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they not pulling aggro, but they had ability how make life easier for party and they do not use
😂
as for the tank shortage, reddit and the forums use that as a catchall term for "pug shortage"
Like they refuse to even when asked?
there's absolutely not a tank shortage, there's a shortage of tanks willing to tank for pugs
^
^^
Yes. Absolutely that. It’s because it’s painfully mediocre at best
the tank shortage meme is mostly for queued content which is some people's main game
I get DPS that want to tank all the time.
no i don't ask , i hope they do that with their own good heart, i am probably too kind
but they see "not enough tanks" and instantly assume nobody's tanking because guilds don't exist to them
Also @sick sentinel ask him to make a cast on focus macro
I would say that there is a shortage of tanks for m+, if nothing else because many druid and prot warriors like me are taking a break form tanking until we're not shit at it
Jon, just level with him or her
“Help me out and throw a MD out at the start”
Don’t leave room for discussion haha
/cast [@focus]
i mean don't they have that macrop for their pet, it surprise me
i have to educate, ys
so 2 of the tanks specs are extremely underrepresented because people just don't want to play them. plus tanking m+ is by far the most actively involved role, youre the driver when youre tanking a m+ and you cant ever afford to lose focus whereas if youre the dps or healer youre just along for the ride and your only job is not to throw up on the nice upholstery and interrupt
When I actually do pugs (very very rarely because it's mine or a guildie's key so I form the groups) I go dps because they have a tank most of the time
actually doing pug is a good thing
ive just started dpsing all my m+, gave up tanking htem for now. I could play an all star dps spec for m+ or a trash tier tank spec. choice is easy if I want ot push keys
myb not always )
Also, I have added some good people on btag so I find peeps
I have done my 2 +10s with the same healer that I found doing a +11
hey Bobby what is the second underrepresented tanking spe?
Guardian druids
How is prot after the "buff"
although I think that has just as much to do with the spec being mind numbingly boring as it does with their performance
WHAT BUFF
and me i wish blizzard make some real pegassus mount in wow
So... still the same?
We did not get buffed by any stretch of the imagination
buffs still aren't announced yet, we can only speculate what they will be
A shit trait that nobody used is now 10% better
although something to do with our mastery is a good guess because it looks like it was messed with on the pbe
I didnt want to kick a dead horse :( i just wanted to see if it was better. Thanks guys
@true hazel once they announce what the bufs will actually be then we'll see. because they are coming
I hope they do. I went fury until things are different. I miss tanking
arms is better imo
they are 100% without any doubt coming, confirmed by blizz
too many buttons with fury )
i mean too spamy
for me
well good night guys
Arms is too boring
I love the fact that fury is 100% of the time GCD capped
they just need to make our mastery armor related or IP armor related ^^ cause EVERY tank bu warrior got Armor Mitigation^^ which can mitigate Bleeds or other physical Debuffs^^ Warrior is Block only^^
I know it says that the Shield slam block trait is better than Reorigination until we have 500 haste from the uldir trait. But how does 300 haste compare to Iron Fortress?
cause I dont have the helm...but I got shoulders Xd
I would take archive over any non-DC trait in uldir any day
Just make sure you swap back in m+
definitely
zul heroic is so scaryyy
a bit
Does any1 here have any tips for a ''newbie'' prot warrior trying it out for the first time? I know the game inside out, but I havent tanked since Cataclysm, and I wanna get this alt. started with Tanking
We were wiping on that fucker on Sunday and we oneshot him today somehow
@warped grail try to have active mitigation at all times, don't stack your CDs
Pkprell FirsT rule of Prot warrior. NEVER pop Shield block during Last Stand
You can shield block x3 , last stand and then block x3 again
That's 51 sec of active block
just don't die
ez
do damage and don't die, that's the tanking life
oh, and don't stand on bad :^)
get the enemies health to zero before they get your health to zero
Dump excess range into IP when SB is up/on CD
im pretty sure juts using devastate to resets does more dmg st than dumping rage into revenge though which is just kind of sad
because logic
baiting ss procs if you have rage to dump and overcapping is just bad play
don't do that
we were just joking about parses, no one was encouraging overcapping rage or god forbid hard casting revenge
revenge does more damage and triggers AM for demo shout for higher damage increase so 🤷
Non-proc revenge* triggers am
In response to "does more dmg st than dumping rage"*
Grats my dude
One thing I am actually curious about is will we begin PTR testing before the put in the buff/buffs they have talked about for Prot
have they talked about prot changes past "we're wokring on stuff"?
nope
well they said that in the next few weeks to expect buffs to fix some of our grievances but it seems as though the PTR may not be far from a first test build for 8.1 so it just makes me wonder what will come first
The buffs being presented or them going ahead and beginning the PTR testing cycle for 8.1
IDK
I'd guess the buff roll outs are apart of 8.1
the buffs are a real breath holder for me
a lot of the complaints that got the most voicing to them are things that arent problems
and im worried they'll address those and subtract from other areas
Yeah which in a way concerns me as well because it feels as though as you said buffs in one area could come at the cost of nerfs in another such as our damage
I feel that is where we will pay for buffs
Some health / rage spent is the first thing I'd add before anything else i think
like I dont want longer SB uptime
its long enough
IDG why people constantly say it needs to be higher
Honestly to affect our damage though all they have to do is make the next set of Azerite traits good enough to where we do not take DC over item level which that would also affect survivability as well but only if the buffs do not cover that loss of DS extension.
However I do feel they will try and phase out us wanting DC over next set of traits for raid
Again all we have is speculation, but if playing this game for as long as I have has taught me anything buffs for tank classes usually come at the cost of something else
gettting slaughtered on Mythic Zek'voz....getting better tho...learning to manage my shield block
min maxing stuff like not popping it if 2 seconds are gunna be wasted by his cast time of Surging Darkness
looks like deafening clash may have dodged the nerfbat for now
Lore: And finally, regarding the tuning passes: like I mentioned, we think we've got most of the major outliers dialed in to an acceptable level at this point. There's likely to still be some adjustments here and there, but we don't believe we're going to need another big wave of Azerite trait tuning like you've seen over the last few weeks. To put it another way: if one trait is far and away the best compared to every other option, sure, we should probably do something about that, but we don't expect that to take the form of a widespread tuning pass going forward.
https://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/1102039-azerite-worst-itemization-in-wows-history/
blizzard probably knows DC is pretty important defensively for prot
killed zul heroic. without extra help from the good raid team in my guild
doubt they're going to hit it with the nerfbat until 8.1 at the earliest
they'll nerf it with the 8.1 "buffs"
, or you lean towards traits that work in a variety of roles (even if they're maybe not the absolute best for each in particular)
I know lore has played the game before...i've seen it
it's certainly engaging to farm a raid/mythic+/PVP set for each of my 1-4 roles
It's odd how they seem to forget player behavior won't change no matter how much they try to hamstring us 'for our own good'
which shield boys? https://gyazo.com/dbc91f86c8d13e49b735cf781216763f
ilvl
Mythic Vectis is so eazy!
not even gonna look
just downed it
yea
ty brother
yea...shields are ilvl>everything else
I feel like ilvl is King for tanks and heals most of the time
Is azerite gear tradeable at any ilvl?
Because I can trade a 370 helm
and it's the first 370 helm I've gotten
I believe it still follows the same rules as normal gear, so youd need to have a 370 helm already to trade it
MYTHRAX HEROIC DEAD
then how the fuck can I trade this hat
So I’m a bit lost with warrior right now, what troubles does it have right now exactly?
bad reputation
Ouch.
yeah, its a pretty sad life currently for prot
Is there any reason for this bad of a reputation?
it's more punishing than any other tank so bad players shine much brighter
small hp pool, no self healing, lack of utility, terrible kiting potential, difficult to play with a low payoff. take your pick
its hard to pinpoint EXACTLY what makes us so bad right now, but there are a lot of reasons
I mean two of those aren't true
and which two do you think aren't true
Utility and no kiting potential? I mean, do we need to have this discussion every day?
Leap
double charge
ez clap
Shout
If your raid doesn't coordinate for shout they're literal baboons
Fear, 2 stuns or one depending which you go
kiting potential is just fact, prot and bears are the only tank specs without any slow so you need to rely on your group for that unless youre counting dragon roar which you shouldn't be taking, intercept is also reliant on your group which is a problem for pugs. And obviously we don't have NO utility, but when you compare it to other tanks we fall far short
20% is not enough of a slow to kite effectively off of
rally, battle, safeguard, shockwave, storm bolt, aoe fear, 3 high mobility baseline abilities?
Yeah it is
the party isn't just one warrior
And war have insane dps so he can allow himself do not actively dps all the time
You leap away as far as you can and since most of the pug dps dont really move when they dps you can just intercept to them when the adds get closer to you
dead ass reading this channel and playing my prot warrior makes me wanna' reroll to a dk.
okay, youre all right prot is amazing and overpowered we're just keeping it on the down low which is why no one plays it in high m+ or raids
Nobody said we're OP, we're just saying you may be playing wrong since your perception is patently wrong.
Define high keys? Ive been doing +9 and 10+ since they came
🍿
Well true probably not +15 but doing anything higher than 10 only increases the ap reward right?
yes
And self esteem
I'll point it out since nobody else has.
Is there a pawn string for stat weights?
no
We all know how it operates and your perception of it may be a bit skewed. You functionally have two options here, @iron forum
1.) You ask us what you think you could work on, we look over your logs, answer your questions, help you improve.
2.) Continue to gripe about it and begin to resent the class to the point you quit.
they're irrelevant for us.
Just need a better shield
I just need one helm but the rngesus failed me already
@primal crypt Don't talk to me about shields.
All the shield classes in my raid got a 370 so far
and I'm over here ready to neck myself from my 350
soz
absolute cocksucker
I was rocking 310 till last week
[angry noises intinsifies]
Theres something positive about people complaining about prot warrior though if they keep it up long enough it will eventually get a buff
@oblique garnet already inc
they noticed finally
the blue posts
wont be until 8.1 tho
fuck
Oh shit really?
yes
anyone have exp with elvui
watch them nerf our booty clap vader bomb cleave
and give a 5% buff to venge
singular yike
im trying to move my party frames
Blizzard trust numbers more then players complain. So it must be constructive
but have no idea
Toggle anchors and move them?
what umean
in the elvui settings, top of the window there's a button to toggle anchors
there you can move just about everything
or just use zperl since it's elvui+more
Been using elvui far too long to change
how many stacks do I take per taunt on zuul phase 2?
has there been another blue post in the last day or 2 about changes?
im so sorry
2 or 3 really?🤔 on what difficulty
Maybe thats why zul has been pain in the ass for our guild
264 armor at 35%
I'd rather not, thanks
Bet there's other trinkets worth using tho
Blockades seems to be good but whats the 2nd best?
Like the Heart of Solace
that would be really nice right about now
TF
Or the magnetite mirror???
oh boy
jes howler
any tips on zul heroic? hes slapping me
that is how i do it... 😦
Best best is to keep ip up
Stay in ranged until you have to drop the blood
Call for and external
Drop your poop and leap back in range
While keeping IP up
And curse bleeds
ignore all pain
350 rezens or a 375 veiled eye?
we are just gonna 3 tank XD
no thats the one off mythrax
No it's the absorb from mythrax
remember: ignoring pain is mostly mental, so stack int- the answer was staring us in the face all this time

how do you guys manage your necrotic
I did okay in a 9 tol
just looking for outside tips
can't tell if SR does anything
Ahhh, I just saw a tank get thrashed for 195k -> 35k Earthquake
And asked why I said tank needs to swap or external for heroic fetid
And group comp matters this week
Having a MW+Frost mage this week will make your runs smoother
You can properly kite with that group
ring of peace is a fantastic "time-out" for necrotic
If you're feeling spicy. Ele shaman fills same roll as frost
but look out for the odd add that just flat out ignores it
matrons in Underrot dont care if I recall correctly
Ideally you should only path to the single Mateo
And the pat on bridge
So necrotic shouldn't be a huge issue
agreed, but it's still worth knowing about - if you do the patrol with the single matron, jump out at 20 stacks and catch your breath behind the ROP it's good to know that you should keep running coz mama's coming and there aint no ring that's gonna slow her down ^^
Hows manor this week on +10 didnt get around to it yesterday?
Depends on comp
If you got a mw/frost mage
Resets are easy
I don't mind the bosses too much
pardon my ignorance, but what is MW?
As long as everyone is kick bitch on sisters
oh mistweaver
no worries, everybody has to learn 😃
Ye ofc but if those worms infest you do they reset the necrotic buff like add the duration or no?
Hmm. Don't remember
Didnt do any manors the last time they had necrotic nobody in our guild got a big manor key
But yeah the sisters might be only ”hard” boss on tyrannical
Last one is a bitch if no one target swaps + does mechanics
The trash is worse than the bosses @ 10.
I think temple is very managable this week with coms
Even with tyrannical.
Shrine is no me gusta
Temple is a cakewalk
witches need good healer mostly
Unless they changed somethings on the avatar on temple its just pretty much faceroll even on the higher keys
Hardest part of temple right now is trash before last boss if you don't have a friendly comp.
even then, you can make your way through it.
I mean, if you don't have a coordinated group for first boss splitting and trash pre last boss
Temple is no fun
Temple pugs make or break on first boss of temple
Because if ya wipe on the first boss...
Oh boi are you not gonna like the rest of the dungeon
I guess, really, the bottom line is that it's unfriendly to uncoordinated/pugs.
1st boss is fucked up design-wise. Never ecer will i consider good desingn, when boss actually forbids usage of most of your abilities.
Iw you are warrior, you tank him with shield slam+devastate only, otherwise you destroy yourself.
Inb4 mongo demonhunter self-deleting with eye beam
lol
Also i cant type, sowwy
Yeah ofc. Just annoying, they should just make only direct damage to be reflected, not cleave/AOE. That will still encourage target swap but will not restrict player's rotations.
It feels horrible when you cant use your stuff.
@old night I’ve not had any issues with myself this week, necrotic seems pretty tame
I’ve got way more parry than I want, but I’ve had a couple packs where necrotic fell off just from a lucky chain of parries
So that’s fun
is it worth considering TW rings for the strength or does that not matter?
Only timer I missed so far was a +5 motherlode, and that was due to some really, really dumb dps
Got pants from weekly box. And pants from PvP box. I already had good pants. Why i even bother doing +10s. No upgrades for 3 week. I will just log for raids and arena really, system is so fucked up/
¯_(ツ)_/¯
@tight tree I can’t hear you over the sound of my 345 Shield
Reasons why I have an alt
I had to buy 350 boE
I pray for monkey forging, arena chest, m+ chest, and raid
Whatever, i am doing raids on monk now, but same shit there. Got 380 boots. I already had good boots.
Meanwhile, shitty rings and shoulders. We need to have 3 items in the chest, choose 1.
Our DK tank was farming sword from KR for month now. It never dropped. last time we ran my +9 key, dropped for me. Can't trade. Then i ran Waycrest on monk alt. 365 Blightreaper drops, 1st run. I have good luck on alts and offspecs, meanwhile, no shield or 1-hander.
Well at least i can reck stuff in pvP as Arms.
The 7th Legion xmog with the lionshead on the shoulders, is the 'quest' the warfront/s?
Just wanted to dps for a bit, joined +5 sots.20 deaths on second boss. Warr tank with 3 arms traits and stuff like that "fkn prot warr suxks cant do sht and i die" ugggghhh
resounding or impassive for 3rd tier?
I saw Wartanks parrying implies no necrotic, same shit for block ?
I had no idea of this feature tbh. I am a professional wartank runner in m+
no, parry stops an attack, block reduces a %
I wouldn't go too crazy.
🤦
This is the week for warrior buffs. or not 🤔 💩
BRILLIANT!

was also real gud for necrotic
Whats your haste at? I feel like mine is getting pretty high
Yeah im at 16% unbuffed. Pretty much all my gear has haste+mastery/vers. Was wondering if I should move towards vers+mastery
I feel like ny ip are weak. Like 28k unbuffed
Ip is shit
It is
So np. Not gear issues. The ip is bad and scales badly
19 for me
There is very little difference between secondaries.
If you have gear of equal item level, you can choose based on encounter (haste and mastery on tank swap fights, versa on fights with magic/bleed, crit on AoE physical fights)
Yeh. Hope they will do something about it
But i just felt like a was getting rekt on heroic ghuun before the 2nd soawns. I kept dying just before the phase 3 switch
Dude @fickle kiln I kept dying when Zul went p2
Yeah that too
We just fall apart on that Ghuun p2. Too much damage from spores flying around.
But i mean i watch nurfed's tank run 13+ mythic plus and mythic raid just fine
Druid offtank
Nothing op or broken
Sense just very good.
And his guild supports him
He and his team willing to play around warrior's weakness. Most of the people in other guilds do not.
I was getting meme-ed in guild discord because of warr 😉 (warr is bad but you have to ignore that pain. oops, it was on GCD nwm). All in good spirit but slightly tilting 😉
Yeah my gm is playing a warlock and he used to tank on his warrior with me. He said hes gonna send his imp next to me so i get one more stack of haste for ghuun
In one of the wipe attempts on ghuun, i died at like 6 stacks and the dh offtanks survived alone for ages dying at like 18 stacks..
Im like you cant keep me at 6 stacks and youre telling me you can heal through 18 stacks..
Are you telling me that pet classes can control their pet?
My experience tells me otherwise
just a little question : askmrRobot, Pawn w/ simc they aren't quite fonctionnal for a prot tank right? as they don't stack haste. Should i still follow them ( at the moment askmrrobot tell me to get rid of about all my haste to get down th 6% ) or should i juste ignore and stack haste?
there's much more wrong to both of those than they just don't stack haste
No. AMR is bad. Nothing supports prot warrior now.
and no, don't even consider AMR as a guideline
Haste is very good for you.
i noticed it wanted me to get rid of DC
Pawn "works" just fine if you know how much you value individual stats.
You can set haste as highest and it will prioritize it if that's what you prefer
So my mythic progression guild said they are going to trial me as prot warrior because I want to swap to tank from dps. Am I insane for trying?
There's only one way to find out tbh
haha
Twice the weapons = twice the damage
Fury will pull ahead soon, once everyone has more stats
I'd stay with arms for now
Anywhere that has done any maths on racials for prot? I'm tauren atm and the aoe stun is nice. Highmountain do have vers and damage reduction though
If you care about dps play what looks cool.
If you want utility for m+ play belf
Belf still wins at utility if you do keys imo
Go orc or go home 😉
It is too early to say Arms or Fury, they will still be adjusting traits soon and rebalance classes.
Im swapping to zandalari prot war asap. They could have shit racials that actually hinder me and id still do it
Fury feels quicker and more fun to me
Cant stand arms
Untill what + you guys think is pretty "easy" this week? Did underrot 7 and it was quite difficult
It mainly depends the dungeon. I read e.g sephralis was hard af but some others were ez
Tol dagor is gonna be a pain from 7
But it Will mostly dépend on your group
good DPS solve every issue
Did motherlode 8 and it was easy, 2 chested it.
half of motherlode bosses don't even use attacks lol
worst bosses this week might be volkaal, sand queen (krogus maybe), galvaatz, golden snake but asid efrom that it should be fairly easy
underrot may be a pain as well
depending on how last boss scale with tyranical
Anyone got the haste breakpoints for shieldblock?
I think it's something like 130%
You guys just pulling numbers out of thin air? 😄
@junior igloo no
does that mean how much haste you need for constant SB uptime?
Some time ago there was a discussion and pty sure marok wit others reached conclusion it was in the 160s
Like 2 months ago
What was being taken into account?
Because for just Shield Block 100 % up-time, you need 200 % haste
Avatar and dc probably reduced that
avatar ad DC don't change SB uptime
In legion thanks to T212P 100% uptime was reachable with heavy repercussion, but it's not anymore
now you have a "soft breakpoint" at 50% hawte where you can chain 3 in a row without downtime but with bosses swing time it's not very relevant
Youre right, i mixed up with demo shout
focus Haste use ITF and you'll be good anyway
wich is the order of preference that I should look for importance of attributes?
ok
for weapon enchantment : armor or haste
allright
secondary stats are better than armor for weapon
yes
Versatility, haste or mastery, depending on your choice, they are about equal, depending on the situation
Crit is typically slightly behind, but still very close.
Armor is not as good as secondaries
primary are STR/Stam.
secondaries are haste/crit/mast/vers
Tertiary are leach/speed/avoid
understand
my go to is haste, because you get defensive value out of it no matter th situation
vers/mast you mostly gain defensive value when beeing hit
haste lets you pool rage and get your CDs back even if you are not taking any hits
We need 2 shields for 100 SB uptime
You pool faster with more haste, so the maximum time you can pool is shorter
yes and no, once rage is full, you can pool IP and use it to decrease CD.
It's probably not THAT far ahead, but my reasonning is :
if you take a hit that would kill you, having 5 more armor/vers/mast may save you, but with less than 5% hp you'll die next ht anyway.
that exta haste means you are more likely to something to mitigate the bad hit and you have a sort of control over it.
Prot reward proactive gameplay and control over your defensives => haste
Sure, you can pool cooldowns via AM, but the possible pool time is still shorter.
Any prots here doing 10+ mythics?
But haste is still good on tank swap fights, mostly because as you get closer to mitigating most/all hits with shield block, it becomes better
Am i wrong or prots are shi t tier?
it's not best tier, but it's not really shit
I play mostly pugs playing as prot in anything above 10 is nightmare ye dps is great but ..
i mean, druids exists
yesterday i do M10 Waycrest Manor....
Main spec is arms but i always played prot here and there was hording gear for prot as well and i felt like this was worst tank alongside druids
It's hard to quantify the value of control over your defensives (given by haste = more up-time).
I valued it as double in my spreadsheet (so 1 damage prevented by haste is as valuable as 2 damage prevented by versatility for example), because you can choose which hits you want to mitigate.
But whether you consider it 50 % better, or double (like the spreadsheet), or even higher than that, that's currently mostly personal opinion, I don't think we have a good model to quantify it
What do you keys is like someth typical that prot wars do wrong? Like obv pretty dzcent ones? Like example not weaving defensives good enough, kiting packs or so?
altar dazar is pretty easy as prot i did a 9+ two chest and wiped through a +12 xD
you need to play your prot proactively.
Know when bad things are gonna happen beforehand, and dont let them happen
Anyone here tanking zul on hc?
ye
if bad things happen, your recovery power is very low, but you have great tool to prevent that
do you save all cds for phase 2?
no i got two other tanks to handle that XD
so most of the shit should be handled by healers right?
leap away ask for BoP
I mean at 3 stacks it's ticking for like 80k or smtn
before mitigation
or like, without cds I mean
I also didn't calculate the increase in Ignore Pain from haste because that was beyond the scope of the spreadsheet. So I just estimated it to be roughly equal to versa/mastery
alternatively, leap away, Die and use CR as a def CD
Take 2 stacks, wait until 3 seconds left, leap away, BoP, charge back
how do you take 2 stacks? :p
oh right, if you're using BoP tactic
If healers are good you can take 3 then bop fast
I mean, it doesn't run out on co-tank before 3 stacks
I usually take 3 or 4 because of timing. I usually die, but we still kill it
After initial BoPs its whatever, we taunt as soon as debuff is off
or do I just need to taunt later?
we took 3 tanks cause of lack of healing aaand we have no paladins in our group ... so yeah triple tanks serves fine
It is clusterfuck but boss dies around that time usually
so this boss is just utter bs
gearcheck
Yes, always feels uncontrollable. Dot is just too much to tank reliably.
if no one does mistakes you don't need the CR on zul why not use it as externals?
- Hes in 9.0
hmm
well at least for us its just a physical dmg debuff^^ so it gets mitigated by armor so DH, Druid, paladin can mitigate it 😄 monks stagger fun fact works also dunno why though
its not a bleed
"Rupturing blood" not a bleed, gg blizz :p
could be my client but a bleed does bleed dmg on german clients
Bleed is physical
physical dmg is a different sotry
I think it's a bleed.
Stagger should work at reduced rate as it does against magic/bleed, right?
we clear 5/8 super easy, but zul is like a brick wall
only yesterday we started doing the "just burn him down to 40% and ignore phase1"
(which is also bs imo)
Still have to do hexers/crushers no?
hmm harjatan does bleed dmg o.o zul does not
If you have DPS to do it with only 1 crusher, you should not have any problems burning him phase 2
well 1 spawned crusher, I'm not talking about the one at the start :p
lemme get logs
i did XD
Physical dot is per definition a bleed
No
Well, shit. only CDs/externals then. JK, used them to cover gaps in shield block 🤣
dies in pool
so you guys use BoP and combat ress as mechanics to kill the boss?
so take 2 stacks, leap to side and get bop or die? :p
feels bad to loose DC on shoulders. but 45 ilvl upgrade from chest q.q
@topaz badger we take 3-4 first, get BOP and then do 2-3 and hope the boss is dead asap
If you BoP /CR it you can take 3-4
if we survive that long >.<
healers just need to bump that healing into you 😃
we were doing 2-4-16
2-4-16? uff, get another healer. that would help a ton
Our healers cant keep up with 3 stacks, it is finicky. High risk of dropping pool on top of Zul.
use cooldowns
^also that
Use CD and leap away
does bop when it removes the bleed drop a red ring ?
Yes
yes
No tank in the middle and leap to the side to drop
keep zul somewhat in the middle
k
Booya took me a while but tank AOTC boys 😄
grats 😃
On our first kill, i leaped out with 5% and died on the side so it wouldn't wipe the entire raid.
Feelsgoodman
Took4 stacks on Zul last night and lived feelsgoodman
The trait does, reorigination array does not
Also CR is a valid external for Zul IMO
Do you have a frost mage or an assassination rogue?
how many stacks till i kite?
Leap talent is good too this week no ?
@past ledge it's not about how many stacks, it's about having enough aggro
Designed for healing and tanking purpose! Tracks the Necrotic Rot debuff for the tank in your group. Shows the Necrotic Rot icon with a duration timer on-top.
take this
And @rustic fractal I always using leap talent but thinking about using TC range talent this week actually to be able to hit them out of melee range
Always picked tc too
But I may consider picking Ravager this week
No trollinh
Ing
really shouldnt have threat issues
I was as well
But I kept braking polymorphs and incaps
So I took it off and I am fine now
Charge in with avatar and bolster, do retarded dps for 10-15 secs ,leap out and kite, no aggro issue
How should i weave defensives on m+ bosses? SB, LS, SB, SW etc?
SB SB SB LS SB SB SW SB
then you'll hve DTs between your SBs until LS comes back
youmay use 3 sb between LS an SW not sure
DT's?
downtime
Right
How would you change that up on for example 3rd boss underrot with the aoe dmg?
the shockwave thing?
Ask for a small external if u want 100% uptime such as druids ironbark
SB SB SB LS SB SB SW SB should be 90+ uptime already for the begining
then keep SB charges rolling while having it for shickwave
Not the shockwave, the festering infestation, just any group wide magic dmg rly
Might be mixing up spells, just had trouble not dying to group wide dmg on some fights
oh if you have rogue/pal they can imune and run into all the shrooms to prevent it
if you have a MW monk he can mass purge it
else juste backpedal some shroom to clear the room
and have shockwave and the AoE on DPS clear as many as possible
You can clear them all with the upheaval and shockwave anyway
As long as people don't position them like mongs
stacks can be dispelled by healers (except by druid I think)
if the cast is going it's better that you run into all the shroom rather than having them explode
If you have hunters and rogues in group they can also clear them out
Hm i see
All my high ilvl gear is crit/mast 😡 Blizz please
I mean thats not that terrible
it's good for M+
Crit is actually really close to vers and haste
Thanks to ITF, doesn't haste get better the more of it you have?
yes
Don't think so, why should it?
Since it's a % increase of the amount of haste you have, the higher your haste the more you will get
Into the fray multiplies your true haste by 1.15 with 5 stacks
Unless I misunderstand the talent
If you have 20% base haste in your character panel, you actually have 120% "true" haste which gets multiplies by 1.15
So into the fray will grant you 18% flat haste (up to 138%) instead of the expected 15% (135%)
But I was wondering if there's a point where, if you have enough haste, that you'd start picking haste over ilvl
Maybe not now, but later on in the expansion
You could just consider the 115 to be "baseline" and haste works normally.
If it stacked additively, ITF would make haste worse.
Since they stack multiplicatively, it doesn't make it better or worse.
The stat that increases in value is versatility.
Going from 0 % to 1 % reduces your damage taken by 0.5 %.
Going from 199 % to 200 % reduces your damage taken by 100 % :)
But these effects are too small to make any noticeable difference at reachable levels
Huh. Are you sure that checks out? It could also read "Gain 15% haste. For every 10% you have at baseline, gain another 1.5% haste."
If you look at it as 115% base haste, it still makes haste have a steeper curve than other stats
What's the base length of a GCD with 0% haste?
10 % haste means you get 10 % more actions in the same amount of time.
If ITF was additive, going from 115 % to 125 % would be only 125/115 = ~ 8.7 % increase in total actions..
But because it's multiplicative, you still get full 10 %.
Haste doesnt really get better the more you have but itf does
what would you take Strenght of Number or Unstable Flames. In raids i woul say unstable flames in M+ Strenght of Numbers.
Huh. That's an interesting way to look at it.
I think he means base GCD
With 0% haste its 1.5 seconds
yeah
So with 100% haste it'd be 0.75s, and at 200% would it be 0.375s?
It caps at 100 % = 0.75
Oh really? I didn't know it had a cap
I think gcd caps at 1 second min though
Also, if it didn't, you'd need 300 % for 0.375.
200 % would be 0.5.
But yeah, it caps at 100 %
Meaning you cant go below 1 second no matter what
well given rogues have a 1sec GCD base
Unless they changed that, i know it fucked with me in wrath
Not any more, classes with scaling GCD are 1.5s baseline and capped at 100 % = 0.75s
it's 0.75, it doesn't cap at 1 sec
Ah ok
Yeah, I know I've felt my GCD go under one second during lust
Classes that have a different resource other than cooldowns/GCDs (such as energy for rogues or monks or runes for DKs) just have a static 1s GCD
Huh, I always thought it still scaled down. TIL.
So it's GCD = 1.5s * (100/(haste% +100))?
yeah, that's correct
Azeroth probably explodes if you try to divide by 0
Why do you think sargeras got so pissed?
Haste life.
Defending warriors in DK discord like a champ
I am protection right? So i have to PROTEC warriors
Nah u see...if u put out too much positive out there, blizz will see and will revert all their amazing and OP changes they surely have planned for us ..
Hey guys, whats the preference on Archive of the Titans or Lazer Matrix If i had the choice?
Oh shit i must've missed it lol
<3
I got the mythrax shoulders and the G'Huun head
so was choosing between them as my other piece has defeaning crash
@signal plover Well i bash Prot all the time! But i am allowed because i play it. Lowly DK has no right to shit on warriors.
Anyone else excited to use a 340 deafening crash piece until 8.1? :D
whooo
im excited to use my 340 pieces till 8.1
🌈
cause i aint getting upgrades
If you got one from m+ cache, please let me know what true happiness feels like
Even that screws prot war lol
i could only get it if its on the same slot as deafening crash, but it doesnt have the crash
I got a 370 shoulder with the Revenge trait
Closest I got was this. Bracer for impact and Overwhelming power. I consider it BIS since there is no DC piece in M+
Brace *
Are you happy for me Byron
I've gone from a, 325 - 340 - 345 - 350 in my shield slot
I got 2 bfi, but without df the class feels really bad
I shall revel for you, @stiff orbit
yeah im in the 340 club lol
U can get a shield spamming atal
See you say that
Trust me I've done plenty of AD lol
I have an 8 key this week - hoping it's kind to me
I've yet to see it drop on any difficulty lol
I got every item from atal 2 times
Lucky you
Same. I spam atal dazar and tol dagor. No shields nor trinkets. my 345 rezan is weeks old
Though I did finally get Rezans trinket
I've had the wrists about 9 times and thats it lol
So there's that at least
I got a 380 sword from mythrax though :D
Yeah it's so shiny
Really you guys are having that much of a problem in atal? Maybe u are not spaming enough. I just do +8 and try to get it +2 every time.
Was pretty much all i did last week
And i suck, imagine if i was any good
Paladin guildie got this one in his weekly chest...I contemplated gkicking him out of jealousy 😂
ugh weekly chest
Lucky me
I got 0 usable pieces for 4 chars
Got the same thing ^^
everything i get out of the chest has no haste
Same 😦
Last 2 weeks I've gotten 380 bracers with vers/mastery and fire resist, and 380 boots with vers/mastery. At least the boots had a socket though
Hold on you guys wear stuff from the chest instead of scrapping it?
not me!
Week before last yes. Not this week.
it's usually just a piece for a slot I already have a 380 in
Usually its trash, this week was kind to me
fuck the weekly chest rng 😭
I'm just salty that as someone that just wants to do 5 man content and doesn't have a schedule predictable enough to get a decent raid.... it's my only source of azerite gear
yup same
potential source of azerite gear*
I don't have the time to raid actively and neither do I really find it fun
so I'm just screwed
I despise the azerite system in it's current form
oh raiding is totally my jam but my job is demanding and I often have calls at night when I would be raiding, get calle dout of town on short notice, etc
so... I have a solid like 7 people I play with all the time and it's fun - but being in all m6+ gear and wearing 2x 340 azerite pieces is super annoying
yup same
got 340 azerite gear slots
And I can't get a good trinket to drop
My +10 chest didnt even give me a single ilvl to my total since it was on one of the slots I already had smth good on
all the bads one just dont get replaced, idk
also the "it's an ilvl upgrade so you can't trade it" sstem is bullshit
I was in a motherlode 10 on my monk last night and two other people got things that were 5 ilvl upgrades that were actually downgrades due to secondaries
Does Ablative Shielding stack if you have 2 traits or not ?
Does anybody know ?
yeah ablative stacks
Ok nice, ty
but it's still not a great trait
I don't have better on this ring, otherwise, its crit stacking or Gutripper
ah
Isn't impassible visage the best ?
gemhide and impassive yeah
Both s tier
so a piece with BFI and gemhide is pretty solid
and like, ablative is still good
I'm so jealous of those kraken shell though
Those shoulders are listed in the bis combo in the guide
I got mother's helm yesterday,
BFI, Azerite veins and Impas. Visage.
It's only 355 but so nice
BIS helm
I've been trying to get that helmet every week since raids were released
No luck so far 😦
I'm honestly thinking about speccing arms and getting into a pug normal/heroic even though I really don't care about uldir just so I can pick up some azerite pieces for m+ tanking
also motherlode 10 this week is ihlariously easy of the infested buff is on the same packs eevery time
we only had to deal with it like 4-5 times total on the route i took last night
This seems like a good week for prot warriors
...are we not using the strength gems?
Looks like icyveins only has us gemming haste?
mother helm has eluded me as well. Double rolled mother each week so 4x heroic, 2xmythic and no helm
I thought we used one str...
feelsbadman
to the questions "but why do we go for Ilvl first?" the answer is ARMOR and STAM
Not 100%
All of our stats are so close together that more of the total stats is better than one specific stat
whats the minimum upgrade of Ilvl where you would consider it better than perfect stats?
were*
Str + armor + stam + all secondaries out weight the lower total number pretty much of lower ilvl
Pretty much any unless the DC trait is involved
sorry whats dc?
think they intentionaly left DC out of the raid traits just to make getting a higher ilvl one harder?
Rings are the only iffy ones and pretty much preference
Deafening crash
feel like im going to have a 340 DC shoulders for a long time
I think it was just an oversight and they were aware of how impactful dc would be
Unaware*
Even nerfed it, but probably had the raid items alresdy in place
Got 385 shoulders, back to 340 chest instead 😃
lol extending an 8 second Defensive to almost 30 seconds and they thought that wouldnt be impactful?
Tank tuning is not a priority
Well they did nerf it and probably didnt forsee it
Use to dc stacked the duration
In beta
like 3x would be 6seconds per clap?
It was only 1 second but 3 dc's would be 3 seconds
ahh
So they made it not stack but increased it to 2
lol
Godlike
yeah but that would be 3x 340 azerite for all eternity
Still be worth
you'd have 100% uptime with that
Changes id make for prot. Make DS aoe taunt. IP off gcd but smaller size. Any thoughts?
Is it hard to push 10+ with Warrior?
give us 100% damage increase and 50% passive damage reduction and we good
@bold zinc nnot really, just have a good team
Give warrior two shields!
No tanks are hard to do 10s with, just need decent party members
I meant above 10
bring your boomie and frost mage friends and it's easy peasy
@bold zinc its not hard. Just to be clear prot warr doesnt suck. The prpblem is everybody has to pull their weight. Fuck ups are extemely punishing.
!traits
the main weakness of prot is you can't really recover from mistakes by yourself
I mean if you're pushing 15+ you will start to notice the discrepancies between tanks
is reinforced plating closer to the top our our trait list now?
We aren't DK god tier by any stretch
Honestly if it were my choice id make all the classes like that. I love prot just for that l. It makes me really play at a better level.
A class that allows many mistakes and u still get out of it alive is poorly tuned for me
And boring
@strange plover I'm genuinely not sure, you might have some luck pinging Marok but I'm too scared to do it lmao
right on, thank ya
@old zephyr what would u say a well stacked is?
With the Uldir helm, you will want to use the Brace for Impact Icon Brace for Impact trait on it until your Reorigination Array Icon Reorigination Array reaches 500+ Haste.
500+ haste I believe is the agreed upon value
Its not exactly agreed upon, no one really knows, that was a guestimation at best
What Marok says is law.
So no one should be using that trait according to the amount of weeks honestly? Right?

but that only works in raids so dosnt matter if you dont raid
I think hes been using it since 150
Yolo.
I do use it with only 300 haste but that's just feelycraft
And i mean we literally have no idea to test whats better
The only thing that matters is DC
outside of that, do what keeps you alive honestly
alive long enough to Avatar TC your way to victory
Does race for prot warrio really matter at this point ? I used to always be big boi tauren and then went orc for pvp ... but recently I've been tempted to go Blelf for the aoe dispell for when it comes in handy
Belfs Is best for m+ utility
if I cast spell reflection while chaos bolt is MID FLIGHT
does it still reflect?
no
has to be before the cast
that's why people pump fake their casts
to bait out the SR
Race doesnt matter pick what looks the best
dwarves could have use for the DoT removal on some encounters, and LF Draenei can dish out some nice AoE burst, usefull for aggro or clearing nasty packs
it's mostly a matter of feels
tauren has biggest shields
Moose man tauren best warrior
My door shield is the size of 4 gnomes
+1 for tauren
And war stomp is quite useful if you dont have a reliable pug
I like my LF Draenei, makes me top damage metter even more when I die hue
I play DI atm but always pray for alliance Tauren before I go to bed at night.
One day there'll be no more race restrictions on factions.
just wait for sylv to do a bit more shit and in few days everyone will be alliance 😃
Went Stormwind for the wife, stayed for the Dark Iron
Faction lines are gonna blur before BFA is over imo
Hey bois, i was wondering, any of you done the uhm... "subtle" strategy on M mother?
"______ is now threatening all of Azeroth, the ______ and _______ have banded together to face this new threat. Let us all learn from their example and unite as one, both horde an alliance, for our world!" - Plot of the __th Expansion.
aka more or less rush 3rd room
I Hope they throw a real twist this time and Sylvanas is really fucking evil and kills Tyrande Genn and Moira
like "actual impactful lore thing happened because 1 faction did something to the other"
and "bad guys win"
Speaking of bad guys win
I took 4 stacks on Zul and didn't die as a prot warrior, AMA.
lies, lies everywhere :p
oh wait, not bad guys, "Baddies"
Can you use laser matrix for tanking? As opposed to blood sport which is the other trait
well at least laser matrix will give you haste.... ^^''
i don't think it's worth it
bloodsport is not that bad
matrix will heal the raid more than it will heal you
But how big of a difference is there? Im thinking since laser matrix is pretty good in arms
yes becaus eit deals damage
damage will not help you a lot as a tank, and healing the raid (if it ever proc wich i'm not sure) will only help you very little
it's been nerfed recently, it's only worth it in uldir
What i am saying is that im swithcing between specs, so does the slight loss in survivability for it in prot justify the dps gain for ST uldir as opposed to LoW?
@primal crypt @old zephyr @amber siren @steel mauve @lunar jackal @oblique wolf
Not sure where the 500 haste is coming from, I'd use Archive over BfI from week 3 if it's your only source of Reorigination Array
One of the admins here through out 500 haste for it taking over but like i said theres no way to actually test it, and it was a guestimation at best
Yeah, the guide is a few weeks old I think
i feel like i have so little mastery -.- sitting at 19% only
U aren't much of a master eh?
not really ^^ rings are with crit and vers, weapon and shiel crit haste ... sigh
I know weve been saying pretty much all stats are similair, ilvl over secondaries and all. But i only do m+, woule haste / crit be ideal or does it really have no diffirence @ the same ilvl?
doing M+ you should be focusing on doing TD for the trinket and generally dungeons with Shields, like Atal.
Also, trying to shoot for dungeons that have gear with Haste as the major stat is good choice (You do not care about the other stat that much , it still matters but not as much as having the major be haste)
^^ this is my Personal view of the things btw, being the guy with the most M+ completed in my guild
Oh you mean Jes' Howler?
yeap
Meh
Atal triket is awesome as well
Atal trinket plus blockades