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sick sentinel
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waxen cradle
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Truthfully most of what the "popular" streamers and there "rankings" for the tanks have more to do with SB's uptime, but most of those rankings do not consider bolster so they are technically missing part of the picture so to speak

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opaque pagoda
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you're right that IP feels like it sucks, 4p notwithstanding

fringe marten
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The more major issue I think, from blizzards side...they kept trying to alter class abilities to make 'other talent options more attractive and viable' as it stands now I think there's pretty much a set in stone talent choice for most of the tiers.

opaque pagoda
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it will be slightly better if you have the azerite trait to get leech for 8 seconds or whatever

main vault
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Alot of the things people are expecting from the class is not their vision for how it should play, and I think alot of the complaints are the communities fault and not Blizzards

undone sun
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marginally so

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opaque pagoda
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I just don't think this falls into the realm of subjectivity, unless you can claim that anything in game design is subjective

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you can provide commentary on the flow and priorities of a class without it being lost in some abstract haze of thought

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fringe marten
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Skullplace, they are running a Fantasy..Role Playing...video game. Having classes fit into lore fantasy has ALWAYS been a key bullet point.

opaque pagoda
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right now the rage spenders just aren't there

sick sentinel
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fringe marten
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A large portion of the player base is only concerned with what provides the best numbers... so fantasy, lore..etc is meaningless. and in that sense there will always be a best class for a role..and if it's not the one you want it to be; you're unhappy. IE..why tons of WoW players (and all mmo players) are salty about their class.

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I'm one of them; I'm not making another tank, I want warrior to be great and play well. I was fairly ok with how it played later in legion (was not happy when they gutted 30% of ip after the first month of legion)

opaque pagoda
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I'm fairly committed to the warrior class, as a warrior main since vanilla, and I could be convinced to keep playing if IP did some AoE damage or something like that

sick sentinel
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main vault
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If one spell is your only complaint about the class then your class is doing really well

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IP is not make or break by any measure for War

opaque pagoda
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it's an important one, in the absence of any other rage dump

main vault
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If it is then that is a problem with player perception and not Blizzard design

opaque pagoda
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some kind of other rage dump that did damage would be fine

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a complement to IP

main vault
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That's what revenge is

sick sentinel
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main vault
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Whether you like it or not

fringe marten
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Nexii it's not about the spell per se, it's how the change to that spell (and a couple others as well..demo shout, avatar..etc) changes how the class feels when you play it.

sick sentinel
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opaque pagoda
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a rage dump that's free most of the time isn't a rage dump

sick sentinel
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main vault
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I've played a lot or warrior

sick sentinel
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main vault
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And I don't have a big problem dumping rage

sick sentinel
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main vault
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It's not a broken spec, it does what it's supposed to do and most of the time feels good doing it

fringe marten
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Big example, Devastator...the talent was great and was a good pick for the class. What really made devastator awesome? You didn't have to flutter the Devastate key any more...it literally became automatic, it made your rotation smoother and removed something you had to consider using a GCD for..and made it free. That was my personal favorite part about devastator..regardless of it's impact on rage gen and dps.

opaque pagoda
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I don't know what would constitute a broken spec

hot locust
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I also think the current tuning for prot at 120 is performing just fine.

main vault
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It is

opaque pagoda
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like if you took extra damage for 5 seconds after using shield slam?

main vault
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I love how it feels at 120

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How it plays at 110 literally means fuck all

fringe marten
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Then they put the 30% chance to reset shield slam on Tclap and revenge...and so the 'need' to flutter devastate went away anyway.

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Honestly nexii I haven't touched the beta at all, so what alters between now and how it is at 120? (obviously things like the leggo belt go away, so the INSANE refresh times on demo shout go away)

main vault
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It honestly flows alot better at 120

waxen cradle
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The need to even push Devastate anymore with TC/Revenge resetting SS is near pointless, Devastate is literally the button you push when you have nothing else to hit

main vault
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Alot of the problem is playing a 120 spec with 110 leveling stats, which you do now

fringe marten
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I don't play beta stuff because I don't want to learn or adjust to changes that aren't 'canon' ..ie aren't live. Because it will change on live servers.

main vault
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You won't have 9000% haste and etc at 120

amber siren
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Majority of class changes were locked in a month ago, it's just number tuning now

main vault
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idk beta classes have been set for a month or two

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Outside of bugs

fringe marten
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Right Drkreven but my point being...at the time, devastator was SO amazing because it freed up the ability to have to smash devastate CONSTANTLY. they added the shield slam reset to Tclap and revenge later as well.

hot locust
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No.... they didn't.

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that was the same patch

main vault
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They did it at the same time or else devastator would feel so bad with no SS resets

fringe marten
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Yeah but on the patch they added devastator...you didn't have to hit devaste any more. That was what made me fall in love with the playstyle change instantly.

waxen cradle
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Honestly it is what Nexii said "most" people are looking at prot through the eyes of 110, and we have literally one more week of that so I would not get to hung up on how prot plays at 110 ๐Ÿ˜›

fringe marten
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(yeah it was the same patch now that I think about it..they had to add it for devastator)

main vault
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I'd say most of the people constantly in here complaining about the spec haven't played it at a level (120, leveling) that matters

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I only got up to like 355, but I thought it played well

opaque pagoda
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I just can't imagine what's different, you haven't done a great job articulating it

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I was in F&F, and by the time they finally implemented some of the end game stuff, my warrior was broken due to missing some earlier quests

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so I just played other classes

main vault
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It takes less than 10 hours to level a class

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You could have just started another and leveled if it meant that much

opaque pagoda
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you got me, bro

main vault
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I've leveled 20-25 toons on beta so far

hot locust
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You're rage is more measured, the damage you take in dungeons is actually tuned around what the classes are like in BFA and not legion, deafening crash is super satisfying to keep uptime on DS with, etc.

waxen cradle
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I will say this play the Prot Warrior at 120 and decently geared after hitting 120 such as what Nexii said as I too got to 355 before I moved on and spread my testing amongst other classes/tanks, and then discuss things again because there are big differences

main vault
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I haven't played live in over a month cause lulz live

fringe marten
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deafening crash?

main vault
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But at 120 you don't have this massive abundance of rage you think you have to dump

hot locust
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azerite trait

main vault
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You actually have to think about it

opaque pagoda
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guess I just have to take your word for it, even though I can't see how that would be the case

main vault
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I basically have been on live long enough to level my US toons to 110 and gear them a bit and move them to my new US guild

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Because you don't have as much haste

waxen cradle
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Unless they have changed rage tuning since then we will still swim in rage on AoE pulls but that hardly matters because AoE pulls do not account for any bosses realistically

fringe marten
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I looked at the traits...the one that extends demo shout looked good and one other that effected block?

main vault
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Iron Fortress

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๐Ÿ‘Œ

hot locust
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Since Iron Fortress got nerfed I think Brace for Impact might actually be better pure defensively.

fringe marten
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Do you have to make a choice as to which trait to use, or do you get them all from gear?

hot locust
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IF obviously is a bit more consistent.

main vault
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Pure defensive sure

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Each piece is set

hot locust
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but IF is also more damage overall if you are tanking full time or in AoE.

main vault
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So every time you run Temple, the Azerite that drops per slot is the same

waxen cradle
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On bosses or STarget obviously it does become a matter of managing rage correctly and we do not have a ton of rage to set on or dump

main vault
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And etx

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Yeah for sure

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But in AoE you are honestly not worrying about IP

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you are too busy embarrassing dps on the meter

fringe marten
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that alleviates the 'traffic jam' problem I was talking about earlier..so if the class just slows down due to lack of rage, gcd conflicts won't be as big

main vault
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Yeah that basically what happens

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You aren't gcd locked at max

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I mean it's literally the same as when you level from 1

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When at level 20 your only spell is shield block and you live rage capped

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Then at 110 you arent

opaque pagoda
fringe marten
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I didn't quite get the azerite trait thing when I read about it, do you basically choose what trait you want from that wheel..? they're all tied to the necklace..and what quality of ? helm? and BP and shoulder? you have..?

main vault
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I guess you have never leveled a character before

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Because it happens all the time

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No

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The level of neck is just like the concordance worked with the crucible

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Depending on difficulty you have to get to a certain neck level to unlock a ring

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If you get a chest azerite from dungeon A, that chest will always have the exact same traits

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The only difference being the # scaling from the level of difficulty

fringe marten
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and then you get all the abilities, or can choose which trait is active on that rung of the wheel?

main vault
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Yes

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So if iron fortress drops from dungeon a on the helm, the helm from that dungeon will 100% of the time have IF

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But heroic may take neck level 15 to unlock outer ring, mythic maybe 25

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Just throwing numbers out

fringe marten
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Ok, which are the ones that have a worthwhile competitor...ie ones you'll be changing depending on raid vs dungeon...etc?

main vault
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Nonr

fringe marten
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OH it's whatever trait is on the item

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for your class

main vault
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Raid traits would have to be buffed to be shit

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So each piece has x traits

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Once for each spec

opaque pagoda
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it's fucking expensive to change traits, in case you were curious

main vault
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And a region trait

opaque pagoda
main vault
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It's 5g to swap

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Then doubles each time

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And halves every 3 days

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Or something

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Maybe 2g, but whatever it is

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@fringe marten you can choose whatever trait you want but depending on what it is it may not be active if you aren't in that spec

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So more than likely if you are serious about raiding and m+ you'll have a few sets of azerite

fringe marten
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I don't ..not..prot lol

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(I only play prot war)

main vault
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Right

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But you'll want set A for raid, set b for dps dung, c for survival dung, etc

fringe marten
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it's ok..in a week'ish I'll get a grasp on it.

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And there's no more gear swaps in dungeons...which is why they did that

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you just have to change before hand.

main vault
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Right

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I think people will have more gear sets nlw

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Now

fringe marten
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good god I hope not...had a bag full of legendaries and then various companion pieces depending on what I changed out.

main vault
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Like I personally will have one for each dungeon, for different uses (dps, survival, magic, physical, etc)

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I expect to have around 30 sets

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Not all different all the time, but just to be able to reference

fringe marten
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The traits on the gear are locked in based on the item right? So you'll be using the Helm from X dungeon, shoulder from Y raid drop...etc, as one set?

main vault
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Right

fringe marten
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and the azerite traits are on...all visible pieces of gear, and the neck?

main vault
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Neck has nothing

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Just the level

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And stats

fringe marten
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oh it's just your new perma upgrading legendary item?

main vault
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Traits are only on the 3 gear slots

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Picture artifact with no traits and only ilvl relics

fringe marten
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right...it's the ring from WoD..(maybe without the cool proc)

main vault
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Sure however you wanna look at it lol

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But yeah it's just a stat stick with a level

sick sentinel
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dapper leaf
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Hey guys, just boosted my prot warrior and I got some essences to spend. Are there any legendries that will be more beneficial for leveling that I should aim to get first?

valid trout
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Not Prydaz(TM)

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But uh idk, Boots/Shoulders would make you Go Fast

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I imagine Gloves/TGod's would be max damage?

dapper leaf
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Sounds good mate, thanks.

amber siren
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Boots/sephuz are probably going to be the best

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shoulders are an azerite slot

dapper leaf
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kk

valid trout
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I don't think we'll get Azerite gear while levelling. Doesn't it only drop from Raid/M+?

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Or am I horribly mistaken on that?

amber siren
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It comes from levelling gear as well

valid trout
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Oh, interesting.

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I haven't had time to play the beta; does Prot at 120 feel better than it does currently?

sick sentinel
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valid trout
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Yeah, that's kinda what I'm hoping. And telling myself.

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I guess I just A). wanted to hear someone else say it too and B). Get some sort of reassurance that it won't be a repeat of BRF

sick sentinel
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valid trout
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lol, thanks

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That's a pretty pro click, ty

hot locust
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I think we'll get nerfed between release and mythic uldir opening. :^)

sick sentinel
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weary notch
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My money is on nerfs tomorrow. Don't want us too strong for the Siege of Lordaeron

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oh yeah, feet leggos are a noticeable difference. Just got em

plain vapor
frank mantle
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Iโ€™m waiting on slootbags

wanton sentinel
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Nothing for any tank.

fringe marten
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sup max

main vault
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Seems like this isn't the place to post it then...

solid sun
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Yes and no. No news is still kinda news.

undone sun
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which is already in #news ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

solid sun
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Still more on-topic than a lot of what gets posted here.

main vault
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Yeah can't interrupt all the people complaining to post irrelevant news

undone sun
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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

nova geyser
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anyone know of a post / site listing prot warriors best azerite traits or is it too early to say? idk what beta testers have done yet

undone sun
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it's too early to post a definite guide, traits are getting changed almost daily still

main vault
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They just reworked them all a day or two ago

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Rip IF

west vigil
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@main vault just so you know i have no news regarding prot either

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i'll update tomorrow

fossil spindle
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My God, did a +21 and tentacles at Helya hurt like crazy in MoS. First time I ever even notice them doing so much damage. Those bleeds are insane.

ember arrow
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good thing u can reflect the dot

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otherwise they might do alot of damage ๐Ÿ˜‰

fossil spindle
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Wait, what

ember arrow
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yes

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if u use SR few sec after tentacle spawns

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then u will reflect the dot to the tentacle

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they spawn often enough to have SR up every time, as long as they get killed ina the 25 sec window

fossil spindle
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Haha, 2 years of Legion and I didnt even know that. Ill let myself out.

ember arrow
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cant blame u, its a physical dot, and it get sreflected

fossil spindle
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Was even checking that its physical so thats why im shocked that it can be reflected.

hot locust
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some physical things out there are flagged as spells :^)

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many things actually

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just also flagged as non-reflectable most of the time

fossil spindle
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Thanks. Now I can report back to my healer and make him a coffee with vodka.

ember arrow
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oh youre still inside?

fossil spindle
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No

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I love how last week I said doing anything above 20 seems like a death sentence, I was wrong. Prot is fine. No problems tanking above 20+ even tho we didnt make this MoS 21 in time. People do love to get 1 shot at 2nd boss.

ember arrow
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always

plucky night
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it's not mythic plus if ppl don't act like mongos on harbaron

ember arrow
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just got 240 pants from darkshore wq

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legit

zealous ore
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Levko wearing pants ๐Ÿค”

vocal nimbus
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hi

zealous ore
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Hi

vocal nimbus
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@undone sun ๐Ÿ‘‹

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@timid jay ๐Ÿ–•

timid jay
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?

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๐Ÿ˜ก

zealous ore
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Protgang

vocal nimbus
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get cyberbullied

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k1dd0

zealous ore
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nice

timid jay
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wow rude

zealous ore
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@timid jay Arms TC now?

timid jay
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Nah, we have Vel for that

zealous ore
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Then what do you even do?

timid jay
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Like always, not very much

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๐Ÿ˜

zealous ore
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Nice

undone sun
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@vocal nimbus ๐Ÿ˜ก

zealous ore
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Can I have TC rank too?

undone sun
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lol

timid jay
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yeh sure, just ask Marok

zealous ore
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@fierce juniper

vocal nimbus
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woah abrodus, calm down

zealous ore
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I simed BT>OF in the first 6 GCDs of BC once

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and it was within margin of error

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Big TC

timid jay
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Idk if I should make another spreadsheet like I did for antorus

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Maybe for the release of the raid this time

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๐Ÿค”

zealous ore
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I thought you were genuinely DPS boye now?

timid jay
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Doesnt mean I cant do math and shit for prot

undone sun
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he is going arms but still a prot tc

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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

zealous ore
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Nice

timid jay
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Prob gonna be playing 3rd tank for raids and for m+

vocal nimbus
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wish i could do that too

zealous ore
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You could

vocal nimbus
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cant put the tanking responsability in anyone else

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they are all shit

zealous ore
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Join a different guild

timid jay
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Im not worried about my replacement, its my old cotank so

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ez

vocal nimbus
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my guild reaches my own objectives

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๐Ÿคท

zealous ore
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Also tanking is the easiest role

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:)))))))))))))

vocal nimbus
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Ye, just survive ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

timid jay
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Id argue its among the easier roles but it requires the highest consistency by far

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If you're really cutting edge probably one of the harder roles though

vocal nimbus
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A mistake as dps is fairly forgiving, a mistake as tank not really

zealous ore
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Depends what content you're doing

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And what you mean by mistake

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As a tank you can press the wrong buttons half the time and it doesn't matter

ember arrow
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depends what wrong buttons means

zealous ore
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Inoptimal buttons

amber siren
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Just mispress a CD ๐Ÿ‘ EZ

timid jay
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hence the consistency Soul

zealous ore
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Sure

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I agree with that

timid jay
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Usually pretty easy to execute but if you fuck up its a wipe

zealous ore
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Mechanical consistency is more important on a tank than any other role

timid jay
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definitely

merry cave
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I've mained all roles at reasonably high level, dps was def my easiest. Throw on some music and pad those meters ๐Ÿ˜‚

timid jay
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I havent played DPS in raids since highmaul

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๐Ÿ˜“

zealous ore
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Oof

merry cave
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That's when I was enhance lol, tectus and magister dream fights

zealous ore
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I've played all roles recently, I think healer>dps>=tank

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Tank and dps difficulty depend on role/spec

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But ey

ember arrow
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where does this discussion come from

zealous ore
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Play whatever you want

timid jay
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monk

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EZ

zealous ore
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I dunno

ember arrow
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who claimed tanks is super hard

zealous ore
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No one did

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Woah Levko

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Why so serious

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Oh, Soulwalker said that he was the only person in his guild he'd trust to tank

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And then I said tanking is the easiest role :))))))))))))))))))))

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Soul is just a control freak, no surprises there

timid jay
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lol

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tru

zealous ore
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Tanking is OP, never benched

timid jay
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GM is OP

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never benched

zealous ore
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tru

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๐Ÿ‘

vocal nimbus
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i benched my gm :lul

timid jay
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hmmm

zealous ore
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oof

vocal nimbus
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gm is usually the worst player of the group

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๐Ÿ˜

zealous ore
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Can't get benched when you're the RL?

timid jay
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tru Soul

zealous ore
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:/

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oof

timid jay
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Who said I was any exception

zealous ore
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FeelsCuckmuMan

tardy plinth
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Any tips on protection warrior addons, for BFA?

vocal nimbus
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There arent specific addons

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People usually use dbm/bigwigs for raiding, weakauras for cd tracking and interface addons

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You can find prot warrior weakauras in wago.io

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Its like a library of weakauras

sick sentinel
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cosmo is theorycrafter now ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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gratz my dude

zealous ore
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Akmondor 2.0

muted holly
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How do you see blocked attacks

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trying to work out when to use shield block vs ignore pain but i dont see anything being blocked

vocal nimbus
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Combat registry shows when you block and how much you've blocked

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Also you can upload a log and it will show you more info

tiny sable
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not seing anything for block must not be blocking anything i guess

tight tree
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I guess you can use some combat text addo that can show what you blocking

tiny sable
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how do u know when to use Shield block or ignore pain?

ember arrow
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melees can always be blocked

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also there are blockable abilities

tiny sable
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humm loks lites its in the combat log shame id love to see it in flaoting txt like it used to

cosmic cargo
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floating combat text is generally overglorified clutter

tiny sable
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figured it out now just need to manage rage so i have some for when i need block - thats the tricky part

ember arrow
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well SB is prio number 1

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IP is rage dump

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with reduced haste in bfa, revenge wont be worth it as dump unless u use it on proc for free

frigid pawn
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I only use IP to dump my rage on so i can get my CDs up faster

ember arrow
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exactly

tiny sable
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ah ok kee pSB use IP if you got the rage rgr that

ember arrow
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pretty much ye

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if youre on live, then u have enough rage buildup to dump into non-free revenge

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but with less generation, u will use IP 90% of time as rage dump, however, SB uptime is most important

lone cobalt
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is sb always providing more mitigation than ip (at least on autoattacks) ?

ember arrow
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yes

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SB is our active met

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IP is a bonus

tawny panther
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Ip still poorly tuned too unless anyone else can correct me. But that's all we got

amber siren
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Ip isn't going to be like legion, it's going to be a rage dump with some defensive benefit rather than the large defensive buffer that it was

robust urchin
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I dont think SB provides any mitigation against magic

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:^)

ember arrow
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if its magical but blockable it will

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no AM provides benefits vs mgic except monk's

uneven violet
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what about ProtPalas Holy Shield Talent ?

ember arrow
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thats not active metigation

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nor reliable

amber siren
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Block isn't their AM, their armour bonus thingo i can't remember the name of is

ember arrow
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shield of the righteous (SOTR)

uneven violet
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ah ok, i ignored the AM there ^^

ember arrow
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since its % based u still need to use cds

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on spells

lone cobalt
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is there any list of spells that can be reflected in bfa ? (dungeons / raids)

main vault
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There will be, not yet

tiny sable
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id love a ranged spell interupt because pulling groups with two or more spell casters is frustrating with only mele interupt

tight tree
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You have your group for that

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But i miss the time we could silence with heroic throw yes ๐Ÿ˜‰

ember arrow
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u charge the range guy, kick him, then he will walk wit u, that time u use to group them up

tiny sable
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i do but then someone in the group stuns him

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Doh!

ember arrow
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thats a .. collective issue

tiny sable
#

would be nice if spell reflect forced the caster to get closer to you without silencing them

ember arrow
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what?

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if theyre silenced they will move towards clsoest target (aggro)

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unless they have spells that ignore silenced, or if they cant be silenced

tight tree
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Usually i just ask "can someone kick that guy on cast" and my party do it

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Or LOS if applicable

solid sun
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Yeah, I had problems with multiple caster packs until I decided to open my mouth and ask for some assistance

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Communication >>>>>>>

robust urchin
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I can not do LOS on beta

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Absolutly no way

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I seriously need to find a more active guild to do dungeons with

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I dread doing random pugs

uneven mason
#

LOSing in PUGs I've actually made a disclaimer hotkey...

dusk locust
#

LoS pulls in HoV are basically impossible in pugs

uneven mason
#

Yeah, my favorite is when I'm doing the meadhall pull in HoV and someone decides its a fantastic idea to get the sents by the door +++ stun immunity FTW

dusk locust
#

i try to LOS the 4 in the middle outside so they don't pull the sentinels, but dps always jumps them

tiny sable
#

hum seam to be taking a heck of al ot more damage when i use SB over IP

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unless this is the one time i got a bad healer

kind urchin
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In pugs I pull the two pack on the left then the sent to clear the area.

timid jay
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It all depends on how good your shield is and the relative size of IP

tiny sable
#

ok just noticed that i have two shield block charges but the CD are stacked so the second charge cd wont kick in until the first one has finished is that how it's supposed to work ?

main vault
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That's not right

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Oh wait

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Yes

uneven mason
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Yes

tiny sable
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the first 15 cecond CD finished then the second one starts

main vault
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Misread

uneven mason
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That is how charged abilities work Dante

tiny sable
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ok

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so first CD is 15 seconds second is 30

uneven mason
#

they're both 15

main vault
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It's just a CD on "a" charge not that specific charge

uneven mason
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but charge 2 cannot charge until charge 1 is completed

tiny sable
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so i can keep shield block up 6 seconds out of 30

main vault
#

12

tiny sable
#

12*

main vault
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But effected by haste

tiny sable
#

this make it extremely complicated to manage and time

ember arrow
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what did?

main vault
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That's what LS and Demo and etc are for

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So you always have something up

uneven mason
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Basically think of it this way, each charge you use drains 15 liters of water from a 30 liter tank, the tank refills at the rate of 1 liter per second.

ember arrow
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you are playing with Anger Management right?

tiny sable
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yes

ember arrow
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then use those cds

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if SB is down

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unless you will need them for a specific moment

tiny sable
#

so the two charges is basically 6 seconds uptime with 9 seconds to wait for remaining CD

ember arrow
#

ye

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they extend each others duration

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so 2 charges is 12 sec uptime

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and they recharge 1 at a time

tiny sable
#

so having 2 charges is so you can stack them once at the start of the fight

ember arrow
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no, you use SB when necessary

main vault
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God no

ember arrow
#

therres no cookie cutter advice like that

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if the mobs are stunned for 3 sec, then dont use SB

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if youre out of melee range, dont use SB

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things liek that

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dont stack all your cds, alternate SB with other cds, so theres always something up

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warr basically uses their cds on cd, if you dont do that, youre essentially wasting the talent

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unless you will need them for a specific scenario

uneven mason
#

If you've got a big tank buster coming up in 7 seconds, use something else, and sit on SB

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etc..

junior igloo
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@tiny sable
If you were using SB on cooldown or just randomly, then yes. The 2nd charge would only mean 1 extra charge on a fight. That's how charges work on everything in WoW.

But the real value of 2 charges is that you don't have to use it on cooldown to maximize uptime, you can have 1 ready and still recharging the second one without losing anything.
So if there is a break in a fight, you can get both back, then you can use 2 in a row on a dangerous part of the fight etc.

The second charge gives you more maneuverability on how to use them better

uneven mason
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Basically SB charges are only ever wasted if you're sitting on both charges

ember arrow
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u always shold have one recharging

uneven mason
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^^

ember arrow
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unless ofc no blockable dmg is coming in

uneven mason
#

better way of saying it

ember arrow
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but i dont wanna put that disclaimer all the time

uneven mason
#

Yeah, tanking as a warrior is definetly a more of a "by feel" sorta thing

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we have a lot of options

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and there isn't really a hard and fast rule of how to use them in all situations

tiny sable
#

i miss disarm

ember arrow
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it still exists

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in pvp

uneven mason
#

its a PVP talent

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like it has been since forever heh ๐Ÿ˜„

solid sun
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It's a lot different than something like "keep ISB up 100% of the time"

uneven mason
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^

tiny sable
#

i use Demoralize on big pac + to get rage then Block or IP depending if caster or not SF for caster if i cant pummel

uneven mason
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Most other tanks have a minor AM that is up ~100% of the time (I think Paladin and DH are the 2 that can't)

tiny sable
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SF on AOE spells

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i tend to be a bit trigger happy on IP

uneven mason
#

Warriors have situational AM, and a fast recycle time on major CDs

tiny sable
#

but quite easy to have 10)% uptime but then SB isnt always available

uneven mason
#

We'll have 100% uptime on mitigation, but not nessisarily shield block

tiny sable
#

I suppse RC is also mitigation

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about 6k

uneven mason
#

No, RC is raw health

solid sun
#

It's more a buffer

uneven mason
#

its EHP, but does nothing to lower your damage

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^^

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it can be an OCRAP button for sure

tiny sable
#

its damage on heal that dosent get taken of your normal HP

uneven mason
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Last Stand is Mitigation because Bolster makes it a 100% block for 15s

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You don't get healed by RC

solid sun
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When the healers might need a little extra time to recover, RC helps give them that

uneven mason
#

RC is just a health increase (Current and max)

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Last Stand in a heal (the HP stay after LS fades)

tiny sable
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i generaly use it when group has taken damage

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IS is also damage mitigation

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sort of

uneven mason
#

Last Stand is mtigation because you should have Bolster Talented

tiny sable
#

yes i do

uneven mason
#

Last Stand is probably our single strongest ability.

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100% block + 30% increased health for 15s

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the HP from it is an actual "heal" which can crit

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so you could conceivably heal yourself for 60%

tiny sable
#

I like impending victory but probably not worth it over into the fray

uneven mason
#

correct

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IV is situationally usful, but ITF and Punish overall are stronger for survivability.

ember arrow
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IV is by far weakest option

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ITF works on allies too

tiny sable
#

do you take Bounding stride or Cracking thunder?

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i enjoy jumping around

solid sun
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I prefer Bounding Stride.

dusk locust
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depends on the dungeon. if trash packs are really spread out i'll take the bigger radius on thunder clap

tiny sable
#

Demo shout takes care of that

dusk locust
#

how's that

tiny sable
#

dosent it create threat as its a debuff?

dusk locust
#

if it does i didn't know, but isn't it also only 10 yards

tiny sable
#

fells like they nerfed thuinderclap so they could put in a talent to fix it tbh :- )

timid jay
#

I dont think demo does any threat anymore

signal plover
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DS doesn't do threat

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It does tell the mobs their moms are fat tho

manic perch
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lol

dusk locust
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i tell you what though, medivh's piercing missles are no joke. i feel like i need to do some napkin math before i walk into an upper tyrannical again ๐Ÿ˜›

signal plover
#

Or just, u know, don't

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Cuz BFA is out next week

dusk locust
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heh fair enough

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i guess we won't have another legion tyrannical

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it's what... fortified bursting quaking this week?

uneven mason
#

yeah

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sounds like fun

#

same combination that was up the first time I tricked my wife into healing a M+, she refuses to run dungeons with me anymore

ember arrow
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play dk, ignore bursting

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easy

uneven mason
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Could Ignore Bursting as warrior too, I mean what, we had less HP than most DPS, the % damage wasn't all that hard to heal!

solid sun
#

I like the way you think, Ikarikaze

kind urchin
#

Even with the reduced ignore pain it still mitigates a lottle bit.

uneven mason
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What, tricking my wife into her first time healing on a +15 Bursting/Quaking/Fortified or the fact that Warriors were easier to heal through Bursting than like, a Guardian Druid (Oh god, healing that onmy paladin)

kind urchin
#

How about necrotic on a guardian druid

uneven mason
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"Whats kiting?"

kind urchin
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Pretty much the life of a druid with necrotic. At least on my warrior I could stay in for most pulls and be fine.

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Run in thrash run away.

uneven mason
#

To be fair, if you stacked the right legos during the moonbeardays

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you could do all the trash without ever being in melee range as a Guardian

kind urchin
#

Yeah. I never got the shoulders until prepatch though... Tough life.

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What's really rough though is I didn't get the bracers on my warrior until the day after I completed the mage tower.

uneven mason
#

me too!

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I used Sephuz/Stride

kind urchin
#

I used gloves and battlelord.

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Was actually a pretty sweet setup for it. Figured I'd give that combo a try since belt and gloves wasn't quite enough. So I put on the ring to have vengeance and bv. Worked real nice for damage and survivability.

fallow jetty
#

Prot warrior has been my main char since wotlk, and for the first time, I'm scared to keep it as my main. I feel the rotation extremely clunky and I've read a lot of bad things like IP isnt even worth using, or revenge turned into heroic strike, only use it on procs. Do you guys feel that bad about prot warrriors? Will it be viable? Or should I just reroll veng DH?

autumn laurel
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Prot is good

main vault
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I like it at 120

autumn laurel
#

Veng really only shines in m+

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We stompy bois now

main vault
#

And if you have to ask about viability it doesn't matter

autumn laurel
#

Liking the rotation is obviously subjective, though

kind urchin
#

I've played a warrior tank since Vanilla and nothing is going to change that. They would have to delete protection warrior for me to stop.

autumn laurel
#

I personally donโ€™t like the current state of devastate and revenge, but itโ€™s a small gripe

sick sentinel
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we can use maybe bit of a buff for IP to be more usefull but i liked it in beta did some keys with it and did raid testing

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its growing on me compared to live

kind urchin
#

I do have some minor complaints like others about the rotation but overall it's still good.

sick sentinel
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pre-patch isnt good for prot

fallow jetty
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i really liked the synergy between IP/focused rage and IP/revenge with the reduction cost talent

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but IP inside the GCD, it feels really bad

sick sentinel
#

vengeance is good designed talent but AM and BV synergy is just so good and tbh i like AM way more

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one of the reasons why i play prot its great tbh

kind urchin
#

IP on the gcd wouldn't feel bad if the rest of the rotation didn't have so many procs for SS.

fallow jetty
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yeah, I swapped for BV, I was running the legendary ring to use both talents, tho

uneven mason
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So overall, @fallow jetty Protection is a very proactive tanking style, since we can't use IP to "recover" from booboos anymore, which takes some adjusting to. We're in a solid place and in theory would be the tank of choice if mitigation was all that mattered. Other tanks have cheese (Stagger on massive damage, Paladin immunity) and Utility over us though.

autumn laurel
#

I hope the Azerite trait that gives leech after every IP turns out to be good...would be fun to have some decent sustain too

sick sentinel
#

we never had sustain tho except legendaries

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we just reduce the damage alot higher then other tanks

autumn laurel
#

I know, and Iโ€™m saying itโ€™d be fun to have it

sick sentinel
#

its not like bdk can keep self-sustained forever like they used to

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we mitigate the damage they heal themself thats it

uneven mason
#

Well, even without bracers you could stack IP for days and never actually take much "real" damage

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But thats gone now

sick sentinel
#

well yeah IP was way better i agree

uneven mason
#

it was OP heh

sick sentinel
#

but they changed tanks overall so cant complain

uneven mason
#

But now all tanks don't have a "self sustain"

sick sentinel
#

IP was op at start of legion we had hard time on nh

uneven mason
#

IE _ you cannot reduce all external healing required to 0

sick sentinel
#

and ฤฑp was only crazy good in antorus because how much rage we could generate

uneven mason
#

TOS into ABT

sick sentinel
#

yeah man 4pc-2pc was so fun

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going to miss that for sure

uneven mason
#

6000RPM!

kind urchin
#

ToS we were pretty strong too. NH was the bad bad.

sick sentinel
#

most fun tier sets for a while

uneven mason
#

NH wasn't even because we were bad

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it was because spell damage

sick sentinel
#

NH was bad-designed raid for prot kinda sad

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they could make damages blockable tbh

uneven mason
#

Like, just raw magic damage non stop in there

sick sentinel
#

they did made harjatan bleed mitigated by armor

uneven mason
#

Then TOS came

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and we were like BLOCK WORKS AGAIN BOIS

sick sentinel
#

its all about design we werent so good but we could be better imo

kind urchin
#

Except spell blade... That was okay.

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Mostly

sick sentinel
#

i was using block for damage in NH

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well thats what i generaly do but i just didnt care used it only for damage

kind urchin
#

Same here.

#

30% more SS damage... Yes please.

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Because you would have been crazy to run HR in that place.

fallow jetty
#

when charge doenst give me enought rage to use SB, it also feels bad

sick sentinel
#

yeah NH gave us another way of thinking about SB tho

fallow jetty
#

the TC spam with avatar on feels good tho

sick sentinel
#

we needed block up %100 for some reason and then we started using AM with higher rage we generated and made more sense

kind urchin
#

It was like a shift... A slow shift. By the end of the xpac I was pretty locked in with BV/AM.

sick sentinel
#

only thing i wish about prot is maybe changes with GCD and bit of a buff for IP then we gucci

timber nest
#

how good is riftworld codex/diimas in pre patch compared to memento/pantheon?

sick sentinel
#

diimas is good never used codex

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its still good damage aswell with slow and armor buff

timber nest
#

well i heard for dmg and shit stat sticks are worse than straight dmg

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cuz of the squish

sick sentinel
#

i wouldnt really care its prepatch and BfA next week

timber nest
#

for leveling it might help

sick sentinel
#

but i used diimas for leveling up to 115 or something its still good pull big TC and diimas adds are dead

timber nest
#

@sick sentinel 225 codex 1 fire proc, 7 hits. 50k per hit, did like 325k on heroic jikun

kind urchin
#

Riftworld was good before pre patch. Don't know about now.

sick sentinel
#

dont we have like more damage for old content after we pass it 11 levels or something

solid sun
#

Is there anything like checkmywow for prot war

sick sentinel
#

the fuck is that

solid sun
#

Certain specs provided support for a website called checkmywow

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You would upload your logs to it

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And the website would give you information back about how you did on each fight and things you needed to work on

ember arrow
#

RWC is still good

velvet tartan
#

@autumn laurel i did some math on that azerite trait (bloodsport) the other day and it didn't seem that great

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especially because of the amount of leech required now to hit even 1%

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also does anyone have a good reference with numbers on how block is working / scaling in bfa?

uneven mason
#

works like armor

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a 2nd set of armor

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has the calculations

velvet tartan
green bison
#

how is prot war looking at 120 if anyone knows?

main vault
#

Bueno

velvet tartan
#

block can only be found on shields then (or through special azerite effects) but not on regular gear?

uneven mason
main vault
#

Correct

velvet tartan
#

ok thanks

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@uneven mason perfect, exactly what i was looking for

uneven mason
#

Kudos to Marok for properly ID tagging his headers

main vault
#

In Battle for Azeroth, there is now a "Block" stat on shields. The character sheet now has Block rating, and all of that rating comes from the Block on shields (besides potential bonuses from Azerite and such).ย 

velvet tartan
#

did someone already do some kind of spreadsheet for the various azerite traits and their potential damage mitigation effects?

uneven mason
#

@green bison Protection looks good at 120, we're rather "gear" reliant, especially shields.

green bison
#

because block value came back right ?

uneven mason
#

yes and no, block rating is just 1.5* your shields armor value

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uses the same DR table as Armor, but is a separate multiplier (so armor * block * otherDR)

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Konayuki, tuning is sitll being done, I'm sure we'll have an azerite list come release, I'm not sure if we have a BiS list just yet. Although Iron fortress is looking solid.

main vault
#

That Nerf hurt though

uneven mason
#

yeah

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that is true, that IP trait looks good on paper, just not sure its going to be a valuable one due to how infreqent IP is and the 50% reduction cap.

velvet tartan
#

yeah i want to play around with some numbers, i know it's not final, just wondering if there was something already out there

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reading through the post (i've been gone a long time) I'm not sure if i undestand correctly: is blocking now just a flat damage reduction like armor that applies to all incoming damage?

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or are there blocked hits and unblocked hits?

stark sage
#

you still have a block chance

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and when you block, your armor is basically increased

#

the DR cap for a critical block is 85%

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well i guess the DR cap from armor is 85%

velvet tartan
#

gotcha, so the amount of dmg blocked is increased by the block on shield but not the block chance(?)

main vault
#

Yes

timid jay
#

It follows the same calculation as armor does but it uses block rating instead of armor

scenic veldt
#

is ip shit

velvet tartan
#

okay and block chance is then a static base % (how much?) modified by mastery?

timid jay
#

block chance is modified by mastery yeah

velvet tartan
#

so in that post on skyhold it says "if the player has a shield with 4000 Block on it, damage reduction from blocking is ~38.83%" but if i'd have a blockchance of idk 10% then the effective overall damage reduction would be 3.8% or am I misunderstanding?

timid jay
#

no thats right

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Without using SB or bolster that would be the overall DR

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(and no crit blocks)

velvet tartan
#

yeah

#

what is the base % for block chance now without mastery?

timid jay
#

Actually gave no idea

velvet tartan
#

i think it used to be like 5%?

timid jay
#

Think it was 8%

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cant recall

velvet tartan
#

hmm looks like i've got 16% if i substract the % gained through mastery currently at 110... It says for an evenly matched enemy so idk how that'd scale down against bosses

kind urchin
#

The block and armor are separate though. Does that mean we can potentially cap at 85% + 85%? I know we'd never get to the armor cap but is that the math?

uneven mason
#

Yes Guarok that is what it means

kind urchin
#

I thought so. Just wanted to be sure.

uneven mason
#

It means that the damage would be 0.15 * 0.15(whateverotherDR) - Absorb = final hit

kind urchin
#

Block, then armor then final absorbs. So that hasn't changed since the dawn of time. Good deal.

uneven mason
#

well, damage reduction is multiplicative, so order doesn't matter

#

absorbs are always subtracted after the mitigated value is determined (since they're equivalent to preemptive healing)

#

I mean, IP is a % value if you have sufficient absorb to cap out its "per hit" maximum (50%) but its vs the mitigated damage rather than the raw damage.

#

the new way WC logs displays damage taken for tanks is a good way of reading it

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since it shows Raw damage and mitigated then absorbs

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its all there in Marok's skyhold thingy I'm sure ๐Ÿ˜›

fierce juniper
#

@velvet tartan Base block chance without base mastery or anything is 18%

velvet tartan
#

@fierce juniper thanks for confirming

spice saddle
#

Prot warrior looks like it's going to scale the best in bfa

uneven mason
#

Rather strong assumption

spice saddle
#

str = armor passive, block mechanic w/crit block and IP

uneven mason
#

esp since we have a low "growth range" on our critical block

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since we'll be going into the first tier nearly capping critical block DR

#

I mean, we'll scale, but I don't know if we'll scale faster than other tanks.

#

since all tanks have a primary stat to survivability conversion

ember arrow
#

Str=armor for dk too

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For example

spice saddle
#

yeah druid has agi to armor via ironfur, just not passive

uneven mason
#

I mean, I'm thinking paladins are going to scale the best, overall because haste is going to juice their SOTR uptime.

spice saddle
#

thing is it's going to be hard to get 33% haste even at ilvl450+

uneven mason
#

eh

#

Not saying they'll hit 10)%

ember arrow
#

Why specifically 33%

spice saddle
#

the ilvl scaling on secondaries is just way different

#

right now at 950ish, it's pretty easy to hit 33% haste or w/e secondary you want with minimal tweaks

#

In bfa at ilvl 475ish it's much much harder and if you do your other secondaries are just super gimped.

timid jay
#

You do realize how ratings work right...?

spice saddle
#

yeah and unless they are adjusted lvl 120 using "high ilvl" gear with more focus into primary stats will have significantly lower secondaries than 110 using "high ilvl" gear

timid jay
#

The main reasons for lower secondaries so far in BfA is relatively higher ratings needed per % and no secondaries on azerite gear

#

But yeah

#

It'll get higher over the course of the expansion as usual

kind urchin
#

We might be near cap on block for crit block in the first tier but the base block without crit block will scale nicely. Which I think is good.

timid jay
#

Going by what blizz has said they are going to increase the K value for block and armor going into later tiers

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So we might not be able to hit the cap at all

spice saddle
#

Yeah makes sense it's starting at k=6300 iirc

uneven mason
#

its a good tuning knob

lone cobalt
#

pardon my ignorance, what is this K ?

spice saddle
#

basically how your armor is calculated by whats hitting you

#

1- armor / (armor+k)

main vault
#

k is the constant

#

Every level has a constant

spice saddle
#

so for a 120-123 npc the k value is 6300

#

there is also a K value for NPC's when you hit them usually called Kp

#

which oddly enough the Kp value for 120 player vs 123 boss went down compared to a 110 player vs a 113 boss. Which is probably why physical dps specs are doing so well atm on beta.

#

it's a flat ~5% lower multiplier than it is in legion so physical dps specs that arent bleed focused are in a much better spot.

#

imagine its the reason fury/combat rogues are top of the melee pack.

kind urchin
#

Top that with group buffs and enemy debuffs that they added back to the game.

spice saddle
#

yeah makes sense

#

So i have a question, block and armor both cap at reducing an attack by 85%. Does that stack? Like could a 100 dmg attack be reduced to 15 dmg via armor then down to 2.25 dmg via block?

#

and does that work with say the high totem damage reduction as well?

stark sage
#

if you could reach both the armor cap and the block cap

#

yeah

fierce juniper
#

DR is multiplicative

#

so no it doesnt work like that

#

If you had 85% DR from Armor and 85% DR from a block, and those were your only sources of DR, your total DR would be 97.75%

#

Which in that specific example does equal the 2.25 damage taken like you said, but you're going to have other sources of DR.

stark sage
#

what other sources, i think in this example armor and block are accounted for

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and nothing else would be applied

fierce juniper
#

No I'm just saying thinking about DR where X DR is applied first and then Y DR is applied isn't the proper way to look at DR. They're all "applied" at the same time, since it's all multiplicative.
I mean in this case you reach the same answer, but I'm just making a point.

stark sage
#

oh i see

kind urchin
#

I just calculated 6 random numbers at 85% dr and then that total at 85% dr. Then those same numbers all at 97.75% dr and all the answers matched. They come out the same reguardless.

grim prism
#

PEMDAS boys

#

We know this

uneven mason
#

That's how multiplicative math works

#

Or what Balsaq said

#

this fucking common core crap has to go

#

kids hitting Azeroth without knowing how to do algebra

kind urchin
#

Yeah. So they both were doing the same thing in a different way with the same answers arguing that the former wasn't correct.

stark sage
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nah i just thought marok was referring to another source of DR not present in the example

uneven mason
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No, Marok was just pointing out that a situation where Armor and Block were the only sources of DR was unlikely ๐Ÿ˜›

stark sage
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like some mystery value

grim prism
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Yeah it was kind of a roundabout explanation lol

uneven mason
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And yeah, that there is an "order" to them hehe

grim prism
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Same result either way though, like he said

uneven mason
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mmhmm

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Although with block being its own table, time for warriors to get the fundamentals of combat tables changed again?

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Who remembers Cataclysm block

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Pepperridge Farm remembrs Cataclysm block.

main vault
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Fuck math is hard

kind urchin
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Right?

main vault
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I bet there is a math property that states it doesn't matter what order you multiply then it'll all be the same lol

timid jay
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Yup

main vault
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Associative Property:ย When three or more numbers are multiplied, the product is the same regardless of the grouping of the factors

ember arrow
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so this is what my teachers meant

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when they said ill need maths later in life

main vault
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I feel like I'm teaching again lol

dusk locust
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i think you're looking for Commutative property

ember arrow
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and we';re glad you do nexii

timid jay
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For example, 3 ร— 5 = 5 ร— 3, since both expressions equal 15.

main vault
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That only works for two numbers

timid jay
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no

main vault
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Yes

dusk locust
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3 x 5 x 6 = 6 x 5 x 3

stark sage
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๐Ÿค”

main vault
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Commutative property:ย When two numbers are multiplied together, the product is the same regardless of the order of the multiplicands.

stark sage
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basic math is hard

main vault
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two

timid jay
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I mean

stark sage
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okay now use your brain and see what happens when you have 3

timid jay
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regardless it still stands

main vault
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Above two it no longer falls under that and falls under the associative

velvet tartan
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waiting for a youtube series on basic math for wow now

main vault
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Haha

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I wonder how much that could solve

dusk locust
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khan academy should use blocking and armor as examples

main vault
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Not so much math, but explaining damage reduction and etc

uneven mason
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It gets hard when you add in other operators ๐Ÿ˜›

main vault
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Cant do + and *

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Too much

uneven mason
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totes

dusk locust
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0 * 0 = Superzero

velvet tartan
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i've seen people fail statistics classes over much easier concepts lol

calm cove
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โ”

vocal nimbus
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Nice game ak

calm cove
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ye

junior igloo
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@stark sage @timid jay
Multiplication is a binary operation.
You need both cumulative and associative properties if you want to expand it to multiply 3 numbers in any order that are also put in any order.
(Obviously it works, but it wouldn't work if multiplication was only cumulative.)

grim prism
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Holy shit this is hurting my brain

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arguing semantics over something you literally just googled and pulled the first result for

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This channel needs a math officer

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Shiggy diggy fellas

calm cove
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I mean that is an important detail

solid sun
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Captain NapkinMath to the rescue?

uneven mason
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Sarri is busy playing Halflife3 in the future Balsaq

calm cove
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but not knowing you can multiply in different orders is a special thing

prisma crane
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omg a brown Akmandor

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what is this world coming to

grim prism
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The associative property is NOT just the commutative property with 3+ operands

ember arrow
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who flippin cares

grim prism
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Nexii cares

prisma crane
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well, in math you could argue that often semantics do matter

grim prism
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Then you should ensure you are correct before trying to do so lol

prisma crane
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we'll file all of this under the #protection TIL subthread

stark sage
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i blame marok

prisma crane
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i blame Cosmo

solid sun
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I blame the napkins

grim prism
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Just gonna leave this here

shut summit
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๐Ÿ”ข

grim prism
calm cove
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13 24?

prisma crane
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qwik maffs

ember arrow
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ancient dust covered memes

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the best memes

sick sentinel
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strong forum
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sephuz and boots

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spice saddle
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Yeah what i'm wondering is say you have a highmounten tauren with enough stam it reduces damage by say 100 via rugged tenacity. 85% armor and 85% block (capped) would they reduce a 1000 hit down to 22.5 and it's completely negated by rugged tenacity? or is the rugged tenacity applied before armor dr? Basically just how that works. Theres no order of operations unless it would be PEDMAS?

stark sage
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well i dont know how its coded, but absorbs are applied after reductions

uneven mason
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rugged is applied to the mitigated damage, not sure if there is a "limit" on the mitigation that rugged can supply though (possibly 85%)

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Drac, you'll find that PEDMAS Is indeed how computers do math, whither the programmers write it so that it makes sense to the computer is a different story.

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programming languages have a few more operands they can apply to a formula. But Math works as math

solid sun
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I'm still trying to get accustomed to using my CDs properly and y'all have all graduated to math professor status

uneven mason
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When the math doesn't work, you get fun things like "divide by zero"

kind urchin
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Unless Blizz found a way to change math ๐Ÿค”

uneven mason
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and "object reference not set to an instance of an object"

solid sun
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Just leave it to the Bronze Flight

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They'll change math to fit Blizzard's needs

kind urchin
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Or that.

uneven mason
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So I guess to get myself back on track, Absorbs are subtraction, so they are applied last in order of operations. However the order that absorbs are used I'm not sure on (IP 50% before divine shield?)

solid sun
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Wait, Divine counts as an aborb?

kind urchin
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The absorbs don't multiply and get calculated at the same time do they?

grim prism
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You mean like as far as which particular absorb takes damage first?

kind urchin
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I think thats what we're wondering.

solid sun
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I would imagine externals are used before internals

grim prism
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You'd have to test it

solid sun
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Except for something like Divine. That probably should supercede anything

stark sage
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i would think it is in order of application

grim prism
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You would think

uneven mason
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That is possible, its just that since IP is a % and Divine is a 100% until used.

grim prism
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But with Blizzard it's a crapshoot

uneven mason
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So that's a legit question I suppose

grim prism
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Yeah

uneven mason
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since that'd make Disc our healer of choice IMHO

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I mean, its minor

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but still something ๐Ÿ˜„

solid sun
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I wonder if the damage mitigation aspect of IP would only apply to the damage it specifically absorbs or any damage provided it is active

uneven mason
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I mean its a miniscule difference for the msot part

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if IP is taken before divine shield, you can fully negate the damage, if IP is taken after (or at all) it will be nearly nothing.

solid sun
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But in the Disc Priest situation, if PW:Shield is used before IP, you'd get that 50% mitigation for a fair bit longer

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idk, maybe it doesn't matter. Was kinda just thinking out loud.

uneven mason
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Yeah, I mean, I mumble about it, but in the end its a miniscule amount of difference

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especially since no CD on PWS

glass kernel
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Is a really high Shadow singed fang worth using?

undone sun
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No
it depends on your options but 90% of the time, no.

weary notch
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so I'm guessing it's pretty safe to assume at this point that our stat priority and best talents won't change at 120?

undone sun
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no

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everything is subject to change
prepatch isn't a strong indicator on what will show in live and raiding

clear sapphire
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@weary notch your best bet is to see their consitancy throughout the expansions. Past behavior is usually a pretty good indication of future behavior.

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frank mantle
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what races are preffered for prot? ive always been a cow and debating between highmountain cow and orc

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orc for looks mainly, hightmountain is probs best for min max

broken kite
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Orc is the only choice

undone sun
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pretty marginal differences anyways, HMT is likely the strongest defensively while belf is strong for keys still

broken kite
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What Thyme really means is roll orc

glacial sage
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everyone knows that you should reroll goblin

broken kite
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Uhm

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๐Ÿค”

glacial sage
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Goblin master race

frank mantle
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belf ugly as fuck eww

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and im trying to collect tier 3 for epeen

broken kite
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Blood elves really shouldn't be able to be warriors

undone sun
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if you're going for looks, go orc

vocal nimbus
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undead

chilly brook
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Wadu hek

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Blood elves are dope, and youโ€™re telling me someone like lorthemar shouldnโ€™t exist?

frank mantle
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he shoulda went to the tree and burned

chilly brook
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Anyways zandalari>anyone else

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Lorthemar is dope af dawg

frank mantle
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we cant be zandalari for probs like a good few months after launch

chilly brook
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Prolly true unfortunately

frank mantle
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at least until 8.1

chilly brook
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Makes me sad

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They should have been on launch

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Honestly stupid that alliance get their dark iron dwarves basically immediately and we donโ€™t get the big reveal race until later on

astral crystal
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you still need exalted with 7th legion

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and horde gets theirs at exalted with whatever the rep is called

robust urchin
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The Morally Greys i believe is the faction called

craggy harness
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what is the change in 8.0 i should be looking for regarding mouseover macros

craggy harness
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(read: my intercept isn't working right anymore)

spark hamlet
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What lego combos are ppl going with for lvling?

sick sentinel
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HMT gay af antler horns tho kms

undone sun
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@spark hamlet belt/boots/shoulders probably, fastest set

spark hamlet
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Ok was wondering if the belt was going to hold up

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thank you Thyme

main vault
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Sephuz and boots

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Gg

dawn fractal
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you cant be zandalari because its going to require rep and they want to give you time to build that rep.....

glass kernel
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Did a relatively low Upper K Keystone today and i chould be wrong but i think SR is bugged OR just not working on mediv his piercing mis went straight trough it unreflected OR mitigated is this a known issue?

weary notch
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I jus realized today that ITF stacks increase boot movement speed, as they should. Still going from 138% movement speed at one stack to 150% at 5 stacks is pretty awesome

undone sun
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@glass kernel it'll only reflect the first missile, the rest go through since we lost the unlimited reflect trait

final mist
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Yeah, Medivh is a big Yikes since we lost Reflective Plating.

glass kernel
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Feelsbadman was my first prepatch tanking exp and ngl i felt more durable on my 215 ilvl havoc geared alt in tankspec than my warrior with 255ilvl hope its better 120 cuz love to tank aswell wadner

gleaming thicket
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anyone from beta have any idea how our damage compares to other tanks at 120

glass kernel
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You guys brought protwarrior to mythic and do you manage or is it a struggle?

gleaming thicket
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Feels pretty good having demo up so often

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Blood felt all right I just canโ€™t give up the mobility of my warrior

sick sentinel
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gleaming thicket
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Refuse to play vdh cause they suck

sick sentinel
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undone sun
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stop

sick sentinel
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shut summit
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definitely harder to come by brezzes ๐Ÿค”

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shut summit
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prof brez item available in bfa compared to not in legion

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doesnt make it harder to come by

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glacial sage
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I use it because of the toys, blingtron, and teleports

sick sentinel
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glacial sage
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and lootarang

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I have alts for that

sick sentinel
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glacial sage
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my mains that I raid on are always engineers

sick sentinel
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glacial sage
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honestly I get enough from order hall missions

sick sentinel
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glacial sage
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2750 per

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its sexy

sick sentinel
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glacial sage
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I do that and a little bit of herb/ore farming if I need some extra, but most of the time I'm well over

amber siren
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I mean it's not surprising we're ranked pretty low for M+ but again, it's frustrating people will read that and go 'prot warriors can't tank my +2 bcs JB said they suck' all over again

sick sentinel
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glacial sage
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We can still do +18s pretty well

sick sentinel
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amber siren
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oh yeah i knew what you meant

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just disappointing

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rocky tiger
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Anyone else finding prot frustrating as hell to play since 8.0?

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Tried doing heroic antorus on sunday and at 244 was dying to aggramar if I wasn't ridiculously perfect on cooldown use and block weaving. But threat was shithouse.

amber siren
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I'd recommend looking at the guide in the pins because those aren't issues you should be having

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@rocky tiger Funny enough, I found prot frustrating as hell since IP was introduced. Wanted to try going back to prot with BfA though. ๐Ÿ˜•

rocky tiger
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The threat wasn't an issue, I was easily ahead of our DK. Just a frustrating rotation to play, I'm finding, and feeling considerably squishier. I did read the guides, I'll have to review logs to make sure my rotations and CD usage are correct. Certainly not doing any crazy tricks like 20+ stacks of deadly scythe on heroic argus anymore :(

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I hate feeling like last stand is an either/or use now, like, can be a block filler or a cooldown but not both

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weary notch
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who wrote that top 5 bullshit?

limber tulip
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Jdotb

weary notch
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who is that?

limber tulip
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And blizzard has been pushing for tanks to be more healer reliant @sick sentinel fyi

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One of the top m+ healers

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Plays for method (black/orange) and was in the MDI

main vault
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One of?

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Probably THE top

limber tulip
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Was he on kjells

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Smh

main vault
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By that logic Sco is best tank world

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๐Ÿค”

limber tulip
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Sounds good to me

main vault
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I hate you

limber tulip
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Lol

weary notch
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well, he's like SCO. He's playing a game the rest of us don't play

limber tulip
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Just MEMEING bro

sick sentinel
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limber tulip
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:4head:

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limber tulip
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Smh

sick sentinel
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limber tulip
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Why do i come here if I canโ€™t use my nitro

main vault
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I know it's so disappointing

limber tulip
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Also nexii

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Itโ€™s bearcatting

tiny sphinx
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things look very different when you're looking down your nose at the world

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