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zinc mauve
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generally for us anyway, on-use effects are best because our main dps window is Avatar + demo shout anyway

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anything that lines up decently well with it is very good

brazen valley
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wow, thanks so much 😄

candid vine
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Is there a minimum haste % to shoot for?

cinder pasture
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Nope, generally just get as much as possible without sacrificing ilvl

candid vine
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Ok so ilvl > haste, just confirming

junior ivy
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yay

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finally

amber siren
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damn

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grats

junior ivy
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thankls, it replaced a 340 version of same one

fair crystal
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Noice man

obtuse venture
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hey can i get that?

zinc mauve
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U NEED?

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thats what you meant to say

spark forge
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Hey can I get that? I need that can I get it?

dark lark
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HEK HEK

sick sentinel
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yay 360 DC shoulders

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and x3 resounding protection now

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I use 385 doom's fury 370 rezans @zinc mauve

zinc mauve
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wtf capslock? seems good

sick sentinel
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really good for mythic+ yeah.

zinc mauve
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capslock owned me

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im mad jelly

sick sentinel
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that additional haste boost procc on occasion always good for faster recharges on the go.

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and big crit big parry12.5%-3%

obtuse venture
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i run blightborne infusion on my chest instead of calous reprisal for the parry and dps boost in m+. goes from 8% parry to like 20% seems to be more useful than 1.5 dr if i even have the gcds for revenge.

zinc mauve
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parry is great for ranged

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definitely worth getting i'd say

cinder nova
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Got so lucky

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Replaced my 340 garbo shoulders

raven kernel
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grats

cinder nova
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Now I just need decent trinkets and a better shield

raven kernel
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im still on 360 dc 😦

sick sentinel
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Dread Gladiator's Plate Shoulders really good DC and rings.

obtuse venture
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same still on the pvp DC shoulders. GL to everyone tomorrow on their caches. pls bless me with your massive rng cock pls jesus

sick sentinel
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I was on 345's before. 😛

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355/360 now.

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still solid

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tbh idk of anything I'd need from the chest. another 385 azerite of a different kind would be nice.

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its been really good to me past 2 weeks.

outer dew
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Anyone try DH Tanking?

sick sentinel
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@outer dew it's still good

obtuse venture
zinc mauve
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56 minutes

orchid sand
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1

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11111 1*

zinc mauve
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i got nothin against the time, just gotta find the TIME to listen to it

modest wedge
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do 2x

zinc mauve
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not a bad idea

flint prism
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Still waitin for the 380 shield

oblique garnet
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Its never gonna happen

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380 shield is a myth

zinc mauve
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shields are a myth to all except shamans

fathom marten
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Shit

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Just seen the avatar change

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What I miss? I don't have my gaming computer because I'm moving back to the states so I shipped it there ahead of time. lol.

zinc mauve
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what avatar change

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you referring to the azerite trait?

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atleast i thought it was an azerite trait

fathom marten
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And the taunt change

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Oppressor Intimidates the You focus the assault on this target, increasing their damage taken by 3% for 6 sec. Each unique player that attacks the target increases the damage taken by an additional 3%, stacking up to 5 times. Your melee attacks refresh the duration of Intimidated Focused Assault. PvP Talent. PvP Talent. 10 yd range. Instant. 20 sec cooldown. Requires Warrior. Requires level 40+.

zinc mauve
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thats a PVP talent

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its been in the game forever

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they were just changing the wording

fathom marten
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mother fucker

zinc mauve
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ikr

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its not even that good of a talent imo

fathom marten
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Well, It's good in the sense that we bring more to mythic+ imo

zinc mauve
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well it would be yes, but... its a pvp talent; unless you were considering the possibilities if it were just a flat addition to the skill for pve

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someone else suggested making taunt force ranged targets or casters to run in and smack you instead

fathom marten
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Bastion of Might (New) Avatar increases your Mastery by 259 for 20 sec, and instantly grants you Ignore Pain. Totally ignored the Bastion of Might thing

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Oh shit that would be really awesome

zinc mauve
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if it is in addition to our current talents, i dont think it's too great, but my friends suggested it would be contained in the additonal azerite ring being added in 8.1

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the problem with the IP stack is that you would usually be using IP before even jumping in, or immediately when you get into combat

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it'd probably get chewed off by a group in a second or two

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it's a good addition nonetheless and its nice to see they are considering some of our problems at least

fathom marten
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Yeah I agree. I wasn't trying to make it seem I was happy with these changes or additions, just good to see they are actually doing something.

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Ahhh

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It's an azerite power

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trait

brazen sequoia
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390 "Servant Splitter"axe from Waycrest, is it even worth it over my 360 weapon with secondary stats? This only has stamina/str and a proc

fathom marten
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Fern

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That's a 30 ilvl increase brother

lavish oracle
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No secondaries, though

fathom marten
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the stam and str increase would make up for the secondary's I'm betting.

lavish oracle
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The PPM on the weapon effect is really low, from what I hear, too

zinc mauve
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yeah its proc rate is terrible

fathom marten
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Specially since there's no caps really to hit anymore. /shrug

sick sentinel
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If it ain't a shield upgrade, then fuck it

zinc mauve
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check how your IP stack is affected since your str decreases

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cast ip with it and without it and see if theres a difference

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and also figure out how much hp you lose

brazen sequoia
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ah ok

fathom marten
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What is the secondary stat fern?

lavish oracle
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Oh hey, wait scrolling up a little, did they announce the 8.1 changes?

fathom marten
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If it isn't haste, wouldn't even think twice

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Not really

lavish oracle
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Or just that trait?

fathom marten
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Just that trait

zinc mauve
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@lavish oracle just one trait

fathom marten
lavish oracle
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How's it gonna stack up with the other traits do you think?

fathom marten
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Like Ama said

zinc mauve
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well it depends, is it on the new outer wheel or on our current wheel?

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if its on our current wheel its like DC, you get one of it and then nothing more because of the effect

brazen sequoia
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gives me 2,5k total HP and 1300 bonus to IP

fathom marten
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Even if the other traits are bad, IP doesn't stack high and using ava irregularly because of the CD is a meh.

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bruh

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switch it out

zinc mauve
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@brazen sequoia maxed stack of IP or just 1 cast?

brazen sequoia
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Well just out of combat in the city

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without buffs

zinc mauve
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did you cast IP twice or once, thats what i meant, sorry

fathom marten
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There's no way any secondary stat will be high enough to compete with that. 2.5 extra health plus a 1300 IP.

zinc mauve
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the proc rate can be ignored

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the only thing id check is just to see if TC damage is affected much

raven kernel
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what 2.5 extra health

fathom marten
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Now if we were talking about stat caps, diffrent story but since we don't hit any

brazen sequoia
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well tbh I didn't cast, I just checked the tooltip

zinc mauve
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gotcha gotcha

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check how much damage TC does with and without the weapon

fathom marten
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Why worry about the dmg?

brazen sequoia
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250dmg increase

zinc mauve
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@fathom marten me like big numbers

fathom marten
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lol

raven kernel
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oh the weapon

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use the lower one

zinc mauve
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id use the old one, servant splitter sucks

raven kernel
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390 statless weapon is worthless

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you'll have big dick auto attack dmg woopdedoo

zinc mauve
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what a stupid item

fathom marten
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What ?? It's not worthless, his stat weapon will not compete with that 30 ilvl stam and strength increase

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@brazen sequoia what second stats you ahve on the other wep?

raven kernel
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oh does the thing have str and stam

brazen sequoia
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Crit/Vers

fathom marten
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Oh god

zinc mauve
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AHAHAHAHA

fathom marten
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Get rid of it

brazen sequoia
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ikr

zinc mauve
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im retarded

fathom marten
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@brazen sequoia take the 390

zinc mauve
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i thought it lacked the mainstat too

brazen sequoia
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it's the freehold one I had 😛

raven kernel
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i've never cared about that weap lmao

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i set lootspec to arms for waycrest so i dont get it

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i only want the trinket from that place

fathom marten
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It is a stupid wep

brazen sequoia
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xD

lavish oracle
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Of all the things to get a 390 on, lol

fathom marten
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But 30 ilvl increase. It'll just be better purely because of main stat wise

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And crit/vers sucks

obsidian gate
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anyone in bris area wanna level a allied dwarf with me? 😛

raven kernel
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hmm bastion of might is 520 mastery at 385 ilvl

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is this thing on the new outer-outer ring ?

brazen sequoia
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What about Lingering SPorepods 385? worth anything?

sick sentinel
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It's ok

oblique garnet
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What kind of fucking joke is 340 ring from emissary

sick sentinel
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Also Bastion is the new trait right? That's gonna be our best trait when it comes out

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Esp with DC

oblique garnet
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probably

sick sentinel
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No it will

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A free IP, mastery and enforces the use of our cd

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Comboed with DC it's going to take another trait a lot to make us not want ot

static lance
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dislike the fact that so many things are tied to Avatar.

oblique garnet
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We still dont know what they will change when the new trait comes

sick sentinel
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Honestly that's what all tanks are waiting for

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But based on what we have right now, ud be a fool to not get BoM

oblique garnet
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True

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I have to do 10 m0 on my monk with full leather group today so i can get some gear for it zzz

sick sentinel
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I need to level one of my 11 other toons to 120 so I can do that lol

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Only my warrior is at 120

oblique garnet
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i currently have 6 at 120 XD

sick sentinel
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Crazy thing is, usually I do everything on my feral first then my warrior and slowly everyone else

oblique garnet
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i usually dont level alts that much but with the way bfa is i ran out of content so fast i had nothing else to do

fathom marten
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My BM is so easy to tank with

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The only problem I ever feel like I come into is AOE aggro.

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threat

oblique garnet
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oh yeah its a joke how easy monk is

fathom marten
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They could at least tell us what they see as a problem for prot war's and what they have in mind to help fix the problem they see. Instead of Ion broadly describing tank vision and goes on about how the monk discussions of how they should us ISB and Pur and the punishing difference it could make not using the correct one at the correct time.

It was like a complete middle finger to us considering monks have it 100 X easier then us to keep up there AM(Can attest to this, have a BM myself). He totally ignored the biggest fattest elephant in the room and I normally think Ion gets a little to much hate but man that made me even sit back and think to myself, "how stupid does he really think I am?". Idk. Should try to stay optimistic.

raven kernel
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my disc hates bm lol

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she prefers to heal me over brews

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she says brews are like you heal and heal and heal and heal but the hp doesnt go up

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context is M+ pulls

oblique garnet
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True

fathom marten
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Well

oblique garnet
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brewmasters dont have that strong magic damage reduction

fathom marten
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For disc yeah I can see the problem there when healing stagger tanks

oblique garnet
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And in every dungeon there are multiple magic damage abilities

raven kernel
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my disc has to prepare a monk alt for next tier potentially and asked me to play my dh alt to gear together

fathom marten
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Most of our damage reduction is based on us Purifying

raven kernel
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im looking at the venge reddit thread and i see things like

fathom marten
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And you don't pur as much as you'd think

raven kernel
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Defensively in Mythic Plus we have “enough” survival with kiting, but are on the weaker side survival wise.

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Not having much control over our health. Once Demon Spikes falls, its kite until you have another charge up or your group stuns the enemies.

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jesus id much rather be prot

fathom marten
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No way

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DH is king of m+

raven kernel
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i dunno man i'm studying venge now

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but i played my dh alt in M0s at start of bfa

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didnt really enjoy it at all

fathom marten
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That's why they are topping m+ charts

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Them and bdks

sick sentinel
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Well VDH is just a really boring tank to play also

raven kernel
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i dont feel handicapped as prot at all

fathom marten
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Eh monk is far more boring

raven kernel
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and yes venge is boring

fathom marten
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imo

raven kernel
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its almost bear

sick sentinel
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Nothing will be werebear boring

oblique garnet
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Rei id recommend watching Shakib stream

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they are doing 17+ dungeons etc constantly

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The Dh hardly requires heals

sick sentinel
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And the only tank close to our damage

raven kernel
oblique garnet
fathom marten
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Yeah Rei, DH's are doing crazy stuff in m+

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You have to take reddit with grainS of salt

raven kernel
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ill take a look

fathom marten
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They complain about the craziest stuff honestly

oblique garnet
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He just switched to dk tho not sure if he will change back to DH after this dungeon

raven kernel
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eh that post is the offical felhammer post thrav

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lol

fathom marten
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They just mad because they suck in Raids

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and king in m+

raven kernel
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i mean i'm super happy on warrior

fathom marten
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It's a sucky situation because you can't say they need a buffi f there topping m+ charts

raven kernel
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im not a high key pusher but i can do 13s comfortably and 14s just in time

fathom marten
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but are like a wet paper bag in heroic uld

raven kernel
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as prot

fathom marten
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I'm not a high m+ either

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I've done like a few 10s

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I just don't like pugging them.

raven kernel
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id like to push higher but i pretty much only do M+ on saturdays

sick sentinel
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Pug them, and push higher

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It's what I only done when I'm not raiding

oblique garnet
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Idk we have prot warrior and dh on our progress raid and the dh hardly takes more damage than i do

raven kernel
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nah like i said i dont play purely to push keys

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i only play with friends

fathom marten
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Just yesteraday I was questioned if I could do a 11 since I"ve only done a 10. The guy seemed like really informed and reactive, but we wiped on the first boss of ToS because he didn't move out of the dash

sick sentinel
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But don't u like blaming people for their mistakes and calling them farrtkn0ckers

fathom marten
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Happend twice

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THen was like lets decrease it

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I'm like bro we could do this but you need to watch for the dash

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10 didn't go well for the same problem

sick sentinel
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Dude don't remind of tos, did one yesterday, I was ahead of two DPS on the first boss

fathom marten
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lmfao

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ffs

sick sentinel
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I'm like fucking what is this

raven kernel
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just watched Shakib stand in 2 volcanics

sick sentinel
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We can do the bosses but the 3rd is a pure dps check

raven kernel
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XD

fathom marten
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I'm 267 ilvl. My upgrade will be a 370 for the week. Sucks.

onyx vessel
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267 damn

zinc mauve
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wtf 267?

oblique garnet
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you mean 367?

fathom marten
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lmfao

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367

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yeah

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You all knew wtf i meant

sick sentinel
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Damn fucking crazy man over here doing +10 at 267

fathom marten
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shut up

sick sentinel
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Lol

zinc mauve
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literal legend

fathom marten
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You guys are bullies

sick sentinel
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No bully zone here

oblique garnet
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Feelsbadman did all the arathi quests and rares got 2x 340 cape nothing else

sick sentinel
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Got two boots from the actual quest and a drop

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Both 340

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Ugh, I wanna level my druid cause the trinkets they need is good for aoe and ST but at the same time I need to get a leather group together to funnel me shit

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Just wish feral druids could dual wield daggers and fist weapons

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But at the same time I dont want that

oblique garnet
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Leather groups are probably the easiest to make rn

sick sentinel
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Yeah but I want everything, for me

raven kernel
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leather is the MVP rn

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feelsbad every week im the solo plate in my M+ grp

oblique garnet
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same

sick sentinel
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I'm just happy I have our two bis rings

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Now I can focus on getting Omega haste on everything else

zinc mauve
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can you get trinkets from the weekly chest?

prisma night
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Pretty sure its only boots and capes

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Kappa

oblique garnet
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Yes you can get anything from weekly chests

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Except shoulders with deafening crash

sick sentinel
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Rofl

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Specifically the one from ToS

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At 385 ilvl

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With a socket and avoidance

oblique garnet
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Hey man it took me nearly 2 months just to get the 340 ones from ToS

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And even then i had to stack my group with 5 plates because it didnt drop for me

sick sentinel
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Jesus fuck really? I got it I think like my first time

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I'd have to check but I don't think I had to go out and farm it

chilly brook
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happy boi
got 370 shoulders outta the cache with DC so I can finally retire my 340 helmet

zinc mauve
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same

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i got lucky

chilly brook
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Although it was only a slight bump, went from 340 to 355

zinc mauve
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what i havent mentioned though, i was stuck with a 340 shield until my guild was halfway through clearing heroic uldir

chilly brook
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Guess I'm just gonna bonus roll for the helmet for Mythic Mother

zinc mauve
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only on our 2nd vectis kill did i finally get a 370 vector deflector

chilly brook
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Yea I know that feeling

zinc mauve
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...not before the shaman got it of course

chilly brook
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was stuck with a 355 shield from mythic plus for a long time

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Don't get me started lol

zinc mauve
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when i was just getting 340s, the shield was the last thing i got

chilly brook
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We had a shaman get a 385 vector deflector and he plays enhance

zinc mauve
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before that i was stuck with a 300 ilvl shield

chilly brook
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from heroic

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before they removed TF

zinc mauve
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nani the fuck

chilly brook
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yea dude

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still pissed about it

zinc mauve
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i would have broken shit

raven kernel
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385 vector deflector

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seems familiar

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looks in bags

zinc mauve
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deflecting tears

sick sentinel
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I'd like if blizzard could you know, front load us with more azerite caches

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Gone through 23 emissary and only 1 azerite cachce since the change

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Need that dunecrawler

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370 and that temple 385

prisma night
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Yeah i got 370 dunecrawlers from my last azerite emissary

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Feelsgoodman

chilly brook
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Exactly what I got from mine tonight

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Now I run into a unique problem

sick sentinel
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I hope u both get reinforced plate 355 from ur weekly tommorow

chilly brook
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I get to sandbag ilvl for haste

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So that I can make sure that I’m getting haste from Reorigination array

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What a silly trait

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Literally have to have a completely separate gear setup to guarantee that I get haste

sick sentinel
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Yeah our priest had to swap out some high ilvl gear for the RA

prisma night
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I just reforge the mother helm to get array or go bfi if im doing m+

sick sentinel
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So he can get haste over crit

chilly brook
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@sick sentinel I was telling myself I’ll probably get 385 shoulders that I won’t be able to use because they won’t have DC and I don’t have another helmet that’s higher ilvl with it

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@prisma night too expensif

leaden kernel
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would yous know which spec doesnt have haste in its top two secondary stats

lusty grotto
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screw BFI

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i'm never reforging it

prisma night
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Or were you saying you had to sandbag to get your haste to be highest so array would give haste?

chilly brook
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Yes

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That’s what I was saying

prisma night
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Oh that sucksss

lusty grotto
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ouch

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that's kinda weird considering ITF

chilly brook
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~ 1100 crit

leaden kernel
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when im playing arms i use dooms fury which bumps crit as my main stat instead of haste, making a godlike cooldown burst into an alright one

lusty grotto
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jesus christ lol griff

chilly brook
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ITF has no affect on your numerical values

prisma night
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Itf doesnt give haste stat

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Only % haste

lusty grotto
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oh right

chilly brook
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But yea, ~1100 crit and only like ~900 haste

prisma night
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Get that PHAT crit array

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Lol

chilly brook
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Plus I’m running a syringe so even more crit

sick sentinel
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@leaden kernel of the top of my head I think all classes depend on haste esp since it influences the gcd making it matter more

lusty grotto
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not all of them

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but close

prisma night
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Does array update as flucuations from procs come in? So if you got a crit proc that put your crit higher than haste would array give crit for the duration that its higher?

lavish oracle
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I think mistweaver doesn't need haste at all for raid heals

chilly brook
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I mean tbh I’d probably be doing mad damage with a crit array @prisma night

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Yes it does

prisma night
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Damn

chilly brook
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At least from what I’ve been told

lusty grotto
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hmm

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i'll check with my butcher's block tomorrow

prisma night
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Monks dont like haste, but havent checked since bfa launch

leaden kernel
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in legion it was because 11% i think made them gcd locked

sick sentinel
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Monks don't like anything that doesn't have to do with drinking

lavish oracle
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I've heard no haste for raid healing, all the haste they can get for dungeons

prisma night
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Ww hated it in legion. Brew you could go as low as 5% and be fine

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Probably lower even

sick sentinel
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Wasn't it like 3%

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Because ud fuck up like keg throw or some shit because of some talent

prisma night
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Anywhere below 11 was good. After that it was preference

sick sentinel
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Ah ok, cause I remember guildies telling me brm having more than 1% haste was bad

prisma night
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Wasnt quite that hyperbolic but it was the least desired stat

sick sentinel
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No I'm not joking with that sadly

outer dew
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I mean

sick sentinel
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Someone actually told me that

outer dew
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Most secondaries are pretty similar for tanks

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You want a lil bit of each

prisma night
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Brew in legion it was not that close

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Cant say for bfa since i dropped him

outer dew
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I mean, during start of legion

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I was stacking crit/mastery

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Vs the normal haste

chilly brook
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So yea it does change

prisma night
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Good to know

sick sentinel
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The only reason I even want to play brew is because it lets me play a class that drinks since I don't drink irl

prisma night
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You could drink irl probably afk too and still be a good brew

chilly brook
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On the topic of BrM you wanted 14% haste

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Nothing more

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But that was legion

prisma night
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Oh right it was 14

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Pfft im dumb af

chilly brook
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14.7% to be exact

sick sentinel
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I just want a CD that BrM just plant their ass on the ground and drink and take reduced damaged, a channelled defense

prisma night
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So old zen med

lusty grotto
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uhhh...

sick sentinel
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I guess sure but more so the animation and less the actual skill

prisma night
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Ah

sick sentinel
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Where u it's the old zen but just a big fucking barrel and them going to town with it

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And sitting down while at it

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And u can't move

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Ur committed

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Every drop

weary nacelle
sick sentinel
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It's really good but we are waiting for the changes to make final judgment since we don't know what's gonna happen to us or any tanks in general

gray wolf
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still need to see new mastery before anything can be said for certain

raven kernel
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its on the new outer ring right

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it scales up to like 520 mastery for 385 azerite

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would be very very poggers if you can somehow stack 3 of those

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would def run 3x for M+

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it might push our avatar to OP nerfbat needed levels

leaden kernel
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its super nice, could be really good if they change our mastery to be more directly tied to ignore pain

fossil basalt
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When we will see change ?

raven kernel
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wont be live for at least a month

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prob 2

obtuse venture
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soon(tm)

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so whats everyone praying for from their cache this week.

fair crystal
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would the IP stack or just the mastery ?

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just mastery right

obtuse venture
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i hope RNGSanta gives me a 385 DC azerite shoulders

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IP cant stack because it has a pretty low cap. unless they change that

fair crystal
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yeah thats what i was thinking pretty sure shit like that dont stack anyways but the stacking mastery alone sounds pretty good

obtuse venture
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my IP caps at 40k and 1 IP gives me around 30k so imagine stacking 3 would be useless

fair crystal
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yeah mines like 42k or so

obtuse venture
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but i guess if its the only good trait then we'll be stacking it anyway

amber siren
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IP caps at 1.3

sick sentinel
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It might just be DC 2.0, just 1 of it and ur good to get 2 other outter

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Would be funny if it was on the same piece with DC

leaden kernel
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i wouldnt mind getting one of each, maye we can get a third one point wonder trait

obtuse venture
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third wonder trait that is also tied to avatar

sick sentinel
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I already have the proper sound gif ready for tomorrow if I get my 385 shoulder

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But I'm saving it until I get my 370 dunecrawler

obtuse venture
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avatar now makes you unkillable god beast but you are pacified when avatar ends until you can pop avatar again

delicate bone
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i'm more interested in a 380 Atal'Dazar Shield 😄

past ledge
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Man, zekvoz mythic progress with the guild was messed up lol, we cant get over the second wave of adds for some reason

obtuse venture
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do you think it'd be a bigger upgrade to go from a 370 to 380 shield or a 360 azerite shoulder to a 385 azerite shoulder. cause i know shields are a big deal for us

delicate bone
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@past ledge dps-avg?

past ledge
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Ppl dying of mechanics overlap

sick sentinel
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@obtuse venture shoulders with DC bigger upgrade than a 10 Ilvl increase shield

past ledge
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I think i was the least dps as tank with around 14k overall

delicate bone
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@obtuse venture i already have 385-370-375. But the dmg-reduction from a +10ilvl Shield is huge

past ledge
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I think most were around 16-19k im not sure i dont really remember exactly

delicate bone
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hm. sounds enough

sick sentinel
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Need to be 17k, sounds like u need to lather and salt the dps wiping belt for ur raid team

delicate bone
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a 385 shield givers you around 45% reduction

amber siren
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Shield probably

past ledge
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It always goes like this, when donuts come with the second wave there is always ppl freaking out and dying

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Always one or two dead by then

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Not sure if from beam or donuts

sick sentinel
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Prob beam

past ledge
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Since adds are chain stunned

sick sentinel
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But u can check logs

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I know in heroic for a period my team was panicking when beam happens almost right after donut so it caused several wipes for us

delicate bone
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freaking out is the main Problem. We wiped like 20 Times at Ghuun-HC in p3. Next week everyone knows what is going to happend and we did it in 2 trys

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So, how many IDs did you try?

sick sentinel
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We got our hc ghuun down today but just barely

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Last pull for the night 5 people left alive by 3%

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Always the last pull that works

past ledge
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We tried around 18 pulls

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All same time wipes

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One more thing i noticed

delicate bone
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dude, 18 Wipes is nothing for mythic progress >D

past ledge
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Second wave we tried to have ring of peace

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Always failed

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Add go around lol

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Like there is no ring

sick sentinel
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Was gonna say wouldn't they just go around

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Because people move

tulip pond
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Do you have a blood DK?

past ledge
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Yes

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We mass grip, stunn and nuke

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But because everything overlaps second wave we tried having ring to delay add of coming

delicate bone
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did every DD specs to AoE?

tulip pond
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If the adds are going around the RoP it means that people arent stacking properly

sick sentinel
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^

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People moving make rop useless since adds "fixate"

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I'm assuming u tried if u have 1 but having a shaman throw a stun totem

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Then follow with RoP

past ledge
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Yeah we didnt have a shammy last night

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We stun with DH

sick sentinel
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Or if u have a lock with their for stun

tulip pond
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We do mass grip followed by RoP immediately to get a small distance gap between stacking group while keeping the adds clumped

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Then just typhoons, stuns etc

past ledge
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It keeps going like that until p2 right?

tulip pond
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Iirc only 2nd adds overlap with the rings right?

sick sentinel
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I think after first they all do

past ledge
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I think so, never went after second wave lol

sick sentinel
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But I'm not 100%

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Since u know, adds

past ledge
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Did we do the right decision going to zekvoz instead of the other bosses?

sick sentinel
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More of a group choice really

past ledge
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Interms of overall difficulty

tulip pond
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We're progressing on Fetid atm and I'd say Zek'voz is definitely easier than Vectis and Fetid

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Once you get into the P2 you pretty much have it in the bag

sick sentinel
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Unless people freak out with rolling

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It's a god damn 300 year long debuff but people freak out because it can happen during donuts

past ledge
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How many healers u go with for zek?

tulip pond
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We had 5 on first kill(s) but now we go with 4

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That one extra dps can help a lot on squeezing the boss into p2 before a set of new adds that we had problems with

dapper kayak
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Can you explain how to make huge dps in raid on boss, I think solo target dps of prot warrior is low

past ledge
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Man zek is gona take a looong time to kill with my guild lol

tulip pond
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Get those few nasty ability overlaps sorted and you should have it

past ledge
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Yeah i think we need more uptime with the boss

boreal haven
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Played first Time Prot a little bit in M+.... What are your Meanings about IP... it felt weard to me tbh

modest wedge
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IP is on GCD which makes it iffy

tulip pond
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Its low maximum cap is more infuriating tbh

tall wadi
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the cap being low is mostly only relevant if the content is already trivial

obtuse venture
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low cap also makes dumping rage feel kinda bad. if theres 6 mobs on me i wanna double tap IP and not have it cap at

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Just been reading the DK feedback thread on reddit. the very top post BDKs are complaining about grip being on gcd. BDKs are so spoiled with riches that their only complain is that an extremely powerful utility tool is on the GCD while we are still trying to get our basic active mitigation off the gcd.

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just end me

tall wadi
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your basic active mitigation is shield block though

obtuse venture
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IP is too. SB and IP working together is our basic active mitigation kit.

fickle geyser
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yes, if IP was working

obtuse venture
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but because they've mauled IP to fucking death we only got half our kit working

fickle geyser
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prot went from most enjoyable spec to worst overnight when prepatch came

cosmic pasture
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indeed, thing is prot didn't have IP until into what blizzard called the "beta"#

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just feels everything in BFA has been rushed for a deadline instead of balanced and actual thought going into it

obtuse venture
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We had a nice IP since MoP. they took it out because they wanted to redesign it but couldnt think of anything so they gave it back to us. But when we got it back it was all fucked up like someone had run it over with a truck

cosmic pasture
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what did you guys think of banners?

fickle geyser
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it was ok at the time, wouldnt fit the game nowdays

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back then every class had many raidwide cds

errant wing
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give mocking banner back

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with added mass grip 😃

obtuse venture
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give us a bres. bresses are so important in m+ it wouldnt be OP to have more classes with it

cosmic pasture
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reason i'm asking is, one idea give warriors utility over buffing values and what not. Ease of life over being OP... Mocking Banner, a run speed banner, magic mitigation banner

errant wing
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or like a shield wall banner, raid wide 20% dr

cosmic pasture
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doesn't suit warriors to have a brez though, what do we shout at people to come back to life? haha

fickle geyser
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they need to fix the basics, not add more stuff

obtuse venture
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hulk shouted at ironman to being him back to life

fickle geyser
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like it would be nice to play the spec that doesnt make u want to commit suicide after 5mins

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numbers tuning is easy if the spec works

cosmic pasture
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lol, whilst in avatar form you can shout at an ally, scaring them back to life with 10% hp

errant wing
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or whilst in avatar siphon 5% hp from all party memebers upto 5 every 3sec

sick sentinel
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In Payday 2 you can literally shout "get the fuck up" and revive a squad member

sick sentinel
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Whatever change they have planned for warriors has to be meaningful, a lot of fingers are pointing at IP and if they don't address that then whatever they plan on doing has to be worth if they are going to overlook IP

tulip pond
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Revert to 5.4 or WoD prot and tune SBarrier accordingly and I'll be happy

sick sentinel
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Honestly I want my rage dump IP back from legion

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All I could ask for

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20 rage for wet paper IP or 60 for big boy IP

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I'm already capping near rage at all times

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Esp with bolster basically existing shield blocking has become a non-issue

past ledge
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I have a general question, i never played any other class than warrior, played all 3 speccs thou. Is warrior tank really THAT hard/bad ? are other tanks really THAT easy like what people are saying? I mean im having trouble tanking anything above 10+ M but my friend who admits that im more skilled and geared says that he tanks higher keys very easy that it makes him laugh sometimes

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Are we THAT bad as tanks?

raven kernel
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no

sick sentinel
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We aren't but people think we are

raven kernel
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if you are actually good at prot it will be very very obvious to the people around you

sick sentinel
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You can ask countless prots who(myself included) get rejected from even sub 10 keys because we are bad tanks

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I have a near 1k io as prot

past ledge
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Yeah i have around 900

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But i just tank my keys

sick sentinel
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I live for tanking in m+ but fuck u for playing prot

raven kernel
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i have 1k+ and i've never done a temple

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so i have zero score there

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lul

sick sentinel
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Not 1 group I've been can't comment on me being prot warrior

past ledge
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Its always like that about the comments

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But the thing is

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Is it easier to play other tanks?

raven kernel
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pugging as prot is horrible yeah cos of community perception

sick sentinel
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Generally speaking yes it is

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BrM can afk tank

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And we have to juggle 6 buttons

tulip pond
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BrM is just so forgiving

sick sentinel
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I mean look at blood dks, not depending on a healer to always be on u is the biggest + they have

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Esp in raiding where more focus can be on the raid

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So u take just that + they have and see how far people run with it

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But, I tanked the entire room of manor's fat boss at +12 no problem (well except I did not see an infested mob BECAUSE IT WAS NOT RED) so it was useless but still, whole room, was fine

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And in raids our healing required is the same or lower than other tanks

raven kernel
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we aren't high healing required at all lol

sick sentinel
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Ur right, but are the people looking at logs to see that

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Or are they looking at face value

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@sick sentinel we just do not want the devs to see that we are fine so they buff us a lot

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If they buff us to being the best, Hello to you fotm fuckers I hope u choke on ur shield

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But more seriously, im more hoping for tunning more than buffs

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But I know we will not not get a buff

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We know FOR SURE that dks and BrMs are getting tuned down

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Because they said that both of them are way too tanky

inner trail
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it is much, much easier and safer to tank on a bdk than on prot atm

sick sentinel
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So that will leave us at the top of the food chain anyway

tulip pond
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I'm looking forward for the rotational changes they mentioned about

inner trail
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from someone who tried both now

sick sentinel
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The fuck lolskyhold

tulip pond
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More than the actual buffs tbh

sick sentinel
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Too tanky

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Yeah the rotation change is we thundeclap

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We guardian druids now

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Remove everything, just Thunderclap to win

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I do wonder tho, maybe they can either give us a new rage dumper in the form of our legion bracers or guards frenzy

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An IP+SB is 70 rage so that's a 7% heal

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Idk about that tbh

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We are either not taking any damage or our whole healthpool in 2 hits

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Or they can just bring back vengeance

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Like I tanked a +11 pack after a boss reset with only a dps alive and azerite veins was healing more than the damage I was tanking

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And stop being such cowards

inner trail
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need more shield block uptime no reason for it to be so low when other tanks have near 100% on their mitigation

sick sentinel
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Well shield bloock uptime is the same just the bae CD is not 15 anymore

inner trail
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and ip off gcd obviously

tulip pond
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24/7 SB would be op af

sick sentinel
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10-12 recharge time is near nonstop SB

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Doesn't even factor in bolster LS

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Which lasts 15

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So 2 more charges by the time it finishes

tulip pond
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Just transition some of the power from our CDs into baseline DR because without CDs prot is just wet paper while monks can tank Fetid without using their active mitigation at all lol

inner trail
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SB uptime is way less than legion though

sick sentinel
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I mean I guess? I'm at 12 seconds with my haste ATM and I'm not having trouble

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Make AM affect SB kappa

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At worse I fuck up and don't have rage to SB

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No for real now, 3sb then ls then 3sb again

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But that's on me and being stupid with my rage use

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How long is that

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18s

inner trail
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not sure what you mean by not having trouble, prot warriors need an easier time maintaining mitigation imo to allow more room for error

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we're not talking about individual player skill

sick sentinel
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Again I guess? Ur going to have a harder time with DM if ur haste is not at the right amount

inner trail
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even if you now have no issue you would be able to overlap it with some other defensive cd's after a buff for an even easier time

sick sentinel
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51 seconds of straight blocking

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And that's on a 10 or 12sec recharge?

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Then you SW then you SB again once

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65 sec Active Mitigation

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What do you do then?

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Hc leap I guess

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With shield block, what the recharge timer ur basing it on

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12-13 sec

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Ok

rocky tiger
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well, realistically, when's the last time you needed to tank something that hit hard enough to worry about AM for a minute straight with no breaks?

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but., I say that as someone who hates the current playstyle. doesn't leave you with a lot of options for real oh shit moments.

sick sentinel
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The pack after the one min fight where I had no CDs up because I used a 4 min CD on trash

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That's how I go through things now though, big pull then small pull to let cds recharge then big pull again

inner trail
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realistically in high keys you need it up constantly

sick sentinel
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^^

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Did a 12 manor yesterday, was cancer

rocky tiger
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fair enough. I haven't done high keys on my warrior this xpac. been monking it up to get us through stuff a bit easier

inner trail
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the uptime is like 20% lower than legion and I don't think there is a justification for that is my point

sick sentinel
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I only have a warrior at 120 because I played every 110 class I had and I found fury the most fun

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Playing prot because my guild ended up with 1 tank when we had 4 volunteers

rocky tiger
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The uptime and self management for monks is stupidly high at the moment but I hope blizz don't go 'hey, let's wreck the high performers and leave the low ones in a shit state'

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cos you know... blizz

sick sentinel
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They will tune monks and dks down so be ready

rocky tiger
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sadly. That's why I've got my warrior happening again

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I was warrior from vanilla up till this xpac. made me sad to switch so I'm hoping they improve things

sick sentinel
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thats all they have to do tbh.

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Don't be because several hotfixes and a patch after this will see u probably drop it again

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bring monks/DKS down in line, leave the rest as is.

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No u gotta buff em to shot em down later

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Let the stab in the back feel more worse

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druid, maybe. prot warr/pall, vdh, nah.

inner trail
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they nerfed the brokenly OP prot pretty fast but left guardian at the top for quite a while in last xpac, so if going by that logic they will nerf BDK hard and leave BrM alone

sick sentinel
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Equipping a shield in your main hand a s well halves your Shieldblock cooldown

rocky tiger
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So what would you do to fix prot? (anyone). The spec is pretty well locked, if you spec anything else you're asking to die

inner trail
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make indomitable 50% health

sick sentinel
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Introduce a better mastery

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nothing.

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Ravager 70% parry chance increase

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Omegalul

amber siren
obtuse venture
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Mastery should be spell block. spell damage taken is reduced by your block %

clear sapphire
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How about giving us some kind of ability(s) that can be used to protect our allies (as the flavor text they like to use with Prot warriors says)

inner trail
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add haft back to the game

old zephyr
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Change talents row to break the synergies that lock everything and give overall buff

inner trail
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we do have intercept talent which is quite good, could be stronger tho

sick sentinel
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Yeah ok

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Intercept an ally

amber siren
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Higher AM uptime really is the core issue with our defensive lineup, everything else is just fluff

inner trail
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like if they buff it so that the target also receives reduced damage for some time that would give people a reason to bring prot as offtank more often

sick sentinel
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Will it does but damage is transferred

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I.e that paly shit

inner trail
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yeah there is not really a good use for it right now unfortunately

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like if you do it on fetid you will just die yourself lol

rocky tiger
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I'd like to see it be Intervene: Provides a shield worth (IP value) to the target and 50% to the warrior.

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That would give me more reason to intervene the MT

sick sentinel
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Wasn't intervene a thing for us before I think mop?

clear sapphire
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We already have tanks with ability to control mobs. Why not let Prot wars have ability to produce a shield like effect (like skovald fight) to reduce dmg,may be good for some raid dmg.

amber siren
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@clear sapphire paladins already have that, it's bad

old zephyr
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Inspiring présence

inner trail
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or maybe add an aura to the whole raid that heals them 🤔

old zephyr
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But keyed of warrior Damage and not raid Damage

amber siren
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Oh yeah I forgot about inspiring presence

rocky tiger
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bring back sunder = makes us competitive with BrM for raid buff at least

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sunder on devastate would give me a reason to cast it

amber siren
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Sunder would make us mandatory

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Not a good look

rocky tiger
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ehhh. BrM already has the 10% damage buff to melee and that doesn't make them mandatory

amber siren
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I don't think sunder does what you think it does

rocky tiger
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eh, I didn't mean bring it back in its old form

amber siren
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Armour penetration is fucked

rocky tiger
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in its old form it would be OP

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but give devastate the ability to apply a buff for melee damage

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and give me a reason to want to revenge on single target for DR - maybe make revenge increase IP duration, or amount. Not cost, we did that game already and it wasn't great

inner trail
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"One of those incoming changes for example is that we're reducing the runic power cost for Death Strike in 8.1 and increasing its healing for Unholy and Frost." nvm they are buffing bdk instead 🤔

fierce halo
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I think those death strike changes are only for dps dks

amber siren
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"Changes on the PTR for Death Knights in regards to PVP is not yet complete. More changes for Unholy and Frost are on the way and we hope to share those with you guys soon.

One of those incoming changes for example is that we're reducing the runic power cost for Death Strike in 8.1 and increasing its healing for Unholy and Frost."

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In a PVP context as well

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So I mean

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Lets not get upset over everything

keen steppe
#

Hiho 😄

ember arrow
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i love how skyhold is hating on bdks, while acherus hopes prot gets better

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just a fun difference in perception

jagged bay
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hi

hasty crypt
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Quick question; Its not worth replacing my only piece with Deafening Crash for 15 ilvls right?

jagged bay
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no its not worth to

gray parrot
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yall see the video of the prot war downing ghuun?

icy trench
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I see a lot of prot warriors running uldir.. is there a guide to their madness that perhaps I could look off?

vocal nimbus
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check the pins

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for guides and other useful information

gray parrot
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Uldir wasnt a struggle for me until Heroic Ghuun

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that fat fuk packs a punch

steel mauve
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It was much easier when we downcut

gray parrot
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yea we had to make cuts too

steel mauve
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Ghuun was hell at 26 people, the dmg i took dropped exponentially at 20

cinder pasture
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So I take it my guild made the right decision of going to mythic taloc after our firs mythrax he kill ? 😄

tulip pond
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Yea M Taloc is a loot pinata

steel mauve
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Like i was getting fucked sideways, we dropped 6 people and i didnt even notice taking dmg

gray parrot
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it was really good for morale that we downed H Ghuun

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we spent 2 full raid nights on just him

steel mauve
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Mythic taloc and mother are easier than heroic ghuun

gray parrot
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beating our heads against a wall

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yea the biggest thing for us was ensuring we had our top DPSers there and our top healer

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we were missing our best DPS and our top healer night 1

steel mauve
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Took 1 night for us, struggling to get to p3 and seen it a couple times, killed it the attempt we downgraded, numbers are not fun for a higher person group

gray parrot
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night 2 had both and he dropped in 6 pulls

steel mauve
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Idk why the tuning is that bad for him

gray parrot
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they buffed H Ghuun

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cause Blizzard is sadistic

steel mauve
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Mother is just about getting to the third room alive and she basically dies

limber wigeon
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Uldir had a lot of tuning issues for groups over 20, especially in the first week or two.

gray parrot
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we start Mythic tomorrow night

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what sucks is my shield...and i dunno that we will be going back to Heroic this week

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and I FEAR attempting to pug it

jagged bay
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dont be feared you are good!

signal plover
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Ya, zerk rage breaks fear :)

frigid spire
#

Are prot warriors good in high end raiding?

gray parrot
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define "good"

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it is possible to tank high end raids as a prot warrior

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but it is easier to tank high end raids as other spec/classes

frigid spire
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I want to main my prot warriors over my monk

gray parrot
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my main is a prot warrior

oblique garnet
#

Same

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And i have 2 alts for each role

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Its too much fun to play compared to other tanks

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Also octane were you running the orbs on ghuun hc in p1?

gray parrot
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yes

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I am usually the 2nd group to go

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our DK tank handles the tanking while I run the orb

oblique garnet
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Ah we did it so that both of our tanks soloed one side in p1 since theres no need for 2 tanks in there

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Dh being the other

gray parrot
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we are short on locks

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so we cant solo sides yet XD

oblique garnet
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Unlucky xD

gray parrot
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indeed

oblique garnet
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We had one of our rogues switch to log just to get the ghuun kill so we got 2 gateways since it was a struggle to get to p3 without them

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Lock*

gray parrot
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we have enough mobility to run pairs pretty fast

oblique garnet
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Yeah we tried that too but there was so many mistakes without warlocks so we just chose to switch and get 2 gateways and have warriors dhs and monks solo the orbs

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Went alot smoother

gray parrot
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when we finally downed H Ghuun we only had one lock

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feelsbadman

oblique garnet
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The damage the ghuun does is ridiculous

gray parrot
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get orb running down
get dodging the tumbleweeds down
bring the deeps

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that was our strat lol

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we wiped like 12 times getting people used to running the orbs...was so dumb

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we didnt assign locations/zones for the main DPS phase so it took some more pulls to figure out how not to just spread stacks like wild

oblique garnet
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Oh yeah we didnt do that even on our kill

gray parrot
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once we could get to P3 reliably it was a matter of getting our DPSers to show up XD

oblique garnet
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Which caused me to gain 7 stacks in the last phase because people kept running over me during the wave

gray parrot
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i hear that...we had to keep an area for the tanks so we wouldnt have to worry about it

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it was getting out of hand lol

cinder pasture
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Thanks blizz for making azerite armor from emissary scale. Finally getting rid of my 340 DC shoulders 😂

gray parrot
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great feeling eh?

cinder pasture
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Oh you have no idea 😛

gray parrot
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i finally rounded out my AP items with all 370

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now i just need to find a shield

cinder pasture
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I still have that 355 chest, haven't had luck for that yet

gray parrot
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im sitting at 363 prot....but with a 340 shield

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fml

cinder pasture
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I got lucky and got a 375 shield this week from Vectis, upgraded from a 355 one

gray parrot
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ive rerolled Vectis and Ghuun in Normal and Heroic like 10+ times

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tying to get the shields.... 😦

oblique garnet
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Try to spam atal+10s

gray parrot
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i dont do a lot of M+s so my io score is shite

oblique garnet
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You should

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Since most of the better gear we get comes from m+

gray parrot
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its so boring though

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lol

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i do like atal

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and freehold

cinder pasture
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My io tank score is shite aswell, I keep having to go dps with my guild group. My co-tank refuses to go dps 😛

gray parrot
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but the rest are so god awful to play

cinder pasture
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So even though I'm a main tank in my guild, dps score is almost higher than tank 🤷

gray parrot
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id rather DPS than tank in M+s ...my dps gear is 367

cinder pasture
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I kind of prefer tanking, mostly because the tank I'm running with is a bit slow with pulling, I get so impatient haha

digital lance
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I feel like a damn idiot.
Just found out that you can spell reflect the DoT on boss 3 of Motherlode

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Now I'm wondering what other spells I could reflect that I just didn't

gray parrot
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the flame thrower boss?

digital lance
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Yeah

amber siren
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there's a list in the pins

keen steppe
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Can you help me pls ^^ i got this Stats with my warri 16% krit 18% haste 27 Mastery and 4 % versa with 371 Gs is this good 😮 or? got 2 myth and 7/8 hc

digital lance
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The blockable spell list?

signal plover
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Ya

digital lance
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Huh.

oblique garnet
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You can sr the ghuuns explosive corruption

digital lance
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That's... really useful to know

signal plover
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It's got reflectable in there too

digital lance
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Thanks, I only saw the Uldir page, didn't see the other tabs.

gray parrot
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you can SR the Omega Vector stack from Vectis

digital lance
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WAIT WHAT

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That's... insane

oblique garnet
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Also not sure if its in the pins but you can sr the thunder elementals aoe lightning thingy to do alot of its hp if everyone else waits in los in shrine of the storm on the bridge

gray parrot
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yea i learned it from this channel Faereaver

keen steppe
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Can you help me pls ^^ i got this Stats with my warri 16% krit 18% haste 27 Mastery and 4 % versa with 371 Gs is this good 😮 or? got 2 myth and 7/8 hc?? D: Pls

signal plover
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In high keys u can do a big chunk of boss dmg by reflecting seemingly regular spells

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Bloodbolts in underrot

digital lance
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Yeah, I took a look at the dot I reflected

signal plover
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Void bolts in shrine

digital lance
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16k per 2

sick sentinel
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@keen steppe dude you just want ilvl

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There are no "good stats" you just want more stats

gray parrot
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haste is the good stat

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everything else is largely "take the best ilvl"

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and "never replace DC unless the new piece has DC"

sick sentinel
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I feel like 90% of the questions here can be answered with the video griff made

signal plover
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Or u know

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The pinned guide

sick sentinel
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The "you're probably playing protection warrior wrong in bfa" video

gray parrot
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people dont like written guides

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they like hearing from people and being able to ask follow up questions

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i get it

signal plover
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That's subjective

amber siren
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people learn in different formats 🤷

cinder pasture
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I'm a massive introvert, I hate talking with you guys. Like right now 😄

signal plover
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The point of the written guide is that it's categorized by section and each section has very obviously titled subsections.

sick sentinel
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That's why a video was made 😄

gray parrot
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the point of a guide doesnt matter in regards to it's effectiveness

signal plover
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The effectiveness is up to the reader

gray parrot
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its common with any learning situation

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no, im sorry that is categorically false

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else no learning would involve teachers/instructors/professors

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we would all be learning only from text

signal plover
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What do you get first when u go to class

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A textbook

gray parrot
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a greeting from my teacher

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I am not going to argue learning effectiveness with you man

signal plover
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Ok

cinder pasture
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I learn better from reading than listening to someone else talking

signal plover
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I'm not sure what needs arguing tbh

gray parrot
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yes, its very much a "to each his own" situation but there are "generalizations" that are easily concluded from tons of studies

oblique garnet
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we dont have textbooks in uni

signal plover
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The information is in the guide and presented in a way to help someone gain a base understanding...I'm not opposed to someone coming in here asking questions.

gray parrot
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text based learning is not the most effective

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for the majority of people

signal plover
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I mean technically this is a text based channel

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So

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Anything learned in here is text based

gray parrot
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this is a communication channel

signal plover
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Dude idc

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Let it go

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I'm just pointing out there's a pinned guide with answers

gray parrot
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he came in and asked a question...which can only be done either in text or voice

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so your comparison is off base

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yes, you pointed it out

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👏

signal plover
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K

gray parrot
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move on

signal plover
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Touchy touchy

gray parrot
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you're just wasting time

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when we could have been helping the guy with questions

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I don't find that productive

signal plover
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I did help him

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As did u

inner trail
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Has there bene some calculations for the value of crit being close to other stats defensively?

amber siren
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who the fuck cares you two, stop flicking each others dicks

digital lance
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^

signal plover
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Thank @amber siren

vagrant cape
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Ironic. We could shield ourselves from mythic Taloc but we could not shield ourselves from each other...

soft kindle
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tbf, half the questions asked in any of the channels could be answered by reading the guides

digital lance
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We're just pre-stacking rage off each other

signal plover
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I didn't realize telling ppl to checked pinned resources on a channel was a trigger word

vagrant cape
sick sentinel
soft kindle
vagrant cape
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Next week is sanguine grievous fortified right?

soft kindle
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yar

vagrant cape
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Ew

digital lance
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We can kite tho

vagrant cape
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I wonder how prot will fare against grievous. Is the dot mitigated by IP/shield wall? It's a bleed so I imagine blocking and SR won't do anything

soft kindle
digital lance
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Just bring frost mages

signal plover
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IP/SW would both mitigate it

vagrant cape
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That reminds me. When tides of vengeance comes out, we'll have a new 10+ affix. I bet it'll be like dark souls invasions. During your m+ run a member of the opposite faction will teleport in and attack you

inner trail
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I have read the guide thanks

digital lance
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Just use leap to run away

inner trail
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that's not what I was asking however

soft kindle
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I wasn't pointing at you dude. Just clipped you in the ss

signal plover
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My guide response wasn't to you Dmitry. Your question isn't necessarily answered by it.

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There was discussion about crit in here like last week I think.

soft kindle
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@vagrant cape you're kiddin, legit?

vagrant cape
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@soft kindle that was entirely satire

soft kindle
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good

inner trail
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admittedly I know little about it but from the formulas I was able to find online and from how it works for other classes it would seem like it would be quite far behind

vagrant cape
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But since blizz doesnt care about balancing the world first race, why should they care about balancing m+ and the MDI? :Kappa:

signal plover
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I think consensus was that its value relies on parry which is unreliable

inner trail
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that's the underlying issue with parry however also numerically there is a difference between just how much parry it gives

signal plover
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But it's also not far enough behind to be avoided

vagrant cape
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So we can't block physical spells like throw rock, but can we parry/dodge them?

inner trail
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I see

digital lance
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Tides of Vengence affix: The Lich king slowly strides from entrance to exit after 5 minutes elapse. He 1shots anyone in his AoE

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Such a cool dungeon yo

signal plover
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Point to point on a piece of equal ilvl (disregarding azerite traits) is the only time our stat prio rly comes to play

vagrant cape
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If you wipe you're fucked @digital lance

digital lance
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Don't wipe 😁

signal plover
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Season 2 affix will prolly be somehow related to last boss of the raid :)

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So maybe some shiny gold buff

inner trail
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oh yeah that makes sense, since we do get armor from str, and armor is amazing, higher ilvl will most likely be better or close anyway

digital lance
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But there's two last bosses

signal plover
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🤔

vagrant cape
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Each faction will have a different affix then. Solved.

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Ez

digital lance
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Seige of Boralus 2.0

vagrant cape
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#BalanceForAzeroth

signal plover
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I thought the last boss was the same, just how you "view" it is different

vagrant cape
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Nope.

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Each faction will fight 6 bosses. 3 are shared, 3 are faction specific for 9 bosses total.

signal plover
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I'll admit the raid order confused the shit outta me the first few times I read it

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I must need a video guide

vagrant cape
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Then you can fight the 3 of the other faction "through their eyes" or some shit

limber wigeon
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I personally avoid crit at all costs, even going as far to take 5 (maybe 10) ilvl decreases for it. I know it's not 100% kosher, but I really don't like party as a defensive stat.

digital lance
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killing Jaina as an Alliance

signal plover
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When I first heard it I was like ok it'll be two converging opposite paths where u do your 3 first, then the other factions 3, and then the last 3 in the centee

amber siren
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you're not taking ilvl for the crit, it's for the str/armour

vagrant cape
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Maybe the horde dungeons will have a different affix than the alliance dungeons. But then again that's twice the work and blizzard wouldn't go for it

signal plover
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They won't be functionally different

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Maybe different names

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I think it'll be a rastfariankan affix of some sort

vagrant cape
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@digital lance but you kill her through the eyes of the horde so it's ok.

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Jaina confirmed dead. All the character development led to her ripping in pepperoni on the high seas

digital lance
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It's okay

inner trail
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I think if going for pure survivability and not dps there is still some ilvl value where it's worth to go with a non-crit piece

digital lance
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She gave us 12 seconds of Arthad

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Arthas, it's all she had to do

wind wave
steel mauve
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Pure survival, crit still isnt bad and still close to every other stat, so ilvl will still win even dropping haste for crit

inner trail
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how do you know that it's close

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for every other tank it's really bad for survivability

steel mauve
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Because people way smarter than me has theorycrafted it out

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And we arent monks, dks bears or dhs

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Doesnt matter whats bad for another class, because we arent them

amber siren
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Marok is a weeb and has lied for us to stack crit as part of his plan to become #1 prot warrior meta

steel mauve
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We are a completely different class with a co pletely different playstyle with a conpletely different abilities list

digital lance
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Crit gives free revenge

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More rage

amber siren
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revenge doesn't give rage, nor would you spend it in a situation where you need it for surv purposes

digital lance
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Well it doesn't use rage then

amber siren
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doesn't proc am either so

steel mauve
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You simply can not say some thing as a fact for us judging from a 100% different class

amber siren
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it's nice but nothing thrilling

inner trail
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it's really good for dps that's true

vagrant cape
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"PTR Patch 8.1.0 - Tides of Vengeance
New Mythic Plus Affix - Drowned

Periodically the tide will rise, causing a section of the dungeon to become flooded. The spawn of the Old Gods dwell in the water, so players must man a small ship to navigate the dungeon. One player will take the helm while another fires the cannon.

Through clever reuse of content, players will notice that the cannons fire just as they do in beachhead while the ship moves exactly like everyone's favorite turtle, Loh!

We look forward to seeing players earn their sea legs in the upcoming 8.1 patch, Tides of Vengeance!"

(This is entirely a parody and is in no way accurate to what blizzard will do in 8.1)

amber siren
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i'd fire a cannon at my party

inner trail
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👌

digital lance
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@amber siren Tol Dagor in a nutshell

steel mauve
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And it gained a lot of value when we lost BC, but secondary stats arent great, they have very little effect for us as tanks, the main thing that comes with ilvl is armor stam and str, which the armor alone is massive over secondaries

wind wave
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soooo, any other stats don't make much difference?

steel mauve
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They dont make as much of a difference as they did in legion where secondaries were huge

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They help, but dropping a haste heavy item for crit wont hurt you that much if the ilvl is higher unless you have like 5% base haste, which youve already got a problem there any ways

wind wave
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oh, that makes sense

steel mauve
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The only time you actually follow the stat priority is if its same ilvl pieces, and possibly rings, which some argue higher ilvl still wins

wind wave
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Alright, thanks for explaining

steel mauve
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But only like a 5-10 ilvl for rings for clarity sake, dont drop 20 ilvls lol

wind wave
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oh, no, that wouldn't be smart 😄

grim prism
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Dont drop 10 ilvl for rings

gray wolf
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anyone else having as much fun killing ppl with spell reflect in tol dagor?

wild bolt
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@sick sentinel Mentioned a video earlier today (possibly by Kelade? Everything I can find from him is Fury related on YT.) Would someone mind pointing me at what I'm missing please?

oblique garnet
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@chilly brook made a guide on prot warrior probably what he was talking about @wild bolt

wild bolt
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Oh cool.

dense flame
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i never did see that video. Do you remember what the title was?

oblique garnet
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Patch 8.0.1 protection warrior guide

digital arrow
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"stop! You're playing prot wrong!"

chilly brook
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REEEEEEEEEEEEE

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I was tagged

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@dense flame if you’re having trouble finding it I can just link it to you or you can just click on my discord profile and my YouTube is linked to it

daring marlin
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welp

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gg weekly box

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gave me disc 😄

sick sentinel
junior ivy
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:( I have no power I cant check my chest I'm sad

round vortex
daring marlin
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raughs

digital arrow
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Oh chest is up now? Ahh

daring marlin
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yeh

junior ivy
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Yup it's up

digital arrow
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LOL represent bara

junior ivy
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I better get 385 shoulders with DC