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latent tide
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I'm 340, and that trash still destroyed me.

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The rest of the dungeon is fine., but the bleed stacking up to 4 is just ridiculous

raven kernel
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All the dmg on that guy is magic iirc

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And bolster covers any melee hits

latent tide
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It's the bleed

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At 3-4 stacks it hits for 50k a second

raven kernel
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I'm referring to the earlier question

latent tide
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oh, sorry

raven kernel
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The 2 zerkers weren't memorable

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Just have your party single target one down

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If you're having issues

latent tide
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Yeah, we did. It still got to 4 stacks somehow.

raven kernel
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My group is already geared so everything dies quick

pseudo rock
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rolling DK

latent tide
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My group was fairly gear, everyone 339+

pseudo rock
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see ya

raven kernel
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If you have a pally just bop off the bleed

sick sentinel
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You need immune mechanics or with 4+ stack you surely will die

raven kernel
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are u dying before killing them or what

latent tide
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No, I died after they were dead

raven kernel
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Or just dying after

sick sentinel
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After is totally ok

raven kernel
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That's whatever then, just take a rez

latent tide
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Okay

raven kernel
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I just remind my healer to keep healing me

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I don't think I go to 4 stack tho so he can manage it

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If 4 stack isn't healable then just die :/

sick sentinel
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And for the big pulls, if your healer can keep you alive, use avatar and spam thunder clap > revenge maintaining shield block up, i'm 336 and with 3+ adds I pull 15~16k dps

latent tide
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Yeah, our healer was the only person undergeared. And he's a resto druid so it makes it difficult.

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Yeah, big pulls are a joke. With Avatar + Demo I pull ~20k dps

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Next time, I think I'll try staggering the bleed with a well timed stun

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if the dps arent killing them fast enough

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They seem do cast the bleed after a jump, usually

pallid pelican
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I learnt not to soak the patch on zul's shadow ad
I got fingered

sick sentinel
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On the pull before the gold boss in Atal'dazar I usually pull 30k+, it's a matter of don't diyng in the process, if you can spam revenge without making it hard for the healer, please do, war prot does a huge amount of aoe if you focus on that

latent tide
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Yeah, that pull is always fun. TC > Revenge > TC repeat is a lot of fun

sick sentinel
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That Zul shadow is a complete terror for prot, all hes attacks are magic

latent tide
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Ditto

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Spell Reflection is pretty much all we have, and since it doesn't reflect the spell we only have that 20% damage reduction

raven kernel
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Ip works

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That's the one before last boss?

latent tide
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Yeah.

raven kernel
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Your dps is more in danger of dying than you are

latent tide
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IP helps for sure

raven kernel
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It's more of a dps check than anything

latent tide
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seems that way

raven kernel
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If you die on that guy means your party is already wiped at that point

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Or your healer ignored you

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If anything the higher dps of prot war makes us better on him than other tanks

winged elm
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CC one of the zerkers and kite

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Never take over 2 stacks of bleed

winged maple
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@raven kernel thank you! We popped lust and burst it down with me dead. I used up every rage on ignore pain. Thankfully i got t down

raven kernel
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Cheers

split anchor
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any tips for dealing with the shadow of zul mob in king's rest? last time I popped all my cd's and still died easily

raven kernel
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I literally just helped Stan with that

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Scroll up a little

split anchor
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oh thanks!

urban oak
raven kernel
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The 340

urban oak
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I dont have the azeroth level for any of the traits tho

raven kernel
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That revenge trait is pretty weak

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So just take the stam and str

urban oak
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Ah, alright, cheers

junior ivy
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trinket situation

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these are my 3 trinkets

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which 2 should i use to tank with

raven kernel
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The 2 on left

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Big Red button is pretty shit imo

junior ivy
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what about for fury?

split anchor
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giant piece of shit

amber siren
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brb got a pretty big buff iirc

raven kernel
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Check fury trinkets on bloodmallet

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17k split dmg on 2min cd is appalling...

junior ivy
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is haste still the preferred stat for fury?

raven kernel
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But yes haste mastery

junior ivy
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thanks

round vortex
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@junior ivy the big red button is really good if you play with super burst classes such as arms warrior, demon hunter or Ele shaman as another means of generating AOE threat on the pull.

raven kernel
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@split anchor did u kill the guy

split anchor
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nah I did but was just asking for future references

raven kernel
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@round vortex bruh avatar tc

split anchor
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like hours of ago

raven kernel
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Ah ok

split anchor
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ended up like spawn killing him

junior ivy
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so ishouldnt use it for tanking 100% right ?

raven kernel
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I don't see the need for it

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Not on a 2 min cd, with split dmg

junior ivy
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ok ty

sick sentinel
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Razdunk's Big Red Button is pvp trinket.

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use for additional burst on 1-2 targets. Especially as arms.

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It also scales with your AP I can confirm.

rustic flower
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do multiple sets of deafening crash stack?

shut summit
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damage does, DS extending doesnt

rustic flower
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thanks. wish that was easier to figure out in game

round vortex
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I’m not saying use it all the time lol I was just stating what it’s tanking purpose would be if it had one.

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Some tanks are struggling to keep threat (not me personally) but it’s definitely a more useful tool for AOE threat than a haste proc for that specific purpose.

analog escarp
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i wish abilities crit generate double rage.....

upbeat folio
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I would be content just to have global cooldown be less shit.

analog escarp
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is it more or protection warrior has less hp then other tanks?

hot locust
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Yes we are the lowest pure HP tank class.

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That does not translate to the lowest EHP in most cases however.

snow nest
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Blox

vagrant cape
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Every healer I've been with I've asked how I am to heal and every single one has said I'm easy to heal and not a problem. I should start asking how I compare to other types of tanks they heal.

As soon as I learned about deafening crash and the extreme synergy this class has, I had a feeling they'd be the sleeper OP tanks and I haven't been disproved yet.

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Yeah, ignore pain feels slow but it works.

Sorry, I just wanted to express how awesome I think this class is.

junior ivy
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aw i love when people are positive about warriors πŸ˜„

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we are an awesome class!

vagrant cape
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It's incredibly strong. We don't need Dave because we do enough damage to keep threat. Not having grip is pretty meh, but we get by. We have more than three butrons so we're more fun but more complex than bears (which can be unfortunate if many mechanics are happening). We are more mobile than demon hunters and beat them in damage. We don't self-heal, but we protect our health better than any other tank. We don't have the, uh, (what the fuck do paladins have that we don't?) holiness of paladins but, I mean, no one wants to be like a paladin.

vivid sage
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we'll see how things go on the first super magic heavy boss

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has anybody noticed that the music in the port of zandalar sounds like the goosebumps themesong

vagrant cape
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Avatar, demo shout, thunderclap, IP, thunderclap, IP, thunderclap, IP...

junior ivy
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my only issue is threat. i dont feel as squishy now that im 338 ilvl

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i dont die as easily

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but i do still have issues keeping aggro on big pulls 😦

analog escarp
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i think thats dps problems

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some do so much damage at the start

junior ivy
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yeh, its the arms warrior who pulls of fme

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on every single pull

analog escarp
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lol

vagrant cape
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I find that there are 1-3 globals where I don't have all the mobs yet, but once I start it's solid

junior ivy
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its not a big enough issue for us that it causes wipes or anything

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we always recover and do fine

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its just annoying to me personally

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i want aggro!

vagrant cape
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Play a brewmaster then :P

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Dave can satisfy you

junior ivy
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who is dave

vagrant cape
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The nickname for the black ox statue

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The one that aoe taunts

junior ivy
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ohhh

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im jealous of that thing

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im wonderinf if i should use that bad trinket

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cause its an aoe ability

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i could use it for threat i dunno

vagrant cape
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Everyone's pretty jealous of dave

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Oh the big red button?

analog escarp
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it would be so nice to have aoe taunt back

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and off the GCD

vagrant cape
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Just use ravager for aoe threat 🀣 :+1: 🀒

merry cave
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Anyone know what the tf cap is atm

vagrant cape
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Nothing can go higher than 355

junior ivy
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yeh big red button

ember arrow
merry cave
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Thanks bryon

little rain
merry cave
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Also I think the only people saying prot isn't viable are the mythic + pushers, and I still agree with them in that it's hard to beat dh or do, monk has outside chance atm tho

junior ivy
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i forget, how do i get war resources?

smoky wave
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Reading back, I actually miss mocking banner.

upbeat folio
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I miss being able to intercept it and break snares. 😦

ember arrow
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@junior ivy wq and regular quests

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Prob more ways

junior ivy
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😦

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i dont wanna do more wqs

ember arrow
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I git 3000

junior ivy
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but i guess i have to

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HOW.

ember arrow
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I do wq

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Its relaxing

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Theres something chill about doing long, easy tasks

junior ivy
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id rather do dungeons to practice tanking

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or level professions

ember arrow
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I got my profs 150

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Alchemy herbalism

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Dungeons i think i know most mechanics by now

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Also u should have heart of azeroth level 21 when uldir comes out iirc. Thatt way you can unlock the traits

junior ivy
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i got fishing to 150

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and cooking to like 140 ish

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where can i go see vulerpa?

amber siren
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Vol'dun

junior ivy
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where though

amber siren
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There's a horde flightpoint called Vulpera hideaway where there's a ton

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Idk about alliance

errant dagger
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I wonder if blizzard will just leave us alone or nerf us because we are fine haha

lucid ginkgo
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Wiseman once said, "other classes nerfed and we are not touched, means we are buffed"

errant dagger
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Let’s hope for that πŸ˜‚ blizzard can be a bitch

sick sentinel
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Is the 2 set from the BoE's worth ~500k gold?

severe steeple
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bear buffs: don't care

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turtle emisarry: akdfgailhbaldisgfaikhfgajshdfvjlafjghvduiKTYGFVY!!!!

ember arrow
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what?

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turtles are awesome

hasty quest
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Yestersay i have my first mythic experience and it goes not so bad tbh

ember arrow
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what ilvl you did it on?

hasty quest
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I start myth at 323

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We have a good grp of dps but in the it is not so bad

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Struggling a bit on multi mob aggro when avatar was on cd but if your grp makes some aoe stun there is no probs at all

ember arrow
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nice

chilly brook
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Should be just fine at 323

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I started doing them at 302

old zephyr
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once you get to know the strats it is not that difficult

unreal flume
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I've been running mythics as prot hoping for a decent arms weapon. Got Jes' Howler 355 titanforged so I guess I'm a tank now

old zephyr
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Haste is tank's best stat, not vers

unreal flume
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It's a truckload of str. with on use vers for when damage comes in - I'm happy with it

chilly brook
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@old zephyr unless something changed it's actually one of our best trinks going into uldir

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Second best according to Marok

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With DMD being best

unreal flume
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I've found prot pretty good for mythics so far - started tanking them at about 315 and it's gotten progressively easier and at 337 its a walk in the park with decent dps

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IP on the GCD sucks - but otherwise its been smooth going

chilly brook
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It's not bad at all

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Clearing mythics easily

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Agree with IP though

unreal flume
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If only I could get weapons to drop (for both prot and arms - still running 300 for both with a 320 wq shield)

chilly brook
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Also wish IP had a higher absorb cap

unreal flume
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and I've done like 25 heroics

chilly brook
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KMS dude

unreal flume
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Its been super frustrating

chilly brook
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Oh yeah?

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Full 340+ except for weapon

unreal flume
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Similar vibes πŸ˜›

chilly brook
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You know what's even worse?

autumn pendant
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What is addon that lets you expand character stat details @chilly brook

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Please

chilly brook
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Clear all 10 mythics on Tuesday with a full guild group

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Servant Splitter drops

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Goes to an arms warrior who was accidentally in prot

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Can't be traded

unreal flume
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and he can't trade it

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this is my life

chilly brook
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fuck you blizz

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@autumn pendant deja stats

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He felt so bad

unreal flume
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I've seen plenty of holy palas with ret loot spec get 2 handers in mythics

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and I'm just dying inside

chilly brook
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And there wasn't shit he could do about it

severe steeple
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i did 5/10 M yday

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and got a cloack and a belt

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no trink no weap

unreal flume
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I only want 1 deafening crash trait right?

chilly brook
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I guess I could just go buy the axe off the AHG but lul 500k no way

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yes

autumn pendant
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Thank you

unreal flume
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cool - got a couple pieces in my bags

chilly brook
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1 deafening 2 Brace iirc

unreal flume
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But none with the second best trait

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so I'm running 2 iron fortress

chilly brook
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yea I'm running one deafening, one brace and one bloodsport

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buuuuuuuut

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that bloodsport piece has Azerite Veins

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so it's not too shabby

unreal flume
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I'm just returning after a long break after nighthold - but its been good so far. these mythics will be fun at higher keys

chilly brook
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I don't wanna see King's Rest at higher keys

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Fuck those berserkers

unreal flume
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I'm still rep gated on that one, like 1000 to go

chilly brook
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And Zul

unreal flume
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Thought the third boss in Temple might become tricky, but thats for the poor healers to worry about

sick sentinel
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just wait until you hit the first boss in uldir

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: D

unreal flume
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I'll be doing it with pugs, so that's even more exciting πŸ˜›

sick sentinel
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Phil has been kicked from raid

unreal flume
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oh rip.

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That was shortlived. getting kicked before the raid even comes out

sick sentinel
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"You're not a dk/monk/pala/dh tank"

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πŸ€”

unreal flume
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The trick is to lead the puge

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Pugs

restive anchor
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Is there a BiS list for Prot?

smoky wave
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As close as you get in the pins, but due to titanforging not really

restive anchor
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Ty

severe steeple
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Just prio haste

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ilvl>haste>everything else

ember arrow
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ilvl>haste

severe steeple
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for starters

chilly brook
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@sick sentinel wasn't prot placed aboev dh for raiding?

sick sentinel
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Is the shield boots set okay to buy

vocal nimbus
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not worth

chilly brook
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shield itself is good though

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that is if you're swimming in gold

smoky wave
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shield was 136k yesterday morning. 250k in the evening. Almost bought it, guess I'm waiting a while again now πŸ˜…

severe steeple
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i caved in when i saw one for 75k

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then i got drop from mythic next day ofc

smoky wave
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Oooph, I'd have snapped that up.

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Ofc, but still means you've got a shield. If you hadn't bought it, it wouldn't have dropped.

severe steeple
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blizz logic

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now im stuck with 325 weap

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probably till azshara raid

sick sentinel
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Are we good for islands exp ?

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Wondering if i should go dps

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For those

smoky wave
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I've been pondering that. I've been doing them as arms cos it's too much fun taking chunks out of the alliance npcs. With avatar/our dps is could actually be really good

sick sentinel
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I do it as prot, when the giant spawns with tons of ore around him, I just pull him and they mine

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so easy to tank him (if you dodge the beam)

green elbow
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Anyone have a moment for a silly question? I couldn't find it in the pins/faqs, but I am trying to find out my block DR value

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I know it scales with shield 'somehow', but that's about as much data as I've been able to get together

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Obviously there is a block value number on my shield, but it's not a strict damage-that number

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oh blast, sorry, I found it, some mod was 'helpfully' removing the number from the mouseover. Disable the mod and it shows right up. Sorry!

vocal nimbus
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Just hover over the block stat in your character sheet

queen oyster
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So hows prot feeling atm?

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good spot?

smoky wave
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yeah, think so. Tanked some hc last night, didn't have any problems particularly. Still plays fun. IP could do with being more satisfying to hit but otherwise good

pastel mirage
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remove IP from GCD and its golden

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imo

smoky wave
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disagree

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I think it should be on the gcd, but I think it should be better. Make it an interesting choice to hit IP or the revenge proc.

queen oyster
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IP just needs to be a bigger shield to help with magic damage intake

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or make it more effective against magic dmg

smoky wave
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aye, on the gcd is find, but it needs to feel better to press it

queen oyster
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anyways I've got 85 hours at max on my priest so I might give my warrior some love

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did yall level in prot?

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easy to pull big packs?

smoky wave
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prot with an enh shaman, but yeah, super easy. Run around, avatar and stomp everything, spend as much rage as you can to reset avatar. Rinse and repeat

queen oyster
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cool

smoky wave
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rare/elite quest mobs were slower but no chance of dying.

queen oyster
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do we take the thing that reoplaces victory rush?

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for guaranteed self healing?

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impending victory

smoky wave
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Never felt I missed it as stuff died fast enough, but I also had a shaman for when I did need heals so dunno

queen oyster
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I'll muck around with it

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ty

sick sentinel
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do we live a life without mannoroths bracelet or do we have any form of self heal (Except VR) that i missed?

smoky wave
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Other than the odd azerite Trait nah, no self heals. It's fine though.

old zephyr
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compared to other tank :
if we got a bad heal, we are screwed.
if we got a good heal, we can do MUUUCH better than them

ember arrow
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no tank other than bdk can fully self sustain

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the heal from other tanks isnt enough to keep them up

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even bdk is only responsible for 60-70% of their healing

analog escarp
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buffing IP might help a little

sick sentinel
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I have the feeling that blizzard is going to nerf our aoe dmg

merry cave
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Maybe a little but it's not that op

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Vdh isn't far behind it

sick sentinel
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I only tank so i dont know what other tanks do

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but i think that we can delete trash packs this makes up for the lack of healing we got in such big pulls

ember arrow
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you wont be deleting much of anything once fortified weeks show up

cosmic cargo
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i hear from people who have dh and pala that pala might be second place, not dh

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haven't heard from anyone with both pala and warr though πŸ€”

chilly brook
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Pally has always been capable of good aoe dps

smoky wave
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May be levelling my paladin next for healing, but the thought of having a healer/tank combo is tasty. It'd be a no brainer if I had a better choice than belf or tauren though.

chilly brook
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As far as how prot warrior is doing it seems fine

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It actually feels a lot like I thought it would only gets much better with gear

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However we really won't see how it really is until we actually get deep into progression in Uldir

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IDK why people have an issue playing a BE, they're literally the best looking race and the most realistically proportioned

ember arrow
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hahaha

smoky wave
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It's not a troll.

ember arrow
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"realistically"

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ye good argument in wow

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humans are the best looking race

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adn the best proportioned

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surprisingly

chilly brook
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human? lol

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Way too stocky

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if you're talking human female yea

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But the males?

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lawl

ember arrow
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how can a fantasy race be unrealisticalyl proportioned?

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like orcs

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theyre not real yaknow

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their proportions is whatever we make them

chilly brook
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Now you're just being obtuse

cosmic cargo
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human and night elf weapons are ridiculously oversized

ember arrow
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no im not, youre bringing realism in a fantasy race

cosmic cargo
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compared to BE

ember arrow
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BE feels like im swinging a toothpick

fiery pendant
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realistically proportioned compared to what lol

cosmic cargo
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even those are generally oversized realistically

fiery pendant
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real people

chilly brook
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It's not wrong to say that male humans are extremely over exaggerated

ember arrow
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2H swords were not much bigger than 1h swords

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for example

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if talking about realism

cosmic cargo
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prot artifact on human for example looks super silly

chilly brook
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I mean they're not irl

cosmic cargo
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it's like a door

fiery pendant
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i love that lol

ember arrow
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small shield was best

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realistically

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but i dont wanna walk around witha small plate

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big shields are a fantasy concept

chilly brook
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define small

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because bucklers are small and they weren't the "best"

cosmic cargo
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that totally depends on context

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but like on a BE it doesn't look small

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but it doesn't look huge either

chilly brook
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Context is key

cosmic cargo
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my warr is NE anyway, cause alli

chilly brook
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Anyways, male BE seems to have the best proportions both in body and in armor and weapons nothing seems overly exaggerated

ember arrow
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worst looking race ever

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male belf

chilly brook
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lul

cosmic cargo
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yeah male BE looks ew

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male NE is worse though imo

ember arrow
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female belf needs to eat

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at least NE is thicc

chilly brook
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You're entitled to your wrong opinions

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πŸ˜‰

ember arrow
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calling something realistic or having right proportions is pointless on somethign that doesnt exist

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if bliz makes belfs have 2 heads all of asudden

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then that will be the new Belf

cosmic cargo
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god damnit there's no lul emote

smoky wave
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It's less the looks, its more the story behind the race. Other than tauren, where my main issue is doorways.

chilly brook
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I mean unless the humans in this fantasy world are over double the strength of real life humans that statement is demonstrably false

ember arrow
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who knows

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its a fantasy

cosmic cargo
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even with double strength it'd still be silly

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because the weight would cause balance issues

chilly brook
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don't wanna know what those pauldrons weigh

pliant notch
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the worst 2h is on orc male

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big orc small weapon

tight tree
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Get bigger weapon tbh.

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Taechalach or WoD CM sword!

analog escarp
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why tanks are mistreated in bfa 😦 no interesting trinkets GCD slowly killing us

winged kindle
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hey guys

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do we have any haste cap ?

amber siren
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nope, no stat caps, just follow the stat priority

winged kindle
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so on a "haste - crit " ring, with socket... i wil lsocket more haste ?? o.o

amber siren
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Yeah haste is still our 'best' stat, but with str being strong and the rest of our secondaries not far behind, you wouldn't sacrifice those for an ilvl drop with haste

winged kindle
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no, same ilvl

old zephyr
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Always haste.
More uptime on AM. More rage more Damage, more everything

winged kindle
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just wonderin inf

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is better to socket haste or str

amber siren
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you'd still want to socket haste

winged kindle
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ok got it

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thank you guys

amber siren
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πŸ‘Œ

merry cave
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Wonder how much haste 100% SB uptime would be

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If it's even possible

eager phoenix
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will battle potion of str always be prefered pot? How does steelskin/stamina potion compare? Icy veins article in guide only says Str potion but since it didnt mention the others I was curious how they stand in comparison.

cosmic cargo
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the other damage pot is probably better for ST dps

merry cave
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Generally tanks haven't used survivability pots for a long time unless there's a super specific mechanic we can't survive with a cd or external

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Last time I remember using tank pots was Sunwell lol

grim prism
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@merry cave itd be at least 160% haste

vocal nimbus
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117% in legion

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now it would be more

merry cave
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Guess not then:P

vocal nimbus
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And current tank pots only grant armor

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There hasnt been a situation which would require extra armor to survive in like, ages

hearty portal
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Yo guys! New to the discord

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What do you guys think about prot currently? I've tanked alot of mythics without an issue. But I do understand what people say when they think the spec is clanky. Do you think it will be changed in the near future?

merry cave
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Soulwalkwr there's a stamina one too now I'm pretty sure

vocal nimbus
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But that isnt really tank specific

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Furthermore, a situation in a 8-10 min fight where you would need 25 sec of HP sounds like bad design

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In my opinion, of course

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@hearty portal Im enjoying current prot

merry cave
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I'm. It disagreeing I doubt I'll ever use it, maybe it'll see light on super high keys if there are 1 shot mechanics

hearty portal
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Well me to, but i get the complaints aswell

merry cave
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As I said I don't think I've used a tanky style pot (Stam armour anything) since Sunwell lol

pulsar grove
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Anyone know how to get stat weights for prot warr?

amber siren
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we don't have weightings, only priorties

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you can find them in the pins

pulsar grove
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Sure but priorities doesnt help me with a hard choice between items

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Maybe you can help

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330 ring Haste Vers or 340 ring Vers Mast

amber siren
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if you read the pins you'd know

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ilvl is always better

pulsar grove
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Rings are different

amber siren
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our stats are so close rn that even if haste is our best stat, losing out on 'more' stats isn't ideal

pulsar grove
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Alright then

hearty portal
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The DR in the pins are diminishing returns right?

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Or do i missunderstand it?

amber siren
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it can also be short for damage reduction

hearty portal
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Yeah looking again

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Thats probably more likely

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But I dont think that sheet is valuing haste enough? Haste affects so much

cosmic cargo
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the topic is long gone but tanks used tank pots in wod

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since bonus armor was busted for dps too

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I miss bonus armor

fair root
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Should i be rocking 340 Jes' Howler or a 350 Vial of Animated Blood?

amber siren
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Haste is important but with secondary stats being linear now, you won't see large jumps in secondary stats like you did in legion

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The odds of having 'the best' stats with warforging and titanforging is pretty small

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So it's easier to just get the most stats and str

signal plover
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Personally I'd run the 340 howler

rain dune
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The howler.

vocal nimbus
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Howler is an on demand dr

balmy lichen
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yesterday a fury war dropped a 340 howler but cant give it to me because it was soulbound 😒

thorny pumice
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Thoughts on using impending victory in dungeons/mythics or is it just not enough of a heal to matter?

signal plover
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Not better than ITF

thorny pumice
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Figured as much. Just felt like I was always begging for heals in mythic Kings Rest last night lol

signal plover
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Your hp is very smooth with proper SB/IP/CD useage. So a healer should be able to catch up eventually.

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The IV heal is reactive and chances are you'll get some victory rushes in bigger packs anyway.

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That being said there are some heavy magic Dmg pulls in KR

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Plus those berserker bleeds

thorny pumice
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Yeah, I had no issue until then really. That long hallway before the third boss and then the mini boss before the last boss. I just resorted to kiting

ashen trellis
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Should be kiting a lot in kings rest

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Berserkers can be slowed and CC'ed to death

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the bleed is a frontal cleave

sick sentinel
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not me.

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we just blow em up.

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berserkers will do a bloody leap.

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I just chill out and wait for it to come back.

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dot is already off.

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it dies.

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use group stuns/shockwave/storm bolt as additional cast interrupts/stun uninterruptible casts.

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chill mythics.

upper spoke
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hey do we still like haste food, the way we did in legion? the guide only mentions strength banquet food

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and I was surprised the guide preferred strength from banquet rather than stamina

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any insight, please?

sick sentinel
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vers or haste.

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otherwise, strength food.

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never stam. thats for chumps.

simple lintel
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Hey guys I have tanked about 20 dungeons so far this expansion and I feel like we dont generate enough threat sometimes. I even feel a little weak when it comes to mitigation. Does anyone else feel similar.

compact mirage
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Use the taunt trick

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You generate bonus threat for the duration of the taunt

simple lintel
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On that 1 mob or all abilities while taunt is active

compact mirage
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On the mob affected by taunt for all abilities

fresh dragon
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yo. im discussing on a facebook community with guys that tell we are the worst tank in everything... M+ and Raid

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well.. i think they are wrong... are they?

compact mirage
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Btw I tanked mythic BFA yesterday with ilvl 315. We started with Motherlode and did the pirate dungeon thereafter. Was not that bad at all.

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Having 324 now.

bold mirage
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IMO getting information anywhere outside of this discord is misinformed. Most people are puking up something they heard from someone else outside of here

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the numbers guys live here and I trust them

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Warriors are fine. Go tank and you will see

dark junco
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Its mainly about the utility we bring

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Which is none

balmy lichen
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i tanked mythic with 300ish ilvl. We're fine. Healers always say that we're smooth to heal

severe flame
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i want to try tanking so badly, but there is a bit of a drought on one-handers

amber siren
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aoe stun, rallying shout, battle cry, 30% ally DR

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I mean

dark junco
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So pretty much anything a arms warrior can bring

cinder pasture
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Except an arms warrior cant tank πŸ˜„

dark junco
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No, but that leaves a slot for another tank

sick sentinel
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arms doesnt have shockwave and you rather have a rogue utility then warrior tbh

junior igloo
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Does arms have AoE stun or safeguard?
Arms has rally, but there is no downside to having 2 and using them twice as often.

The only redundant utility is the 10 % AP shout

sick sentinel
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mythics feel like normal dungeons to me.

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also having your tank give you battle shout is always good %10 AP

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the damage from trash/bosses isn't there anymore.

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its normal mythics so it doesnt matter when m+ starts obviously there will be a meta for high pushing keys and doing keys faster

dark junco
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Well atm i’m not using safeguard in dungeon yet, but yeah there will be that.

sick sentinel
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mythic+ cant come soon enough. zzz

dark junco
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Yeah 2 weeks

sick sentinel
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wtb WF/TF Oswain's.

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my servers AH sucks.

balmy lichen
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how much in your server?

sick sentinel
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just 1 regular for 400k.

balmy lichen
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😐

sick sentinel
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which isn't worth.

balmy lichen
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nope

sick sentinel
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upgrade ilvl wise anyway for me.

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need WF/TF.

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gold cost dun matter to me. have millions from WOD and Legion garrison/order hall abuse + AH manipulations.

dark junco
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Got a 340’ from rezan, calling it quits there.

cinder pasture
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I haven't had luck with shields in mythics so far...Have had like 4 or 5 drops in hcs though. If only it was the other way around

sage kettle
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Might be a stupid question but how good is prot in situations (m dungeons) where healer dies halfway through

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Coming here from dk where I didnt rly care about lack of healer in such moments thats why i'm asking

amber siren
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Unfortunately we're still more reliant on healers than the other tanks

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Just hope whatever cd's you have left are enough

sage kettle
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so prot is mostly about mitigation not self sustain yes?

amber siren
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Yep, we can mitigate fine, we just lack any meaningful self healing

vagrant cape
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Correct. We can't get our health back easily at all, but we protect it better than any other tank.

sage kettle
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mhm got it

fallen gazelle
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The things that pushed me over the edge to switching to a diff tank was just IP being on gcd and devastator not being viable

final mist
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I just want to note that all tanks are completely reliant on healers.

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Even on a DK or DH you'll never be 100% self-sustaining. Especially in higher M+

hearty portal
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Does Iron Fortress azarite trait stack?

signal plover
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Ya

final mist
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Yes.

hearty portal
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Ok

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So having 2 of them is not super bad then

final mist
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The only trait you never want multiples of is Deafening Crash, since the DS extension doesn't stack (though the TC damage does).

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Feel free to stack the others.

cosmic cargo
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if you were going for pure aoe dps wouldn't it actually still be worth stacking?

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just for the damage

ionic maple
timid jay
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Probably yeah, can't say for sure without working sims

sick sentinel
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who cares about devastator zzz

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such a lazy talent for a lazy ability.

timid jay
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@ionic maple no one is working on the prot module

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As easy as that

final mist
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Prot is missing from SimC because we aren't working on the backend.

sick sentinel
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which was only meaningful because of legendaries to begin with.

hearty portal
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Booming voice is to good

timid jay
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πŸ€”

ionic maple
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Ah that makes sense, sometime the simplest answer... thx guys

timid jay
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Devastator was good even without gloves

hearty portal
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Cant play without it

final mist
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Neither Marok, Cosmo, or I can fix the backend, though we can write APLs just fine, so we'll need to wait until we can get someone who can write it to fix the backend for us.

sick sentinel
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booming voice, God's voice.

final mist
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So Sims aren't working for a while. Same as Legion.

steep dock
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Hey does anyone know a good place to get reliable Prot stat weights for Pawn? The built in ones seem to be terrible.

hearty portal
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Do you guys think IP should come off GCD? Or would you rather see some other change?

final mist
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@steep dock don't use Pawn, stat weights for tanks don't work out.

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IP being off the GCD would be a welcome change.

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It'd fix a lot (the GCD is pretty cramped even without taking IP into consideration).

hearty portal
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Would we be to strong if that happened tho?

merry cave
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no

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still rage limited (maybe not on aoe)

fallen gazelle
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No. You still need the rage to do it and shield block is still better

hearty portal
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I haven't played other tanks, but the guy that im running with think warrior are the best :p

merry cave
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Id honestly like to see a utility, shield slam purging (in pve only) would be awesome

hearty portal
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Healer*

sick sentinel
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'only on aoe'?

fallen gazelle
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But if I’m charging into a big pack and I need to stack DR until the healer gets into gear then I don’t need to be spending a gcd on IP and losing aggro on stuff

sick sentinel
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never rage limited.

candid cove
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He’s probably like the only healer feeling that way

sick sentinel
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no reason not to use demo shout any/all the time.

merry cave
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I'd like IV baseline personally and it would solve a lot of my personl dislike in high keys, buti know a lot aorund here dont agree

sick sentinel
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or avatar on single big mobs.

hearty portal
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We started doing mythics when i was itemlevel 306 and it was pretty easy

sick sentinel
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warrior was never meant to be a sustain class. if you want self-healing so much, can play another class. that is not prot warriors design. If needed so badly, can always Azerite Veins.

final mist
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Warriors (good Warriors) will deal significantly more and take significantly less damage than other tanks (esp in AoE), and healers can see this - we just don't have utility in comparison to other tanks (read: Grip), which is why people say we're shit.

sick sentinel
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^

final mist
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That's why people say we suck in M+, which is just wrong, IMO.

candid cove
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They also see we can’t solo a boss after the healer dies to a fire

sick sentinel
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and short sighted.

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what exactly is wrong with the current backend? do you just need ignore pain edited or what

hearty portal
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Tbh, no tank should have crazy selfsustain

wide juniper
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Agreed.

hearty portal
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Tanks should rely on healers and vise verse

wide juniper
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But, not all tanks should be 100% based on active mitigation

hearty portal
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Tag team

fallen gazelle
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I don’t think anything is wrong other than how bad it feels to play coming out of legion

grim prism
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+1 for wondering what's wrong with simc on the backend

wide juniper
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Make it interesting.

sick sentinel
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gives too much excuse for others to be lazy/bad, knowing they can just rely on tank and its sustain to cheese end of an encounter.

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Which is just dumb design.

grim prism
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Actually was having an unrelated convo about that, which is why i popped in this morning lol

final mist
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On SimC: Too much to list out on mobile.

sick sentinel
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you'll hardly notice IP being on GCD once you reach the haste levels im in.

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and you'll never need to press devastate again.

final mist
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On tanks: No tank is self-reliant. Everyone needs a healer focusing them basically 100%. It's just super noticeable on warriors because we don't have self healing at all.

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And way too many people are way too stuck in Legion's "Tanks need self healing to be good" mentality.

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It's simply not the case anymore and people haven't realized it yet.

sick sentinel
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mhm.

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Since it's a large list of to-do, i'm assuming that entire damage taken vs damage reduced (of abilities) along with talents

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and azerite

fallen gazelle
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Should have realized it if you did anything prepatch before bfa hit

final mist
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To give you an idea, SimC is still saying that T21's 2pc is BiS for DPS. That's how long it's been since SimC was touched on the backend.

sick sentinel
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oof

grim prism
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Oh so its still the same problems from last expac, to some degree?

hearty portal
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Since I havent played other tanks. Do they have anything that they are way worse then warriors at? Like Bad mitigation/ bad mobility/bad support? Or is there a tank class that excells at everything?

undone sun
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most of last expac it wasn't on anyone's todo list

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now it is but not nearly top priority

final mist
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We were working at the end of the last expac

sick sentinel
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they're all squishier armor/mitigation wise, save prot paladin, and sorta druid.

final mist
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Early in ABT

undone sun
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^

final mist
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It's just the guys that we got to fix it, write for the other tanks, so they're doing their own classes first.

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Which we can't really blame them for.

sick sentinel
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I think we have better magic mitigation than them? correct if im wrong

grim prism
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Fair

sick sentinel
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DKs might be better with that

final mist
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Just be patient and it'll come soon.

grim prism
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Thanks fke the clear info

cosmic cargo
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closest to excelling at everything is monk, they still have 1-2 weakness though

fallen gazelle
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We have to have magic mitigation because every other tank has equivalent self healing that does the magi mit

cosmic cargo
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aka bleeds and frequent magic damage

sick sentinel
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we do have it. im saying better than others.

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magic mitigation? what's that? marok

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correct me if im wrong.

fallen gazelle
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Spell reflect

sick sentinel
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lul

cosmic cargo
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warrior doesn't have better magic mitigation than pala

sick sentinel
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spell reflect and IP

cosmic cargo
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holy shield, DR from consecration

sick sentinel
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imo ignore pain should be buffed to a certain degree and have better scaling

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DR from IP, DS

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IP scales with your mastery + vers + strength. get more gear and it'll be better.

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doesn't need to be buffed. when gear is shit atm

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just wait until you are on first boss of the raid

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: D

compact mirage
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Pulling with warrior requires creativity some time but mostly working with line of sight is fine to get some of the trickier caster pulls done.

uneven mason
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πŸ€” IP scales with the damage we take in, our Tank buster magic mitigation is Demoshout + IP&SR so we have effective 40% + (50% up to ~50,000 remaining damage depending on your IP cast) I'd say Warriors have the flat out strongest magic mitigation for tank busters, but piddly repeated casts are what destroy us, which is where paladins shine (they're MUCH stronger vs repeated frequent magic damage)

thorn trail
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the only magic damage i feel threatened by in mythics is the miniboss at the end of king's rest

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at least so far

uneven mason
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Oh I feel threaten by a lot of magic damage, that galecaster with Ironhull wrecks my day.

sick sentinel
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DPS race while keeping IP/SR off. no need to block.

uneven mason
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but unlike other tanks - Ironhull doesn't even phase me

sick sentinel
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plenty of rage for IP. its easy.

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and keeping DS up.

thorn trail
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yeah i just rotated cds and kept ip up. im more concerned with m+ scaling if dps can't outpace it

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that's the only point so far where i was like "holy shield would be nice right about now"

uneven mason
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for the most part I'd say tanks are balanced, as long as they don't nerf our DPS and it scales on par with DPS specs, I'd say being able to belt out 50,000 on large packs makes up for a LOT of Utility

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There does reach a limitatio nthough, where cheese is needed in the sammich

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and we lack cheese, we're all meat

thorn trail
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yeah that was actually why i went warrior. we do bladestorm damage in aoe and all the tanks need heals now anyway

limber perch
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aoe shieldslam t21prot

sick sentinel
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zzz

uneven mason
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TFW Thunderclap hits harder than shield slam

thorn trail
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feels fine to me πŸ˜ƒ

uneven mason
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Warmode root talent during avatar +++ as they try and run away

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They see the shield and don't think it'll hurt, then we're like THUNDER THUNDER THUNDERCLAPS HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

stray dagger
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I fear it's going to get bad as damage ramps. A lot of mobs are doing inherent magic dmg and IP isn't going to scale well enough.

uneven mason
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So, like, something has to hit REALLY REALLY hard to overwhelm your IP in 1 hit

grim prism
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Thats a legitimate concern

uneven mason
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Like almost half your health pool

sick sentinel
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18k+ thunder claps under demo shout + avatar.

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P funny

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in wpvp

grim prism
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But we are talking really high level stuff here

thorn trail
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i played dh, pally, and warrior in beta. we're all kiting anyway as things hit harder

uneven mason
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IP seems to be scaling pretty fast to

grim prism
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Not raids and not the kind of m+ that you need for a weekly

sick sentinel
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my IP is 35k+ before proccs/buffs.

grim prism
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We eill be fine for those

sick sentinel
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and my mastery's still low.

uneven mason
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from 300 to 330 I gained about 30% on the absorb amount

sick sentinel
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so I know it could be even bigger.

junior igloo
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IP scales just fine with AP as everything else

grim prism
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Also keep in mind, like they said above, there is more to tanking than just bricktanking in melee

sick sentinel
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s'what im saying. as gear gets better, it'll only get better. doesn't need a buff/tweak.

grim prism
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CC and kiting is an important part of the job

sick sentinel
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and with your armor/block increasing behind that IP scaling, also making IP last longer.

uneven mason
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It scales with Mastery, weapon damage, str, and attack power. But thats Volume when you talk about IP scaling, the absorb amount itself is going to be based on the intake of damage rather than the volume of the buff.

limber perch
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how are you getting 35k+ IP

junior igloo
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We have a lot more frequent cooldowns (Anger Management) than other tanks.
Those CDs work against magic.
We also have Ignore Pain and Spell Reflection.

If we can't deal with magic damage, what are monks/bears going to do?

limber perch
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im still at 22 or some shit

uneven mason
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It seems to stay fairly consistent on the % Of our health that the max hit will soak that is - the Full absorb of an IP will trim 40% of a hit that hits for 50% of your health.

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erm

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other way around

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50% of a hit that hits for 40% Of your health

cosmic cargo
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@junior igloo imo warr is right bellow dk and pala vs magic, frequent magic that is

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less frequent it's on par

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but except for DH everyone can deal with magic tank busters

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by just using CDs

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DH suffers because of a lack of proper CDs

uneven mason
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Its just our CDs are available every 25s

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and theirs is I think 1min

thorn trail
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plus with the thunder clap trait im getting like 66% uptime on demo shout. it's pretty crazy

sick sentinel
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337+ ilvl, 5kish AP, 716 mastery, 938 versatility, 340 mythic weapon, str flask, str food.

thorn trail
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it doesnt ever fall off till 2 claps after avatar ends, then just reapply and wait for your next avatar

sick sentinel
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new mythic drops made me lose some haste, got more crit. 😦

steady fiber
#

any one using pawn for prot ?

uneven mason
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No

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you can't

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for multiple reasons, primarily because there are no working strings for pawn for prot

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since SimC is not updated for prot

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Item level > Haste > Vers>=Mast > Crit @steady fiber

steady fiber
#

ok ty , and last question would be should i remove pawn then because i gues it's not working for arms/fury to ?

final mist
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Pawn also doesn't work for defensive gearing, only DPS gearing.

uneven mason
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weights are mostly irrelevant for warriors in general.

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It works if you use it properly Pkownzs

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but, in general you're going to sim for upgrades

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since the weights will change each time

cosmic cargo
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with raidbots being so easy to use I wouldn't recommend pawn for dps'ers either

timid jay
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^

cosmic cargo
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just sim top gear

timid jay
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I'd just recommend simming everything, its real easy to do with raidbots and doesnt take long

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(For dps classes, dont sim prot)

uneven mason
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They did a really good job with getting our stats close enough that generally an item level increase is going to endup being an upgrade - Fury & Arms
Item level is almost ALWAYS going to be a defensive upgrade for prot. outliers are rings/trinkets

cosmic cargo
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you can also put it so sim while you do something else

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if long queues

steady fiber
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raidbots is like addon btw? sry for dumb question

uneven mason
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its a site

sick sentinel
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decided to use versatility enchant instead of armor.

timid jay
uneven mason
sick sentinel
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just cus comfy more IP/damage/all reduction.

timid jay
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Get the SimC addon and just copy all the code into raidbots πŸ‘Œ

sick sentinel
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and have plenty of haste from gear/ITF as is

fathom marten
#

Okay, now when things are starting to get tougher, I'm actually really starting to get annoyed with our GCD change

sick sentinel
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dont forget +40 strength kraken gem before gemming haste

uneven mason
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yeah I've been using vers gems myself, more or less because I've reached a point where I feel comfortable with my rage generation, I don't have any horrifying gaps in my mitigation and vers helps me vs those nickle and dime magic hits a little

cloud basin
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How come I can't paste the code from raidbots back to pawn?

sick sentinel
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because it doesnt work.

uneven mason
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don't use pawn

sick sentinel
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dont use pawn.

cloud basin
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Did something change?

fathom marten
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You have to think like, for one we are very diffrent from other classes when spending resources for abilities. We have to gain our resource which takes time. Then we have to wait for the gcd. Then it's back to square one.

steady fiber
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@timid jay SimC u were talking about the SimulationCraft ?

amber siren
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simc is simulation craft

timid jay
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Yeah the addon is probably called that

sick sentinel
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again GCD change becoming less annoying/noticeable as haste increases.

uneven mason
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Yeah, the addon is SimulationCraft

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the command in game is /simC

timid jay
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Raidbots is basically a website that runs simulationcraft for you, though I must stress that protection warriors arent supported yet

uneven mason
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and yeah, don't sim Prot

fathom marten
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At first I didn't really have a problem with it. Now as I'm getting higher into content it's deff a hinderance far more then I anticipated

steady fiber
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and no idea when they will add support for prot war ?

uneven mason
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won't matter, I mean, you can't sim defensives

steady fiber
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oh didn't knew that ;D

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sry

uneven mason
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I don't forsee us, if they tune things right with that k variable to ever reach a point where we stop caring about how tanky we are and focus on damage

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Unless you're @grim prism

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Cause that guy just like to torture his healers

steady fiber
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using bad stat gear ?

uneven mason
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No, just focusing on making the DPS Look bad πŸ˜‰

sick sentinel
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: >

uneven mason
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Protection has opportunities where we can smooth damage intake, or do more damage

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I mean, its damage reduction if they die faster right πŸ˜„

steady fiber
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well depends how fast u can kill them

uneven mason
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We melt large packs...

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generally before Avatar fades

steady fiber
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killing speed + dmg taken = profit ?

undone sun
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unfortunately it's not legion so we can't easily do both

uneven mason
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More or less, but yeah, if you need a guideline for gearing, just run with Item level > all, if equal item levels, Haste > Vers=>Mastery > Crit

steady fiber
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ok

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ty πŸ˜ƒ

uneven mason
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on trinkets str will be a solid stat since it provides armor

grim prism
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Lmfao

uneven mason
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and scales IP

steady fiber
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btw there is atm BiS trinkets ?

grim prism
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Hasnt even run a dungeon with me and knows i'm sadistic with my healers

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@steady fiber they are in the pinned guide, tldr buy a darkmoon deck and farm a howler from tol dagor

steady fiber
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oh ok ty once again

slate obsidian
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anything with haste because stamina is useless for dps

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you wanna be able to outburst your Havoc on big pulls

uneven mason
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str mastery does the most for your padding on AE pulls btw Omni πŸ˜›

slate obsidian
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you don't need any defensive capabilities either, you just need to kill things until all stuns and your druids treants/shamans earth ele run out

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at that point you can start kiting, or just throw a def CD, you got enough of them

sick sentinel
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guys

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haste or armor in weapons?

vagrant cape
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weapons can have armor? what?

slate obsidian
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armor doesn't do dmg, so haste

amber siren
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you can do haste or armour, it's personal preference honestly

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@vagrant cape he means enchant

vagrant cape
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ooooh, ty

slate obsidian
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with the current armor percentage, a fully activated armor enchant gives you roughly 6% physical dmg reduction, whilst a fully procced haste enchant gives you around 10% haste

lethal gulch
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Does anyone miss devastator?

amber siren
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The rotation feels pretty bad with it tbh

slate obsidian
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nah, the rotation with devastate feels pretty bad, as you rarely use it anyways

amber siren
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That's the point, it's a filler

uneven mason
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Its fishing bait

silk bridge
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I’ve heard a lot of bad noise surrounding Prot warrior if I come back to the game will I just be sad? Can’t find any actual info

lethal gulch
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I kinda miss the talent with the rage regen

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generation*

uneven mason
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Well, they needed to get our rage gen under control πŸ˜‰

signal plover
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How hard have you looked for info because there's at least a guide that tells you exactly how to play

tight tree
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I love warrior but it is very different. Have to get used to new rhytm of steady pressing one ability after another with GCD. Instead of hectic IP spam.

signal plover
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And after u can do that reasonably well, prot warr is pretty great

tight tree
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But it is unforgivable. Cnat autopilot it like brewmaster.

uneven mason
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@silk bridge There is a lot of bad noise around prot warriors, but that's all it is, noise. The spec is solid as hell, almost OP in some situations. The GCD changes ahve a lot of panties in a bunch though, folks who never were prot before Legion didn't realize that tanking wasn't supposed to be played as if you were a coked up 8 year old on a DDR Turbo tournament.

tight tree
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Legion had this bad perception about tanks not being tanks but instead immortal DPS/utility machines. Now tanks are tanks again.

errant dagger
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@silk bridge i think the only reason people dont like it is because it feels weird to play with all these gcd and weird fillers

tight tree
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Yeah, get IP off GCD and we golden.

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Imagine purifying brew on GCD. Horror.

lethal gulch
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That would make it so much better

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IP off GCD

amber siren
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It's not going to come off GCD unless they suddenly revamp hotp, fr etc

lethal gulch
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SB is off gcd, right?

amber siren
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yep

undone sun
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Shield block, yes

lethal gulch
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It's weird for me playing prot now after legion's prot

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I'm still adjusting, but I like it

merry cave
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IP is different to hotp and fr in the fact its proactive not reactive though

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so theres a small chance

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i agree with you that it most likely wont, but wecan dream πŸ˜›

amber siren
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😒

uneven mason
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TFW Folks complain about having Devastate - IP off the GCD would literally only mean you're pressing Devastate more often it wouldn't really boost our RPS much, it wouldn't do much for our damage, it would just make us cast our filler twice as often.

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IP doesn't stack high enough to be spammable - our RPS is not high enough to spam it in most situations anyway

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Why does IP being on the GCD matter a whole lot, do you REALLY feel the need to hit Devastate twice as often?

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Just saying, IP being off the GCD would not be the godly gift that folks think it is.

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What folks mean to say is "I want my spammable eternally stacking 90% absorb IP back"

lethal gulch
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Are you mad? People are just talking. Jeez.

uneven mason
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Crazy mad or angry?

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Probably the first, no to the second

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Its a horse that has been beaten so much that its been reduced to jello - reconstituted into the shape of a horse, and beaten again.

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I just want folks to actually think about what they would gain from IP being off the GCD

final mist
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More than you think.

little star
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Guys

cosmic cargo
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someone forgot some 0s

little star
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LOL

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just casually searching the AH

uneven mason
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RHUTROH

lethal gulch
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That's awesome

amber siren
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feelsbadman

red sequoia
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Well that sucks,for that guy

jade tartan
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Ya not be dreaming now, mon!

fathom marten
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LMAO

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Wow

junior ivy
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aw i feel bad for the guy who sold it

merry cave
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to the guy above IP off gcd isnt about it being spammed

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its about it being much faster to use to abilities

fathom marten
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@uneven mason ehhh I think your underestimating the effectiveness of being able to charge in and hit sb and ip after another. Though, you're completley right about people beating a dead horse

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The fluidness of the rotation for the first 5-8 seconds of the encounter is just really bad.

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IP off the GCD would just help clean it up.

grim prism
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HA

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WOW that shield

ember arrow
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Guys is ip still on gcd? Are prot warr viable for m raiding?

grim prism
primal crypt
ember arrow
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Sry first time here

primal crypt
grim prism
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Keep Yourself Safe ;)

uneven mason
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I think we'd gain more from Charge being off the GCD than IP being off the GCD

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tbh

primal crypt
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went to AH to check for the same luck as @little star .... 600k 😦

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600g would have been nice

grim prism
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I still tclap before i hit the pack sometimes

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Tbh

uneven mason
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Don't do that

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ruins your parse

fathom marten
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@uneven mason why? Woudlnt you wait the same time of the GCD to hit sb because of swing timer and ability casting?

grim prism
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Swing timer generally refers to autoattacks, it is separate from GCD and is irrelevant for terms of prot discussion since a) devastator is not an ideal talent anymore and b) even when it was, it was determined that swing timer management was not significantly beneficial

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I dont think i understand your question

uneven mason
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For performance in Dungeons, not having to wait 1.5s to "make an exit" would do more for my survivability over having an IP that was off the GCD. Unless IP was buffed to its previous insanity, the mobs are going to chunk through it instantly on GCD or off GCD when the Stuns break anyway.

runic fjord
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having defensive abilities off the GCD will always be preferable to the alternative

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i'm not sure why this is an argument

uneven mason
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It means I could hit another TC before jetting with an intercept to my healer

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thus - have better threat for kiting dangerous packs

fathom marten
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He is saying that charge being off gcd would help more. Which I don't u understand how considering it's not a defensive ability in of itself, you'll maybe hit 2-3 times an encounter.

ember arrow
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Guys what if explosive applied bursting?

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200 iq

regal island
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@uneven mason "IP doesn't stack high enough to be spammable - our RPS is not high enough to spam it in most situations anyway"
lol man? No other tank has that issue. If a bear wants to spam 2x frenzied regen cd's back to back they can, as well as DH soul healing, pally heals, etc.
The max stack is just too low given that it's a 50% MITIGATION not a heal and we do not generate enough rage and IP mechanic doesn't work as if it will ever give us any type of complete sustain.

grim prism
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Oh i charge all the time tbh

timid jay
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Its not meant to be a complete sustain

runic fjord
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I mean, intevene is also a defensive cooldown.

grim prism
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More than twice a pull

uneven mason
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Tank sustain = not a thing?

ember arrow
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No tank has complete sustain

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This dude in legion

runic fjord
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Tank sustain has been gutted in BFA.

regal island
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If you compare IP to other Mit abilities, those are stackable as well for a duration extension generally.

ember arrow
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Fr has long cs

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Cd

timid jay
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Comparing it like that is completely unfair

ember arrow
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Lotp too

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Ip doesnt

runic fjord
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It was a design choice so that that they could rebalance damage sources and make more healers viable in high M+ keys

timid jay
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You have to realize that the toolkit around it matters a lot as well

regal island
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No reason to not be able to stack IP. The reason is blizz is lazy and coded it as a DOT with a 30% pandemic

uneven mason
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IP has no equivalent among the other tanks, it fulfills the "slot" of a 2ndary EHP boost for warriors (like a heal for the other tanks, or purifying for monks)

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0_o lazy = completely rewriting the ability three times?

safe perch
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1 week and still no shield drop for me .c, i think i should use my time to farm the gold for the boe, cant handle my bad luck anymore xd

uneven mason
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Sounds lazy to me.

regal island
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copy and paste coding isn't "rewriting" lol

grim prism
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Having anything off GCD would feel better than having it on GCD. I'm all for theorycrafting but i think we are getting a little off track with the hypotheticals lol

regal island
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it's half assing something 3 times

runic fjord
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@grim prism exactly

undone sun
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sure there are equivalents
talking about tanks that have 2 "active mitigations" which is every tank
IP and SB fit that category

ember arrow
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Woa we got a computer expert here

grim prism
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It is what it is, and it is unlikely to change

uneven mason
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Yeah Balsaq, it would feel better, but overall

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it would be a newbie trap

undone sun
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paladin has hotp and sotr
bear has FR and IF
DK has Bone shield and blood shield

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IP has no equivalent among the other tanks,

ember arrow
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Blood shield isnt

uneven mason
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I mean mechanically Thyme, it fulfills that role

fathom marten
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Okay let's not complicate intercept, obviously it has its defensive capabilities but that's not what will make us better by taking it off the GCD. Taking int of the GCD does hardly anything besides let you hit SS and TC faster which is not the part of the fight that is rough. It's literally the fact that there needs to be a ability off the GCD in our rotation..

uneven mason
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but mechanically the other tanks operate off of heals in that slot, BrM is closer

grim prism
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Prot is already a newbie trap imo

undone sun
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there's no other way to look at it, technically speaking it is correct

regal island
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IP is literally just a bubble, that diminishes slower. It's essentially a self heal.

grim prism
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High mitigation, low sustain

undone sun
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whether or not it's proactive or reactive

grim prism
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We are unlike other tanks

uneven mason
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You agreed with me while disagreeing 🀦

regal island
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Like if IP was replaced with a self HOT it would be a minimal impact.

runic fjord
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jesus christ why is this even a debate

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y'all are arguing just to argue

timid jay
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Welcome to prot

runic fjord
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you bored at work? what's goin on fam

timid jay
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Enjoy your stay

ember arrow
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I mean. Healing fir 25% of dmg taken is essentially 25% dr for 5 sec right? @undone sun

wild hamlet
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I'm bored at work

regal island
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it's called conversation. But yeah at work and bored.

grim prism
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I was, actually my sister is having a baby so i took the day off

timid jay
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I'd much rather have a absorb than heal

uneven mason
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mostly bored at work

grim prism
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To argue with you people

runic fjord
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same

timid jay
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Since it raises your EHP

runic fjord
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i'm bored at work too

regal island
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^ yes

uneven mason
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Absorb can be placed ahead of the damage (thus being proactive)

silk bridge
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@uneven mason @errant dagger I just read your responses thanks for the info. It’s hard to separate who’s crying because they miss spamming all their buttons, and who has legitimate info.

regal island
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but point being it's just a self heal

fathom marten
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Blah. How about we combine an ability. Dks have abilities that are like 2 in one

runic fjord
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i prefer the shield since it's technically magic damage mitigation which other tanks are fucking lacking

wild hamlet
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So Prot is the legion BrM of BfA is that what you are saying? Everyone complains about how bad they are, but a few dedicated people maintain they are actually really strong, then suddenly 2 patches down the line everyone realises and they are the new OP?

runic fjord
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pretty much yeah prot takes less damage than everyone else rn

regal island
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they did the 50% dmg passthough to prevent us from upping our "max EHP" farther than other tanks

fathom marten
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I don't think people are saying prot is horrible viable wise. It's play style wise.

timid jay
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I suspect it has more to be with IP still working on magic damage

runic fjord
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^^^^

timid jay
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if it was 90% it would trivialize a lot of mechanics

regal island
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Oh nah prot = best tank right now imo

runic fjord
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that's the big one

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also realistically, from a design standpoint reducing it to 50% allows them to buff it with azerite abilities without it becoming too strong

timid jay
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Regardless with the changes to RPS and GCD having it at 50% makes sense, otherwise you'd spam it a lot

grim prism
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Prot is prot. People say we are bad because we are easier to play incorrectly. It is totally viable once you learn the mechanics of the spec. It isnt OP and it isnt trash.

timid jay
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Reducing the cap makes the same effect as well

regal island
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I mean i only have bear at 328ish and my prot is 340 and dh is 322 but prot is by far the most fun and honestly just OP.

runic fjord
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personally i don't have an issue with the cap reduction as it gets chewed through so fast anyway

uneven mason
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That would probably be the trade off, lets say the rebalance IP, make it 90% again, they'd have to either make it such a small absorb, to be equal to the 50% we have now, and you'd be spamming it anyway

grim prism
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I really like where we are at tbh

runic fjord
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^

uneven mason
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Or give it a CD

timid jay
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A 1.5 second CD? Kappa

grim prism
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LOL

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Gottem

uneven mason
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probably a 24 second CD

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2 charges

regal island
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I'd just prefer to stack it up say 2x so i can focus on other stuff

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it's more annoying to have to spread the casts when i have the rage

uneven mason
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"20 second shared cooldown with other defensive cooldowns"

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the nightmare

grim prism
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They dont want you to do that though. They want you to have to choose rotationally between dps and mitigation.

runic fjord
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^

regal island
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it's the same though

runic fjord
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wanna cast IP more? cast revenge less.

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gg

grim prism
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If it was off-GCD, there would be no choice

jade tartan
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Yep

uneven mason
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Yup

runic fjord
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yup

grim prism
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You would press IP to keep rage below 100 while spamming DPS

regal island
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say i have 2 IP in 10 gcd's

grim prism
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Mindless

smoky wave
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Yay choices!

uneven mason
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Again though the opportunities where you have enough rage to do that

runic fjord
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uhh

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idk about your experience

regal island
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means i cant do IP, IP, x,x,x,...etc I'm forced into IP,x,x,x,IP,x,x,x

runic fjord
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but i normally have more rage than i know what to do with

dark wraith
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No idea how can you say that prot is good right now. It got nerfed substantialy more then other tanks with ignore pain not only on GDC but also 40% of absorb removed. We lost atleast 50% of our dmg mitigation and left of with smallest health pool of all tanks. Prot wasnt good in legion now its even worse

runic fjord
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lol what

uneven mason
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0_o

regal island
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rolf

runic fjord
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u trollin bruh?