who needs consistency?

undone sun
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not blizzard ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

wheat bronze
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Also how some bleeds are affected by armor but others aren't

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Yay

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AoE abilities still don't consume Spell Reflection, right?

kind urchin
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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.

undone sun
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if the ability is reflected, it is consumed

sweet kettle
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the domatrax chaotic energy isnt actually an aoe

wheat bronze
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Lame

undone sun
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but afaik if SR is just used as DR, it's not consumed

wheat bronze
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Yeah, that's the way it worked pre-artifact anyways

green elbow
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That's a weapon trait I will miss.

kind urchin
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If the spell isn't reflectable it reduces.

wheat bronze
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Probably the main one I missing

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Maybe Scales of Earth, that was really OP on heavy AoE (like door strat on first boss in Nighthold)

kind urchin
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Loved that fight.

opaque pagoda
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after running a few M+, I'm just itching to start complaining about prot again, but I'll spare everybody!

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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

sick sentinel
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not only with SLI i also got better performance with gtx 960 now way better

kind urchin
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Even with updated drivers on my 1070 I have to run dx11. Dx12 stutters.

opaque pagoda
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oh yeah, maybe not just an SLI thing

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that sucks about stuttering

kind urchin
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Not that I really need dx12. Performance is fine. Would be nice if it worked right though.

sick sentinel
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@opaque pagoda you did keys on beta or live?

opaque pagoda
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live

sick sentinel
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yeah but beta seems more fun with new dungeons + traits

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my gear is really low yet its fine

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main vault
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Did you taunt or heroic throw?

wheat bronze
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Heroic Throw still has an increased threat modifier, pretty sure

main vault
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It does

wheat bronze
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Is there a way to see damage reflected with Spell Reflection in logs?

sick sentinel
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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

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still even on beta IP isnt crazy good so you dont have to keep it up all the time

main vault
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You aren't supposed to keep it up

wheat bronze
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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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main vault
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Im only using IP before a big hit

sick sentinel
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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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merry cave
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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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tiny sphinx
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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

merry cave
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Yeah I'm not a fan of it either but I can deal with it there are worse things classes have to do lol

tiny sphinx
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granted it was still a talent

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merry cave
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Haha how times change. Imagine devestate did an armour or physical debuff, prot with melee comp would be insane

wheat bronze
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Yeah

tiny sphinx
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i would not be opposed to a sunder armour mechanic again

wheat bronze
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I thought warriors should get it over monks tbh

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DK should've gotten +10% AP like they used to have and warriors should've gotten Sunder Armor instead of Monk

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Horn of Winter

merry cave
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Nah DH and monk aren't represented enough ๐Ÿ‘Œ

tiny sphinx
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monk should have gotten a 10% move speed party buff

wheat bronze
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WW has that already, don't they?

main vault
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you mean like WW...

tiny sphinx
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does it still apply party-wide?

main vault
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Yes

tiny sphinx
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should be for all their specs then

main vault
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Within range

wheat bronze
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Doesn't really make sense for brewmaster to get it since you're typically too far way for it to apply

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but I could see MW getting it

main vault
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Brew is just as close as ww is

wheat bronze
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Have you seen boss models?

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Boss models are enormous still. I'm not even close enough to get 5 stacks of ITF on Aggramar

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wheat bronze
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I do

tiny sphinx
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as it stands it's an aura tho, should be a castable buff, but eh

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wheat bronze
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Just saying that boss models are huge and BM isn't as close as WW

merry cave
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They won't be for long brew is real good

main vault
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Was in Legion too

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That's why there were so many

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Oh wait...

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wheat bronze
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There were a significant number on Argus anyways

main vault
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Sure

tiny sphinx
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brew is enjoyable to me, and I play every damn tank, except druid for obvious reasons

main vault
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But Brew was probably the best tank from NH on

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main vault
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And still no one played it

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wheat bronze
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I don't really like the stagger mechanic personally

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main vault
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It's so amazing

wheat bronze
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It's really strong, I agree

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wheat bronze
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No argument there

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wheat bronze
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I just don't like it personally

main vault
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Having to right click your own defensives off so you can die

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So broken

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main vault
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I had something stupid like 7 minutes on Guldan

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Lulz

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main vault
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I sat there before raid started just stacking it

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wheat bronze
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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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wheat bronze
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Having the option to swap to druid on Star Augur or DK on Aggramar was really nice, though

main vault
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I'll be Monk, Bear, War

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And DK

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tiny sphinx
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play all the tanks (except driud)

signal plover
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Just do both like mee

weary notch
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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

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It's been my favorite tank since MoP alpha

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But I know most of that is nostalgia. Cause that monk is long dead

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main vault
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I mean I won't lie one bit

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My Monk is a female panda and I'll never swap

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vivid orchid
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panda monk hype

hollow moss
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Yikes

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merry cave
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Zen med has to be the worst tank cd lol

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merry cave
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DW boys got my cd ready, sneaky auto 0.1 sec before big hit

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Rip

tiny sphinx
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wonder if any of the boneheads who make mechanic change choices even playtest themselves

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sleek pumice
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Zen Med is just really situational

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vivid orchid
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its too situational is the problem I have with it

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spark hamlet
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So is a lot of you guys going with the Monk for raiding then

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vivid orchid
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nope

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will probably play it at some point

main vault
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Won't be sneak hit by an auto either

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Cause swing timer

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vivid orchid
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leggo made it a straight up better shield wall

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main vault
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Guard

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main vault
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Yummy

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undone sun
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not too common to find those types of fights

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sleek pumice
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it's good on fights with casted aoes or explosions

vivid orchid
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definitely not uldir tho

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undone sun
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yeah, first one that comes to mind is Augur from NH

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sleek pumice
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or siege boss in hfc

vivid orchid
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was also kinda nice on krosus

sleek pumice
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my fav was oakheart in darkheart

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on the grab

tiny sphinx
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bring pandaria era vengeance back!

weary notch
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๐Ÿ˜ฑ

tiny sphinx
weary notch
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but click on it

tiny sphinx
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yeah, iz ded ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

weary notch
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was up a couple of weeks ago

merry cave
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Any of you guys know the current good prot pally m+ spec

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messing around on an alt havent played it in months lol

abstract quarry
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Any recommendations for Elvui imports as prot? I've been looking through wagio and haven't seen any I like that much

tiny sphinx
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would imagine it's not terribly different than before with the paladin thing

undone sun
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import one you like the most then edit around to your likings, what i usually do @abstract quarry

abstract quarry
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ty!

arctic sedge
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@merry cave i know it abit

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Prot atm looks really solid

stable forge
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So prot warrior not so good again in new expansion?

merry cave
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prot war is fine

ember arrow
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Im not even gonna bother

undone sun
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that's a big bait

ember arrow
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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"

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I was like thyme

stable forge
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Everybody talking about dk, monks and dh right now

ember arrow
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Yes. What is your point

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You played prot at 120?

stable forge
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Nope, thats why im asking about it

amber siren
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๐Ÿ‘€

ember arrow
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Same as legion. Alot of cds, solid dps

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But judging a tank without having played one..

sick sentinel
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prot is good in beta

stable forge
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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

sick sentinel
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havent done any high keys but i wasnt taking damage in +7/+8

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prot was awesome in antorus man

amber siren
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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

ember arrow
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Doubt it was worse than dh in raids

sick sentinel
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as a prot you had the easiest time in antorus

ember arrow
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Unless you played bad. Prot was great post NH

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luckily bfa isnt ntorus 9/11 so that comparison is vapid

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Or are we judging bfa level 120 classes based on wholly differently tuned content at 110

stable forge
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i'm just deciding what class to start from

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Full preraid bis etc

vocal nimbus
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Play your personal best, mastering one in particular will help more than playing the top 0.1% class

ember arrow
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All tank players should playy multiple tanks to benefit from their various strengths for different encounters

tight tree
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For some people some tanks will feel worse, like usual ๐Ÿค” But good thing is to have another option just in case of undertuning.

stable forge
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I want to fully switch from dh, cuz momentum build sucks for hardmode and nemesis dull af

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And with new fury changes...

ember arrow
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Hardmode=mythic?

vocal nimbus
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Im going to prog with a monk and switch to warrior on reclears

tight tree
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I can only be sure that i will never play guardian (too boring) and paladin (too pink).

stable forge
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Yea mythic

ember arrow
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Ima switch to either 4 tanks

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When needed

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My chars

tight tree
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Seen monks being completely murdered by stagger in raid test stream btw

stable forge
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๐Ÿ˜‚

ember arrow
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Stagger was a mistake

stable forge
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Anyway thanks

tight tree
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All depends on numbers tuning, stagger or not

stable forge
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Ill try prot

ember arrow
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I mean if u want fotm go monk for prog. Like in legion

tight tree
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Ton of magic damage in encounter journal btw, demo shout does not work for ground/environment effects right?

sick sentinel
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it does if its from the boss like KJ

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if its environmental damage no

tight tree
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I wish there was clear way to see what is affected and what is not, also, what is blockable what is not

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Highly inconsistent all this

undone sun
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for it to be affected by DS the damage has to have a source other than being environmental

ember arrow
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Skyhold discord

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@tight tree

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Thats why im here. The memes are secondary

tight tree
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๐Ÿ˜‰ Smart people will do spreadsheet of wtf is blockable, and i will use it!

sick sentinel
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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

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blizz is inconsistent about it

undone sun
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i have seen deflects, but it's not nearly as common as reflects.

sick sentinel
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yeah only once i think in legion curator ground damage

ember arrow
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Deflect is good enoigh for me

tight tree
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I for once want to have alt tank that is less healer dependent, so i will go warr main/DH alt

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Unless guild make me play Brewmasted, thats it ๐Ÿ˜‰

ember arrow
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Shit guild

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If thats the case

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You should swap tanks when necessary anyway for bosses

tight tree
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Nah, i am half joking tbh. I would refuse guardian or pala, but monk i like.

ember arrow
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Makes sense then

tight tree
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I love my guild, but this love has its limits ๐Ÿ˜‰

astral hare
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Well warrior is clearly healer dependant. I can currently survive 50s against raid level sparring partner with 4pT21

tight tree
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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.

astral hare
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As we no longer have our buffable IP

tight tree
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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.

astral hare
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50s without big (>1min) cds

tight tree
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Warrior is heal dependent, that is why i want less heal dependent alt

astral hare
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Ah now I see. Warrior main, DH alt

sick sentinel
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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

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is that just some type of resolve or is that a buggy thing?

ember arrow
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Probably 4pt21

sick sentinel
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ugh, yeah I'm wearing that

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:V

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ty

ember arrow
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๐Ÿ‘

sick sentinel
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IP buff bigger than the acctual IP

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Enjoy while it lasts

sick sentinel
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I find those IP numbers incredibly underwhelming

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the baseline ones

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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

tight tree
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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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Same boat as druids

sick sentinel
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I just feel about devastate ain't nobody gottime for that

tight tree
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haha yes

ember arrow
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You shouls see ip for what it is. Not what it was

sick sentinel
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IP makes me want to spank our hpala to just... work harder

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I got dps to produce over here

ember arrow
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Revenge does pitiful dps

tight tree
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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.

ember arrow
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When was that

tight tree
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I vaguely remember that ๐Ÿ˜‰

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somwhere in nighthold i think

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same time we was supposed to do 75% of DPS's DPS

ember arrow
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Well now they said opposite for bfa

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So it doesnt matter what NH vision was

tight tree
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Oh well more variety in playstyles this way.

remote coral
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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 ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

light fulcrum
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I quested Pala dh warri dk and druid as Tank. Everything was Fine cause you can pull everything

remote coral
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ok thanks

ember arrow
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tanks do less dps, but because you can pull more than a DD, it generally means the speed is equal

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why are tanks so useless in wpvp now though

cosmic cargo
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you can't pull that much more tbh

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warrior dps specs are a bit broken for world content even

worldly spindle
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i miss leveling with vengeance

eager cairn
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I tanked some m+ after a year break last night on my warr and it felt so clunky ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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I never ended up ever using IP.. are you guys in the same boat?

ember arrow
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nope

eager cairn
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Like shield block was enough.. granted I was only doing +10

upper spoke
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Hey. Every time I login, my addons are "experiencing a large number of problems," but I updated everything in twitch.

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any advice? i really dont want to delete everything and start over

winged marsh
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add on developers gotta keep fixing things for the new patch, or possible some of the addons you have were abandoned by the authors

upper spoke
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shouldnt 8.0 + versions of addons hosted by twitch not cause such an error message?

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fury, ty for input.

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thought downloading 8.0 + addons would solve issue. seems to havent

winged marsh
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could still be problems even with the 8.0 versions. And again, you might have addons enabled that authors have ditched completely

upper spoke
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is there an addon channel? idk why im asking prot warriors

winged marsh
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i guess beginning of this expansions, while i "re"learned prot warrior - people here reallyt helped

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eh its not WA

frigid pawn
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are you using weak auras, out dated auras easily cause major performance spikes

upper spoke
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hm

vocal nimbus
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until a couple weeks after launch there will be addon issues

winged marsh
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i really gotta clear out my WAs

vocal nimbus
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have to wait until things stabilize

upper spoke
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yeah i wouldnt be surprised if i got an old veng weaving WA

topaz badger
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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?

kind urchin
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Yeah you have to update the addon and all your auras.

upper spoke
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my main concern is scrap addon

main vault
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It's a rage dump

upper spoke
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when u got a couple alts, manually clicking greys to delete kinda stinks

kind urchin
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Rage dump mostly. It doesn't stack like it did in legion.

main vault
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Or if you want a little bit more for a hit

upper spoke
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xiro, w/e current warrior build, dont worry much about IP

topaz badger
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so it wont make a very noticable difference in damage taken?

upper spoke
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no it will

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but it takes a global CD

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so i guess it's situational

kind urchin
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It still helps a very little bit to buffer damage but not as much.

main vault
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You would just use it for a tank buster or dump rage

upper spoke
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single tanking a raid boss, where aggro isn't an issue ...... when shield block is up, aggro isn't an issue, use IP

topaz badger
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so probably never on aoe tanking

upper spoke
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but in general dungeon scenarios ... you won't have a global cd to use on IP

kind urchin
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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.

topaz badger
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ok ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

upper spoke
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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

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then u use ip

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after shield block

topaz badger
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haha ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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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

upper spoke
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but these guys know better than me. i slacked off a bit after argus died

kind urchin
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I still use it a decent amount for damage smoothing.

topaz badger
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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.

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Interrupts are pretty much baked in muscle memory, the active mitigation I still need to get planted in :p

upper spoke
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yah it's a nice nuance

runic herald
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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

main vault
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Lol

cosmic cargo
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have a cancel-aura macro, mash it before mechanic, profit

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just like monks on argus

grim prism
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I was under the impression they were likely doing away with AM checks?

cosmic cargo
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i think so

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and hopefully, some AM checks never made sense, rather have just a hard hitting tank-buster to force you to AM

uneven mason
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So far I haven't seen any in Uldir

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And I think Zeppe that is how they're going to do it

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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

hot light
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fuuuuck

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did they get rid of ignore pain ?

amber siren
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nope it's still there

uneven mason
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If you squint you can see it.

cosmic cargo
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NL last boss check was so dumb

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it pissed me off the first time i did it on a bear and MoU didn't work

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like that's just teaching new tanks poorly

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make them use physical mitigation vs magic abilities, why?

uneven mason
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On, the AM check vs Molten Smash or whatever

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yeah, I mean, hey, its blockable ๐Ÿ˜„

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cosmic cargo
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or DS instead of EW

kind urchin
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I like the idea of tankbusters that make you time cds in a certain order to always have one available.

uneven mason
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Warriors are more the flipside, we always have a CD available (and are generally using it)

kind urchin
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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.

uneven mason
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No thanks,

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cause we'd have to get that 2.5s GCD or whatever insanity it is

kind urchin
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I'm kidding

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And yes, it's 2.5s.

main vault
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Also affected by haste

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And FF plays faster for some specs than wow does

cold wren
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ninja for one

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thanks to skill speed

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plus FF is far more complex

main vault
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You have a TON more ogcd abilities

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And can weave 3 spells per gcd

cold wren
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sounds like EN Arms FR

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good times

uneven mason
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I prefer the toolkits of WoW, they're much more streamlined

solid sun
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I'm late to the party, but I definitely hope they do away with am checks

uneven mason
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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"

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Everquest 2 has a ton of that.

main vault
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Ehhh kinda

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You have combos

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And they are all at least a little different

uneven mason
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well right, that is where EQ2 kinda got into trouble

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I think on my 85 pal I had something like 38 abilities on my bar

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and a lot of them did around the same effect

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but they had different pieces to the "Heroic Combo"

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or whatever the system was called

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Where you could chain stuff together with other group members

main vault
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So same idea then

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But these are all solo, and the combo gives different threat and dmg

solid sun
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The only thing I ever played in FFXIV was WHM

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I enjoyed it well enough

uneven mason
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Yeah EQ2 could do solo combos as well

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But it was rarely worthwhile

solid sun
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Were you a big EQ fan

uneven mason
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I was, actually

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I couldn't take EQ2 for long

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It was more grindy than like, an asian MMO on release

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it made Lineage II look fast

solid sun
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Lol

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Are you looking forward to that Pantheon MMO? I read it's basically a spiritual successor to EQ

kind urchin
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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.

uneven mason
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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.

crisp smelt
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Did blizzard actually respond to the criticism around protection? I cant find anything either on US nor EU forums :/

signal plover
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Not for awhile

uneven mason
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New criticism or like, from early beta?

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In a round about way they responded by giving us small buffs?

errant thorn
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What the fuck is that

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Don't post random stuff like that @molten radish

molten radish
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RUN!

strong forum
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prot warri getting cucked on simcraft website

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not even listed

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LUL

fierce juniper
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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

strong forum
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ah thats good, dont wanna feed the memes

fierce juniper
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ye

ember arrow
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feed the memes

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that way we will be very weak according to forums

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and then we will get buffed

strong forum
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and then obliterate everything

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reverse psychology

opaque pagoda
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I would think that itโ€™s hard to sim it

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IP forces you to make awkward decisions about whether to do damage and build rage, or spend rage on fairly weak defensive options

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Iโ€™m not exactly sure what variables youโ€™d use for โ€œbaselineโ€ sim

uneven mason
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Damage sims mostly unimportant for tanking.

strong forum
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pretty sure it calcs max dps

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ofc ikari

uneven mason
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right, I mean knowing the potential is good

vocal nimbus
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Sims calculate damage only

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Dont take into account defensive cds

stark sage
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unless those defensives give DPS, like SB

uneven mason
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or Demo shout

opaque pagoda
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Prot paladins seem to be capable of intense AoE DPS

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But TC spam is certainly burst strong AoE burst too

uneven mason
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TC spam best Spam

opaque pagoda
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I donโ€™t really like it that much, it feels a little awkward

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My entire issue with Prot warriors is that you build all this rage that you canโ€™t spend

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TC spam time is one of the worst offenders

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You have TONS of rage and no way to get rid of it without screwing up the cycle

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Next episode of Skyhold Talks will be livestreamed on Twitch and later uploaded to YouTube on August 11th, 2018. More specific information like time can be found here: https://twitter.com/Skyholdgg/status/1026187216492666881

Guests are: @hot locust @fierce juniper @final mist @shut summit

If you have any questions for the guests and don't wish to use Twitter, you can private message me here on Discord with your question for the show.

stark sage
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poggers

shut summit
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๐Ÿ™ˆ

final mist
fierce juniper
kind urchin
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thunder stomp long time.

astral crystal
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NEATO

tender venture
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when is the next balance patch?

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Going to guess after the raid testing they did we'll see a bit of tuning

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nothing major though

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until they get the flood of data after 1 week of normal/HC

astral crystal
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we were promised a new channel icon

dire oasis
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@errant thorn

errant thorn
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@dire oasis dogwave

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plz craft a drinking game

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for podcast

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take a drink for every time sense mentions the ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ†’ โฌ‡

errant thorn
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sorry not trying to damage peoples organs

dire oasis
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:pepehands:

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:dogwave:

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aww

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jovial forge
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Looking to go prot in BFA any advice

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Reroll.

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Jk

uneven mason
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Don't press revenge unless its free

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But, lets start with pins the guides up there.

wide juniper
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but rage dump

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stupid gcd

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exactly nascent, thats what IP is for, rage dump

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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

wide juniper
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Right

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It's moved further down my bars now, only use when not free during group encounters obvs

strong forum
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ya

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and with UF you wont need the damage from revenge as much

wide juniper
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Thunderclap dmg...

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my god

strong forum
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so guud

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tc and avatar

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sick sentinel
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Im having second thoughts about levelin as prot, anyone leveled up to 120 on beta?

undone sun
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i did before they changed xp

sick sentinel
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well did it go well before?

undone sun
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yeah it was fine

autumn laurel
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Tl;Dr for Prot: stomp the yard

vague belfry
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any good youtbue channels with BFA high prot war keys?

wide juniper
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@autumn laurel fact

strong forum
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no swan, maybe sense has some but idk

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ima level as arms, 1shot everything

kind urchin
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I'ma level prot just like I did in beta and pull everything I can find at one time.

strong forum
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same as arms

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ember arrow
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just tried coen 24

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sand relic
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Is it true prot tanks are not lookin good in bfa right now

tiny sphinx
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oh god, this again

sand relic
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?

tiny sphinx
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no one is looking good, the game is watered down to shitty american beer levels, there, now you don't have to wonder

ember arrow
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what are you basing your opinion on?

undone sun
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defensively and offensively warrior is more than acceptable for mythics

sand relic
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i was told they are good for dps, but for defensive they are lacking compared to other tanks

ember arrow
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not everyone is in #prot 24/7 like me, so dont dismiss questions you might have heard before @tiny sphinx

undone sun
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that's how tank balance works

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some are better than others

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yes

sand relic
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I kno im asking are warriors at the bottom compared to other tanks for defensive ?

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also how will warrior tanks be in mythic raiding

undone sun
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same as before, punishing but viable

ember arrow
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i think, from what i've seen, tanks will stay ina similar spot relatively

tiny sphinx
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the prot warrior credo is: "least forgiving of mistakes" in giant 80 foot concrete font

ember arrow
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pretty much

final mist
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That's not to say we aren't good defensively

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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).

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The problem is that if you aren't good, it's going to be extremely obvious.

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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.

kind urchin
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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.

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with booming BV making demoralizing shout a pseudo offensive CD should we be using it on cooldown or saving it?

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or is it a per fight basis?

kind urchin
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Situational.

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solid sun
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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?

final mist
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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."

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IIRC there aren't many / any of those.

solid sun
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Right. I just hadn't seen anyone mention dungeon bosses. Only Uldir

shut summit
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There are boss abilities you can/ should block but nothing like dagrul that sends you flying if not up

misty rain
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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?

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@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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tiny sphinx
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"bring the player, not the class" - blizzard before this whole shitshow

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tiny sphinx
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pushing m+ is more about team synergy than class makeup

fringe marten
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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.

tiny sphinx
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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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tiny sphinx
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can't be black and white about it

fringe marten
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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.

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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.

tiny sphinx
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i mean if you're talking bleeding edge top 10 m+ teams, sure

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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.

tiny sphinx
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"bleeding edge" is a funny term

waxen cradle
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As I stated in my initial post it really is about what your intended goals are

fringe marten
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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.

gray warren
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^Just level multiple tanks

fringe marten
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However if you extend your 'goals' out to longer timelines, or aren't trying to do the most challenging mythic+, literally anything is viable.

opaque pagoda
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lol

misty rain
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So what's the tank meta then?

opaque pagoda
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yeah, gear up six tanks in tandem, solid strategy

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fringe marten
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Krom...that's literally what seriously competitive raiders do.

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fringe marten
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Maybe not 6 but usually like 3 or 4.

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opaque pagoda
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they still ultimately pick one tank to funnel most of the gear to

tiny sphinx
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I have all tanks leveled, except druid for obvious reasons

misty rain
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not DH?

fringe marten
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(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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fringe marten
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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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opaque pagoda
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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

fringe marten
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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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fringe marten
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? Not fun to play? that's subjective.

opaque pagoda
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I liked the legion playstyle quite a bit

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sure, it's subjective

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but also, you know, true

fringe marten
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I agree skull...with everything on gcd warrior feels clunky..but every tank is like that atm.

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fringe marten
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Krom, you just said "my opinion is, you know, true'

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dusk sluice
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I just want charge off the GCD T.T

fringe marten
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that's uhh? odd.

opaque pagoda
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I've only played the plate classes, but warriors are by far the most changed in terms of playstyle

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fringe marten
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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.

opaque pagoda
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I don't really feel like having a debate about what "fun" is

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crystal night
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What legos you boys think will be best for leveling?

undone sun
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"debating" subjectivity is pointless, just don't generalize and force your "true" opinion

opaque pagoda
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legendary wrist improved the playstyle

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crystal night
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Bracers and belt?

opaque pagoda
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I also think they should bake in never surrender for a higher absorb at low health

fringe marten
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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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opaque pagoda
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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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undone sun
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@crystal night probably a mix of belt/bracers/shoulders/boots for mobility

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dusk sluice
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thats funny cause they praised the warriors for giving detail feedback on their forums compared to other classes

main vault
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Tbf there is a difference in caring and following

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They just read it all and just not agree

undone sun
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well, they do.
you just don't see them scouring public discords

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undone sun
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there's still a lot that goes on, it's not just about what pleases the player base

fringe marten
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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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undone sun
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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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main vault
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I'd agree with that

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Even if they just said "we hear you, we are working on it"

opaque pagoda
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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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main vault
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It doesn't break the class

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Not one bit

opaque pagoda
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I subjectively disagree with you

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opaque pagoda
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there is no rage dump

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opaque pagoda
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you fill up your rage bar and sit on it

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main vault
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Revenge and IP are both rage dumps

opaque pagoda
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revenge is free most of the time

undone sun
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not a reliable dump, at least on aoe

main vault
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Rage dump don't have to be off the gcd

opaque pagoda
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and shield block is on an enormous cooldown

crystal night
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@undone sun TY brother!

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main vault
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I don't agree the SB CD is enormous

fringe marten
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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.

main vault
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It's fits well into Warrior cds

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