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chrome falcon
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I just use that shit on cooldown

gleaming blaze
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Okay so i got unlucky and got the Servant Splitter in my weekly chest. The question is, is 10 ilvls of Strength and Stam stats worth losing BOTH secondary stats?

steel mauve
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its not really that good of a dps boost either the proc on it sucks

gleaming blaze
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yea and im a tank...

sick sentinel
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boys

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i just tanked a +10

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in time

gleaming blaze
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should i just make a ticket and claim this is in the wrong spec for Protection?#

sick sentinel
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we getting this bread boys

chrome falcon
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gz

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what key

sick sentinel
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freehold

chrome falcon
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i fucking hate tanking that shit instance

sick sentinel
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ive done a 13 on monk on harder ones

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but i gave up after 1st week on uldir on warrior

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just came back to it and they do feel a bit better

void sandal
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Did you ever pull more than one group at a time?

sick sentinel
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ye

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did the 2 groups on bridge and the big guy

void sandal
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Any aggro issues with skittish?

empty locust
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Thunder clap is so powerful right now that i'm having next to no issue. just the occational taunt

quaint kiln
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I was doing so much damage in m+ the mobs got ascared of me and started hitting other people

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Cause they knew not to fuck with me

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*skittish= scaredy-cat mobs

neon tangle
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I have only had the same issues I have every week: People not knowing how to interupt

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people pulling extra packs

sweet orchid
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I either get that or people who do interrupt but don't do mechanics, die in everything and and pull 3k dps.

dark junco
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Nice

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Benched cause warrior

final mist
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Sounds like you should find a new guild.

cinder nova
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Unless your guild is top100

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They have no ground for benching a tank over matters of class

chrome falcon
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Make your own guild while prot warrior is wildly overpowered

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Then when you're in a position of power just tell everyone to go fuck themselves if they want you to reroll

cinder nova
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Also PTR mastery looks... the same?

stone crag
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yup

cinder nova
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I'm not crazy, right?

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Figures.

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lol

chrome falcon
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Also I don't actually think that's true @cinder nova My guild got one the last 5 KJ mythic kills so we're about as slow as you can get and we swapped all of our tanks to other classes for that fight

solid mist
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is reorigination array worth anything ilvl wise? any reason to go down in ilvl to get the uldir trait?

chrome falcon
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Tanks are one of the classes that get forced in rerolling the most because blizz has literally no idea how to balance their shit

cinder nova
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Then your guild probably was executing poorly.

chrome falcon
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Did you do that fight? Mass grip and roar made it literally 100x easier

cinder nova
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They nerfed the crap out of it by the end.

chrome falcon
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Sometimes tanks have to reroll for utility

cinder nova
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Compared to when it was being progged by the top guilds it was a shadow of its former self

chrome falcon
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Not in Uldir, though

waxen cradle
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No not crazy speculation is all we have and it ranges from probably this to ermagurd were doomed so right now were back to where we were with hoping we get changes in 8.1 rather then hotfixes that really change nothing

chrome falcon
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@cinder nova sounds like the opinion of someone who didn't do the fight but hey maybe i'm wrong

cinder nova
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I'd like to see your guild do the fight pre-nerf.

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But considering it was last 5 to fill.

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That may be indicative.

chrome falcon
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Not sure how "Sometimes tanks need to reroll to provide utility" has turned into "Your guild is shit because you needed the hardest boss ever to get nerfed before you could kill it"

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But good shit buddy

cinder nova
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You were literally using anecdotal information.

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"My guild did X so that's definitely not true."

chrome falcon
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... Because in this case the anecdote perfectly proves what I'm trying to say lol

cinder nova
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"Also I don't actually think that's true @cinder nova "

chrome falcon
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Sometimes blizzard designs their fights like dumbfucks so tanks need to reroll to provide utility

cinder nova
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I'm aware the fight is easier as a bear, just as how having a DK made Aggramar easier.

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But it's not required.

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Moreover, the screenshot that was the point of discussion is literally revolving current content.

chrome falcon
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No, but if you could reroll to make the fight 100x easier for your guild then I don't think you have the right to get indignant

final mist
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By the time most guilds killed KJ, Bears weren't required (and they were the only tank that was ever required for KJ in the first place).

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Most guilds used double Bear because Roar was so powerful that it made Grip useless.

cinder nova
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final mist
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And even then, most guilds swapped every class possible to Goblins to compensate for Roar's CD.

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DK was "good" but it was never required.

chrome falcon
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Yeah force people to pay real cash to racechange to beat the boss

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That's the good shit

cinder nova
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I mean, again.

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If you're top 100

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Yeah, that's shitty and it's the case.

final mist
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That's just Blizzard's balance and raid design being shit.

cinder nova
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But unless you're top 100

final mist
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Remember, KJ wasn't tested.

cinder nova
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Doesn't matter, which mind you, was the original stipulation made here.

chrome falcon
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I definitely think any raid leader who says "You need to switch class because reeee prot warrior" is pretty stupid

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The only fights where other class utility is really nice is like, mass grip on zekvoz

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And transcendence of Ghuun

cinder nova
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Yes. One of my DPS was shitting on me because I'm prot and I offered to let him step up as BrM

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Got bodied by Shatter.

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It was pretty funny to watch, though.

chrome falcon
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Tanking zekvoz as BrM 🤢

cinder nova
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At least you're not a DH

chrome falcon
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Have any DHs killed fetid yet?

cinder nova
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

chrome falcon
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oh wow almost 30

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still only 8 prot warriors lets go boys

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still got time to be one of the first 10

cinder nova
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:^)

solid mist
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for moving up to heroic uldir (mind you I just pug stuff). 350 good ilvl for that? How imporant are trinkets cause mine are poo

cinder nova
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Just get blockades and the other is sorta up in the air since tank trinkets are..

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Well they don't exist, we'll say.

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Make sure you have a decent ilvl shield

solid mist
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maaaaan I ain't got gold for that

cinder nova
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And you're basically set if you can execute

solid mist
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I have a 355 ghuun shield

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so that is ok

cinder nova
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Dude it's like 17K on server

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Should be fine.

solid mist
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last I checked was 37k

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but been a few dyas

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I'll look again tonight

cinder nova
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I'm still dicking around with some garbage 350 shield in Mythic.

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While all our shamans and hpal get their 385s and 370s.

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I wanna die.

solid mist
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I have howler (but only 340) and the eye thing that gives you a shield

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oof

cinder nova
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Use howler.

solid mist
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I do

chrome falcon
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I feel like blockades would be unwearable dogshit if blizzard actually added tank trinkets to this tier

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It feels so bad

cinder nova
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That's probably true.

bold zinc
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How is prot in m+?

prisma crane
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what level M+ you looking to do?

bold zinc
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12-13

chrome falcon
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I unironically think prot is the best tank for everything up to 13

prisma crane
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you can do it, but it'll be rough

dark junco
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Thanks vryone for your input

chrome falcon
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higher than that and you're in trouble

dark junco
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@final mist I do feel like I should find a new one, but getting a 2/8M with a tanking spot open is... yup

chrome falcon
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You aren't going to die (most of the time) and our dps is so much higher than everyone apart from VDH

stone crag
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finding a guild as a tank definitely isn't a fun time

chrome falcon
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Yeah it's rough because 99% of the time tanks are officers

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So you're basically competing against one other guy

digital arrow
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yeah art, i know that experience first hand

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and then there's a bias against our class at the moment and that doesnt help 😦

chrome falcon
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I really wish blizzard hadn't made that blue post about us

next goblet
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^^

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what bluepost did they make?

chrome falcon
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"Prot warrior sucks but we have no idea what to do about it, stay tuned!"

next goblet
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lol no they didnt

chrome falcon
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Did NOT help community perception

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Yes, they did

digital arrow
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blizz points at us HEY WE KNOW U ARE UNDERPOWERED, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT IT*

chrome falcon
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I'll find it

stone crag
chrome falcon
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No, there was another one

next goblet
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christ

digital arrow
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i even had a friend who's guildmaster and knows im not terrible at tanking, but it was too much work to convince the rest of the group

chrome falcon
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"We agree Prot Warriors need love, but aren't 100% decided on exactly what form those changes will take, which also means we don't know if it'll need to be in a patch or not."

digital arrow
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so old guild went with brewmaster and dk

next goblet
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oh jeez

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heroic zul, how cancer is it as a prot war?

junior ivy
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a little scary at the end

topaz ember
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its pretty nice as arms which is waht i had to switch to

junior ivy
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but i can survive it all now

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and i barely use SB

next goblet
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because our blood dk is just doing absolutely horrible

junior ivy
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so if i can d oit, anyone can

next goblet
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im 358 as prot

chrome falcon
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@next goblet Call for externals if you don't have a big personal and use BoPs if you still can't take it

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And make sure the healers know they need to spam the shit out of you

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BL the start so there's less damage going on the raid so the healers can focus you

gleaming blaze
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So, we did recieve some love recently, but is it enough? Or do we still need more?

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That Warrior buff seems so minor and bumping stats slightly doesn't address any mechanical issues.

next goblet
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its very minor

severe zinc
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What would be some good changes?

next goblet
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we cant even get passed p1 😦

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69% wipe on zul every single time lol

chrome falcon
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What's getting you?

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Are you Alliance? I can't even imagine doing Zul without Belf racial

next goblet
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something with add management

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im alliance

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lol

chrome falcon
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Yeah get owned lol

next goblet
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rip

chrome falcon
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Belf racial makes that fight twice as easy

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Removes an entire mechanic

next goblet
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right now im dpsing, i just asked how the fight is as prot because i might have to switch

neat harbor
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Belf racial? Nah, its the fight you bring shadow priests to just to make them feel useful 😄

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or (one) shadow priest rather

next goblet
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whys shadow good on zul?

severe zinc
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Mass dispel ?

next goblet
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ah

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i have a disc priest

severe zinc
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Idk

dark junco
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Yup @chrome falcon I legit just got benched from tanking

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And I parse 85+

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Like wtf you want more

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I’m not the fucking issue

next goblet
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hey 50% this time

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progression ✊🏿

timid jay
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I mean

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Tank parses have nothing to do with survivability

junior ivy
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COSMO

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I NEVER SEE YOU TALK ANYMORE IN HERE

timid jay
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I RARELY TALK IN HERE ANYMORE

junior ivy
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i hate it

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😦

timid jay
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it's not the same since Thyme left

junior ivy
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i know.

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i was just gonna say

timid jay
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😢

junior ivy
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not having thyme and you barely talking..

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😦

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very sad

timid jay
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Thyme isn't playing wow this tier and I'm not tanking anymore

junior ivy
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awwww

neon tangle
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it's ok, you always got me

timid jay
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Cats like boxes at least

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🤔

junior ivy
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thank god krotos still talks sometimes

timid jay
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But back to the topic, tank parses are hardly relevant for progress unless you really need that small amount of extra damage

junior ivy
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cant deal with everyone leaving

dark junco
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Well I can’t parse high if I keep dying on a 5mins fight and losing all my buffs, so thats still part of an indicator. I also have less damage taken overall than the other tank.

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BFA’s to blame

timid jay
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Tank parses are just your damage compared to other prot warriors, hardly a useful metric for measuring survivability which generally is a lot more important for prog

dark junco
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Hence why I said that I also have less damage taken overall.

next goblet
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wait why'd thyme leave?

timid jay
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Yeah that's fair but you still have to account for how easy you are to heal, i.e. damage spikes and how often you die

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Obviously I don't know the entire story I'm just putting it out there

dark junco
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Yeah I can understand cosmo

timid jay
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Hell for all I know it might just be someone bribing your GM to get your tank spot

dark junco
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Cause he was fed and wasn’t playing war nemore

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Felt like it tbh

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Applicant entering the tank rotations (cause we’re 3). Other tank stop tanking then the applicant take my raid night cause “we gotta talk about your class I’ve read stuff”. Then proceed to say “might have to change class”. No. Full no.

neon tangle
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@dark junco I'm just curious, might be interesting to look at the health chart of you vs the other tank

dark junco
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You mean HP?

neon tangle
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yeah

dark junco
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DK vs Prot

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No jame pointing or anything

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Name*

timid jay
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Just reading stuff instead of looking at performance isn't really all that useful though

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Kinda suck when people do that

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"I've read this spec is bad, therefore you must reroll"

neon tangle
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right, you can generally get an idea of the spikiness, etc

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but if it's just " your spec is bad"

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no real fixing that

oblique garnet
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Are you raiding heroic or mythic?

dark junco
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1/8M on mother atm, but dps keep dying to grid and all. We don’t have aotc yet.

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Twas for our aotc kill. Been with the guild since antorus, new dude is 10 days in.

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I’m mad beyond words.

oblique garnet
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Yeah sounds like your gm has an issue with you personally

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I feel like warrior might run into issues later on in uldir on mythic but the first 4 or so bosses shouldnt be that bad

dark junco
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Will check into it, feel like that might be something relevant to check.

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Thanks ❤

lusty grotto
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that's kinda rough

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your gm is just bandwagoning

main vault
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Sounds like your GM is an idiot

solid mist
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don't those discussions usually get accompanied by logs? be one thing if they were like "check out these parses, you are taking way too much damage"

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or something

main vault
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If you are only 1/8, and not even AotC, you can literally tank as anything and it wouldnt make a difference

dark junco
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Yeah I know, as for @solid mist I don't want to point out names or nething, sorry. I can understand the skepticism, that's normal, but I don't want to start name dropping or stuff.

solid mist
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oh no I'm just speaking in generalities

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and I meant, more like isn't your GM looking at logs?

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or is he just saying "meh I heard your class is bad bro"

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cause wtf

dark junco
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We have logs and all, no clue what triggered that reaction.

oblique garnet
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What tank did they replace you with?

dark junco
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DK

solid mist
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yeah I'm not skeptical of you, I'm curious why they'd ask you to reroll without giving you some logs and be like "you really boned it up ont hese attempts, here look"

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or whatever

main vault
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Its wierd to me there is a 3 tank rotation in a casual guild

dark junco
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same

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Never seen that before

main vault
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Like not to be offensive or anything

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Just wierd

surreal stump
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i tank mythic mother. the disc priest and i stay in main rooms alone most of the time.. makes them wind tunnels fun as fuck

oblique garnet
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No nexii mostly on casual guilds there can be like alot of no shows so tanks might need to be subbed alot

main vault
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Having some dude who can fill in is not a 3 tank rotation

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At all

dark junco
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Yeah but I've never been a no show. Always there since legion, I just don't get it.

main vault
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In any sense of the word

dark junco
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I might have been oblivious to the signs that the RL/GM doesn't like me

main vault
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That is always possible

dark junco
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Like @oblique garnet suggested.

oblique garnet
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Could also really be bandwagoning on the fotm tanks

dark junco
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Possible.

main vault
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Well

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What is the new tank?

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Monk?

oblique garnet
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Dk

main vault
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DH?

dark junco
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DK

main vault
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whats the current OT

dark junco
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Pally

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he was with me before, since Legion in fact

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had a DH officer who wanted to start tanking

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So we started doing a rotation

main vault
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Yeah your RL is just a FotM dude

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And is too stupid to realize meta means fuck all to your guild

oblique garnet
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They will probably bring you back in as soon as they realize its not really the tanks fault if the dps fuck up the walls on mother

dark junco
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Maybe, but if they get a kill while they're with the DK, they'll assume its the DK

main vault
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Honestly

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Id tell um to get fucked

dark junco
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Will think 'bout it, I'll talk with him later and see

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Thanks guys ❤

solid mist
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yeah, have you considered teh ol' double middle finger as you walk backwards out the door?

oblique garnet
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I mean if you have played together with the guild for a while and have alot of friends there its harder to just up and leave

main vault
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Well he said Antorus

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May be long to him

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But its nothing

modern pulsar
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does archive of the titans stack and is it worth stacking it

vagrant cape
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The buff itself, yes. The reorigination array no.

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If you're in uldir, use it as long as you're not replacing your only DC trait.

If you're not in uldir, don't stack them as the buff is worse than any prot trait

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@modern pulsar

past ledge
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at freaking last, killed Ghuun heroic

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lol

vagrant cape
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Grats! He's a tuffy

past ledge
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gota love spell reflect in that fight

waxen cradle
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Did they change something on Mother this week the zerg strat on her seemed tougher this week

sick sentinel
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I got the cleaver out of waycrest, which is a 10 item level upgrade over my mace from AtalDazar.... but the Atal mace has a socket. Which one would y’all take? The item level?

past ledge
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a socket is what 20 IL?

surreal stump
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the cleaver with 0 secondary stats?

sly shadow
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Do you guys follow any kind of rotation with your defensive?

sick sentinel
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Yeah @surreal stump

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I couldn’t remember Nistel- I knew it was probably at least 5

lusty grotto
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what do you mean @sly shadow

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socket is worth it on rings

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but sure i can agree with 5 ilvl on armor

surreal stump
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thing is total shit, the dot on it ticks for crap and it seemed useless to me lol

lusty grotto
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10 ilvls hmm

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that's an interesting question

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im pretty sure weapon damage factors in to our dmg

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but defensively you gain nothing from it? unless i'm mistaken

surreal stump
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slightly more stam? losing the haste/vers and the haste gem in socket would hurt imo over 10 ilvls

lusty grotto
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right more str more stam

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just no secondaries

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it might be wortth equipping

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just for the str

sly shadow
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I just mean like, do you guys follow any specific rotation for your defensive? Like, shield block, shield block, demo shout, shield block, last stand?

crystal night
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It's situational depending on the type of damage you're taking @sly shadow

pulsar lily
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Doesn't IP scale with weapon damage?

crystal night
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Not that I know of @pulsar lily

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For physical you can go SB -SB -Last Stand w. Bolster Talent SB SB

pulsar lily
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(strength + weapondDPS * 6) * apCoef * masteryMultiplier * vers * other

crystal night
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@sly shadow

pulsar lily
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that's IP from icy veins

sly shadow
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I see. What for magic?

crystal night
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I'm not familiar with the quick mafs behind that

pulsar lily
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although, I'm sure it's infinitesimal

lusty grotto
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there are no rotations @sly shadow , more info read pins

sly shadow
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I mean, I have read the pinned messages. I thought this was a place I could go to ask questions?

lusty grotto
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read the Icy Veins guide linked in the pins

sly shadow
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I have read the icy veins guide

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Is that the end all, be all for tanking?

lusty grotto
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basically

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keep demo and sb up as much as you can

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same with IP

oblique garnet
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also you can use spell reflect to reduce a little bit of magic damage or reflect enemy spells etc

verbal night
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Any tips for initial threat? It’s a constant struggle against dh tanks

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Or should I say dh co-tank

lusty grotto
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pop avatar

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spam thunderclap

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use demo shout and keep spamming tclap

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agro shouldn't be an issue at all

broken kite
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@dark junco I'd start looking for a new Guild tbh

dark junco
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Yeah just talked with him, was told I'm a liability and hard to keep up. Told him I didn't feel like I was and he told me he'd prefer if I rerolled. Told him that was a no on my side and I'd step down from mythic raiding.

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Will see what I do, but I know, even tho I'm a warrior, that I'm not the problem and that the logs he was pointing out to were the strats: M mother with 6 peeps crossing and no CCs. Grabbing aggro on that makes your life go no-no and the healer was popping tranquility to keep me up. Thats not happening lol.

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So I feel like its more of an excuse than genuine reasons. So I'm just out at that point.

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But thanks @broken kite . Might just do that, yeah 😃

main vault
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Yeah

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He is just an idiot

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No fucking clue what he is doing

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There is no Mother strat where 6 cross at once

oblique garnet
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cant you cheese it with spirit links etc+

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?

main vault
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yeah

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Its like 2-3

dark junco
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3-2-2-2 add infinitium

main vault
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Or 1

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Or 10

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Or all

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Those are the different strats

dark junco
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Yeah but you'd need hard cc on mythic lol

main vault
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Not really

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They should explode

dark junco
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Or high high high burst

main vault
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I mean, we did all at once

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Besides 1 Tank and 2 healers

dark junco
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On mythic ?

main vault
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Yes

dark junco
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Damn, how you do the crossing ?

main vault
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Spirit Link, Barrier, personals, Darkness

dark junco
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17 staggered or almost same time ?

main vault
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not almost

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Literally same time

dark junco
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damn

signal plover
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We mass crossing with all 20 (from 2nd to 3rd room) but separate each raid group by maybe a second.

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First to second we do a big initial group then about 5 pairs (need that delay to get healing CDs back for 2nd crossing)

astral crystal
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damn mythic fetid's thrash timers are all over the place

hot locust
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gotta keep in mind the stomp and breath timers and if he is gonna eat adds

cloud bone
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alright boys all these rings are 370 Mastery Crit with a socket , Crit Haste, and Vers Haste which 2?

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I'm thinking the one with the socket and the vers haste one

astral crystal
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yeah lala, the moments he runs away to try and eat adds is what fucks shit up

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dps are being inconsistent in how long it takes them to kill the adds

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we had too many melee i think

hot locust
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yup

raven kernel
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Just killed yesterday

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:x shameless plug

neat harbor
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good jorb@

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!

raven kernel
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I'm dps tho

neat harbor
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still

raven kernel
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Prob never gonna tank in raid again

neat harbor
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good jorb my son

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gief mythic pl0x D: my guild raids 2 night a week

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on weekends no less

raven kernel
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I raid 3 nights

neat harbor
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love the folks, progression is slower tho

raven kernel
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I think @hot locust does 2 nights?

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Higher prog than me lul

neat harbor
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is certainly possible. many factors

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were a new guild in BfA, I figure in the end Id rather raid 2 nights a week with ppl I actually like than 3 nights with a bunch of toxic fuckers I cant stand

raven kernel
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Yeah for sure

hot locust
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Yeah we only raid 2 nights.

raven kernel
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It's really not enjoyable raiding with strangers

hot locust
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Just did a full night of G'huun 😄

raven kernel
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For me at least

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How many wipes on mythrax

astral crystal
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i like your UI mang

hot locust
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67

raven kernel
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We'll get zul next raid for sure

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But mythrax gonna be a ree

hot locust
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Fetid is our highest wipe boss right now

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83

raven kernel
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@astral crystal 👌

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Elvui / redtuzk ui if ur wondering

neat harbor
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k so Im raiding cross server with my guild

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so I need you guys to hurry up and clear 100 mythic uldirs, pl0x

raven kernel
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Come back in 2 months

neat harbor
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so I can raid mythic cross realm 😢

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😩

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or

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get your shit together and progress!

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😡

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I mean.. please, kind sir

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if you could kindly focus more

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I believe you could achieve victory

lusty grotto
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someone said you could LoS Shadow of Zul's casts... where specifically? because they went through the wall

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or was it BS?

cinder nova
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Finally finished zekvoz mythic

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whew

junior ivy
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grats my guild got zekvoz mythic tonight for first time too

vagrant cape
#

this appears to be the week of zek'voz clears

dusk locust
#

ayy i got it too

solid mist
#

that prot buff hotfix

onyx vessel
#

So did they buff crit block in 8.1??

lusty grotto
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no

onyx vessel
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Copy paste spell block at we gud

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Lul

vagrant cape
#

really I think our new mastery should be that we reflect any damage that we critically block. Since we lack utility, our niche can be the ability to sub in as a dps.

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I find it hilarious that the tank spec with the least utility and situational abilities has the highest skill floor and ceiling.

lusty grotto
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and highest dps 😃

vagrant cape
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true.

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we trade our utility for the highest dps and the dankest memes

lusty grotto
#

👢 🍵 👏

vagrant cape
#

booty clap?

lusty grotto
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of course!

vagrant cape
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I love charades

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at first I was like, "boot soup clap? my haste food isn't soup..."

lusty grotto
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lol

static pilot
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has anyone seen the latest Preach video?

vagrant cape
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unfortunately, yes

static pilot
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he's tanking a +9 Atal'Dazar in the background and its just so painful to watch

vagrant cape
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oh, I didn't actually "watch" it but I listened to it in the car

static pilot
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im having trouble paying attention to the discussion because he's getting absolutely murdered by the trash

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looks like it was from the teeming/fort week

vagrant cape
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now I wanna look at it

static pilot
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decent recovery towards the end, they 1shot the trash before the golden priestess boss

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but he was getting absolutely wailed on in the undead troll wing

vagrant cape
#

I mean, that's the worst part to be fair

static pilot
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that double pull at 9:44 is painful

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but easy mistake to make if you're used to the skip and dont take the teeming affix into consideration

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the death at 10:20 though, that felt avoidable

lusty grotto
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wasnt preach a priest

static pilot
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historically he's played mage I believe

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these days he's maining arms warrior, mage and boomkin - guessing he went prot to help the m+ group form, which is nice of him

lusty grotto
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the only wow streamers i watch are pvp ones :\

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and sense / lala

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anyway what's he tanking?

ember arrow
#

Omw to crap uni

static pilot
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atal, +9, fort/teeming/quaking

lusty grotto
#

oh

static pilot
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that was a shit week for m+ tbf

lusty grotto
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last week's?

vagrant cape
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does he still use devastator?

lusty grotto
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i mean the week before that

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fort and teeming was just a shitshow combo

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and quaking on certain bosses for stackables

static pilot
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he has devestate on his bar but i've yet to see him use it, not sure if he's running devestate and ignoring it or if he's running devestator but didnt remove it from his bar

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(I was wondering the same thing)

lusty grotto
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btw... speaking of M+

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someone said you could LoS Shadow of Zul's casts... where specifically? because they went through the wall

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i'm thinking it was BS, i haven't run a lot of King's Rest

static pilot
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doesn't look like he's running BV - no rage gain from casting demoralizing shout

vagrant cape
#

wow

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no wonder people think prot is bad

ember arrow
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👌

static pilot
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but he is using DC

vagrant cape
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I wanna write him a letter

raven kernel
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he's one of those devastator bois

main vault
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Until like WoD he was a Warrior

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And had almost always been a Warrior

ember arrow
#

Nexii its been a long time

main vault
#

Yeah

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I pretty much quit tanking

ember arrow
#

Oof

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How come

main vault
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It's just so terrible

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Completely destroyed

ember arrow
#

Im enjoying bdk and pala atm

vagrant cape
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have you tried tanking content prior to bfa? It's a lot easier. I'd recommend that

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especially at level 120

ember arrow
#

🤔

static pilot
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agree with Levko, bdk doesn't feel bad

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well, it feels weak* compared to legion but every tank does afaik

main vault
#

Some classes dont

vagrant cape
#

Prot can easily tank over 95% of the content in the game

main vault
#

All tanking itself feels horrible

little orchid
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hey guys! assuming i took "booming voice", "dragon roar" and "ravager" as talents, the guide on icy veins says that i should use "demoralizing shout" and "avatar" on cooldown while delaying "demoralizing shout" for"avatar" but never vice versa. In addition, "Dragon Roar takes priority over Thunder Clap, but not Shield Slam." my question now is: which one of "demoralzinging shout" and "avatar" should i delay for "dragon roar" and "ravager"?

main vault
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Classes won't make it fun

static pilot
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never, ever, ever take ravager

main vault
#

I've don't it over 10 years, everything from alt to top 50 world

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I'm just done with it

vagrant cape
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@little orchid I honestly can't tell if this is a joke, but I'm going to assume you're serious. Don't use dragon roar or ravager.

lusty grotto
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don't take dragon roar

vagrant cape
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@little orchid take unstoppable force and anger management instead

lusty grotto
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you should never delay demo shout.. you want it for defensive purposes

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it reduces ALL damage including spell damage, it's important to keep up as much as possible

vagrant cape
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@little orchid Prot warrior is in a spot right now where the recommended talent build and Deafening crash (an azerite trait) has such insane synergy that unstoppable force + booming voice + anger management + Bolster + deafening crash beats out any other options by a mile

lusty grotto
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yes it increases your dps, but the reason we take DC as a trait is due to having Demo shout up as much as possible

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you should prioritize Thunder Clap over Shield Slam only when using Avatar

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and even then shield slam should be 2nd highest priority

vagrant cape
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or when demo shout is up*

lusty grotto
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i.e. in between T-claps

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defensively never delay demo shout though

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if you want snap agro, pop Avatar, do a Tclap, then Demo, then Tclap, then SS, then Tclap and so forth fill with Ignore Pain if you're nearing full rage

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or with Revenge if you are feeling like pushing dps but not at the cost of having a full IP up

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and of course maintain Shield Block as much as possible when you're getting melee'd

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fill shield block gaps with Last Stand (with Bolster as a talent)

vagrant cape
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during avata/demo: TC > SS > revenge > devastate

otherwise: SS > TC > Revenge > devastate

little orchid
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"Avatar Icon Avatar should be cast on cooldown as well. It is worth delaying Demoralizing Shout Icon Demoralizing Shout by a few seconds if Avatar is about to come off cooldown. Do not delay Avatar for Demoralizing Shout."

is that wrong?

lusty grotto
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right

vagrant cape
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no, it is not wrong

lusty grotto
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its not wrong

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key word really is "about to come off"

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if it's really close to refreshing or due to AM

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which you should have instead of Dragon Roar

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but seriously, don't use Dragon Roar

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or ravager

vagrant cape
#

I have often delayed avatar for demo shout, though. Avatar on its own doesn't offer much of a survivability increase. It gives you about 20 rage up front (in exchange for a gcd) and gives you 5 extra rage every 2 globals. I like keeping them lined up as best I can.

lusty grotto
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to be fair at least in M+ there aren't a lot of cases where you have to delay it

little orchid
#

okay, thanks for the help. i totally had overseen that UM increases TC damage

lusty grotto
#

i think the guide is kinda looking at long term combat like raid bosses

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and reduces its cooldown!

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you can literally spam it, and you will never lose agro

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on aoe packs

little orchid
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nice

lusty grotto
#

and your damage output will be insane (on AOE packs that is)

wraith hemlock
#

So, if I recall we would use 1 DC trait (only 1) and 2 BI... But for Uldir, by now, we already can have 5 stacks of reorigination array. Meaning we want 1 "generic" trait from uldir azerite gear.... What should we aim for? Archive or laser?

vagrant cape
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archive is better

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All of this is in the icyveins guide as well

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it's in the pins

dreamy zealot
#

Outside of wowhead / icy veins, does anyone have any resources for checking out azurite traits?

vagrant cape
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the dungeon journal

dreamy zealot
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Im looking at a lot of top warriors, and im seeing a trend of stacking iron fortress

vagrant cape
#

people can't aim for any specific traits

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so they use whatever they have the highest ilvl of

wraith hemlock
#

IF is an steady increased block thou...

vagrant cape
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it's sheer coincidence

wraith hemlock
#

And I think as tank you actually want the highest ILVL, as dps you can be picky on traits

dreamy zealot
#

I get that, which is why I was seeing if there is a prot warrior fan site out there that has dug a little deeper

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or youtube ect

quiet kettle
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if ur prot, 2 pcs are total ilvl

lusty grotto
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right iron fortress is meh, but if a piece has highes tilvl

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then you go for it

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i mean

final mist
#

We are the Prot warrior fan site.

lusty grotto
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it's not mehj

quiet kettle
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prot warr is 1x anything, 1x archive, 1x deafening crash

lusty grotto
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i don't know about archive

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it's certainly not required

tight tree
#

Just DC and w/e

static pilot
#

how does archive work when it comes to stacking?

lusty grotto
#

plus no haste buff on M+

stone crag
#

more strength per stack

lusty grotto
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only in Uldir

quiet kettle
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the buff doesnt stack, the trait itself does

dreamy zealot
#

Ok, thoughts on Liberator's Might vs Callous Reprisal?

lusty grotto
#

@stone crag no

stone crag
#

what

lusty grotto
#

oh you mean stacking traits

quiet kettle
#

so if ur trait is 10 stacking 20 times. and u have 2 of those, its 20 x 20

stone crag
#

yes

lusty grotto
#

i thought you meant array

stone crag
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response to archive

static pilot
#

say you have 2 pieces with archive trait, you pick it on both - does it stack perfectly or is there a weird interaction?

final mist
#

It stacks perfectly.

stone crag
#

just as any other trait that stacks

quiet kettle
#

^

static pilot
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great 😃

final mist
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My Paladin has two at the same ilevel, and the Strength is just doubled.

static pilot
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by weird interaction like how DC works

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multiple DC traits increases the damage but not the interaction with demoralizing shout

final mist
#

It's like 520 Strength at full stacks.

stone crag
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that's how all traits stack

lusty grotto
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@dreamy zealot Callous Reprisal, this is on same ilvl pieces?

dreamy zealot
#

Yea, 370 piece

lusty grotto
#

callous reprisal then

stone crag
#

What Stacks for Azerite Traits?
Stat increases, Damage additions, Healing additions

What doesn't stack?
Duration multipliers/additions, proc chance, number of targets, etc

lusty grotto
#

right i brain farted and thought we were talking about array

static pilot
#

right, that's why I ask - to me that's an imperfect stack

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perfect stack = 2x the trait, 2x the effect

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otherwise it's a partial stack

stone crag
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then every trait is imperfect ¯_(ツ)_/¯

obtuse venture
#

I think some azerite procs stack the proc but also double the internal cooldown

static pilot
#

nah, some stack perfectly. Like gutripper

final mist
#

Stacking Archive is twice (or thrice) the effect.

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You get double the strength per stack.

static pilot
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one more thing where you have to RTDM to know how it works >__<

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cheers for the answer 😃

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would be nice if the tooltips were a bit more exhaustive for stuff like this

stone crag
#

too bad they're straying away from that and pruning them

static pilot
#

I read an idea somewhere to have optional "advanced" tooltips that showed all the hidden math

final mist
#

They had that in Cata.

static pilot
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so you dont have 8 paragraph tooltips to scare away newbies but you can still figure out kinda-sorta what a trinket actually does

final mist
#

It was removed because "players don't need to know that information".

static pilot
#

"summons a spawn of G'huun to aid you in combat" - well, that's nice. Now wtf does it mean? How often does it spawn, how much damage does it do, is it a melee or a ranged caster, can it be kited, can it be stunned, how much health does it have, can it even be targeted

quiet kettle
#

spawns a stationary tendril with hp, that atks either closest target or ur target for 20s

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spawns within 8-10yds of u

static pilot
#

that's super helpful information Auura 😃

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I just really wish it was available in-game

quiet kettle
#

it can also pull anything that paths

static pilot
#

ideally without bringing in a dummy and a DPS meter

ionic fern
#

Fun fact - if you spawn one when you're Mind Controlled the tentacle will attack you or anyone near it after you get out of your mindcontrol.

quiet kettle
#

free rage xP

stark raft
#

So I might switch to help my guild out, are any of ya'll tanking heroic/mythic and is it as bad as people threw a fit about?

quiet kettle
#

honestly i have more trouble with m+ than i do raids

static pilot
#

warriors are better off in raids than in m+ since there's usually more healers in raids to prop up our health bars when they dip low

quiet kettle
#

also there's a surprising amount of physical atks in raid that we can block

static pilot
#

prot warrior is viable in the sense that it can tank all current content, but it punishes mistakes very harshly and can be quite frustrating to play from a gameplay standpoint

stark raft
#

I see.

static pilot
#

that said, it is playable and (some) people are performing well with it

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but in most cases you could go further with less talent if you play a different tank

quiet kettle
#

ya prot did a 180 in terms of playstyle from legion to bfa

stark raft
#

and we should expect SOME sort of change in the patch?

quiet kettle
#

we went from rotational to proactive mit

static pilot
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we have no idea. Prot would benefit massively from a rework but we have no idea what they're planning atm

hot locust
#

That hasn't really changed...

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We were that way before.

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It is just more pronounced now.

static pilot
#

they wanted to rework prot in the beta but seemed to run out of time and reversed multiple changes

quiet kettle
#

u could mit a ton just by doing ur standard rota in legion with capping ur IP and having SB uptime

static pilot
#

we do know that we're on the "class design radar" and can prrrrobably expect quality of life changes at a bare minimum

hot locust
#

Yes, and all our spells function in the same fashion.

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Being proactive or not hasn't changed.

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If you were a good prot warrior before you were doing things in a similar fashion to now anyways. It's just slower now.

static pilot
#

I think the BFA warrior has a lot more emphasis on CD mitigation and a lot less emphasis on block mitigation, that threw off a lot of legion warriors that were used to 60-70% block (with AM) or 100% block (with HR)

quiet kettle
#

we also have the potential for highest dps tank in aoe situations

stark raft
#

I feel

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I really only am interested in playing warrior or pally since my warrior is 365 and pally 355 so i wouldnt have to level anything else

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I just need anohter trinket on the warrior since one is the heroic trinket from vectis

static pilot
#

I'll be dead honest, if you dont have a strong preference for one or the other I'd play the paladin

stark raft
#

the only real benefit the warrior has is the item levels atm

quiet kettle
static pilot
#

if you're not familiar with prot warrior gameplay now is not the best time to try and pick it up

#

that kinda looks like an ad for DH dps if you ask me ^^

hot locust
#

There are many more DH kills of Zul than their are warrior.

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and not every warrior does the crawg job that Sense does to get big damage.

stark raft
#

I'll put it this way

lusty grotto
#

it's snowball effect from bandwagoning

hot locust
#

Whereas almost every DH does.

stark raft
#

I took a very long break from tanking. I havent tanked since WoD

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but I was a prot warrior raider from TBC through the end of pandaland

quiet kettle
#

play pally then

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if ur not used to warr yet

stark raft
#

so prot warrior has sort of always been my spirit animal

quiet kettle
#

cause legion warr shifted hard from wod

stark raft
#

I dont care about learning really

#

my two big concerns are A) can the kit handle mythic

hot locust
#

Yes.

lusty grotto
#

mythic what

stark raft
#

and B) do we expect a massive shift anytime soon in our kit

lusty grotto
#

raids?

quiet kettle
#

i'd honestly say that prot is 3rd for mythic raiding

stark raft
#

yeah raids

static pilot
#

prot can handle anything in the game provided you play it at a high enough skill level

lusty grotto
#

Lala can tell you 😃

quiet kettle
#

dont expect a big shift in the kit

#

8.1 will likely be mostly QoL

lusty grotto
#

can't really expect what we don't know

quiet kettle
#

like maybe getting IP off the gcd

hot locust
#

good joke 😄

lusty grotto
#

that's not gonna happen IMO

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but for meme's sake lol

static pilot
#

me neither, I'm afraid the IP GCD is here to stay. They just need to make the button more rewarding to push

quiet kettle
#

im just glad it doesnt cost like 60 rage anymore

static pilot
#

DS is on the GCD and it works fine because it has an immediate visual effect both in damage and healing

hot locust
#

IP isn't the problem imo

obtuse venture
#

the high skill cap argument is only valid if you can be more effective than other tanks at that higher skill cap. is the perfectly played warrior a better tank than a brewmaster in raids? is it better than a blood dk/dh in M+? i dont think so.

hot locust
#

It's block uptime being super low without LS bolster buffering it.

static pilot
#

did someone make a high skill cap argument?

hot locust
#

Does it need to be? Not really.

static pilot
#

block uptime is at the top of my wish list for sure

quiet kettle
#

that and having to constantly cycle thru every defensive we have

hot locust
#

I'm fine with prot as long as I can play it and be successful clearing content.

#

I don't need it to be even with other tanks or the OPs.

static pilot
#

constantly cycling cooldowns to cover up holes in our mitigation feels counterintuitive and frustrating for me 😕

quiet kettle
#

oh both sb charges are down? time to pop LS/SW/DS/trink

hot locust
#

I mean it's been that way since legion too.

#

block downtime on hard hitting bosses always fucked us

oak nest
#

@quiet kettle too true

quiet kettle
#

we also had a 3rd option for blocking legion too

hot locust
#

It just wasn't as bad because our uptime was so much higher.

quiet kettle
#

which we dont have anymore

static pilot
#

I dunno, it never felt this problematic in legion

hot locust
#

Yes because you had 60+% uptime instead of 35%+

lusty grotto
#

smart blocking though... only when you're getting melee. Like not pressing SB when stuff is stunned or casting, goes a long way

static pilot
#

I think the main thing for me is that when I run a m+ on my DK and something goes wrong (body pull in Motherlode say)

obtuse venture
#

block uptime isnt a big issue for me in M+ as just block being useless against almost all of the super dangerous trash abilities

oak nest
#

@static pilot can't pop your shield's CD now

static pilot
#

I have cooldowns available and can probably salvage it

#

if I'm doing it on a warrior, welp - that's it

#

LS is already on cooldown for SB, demoralizing shout was used on pull

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so I maybe have shield wall and that wont be enough to get me through the fight

obtuse venture
#

so should they just give us 100% sb coverage

hot locust
#

No that's just goofy

static pilot
#

I'd like 100% SB coverage to be an option if you talent for it with HR

hot locust
#

but bringing it back to legion levels is not a bad idea.

oak nest
#

Used to be easier when you could stack block rating

static pilot
#

HR's 100% block time v AM mitigation cycle was a good system imo, HR was a good option for warriors that didnt like the cooldown minigame

hot locust
#

It was also strictly inferior at high end content though.

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It was never even close.

static pilot
#

doesnt matter, average warriors dont push mythic bosses or +25s

#

HR worked fine for hc and +20s

hot locust
#

I mean

#

if you killed raids at CE

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not even top end but just CE

#

you couldn't be using HR

static pilot
#

I'd argue HR saw use at mythic raiding level but only on specific bosses

amber siren
#

no

hot locust
#

Look

#

I ran 100% mastery on argus

#

and HR was bad.

#

There was no point ever

#

that HR was worth

lusty grotto
#

HR was only useful on KJ... and even then you could do it without

hot locust
#

No

static pilot
#

we're getting sidetracked

hot locust
#

it was bad on KJ

#

what

static pilot
#

my point is that in legion prot warrior had two viable play styles that appealed to different players

lusty grotto
#

it was only recommended here if you didn't manage SB uptime enough with NF

static pilot
#

HR was an option for traditionalist tanks

lusty grotto
#

but yes i agree, i never ran HR on KJ

hot locust
#

if by "viable" you mean couldn't do most of the content.

#

sure?

static pilot
#

__<

amber siren
#

viable doesn't mean what you think it means

static pilot
#

fine, never mind

hot locust
#

"ability to work successfully."

stark raft
#

So essentially I should try both pally and warrior out

#

and just play which i like

hot locust
#

Yes,

stark raft
#

it doedsnt make a difference class wise

hot locust
#

That's all you should ever do.

#

Play what you want to play and what you find fun.

#

The balance will never be a big enough difference to make you unable to do things.

#

"assuming proper play" should probably be in there as well though.

stark raft
#

After tanking I switched to healing and it was fun, and then i went to DPS

#

and this is awful

#

our one tank is getting deployed in 3 weeks so

#

the spot opened

obtuse venture
#

i think the play whatever you find fun every class is viable is a bit naive

static pilot
#

"The balance will never be a big enough difference to make you unable to do things."
unless you play HR ^^

obtuse venture
#

tell that to shamans trying to pug 10+s.

#

they will probably spit in your face if they could

fierce halo
#

Maybe 1-2 dps specs are not so viable, but for tanks its definitely true

static pilot
#

as an enhance shaman main, I never bother with pugging anyway

#

shamans bring tons of utility and decent-ish damage

#

if people are too busy memeing t o appreciate that it's their loss ^^

obtuse venture
#

as long as DH/DK tank are as effective as they are in M+ other tanks will always get passed up for high keys.

#

that's just how metas work

static pilot
#

speaking of DKs, apparently we're getting an engi device that replicates battle rezes

#

ironically my DK went engi for the nitro boost 😕

#

wonder if it'll be a profession-specific consumable or if anyone can use it

obtuse venture
#

bres will be huge. motherlode will be much easier to time having at least 1 bres now with my maxed engineering

oak nest
#

When's this bres come in?

static pilot
#

I read about it in the PTR notes on MMOChamp so potentially 8.1

oak nest
#

Weren't they making adjustments to mats costs?

static pilot
#

I think they were gonna reduce flask costs but then went back on it and announced they'd fix it a different way? Not sure, havent been paying too much attention

#

I kind of hope they dont make the brez engi-only

#

it'll make engi the god tier profession for m+

quiet kettle
#

the datamine from alch was weird tbh

#

cause it was going from the 8.1 dev stated values back to 8.0 values

#

and i wouldnt be surprised if the brez thing is engi only

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considering engi are the only ones with out-of-combat res from a profession

static pilot
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the annoying thing is that similar tools are profession-agnostic

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anyone can use drums and war-scrolls

stark raft
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would you guys say collective will>reinforced plating?

quiet kettle
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reinforced tbh

static pilot
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replicating hero and battle shout/arcane int/prayer of fort

quiet kettle
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pins have a better idea

static pilot
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^

stark raft
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i dont see will anywhere

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unfortunately

quiet kettle
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which means the guide doesnt find it valuable at all

oak nest
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@static pilot engineers need something worthwhile, can't even upgrade the mcnugget tier goggles and bombs share a CD with pots

static pilot
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I absolutely agree that engis need better toys (half the professions do tbh) but I really dont think brez is the thing

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brez is too important for m+ to be profession locked when drums & scrolls can be used by anyone

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making it an engi crafted (but not profession limited) consumable is still a nice boost for engineers that want to make money and there are plenty of other things they can do to make engineering interesting again

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but frankly nitro belt + free gliders already puts you ahead of blacksmithing

sick sentinel
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should i be out dpsing the dps on every trash mob?

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On aoe yeah

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With avatar mostly

oak nest
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@static pilot member when professions were worthwhile? I member

chrome steppe
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@oak nest Holy shit!

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you're the pepperridge farm!

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😱

oak nest
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@chrome steppe no I'm just a memberberry

chrome steppe
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Oh, I see. Never watched South Park much, so that was not in my field 😄

oak nest
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@chrome steppe always bad having to defend your guilty pleasures

chrome steppe
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Wouldn't this be more like a guilty displeasure? Given that South Park is considered basic knowledge and I am uneducated?

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Like I'm guilty of not being pleased by SP.

weary nacelle
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I know that the vanguard change has been already implemented. But what about the first ones? And what do they actually change here?

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or is this old?

hearty portal
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Its old

crisp stone
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They removed our mastery, then readded it

weary nacelle
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ah okay

hearty portal
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They really want our mastery to be block, when 66% of the abilitys in this game isnt blockable

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seems legit

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nvm 75% of the games abilitys aren't blockable

trail dagger
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Yeah, time to make more things blockable then

hearty portal
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there is no reason why spells and range attacks cant be blocked

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shields was literally used only to counter arrows

fathom marten
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Then prot what be one of the best tanks

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Blizzard doesn't want that

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Been tanking with my monk

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Fuckin cruise control

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Lol

upbeat folio
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Yes... it's... sad.

hearty portal
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Warriors will be shit tier, atleast it works to get weekly m +10

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They wont buff warriors in the PTR either, they're going to do the same that they did to shamans. They gave them an unwanted change that in the end changed nothing.

acoustic echo
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tbh i dont think they will ever be on pair with other tanks on top mythic

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Blizzard is slow

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but its enough for the average Player to at least do highest weekly chest

oak nest
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@chrome steppe I like to call it a social commentary with sillyness

random osprey
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yesterday i had started a discussion around the utility of bloodsport over brace for impact / iron fortress, and today i have some numbers, if anyone is interested in listening

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i just ran a +11 motherlode, and i have the numbers for healing done and number of attacks taken to compare bloodsport with the traits that increase block amount

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ignore pain accounted for 3.16m healing with an average cast of 37k, 8k of which comes from bloodsport

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by proportion, bloodsport contributed around 700k damage mitigation

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i also took 995 melee attacks for a total of 9.77m damage

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for BfI or IF to provide a similar amount of healing, they would need to reduce an average of 700 damage

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mitigation*

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seeing as how i took an average of 10k in melee hits, 700 is 7% upon that, and i don't think BfI or IF provide nearly that much extra mitigation

old zephyr
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Is that 9M before or after mitigation ?

random osprey
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i'm using skada, though i don't know what that number represents

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i'm assuming it's the damage taken after mitigation

old zephyr
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Yeah

random osprey
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my naive conclusion is that bloodsport is actually pretty good, though BfI/IF will scale higher in more difficult content

old zephyr
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Bllodsport is actually pretty good

fathom marten
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@acoustic echo I kind of agree. Wars were designed when the game was way diffrent. Wow has progessed by different measures and the way wars are built, it's just not easily adaptable. I love my prot war and by no means do I think we are terrible. But after tanking with DH and BM, it's pretty clear what the game favors more. Blizz needs to rework wars for them to be able to have a stable class. The way we've been the past few years has been insanely spiky.

random osprey
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but as to whether it reaches the mitigation i can get from bloodsport with the rage/time i can generate, i don't think it reaches

chrome steppe
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Speaking of traits, I wanted to ask a question yesterday, forgot about it, glad you brought it up again. How about the Revenge trait? Callous Reprisal, I think?

old zephyr
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Motherlode is not the best exemple Because the Last 2 boss don't auto

chrome steppe
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and now that I am necroing old stuff, there was also soemthing about difficulty of prot warrs - do we have the highest skill floor?

fathom marten
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Absolutely

random osprey
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i tend to think so

fathom marten
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Hands down

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Not even debatable

random osprey
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having to actually time mitigation cooldowns makes it require more attention

fathom marten
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Think of all the DR mit abilities we have to keep up. On top of that we have to generate our resource.

tight tree
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Skill floor have nothing to do with how viable warriors are, top players would play most viable tanks (they have skills for it). That is not the case

random osprey
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@chrome steppe I don't think Callous Reprisal is very good personally

chrome steppe
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I've thought so even on the other xpacs I considered playing prot warr... So not only tanking scares the shit out of me, my class scares the shit out of me. Sadly, I find warrior the only interesting tank.

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What?

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I'm not talking about viability AT ALL

old zephyr
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We do have things to bring on our own that can tip thé scale

tight tree
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Warriors mechanics are outdated for modern damage patters. THey shifted more damage to be melee, but not enough, and even for melee other tanks simply better than warrior.

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Block needs to, well, block more.

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Warrior is hell of a fun to play when you actually live, a shame. I love tanking stuff i am geared for, but tanking stuff i am undergeared for is absolute pain and i rather jump on monk/DK.

fathom marten
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Demo, SB, Callous, LS, IP. All of these require planning and maximum uptime. Top it off with us having a resource neededing to be generated. PLUS, demo is only really in there because of how it's designed now. Where you can shockwaves to keep it up to the point it's considered a main Dr spell.

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On the other hand my monk

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ISB

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ISB

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ISB

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Pur

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Done

random osprey
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i also did 11k dps throughout the dungeon, so there's that

sick sentinel
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Can we continue the bloodspot viability discussion?

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I have it right now on my chest from zulul hc and I haven't used it before

tight tree
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I dont mind planning if that bring me better result. Now even if you plan perfectly and do stuff 100%, you still have worse survivability than BM/Blood/paladin/bear

sick sentinel
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Also, doesn't it get better with haste?

acoustic echo
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tbh i think every top mythic Player can Play warrior to its fulltest

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but why take that risk

tight tree
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Also rage gen is awful. Blowing avatar before pull is awful. Unable to SB on pull without avatar/Demo is awful. Compare to DH (demon spikes are free), BM (ISB is free and 100% uptime).

acoustic echo
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if you can Play other classes with less risk

random osprey
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what are the numbers behind comparing prot warrior to other tanking specs?

tight tree
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@acoustic echo exactly

acoustic echo
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also the best of the best arent playing only for fun but for money

tight tree
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I cringe every time i cast avatar out of combat pre-pull

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It will never feel good, or be good ever

fathom marten
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@acoustic echo Yes exactly and that's what us prot war defenders argue.

sick sentinel
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You can intercept an ally twice for the rage before the pull and cast avatar mid hc leap

tight tree
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@sick sentinel That is terrible solution

fathom marten
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Whattttt

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Intercept ally twice

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Lol

random osprey
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i open with charge, demo shout, shield block, thunder clap, shield slam, avatar

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i don't see a problem with that

tight tree
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Noone should ever go this length just to keep mitigation rolling, this is absurd crutches

fathom marten
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You should hit avatar sooner

random osprey
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what do i gain if i use avatar sooner?

fathom marten
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Faster shockwaves

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Whoops

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I mean thunder claps

random osprey
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the way i do it, there's no difference

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i do my block setup, then immediate go into the avatar clap pahse

fathom marten
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There is. Thunder claps are much faster letting you keep demo up for an extremely large amount of time

tight tree
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need emo uptime

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lol

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Demo

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Emo uptime as well

chrome steppe
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and the typo of the day award goes to 😄

random osprey
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because of the gcd right after thunder clap, casting avatar right after that halves 3 gcd's, giving you halfa second of delay before the next thunderclap

fathom marten
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There is 3 abilities before your hitting avatar. That's a huge loss in uptime for demo

sick sentinel
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A terrible solution yeah, but still a solution

random osprey
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so long as you start the avatar phase before demo falls off, it's fine

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with the amount of rage you spend, demo will be up again before the current one falls off

sick sentinel
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I have had demo come off cd with like 3 sec remaining

random osprey
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i usually get like 8-10 seconds remaining

fathom marten
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Okay but you should know that's not playing optimally and this has been tested before .

sick sentinel
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Well I am talking without bloodlust

fathom marten
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You will not get maximum uptime with Demo if it's that far down in your rotation

sick sentinel
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Wheres the 75% uptime ?

random osprey
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i don't see it

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sure avatar happens 1-2 gcd later throughout the entire fight, but that seems like a negligible difference to getting the rage from shield slam earlier

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i also have two haste trinkets

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so maybe that's why

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i mean, you're right, i'm remembering bloodlust pahses

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nevermind

sick sentinel
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With bl, for how long of a fight would you think you can keep 95% demo uptime?

random osprey
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is that possible? i thought 75% was the upper reaches of demo uptime

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without shifting the cd alignment

sick sentinel
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I mean like with BL and avatar you can keep it for like 50 sec easy

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5 stacks ITF and rezans or some shit

random osprey
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hmm so if i use avatar earlier in my opening, will i be able to use it again catching the end of the second demo shout?

sick sentinel
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You get so much rage and it is off CD when it ends

random osprey
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yeah, but weren't we talking about without BL?

sick sentinel
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I said with BL, in a hypothetical scenario where you just want to get maximum demo

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Realistically, I think your oppener is fine

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I am memeing because there was a guy that said that he can keep 75% uptime on demo on every fight iirc

fathom marten
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You shouldn't need the SS rage if your opening up on a group properly. 20 rage for pre av, charge in 15 rage demo, 35 rage right there, plus hits and your hits and a thunder clap thrown in there since avatar makes it much faster

sick sentinel
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@random osprey do you have a log where you do that opener?

fathom marten
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You're doing yourself an incredible disservice holding off avatar that long

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Let me check. I know it's been done before

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Testing it.

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Think thyme did

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Oh you're talking to twrtl my bad

random osprey
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my thinking is, if you pre-avatar, you lose avatar time and 1-2 extensions of demo shout

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i'll look for a log

sick sentinel
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Well I have a question actually

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I'm offtanking every boss, so I start tanking after the tank swap

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So I start with rage etc

fathom marten
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There's more uptime on avatar then demo, you shouldn't be wasting time away from demo when it's only 8 seconds while avatar is 20. Keeping avatar on semi CD is going to increase your total rage generation and demo shot.

sick sentinel
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So I go like avatar, taunt+demo shout, TC

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Is there a better start for a tank swap?

random osprey
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this is when you start tanking or the start of the fight?

tight tree
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Every time i tried to offtank, blow avatar on pull, rip aggro 🤣

random osprey
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lol

fathom marten
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Taunt first then avatar. You don't get the same rage gen because it's single target.

sick sentinel
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We are double prot warr so unless I get MAD resets on SS he holds aggro

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He is also good geared now

fathom marten
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Ss instead of tc

sick sentinel
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I ss before I taunt

fathom marten
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That shouldn't be done. You want to ss after taunt

sick sentinel
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Well I try to dps and I SS on cd

fathom marten
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You wasted the threat increase window

sick sentinel
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I don't lose aggro anyway

fathom marten
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Okay that's fine but again, playing optimally. You taunt> ss> ava>demo>TC (ss and ava can be switched)

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On single target

random osprey
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i don't think using avatar that early is worthwhile, it'll only matter if the fight ends in between the early ava and ava after demo, which is 3 gcd's

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doing demo > tc > ss > ava > tc ... gives maximum uptime on demo shout

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what is the early ava optimizing for?

sick sentinel
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Not having the GCD in your opener (where I find myself most vulnerable)

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Not sure though

random osprey
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i demo in the middle of my charge and hit sb right after so i have a defensive up at the very beginning

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once that's up i set up the avatar phase, which, for maximum uptime on demo shout, allows half a gcd which i use for ss

sick sentinel
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I honestly have to test that myself

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Because I ava->charge

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If charge was not on GCD it would be amazing

random osprey
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the timing on charge > demo is tight to get it on the boss before you take the first hit

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charge > demo + sb

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did you still want a log?

sick sentinel
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Yh

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Just crit block that first hit fam, easy

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Took a quick look at the logs, were you MTing mother?

random osprey
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yeah

sick sentinel
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70% demo uptime is really good

random osprey
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i think i used demo on cd, so i clipped a few seconds from the avatar extension each time

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2 times i didn't, w/e

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i think i was waiting out the sanitizing strike