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but fears are easily circumvented and thus it simply isn't seen as strongly as it could
not even including that it gives you Immunity to OTHER forms of CC
that just never appear
Like I struggle to find buttons in other tanking kits that match the general uselessness of both beserkers rage and heroic throw.
Grip would blow if no mobs in X instance could be gripped, for instance.
Boring buttons that don't have a major impact.
literally just ignored and bulled through
I mean out of all the things lol
Does anyone know if Intimidating Presence on the PTR stacks?
the shield should
god, it'd actually be amazing if you could 100% slow them though in the fear
the rest won't
@limber wigeon deaths caress
Mass grip would be useless as fuck if mobs in M+ couldn't be displaced
all in context
Yeah
so give us some mobs that throw a debuff on you that acts as a steriod for other mobs
that debuff we could reflect....and give our party a huge damage boost
just bring back banners
How would other tanks do it then
suddenly peeps be like oh shit
how do other tanks deal with not gripping shit
figure that shit out
make it interuptable
there ya go
it just fizzles it right?
Fuck no
It does a shitton of dmg
Nah, it does damage
Just reflected damage isn't shown in meters, so nobody can tell.
or it does the first tick and then is like naw
So good, so good
^
I don't death run every M+ I do in ML, no
I death run to last boss
Fuck death running that part
It's easy to pull and I bring mass dmg
With reflect
Its objectively faster
🤷
:shocked:
Thats not how optimization works
that's not how video games work
i'm not playing dungeon sim lol
Tbf its stupid that the most viable strat even with pugs is deathrun on ml
cute
can reflect the 15% dmg taken debuff on that witch in the basement of waycrest
kind of matches your steroid reflect scenario
Yeah mcj
yeah Decaying Touch
love doing that shit
more shit I can Reflect that is impactful will go a long way imho
You can also reflect the Shadow Claw on the ghouls at the end of the manor
lol yeah, 1 of them
mmhmm
they all do it at the same time
i just wish reflect lasted the whole duration like in legion
can you reflect Thorn Barrage?
No
thought so
Same ironpirate
yeah, that would be nice
Legion>bfa
could be a nice talent ot be honest
def
Reflective plating was dope
get menace outta here
cough or make it baseline because random direction fear is so outdated
it's more that it's called intimidating shout and they start running around like wtf
they should stand there and shiver
fuck or just make IS force them to run away from you
there's always that one lil' fuck that just has to keep running through a bajillion damage
really bro? three TClaps and you're STILL moving?
i use it more as an interupt than anything else since the fear almost allways breaks instantly
Yup same
yeah that's what I do
Except when you actually want the fear to break, then it never does 😦
until lil' Timmy the Unrelenting decides he ain't going to follow the plan and books it to the nearest pack
90% of the time its fantastic
but a 90% of the time utility is like ....bruh
it's so bad to use in a dungeon to be honest since it can just fuck up the pull
Timmy ain't having none o that, he's out
or dont make it happen in the first place!
Lil Timmy went to speak to Big Bad Rob who brought the gang and killed you
lol
ha
do any other class have a ability that is an rng sim?
too soon executus
Man fuck that critter
hands down my fav story
had me laughing to myself for hours last night so thank you for that
xD
Mommy!!!!
Soothing shout? Dispels all fears within 10 yards?
heroic leap dispells negative ground effects
Terrance the Turtle be fucking up +15 keys bruh
Wholesome and solves the IS issue ;^)
McJ, that's a neat idea
doesnt fit the class fantasy
I think making IS a lil' more reliable would go a long way towards making our kit work
gives us something for casters and sanguine that isnt grip or knockback
Upheaval
the whole shooting shout
i mean it's just the other mobs but the one you taget that starts fleeing though it makes one of htem stand still
Listen yall, I had to leap. Not my fault you guys can't clear debuffs earlier
I would just say red is bad
But just think of all the fucking Superman moments we can have just jumping in on ol' Chuck standing in the fire
"YOU'RE SAFE NOW!"
Haha
intervenes away
I had to solo harlan in FH in a 13 last night from 40% to dead on my BDK b/c I had a full melee group and a pally healer
what's more sad is that he could solo 40% of a boss
you would think so - but not when they all stand in the same fucking fire
and I already burned my bres on the shark boss b/c people can't move away from sharks
Morons that can't do barrage as close to each other as possible
8.1 shark boss is pug friendly
Shark boss ugh
yeah shark boss in 8.1 will be way better
what did they change?
sharks get rooted
wow
through the red pools
Question, do sharks damage people that are boped?
Fuck
So stupid
Just a thought but that might just make it better for DKs since they’re fairly slow
anti-magic shield would do it though then, i guess
us speedbois aint got time for sharks
Hate those fucking sharks as a hpal
spellwarding work?
most likely
Hmmm
AMS works, and I can run pretty fast every 45 seconds on my dk, lol
Lol
Class fantasy.
Slow impending doom
BA DUM TISS
I mean that’s the real answer
move slow > mobs move slower
They are slow, but that kit works well for kiting in cramped spaces
"Death's Advance: Your movement speed is reduced by 50% and all nearby enemies within 30 yards are reduced by 90%"
"listen, they're dks, everyone else is fucked. Even tyrion got cc'd out the ass" - blizzard
Good guys run in slow motion
Sorry I meant cool guys don't look at explotions
I butchered that
It's a reference guys!
Here's the song we made for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Featuring Will Ferrell and JJ Abrams. Originally Aired 5/31/09
I'm sorry
🚪 🏃
so what was the justification for gag order being removed
Warrie to stronk
loss of the reflex
half the tanks still have ranged interrupts
Who doesn’t? Us and bears?
monks?
I miss shield slam purge
@tropic star When they removed it we had uh...letsee...2 non DR stuns from charge (15s CD), pummel(15s CD), disrupting shout, Intimidating shout, and spell reflect
then add gag order
i miss warbringer
casters = lol free HK
was so damned nice in m+
yeah, F
was disrunpting shout in Warlords? was that an aoe interrupt?
AE interrupt
removed in warlords
WoD is when they gutted our ability to chain interrupt
If we had glad stance back people might take us to raids as a dps
nuuuu
mah arms
"hey guys are warriors good in 8.1?"
jesus this channel is quiet
WTB glad stance
Protection is my safe place
Do you know the add-on or aura that puts an icon on top of the nameplates when the mob is infested?
it's a WA i thought
Shows the +10 affix 'Infested' buff Symbiote-of-Ghuun (http://bfa.wowhead.com/spell=277242/symbiote-of-ghuun) on monster's nameplates. 2018/06/26: Added
those 2
also ElvUI does it baseline
I usually just look for the ball on their head
I mean I usually just q up for an hour for m+ 10s and not get invited
😦
@lusty grotto thanks, I was looking for it at wago but couldn't find it haha
np sir
@topaz ember I know that feel bro
Yeah I've been farming AD but I just queue as arms now, so much easier to find a group
save prot for friends/guildies
prot warrior perception in the pug world is really fucked sadly
What's 5/8 mythic when your io score is only 700
😢
@topaz ember tbh I've ran with some mythic raiders who don't know how to do m+
basically mythic progress depends on dd a lot. i am prot warrior with arms stats haste - krit and can close 10 in time with good dd
@topaz ember Oh, the amount of times Ive seen a 5/8 and they have 0 idea what to do in a M+....
@drowsy relic lala streams too
i would stream but it would be spanish
and basically it would be something like "cabron" every 5 seconds
stupid rican friends
honestly though nobody wants to watch a 0/8 prot though :p
0/9 sorry
or a 3/8 prot apperntly
oops it was 0/8
i would watch Mac!
whats your twitch name, ill follow
Marok also streams btw @drowsy relic
I actually don't have it setup!
I stream M uldir tue/thrs but it's during peak NA raid time. More mythrax prog next week.
Don't turn it on much outside of that anymore.
Wow isn't rly much of a viewer draw unless ur doing big dick things.
or acting like a 10 year old
it has a draw, but it's like super specific
in OW a streamer can hit every char on the roster
in WoW the streamer has X characters, so if I dont play BrM I have no desire to watch that streamer, etc.
there's cross-ovver, like high M+
but there's an element that doesnt apply directly to me (my class) so it doesnt resonate as well
It's still wacky to me how many consumables I got in m+
war-scrolls, drums, invis pot, etc
I stream, but it's mainly just for kill vids. Only get a handful of friends that tune in.
shit I can barely call out mechanics while tanking as prot
if I streamed it would just be me sitting there silently cursing occasionally
i'm used to calling shit out cause i used to raid lead
and i had to tell my friends, who apparently are/were unable to glance at DBM timers, when shit was going to happen
I enjoyed raid leading more as a tank when... honestly playing a tank was easier
like, BC/Cata
I enjoyed raid leading when I Could be an asshole
and get praised for it
nowadays players are crybabies
can't criticize em for nothing
raid team I'm with right now is like "You can't call people out"
its against the rules
and I get why
what sort of millennial bs is that
but back in my day
My guild is very much in favor of calling people out
The important part of raid leading is assigning specific people to call out specific mechanics. "OT call out middle soaks of vectis"
as it should be
I'd be like "YOU FLIPPER HANDED F**K PIG, I SAID STACK!"
In fact, when we've been wiping, our raid leaders go back through and list who wiped us for every single wipe
and post it in our disc
hoho
I was about flaying
I think there's a difference between constructive call outs and being a dick though.
shaming was a fucking big thing when i was in Assent back in EQ1 - because we were US #1
a BM hunter died to thrash on fetid twice in a row
like, at the beginning, just stacking on the tanks
Wife literally admitted to me, after we had been togethe for a while, that she was legitimately pushing herself to not make mistakes because she was scared of being yelled at......now its reversed..
people would flat out call you shit in whispers/tells
would make someone playing today shit and piss their pants for sure
Assent was #1 US after DoD
"We're #1 in 100% instanced raid content" /yank
Gates was the pinnacle of get your big boy pants on
being in Cestus Dei and getting stonewalled at Txevu because it was just literally unbeatable
"oh a raid boss that can only be DPS'd by charmed pets"
with 7.8million HP
yea i joined Assent as GoD was ending
I was a necro, I'd be like yup...adds are dead...gonna go take a nap, see you in 3 hours
lol
well I had to manadump the snot out of the dispellers
that curse
something nasty
chain ressing warriors because the dude could flurry for 2k more than their max HP once defensive fell
that was a raid
i did Omens, DoN, DoD and PoR where we got fucked in the ass by bugs on the last raid - then i quit to start playing WoW
Hey guys how is prot feeling on the ptr?
missed some quality stuff in pre fix GoD
in Assent
oh i played EQ1 since kunark
but yeah they finally fixed the boss so damage shields and summoned pets could hurt him
made him a lot easier
then Tacvi
only raid boss to survive past the Xpac launch
Tunat'muram
I started in E'ci then moved to Maelin to join Assent
yeah we did those while we were progressing in OoW
"I heard you liked all these insane raid bosses, so we made a boss that literally does everything they do, at once"
needed that gear
When in doubt, throw a “ ‘ “ in there to “spice” up the name
its a title
the Muram part I guess, since the final boss of the next Xpac ws Mata'Muram
his full name was Tunat`Muram Cuu Vauax
yeah
just rolls off the tongue
Does prot feel even more durable in m+ on ptr now? Being able to block more things the other changes sound good.
"Welcome to Gates of Discord - the exapnsion you just say shit with confidence and conince people you know what you're saying it right"
Yes Cam
Durable? sure, better? def
Azerite changes and prot changes look like good stuff
It is certainly going to make it feel better in m+
yup, looking forward to it
what do you mean rerolling
I rerolled to BDK
you mean you made prot warrior your alt
LOL
yea
-> 🚪
naw, he's still sitting there at 375ilvl
that's fine
This week is the ultimate cheese for warriors
should be gtg at 8.1 anyway sadbox
after that we just do 1 x 10 a week
we won't be close to BDK after the changes, it doesn't help with our lack of utility which BDK is so far ahead of everyone in
I can't really decide which one feels better to play
Death strike is a fun button to press
so if your bdk now, you'll stay bdk
@wintry ermine Verdict is still out on BDK in raids next tier
dunno how that's going to end up
Why would you think that?
thats like the opposite of waht everyon else did lol
the only thing my co-tank (BDK) is complaining about is how boring the class is
@wintry ermine I mean, warriors getting buffs and they can already be decent, BDK getting no buffs for raids could... make it interesting
leaving warrior because it's too "hard"
It is indeed fairly boring to raid tank on
well they cant have all the utility in the world and also be top 2 in raids can they?
I'm actually leveling my bdk this weekend to gear him on off night runs and have him available next tier. Judging by what's out there about the fights I expect at least one mythic strat to be trivialized with grips.
I'm gearig my BDK
Honestly I should have done that this tier
i'm leveling my VDH
becasue I'm trying to teach people how to M+
i can't enjoy BDK for shit
But fuck I just don't have the time for all the grinds again
and my warrior is out of shit I need from M+
some people obsess about pushing high keys
@signal plover yeah the neck grind sucks
but plenty of people don't have the skill level for it
at least it'll be instant 375 @ 8.1
Brm just feels dopey
I play warrior and am at 6/8 with it and have no issues in m+. But when I see us struggling with orb knocks on mythrax prog and think, man if I had a garage bdk to help with this it'd be great
BrM did not feel fun for me to play
Vdh is another fun class
@signal plover its amazing
The grips
Especially in heroic where it doesn't really matter
Mass grip everyone at once lol
Like I played grippy bitch on M agg and it was so much fun I didn't even mind benching the warr for that one fight
Also my DKs name is Fartnado and he's the best
Fun times M Agg
LOL
Fartnado...
BDK is a lot less boring in m+ cause you're spending the whole time gripping and doing shit
at least IMHO
Is that what they call you in ventrilo?
raids it's..... pretty much sit there, wait for shit to happen
Ventrilo?
Jesus what is this 2008?
Ventrilo
Ayyy
can't tell if trolling
🤔 🤔
👀

Must be a ravager prot warrior
best talent
Ravage my way through vent
Don't forget heavy rep
lord sco has spoken
Heavy rep + punish
Woah....ya'll don't use Ravager?
How else am I going to utilize my macro that shouts out quotes from the 1997 classic, The 6th Man, when I drop that bad boy?
ya'll weak.
Name fits
LMAO
kidding
You lying @uneven mason
lol
about to have so many warrior that check here sporadically swap to Ravager
lol
jesus
i'm gonna be inspecting every prot warrior now
time to make that "specced ravager" album @ imgur
implying that anything said here will change how good or bad random prot warriors are
you know
if history has proven anything
imma do it tonight
Not for the dmg obviously
gettin the macro out baby
like.... as-you're-taking-a-crap-kind-of-thought ?
Since it does less dmg than revenge
no more in
fuckin gettin my Avatar macro out too
IT SPINS
but, then AM 😦
Plz
Plz tell me something good
muh cooldowns
trees-> pure dps mong no defensives
Gooder
-> dh stun follow mong dps
Explanation
-> last stand -> mong dps
I have to go
->RoP -> Mong DPS
I've had enough
be the change we want to see in this world
My head
Shockwave -> Mong DPS

but but but
listen
shit, you're right
let me stop you right there
replace best served cold with Ravager
NO
I'm 100% gonna try a best-served-cold + vengeance + callous reprisal build for m+
BEST SERVE RAVAGER
- make ravager baseline
- put bladestorm in ravager slot
MAYBE even never surrender if I'm feeling weird
shieldstorm
i just thought it would be super fun times to slap my shield as a tornado
TASTE OF MY BLADE
then we can have 2 tornadoes "of death" at the same time
As long as my blade can still cut a tomato
Lmfao y’all are goin nuts
I did the same thing
bear alt
Give this man an award
can confirm
monk main, BDK alt pre BFA
my Holy Pala is LFG for M+, invite me hordies
My first 2 chars levelled were prot + bear
@sand egret I mean, I don't kink shame
whatever your'e in to
i'm leveling my mage now :x
I'm levelling my last tank... lol
want to do VDH after
I have Prot, Bear, BrM, BDK, Pally, my VDH is 115
then no more alts
I got no time for alts :/
120 warrior, hpal... 113 mage, 110 vdh
prot/brm/BDK are all around 370
pally is 360, bear is 355
almost 350
take my hpal for super fun M+ times
will not disappoint
i'm ravager talented
yes, you heard that right
I'm away until sunday night but I'd run with your hpal :p
I'll even bring one of my plate tanks so I can feed you gear, lol
@prisma crane @vast sedge You boys still playing prot or nah? Or did you guys quit and start 2 months late into xpac like me xD. Don’t see y’all in uldir all stars
i still play
but im semi retired
i joined my GF's guild, only 2/8M, all orange though so im alright with it lol
how you been @sharp dew
lmao @vast sedge
what you up to these days?
Fortnite's been my jam lately, it's honestly a lot of fun
Well damn lmao @vast sedge
😃
Good brother doing good, just starting back up the grind hoping 8.1 will be a lot of fun
yea, it wont change a lot for us apart from better IP feel, which, if you just started up again, that's teh worst part of the spec from a feels perspective
I'm pretty sure 8.1 is going to make us absolute monsters in m+
Yeah the rage dumping is awful currently, especially when you’re sitting on revenge procs in avatar
As in, we will be unkillable and do stupid damage
Our utility is obviously still h e i n o u s
it'll nerf our aoe dmg, help AM in aoe, and buff us against ranged attacks
Our aoe damage is not nerfed
well, nerf our aoe that lasts longer than 14 sec
More rage=more avatars
True, krotos is talking about the azerite trait nerf though
in select burst, yea, it'll help
Our new avatar trait is so nuts for m+ that we won't notice it
the mastery one right?
New trait?
gives us like 600 mastery or some shit i thought i saw
“Waits for link” :p
gives 700 mastery
ah 700,yea
popping avatar gives a shitload of mastery for 20s and casts a free IP
Danf
if you stack up 3 of those bad boys
Dang that’s nice
I envy your ability to think it's gonna change prot much 😛
but worth dumping DC? i think i'd prefer 1 and 2 then
i think the ability to block ranged attacks will help more
the extra ring means we get 6 spec traits
Just ip off the gcd is enough for me to know it’ll make gameplay less clunky
@prisma crane I think it's gonna be on the outer ring
@sharp dew yeah it's gonna feel better for sure
Get the legion feeling back a little bit at least
i'd like to see us gain rage more quickly on ST though
make TC give 10 rage or something if it only hits 1 target, idk
That would be good
@prisma crane eh, I don't mind our single-target rage gen too much
that would be NUTS during avatar
We ask for 10, they would give 6
Antorus rage gen please
I mean, best case we'll get more IPs, and we already take low-ish amounts of damage in raids
except it'll allow us to cycle CDs better
and more IPs helps us look more viable to others, which matters
IT'll allow us to cycle CDs more efficiently, its a RPS gain
with the SB changes I don't expect that we'll run in to issues w/ CDs
No more rage capping cuz you’re trying to pump dps and ip on the gcd
yea IP off GCD is a RPS gain, but marginal
its two sided
and only becuase of more chances of SS
since it removes the opportunity cost of IP
idc about aoe though
in big pulls you overcap rage
IP had about a 2.5RPS opportunity cost
oh sure in raids it barely matters
M+/always will definitely make the biggest difference
aoe is so easy to cheese anyways
on a single target raid encounter i'm pretty sure this is a nerf because DC is so good
I think the changes hit us in the place that did hurt some: m+
Aoe* not always
Nah Matt
Autocorrect op
like, fixed some of what hurt in m+
the SB Uptime
it'll be a wash
we crit a bit more with SS
but SS is a fraction of our dmg compared to what it once was
and in my opinion, should be
I miss constant 2 mil SS during battle cry 😢
@prisma crane obvs need to take punish + heavy repercussions
if the opportunity cost wasnt so massive....
it's why i wished that SoTB ring gave us AM or HR
then it wouldnt have come off in legion
Punish should be baseline imo
as should reflective plating
If they really want to boost st raid scenarios
even just keeping up the damage reduction from spell reflect after the first reflect
would be good
reflective plating, on that short of a CD, would be pretty wacky for m+
That’s the legion 50% all spells reflected gold trait yeah?
"Spell Reflection now reflects an unlimited number of spells during its duration."
Yeah and the extra 30% miti
I didn't play in legion, so tbh all this shit sounds really over the top
Ahh, you missed the golden days of prot :p
like legion was a peak in the power-creep of everyone
Well only in Antorus, tos and nighthold weren’t that great for us but not terrible
We were god tier in EN before the IP nerfs
^
^^^
lets hope they give us the warlock treatment
considered crap for the first patch
then demigods therest of the Xpac
Little 5% str and Stam, ranged physical blockable-100% confirmed yeah? And ip off gcd, definitely will help a lot in raids
it smooths out the rotation, i dont think it will be the fix-all people are hoping for. IP that is
IP off the GCD isnt gonna do a ton for raids
prot also doesnt need a ton for raids
Just s gameplay smoother for sure
Agreed prot is pretty good in raids people just look down upon it
just gotta be proactive instead of reactive
Yup
apparently thats hard for most
Which is what makes this spec a lot of fun for me personally
@sharp dew It's a pretty punishing class if you mess it up, so I think that's a lot of the community's experience
Definitely, that’s how it was in legion as well
like, I've tanked alongside a pile of prot warriors, and they are almost always baaaaaaaad
Yup lmao
like taking devastator bad
maybe im a masochist, but i enjoy the higher skill cap and being proactive
@young iris I dig it, it is certainly fun to play prot, especially on the PTR w/ IP off the GCD
I mean, a lot of players are bad I guess, community perception mainly seems to track which class is hardest to fuck up 😛
I went on like a 5 minute rant of loving the skill cap of prot warrior on stream last night talking about how playing in Antorus and legion in general it’s all about how you use your buttons and when you use your buttons and knowing what to do to squeak out the best dps and hps and give your healers the easiest job you can
@prisma crane you know those days :p
I've played with shit of every spec tho really
me and another BDK tanked h uldir yesterday, I had literally 2x the deathstrikes
@neon tangle generally said - easy to play generally translates to better perfomrance on average, thus community perception views it as "better' In an absolute sense.
^
Pretty much
regardless that in the majority of situations all of the tanks are more or less equal when played properly
I can only hope that the "You heal 1% of maximum health for every 10 Rage you spend." from mannoroths bracers becomes a talent point. Thats my only wish to replace indomitable.
a ranged interrupt like gag order
and IMO warrior should get a survivability boost substantially over the other tanks to make up for our lack of real utility
you better hope that is more than 1%, @young iris at our current rage gen levels that wouldnt never outpace indom
I think it's fair to say that prot is one of the harder tanks to play right now, and it's coupled with a lack of (useful?) utility abilities
ha @sharp dew i do miss the days when i could single handedly salvage keys or muscle through moments when my OT fucked up. sadly, those days are mostly gone
but easy to make mistakes on
i've said this before, we're not difficult, we're punishing
and those are two different things
more opportunities to make mistakes
@stark sage thats true, im thinking of what gear levels we will have 6 months from now
and the mistakes are felt more
also arguably, mistakes aren't super... apparent
like, doubling up CDs, etc only really shows itself 1+ minutes in the future
other tanks dont die if they make a mistake
well the flip side is that doing it well isn't reinforced other than...not dying I guess
atleast not as easily
not a great feedback cycle to improve the average person's gameplay
binary function of a tank, and a big issue with tanking in general
us doing well is not dying, the degree of which is diffused
Make a mistake on a VDH.
in some cases like BrM it falls way more on the healer
I double dare you.
that goes two ways too, cuz there's tanks who feel that since they havent died, they're great at what they do, which is often just wrong
@stark sage this is also true, you taunt too early on m zek or something and you can get 1-shot, at least on a BrM or DK the healers have a chance to make up for your mistake
cuz idc how little healing you required, if you did 2k dps, ur playing like shit
AM is cooldown and King Tazdingo does his blade combo? Bye VDH.
considering how often he spends running away from you...
Considering he also runs at 500% speed
Gigaspeed
I dunno about DS's timing or CD but that boss I don't find a huge window where I won't have blocks
This just hit me
What is more important, DC or Archieve/Matrix to enable array in Uldir?
between his leaps and gale slash casts
Could I heroic leap away from void lash?
DC
block cooldown is already lower than DS
what's the CD?
and will be even more in 8.1
20 seconds.
Block is 18 and 16 in 8.1 right
Before haste
ya
Yeah so. Yikers.
@neon tangle good question, go try it :p I feel like we’re really strong on zek and magic 1 hits in general though
Prob worse, but there's also tools
Gearing up my warrior but they are gonna have an edge over VDH in terms of tankiness in 8.1
Probably already have. Less room for fuckups though
I'm curious how they are gonna do in 8.1
I think IP of the GCD is really huge for trash tanking.
Rage for days, IP for weeks.
they are still fairly far up there for higher m+ keys
BDK > BrM > Pala > The rest.
someone will have to pencil math this for me but
i feel like the excess rage we get during trash packs isn't as high as we'd think
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I can see that
there's an ICD on the rage from melees
@signal rune Just numbers wise, VDH is the second highest representation at 15+ keys
it's not unlimited scaling
62% BDK -> 14.7% VDH -> 10% BrM
context my dudes
Not spending any rage because of tc+revenge procs we eventually hit cap, but you’re spending 0 rage for 5+ seconds unless you’re in need of ip to prevent dying ofc
9.1% pally... 3.1% warrior.... 1.2% bear lol
I checked top 100 runs yesterday, first VDH was at 97.
VDH arent that high because of their tankiness though
those percents off IO?
Guardian in a nr 94 run.
@lusty grotto yeah
Guardian > VDH
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kappa
thats +15 completed in time? or just overall representation
@young iris keys >=15 that were timed
i mean lets be clear about something
yea @sharp dew i just want people to understand that i still dont think, even in aoe, that we'll be using IP like we did in legion
yea
But even if it wasn’t, we still won’t be spamming it as much
That's the actual page I'm looking at 😛
I don't think 15+ should be taken as actual represenation
is the cap going to 2x for sure or did i just hear that randomly?
like most people don't give a shit past a 10
only ones that do are looking into MDI levels
First DH is 75.
If you can 2x ip that’d be nice but I haven’t heard that
10-14 just swaps BrM and pally
but you don't balance around stuff people can outgear like a 10, you balance around difficult shit
ideally
still DK -> VDH
fair enough
you'd think that blizz would look at those specific rankings and go HMMM 🤔
ehh ofc DK > all the other tanks by 1000 miles
Just saying that VDH has pretty good representation (relative to non-BDK tanks) in m+
you'd think having 1 tank at the MDI would be enough to 🤔 but hey, that's just me
JK guys lets nerf arms warriors, just because hek hek hek
yeah that too of course Krotos
They are, by the numbers, the next best m+ tank
58% of 15+ runs or higher are DKs
Someone said this a while ago randomly but in D3 leap barb has the rune*where it pulls the mobs into you, having TC group mobs into you closer each time you use, that’d be nice
you mean Sigil of Chains is the 2nd best M+ tank?
yeah @sharp dew that was me - Arreats Crater
😉
@lusty grotto Not wrong
or something similar
but it's also because those players who are capable of doing 15+ would rather not shoot themselves in the foot and just play a BDK to push higher, so it's a cycle of course
😉
not that other tanks cant do 15+, but why do it on anything else
exactly
right
that still shows a balance problem
yup
if you look at all keys, bdk is at 24%
community perception
balance is a main factor, but also just general popularity
24%/6 tanks
i live the pug life and i see bads asking BDK ONLY for shit like +8
yep
agreed
right, a slight imbalanced blow out by community perception
everything balance-wise snowballs
but
Alliance deserved it after how easy they had shit in vanilla, lol
that slight imbalance, even if truly slight, is enough to gain players for a class, gain popularity for the community, add value to a player
cough im an alliance traitor since WoD
loladins and fear ward
oof dwarf priests
I link this a lot, but even tho there is imbalance in healers, they still see far more even of play than tanks
right now if i was a new player who wanted to raid, why the fuck would i ever go alliance?
you're a masochist?
@prisma crane so true
you are 12?
more younger players play horde, they're edgier
@prisma crane I think this also... kinda feeds in to some bad players too
overall population is like 1% in favor of alliance @lusty grotto
If you don't care enough to google, see what's good, etc
really?
@stark sage not anymore
you are more likely to end up playing a "bad" spec/class
alli have had higher overall pop for a long time, until recently
and if you didn't google in the first place, who knows if you read the guides and stuff too
I think the better question would be how many 8/8H horde vs ally NA
weird
Since most people will want to raid and heroic clear is pretty base standard for the average casual player by the end of the tier*
thing is casuals like pretty races more than they like monster races
most of the high end raiders go horde because thats where more of the good raiders are
fun story, in cata I decided to transfer from my dead realm to a high pop one
what the fuck? hunters win on both regions
Downside is that I didn't pay attention to the horde:alliance ratio
Lmao that sucks sadbox
ended up on a 10:1 alliance:horde server
wondered why raiding was still shit on high-pop servers
well at least that doesn't matter now
It... very much does
im on US sargeras, one of the highest pop alliance realms
except for mythic of course
it's impossible to recruit
but then again xrealm mythic is on now
My toons are Mal’ganis and I xferred my bdk to ally to play with some friends at the end of legion and I didn’t care to spend extra for realm transfer so I know the 10:1 ratio pain lmao
@lusty grotto https://www.wowprogress.com/pve/us/connected-crushridge
WoW Realm US-Connected Crushridge: Guild Rankings, Detailed History of Guilds and Characters, Recruitment
Imagine trying to find a guild / recruit on that server
(this is where I came from)
my guild went from Arthas to Malganis in TBC (ally), then BDF in Cata (ally) then finally back to Arthas as horde in WoD
i wonder if you know Smog mighty
not sure how long you've been in malganis
My guild that stopped raiding / died is still #31 on that server w/ 3/8H
Only been on MG since end of ToS in legion but the name sounds familiar
i wonder if that fucker is still around
horde ud mage
master ganker
would do some epic gank duels with me
I think I played maybe a couple days as ally so a waste of a transfer but it was my bdk so I didn’t care about it anyways
But getting the empowered artifact in silithus as ally on MG all my guildies and other people I knew just killed me over and over again lmao
Tbh I thought it was going to be a warrior you were talking about lol
I think it’s just a Celiolit and I that were on MG in legion, maybe another but I can’t remember
vanille was his gf (i think) priest pocket heals
trying to remember who else i knew in MG
mostly alliance since i was alliance back then
I don’t see celio in all stars for BFA either I think he’s playing a different spec
Celio came from Sargeras, alliance
last i talked to him i think he is playing something else
they xferred to malg after M Argus kill, super late in legion
Yeah he’s still in but my parse last I checked