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is prot warr good for m+?
It has its moments
I like it but i'm picky about a good team
I really want my hunter or rogue and chaman
The tanks are all so close right now that it's really all about which dungeon and which team comp
The things I don't like about prot is keeping aggro while kiting
Prot warriors are actually invincible with an earthen wall totem but shamans I play with don't seem to use it as often as I'd like
Thunderclap radius is insane with the talent, it's basically a ranged ability
My guild aassigned me with hubter/cham/pal/hpal.
Man this was awesome
But yeah, paladins and DKs do that more easily
aren't shamans like, shit in 8.0?
Supposedly, but I've always felt like a god with earthen wall totem down
wait sorry what spec of shaman are we talking about
Mine did well
Resto
oh ok sorry nvm
Oh, 4x was talking a different onr
I'm saying resto shamans are great for healing me
Do décent dps and use totem to cheese things, all good with me
As long as they use their goddamn totem
Hunter transfer aggro son I can kite without thinking, and paladins do their ususal broken stuff
Earthen wall totem is flat damage mitigation and with all the mitigation warriors already have it's basically an immunity when pulling a large pack of smallish things
Paladins as an overall class are in a pretty good spot right now.
yeah misdirection is so good when you need to kite
also tricks
I basically don't have to do anything
Yeah, my dream comp is prot Warr, resto Shaman, rogue (idc which as long as they have group stealth), frost mage, and a warlock
I'm addicted to healthstones
Maybe a disc priest instead of a resto Shaman on harder keys for the fortitude
Mine is paladin shaman rogue(hubter is okayish) priest
Which one's the healer?
99% chance says that a disc priest will be on my team
Doesn't matter, I just want mass dispell
Ah, good call
Mass dispell, +pal bubble, +anti fear totem +Cloak /mass stealth/misdirect.
Gotta cheese everything that can be cheesed
There's an antifear totem?!?
Yeah
What the fuck have the shamans I play with been doing?!?
Is tremor still a thing?
Rage is just for you totem is for everyone
Ah thats why i didnt know about it; it wasnt a thing in legion
I use berserker's rage, but that doesn't stop my team from getting feared into a giant pack on siege
oh yeah that makes sense
The grandest cheese ils have seen is rezan.
When He fear everyone keep bashing him with totem, when he eat someone everyone keep bashing him with BoP. Dead before anything happen
yeah I love that
I mean rezan feae is super easy to los at the stairs anyway
yesterday we had a 2 paladins in the group
Every time I think shamans are good I read about another ability I've never seen before and I'm like, "wtf this is so good use this on me please. Stop spamming chain heal for one gosh darn second."
2 bops
The bop though is sick
It's easy to line but that's 2 sec less from BL
wait I was not watching anything in the beta, how do you deal with pursuit on higher keys and no bop?
like, do the mechanic the way it is supposed to be done and run?
Yep. Like a plebeian
Pmuch
because in M0 we either BoP it or we outheal it
^
or we use a personal ( and I rally)
Yeah outhealing won't fly in m+
we do the "pull the boss to the stairs" mechanic and do the LoS under the stairs
The fear is not the main thing mostly the pursuit thing
well if you are at the stairs you can run in a straight line without any adds, right>?
I've never seen anyone beeing able to do that, if rezan walk on them they raise as well and he is VERY big
how hard do you guys think +10s are gonna bve tuesday
the vast majority will not clear a +10
Hey, how you guys do the shadowlike spirits in kings rest?
Do you activate them or just get them cleaved by the lightning without grabbing them in the fight?
how hard will like a +5 be
so if we are all like 342 ish ilvl
we will get a +5 done
and maaaybe 6 or 7?
but probably not 10?
we used to do +20s, +21s in legion
and sold +15s
yes
how long did you take to make your first +10?
i remember it being a hecking long time for me although i always pugged at the start of legion
i dont remember tbh b ack in early legion i was terrified of m+
and didnt have many wow friends to do things with , i was in a guild i didnt like and never talked to anyone
so i pugged things now and then
but i remember it took me forever to be brave enough tyo do a regular mythic
well if you spam the whole week you will finally push up to +10 by reset
esp if you clear Normal and HC
im raiding tuesday but i dunno if we are doin normal or heroic
probably normal first weem
my guild is doing normal on reset and then attempting HC on the weekend
if my guild only does normal, ill try and pug heroic
lol
i imagine normal is gonna be hard though
yeeee
just got my BiS chest from tol dagor
so im now full BiS azerite
GIGA
still unsure about overwhelming power vs strength in numbers
yea in the icy veins guide
its always best to start off in normal imo, loot is still an upgrade, you learn the fights, and you're not as powerful as you think you are
azerite gear is confusing t ome s oi a BIS list would help
preraid its Freehold helmet and Tol Dagor chest
get gear with our best azerite traits, pretty simple
DC helm from freehold, and BfI on the other 2
the bis list includes the overall best traits
but "best traits" can be confusing when one item might have best outer ring trait and another might have best inner ring trait
right?
exactly
arguably the outer ring traits are the most important ones
Don't bother with any of the inner ring traits if you haven't unlocked it? Gear will be next to absolute when you push content come Tuesday patch anyway...
i didnt realize that
whats the optimal piece to have DC on?
any
You just want one.
The damage from Thunder Clap stacks, but the important thing from DC is the DS duration increase, which does not.
It's capped at +2 seconds.
So no, replace one of those with another piece if you can.
alright ill try
if an item has crit/haste and another has vers/mastery
would i be better off with the haste one
@dark junco i assume you mean the little shadow fiends? I just mass dispel when I'm healing with my disc. I'm lurking here to get a better understanding of prot warrior in general as I run with one all the time in my guild.
I don't know if there is a ny other way to get rid of them other then purge.
zzz
wut
any warrior can solo those
charge in, get feared, zerker rage, aoe
the shield is very small
just dps through it
They usually run away from tank
@final mist so i have 1 DC trait in my shoulders, just got a chest with IF. the only trait worth losing ilevel for is DC right?
y
ya
ye
i literally keep getting helms from the azerite caches from emissaries and stuff, and its my DC trait at 325 ilvl -.-
hows the darkmoon deck for prot?
im using fathoms instead of blockades now.
i think it was recently buffed, but I honestly haven't paid attention to it
it was laughably bad, then they buffed it and now it's good
blockades is pre-raid BiS defensive wise
how much does darkmoon thingy sell for
like 30k
For tanks you want to get stats rather than fat Damage. But STR and stam is still amazing
feelsbad that they made it so u cant sim stats for dmg in bfa
when youre waiting foreverrrrrr for a world quest mob to spawn , with likje 12 other people
finally realize its ina cave below lol
elemental whirl or shimmering haven?
im not a fan of moving into something while tanking
so im leaning towards EW?
yeah both are bis defensively
swamp something afaik
ty
swamp fish n chips
im stocking up on consumables
for raid and m+
ive been using legion consumables til now
Swamp fish and chips is just fish, chips and gravy right?
i have a weird and stupid issue all of a sudden
pressing d doesn ot make me right to the rightr
check your key binding
np
New here, bis traits for proc?
deafening crash
Ty my catfriend
yw
only one deafining crash tho
and two brace for impact
iron fortress is third best iirc
when do weekly quests come out
what do you mean by weekly quests
Hey guys, question. do Warrior Tanks have a BiS?
you see the item level of the item you currently have?
if you get a higher one, thats bis
Bis list didnt exist for a long time, especially not in legion with titanforging, neither do they now
@scarlet osprey thanks! Just saw your ping 😃
would you say the servant splitter is better than the sword from the last boss of temple of seth
equal ilvl and all that
for damage purposes
it did 180k for me over a 35min mythic+ on beta, so unless something has changed between then and now its not great
that was with it at 370 ilvl as well
The DoT is pretty worthless. They favored the 2h version a lot this time around.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=159626/lingering-sporepods&bonus=4777:1482
or
https://www.wowhead.com/item=159627/jes-howler&bonus=4777:1482
along with blockades?
This blue trinket of item level 310 goes in the "Trinket" slot. It is looted from Sporecaller Zancha. In the Trinkets category. Added in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.
Jes
Definitely not sporepod, so Jes'
Really? But I get 59 avoidance from the spores and a good amount of heals
ye, jes
spore sucks
The heal doesnt proc that much neither
So do we use Jes on cooldown or with Avatar for example?
and avoidance only deals with aoe damage
avatar is gonna come off cd far more than jes with AM
Yeah that's true
Would it be a good idea to pair it with Demo shout then considering Booming Voice gives you a 15% dmg buff?
At worst you might miss using its effect for ~20s
yea
I think you can have it up for each second avatar
Offensively that is
You can also use it as a defensive cd
Provides around 8% vers at 340
Thats hardly a defensive that will save you from anything dangerous...
The way I'm using demo is to pop it whenever there's more than 3 mobs around me so I can keep the threat due to increased dps and benefit from the defensive use of it
So getting some versatility ontop of that would be good.. I guess that's what I'm gonna do. I don't feel like finding a special keybind for that one trinket right now
The dr from vers is half the % right? Or was the dmg bonus what was halved?
I usually mix both up
4% reduction, yes.
so i asked this question multiple times, but idk i have to ask again, i have BiS helmet and chest with Overwhelming Power vs Shimmering Haven/Strength in Numbers, both are B Tier traits and i cant 100% make out what i should take
any insight from the big bois?
how much does a socket count for ilvl wise?
And a haste proc would benefit more than an hp proc
have a 335 shield with socet and a 340 shield
well i enjoy the high AF HP with haven + blockades
strength in numbers could get my HP above 230k
if everything procs good
and with max stacked ITF im at 36.xx% haste already
not to mention rezan proc and enchant im from time to time at 50% haste
is prot warrior still shit
no
ive had a look and im seeing 20k ignore pains for 40 rage
seems pretty trash compared to my other tanks
ignore pain is a rage dump
^
ignore pain being shit doesnt mean warrior is shit
so mitigation is just sb
"just"
and ignore pain isnt that shit its actually quite strong against magic vs other tanks
yea i did 10k hps several times
hells, even revenge's giving dr% with the right gear
you just gotta play right
hmm guess ive just gotta forget the way prot played in legion and give it another shot
exactly
ignore pain went from the best survival ability to the worst pretty much
doing 25k hps on my dk vs no self heal or active mitigation other than shield block seems like a big drop in effectiveness tho
and with that i have like 5k hps baseline
but ill see
almost as if it was needed, warriors have had no magical resist for..ever
keep in mind aidan, if played correctly you take much less damage than a blood dk
the worst change on IP is the GCD
there's 0 chance ur gonna have 100% uptime on a 20k shield in mythics
i do
there's literally no way u have 100% uptime unless ur pulling like 1 mob at a time lol
nope
20k damage is like 2 melees
2 melees unblocked maybe
i don't see the point in comparing hps from dks to anything else
you get hit for like 1k per melee
They don't really have anything else, of course the number will be high
when you block you take almost 0 dmg
whats ur mastery
doesnt matter
i mean it does matter..
not if you play correctly
in dungeons
you will have 100% uptime on block
mostly
with SB and Bolster
through AM
"if you block" you can have 1 minute of block up at a time
instead of being used up
pretty much
you can have 40sec of block up
without problems
so in dungeons that pretty much 100%
guessing this is bugged?
ye its 36.22%
yeah so ur telling me that if u use shield block ur 20k shield is not gonna get depleted
ye most of the time, unless you bigpull ofc
even with 36% dr that shield isnt gonna do shit and will get removed within first 5 seconds
and recasting IP isnt that bad
you underestimate how little damage you take
by quite a lot
36% dr not including magic
well 1 melee from a dungeon trash mob will use 2-3k of your IP after block
im going to have to see this for myself
you have to be willing to cast IP
i recorded my m0 runs lemme watch it back real quick
if you take IP as it is, a 50% dmg reduction
you are fine
its a 50% DR on top of your block
legion u spammed the fuck out of ip and got a 10 mil damage shield and now it seems like trash compated
legion is gone
compared*
im pretty sure every tank is crying over not being legion anymore
so no point in comparing IP anymore
from what i heard BDK got still fucked quite hard
no not really
pretty sure
ok trash pack before the totem boss in atal'dazar, 1741 <1741 Absorbed> <2468 Blocked>
not to mention i seem to crit block alot
same here
crush from the waycrest tree boss
taken 2k damage
blocked like 25k
wArRi hAs nO sElF sUsTaIn
cuz we dont need it
Good thing it's not a pvp expac
people are underestimating prot by a mile
and i like it
except for the cry babies and memes
if VR procced of mobs dying instead of just getting the killing blow that would be great aswell
it's not ideal, yeah, but our dps is high enough we get a couple of those in every fight with differently hpd mobs
but that might be cuz of shitty dps mates
the grubs and the dogs in waycrest have a high chance since theres alot of them and low hp
exactly
i love to pull the gluttenous boss instantly
with all the adds
so much dps and healing
if i get spam healed and not have to use defensives IP and VR can prob get like 100k dps in there
ye its a really fun room
what are you guys using to track your incoming damage/block/absorb etc. to look at it?
i use parrot2 but since prot is pro active and not reactive its not really necessary
I just wnat somehing I can glance at every so often to make sure I'm doing a good job mitigating
Mchimba's ritual bandages any good?
theyre not terrible defensively
i think Meiffert once did maths
@junior igloo you once did maffs on this right?
the strength is always good on it, and the absorb is better defensively than a dps trink
but if u dont need surv i wouldnt use it
rezan will be better generally
Its probably not worth
they ll underestimate
its less than a IP on a 1min30s cd
i have a 355 mchimbas and i find it complete trash
could help on the magic dmg bosses, zekvos zul and ghuun
Why are you comparing it with IP instead of comparing to other available trinekts?
i said it gives less than an ip i didnt compare it to it
@ember arrow Was trying to prove something to a friend, who is a prot warrior who keeps telling me that that you guys have a BiS because if you take out TF and WF out of the equation, there are some pieces which are better than others
Thank you
btw best tank for uldir right now is Brewmaster/guardian right?
raids not even out yet how are we supposed to know whats best? cus alpha/beta didnt tell us
Don't need to play the raid to know class balance. It's all simmable
And uldir is a lot of single target bossing which will favor a specific class anyways so just that is enough to have an edge
You can't sim tanks, so that's not true.
Additionally there's never a strictly "best" tank. Certain tanks do better than others on certain fights.
most guilds will use a blood dk on zek'voz and probably Zul just for the grips
325 -> 340 helm. worth losing Brace for Impact for the revenge one? :/
ah. got that one on my chest so good on that
forever stuck witha 310 shield 😦
330 shield wq up rn for me
😮
are you on NA?
ah im EU
ahhh. so it shoudl be coming my way soon ? 😄
Eu has either been really lucky or NA has been really unlucky
also. 320 aight to try and pug mythics?
its fine but id recommend to make your own grp since ppl want 340s now
330 appears to be the base, was 325 last week
Another reason to have a guild
Pugging will be rough but yeah, agreed that you should just form your own group
hey guys, does crit help in something?
Gives Parry, it's good for DPS.
i have like 400 crit food, idk what to do :/
ive had hit or miss pug groups so far, either the healer is slow to heal, the dps is really low, or the group is awesome and we blow through pulling 3-4 packs at once
omg i want shieeeld 😦
tried all spec in warrior and by far the prot is the most fun to play build
which is sad for me since i am dps
yea thats a bit of a problem there
is the darkmoon fair trinket good for prot
I mean blockades one
i bought it. oh well. impulsive
im sure its better than my i273 tirnket
its good
so u guys have gotten shields from WQ?
got one from the auction house lol
270k?
i still havent seen a shield drop, even after i bought oswains, was 250k for me, well worth it
i havent seen a shield from a WQ and the only weapons ive seen were 2hand pole arms
calver
Only good thing about oswains is that it's invisible while sheathed
glad I'm not the only one. still rocking a 300 shield I got from AH
so fathoms doesnt proc for prot?
it does
alright
Even without a proc the raw str on it (due to ilvl) makes it strong for prot in many situations
shoujld prot be using str or stam flask
any ways to determine azerite traits for prot? Having trouble finding a good source for this information. I have found things like icy-veins that list the best to worst, etc. but I cant seem to find comparisons anywhere.
What are you looking for exactly?
I have 2 340 chests, one has 3rd best outer ring trait, and an S tier inner ring, the other has 2nd best outer ring trait, and a B tier inner ring trait.
ah okay. Yeah until there are exact weights for each trait so you can plug those into an addon or whatever, you won't really be able to get an exact answer
if you post screenshots of the two pieces we can suggest something though
ok first chest is Brace for Impact with Lifespeed inner ring.
second is Iron Fortress with Crystaline Carapace
So warriors don't have a filler ability to hit anymore. Like devestating strike back in the day
you mean devestate?
devastate is a thing
@frigid fjord Use the first imo
thank you
Will the gnarled mood ring stay releveant longer if it has a socket ?
like thats a decent amount of haste, wonder if its worth staying at a lower ilvl for it
wow
omg feels good to be done
Potion of bursting blood or str?
most likely bursting for pure ST dps and str for everything else
icy veins said str
Ooooo Thyme vs Marok go go
lol i hope its strength cause i spent a bunch of gold buying consumables after checking icy veins
Will you guys be using a str flask or a stam one for tuesday?
I though str but i’m not sure
lol
I got both, just in case
why do you have 119 drums
Tfw when your raid doesn't have 5 shamans I guess
but
why would you go into a m+ without a bl
for me, drums are soemthing for other people to worry about
idk, i kinda plan before starting 😛
whats a bl
bloodlust
oh
^
Been in pugs that don’t use it, Been in all plate groups for gear sharing, been in groups that don’t know when to use it, there’s all sorts of reasons
i tend to do mythics with same group. 2 warriors, 1 dk, 1 warlock and 1 priest
so we dont got a heroism person
it falls on me
ive taken on the role of drummer
2 pally, 2 warriors 1dk/dh
Lawl
We alternate the drums
But its pretty sick for gearing: we don’t lose loot that much
i embrace being drum person, it makes me feel useful
wait, no ranged?
No ranged
not plate
lol im the tank 50% of the time
but i would never bring all mlees
me and the dk do /roll for it
hell naw
Shockadin, ranged dps there 🤔
Lawl
i even prefer no melees at all usually
It’s m0 and we want to gear share. Yes all melee
real hpal dps go into melee
Its not 2.4
like, all my wow friends are melee.
i cant help it
i barely have any ranged friends
well there are so few choices for ranged these days
spriest haHAA
and too many for melee
we’ll switch teams out once we’re all geared
if i was to ever level an alt, id wanna be a boomkin.
are boomkins good in bfa
yeah its nice having a bunch of plate in my mythics
They tried no tank clothe run, didn’t work out lol
i geared up quickly
also, i pugged temple, and we fought the adds beforel snek boss for 5 minutes
cr = combat res
no
?!
dk
shout till u wake up
SCREAM
i will paly warr if it feels good
its true though warriors need SOME kinda cool utility thing like bres or hero or summoning people, i mean we cant even regular res
WE CANT DO ANYTHING SPECIAL

Kappa
a shout that busted the ear drums of your enemies that made them unable to cast would be cool
we can hit people with a shield kappa
I can run to allies v fast
they should let warriors summon people like warlocks can
cause its annoying rhat only one class can summon
and its annoying trhat warriors arent special
so it makes sense
let warriors summon.
hahahaha
That's some good science
Call of the Valajar - Set up a Val'kyr that can call your allies to arms, blessed by Odyn. - Basically the same thing except everyone else now can plummet from the sky on that location
hire me now blizz
YEAH
warr should have a channeledshield ability
oh wait
but where your allies can hide behind
thatd be kinda cool
THE AEYGIZ
NotLikeThis
but i think we need to be able to summon people more
let warriors summon. its gotta be a thing next patch pleease
summoning is important
warrior CC - kill it faster
Cat is new odyn 🙏
theres nothing more annoying than joining a pug raid and realizing they got no warlock
and you gotta walk allllllllllll the way there
another class needs to be able to summon
i think a silence shout could be useful, kinda makes shouts like dh sigils but warrior esque
and warrior makes the most sense
cause warriors have no special ability that makes us unique and useful
we cant even res
we cant bres, we cant hero
hm lemme think
demon hunters cant, but they can double jump
rogues are the only other class in same situation as us
but they can pick pocket
and stealth
soo
really warriors are only class with nothing special
im having an addon problem. i have to /reload efvery time i wanna open a profesison window 😦
shroud would make rogue viable for mdi all on its own
rallying cry is sorta unique
I say sorta cause the ress totem for rshammies does similar or used to at least
Shroud does make Rogues MDI viable.
Rogue can stealth the whole group
They also do decent damage.
warriors are literally just pure damage/tanking with nothing special. and thats ok i guess, but if any class is gonna get summon it better be us
shroud is kinda broken for m+
dps warr is justa dmg bot ye
ye i meant it does, if all they had was shroud and no cc etc
We 100% will not get a summon, because it doesn't fit our thematic.
killin my dreams, sal 😦
that would be cool tho xd
The only time we coulda get a brez was legion
With valkyrs
But that sail has shipped
what do you think about a silencing shout Sal?
yeah make banners happen again
i just want something special, a reason for someone to be like "i wish we had a warrior"
or shield slam dispel glyph atleast
Banner: YOU GET ARMOR,YOU GET ARMOR, EVERYONE GETS ARMOR
AOE group crit instead of haste. Like a shout version of bloodlust that offers 30% crit instead?
rip reflective plating
^
not just something related to combat. think res, summon, that sort of thing
Loved that
in that realm
I'd still love this talent: Crater: Your Heroic Leap hits so hard it makes a crater, pulling all enemies within 20 yards to your location
I compensate with drums, brazier, foods/feast, etc
something akin to that talent in D3
Feels like I kinda help
@sick sentinel That was something I thought should have come back. Blizz makes class identity to be a thing. They gave grips to DK/DH and then took away AoE taunt for legion. That should have been our spec utility
I’m also a dranei, so last stand-Gift of the Naru, is a thing
but banners make the most sense thematically. I don't even need Demo Banner or Crit Banner (was it called Skull?), I just want Taunt Banner
What about a val’kyr that resurrects you upon death once per hour or something?
like the fury hidden artifact?
Mocking Banner, that's what it was called
i mean, why a aoe taunt
Banner seems legit to me
aoethreat isnt our problem
it's AOE not around you
^
Like a purgatory effect of a Valkyr holding next to you like when gohan does his kamehameha to kill cell
so a monk statue 2?
Toss an ally to target location, dealing 9000% AP around him
Crit, haste, mastery banner. Armor reduction banner, armor penetration banner
Like she’s embracing ya to help ya out
that's how it used to work
@dark junco exactly
Yeah I get ya
She returns your soul to your body
I think we got banners in MoP. We had 3. Crit, Demo, and Taunt
But since theres no more Odyn: rip
Banner was useful to get outta garrison if you were dranei or tauren with a elixir of giant
challenging shout
didn't we have an aoe silence a long time ago?
yeah
You could intervene to it lol
i miss thattt
Do you guys think I’d be worth it to hold onto the pure haste ring if it has a socket, even after like heroic/mythic uldir?
(Trying to flip to get a 350 haste one with a socket)
Mass taunt was Mocking Banner, Skull Banner was the DPS one, Demoralizing Banner was a -%DR banner.
Cause I know thad be legit like a shitton of haste. Thats almost 6% just with that
After a certain point, the sheer amount of other secondaries + Stamina will outweigh the pure Haste.
Bonus points if they added back Mocking Banner and it taunted mobs AND made fun of them
Yeah I’m pretty sure it will, but would it be 375ish+ or later?
I miss a mass taunt
Thats what I’m not able to guess/make up my mind
rings dont give str if you dont need more stamina i would keep the haste
uhh no
you get more secondaries with higher ilvl rings
after 10-15 ilvls its worth replacing
could anyone point me to some good guides for M+? Guides with detail like "you can skip this trash" or "go left here to save time"
well i rather use really high haste ring then crit versa ring
well, secondaries are really close
it will be higher stats yet not as much as useful
@weary notch i believe the method MDI team will be making them after uldir / reset or 2 of m+
@little star cool, thanks
dk has sim
they need haste as much as we do or more
and thats what i base my opinion on
Make sense levko, thanks
But I gues unless new ring has decent haste i’ll hold onto the gnarled with a socket
@weary notch you could check out the method dungeon tools addon if you wanna look at what trash will give % etc
I’ll have to check on that
Didnmt notice
So I could stack crit and get them nice... what was it tanked? Like dodge tanking?
When rogue had like 102.5% evasion and parry
You couldn't get crit anywhere near that high now anyway
Nah I know, was mostly kidding
Forgot the name of what it was. Was it avoidance or something?
Back in bc days
Uncrittable, uncrushable and then the other I can’t remember
Yeah avoidance cap: block+parry+dodge+enemy miss chance
I remember farming so much block gear to get 102.5
It was hilarious though
Running dungeons in that gear, taking like no dmg
And having HUGE shield slams bc of the block on everything
yeah WOTLK era.
was a good time. and got me realm first TOTGC. all that block/avoidance gear.
avatar more on trash, it comes back up so fast with anger management that you can use it almost every pull
you can start a pull with heroic throw on one thing, and taunt a different one for initial aggro
ic..
dps is important now for holding aggro so making sure you're using things like TC on cd is important
doing more dmg will probably help the most though
TC?
thunder clap
What's your ilvl?
Anyone else having trouble w/ agro in multi-mob pull?
I feel like dps just explodes on them when im trying to build threat for mitigation
Avatar.
nope.
What do you do after you charge in? I try to shield slam, thunder clap, shield block, demo shout
and then someone usually pulls agro
and im trying to revenge asap and it gets chaotic
ava > charge > TC > demo > SB > TC normal rotation
ill try that too thanks. havent been using ava only on bosses
also only like 314 ilvl and was doing a mythic with 340+ dps
you should have Avatar for every pack
Especially with the talent you should be using Ava pretty much on CD
It's a lot of damage
dumb question but
does pally hold agro better
like warrior vs prot pally are they the same?
Technically paladin has less overall damage output than warrior does so no. Warrior should be much better with agro
And in most cases it's not about the spec
So since we’re 3 tanks, we’ve been asked to keep our dps spex somewhat decent. Should I go arms or fury? Which is easier atm?
arms is looking the best i think but check the other channels see what they suggest
Stupid question, not sure if it's in the pins or guide - does block function as a % or an absolute?
its %
if you look at the block stat on your character sheet it will say something like 3848% and that means 38.48% of damage gets blocked
so for traits like Iron Fortress, how does the absolute value affect the %? And why is it an absolute number increase which in relativity is meaningless because we don't know how much our block value is?
double if crit
Shouldn't that trait be a % increase? so it's relatable to the number we're presented with?
block value is on the shield and does increase the % but im not sure on the exact math maybe its on icy veins or another can chime in
ah found it
Yeah i'm reading through it, I don't know that there's math here for block value & % relation... @fierce juniper Hate to bug you about this but do you happen to know and is it even worth trying to figure out?
blockRating / (blockRating + k) where k =6300 for enemies 120-123
Yeah it's explained on the rotation page
oh wait
he just linked that
whats the question then
Was just trying to figure out how iron fortress or similar traits affected block value since it's a % on our paper doll, and why the terminology is absolute on the trait and not % based. Seems confusing for people who aren't familiar with math behind the scenes
Like, "what is 280 extra block when I'm blocking a %?"
add the iron fortress block to your shield block and re run the "blockRating / (blockRating + k)"
so if shield has 4000 block and iron fortress adds 250 then 4250 / (4250 + 6300)
well it would be to calculate the increase, but yeah
It seems that at equal item level for Trait/Shield it's ~1.5% block mitigation extra on iron fortress
Is there an addon that tells you what type of damage is Incoming? As a follow up do we know if any mythic bosses or uldir bosses have reflectable spells?
reflectable/blockable list is in the pins and as for the addon, i doubt there is one for incoming dmg but you can see what hit you and what type it was
There's a weak aura for the dmg Inc somewhere iirc
At work so can't find it right now
Interesting. Thank you. I may make a weakaura for this
do you mean this one @raven kernel https://wago.io/B1pg1fRub
pretty sure this one has been updated to show damage prediction
ah its only for m+ bosses / specific mobs
MORTAL
STRIKE
Vers nav a viable enchant if we taking too much dmg in mythics
Dam really nice, i too still have my 266 shield :(
Any of you guys bought a 355 shield ?
wondering if I go for it or wait since i'm sitting on a 340
last boss in normal drops haste mastery one and its 355, id not waste the gold imo
5th boss in for the first one to drop looks like
Is the Icy Veins azerite traits ranking still up to date? Deafening crash far and above the best?
yup, just trying to explain to AMR that it's trait ranking i wrong
hmmm
Use your brain to sim prot. Cus nothing out that works.
AMR is completely different from SimC anyways, one is reliable and the other is not
@final mist
@sick sentinel None of that now. Use #promotion.
my bad
So... I guess this has already been asked plenty of times but just curious... How are you fellow prot warriors feeling as tanks this expansion?
Hey guys, does anyone else find they get trucked by the blood ticks in underrot on mythic, seems what ever I do I get practically one shot. How is everyone else dealing with them?
Kiting is the only way, the bleed does way too much
You aren't supposed to face tank them
Get initial aggro then start kiting
They die quick anyway
can also skip both packs of them
Is it worth replacing 340 Ves/ 340 Zandalari Emblem over this? (146 crit, 66 lifeleech, socket, chance to increase primary stat by 674 for 7 sec)
obligatory can't sim prot
but i can't read german either
so 🤷
plus are you asking defensively/offensively
340 vers trinket is p vague
etc
thinking of playing prot, is the gcd situation a issiue like everyone has been saying?
Only real complaint people have is with IP
Everything can be avoided with proper play
how difficult is tanking mythic compared to heroic
raid or dungeon?
dungeon
hmm, well i tried picking up tanking earlier with normals and heroics and it wasnt too bad, but my gear was on the high side(338~) to begin with
pretty sure it helped to have a 340 1h and a 300 shield
bfa dungeons do rely a lot more heavily on having people who know how to interupt etc
bad groups can be horrid
think holy paladin is the only spec that got their interrupt taken away
That's mostly cause most people facerolled Legion m+ and are still in that mindset..there wasn't that much of a need for interrupting/stunning in the key levels that the general population was doing. So put together the new dungeon designs/Mobs(casters, magic damage etc) and the reduction/removal of tank Magic mitigation tools it's a shitshow at the start. 😄
Mages are great since if you miss the spell cast, if its a buff they can just spellsteal it
same goes for shaman and warlocks
That is if the warlock knows how to use his felhunter properly
who do i contact to get IP off GCD
@dark junco i bought 355 shield day 2 of Bfa and have been finding it extremely ez from that point on.
That's my shield experience so far
referring to the interrupt discussion, is there any class that doesn't have a way of interrupting these days?
shamans still has wind shear?
shaman mvp
Warlock only has pet interrupt
no, warlocks have an AoE stun too
stun is different
So are talking cc or interrupt now
true that, but stun kinda interrupts spell casting mobs too
not everything that is interruptable is stunnable tho
^
to be fair, every class should get a minor resource return for interrupting like some other class i could name does just because...
to provide incentive
All tanks and melee specs have 15s interrupt.
Shamans of all specs have 12s.
Ranged interrupts are 24s (mage, hunter, warlock pet).
Balance druids have AoE silence.
I think that priests, balance (if you don't count solar beam) and healers are the only ones without an interrupt
point is that no group should be without some means of interrupts ...besides the tank. And yes, I've had some horrible experiences lately 😛
Same here, pugs can't interrupt/stun for shit
(both as tank and shaman healer btw)
So I'm curious, m+ loot caps at 355 this week, but it can still TF beyond that yes?
I know next week cap is unlocked to 400
I don't know if they've really given a concrete answer tbh
But specifically this week we should be able to TF to 385 ye?
how good will be prot warrior in Uldir raid? Better than Paladin or worse?
About same
