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vital wren
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There's something likable hearing the shield slams and blocking

old zephyr
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Never had any "oh shit" moment but had hé did get some

radiant tendon
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Does anyone have rough stat weight values for pawn for a quick at a glance estimation of upgrades?

sick sentinel
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that's how bdk works though

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they're spiky but they can heal themselves up

undone sun
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don't use pawn

old zephyr
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Except J'en the logs says they don't =)

sick sentinel
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shit bdk then

vital wren
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How worth is darkmoon tank trinket for Uldir btw?

old zephyr
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I don't think so

zealous crest
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Just got pauldrons from Mythrax. Should I get Archive of Titans or Iron Fortress trait?

radiant tendon
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Thanks for the help

vital wren
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For some reason I kinda like Iron Fortress more

zealous crest
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my goal is max DPS 😄

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since I wont do mythic raids

vital wren
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True, savage shield slams

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;D

zealous crest
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😄

old zephyr
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Toping AoE chats in à 30 Man raid, feels good Man

zealous crest
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guys, what is this Reorgination Array that I have if I pick Archive of the Titans?

sick sentinel
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it gives you more stats in uldir

zealous crest
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so basicly its default pick?

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in comparison with Iron Fortress ?

tacit storm
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best talents for prot?

lapis pasture
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First tier Into the Fray. 2nd tier is up to you. 3rd Unstoppable Force. 4th Bolster. 5th up to you. 6th Booming Voice. 7th Anger Management

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Thats what im running

undone sun
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covered in the pins

vital wren
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@lapis pasture the uptime on Demo shout even with timewarp/heroism is insane with this combo, going full offensive with Avatar + TC -> Ignore Pain / SS proc

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^^

timber nest
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Anyone wanna talk about how shit warriors are with necrotic?

sick sentinel
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just leap away

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you can bleed everything and clap a bit before getting out

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enemies are slowed, taking damage so you dont lose aggro and you have 3 ways to get out

undone sun
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stuns and kites like always

merry cave
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Wars are by no means the worst necrotic tank

amber siren
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worst necrotic tank is bears isn't it? with the whole limited kiting options

lapis pasture
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I haven't done a necrotic just yet only had Sanguine on my +4

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Sanguine is annoying as fuck in Tol Dagor

sick sentinel
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that's because sanguine is always shit

lapis pasture
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Yeah but like that tiny ass tunnel after first boss lmao

sick sentinel
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that one's easy

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just keep moving forward

lapis pasture
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Group didn't seem to grasp that

sour osprey
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So soo how did you do on the first wing of the raid ? As a tank it worked pretty well for me, only the 3 headed boss was a bit hard because of the pretty high damage

sick sentinel
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the cancer starts when you start fightig humanaoids

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and they start running into blood

amber siren
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my fav on taldagor is damage clipping through the cells and them proceeding to teleport put sanguine everywhere

stray wedge
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Imo sanguine is one of the easiest affixes, but it is very annoying

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The fleeing mobs in Tol Dagor were particularly irritating yeah

sick sentinel
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yeah it's easy but it eats up so much time if you don't have a druid or dk and a caster decides to plant himself in ten bloods

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you can try to put yourself between the mobs and bloods and hope they don't flee through you

stray wedge
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Not really - typhoon and grip are both very useful but it's extremely rare that you are unable to LoS or outrange a mob to make it move

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But they certainly do make it easier yes

old night
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should IP be looked at as a rage dump?

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i read this on the guide and was confused slightly

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"On single-target, you will generate a decent amount of Rage, but you will rarely ever get close to capping out on Rage unless playing incorrectly."

amber siren
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Yep IP is a rage dump

old night
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so if I'm at like, 90 rage, I have SB up, and an SS proc i generally hit IP to dump some rage and bank off the proc

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is that correct?

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i just got confused by the wording as I do get close to rage cap usually when ss procs and only casting rev on free

empty birch
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real quick off topic question. can i change my name to my character name in this discord only?

old night
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yeah, right click your name and hit change nickname

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but yeah, i suppose im doing it right. I usually try to use IP as both a rage dump and a blanket when SB is gapped as my cooldown for it rn is 16 seconds

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obv with SB on priority of the two

static lance
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That sounds about right. I have a different problem where I sometimes use IP too much and don't leave enough rage for SB.

empty birch
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hmmm I don't think I have permission to change my nickname on this channel so I may need to have someone else do it (if any mod is looking at this I am Drogan-Boulderfist) Back to prot stuff. For me, IP usage has become a bit more complex due to the addition of the gcd. IP is definitely a good rage dump when you are concerned about the damage intake so you are doing well there.

static lance
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Rage management is a thing in BfA, something I have to get used to again.

empty birch
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I added additional functions to my rage bar that changes the color based on what I can use. Red = rage < 30, blue = shield block, orange = IP, green = 70+ rage (shield block and IP available)

old night
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@static lance same

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im trying to figure out if im fucking up by double stacking SB

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or having one stack up

empty birch
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With the removal of RFDT, rage management is key as @static lance stated

old night
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and using a second stack on deck

empty birch
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don't double stack

static lance
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Yeah, don't double stack. There's a bit of a pandemic timer on SB, but it's like 1 sec or something, not worth it.

old night
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kk

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my idea rn and rage management corrections im trying to fix with myself is basically to have one sb up with one on deck

fathom field
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3 m+ runs tonight 3 hydrocores

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+2 +4 +5

old night
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avoid rev on st unless its free, and take the saved rage and funnel it into more and stronger IP's when I rage dump

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hopefully thats the right thinking. been reading the guide and trying to see what i was doing wrong

static lance
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no, that's about right.

old night
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kk

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before I was double stacking SB and casting rev on single target

static lance
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sometimes, depending on the fight, I Rev instead of IP to rage dump, cos i'm not taking a lot of damage and/or the pack is about to die.

old night
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yeah, that seems fair too

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i think I'll have more IP uptime now because of my rotation change

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tanking fetid really had me think about what I was doing wrong. he was destroying me

static lance
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Sco has a great WA for IP, where the absorb value turns red if you're at the IP cap. So you know you shouldn't use IP again (because then it will just reset the shield).

old night
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Yeah, I use khakhan's that does that

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its a godsend

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its the main WA suite I use. been using for a while now

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anyway, off to bed

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thanks for the input @static lance

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take it easy

static lance
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no problem, hth

empty birch
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imo the indication of IP overlap is a bit overkill and takes your attention away from your SB/Last Stand timing. My reasoning behind this is that the reduction of the IP cap reduces the need for you to overlap any IP casts. So if you have one stack IP you should be okay unless your IP is at a lower value

raven kernel
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My ip tracker is a bat

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Bar

empty birch
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same

raven kernel
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Easy to visually tell how much I have remaining

empty birch
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I took the code from the IP tracker pinned in this discord and put in an progress bar

static lance
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the one i have works for me /shrug

empty birch
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left text = IP value, right text = Remaining time

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top left bar = IP, top right = SB progress, the two bars below are the SB charges, and the rest are explainable

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still in the works, but trying to get a WA pack together that can be utilized by anyone

sour osprey
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Wow it looks really nice

empty birch
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ty 😃

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my UI has evolved each expansion since I started playing again

sour osprey
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You did it with which addon ?

empty birch
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the unit frames are Shadowed Unit Frames, and the rest is simply WeakAuras

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I actually also used bartender to handle the bars but they are hidden in combat

sour osprey
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Weakaura can also do bars ?

raven kernel
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Yes

sour osprey
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I especially like the bars of charge for SB, i don't know how you did to separate the first and second SB stack but this must be so useful

empty birch
sour osprey
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Thx !

empty birch
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you are very welcome. if you have any questions about it feel free to ask. i was planning on making a guide and a finalized version before I posted it but if it is useful why not share!

sour osprey
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i will definitely do ! I really want to master the way of the war prot to shut the mouth of every one that say they are low tier 😛

empty birch
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people will always say that but as long as we can block we will be just fine 😃

elder steppe
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They are low tier, but that’s what makes them fun to play.

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Got a question, how did your guild handle tanking Fetid?

empty birch
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I don't believe them to be low tier. Shield block will be absolutely crucial come mythic.

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Unless they nerf the auto attack damage from the bosses

sour osprey
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Just yesterday when e finished the first wing of the raid they said i did well but i still received big damages

empty birch
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Heroic Zul hit me with a 100k autoattack when my shield block charges were down

brave jetty
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I was going to ask about Zul. What're people doing with positioning on the adds there? I'm seeing some groups starting to cheat a bit with cleavers not separated.

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Crushers*

empty birch
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You can actually slow the intake of the hexers on Zul by sheeping/ccing as they come in

brave jetty
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We've been doing that

sour osprey
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We did 1 try on fetid, 9% then we called the raid off because it was midnight, the tanking was pretty easy without the omega thing on us

elder steppe
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When I say low tier, I encompass everything. Public opinion, raid damage, boss damage, and utility.

empty birch
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but you have to make sure to delete them before any others come in

brave jetty
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One is always sheeped until the other is dead

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Crawgs I always have on top of Zul

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And other tank always has crushers outside the group

empty birch
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what is the issue exactly?

brave jetty
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Probably our DPS is weak

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They just....eventually fall behind

empty birch
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Yeah that does become an issue if there is not enough dps

brave jetty
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Especially come the p2 transition

empty birch
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Are you lusting phase 1?

elder steppe
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For Zul, couldn’t you tank the crusher on the boss until he cats? Isn’t his buff on a timer?

empty birch
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you can

brave jetty
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Yeah lusting on pull

empty birch
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keep the crusher on the boss until 85 energy

elder steppe
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Yea

empty birch
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80 energy to be safe, then pull him out

elder steppe
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Guess the difficult part is figuring out the range

empty birch
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as long as you pull him to the edge you will be fine

elder steppe
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Cool, I’m starting on Zul here in a few hours

empty birch
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trying to find the edge of that 30yd range ring is difficult so as long as you give yourself enough time to pull the crusher to the edge the raid will be safe

elder steppe
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Any tips would be greatly appreciated

empty birch
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3rd phase is a bit rough on tanks as the scaling with larger groups seemingly increases the boss damage?

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3 tanking is definitely a possibility on this fight as it allows the tanks to take only 2 stacks of the tank debuff in the final phase

ember arrow
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Why?

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The fuck

empty birch
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uuuuuh

elder steppe
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Yea that’s what Death Jesters did today

empty birch
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wtf

ember arrow
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I vendored my wep

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Now im stuck with ilvl 120 weapon

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Are u fucking

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Kidding me

empty birch
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where is this linked?

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my guildmate just got a 355 version

elder steppe
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They 2 port warrior and 1 prot Paladin tanked H Zul

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You can item restore

ember arrow
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I used it 2 days ago

elder steppe
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But that is unfortunate

empty birch
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If we could actually block the damage from the debuff we would be amazing in that final phase but we are in the same position as we were when we fought M Ursoc

ember arrow
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Instead of having a good weap i git shitty trandmog

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Fuck blizzard

elder steppe
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You can IP the damage?

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And Shield Reflect?

empty birch
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the dot applied is physical damage

elder steppe
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Not actually reflect but lessen the magic damage

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Oh

empty birch
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and you cannot block it, so your damage reduction is reliant on your armor and your CDs/External CDs

elder steppe
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Ok, I’ll have to sort externals then

empty birch
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That would be the best bet. Figure out an external rotation and you should be fine if everything is handled correctly

sour osprey
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Did the war tank already reached top tier in tanking in the past ?

empty birch
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It has

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But specific tanks will always shine in certain situations

vocal nimbus
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Everyone used 2 warriors in emerald nightmare

empty birch
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Prior to the Cenarius nerf

vocal nimbus
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IP was too broken

empty birch
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IP was amazing at the beginning of EN lol

vocal nimbus
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Focused rage playstyle was fun too

empty birch
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I did really enjoy that

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They should have replaced Focused Rage with Heroic Strike or something

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made devastator baseline

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devastate is incredibly out of place with the changes in gcd

elder steppe
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Yea the whole rotation feels off. Granted I have tanked on my warrior since H LK

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I don’t have much experience with other classes, but it always feels like a choice between damage or survivability

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Outside of TC and Demo shout

empty birch
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That's the exact issue I am having with the spec right now

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Demo and IP need to be off the gcd

elder steppe
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I’m not to concerned with Demo shout cause it gives rage and dmg reduction.

empty birch
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The problem there though is that if you did not choose that talent it would not give you rage and therefore would be a damage reduction skill

elder steppe
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But IP just feels wrong, having to choose between that and a SB or TC just to provide a little absorb

sour osprey
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And also in the end it is just lasting 1 or 2 hits on raid boss or big MM bosses

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for a pretty high cost in rage

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they should put the cost down a bit

elder steppe
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Yea

empty birch
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yea the rage cost of SB and IP are a bit much

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maybe make IP have a range of 20-40 and shield block 20

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and increase the stack of IP to x2

elder steppe
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Doing that would also help increase our ST dmg

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Less rage spent more rage for damage

sour osprey
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and overall the war tank is harder to play than BM monk for example

elder steppe
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My ST damage is a bit lacking I noticed. That’s mainly cause I’m trying to pool for big hits and mechanics

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It wouldn’t bother me if all tank were that way, but my DK counter part was above me by 1.5k outside of AoE

empty birch
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Our aoe can be absolutely insane with avatar and unstoppable force but I will agree with you that our ST is a bit lackluster

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especially if you're trying to ready yourself for a mechanic or not misuse a gcd

elder steppe
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See how I do today on Zul, looking forward to this fight. Feel like our hang up might be damage

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Think we are two tanking as well

empty birch
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if your group is small the final phase will likely be easier on you as the debuff is apparently scaling with raid size (not confirmed)

elder steppe
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We go with close to 30

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27-30

sour osprey
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As long as the tanks remained untouched the fight is not that hard

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we did 10% on first try

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i got only 7 stacks

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and we could have win if some dps with debuff didnt rushed in the main group X)

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This boss is mostly a challenge for dps and healers not really for tanks in my opinion

elder steppe
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Yea looks like simple add management for tanks

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Nothing to bad

sour osprey
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One boss really funny as a tank is the three headed boss

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The terrible thrash is really fun because when you see a dps getting to close to you --> ded

elder steppe
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Yea I offtanked Fetid, got one shot at 7 percent

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I feel like I would be better off MT that fight

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Since my health pool is lower

sour osprey
elder steppe
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Difference in mine and DK tanks HP is nearly 40k

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Yea pretty much

sour osprey
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But overall the first wing is really fun to tank 😄

vocal nimbus
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A bit too simple imo

elder steppe
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Yea

vocal nimbus
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3 fights without swaps out of 5

sour osprey
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Yeah sometime a bit simple

elder steppe
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Tanking adds on Mother 😴😴😴

vocal nimbus
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Tanking mother 😴

elder steppe
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Hag a lot of fun on discount Ragnaros

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Had*

sour osprey
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Which one is it ?

frail tangle
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Hello guys. Quick question, i see on our fight log that my prot warrior co tank is only at 1-3% shield block uptime on every boss. I guess something is wrong right?

old zephyr
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Yes

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Should be 50%

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Unless very specific bossfight/mechanics

frail tangle
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ok thanks for the answer!

indigo bobcat
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Tell him to tone down his IP/revenge spam? SB is main AM

vocal nimbus
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Its easier if you post the log and people here look at it

undone sun
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1-3% is very low for just about everything

indigo bobcat
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Wouldn't that be more in line with legion prot? Didn't play prot in legion but wasn't IP>all?

frail tangle
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just took a look at the replay, he is spamming devastate shield slam and reveng only

undone sun
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sb was still the main mitigation that you'd use in legion

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it hasn't changed

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IP just absorbed a lot more than it does currently inflating numbers

sick sentinel
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wtf hw

indigo bobcat
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Ok. Got the answer on what he did wrong anyhow 😂

sick sentinel
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how do you achieve 1% uptime

undone sun
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press it at most once

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

sick sentinel
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you need to press it once in a 10m fight

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i mean if you're fighting shadow of zul but for 10 minutes then i guess maybe it's okay

jaunty ermine
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hi everyone quick question. how many ilvls is a socket on a ring worth. ive got a 340 socketed ring and a 355 unsocketed ring. both have crit/mastery

indigo bobcat
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Poor healers

frail tangle
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taloc NM, only use ne time at the end of the fight, maybe a miss click... but ok i'll teach him, thanks for all!

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one*

sick sentinel
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🤔

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wtf

undone sun
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even then, using sb is a dps increase

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

ember arrow
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@sour osprey warrior are much better vs thrash than a dk

sick sentinel
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u ok

sour osprey
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Yeah i agree but even with the CD when you see the big hit on your life bar it feels bad XD

ember arrow
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thats how raids work

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if u dont overgear them

shrewd bronze
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Guys, have you tanked Shrine of Storm at least +5 this week? Those god damn water bolts hit 20k everytime, the fuck is up with that

solemn kelp
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IT'S MITIGATION TIME

round vortex
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@jaunty ermine I’d say if the 355 has main stat as crit then the 340 might win out with a haste gem. But even then maybe not. Can you post a SS of them both?

shrewd bronze
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@solemn kelp Oh mitigation time, like... Our current shitass ignore pain and 4sec uptime 20sec cd spell block?

fathom field
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I tanked fortified shrine st +2

ember arrow
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20k isnt much

shrewd bronze
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They literally spam water bolt for 20k each hit

ember arrow
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thats literally an autoattack

fathom field
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It wasn't that bad except it was annoying

shrewd bronze
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Well, that's their autoattack, yeah

round vortex
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I have a +19 temple key 😳

shrewd bronze
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And they usually come in packs of 2 to 4

fathom field
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whoa

solemn kelp
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Uh... abort rallying cry, abort...

shrewd bronze
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So that's 40k/sec

fathom field
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That would make me cry

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sanguine way rest +5 was the worst I've done

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so hard to see in those dark halls

shrewd bronze
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Like that pack with 2 of those bois and the big water elemental is a super pain in the ass. When he throws you up into the air you cant do much about the water bolts being cast anymore

round vortex
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Lol I went in and tested it. Mobs had 1.5M hp and I got 3 shot through last stand lol

shrewd bronze
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Any real tips on how to tank that pack? Except you know, CCing the casters and taking down the water elemental first

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Cuz that was just a +5, can't imagine surviving through that on a +10

fathom field
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ikr

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need 385 gear

mortal carbon
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about fetid we have a monk tank and prot warrior monk offtank and prot main tank?

solemn kelp
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I'm at a loss also, best advice I can give is to drink heavily.

shrewd bronze
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How are you guys feeling overall in +5's this week? Compared to other tanks, that is

fickle kiln
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why warrior tanks have the lowest hp tho?

mortal carbon
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+5 is fine

shrewd bronze
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Cuz we have ignore pain, i assume. But then again that'd be a retarded reason

fickle kiln
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I see DH/DK sittign at 200k+ hp while im at 165k

shrewd bronze
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Even more now, considering how ignore pain is kinda trash

raven kernel
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We mitigate way more

shrewd bronze
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I mean, physical, for sure. But magic?

raven kernel
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Dh extra hp is pretty meaningless for most situations

mortal carbon
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warrior is fine recovering from fails is a problem for prot

fickle kiln
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im thinkign about pickign somethign else over Bolster

shrewd bronze
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Oh, i wouldn't. Bolster is much more valuable than any extra Hp

humble mason
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I feel like bolster + AM is one of the greatest combinations ever

fickle kiln
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yeah same

humble mason
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A 2 minute cool down on last stand is insanely strong

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Not to mention 360 block

fickle kiln
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running 1/1/2/3/1/1/1 for talents

humble mason
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Probably one of the best panic buttons in game right now

fickle kiln
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for M+

shrewd bronze
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Btw dudes, honestly. How to cope with stacking poison/bleeding debuffs? Such as Boralus' packs before the giant boss. By the time i generate enough aggro to start kiting shit's at 5 stacks at least

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And when i'm kiting i can't generate that much rage to cast ignore pain back to back and keep up with the dot

humble mason
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I would use a cool down. LS or demo shout would probably work

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Do you use anger management?

shrewd bronze
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Yep

humble mason
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Then just throw out your cool downs whenever you want. You can demo shout almost every pack

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Same with last stand

shrewd bronze
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Yeah maybe being too conservative

humble mason
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The only one you should conserve is shield wall

sick sentinel
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you can easily generate a lot of aggro with just clap rev

shrewd bronze
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Only struggling with undispellable dots/constant magic, I'm doing fine otherwise so far

sick sentinel
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well that's what warrior cant mitigate

shrewd bronze
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@sick sentinel our outlaw was bursting 20k on AoE packs right off the bat, the clap wasn't doing it for me 😦

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Even though he was missdirecting

sick sentinel
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he has evasion

humble mason
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I feel like that's his fault.

sick sentinel
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let him kill himself

shrewd bronze
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lul

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But yeah, not being able to mitigate dots/magic is kinda annoying currently. Especially with so many trash applying them

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Or at least self-heal

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Would you guys attempt to tank every mythic uldir progression with prot warr?

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Or is that just not viable

ember arrow
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no tank has enough self heal to be relevant in raids

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except bdk

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also, what do u mean, you cant metigate dots?

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SW, LS, DS, IP, SR

humble mason
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Aren't warriors still on top?

shrewd bronze
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I was talking about Mythic+ @ember arrow , not raids. Where 2-3 packs of mobs may have the same heavy hitting dot on fortified weeks and high keys

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You won't have SW, LS for every one of them

sick sentinel
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Then you die

shrewd bronze
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Yeah basically

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xD

sick sentinel
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Warriors are bad in m+

ember arrow
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uhh

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you will have SW

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its on a 2 min cd

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same as LS

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also, you should cc them, or kite them

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as all tanks do

sick sentinel
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Ye tbh

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Warrior is good at kiting because you can bleed everything

shrewd bronze
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Yeah, kiting is the way to deal with it

sick sentinel
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It's stupid how blizzard wants to remove tanks kiting but keeps forcing you to kite

shrewd bronze
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That's the point though

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They fuck our threat and make packs impossible to tank, kek

sick sentinel
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Watch ion lower threat even more

ember arrow
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threat is easy to maintain

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like its same s legion feels like

shrewd bronze
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No it isnt

sick sentinel
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Because warriors do tons of damage

ember arrow
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i dont even paly warrior

shrewd bronze
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That's a very good argument

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lmao

sick sentinel
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D3 team is doing wow now

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M+ is literally greater rifts

ember arrow
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if you find threat hard to maintain

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i mean

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play better

shrewd bronze
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Right, you thunderclap, start kiting

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Your dps burst the shit out of the mobs. Play better?

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And if you stay there for 2 thunderclaps

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That's some easy 4+ stacks of dots and shit

flint nexus
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Lol when your dps start warbreaker bladestorm you don't hold that shit

shrewd bronze
#

I'm talking about 10+ mythic keystones here

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@flint nexus exactly

ember arrow
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why would you bring arms warr

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to keys

shrewd bronze
#

What?

ember arrow
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isntead of classes with utility or not melee

flint nexus
#

Shut up that was an example

shrewd bronze
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Cuz its one of the best fucking dps for keys?

flint nexus
#

But yeah let's pretend we only play with 3 different class because we're all MDI players

shrewd bronze
#

Yeah, right?

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lul

ember arrow
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how is taht relevant?

flint nexus
#

Also why do we bring prot warrior

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when there's dk and dh

shrewd bronze
#

That's a better question

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lmao

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feelsbadman

flint nexus
#

How is the fact that you don't even play prot warrior relevant

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Like I don't think your input is needed

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If your input is just "git gud"

ember arrow
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i dont play it anymore

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played it all legion

shrewd bronze
#

Well, BFA aint legion mate

sick sentinel
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in d3 they realised that having to kite or get oneshot isn't fun so they made dps the requirement to completing a grift in time and you have to figure out how to get enough mob density to kill things fast enough

shrewd bronze
#

Your info is outdated

flint nexus
#

I've played Vanilla

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It was easy

sick sentinel
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But in BFA DPS is basically irrelevant and dying will kill your key instead

ember arrow
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how is my info irrelevant, if someone says that we cant metigate magic, bleeds

shrewd bronze
#

I mean, DPS is still pretty relevant in tyrannical

ember arrow
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when thats false

flint nexus
#

We're talking about threat

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you say it's the same as legion

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yet you haven't even played

ember arrow
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it feels the same

shrewd bronze
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It's not the mitigation, it's the threat lol

flint nexus
#

Okay dude

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whatever

ember arrow
#

i play a dk

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it has less aoe dmg

flint nexus
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Not a warrior

shrewd bronze
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"I play a dk, lets talk about warriors"

ember arrow
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and i got no issues wit threat

flint nexus
#

Do you want me to point you to the dk discord ?

shrewd bronze
#

Fucking ell mate, stop being so condescending

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(levko)

ember arrow
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you press one aoe ability, you gain threat

shrewd bronze
#

Yeah

flint nexus
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Damn thank you man

shrewd bronze
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Thats how it works

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Good job

ember arrow
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indeed

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saying that classes only matter if youre an MDI players is strange, since a class that performs better overall, will be especially good for worse players

shrewd bronze
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Lemme go ahead and block your dk advice, this aint the dk discord

sick sentinel
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Idk I don't have trouble holding threat

ember arrow
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since its more forgiving and easy

flint nexus
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Ha yes because this is what I said

shrewd bronze
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Nobody said that, really

round vortex
#

Levko always toxic. It’s a fact.

flint nexus
#

Yeah class don't matter until a certain level, everybody knows that

ember arrow
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"But yeah let's pretend we only play with 3 different class because we're all MDI players"

flint nexus
#

Because that's what you fucking do

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by saying you don't bring arm warriors

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yet we weren't talking about +25 keys

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but it was a general discussion

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yet your argument is "why would you bring arm warrior lul"

shrewd bronze
#

^

round vortex
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You could take an arms warrior to the best key. They are meta right now.

shrewd bronze
#

EXACTLY

flint nexus
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See, even better

shrewd bronze
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That's what i said earlier

ember arrow
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i will do fortified kigns rest

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the room aftr first boss

flint nexus
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But that's not even the point

ember arrow
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with all melee

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why the f not

shrewd bronze
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Who the fuck said to do that with all melee and stuff dude?

flint nexus
#

Holy fucking shit

shrewd bronze
#

This dude

sick sentinel
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Bladestorm

flint nexus
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You're always bringing something more

round vortex
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I don’t know how to justify that. Except Jdotb said it and I think he’s more qualified than anyone here. Given that he’s arguably the best M+ player in the world

flint nexus
#

I can't tell if you're legit stupid

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or just trolling

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or just an ass

sick sentinel
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Tbh the ghost room is cancer

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Bladestooooooorm

shrewd bronze
#

Why not both @flint nexus

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kek

flint nexus
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lol

round vortex
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@flint nexus All of the above lol

flint nexus
#

Yeah I'll just stop "debating" with him

ember arrow
#

ah yes

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i dont agree with u = trolling

flint nexus
#

No no

shrewd bronze
#

No

flint nexus
#

That's not the point

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I don't care if you agree

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but whenever I say something

shrewd bronze
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You're missing the point (yet again)

sick sentinel
#

At least the room before second boss is fun with all melee

flint nexus
#

you change the subject or bring something else up

ember arrow
#

you do care if i agree

round vortex
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@ember arrow can I say something constructive to you that’s meant not to offend but help you?

shrewd bronze
#

The thing is that you keep adding your own shit into someone's else arguments

ember arrow
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you are arguing wit me

flint nexus
#

yeah ok dude

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I'll stop then

shrewd bronze
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lul "you do care if i agree"

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kek

ember arrow
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go for it baratus

flint nexus
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I was arguing until I realised you were a moron that only cared about trying to prove people wrong

ember arrow
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if people are wrong

shrewd bronze
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You'll have the right to talk about prot warr when you play one. Until then, please, go back to the dk discord

ember arrow
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i argue they are wrong

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@shrewd bronze thats ridiculous

flint nexus
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You don't

shrewd bronze
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Cuz your info is outdated

flint nexus
#

You come here saying you don't( play prot warrior

shrewd bronze
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And you're just looking like a fool

flint nexus
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Saying that "w/e why would you bring arm warrior lul"

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And saying that tank threat feels the same as legion

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when it fucking does not

shrewd bronze
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If threat feels the same as legion for you. You're playing with shit dps

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Its that simple

sick sentinel
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The other way around

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Good dps know not to blow everything on pull

flint nexus
#

Yeah sure

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I mean that's clearly also a dps issue

round vortex
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I spend a lot of time in this discord. More than a large % here. I am yet to see you value add to a discussion. And even if someone is wrong (in your view which is wrong enough that I’ve seen) you jump down their throat and come across toxic as shit. I have never once thought “wow that dude was helpful” because even if you are right - you sound like an asshat when you do.
My 2c - maybe work on the delivery. @ember arrow

flint nexus
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But that doesn't change the fact that it's harder to hold when a dps goes crazy than in Legion

round vortex
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Again my opinion only. Of the perception I have from onlooking and even debating with you once.

flint nexus
#

@round vortex I mean, I don't think he cares, he probably sees himself as almighty/edgy and people don't get it

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you know iamverysmart material

round vortex
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^^^^

flint nexus
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Anyway, see you later

round vortex
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That supports what I’m saying. Again I could be wrong but it’s my perception bro and looking at it - not the only one

ember arrow
#

ah yes

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toxic

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the go to buzzword

shrewd bronze
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toxic buzzword

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lul

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i'm off, see you guys

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back to actually playing a warrior

round vortex
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Lol there’s the proof. Anyway me too. I don’t want a response. More just to think about what I’ve said. Back in an hour lol

errant coral
#

does resounding protection trait stack?

sick sentinel
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Yes

undone sun
#

just about every trait stacks

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resounding's shield stacks but that's it, the duration is static

shell night
#

How do people find G'huun? I'm finding taking more than 6 stacks a bitch. 8 stacks was just a bit to close for comfort

ember arrow
#

i think 5-6 is a comfortable moment to swap if possible

shell night
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Think ill stay around the 5 mark. We killed it going 6-8 but it was a bit hairy tbh

round vortex
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@shell night he has no DR on taunt as well. For our kill we just taunted on CD if you had any active mitigation up. Usually was about 3-4

humble mason
#

In my experience, threat is harder to hold but you won't have an issue if you don't stop hitting the pack.

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As long as you keep using abilities you'll always be ahead, but if you just run away there is a chance you'll lose threat, which never happened in legion.

merry cave
#

Even on my dk (which feels much lower aoe dps than war/dh) I haven't noticed threat lol

fathom field
#

What kind of shield transmogs you have?

lunar spade
#

anybody has a bis azerite traits for high m+ pushing ? Or is it just the same as the ones for raids

zealous ore
#

@ember arrow Threat isn't an issue

ionic fern
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Ofc it ain't. 🤷

crude pond
#

is there any Uldyr boss where I should use Heavy Repercussions instead of AM?

frank wagon
#

tips for mother hc? i'm taking so much damage 😦

undone sun
#

@crude pond no

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@frank wagon to what exactly

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mostly melees with the strike being avoidable

crude pond
#

thanks , can you suggest what potion should I use for Uldyr?

undone sun
#

strength

vocal nimbus
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Str

keen yacht
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fellow tanks

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is Sanitizing Strike on Mother

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is also avoidable on hc

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?

vocal nimbus
#

Move away from it

undone sun
#

yes

frank wagon
#

yea

keen yacht
#

ok

#

ty

vocal nimbus
#

Or aim it at someone you dont like

frank wagon
#

@undone sun it's the melee damage, like sometime she hit for 78-80k 😦 is that normal?

vocal nimbus
#

Maybe you are hit in the back

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Can you link logs?

frank wagon
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sure

crude pond
#

@undone sun You mean Battle Potion of Strength, which increases str by 900? why not that of stamina?

undone sun
#

strength is more effective

vocal nimbus
#

Stamina isnt really needed unless some mehanic one shots you through all your defensive cooldowns

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And strength also gives armor

native quartz
#

Been AFK for a bit this week. How is everyone finding m+?

crude pond
#

then Flask of the Vast Horizon is not recommended either?

vocal nimbus
#

No

raven kernel
#

@prisma night

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this good enough?

vocal nimbus
#

@native quartz very bugged

native quartz
#

Not even a little surprised

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How are we doing?

sick sentinel
#

I'll shank you irl @raven kernel

raven kernel
#

ill block it

sick sentinel
#

Critical block

static pilot
#

still 20% shanked ^^

tawny panther
#

That is more shanked than most would like to be

vocal nimbus
#

@frank wagon everything looks normal

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How many people in the raid?

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Damage scales up with people

static pilot
#

Yeah, I feel like shanking is really a binary condition - you either got shanked or you didn't

final mist
#

The scaling on heroic is really odd / off.

vocal nimbus
#

Is it bugged too? Still havent done hc

final mist
#

15m feels fine, 30m feels like I'm getting smacked by two Mac trucks from multiple directions.

vocal nimbus
#

I did NM yesterday in 30m

prisma night
#

thanks @raven kernel that'll show em for thinking shields cant tf

vocal nimbus
#

And some things hit really hard

final mist
#

I haven't encountered many bugs in Heroic other than HotP still being bugged.

#

But that's a Paladin issue.

vocal nimbus
#

Wait let me show you something funny

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Try to understand what happened

final mist
#

I'm unfortunately unable to watch that at the moment.

junior igloo
#

Heroic raids always scale with number of players.
Tank damage is usually similar in H~27 as it is in Mythic.

vocal nimbus
#

Basically, we had a guy with the dc bug

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Which kicks you instantly when you log in that char

final mist
#

Ah, that happened to me

vocal nimbus
#

We kicked him to go on, even waited for his char to leave the raid

undone sun
#

yeh, happened on tuesday to a hunter

vocal nimbus
#

Filled in with another guildie and pulled

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He then went to do something with his dk

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And his main appeared in the middle of the boss

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Instakilling everyone

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Because we were 31 people inside

final mist
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My Pally was DC locked, kicked him and logged in to my warrior, then swapped back and it was fixed.

undone sun
#

yup

vocal nimbus
#

The thing is that his main appeared in the middle of everyone when he logged his alter

final mist
#

Yikes

vocal nimbus
#

Fun wipe lmao

fathom field
#

What's the highest key y'all have made it to?

vocal nimbus
#

I still didnt try to get past +5

orchid osprey
#

How is prot in m+? Was considering leveling my alt but wasn't sure

vocal nimbus
#

I will push at the end of the week

fathom field
#

Seems great to me.

final mist
#

I haven't had much time to do M+, but I'll be hitting it hard this weekend.

fathom field
#

Hitting it like a teenage Tommy chong

#

What's the best gear y'all have gotten from the raid?

final mist
#

People in my raid have gotten fairly high titanforges. I've only gotten two azerite pieces.

vocal nimbus
#

Ive only got one 355 in normal

fathom field
#

What is marok wearing?

#

I need to wear the same stuff

whole harness
#

any tips to dealing with berserkers in king's rest ?

final mist
#

CC, kite

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Cry

vocal nimbus
#

Cc

#

Control undead if you have a dk

#

Or is that only as bdk 🤔

fathom field
#

sal can you link your armory?

final mist
#

My Warrior's or my Paladin's?

#

Armory is bugged and not showing my artifact shield on the Paladin, but it's the PvP appearance.

static pilot
#

Sal, you mentioned earlier you're not enjoying Prot warrior in BFA. Could you elaborate a little bit on that?

primal crypt
#

There are some points that prot warriors flat out fall behind :(

#

It kinda sucks

final mist
#

I do not enjoy IP being on the GCD, nor do I enjoy being completely reliant on healers. I enjoy Avatar/DS and the damage and all that, but I just enjoy Paladin's play style and the utility it offers more.

primal crypt
#

^^

#

Sal knows what's up

final mist
#

Ex. On Zul, you can immune the debuff off, so I'd take 4 stacks, zoom out and Divine Shield myself immediately to drop the blood pools and get rid of all of that damage, then do the same for my co-tank when he hit 4, and repeat with our other two paladins' BoPs

primal crypt
#

My holy refuses to heal keys when I'm on my warrior now...its unfortunate

ember arrow
#

i mean, i dud fetid on dk, i was reliant on healers very much too

#

even though i was top of the healing page vel

final mist
#

Also being able to do other things like LoH, Sac, freedom, etc, all of that is enjoyable.

static pilot
#

Hang on guys, let's let Sal finish his argument

undone sun
#

protadin is also pretty reliant because hotp is bugged haHAA

final mist
#

It's just personal preference.

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

raven kernel
#

i'm vanilla boi

undone sun
#

but i agree with sal

#

it's less reliant

raven kernel
#

being reliant on healers is standard to me

final mist
#

If IP was off the GCD, I'd be back to Warrior in a heartbeat.

undone sun
#

100%

tawny panther
#

I am in literally the same boat sal. As I'm sure many are and it makes me sad cos I really want my warrior to be my main.

static pilot
#

Did you main warrior in legion?

final mist
#

I've been a Warrior since Vanilla.

#

With being Prot / tank for most of that time.

primal crypt
#

Mannn...if IP was off GCD mannnn

raven kernel
#

im actually switching from dps main to prot main

#

for my guild

primal crypt
#

We would all be happier

tawny panther
#

I did a +5 last night, think it was temple. Then did runs on paladin and it's such a contrast

prisma night
#

or alteast make it strong it enough to be worth a gcd

final mist
#

There have been times where I've played other classes for small periods of time or alongside my Warrior (ex. I played Paladin often in HFC too), but my warrior has usually been my main.

prisma night
#

if they wont change the gcd part

fathom field
#

paladin is easier on +5?

static pilot
#

Okay, final wuestion: if you could have a beer with the Warr Prot design lead and he asks you what your warrior wish list is, what would you say?

tawny panther
#

I felt I could just close my eyes and win compared to warrior

raven kernel
#

with current balance, IP going off the gcd might make bad players even worse and tank the skill floor for prot

primal crypt
#

I try to do the same pulls on my warrior as my dk, not a good time lol

final mist
#

Even with my gripes with it, my warrior is still my "main alt", so I'm going to keep it reasonably geared so I can still play it.

#

My wish list is very long

#

And everyone has heard me talk about banners too often

fathom field
#

damn

tawny panther
#

I'm keeping both maxed out but the new 9nce per account stuff in arsthi might go on my paladin noe

final mist
#

So I'd just say Devastator baseline and IP off the GCD

raven kernel
#

@tawny panther arathi stuff is not meant to be once per account

#

there was a blue post

primal crypt
#

Banners :)

tawny panther
#

I know it's not meant to be but figured be over a week to fix

heavy chasm
#

Imo IP is essentially meant to be used for anger management. As the absorb is so weak ass for the gcs

tawny panther
#

My pally is a level or two behind warrior in ap so won't hurt to catch up

static pilot
#

Hm... Those changes wouldn't change the warrior reliance on external healing

tawny panther
#

Aside from having a much higher ehp you mean?

final mist
#

No, but they'd solve my personal enjoyment issues with the class.

tawny panther
#

It lets you be self reliant 8n bursts like during healer drinking pulls more

final mist
#

Ex. The GCD is too cluttered - IP being off the GCD alone would solve a lot of that.

static pilot
#

No argument there

tawny panther
#

Current gcd breaks the class, you can't get the ss benefit of SB during Ava with TC spam etc just jarring

#

Like it's flawed design

final mist
#

It feels too cluttered and clunky, claustrophobic trying to fit in TC and SS on CD, and free Revs, and IP, while still hitting DS and Avatar at some point

smoky wave
#

Am I the only person who doesn't mind IP on the gcd? I have no issue with it. It's not an oh-crap button, and it means I have to actively make a choice between offence and defence gcd use?

dull granite
#

I'd take avatar and demo shout off of gcd over IP

tawny panther
#

On pull feel nicer but overall IP off would feel way better

heavy chasm
#

It just feels underwhelming to use is all when it locks you out of a GCD and gets absorbed in like a hit

#

Which is why I feel like it's essentially just their to reduce the cd of your shit by 4 seconds

smoky wave
#

the issue isn't the gcd, it's that it feels a bit rubbish to press

prisma night
#

either take it off gcd , or make it worth the gcd spent

undone sun
#

well imo the gcd is definitely part of it

heavy chasm
#

It goes hand in hand

undone sun
#

partly because it costs a gcd and doesn't really do a whole lot it doesn't feel impactful to press

#

nor rewarding

smoky wave
#

keep it on the gcd, make it feel good to press.

worn stratus
#

I’ve gotten used to it on the gcd but I do wish it was more powerful

static pilot
#

I get that the GCD is a hot-button topic but let's move on for a sec - you mentioned "nor do I enjoy being completely reliant on healers."

heavy chasm
#

I mean I'm going to play warrior regardless, but it would be nice if it felt even okay to press

static pilot
#

Legion warrior had pretty decent self-healing (relative to other tanks), partially because of legendaries (bracers)

lunar sparrow
#

Does LS+Bolster successfully handle Terrible Thrash?

final mist
#

That's more of a problem I have with the current state of tanking than it is Warrior specific.

prisma night
#

i think thats in part cuz ip is only 50% now. if need be ip doesnt even have the chance to save anyone even in relatively low dmg momments

lunar sparrow
#

Or is it not a true melee hit...

final mist
#

It's Blockable, red.

heavy chasm
#

I guess I'm fortunate I didn't play legion enough on my warrior to get bracers to get that false security blanket

lunar sparrow
#

ok cool ty

worn stratus
#

All tanks rely on healers now some more than others but I don’t get that argument about us at all

prisma night
#

how arent we reliant?

vital wren
#

I think he meant we are

heavy chasm
#

Warriors are literally the proactive mitigation tank. We have one reactive ability in last stand, but it works better as a semi proactive cd with the bolster design

vital wren
#

True

heavy chasm
#

Every other tank has some form of regeneration hence why we are most reliant

final mist
#

I loved being able to basically do my job and let the healers focus on theirs, and it was enjoyable for me to have it be noticeable when I did well and when I didn't. It's completely 180'd - and part of it is the fact that healers are still getting used to it - but there have been multiple points in the raid where I've just been repeating, "Healme" in voice over and over until I'm stable again.

smoky wave
#

been levelling my blooddk, cos I'm a heathen, and it feels nice that my mistakes aren't mistakes but just how it plays. We're as reliant for same level content it feels, but it's just punishing if you make a mistake/when SB isn't up.

vital wren
#

We are more reliant but the damage taken is less spiky compared to other tanks

worn stratus
#

But they also take more damage as a result of that regeneration

vital wren
#

I see that as a +

prisma night
#

yeah i agree sal

final mist
#

I despise being 100% reliant on someone I can't control to stay alive, no matter how much I trust them (and I trust my healers).

prisma night
#

i dont trust mine and i despise not having more control

heavy chasm
#

Hahaha ^^

vital wren
#

Haha lol true story

static pilot
#

how does the lack of self-healing affect you when you're doing world content?

prisma night
#

i had 3 healers group around the blood dk in phase two mythrax adds

smoky wave
#

my wife made noise about trying resto on her shaman and I'm trying not to be too overenthusiastic about her healing me.

prisma night
#

meanwhile i didnt get a single healer near me

final mist
#

As a Warrior, it's mitigated by Victory Rush.

raven kernel
#

here's a contrasting thought, on my vdh alt i also feelt super reliant on my healers cos i have practically no defensives to use when im getting trucked, and my self heals arent what they used to be in legion

final mist
#

Outside of that, it fuckin' sucks, but that's always been Warrior

static pilot
#

but Victory Rush is reliant on killing blows - do you intentionally pull non-elites as well so you can get procs?

round vortex
#

Ok guys - while this is here lets celebrate.

final mist
#

No Rei, all tanks need to be hard focused on tanks, that's consistent across tanking

undone sun
#

4 hours

final mist
#

Also yes I do

undone sun
#

anyone could do that

worn stratus
#

Yeah anyone saying other tanks aren’t reliant hasn’t played them in any meaningful way

static pilot
#

I saw that - there are 4 warriors in the top 100 and 4 DKs in the top 10

#

kudos to that guy though, keep on trucking

round vortex
#

hells yeah - so there is hope haha

final mist
#

I do need to step away for work though, so I'll be back later.

primal crypt
#

The shadow of zul man

static pilot
#

see you later Sal, thanks for answering my questions 😃

heavy chasm
#

The fact isn't the other tanks aren't relient they are less relient

primal crypt
#

we had to blow CDs on my warrior

heavy chasm
#

Big difference

primal crypt
#

feels ultra bad

wooden dove
#

quick question, i have 1 DC and 1 BfI azerite traits on 2 of my azerite gear, on my last one, i have options of another BfI or a Meticulous Scheming one

#

should i take the second BfI or a Meticulous Scheming for extra haste

prisma night
#

id take bfi personally

compact sigil
#

isnt the current recommendation 2 BFI 1 DC?

wooden dove
#

among the prot traits, yes

cloud bone
#

where are you seeing the top keys done?

static pilot
#

warcraft logs methinks

undone sun
sick sentinel
#

🙄

robust bronze
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i saw i Preachs video his POV when tanking and he played with devistator, is that something we want or still booming voice?

static pilot
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afaik booming voice still ranks ahead, but the rotation can feel better with Devastator

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gives you more gaps to fit in IP without feeling like you're wasting DPS

robust bronze
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ok, cuz with booming voice you useally do alot of aoe dps i have noticed

sick sentinel
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devestator will give you lots of empty GCDs

compact sigil
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hmm, that raises an interesting question, what about devastator over booming voice for raiding? Where your damage doesnt necessarily need to be as high

static pilot
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I'd still take BV for the rage tbh

ember arrow
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its not really about the dmg

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BV gives more rage too

undone sun
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defensively bv is better in all situations
offensively deva is likely better on ST

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but even then

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it differs greatly from player to player

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just look at current logs

vital wren
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One thing I love about a prot warr, simple little trick - mouseover Intervene macro on other tank/raid/party member for extra rage when you are rage starving and desperately need a quick IP

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It's not much but hey every rage counts

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Can be tricky with unwanted debuffs headed your other tanks way tho, so be careful

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Intervene shouldn't be underestimated, it's kind of external cd and u can easily help out with some dmg taken

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Just talking my mind here, don't mind me ahahah

prisma night
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if you mess up you die

round fox
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Anyone got a quick note or screenshot of what they use for keybinds? I find my keybinds clunky and figure before I get going with mythic tanking that I get some tips...

vital wren
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That's the downside

round fox
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I used ot have a focus healer intervene macro.

heavy chasm
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Mouse over intervene in nice for shit like.mythic underrot with the fixate mechanic

smoky wave
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the talent for intervene is super fun for mythic islands. Super helpful.

heavy chasm
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Reduce some.damage drop a Tclap to help em out

vital wren
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Yeah a neat spell that ppl forget sometimes, I like that u can help out like this

heavy chasm
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I remember when charge and intervene were not built in lol

vital wren
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Yea dude lol

heavy chasm
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Gotta say I like the built in better haha

smoky wave
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Last stand still has a 6min cd in my head.

vital wren
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@smoky wave haha me2¨

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It was hard getting used to use it almost on cd haha

heavy chasm
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Yeah still feels kind of odd using it so.liberally lol

vital wren
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Cause the OP blocking

smoky wave
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Were there 2 charges of charge in wrath and 1 intervene? I remember pinging about a lot as I used them all gathering trash and just getting about.

vital wren
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I think u had to def stance dance for intervene, I might be wrong

smoky wave
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you did, my wife says watching me play was like watching someone play a piano one handed. I'm glad they removed stance dancing, but it was a lot of fun

round fox
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oooh stance dancing

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now you're talking my age

heavy chasm
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Right

frosty wedge
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man, I miss stance dancing so much

round fox
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Zerker stance for onyxias fear

wary crystal
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I think I still have all my macros for spell reflect and whatnot

heavy chasm
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For all them fears swapping to zerker rage

frosty wedge
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@round fox trying not to get gibbed stance dancing nef's fear.

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while he had a windfury totem down.

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lol

heavy chasm
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Hahaha oh my god yes

round fox
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< ally...

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we had no Shaman

heavy chasm
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I was a healer back in those days

frosty wedge
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haha, lucky you. "oh, nef gets a bubble for a bit"

heavy chasm
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Was scary as shit.

frosty wedge
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not, nef procs windfury and instagibs your tank.

round fox
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patch 1.1 windfury gibbed..

frosty wedge
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remember when swapping aggro required you and your offtank to be communicating?

round fox
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I feel like I'm talking like we are a buncha war vets... how sad is that.

frosty wedge
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like, trading off on huhuran

round fox
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Vael you mean?

frosty wedge
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naw, vael was easy - you just died

round fox
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true

frosty wedge
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lol

round fox
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keeping 1234 threat was the hard part there

smoky wave
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We never made it past huhuran. I still don't like wasps.

frosty wedge
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huhuran had that crazy poison, but I guess... you could just have both tanks doing as much threat as possible and BOP the one that had aggro to drop the poison and reset his threat

round fox
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We didn't get past the boss after twins

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GG nature resist gear from a lvl 40 instance

frosty wedge
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lol

smoky wave
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running joke for me and my wife is everytime we do rfk now the nr leather gloves drop. we spent hours and hours farming that with no luck.

frosty wedge
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hahaha, yep that sounds right

heavy chasm
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I remember having a God damn clown get up on my paladin for huhu

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Nominated soaker woo

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Cloth, mail, leather who gives a shit just NR

frosty wedge
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yeah, so much NR gear

heavy chasm
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I think with aspect of the wild I had like 350+ was kinda nasty

frosty wedge
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man, I kinda miss how hard some of those fights were

heavy chasm
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I remember when BC dropped

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And everyone ran to their bank and pulled out their FR gear for nazan

frosty wedge
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c'thun required 40 people to actually be competent and be almost flawless for like 20+ minutes

junior igloo
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  • pre-heroic raiding
  • hard fights

choose one

heavy chasm
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I think that's the appeal of high key m+

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Is that to actually succeed you need people on point even though it's 5 opposed to 20+

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I'd like hard fights

merry cave
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We definitely had some tards in for Cthun

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I'd say 30 competent lol

heavy chasm
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I do appreciate the flexibility component

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Never got the emps down as current content

round fox
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I made the realization last night that my group are no longer "good"

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We're just lazy now

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expect someone to tell us what to do and when to move

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14 years is a long time to play a game together...

heavy chasm
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That feel man

round fox
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hugs

smoky wave
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heh. only people I still play with from back then are my wife and her brother. He's still as impatient as he was back then, I'm just better at letting him die and grabbing the mobs before they kill everyone else.

heavy chasm
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I'm jealous you still play with some of your originals haha

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I have like one or two people instill play with and none of them are healers anymore :( gotta rebuild that trust haha

sick sentinel
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Miss my original healers/arena mates. They moved on/play diff games now. :c

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Healers been a guild weakness of dependability since WoD.

molten rivet
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Is it worth equiping 15ilvl lower just to keep DC?

heavy chasm
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Probably not. But get some more opinions I'd think

undone sun
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yes

smoky wave
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I'd lean towards yes

undone sun
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DC is the only trait worth dropping ilevel for

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it's stupid strong

timid pumice
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does anyone have the stat weights for prot warrior? simcraft somehow doesn't work and icy veins and pawn kinda show different priorities

fathom marten
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We dont have ones

heavy chasm
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On that note how many ilvls would you sacrifice?

fathom marten
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Theres no stat weights for prot

heavy chasm
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Because I think the closest I have is like 20-25 lower haha

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Which seems to steep

fathom marten
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It's a self assessment. Go by the stat priority list in the pins.

smoky wave
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Personally? 15 I'd be ok with, 25 likely where I start wondering harder. Thyme has said 25 before iirc?

fathom marten
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Like 8/10 you'll want haste

heavy chasm
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Haste is usually the go to. Mastery and verse are better then Crit and pretty close to even iirc

frosty wedge
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for one DC trait it's worth about 25 ilvls

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but you just need the 1

undone sun
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Don't use pawn @timid pumice

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Can't sim Defensively. Period.
offensively we don't have working sims atm so raidbots/simc wont give anything nearly accurate

timid pumice
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i have 11% crit, 10% haste, 28% mastery, 8%versatility, 3% dodge, 15% parry and 26% block and have no idea if thts good or not xD haven't played warrior in a long time

fathom marten
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Just look for haste

undone sun
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ilevel>haste>mastery>=verse>crit

timid pumice
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ok thx xD

rain dune
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So I've had no luck with shields after running mythics for the past three weeks and clearing Uldir last night. Get another two chances on heroic Vectis tonight (Coin). How much is a 325 going to hold us back progression wise?

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I'm planning on farming M+ motherlode this weekend but even still I'm not going to hold my breath.

vital wren
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morrig asking the real questions

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shields are bread and butter now since block value is more important

tawny panther
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Mother lode wasn't the bis shield was it

smoky wave
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I won't be held back by a 325 shield. Mostly cos I accidentally scrapped it, can't recover, and will be held back by a 310 instead.

tawny panther
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Atal I think?

smoky wave
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Rezan yeah, thought it was

tawny panther
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Atal or tol are good I forget if the shield in told was ideal or just cos of weapons too

round fox
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I'm still running a 290 green shield

kind urchin
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Yeah rezan shield is bis

tawny panther
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He also has trinket so farm AD

rain dune
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Lmao. I thought Motherlode had haste so that's why I picked it. I'll run AD to death instead then.

kind urchin
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I got the one from motherload though... Rip

tawny panther
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Thought it best to call it since you would waste yr time lol

round fox
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Wonder if I should buy the BOE epic one

rain dune
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My luck is so good this expansion that I'm one of the lucky ones that got the "oops it's actually a transmog mace" from heroic taloc

kind urchin
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Rezan shield is haste/mast. Motherload is crit haste

rain dune
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I'm going to buy the BoE if I don't get a drop this weekend. And then I'll get one from next reset.

kind urchin
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I want the G'huun shield

daring marlin
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Don't we all?!

royal oasis
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I was lucky and got a wf pvp one from Arathi with vers mastery

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To replace a 278 :^)

rain dune
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From a rare?

static pilot
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remember what rare by any chance?

round fox
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@royal oasis we're asking the serious questions here

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a 340 shield from a rare?

static pilot
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^^

kind urchin
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Yup. Go to arathi... Got a couple sweet gear drops from the rares there.

static pilot
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guess I've been unlucky, I got a few toys and sad levels of azerite

kind urchin
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They're dropping 340's like candy.

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Or maybe I just got really lucky.

round fox
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wow

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I haven't gottten anything but those pets

loud jungle
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Hey guys, how much is Avoidance worht in ilvl? Have 350 Ring Vers/Mastery and 340 Vers/Mastery with 60 Avoidance

cursive minnow
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how often can you farm the rares for loot?

open bluff
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not daily

knotty herald
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Seems to be pretty good droprate. me and 2 friends cleared all rares yesterday = 14 epics and 1 mount

quartz ridge
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does shimmering haven stack?

open bluff
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likely bi-weekly, since control of arathi should change roughly once a week

knotty herald
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I read several people claiming it was daily resets, anyone have confirmation?

open bluff
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and lol droprate, rng is gonna rng; my wife went with me on two toons on tuesday, got 10 pieces between the two

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i took two toons, got one drop between the both of them wadner

smoky wave
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@loud jungle Avoidance isn't worth dropping ilvl for as I understand it. If an identicle item has avoidance then take that, but otherwise judge it on the other stats.

open bluff
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@knotty herald i can confirm it is not a daily reset

knotty herald
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Alright man, your profile picture does look turstworthy

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😃

loud jungle
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@smoky wave ok thanks. So having it with same ilvl is nice, but not having it is also ok.

smoky wave
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@loud jungle yeah, not the worlds best on the theory, but if I had a 340 and a 350 and the only difference was the avoidance I'm taking the 340.

open bluff
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if i had a 340 and 350 of the same item but the 340 had avoidance, i'd take the 350

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there's a reason avoidance is a tertiary stat while str is primary and haste et al are secondary

smoky wave
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is there a flat str/ilvl? cos you're basically that much str or 60 avoidance and there's really no competition.

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all the strength!

royal oasis
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I want to say it was one of the mount rares

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Sorry notification didn't pop up

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It was on the east side of the zone

tight elk
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what tips would you give to a new prot warrior?

dapper copper
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mmm he said ring so no str

but i mean its honestly like playstyle at that margin of stats, if we were talking about like every slot +10ilvl vs having 500 avoidance, then ofc ilvl

smoky wave
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I'd missed that, good spot

tawny panther
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@tight elkread the icy veins guide twice

tight elk
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@tawny panther lol, i followed the sticky's directions, but people always have little nuggets of useful information

tawny panther
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Then probably know your dangerous trash and encounters

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Since we are entirely preemptive

old dawn
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@tight elk running Bulwark, you never want shield block and last stand up at the same time because that's useless. use sb, sb, ls for your cooldown rotation and you can do two shield blocks after last stand to get really long periods of constant block.

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Make sure you get Deafening Crash as one of your traits and try to keep Demo shout up as often as possible.

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Most of your rage should go to IP or Shield Block unless you're not taking damage, then you can spend it on revenge

junior ivy
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soi this new arathi highlands warfronts thingy.. is there dailies?

astral crystal
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nope

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just rares

sick sentinel
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just hit 120 on my war and geared up to 320

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i haven't touched prot war since like cata, lol

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what did they dooo to my classsssss

humble schooner
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I dont find it that bad, only thing clunky is IP on GCD

sick sentinel
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IP and SB feels like the rage cost is too high

daring marlin
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you don't use IP that often anymore

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also take BV

old dawn
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if you're running booming voice

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you have plenty of rage

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you're spending it mostly on those two moves still

fathom field
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bm+am

old dawn
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but you do a ton of damage without rage

humble schooner
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I find I have enough rage generally, useless I use revenge too much

old dawn
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IP on GCD just requires forethought instead of just hammering buttons

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yea just don't really use revenge

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unless you're free to spend it because you're not taking damage

humble schooner
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IP usage is for spell damage I find, or the "oh shit" times

old dawn
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like I use it on AOE pulls in M0 and Heroics

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or certain, low damage pulls in +'s

humble schooner
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yeah, bosses I am more careful with it

old dawn
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i only ever hit it if it's free

grim prism
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Youre going to need to keep IP up more or less as an uptime buff in higher content

old dawn
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there's no reason to use it on a boss without it being free

humble schooner
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used to being out in the world and killign standard mobs

old dawn
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you might as well hit revenge.

grim prism
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Especially considering its your only consistent rage spender

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It isnt an oh shit button

old dawn
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^

signal plover
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IP makes a huge difference on heroic bosses atm

old dawn
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IP you spend a lot on, tbh

exotic finch
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btw how the block work tbh? when SB up or passively change ?

grim prism
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Both @exotic finch