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But if I was alliance I would play a gnome
esp male pandas
I’m just a troll by heart
Or dark iron
theres just nothing funnier than taking a raid as a tiny little gnome, protecting all the giant elves and humans and dranei from scary boss
its like haha you need a tiny cute gnome to protect you
well
so funny story, gnomes were the preferred tanks in BWL alliance side
since Nef was tanked at an angle where your camera would fuck up if you were too tall
RIP tauren
I mean why not be a panda and do the same thing and still have it be funny while also having a useful racial?
shorter tanks = better tanks
toxic af
lets not get ahead of ourselves
Did I mention that pandas backflip every time they dodge?
pandas are for weeb furries
I feel like that animation would get tiring real fast
Yea we do @ember arrow
Tfw weeb refers to someone who love Japanese culture but pandas are based off of Chinese culture
Or u could just not play a gnome @junior ivy
tfw people call pandaren kung fu panda ripoffs
What's best way to deal with bloods with no BoP?
when they were in warcraft in 199something
and how many stacks
Heroic
#HordeLife
and as far as best way to manage the damage from it?
Stay in melee to gen rage and IP
as warr u can at least use cds outside melee range
you wait to move out to drop pools until just before or you go early and sit there?
on dk its rip
Spam IP
ya that's what i figured
wait till last 3-4s to leap out and deposit your blood stacks. Spam IP until then.
Leap the last 3 sec
anyone else got the zandalari empire mount?
i feel its animations are way too fast
when walking
maybe its cuz my dk has 240% movespeed?
@ember arrow go make a level 1 panda just for kicks trust me when I say they have really cool combat animations
:(
i dont hate pandas griff
all good
i think theyre dope
k i just got exalted with
azeroth
waht does it give?
Nothing
A 355 helm with IF and az veins
Nothing
#blessed
And the zandalari mount is so amazing because it has a fast animation
it looks weird
when standing still or walking
its good
but running looks waaay too fast
on alts, with 60% it looks good
What race are you?
orc
Use gamon
i dont have gamon
Darkmoon firewater
It is slower on taurens
to make my mount look decent
Or use it on a non dk non pala
On my orc warrior the animations are just right
In my opinion ofc
Didn't notice that actually
You like your 5 horses?
The spIder is also nice
All of the horde rep mounts are great
Horses don't fly, get out of your weird fantasy world.
Invincible can fly
those ain't REAL horses
them crazy undead fantasy horses and flashlight horses
spits in spittoon
I had to race change from highmountain to orc so I could fit through doorways. Plus my mog looks better now. Big shoulders ftw.
nightmare horses
they will fix it once bfa comes out
Hey guys, quick question. Is there a pawn string for us prots ?
There is not
oh , ok thanks
@radiant mortar just wear the highest ilvl item you have
not Haste first ?
Ilvl > all on armor pieces
Raw stat budget is often better than specific secondaries on jewelry
ok will change my prio
Haste only on comparing 2 pieces with the same ilvl
and with arzerit armor? still ilvl oder skills
Dudes last night I got my CD on shield block down to 12 seconds
Wow wee, back to last expac's baseline 😂
I'm bad at math. Is that 💯% uptime
ok thanks for all the answers
No thats 50% uptime max
Yea
100% uptime for 51 sec
sequential recharging - people forget this is a thing more often than not.
yes.
would need less haste then for constant block uptime vs the current design of the spell.
OP? Idunno
I think we'd still suffer from the same issues
We have effectively 100% block uptime
I always thought not having 100% upti e on our AM was the main issue
No goodness
the fact our AM is not effective against many types of damage
like, melee attacks we have 0 fucks to give
According to sco and frag that's the main issue
Yeah dude what's up with that shoot mechanic
throw rock
at my current haste, SB is 15s recharge. making it concurrent, would only have to wait 3s for the next charge. LESS with ITF +15%, bloodlust, haste food, etc. Not to mention LS bolster windows, demo shout, etc.
We can't block those ?
Throw rock
Yeah for sure
😄
also, I've always wondered this, but never explored it
what causes an attack/ability to be "Deflected"?
Spell reflect you mean?
No. Deflected.
I haven't seen that
Not reflect or parry.
@fierce juniper @shut summit any idea @ "Deflected" means/from?
does a deflected attack even happen anymore?
It does.
G L A N C I N G B L O W
I've seen it not more since my ilvl has gone up.
where did you see it? maybe its a defensive from one of the unique island NPCs
avoidance
I wonder if has something to do with parry, but idk for sure.
Hmmm
cus its worded differently.
I see it in mythics/+'s too.
I'd have to start SSing it.
But I've had that circumstance of "Deflected" attacks come up as long as I could remember since WOTLK
deflect is the avoidance equivalent to parry, but for magical attacks using the melee hit table
it is EN Client. 😛
Is that right?
I should prolly just google it up. But wondered first if anyone else here noticed too.
thats literally what i just did
I have only seen it with spell deflect
its magical parry
yeah @quiet kettle is correct. Its mentioned in wowwiki the same (although I know wowwiki is old/outdated these days)
interesting.
wonder if throw rock can be deflected.
so does deflect chance increase with parry chance? or: should I equip crit rings for tol dagor trash.
Maybe we should spec ravager then /s
Hey guys, which is better, reinforced plating + lifespeed + resounding protection or bloodsport + ablative shielding + gemhide?
pins has trait priority
I know. Just can't really decide whether lifespeed outweights ablative shielding and gemhide
Just looking for a second opinion 😃
as unyun said, because ur not just comparing the secondary traits
but also the primary trait
and bloodsport is overall more useful than reinforced
saying "crit/mast increases in value in m+" is saying I should equip some crit/mast over haste/vers? or just vers?
ilvl is still going to lead
of course
but I have alot of equal ilvl gear with haste, crit, and mast from my arms set.
@carmine ibex we dont have an answer foe that
Marok has suggested that crit is very valuable in M+
But without sims we won't be able to accurstely determine relative value
its our highest stat for mitigation vs parryable damage
I mean, I see the appeal of crit nd mast in m+, increased DPS, and increased chance of block/parry in AM windows to give your single healer a gcd back.
which, is a lot of damage in M+
60-90% of an M+ is going to be blockable melees, depending on the dungeon
Usually more on the high end
fffffffffffffffffffff
throw rock.
I can swap out quite a bit of vers for crit or mast just from rings, I'm going to give it a shot tonight and compare logs with before, as well as the subjective metric of how many fuck-words my healer says in discord.
I play with like 200 vers lol
Vers is very versatile 🦑
Funny thing is, I pop jes in uldir and my array goes to vers
And in four days I'll be completely unsubbed and probs leave this channel for the first time in two years
And it skyrockets
Err a year and 11 months
Big oof
what if they fix prot wars in 8.1
I'm still having fun with bfa tbh
I don’t think his issue is with prot warrior
Viability of prot war is the least of my complaints
I've already ranted at length
TLDR: bad endgame progression design imo, bad QC, bad communication
I main arms so my biggest complaint is not even how prot plays, it’s how tedious they have made gearing alt specs
Is it worth dropping deafening crash for a 45ilvl helm upgrade
i find it better than it was in the past
No @granite meadow
thats what I thought
gearing alt specs*
Probably not @granite meadow
FeelsBadMan
Yeah I dont have a problem gearing my alt, i have a problem gearing my main lol
if u care too much its a very annyoin design i guess
It’s better than in legion since you don’t have to level separate artifact weapons but it’s still not great
imo one of the major problems is
I have a problem with both, tbh, there is way too much RNG
how u gotta do all kinds of content to get best gear
Yeah, i'm not even raiding atm so i'm not trying to hardline the grind, but the fact of the matter is our BiS azerite acquisition is entirely RNG-based
and i just dont have the time to sit there and conquest cap every week too
the fact we have a bis Azerite is what ruins it
deafning should get removed straight away.
Even when it benefits me it doesn’t feel that good
Like I got a heroic warforged Khor 2 weeks ago
ilvl 380
Should defeating heroic taloc warrant that quality of a weapon?
I don’t think so
i think the weapon drop design is amazing
since they cant titanforge
and +10 ilvl isnt thaaat major
@waxen talon uh no
like ur way better off just going mythic
DC is straight up broken compare to the others
make it baseline or some crap and throw the trait back where it came from
Or all the others are simply bad comparatively design wise?
u know most dps specs use neutral ones these days.
DC is literally the only interesting trait we have
all traits are boring and weak
Yea let’s not make them all boring k thx
Idk the way they’ve handled broken Azerite on other classes is to nerf them down
Might as well just remove the system tbh
I know. And I think the redesign is the only reason DC is still there
deafning has a broken baseline effect that makes it stupidly strong
make a new circle
and add likes of DC there
dont put DC on current circle where it doesnt fit.
I don’t think many would agree with you on removal of DC
Do u enjoy having to wear 1 low ilvl DC piece?
if no, then its just a stupid design.
I think his point is the affect makes the spec feel good and work better. Not that he enjoys that it’s mandatory
keep the trait effect, add its elsewhere, like one of the 100 useless talents we have?
yea all traits should be lik that
but none of the current are
TBH I don’t care about ilvl
I care about using the best gear that I can
If that means I sacrifice ilvl I really don’t care
i enjoy gettin new gear
i hate looking at my equipment and seeing a 340 sit there.
i hate having to wear the same piece i got from pre raid release, til the raid tier end.
If it were stackable it would neec to be adjusted. But you need only 1.
^lul
most DPS traits are gettin caught up by secondary stat procing neutral ones now.
cuz they scale way worse
Also you can get a 355/360 piece guaranteed with minimal effort.
@chilly brook the problem is that every trait that actually modifies rotation has been nerfed for being too good
They just need to stop tying gear progression to whatever progression for abilities they have in an expansion
Besides gearing my only gripe with prot right now is the fact that there is one and only one viable talent build, and if you deviate from it you are making yourself completely unviable
@grim prism yea because we can’t have fun
DC only missed the nerfbat because only 5% of tanks plat prot lul
@grim prism the whole current circle layout we have shouldnt affect ur rotation too much, they should add another circle and then make it full of those
Like if you take sudden death over skullsplitter for arms, you take a DPS hit but you don’t make your class non viable
having half the traits modify ur rotation or be required is straight up stupppid.
DC is so good because of our current talent build
Like, imagine prot warrior without bolstering and anger management
TBH all traits should have something to do with your rotation
Still more interesting than having a chestpiece with 100 haste and 200 crit.
d u m p s t e r
Hello it’s like the only way to actually have the traits somewhat intuitive
Thats exactly why blizzard announced a new circle commin soon.
not defending them but its not like theyre unaware of how messy it is
Not 20 different generic traits that have a chance to proc x affect which you can’t possibly know if it’s a good choice or not
So you’re forced to sim even though blizz doesn’t want you to have to sim to see if it’s an upgrade
then again
the best effects are ones like "spawns a servant of fuckface to fuck your enemies faces for 7 seconds"
for most specs ilvl > effect
It’s an illogical system and arguing for more illogical decisions is bad
what the hell does that do for me?
but u would have to sim which of the 2 traits ironicly.
That’s what I’m saying
Usually that will be on a trinket but I never understood how anyone is supposed to know if one of those "summons a temporary pet thing" is actually any good lol
that is why they are making a new circle tier again.
this circle we are in are supposed to be generic fucktard shit like ^
we have no ETA of that new circle do we?
No they’re making a new circle tier to lessen the impact traits have
Or rather to make it easier to acquire useful traits
I thought it was just to double up on first-tier traits
and that circle will be impactfull non generic traits.
Yes @tranquil kraken
so that each piece will have two, making more pieces have the "good" traits you want
Yes
two choices per spec
I coulda sworn they said they were doubling the out ring for now and in 8.1 they would be adding in more spec specific ones
I thought it was a combination of things
double outer ring + more "outer ring" traits added
Like the one that gives us mastery and casts IP when we cast avatar
The new ring is literally just to make it easier to get the traits we want
that is pretty boring but yeaa its not super generic and passive
Nothing more
What is it that makes prot so undertuned, and do you think the new mastery is going to help? I'm in a casual heroic raiding guild and we had to swap our prot warrior for a DH on Zul because he was getting trucked so hard in phase 2.
the only real traits i notice are the 'drops a pool you stand in' traits. or lazer matrix because it goes pew pew
p2 zul is something I'm curious about as well - I don't really know what tools other tanks have to deal with that damage
u notice laser matrix?
u mean the passive proc on hit to deal spread damge.
so I don't know if it's my fault, if prot suffers there, or if all tanks just have a hard time there
Just get bopped
@velvet sandal ok, he got trucked but it is survivable
i consider leech while ignoring pain more noticeable.
Do you have logs?
its hard not to notice lazer matrix, i splooge lazers and hit/heal everything on screen
I do, one sec
yea but it has no effect on ur gameplay
All tanks get trucked in p2
oh no of course not
I see we're on my fav topic again 😃
It’s bleed damage there’s nothing you can do about it
Yeah, alright
though ive had it break CC before, just assumed usuall BfA bugginess on that though
i dont think laser will ever be worth runnin in dungeons
Although he’s probably not staying on melee range and therefor is lacking rage generation to cast IP to help
its pretty shit when the damge spreads
would be 100 times better if it was just a ST hit + heal
You had a fury on zul
The classes that are strong in p2 zul are the ones that get increases on healing received. Other than that, most tanks seem to require around 40k hps.
Why
CASUAL heroic raiding guild. It was the alt of our 5th healer
I just got a pvp chest from the emissary though, gives me the IP leech trait and i like it
Then our prot warr swapped to fury when we brought in the DH
I've been interested in trying some prot tanking, but I want to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses before I start going for weapons
So like, we don't have any more issue on P2 Zul than any other tank
Physical damage mitigation is the obvious strength
Your healers need to be aware that the tanks are going to get destroyed
Str: aoe dps weaknesses: actually tanking
and warriors need to be aware thaty they're going to get destroyed
and can't rely on your healers to keep you up through it
Damage seems normal
I take 4 stacks on Zul HC
Warriors are a pretty good choice on fetid, for example
But two of your healers seem low
if you can, find paladins, leap out after 3/4 stacks, BoP to remove it, repeat
We kicked 2 of our healers and replaced them
Warriors are so bad on fetid compared to say monks or dks
Once we had a solid BoP rotation from our pallies it helped
0_o
Heh
bop rotation for HC?
g8b8m8
Full melee fight nah dude warriors are bad
External calling + gameplay should be way more than enouhg.
So basically on Zul, generally the issue isn't the tanks
unless its positioning
its the fact that the healers have their heads up their ass
on zul, no - no tanks deal with bleeds well
Alright haha
and don't understand that both tanks requir healing
That was literally what was killing me on Zul
Okay. I really think we could do it with our prot warrior main tank, just wanted to get feedback from y'all.
Tanks die because of bad healers
the healers would stop healing when the other tank taunted
"oh he's not tanking, I guess I cans top healing him"
Well, I'll try to work with the healers and get them to understand they need to be prepared for that
but at 3-4 stacks the previous tank is taking MORE DAMAGE than the new tank
Maybe I was just getting healer carried, but I did not struggle with heroic fetid the other night
should vectis have taught them that? I feel like I took more dmg when I wasn't tanking due to the dot
Also save SW for when you get your last stack (whatever you swap at)
why wouldnt a class like pala be way better at dealign with offtanking zul
but yeah taking 4 stacks on ZUl, once I realized the problem I just kept repeating in Discord that "Both tanks need healing, keep healing Mac, keep healing, keep healing, ok BLEEDS OFF, TANKING NOW - MORE HEALING TO Inny!"
Because he's taking the difference in damage from Zul's melee
but you are right
they don't have to call for BoPs
but as for dealing wit the bleed damage itself
they're no different than warriors
again, i dont think ignore pain nor shield block will help u with anything.
IP helps A TON
i think ur better off playing paladin to counter ur own bleed dot.
staying in melee and pumping IPs while taking ticks is an amazing amount of reduced damage
Just leap out get instant bop?
more than the paladins self healing
i think ur better off playing druid to deal with ur dot too
i think ur better off playing monk to deal with ur dot too
Monks die to Zul easier than warriors properly played, since the DoT will kill them
Got through a p2 log
the core mitigation of most tanks is armor tho
does the maghar racial take a tick off of that?
it caps stagger and then ticks through them.
and we cant even block a bleed.
None of the racials affect Zul's bleed
Dude did not cast IP when he had thr stakcs
And cast revenge
Also no shield wall
Yeah, when you have the bleed 9but not the boss) on Zul you swap to 100% Rage into IP spam
its how you deal with it
it makes a staggering difference
not sure if monk pun...
and its staggering how many warriors just absolutely suck at doing it
Monks meta is because stagger cannot kill you
so you can eat a massive mechanic
and live
as long as you don't take more damage
its a huge safety net (what warriors lack)
Zul's bleed will kill you
going 🖕 your stagger
tbh I like the mobility a warrior has for it, pump up the IP, then leap out and intercept back in
i feel like people always leave out a warriors mobility when talking tank strengths
eh
because there are 2 other tanks better at it
we're middle road mobility
VDH and Monk both beat us
If you don't have bop then make a healer escort you
@velvet sandal tell that warrior to hang out here more often
screw the leather tanks
He did not cast ignore pain once
Yeah IP is crucial
:shocked:
Or shield wall the bleed
don't buy the "IP is bad" meme
howd he get to zul without using IP
Because warriors are strong
Spending all his rage to revenge
i mean, IP is bad, but you should still use it
idk i dont think id want to do vectis without IP
its just weaker than we'd like it ot be
^
Vectis on HC isn't horrifyingly bad
substantially weaker
like, as long as you're not a flipperhanded monkey and eat a ton of stacks
Vectis damage is rather lackluster
its the rest of the raid that gets trucked by contaigien
then i guess my healers just like palying chicken with my health
we can literally spell reflect every contaign
and we shouldn't get omega ever
so our damage relative to raid, goes down
yea ill usually SR then take the rest of the edge off with IP after SR fades
over the course of that fight
Vectis HC is a healer boss
Thanks Captain. I'll relay the message
We chill
on mythic we should be trying to get omega vector every time our SR is up
true, im just OCD about always trying to min/max mit. possibly too much
I really want to play some prot. Monk tanking is so boring... and then there is this https://www.peakofserenity.com/2018/10/09/the-fetid-log/
Feel like there is a lot more room for good play as a warrior
yeah we were talking about that earlier
@prisma crane Right but we're talking about HC
it's more that there's a lot less room for bad play as a warrior
Does heroic vectis even really do damage? I've never felt threatened by that boss.
if you dont decide to soak all his lines in transition, he doesnt really, no
Yeah basically if your raid is spacially aware enough to dodge lines
you'll down him no problem
his tank damage unless you're massively undergeared isn't even worth noting
he's all about that raid damage
and if you're properly cycling CDs to deal with contaigen bursts
you won't even notice that
any idea what to do here?
yeah use the 385 and the seal of loyalties
only PVE? keep the Pulsing Veins IMO
only pve
seal is gonna be stronger
i mean you could argue it both ways
seal has more haste and crit isn't dumpster
but yea...its a VERY marginal difference i think
its just not as good as the others
I mean
we're talking like, microscopic difference
vers is pretty garbo
love me some haste vers
but we in prot channel so vers isnt not the worst
It's one of the little ways we can deal with magic damage and flat out have mitigation during haps
i guess crit is the worst in terms of prot?
If my ass gets smacked by another earthlance for 65-80k I'm gonna cry
picked up a 370 back with only crit and mastery last night 😦
i can tell you how to instantly get better drops
spend the $7k on ring enchants
then go raid
the Blue Gods will drop an upgrade for that slot immediately wasting your enchant
Murphy agrees with you
has happened to me twice in two weeks
yeah my monk got the exact same 385 chest 2 weeks in a row, i almost rage unsubbed
I'd be okay with that tbh
Both of those
I'd be okay
At least I got higher ilvl ring
And now I got a az for off spec
my ilvl has been stuck at 365 for 3 weeks and I"ve been spam running high keys and doing normal/heroic raid each week
lol
I mean
I ran 7/8 heroic bosses last night...used both rerolls
0/2 on rerolls...and the only upgrade i got was a 370 ring that replaced a 365
I think most people stuck around 370
im only at 363 ilvl 😦
Is where you run into a gear wall
i have a 340 shield
i reroll on Vectis (or whichever one drops the shield aside from Ghuun) EVERY WEEK
Just whisper the guild prot paladin and tell him to get the shield for you
everyone knows i need it
:/
Off a weapon/shield/shoulder
I also ended up getting screwed by the RNG of the emmisary.
my poopoo items
and got a 355 az piece
Do you PvP at all?
I do
There's a DC 355 shoulders atm
I have a 370 DC helm
Rip
lol
Tofu check my link
i got the 355 DC shoulders on from pvp
my issue is my wep/shield are 350/340
370 shield 355 weapon
I have 370 weap/shield from warfront and weekly mythic+ emmisary
ive been trying to find a new wep for arms or prot for weeks
I've gotten 2 370 2h
this is how sad i am...get this
no upgrades for prot
i had not done Kings Rest yet
joined a regular mythic...not even keystone
just to learn...and got a 350 2H from the last boss
<
how sad as a 361 prot at the time...i get an upgrade from a mythic KR
i wanted to kms
my monk, who I'm playing msot often right now... has a 345 weapon from warfront
it was my highest ilvl piece when i got it.
I have run probably.... 20 either KR, TD, UR, etd
not a single weapon drop
yea weps and shield are impossible for me to find
I was using a 310 shield at 360 ilvl, spamming m+, no luck. then there was a 340 emissary, I did that, got the 340 shield. then had 3x 355 shields drop from m+ the next day.
ML, TD, and Under shields. back to back.
would ilvl 370 gear with archive be better than a 340 with DC?
i already have a 370 archive with helm
yea ive run ML like 5 times in the last 3 weeks
no luck
i wish blacksmithing helped more with weps/shields
nope, you need a DC @next ermine
@next ermine no
i feel like this is an AA meeting for prot warriors
"Hi....My Name is Octane...
crowd response 'Hi Octane'
I have been weapon drop free for 22 days now..."
crowd claps
I did it lads
Ion just mentionned DC in the Q&A 😮
I overcame the 1k raider score bar gg
THEY KNOW
good
that's fine
Meaning you'll probably have it on 4th trait, and frees up 5th ring
DC is annoying in the sense that it's good and there's only so many pieces with it
Agree
its not that theres only so many pieces with it
they just want to give you way more sources of it, so its not a pain point
its the fact that you need massive rng to get a better piece with it
also where you get them, but that's still a related product
which is azerite gear in terms of availability didn't scale as well since its sources above a certain ilvl were so limited
but I agree
I finally upgraded from the 340 DC helm last night
Now I’m in the DC 355 shoulder club
:^)
is that from the pvp quest?
Yeah
bleh i really dont wanna grind out 1 1/2 bars for those shoulders
do not suggest that is the intention...cause that is absurd
but i should, for 15ilvl upgrade to shoulders
gogo 3s
what is yall's heart lvl at?
28 21%
there are euros/russians at 32/33 I think
but they also do like expeditions nonstop daily
be aware those 4th/5th ring azerite armors being like 385-400+ ilvl will need like 32+ level necks im sure.
I'm starting to think that they started working on warriors, collected data
and found that the data showed that the problem wasn't with the spec
but it was that the vast majority of players are idiots
mage forums learn that every new expansion where people have to level again but cant face tank
then bitch the class is undertuned
@uneven mason that happens way more often that you think! I'm currently working on that same thing on my project haha
however, it'
's had to say "yall suck, git gud"
@gray parrot I started two weeks ago and I am ~5% away from 25
jesus
that catchup mechanic
👏
its pretty amazing
i have a question im kinda new, do you guys think Vengeance and Never Surrender is viable in mythics?
Nope
no. Booming voice is incredible
Bolster is equally so
if I had a better emoji for showing me puking on my keyboard i'd use it
aight thanks haha
Vengeance is a gain in no situation
But real answer: the other options in each of those tiers just FAR outshine them to the point where you're playing a shadow of the spec
Never Surrender - what the literal fuck, I get nauseous reading that talent.
No I mean, Bladesong, thats true for Indom vs Bolster
so i should try keep shield block up and spam ignore pain?
but NS is the only talent that I could actually say is FUCKING BAD
SB > IP
well that and ravager
what is the scaling for never surrender? how high does it go at hwat hp%
IP is the wetnap. SB is the towel
lol well put @sand egret
No kidding
yep.
Prot talents need a lil' love in the sense that they're just old and crusty haha
Prot talents are fine
psh
I feel theres just no variety in prot talents
they're just the most perfect form of "Choice is an illusion"
^this
look at the bolster tier and tell me which is the "new" one
@next ermine There never has been
and we run anger management in mythics is my last question lol
there is a path...and that is it
Name a single point in the game where we've had flexibility in our talents
the only talent ive ever changed is itf and punish
gotcha
uh
Punish only looks good on paper
how can you say "Prot talents are fine" and then go make that statement
ITF will beat it in all logical tanking situationas
it's completely contradictory
Because Bladesong
You run a diff. Tank in mythics. I love prot but damn, I finally leveled my BDK and I can do 10s with zero effort compared to prot.
that isnt fine
Doesn’t make it right
There is no tank right now with flexibility
if i had to shoot myself in the dick with a nailgun everyday to get out of bed for years, doesn't make it fine
Talents are built around the notion of choice. If there is none, then it's fundamentally not fine.
Nono, Blade you have it the other way
“New update: removing nail guns from prot rotation....”
So, To get out of bed you use the meta build
any of yall tank (H) Ghuun?
if you don't you get shot in the dick with a nailgun
Just because one build works, doesn't make talents fine
Yeah Octane
But our talents are fine, I'd go so far as to say our talents are fucking overpowered
i know im not playing perfect but i felt like I was getting hit like a truck
my counter tank is a 373 DK
got logs?
You were. Try it on BM monk and laugh
yea let me get them
😉
I have no issues on monk, prot sucks healers dry on ghun
TFW BrM requires more ERHPS
if you're OOMing your healers as prot
either they're healing like ass
or your playing like ass
I was trying to look at that Mactier
Gotta admit those blind spots, even if ya love warrior
there were several times in the last pull where I wasnt healed for like 12s
Yo fam you do Mythic g’huun @fair brook?
Seems like you have some gaps in SB in there
and I feel like...that cant be good
and overlapped SB w/ LS
but I also know several times where I def fukt up my rotations
Don’t need to, check those that are
yep
fuk
if you have Bolster
lol
then youre blocking when blocking
@gray parrot They both cause you to block every attack
its effectively hitting SB twice
@fair brook so don’t come in here and spout nonsense
ok that will help immensely
imho, it's on eof the biggest (i do this ALL the time) mistakes a Prot can make
you probably see me stack them a lot lol
as you lose a SB charge on the backend
@gray parrot Generally speaking as prot what you should do is keep SB up as much as possible, and then use LS, SW, etc to bridge the gaps
^^^
which is 1 charge
what is your haste?
He literally just said prot class changes in PTR
Lol
"soon"
"further in the spectrum"
after 8.1
typically I wait 3ish seconds after my last shield block charge too to get some HP umf out of LS, along with the 15s block.
im at 17% while solo before buffs
@gray parrot You can also probably keep your demo shout up longer
yea last night i had very poor demo %
was like 35% or something during the time when Ghuun was out
I wasnt using it when i wasnt tanking
You also spent like 30s w/ capped rage at one point
IP.
IP
LS doesn't cost rage...
so im doing that right
use IP or Revenge if IP is worthless (i.e. will be capped)
IP, to keep it up/capped. If its still green/full (speaking of the IP weak aura), do a revenge. sure.
potential prot warrior changes
coming soon™ on ptr
But capping rage means you're not getting the most out of anger management
hope its just some talent changes.
which means your CDs will take longer to come off CD
Im not looking/wanting for any big changes.
I don’t want to look @strong forum
I like where we are.
its not patch notes
I know
ah
Prolly get something to look at tomorrow
oooh ok I kinda like the viewpoint
expecting them more likely to fuck shit up.
idk im looking forward to it
we're totally gonna get "easier" to play, unfortunate for some
as thats their track record w/ warrs.
my normally rotation is pull...demo -> SB -> SS-> TC -> IP
and i try and keep SB and IP up as often as possible
but I expect us to get more "tools" and utility (going off of Ion's response just now)
U should avatar before demo
^^^
Avatar before you charge
i dont want to be easier, just more competetive vs bdks in m+
why?
Avatar -> Charge -> Demo -> TC
Assuming u have DC trait
'as often as possible' you should know the mechanics when you should SB or not. Dont just always mindlessly spam your skills.
charge has a .5 GCD
Avatar while you charge monkaTOS
Avatar->intercept-TC-Demo
then we got this guy ☝ haha
serves me fine. Simplifies pulls, never rage issues, never threat issues.
how can i tell if the main issue is my rotation or healers messing up?
no threat of dying.
I know ill never be perfect
but i wanna make sure I know if its mainly me or if I just need to be patient with healers as they learn
you can tell by your own mitigation usage, we can only do so much after all
If you got logs I can tell you whether it’s you or the healer
the flipside is that it's painfully obvious as a warrior when you do mess up
mhm.
Bwomsamdi will be telling ya so
i have logs
there is so much i dont know how to interpret
this is damage taken during the time Ghuun is out
lol I love how they're like "yeah but we can't just change stuff without a lot of advanced notice"
the DK is tanking so much more
As they do that, warriors get dicked for a whole raid tier
do they just not mitigate as much?
Throw me a link
DK is also near maximum active more.
this doesn't show all the details though. such as ability usage etc
i know 100% I can get better
but im just trying to understand all the factors/variables i have to work with
i dont think our healers do assigned healing...i think its kind of a FFA. Not sure if that is ideal or not
the last time I raided was Vanilla...and I was a healer and we had assigned groups of who we healed
i try and use SB basically off CD if i have aggro
you use last stand when you were no longer taking melee (its block)
you were using SB after you got aggro
so it overlapped with the other tank getting hit
Your SB casts seem kinda low tbh
Your avatar casts are really low
Only 2 casts the whole fight
hey guys quick question: would you take a 2nd time archieve of the titans or brace for impact? (helm from mother)
You're REALLY not optimizing DS uptime
385
You should probably be about twice the amount of Shield Block casts as you have
You're only gaining 4 seconds
meaning you're not stacking it with Avatar atall
you have 1 shield wall
the entire fight
ok im confused
should have 3+
how does avatar matter as much as you all are suggesting
last stand should be way more (like 6)
With our dc trait and unstoppable force you extend demo shout by 2 seconds every thunderclap
@gray parrot Avatar (with the talent) will reduce the CD on TC by 50%
