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Thats terrible
Alrighty my friends talk to you all later time to go fly home
this one looks nice
On my way home bois
fuck
i get out in 15 mins, and i have 40 min commute thanks to traffic
can anyone tell me if they nerfed the broken isles invasion elites? cause val'sarah has one atm and the "elite" world quests no longer have an eye function to look for groups
weeee
I'll be home around 6
Hey, side note, anyone else had the bug on heartsbane coven where they just randomly fucking die for no reason
Thanks guys appreciate itπ
yes
sounds pretety sweet to me
sounds like a bug you should SHUT UP ABOUT
that sounds like a great feature
halfway through 2nd witch for the 2nd time
they just fell the fuck over
don't talk about it
turns out her aura applies to her
mmhmm
Big sr
massive SR
viable SR
gibbing that blood mirror copy on the first boss of UR is so great
mirrors don't hurt
pugs
so I try and SR the boss, and i'll get the mirror cast
on lower keys
just passive aggressively mention it before you start UR: "LISTEN FUCKERS YOU BETTER NOT INTERRUPT WHEN I PRESS MY SR MACRO THAT SAYS NO INTERRUPT"
and its less time for people to stand in the "OOOOOOOO LOOK AT THE PUDDLES"
you know you're in it to win it when you see the first cast just get gobbled and the next 3 go off without a hitch...cuz all your dps blew their interrupt at the same time
72 for a +13
the cache?
yes
aye
opening my alts
That has to be a bug
first before i get disapointed on my main
I think I only did a +12 last week
which was randomly super smooth in that pug group
tuesday pugs are the dream. monday pugs....woof
man
It gave me the sword from freehold
you open the chest and reload
I got jebaited
was hoping it was the one from KR
so tell me are old azerite pieces scrapping into the currency
π€
no
try it but they wont
did ya just test?
just try it for science
No
panda gross
Switch to belf
Has battle shout changed in 8.1?
female NE and sure
Di dwarf
Leave pandas alone
@fallen rose apparently there was a bug with it that got fixed
Its up
@astral crystal is it attack power or auto-attack damage?
Is avoidance worth losing better stats? I don't think so but not sure how much those kinda stats are worth
no

same ilvl go with haste
Thought so, thanks
Nope
I do only m+ if that matters
this one does make me think
yeah, crit :puke:
86 for +17
Crit is good
i'd stick with haste one for sure
why? damage?
Crit is good
ayy
Parry
385 rezans this week
but that's a really close call
bless
holy fuck nice
any NA warriors here?
Yo
has BS changed in 8.1?
50/50 to be sure
do you have an internet browser?
go to wowhead.com
look up the patch notes
scroll down to tradeskills
π
next question
It's also in the news channel
Any thoughts on the strongest azerite trait now?
fuck man
assaults reward asserite but my ilvl on my alt isn't high enough to bump it to 370
Traits stayed the same
AHAHAH
I like how
the gear cache from proudmoore is 370
but asserite still 355
game's bad
ok neck got me it
good
demo shout is now a 15 sec cd? is that right or a bug?
you have WM on
oh yeah i got a BOM piece
lol i forgot about that
np dude
that free neck ilvl is going to be sweeet on my berrr
any reason to stack this new intim shout thingy
reason to? prob not, but not a bad thing to have
boooo
@ancient reef I don't think you really want to go out of your way for it, as IV is still insanely strong in that slot. RP is as well. It certainly isn't a bad thing to have one of for the slow alone, not to mention its decent mitigation for basically free.
ok it was jut all of a sudden on all my gear
does the absorb stack, so if i use int shout every 1.5m its like 45k
lol just got servant splitter out of my cache how is that a tanking weapon
What's the PPM on butcher's block?
Like 1? 1.5?
'cause Knot of the Ancient Fury is looking pretty good to me
you think its worth using servant splitter for my 1h its 20 ilevel upgrade
Sure.
weapon damage converts into bigger IP's
Higher weapon damage=more IP
and all became relatively quiet
That's okay, I found a 395 socketed sporepod one week
is Jes Howler still worth?
yes
Yes
and I'd take that 395 sporepod with a socket
I'd take the 380 one too
Β―_(γ)_/Β―
Yeah, I used it for a while, I think it gets a worse rap than it deserves
still woulda rather had like any other trinket 395 and socketed
@scarlet basalt We're absoluely dogshit and will never be viable
π
Let's not meme too hard, shall we?
awwdym memeing
I opened my cache and it DC'd me cuz of all the people
has anyone tried to update DBM since servers came online? i just tried twice, and it still says out of date
I received it, thanks π
gl blade
ezRezan's395
man i hit ilevel 366 still got 340 shield
Are u guys op now
yes, invite to your +10 now, meta has shifted
We're now 100x stronger than your average bear
Okay who is na horde
@limber tulip utility is the same, tankiness goes through the roof
One day people will realize that prot warriors are totally the best tanks for +10s, and BDKs only start crushing us on the way higher keys.
gr8 b8 censuras
It's...not bait? Our higher DPS just matters a lot more in lower keystones.
Sick Iβll reroll tonight ty
Uh, it explicitly does, because you A) have to spend more time kiting, and B) there's more of a focus on ability to live than just ability to do damage?
When anyone can survive easily, the DPS you do as a tank matters more.
kiting
It's not that higher DPS matters less, its that utility matters more
Sense was talking about doing a 19 freehold and not kiting at all
before buffs
lol
Okay so you're one of those people who basically likes to shitpost on reddit except in a discord.
The utility we don't have is the reason warriors aren't brought.
Read: Grips.
That's it.
Hi grips here
Knock off the memeing.
Meme softer
meme gently
Seems like that guy is memeing, saying our DPS isn't valuable in higher keys because muh kiting. And on that note, I'm done!
our DPS is pretty valuable imo
An opinion that some one believes to be correct isnt memeing...
Real talk go do the tyrande questline. 385 loot?!
IP works as is with it being a 50% absorb as opposed to 90% and our rage gen being kinda poop compared to legion
Haven't had to kite in up to 20 aside from necrotic
So ye our dps is dope even in high keys
ya but who doesnt have to kite in necrotic anyways XD
cool im home
Welcome home.
ty guilfart
Ready for the disappointment box?!
@shut summit what about now with the changes? What are your thoughts? Much much better? Or just kind of meh and about the same?
It'll be much better for m+ ya, blocking shoot and shit is huge for some of those pulls
I have a seething hatred for the bitch after first boss of KR on fort weeks.
even not on fort weeks
ok got it retail
shoot
It should make King's Rest and Tol Dagor in particular much easier, yeah?
For sure.
Yup
I do enjoy how you went out of your way to misinterpret what I said to be dumb though.
throw wrench
Throw wrench in motherlode, etc
Saying something is less valuable in some circumstances is not the same thing as saying it's not valuable.
But the value of "prot warrior DPS" relative to "everything else tanks provide" is higher in lower keys.
The problem is that you're not actually right, because a lot of times, the ability to kill the pack quickly is what allows you to pull big
How does that disagree with anything I said?
you said being able to deal damage as a tank gets less important in higher keys
yes?
Prot π€£ππ€£
No, I said the thing I just literally restated
It's not that doing damage isn't important, it's that certain other things grow in importance
Based jinzel
any of the darkshore traits looking to be worthwhile?
DPS doesnt matter at all in low keys unless you are carrying people LOL
wuh oh
in higher keys DPS is more important i dont understand
higher DPS matters more in higher keystones because in low keystones high dps doesn't influence your ability to time the key.
Warriors don't have to kite as much. Ergo our DPS is a strong point.
Yes, if you define "nothing in low keys is important" then shockingly nothing in them is more important
Not a weak point.
holy shit dude
i never had to kite anyways?
that's awful
high dps is the most important thing in high keys.
all keys ultimately are a HP vs DPS check
bring the damage or fail the timer
I got 60 from a 10 chest
heh
only on necrotic week do i have to ever kite something
yo
nobody is cockblocked on keys because their tanks can't survive on the next highest key
they're cockblocked because they can't kill enough shit to time the key.
and even then not so much since we have 2 AoE stuns lol
rip blood dk
Bring back MOP prot :yejoice:
at least as HMT we have 2 AoE stuns
hold up what did i miss
This is not a conversation worth getting into with 9 different people who are all eager to narrow in on a different thing to misinterpret.
ME TOO
I just need to spam dungeons so I can make my alchie trinket
but darkshore thing first
i mean sure other utility is great and all but we have plenty if you play the right Race
Several people are typing
cuz 385 loot
and spec correctly
Censuras, I literally posted a picture of what you said and why it was wrong. Warriors (good Warriors) don't have to kite as much, if they do at all.
No, you narrowed in on one aspect of what I was saying
Ergo kiting is thrown out the window, because it doesn't exist for us.
Donβt forget good healers!
and despite the fact that I never indicated anywhere how MUCH kiting I was talking about
you then decided that it was clearly a different amount of kiting than you had in mind, so the overall point must then be invalid
πππΎ
60 residuum for a 10 key on nimchipadin
You talked about kiting and said DPS doesn't matter because of it - we don't kite.
no, that's not what I said
Censuras, I'm genuinely impressed that you're both defending how your claim was non-specific AND refusing to acknowledge that the one thing you DID specifically state was wrong.
Okay, so before it was hypothetical, but how good is Knot of Ancient Fury compared to Butcher's block
4head
so then when you post something be more specific @supple path . Instead of generalizing and hoping people are thinking about it the same way you are... be more specific
We don't kite "more" on higher keys than lower keys?
Like, you literally only made one concrete statement, and it was wrong.
I can say Guilford doesn't kite as a certainty unless there's puddles from them dying. Shrug.
"Uh, it explicitly does, because you A) have to spend more time kiting, and B) there's more of a focus on ability to live than just ability to do damage?" wasn't what you said?
I definitely disengage from packs for a few seconds if I'm dropping faster than a healer can keep up, then reengage once topped
And that happens more at higher keys...it's not a huge amount, it's just a factor.
Thats player performance though
ya but that isnt our fault though either Censuras. At least not all the time
And something that happens more at higher keys than lower, that's just a fact.
Just because you are forced to do some thing doesnt mean the entire spec is...
Ugh.
you're kidding right @lavish oracle ?
I've seen multiple M+ where warriors (ex. Sense) don't kite at all.
that could be a healer issue or you just making a mistake and pulling incorrectly
You know my whole point here was that we're BETTER than people think at lower keys?
Not worse at higher?
I'm not blaming the spec for shit
I'm saying that the BDK supremacy at high keys doesn't apply to low keys
@lusty grotto Nope, not sure
meh FotM classes wont last
385 vs 370, more crit on use
Yeah but everything that isn't a blood DK is better at lower keys than people think. It's an irrelevant statement. You're essentially arguing that every human breathes air because lord xalgoz the mighty gave us lungs when he shat us onto the planet earth, and you're shocked that people are arguing against your point that people don't breathe air. We're not. We're arguing about the dumb reason you think people breathe air.
instead of a random proc
And sure, maybe kiting's on my mind more because necrotic was literally two weeks ago - and does happen more. And does require more kiting at higher keys.
I don't know the PPM for butcher's block, though
Or, you know, the dumb reason you think we're good in lower keys. Whatever.
On a +10 I can facetank every pack at necrotic without kiting - I can't do that at a much higher key
but fury doesn't have passive str
me too yamo me too, welcome home
anything good in box?

I can completely agree that higher dps tanks are more valuable at lower keys than highly survivable tanks. There's nothing wrong with that statement. But you know, your DK statement doesn't work as a contrast. If anything a highly survivable tank can pull more and make cleave comps do more.
64 residuum for 11 key
@lusty grotto What do you mean? It's 313 Strength
On lower keys your bottleneck on pulling is the group dying to standing in shit and not interrupting, not tank survivability
i was looking at the wrong one hang on
It's from the new world boss
The problem with that mentality is the assumption there's a bottleneck for lower keys but not higher ones...? You're emphasizing the cons of lower keys but higher keys should have the exact same problem but more strict?
Where's the new world boss atm?
I cant log in
Darkshore
I was doing an incursion
Access violation error
ah gotta unlock it then
Wtf
I mean, the context I'm primarily speaking towards is "people hate prot warriors for their pugged +10s", so I'm thinking of pugs, not competitive groups that execute perfectly.
Deafening Crash nerf? or am i reading the tooltip wrong.
part of that is Prot Warrior isnt like BDK or Monk in that a retarded person cant just pick the class up and play it correctly
I kite more as brm than prot. My warrior can face tank shit and do more damage I love it
ok so wowhead is fucked and it has the wrong stats on it @lavish oracle
and lets face it the majority of people who play this game now are kind of stupid
Oh yeah, I mean, the average prot warrior I've grouped with as arms was a trainwreck.
and are giving prot warriors a bad name
the majority of people that have played this game have always been stupid
not just now lol
oh woops yeah it has the wrong stats on the tooltip
@lusty grotto Oh, weird
the amount I've seen sit there at 100 rage for 30 seconds while getting wrecked is...too damn high.
but they are correc on the page
that seems like a solid trinket yea
let me check ppm cause i dont remember it for butchers block
that is why we dont get into pugs
because our abilities and rage spending actually matters
But okay, to restate the premise in a less offensive fashion - the things that make us less desirable than BDKs for really high keys are frequently non-factors in lower keys.
never once had issues pugging anything higher than 10s as a warrior tank lol
I've only tested butcher's block once or twice, seemed like the PPM was ~1 anyways
and people that dont use rage properly are gonna get destroyed in higher keys
Mighta just had bad luck, though
monk smooths and mitigates damage out for you pretty idiot proof
shit yeah i dont know the actual ppm on butcher's block i thought i had an old one but i can't find it so i probably broke it on the expulsom thing
and DK is pretty damn easy in that regard as well
anyone that claims BDK is super duper easy hasn't played it
their rotation is annoying and makes me mad but it was pretty easy
all the empty globals give you a lot more time for yelling at pugs too
prot isn't hard
prot is unforgiving more than hard
proactive vs reactive
harder than BDK
I mean Prot just had a lot of its restrictions lifted with the whole not on gcd thing. That might not even be a true statement anymore.
The consequences for messing up as prot are worse than as BDK or monk or whatnot
we arent talking about one spec here we are talking about in comparison to others dude
BDK is easier than Prot Warrior to play
dis be spicey
and so is BRM
The average prot warrior gets less practice tanking than say a BDK, so on average they're going to be worse, so people are going to have less confidence in them and invite them less, so they'll get less practice. So yeah, your likely to find bad ones. BDK is not too much easier to play well, but it was more survivable, people trusted it, and the average pug BDK just runs more instances than the average pug Warrior so has more practice.
Outside of pugs that goes out the window.
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The most 'difficult' part of BDK is probably some nonsense like identifying the perfect time to use death strikes for maximizing healing, and it's just one of those things that no one really notices or cares if you mess up. Whereas a warrior who doesn't hit their keys properly gets hit for 2x as much and dies to a two shot that shows up in their logs as being a failure.
Making sure to have SB up and using LS to fill in gaps=super duper hard gameplay
Pretty much agre with Zeidrich. I get the same thing with Priest. Holy Priests have a stigma from lack of survivability and everyone's always on Disc's case, even in situations where Holy clearly shines over it (like bursting) you'll still see more Disc representation just because it has great representation and people have faith in it.
and not capping rage by using IP
Fucking up as a prot warrior is way more punishing than any other tank spec as well
woah!
How does one fuck up as a prot warrior?
The very basic thing I just outlined?
Well let's be fair Guilford, it's more than that too - if you're playing prot warrior PERFECTLY, you've aligned the gaps in your block/LS rotation with monster casts and whatnot
Macro shield block to every ability π
I'm turning into Levko
is how you screw up
waht the fuck
granted that's the sort of excessive minmaxing no one really notices not happening
@ember arrow I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL NOW
But I wasn't talking about relative strength, just player skill. Bad BDKs get a lot more opportunities to learn than bad prot warriors.
not chaining actives properly. Not using IP when it actually matters. Not spell reflecting when you should. Spending rage incorrectly.
you do these things you die
hmm tukui updater isn't working
you do those things as a Monk or DK you get a hard pass
lol
because they are more forgiving
Warriors also have the fun combo of having block and spell reflect as important mitigation tools, but the game doesn't spoonfeed you info about what they work vs.
Not a problem for the learned warrior, but the sort of thing that makes the class 'harder' for someone picking it up
who have tried PROT IN m+?
haven't we had this conversation before?
most of us
I mean i have a BRM and a Prot Warrior
Or did you mean specifically since the patch today?
8.1 ofc
i can say with 100% certainty that BRM is a joke and a moron can play it
True
i only have prot warrior since vanilla, jk i leveled all tank classes in legion to get mage tower shit
BDK ill get back to you now that i can level one and not have to worry about rep grinding
BRM is pretty boring honestly.
for necklace
I play a prot warrior and BDK. The BDK feels aggressively easy.
i have dh π
keywords there bro
go away
im doing my first heroic as prot boys
officially prot main
:)
no fury logs on heroic
we're proud of you @sick sentinel
@primal crypt dx12?
dude
yeah
Thing I like about BDK is that every ability does something specific. Prot it's like I have shield bash, revenge, thunderclap, devastate, and those are all just tools to kind of build rage for my other abilities. With DK, every button I press apart from like heart strike, has a specific purpose.
welcome to #protection
shield slam...
^
just CLAP and high dps
DO IT
it gives a lot of fun
Thank Jesus
haha
reroll to #protection
I wonder if the meme ez clap comes from our thunder clap
no lol
Honestly yeah, being the tank with an offensive dispel would be great utility. What a shame that it was agreed to be the single most annoying PvP passive of all time so will never come back.
submit your application this afternoon, you're hired
380 shield is better than 370
show logz
as a prot?
yes
95 Log
yes
my prot record
is there a dps warrior trinket list?
my prot fetid is uhh
@hallow hatch prob in the dps spec channels
does normal count jack
worded it wrong
its still the same boss
check the pins
if normal counts
CACHE TIME
wow
TELL US WHAT YOU GET BLADE
sold
haste/mast ring
Do we get an item in our chest this week or just the new currency?
item
minor upgrade!
and currency
oh 64 residu
IM NOT WEARING MY DC SHOULDERS
wow weep
big monakS
a okay. I used only dps trinkets
I am disappoint
π
not fathoms as well...
what weakaura suite do you guys use? switching from bdk+brm to pure prot this patch
i make my own weakauras
oh shit can't believe i forgot to check those, thank you man
π¨ π¨ fotm reroller alert π¨ π¨
the only 2 i didnt make that i use are the block and ip weakuras in the pins though
yess my alerts are working
hahah not a fotm reroller, just always wanted to play war
welcome!
thank ya!
Honestly, most WAs I use are to check raid information. Prot doesn't /need/ a ton of WA. An IP tracker and SB tracker perhaps
i use Khakhan's though
i mean, i dont use a single addon outside of details
because i like it
so it's not needed
make it so matrons at the start of underrot see through stealth
good
Oh you miss out. There are some fantastic WA for raid leading.
well a) i don't raid and b) i do it by choice haha
But it is not like MM hunter last xpac where pretty much a Vulnerable tracker was borderline needed
ur cute
i'm coming for you
oh
weep
Can I have log link Guil?
guilfart
is DX12 running well now with the new Nvidia drivers?
i'm about to try it
Actually working well? Nice
so far so good for me
π
yes
At this time of day
but real talk, why Magni gotta make me do this shit twice
AHHHHHH INTERVENE OFF THE GCD
yes
@astral crystal
DC post nerf is still #1 right
Hello guys!
dam i need to check pins sry
just not 45+ ilvls good
what are incursions
yeah, tempted to try my prot warrior now..... been arms/fury all expac.
would you guys say Prot is on the same tier as BRM?
incursions are the new invasions
Guys what is your opinion on Bastion of might as in
assaults

is it really worth?
an hour to go
when servers came up
I managed to get it done on my lock and got a 370 thankfully lol
@small bison
Not having to choose between free revenges/SS/IP anymore is too good
hell yeah brother
for m+ and raid
hmm
and fathoms?
i don't have a trinket to replace it with ??
all gear is prot gear
fathoms bis for prot
highest ilvl is prot gear
as all know prot is new arms
i have no other trinket
i don't know why you would say "wear prot gear"
is this a dumb question friendly discord

zul is a dickhead for us
then if it's not in any of the guides or whatever, you can ask

It is not strictly in any of the guides. I have heard warrior is pretty good at off-tanking fetid as they can block thrash, but I am curious as to rotationally how it is done. I do not think you can SB every single thrash, so really how is it done?
you can sb every thrash
can't even make the engineering goggles π¦
is there some strict haste requirement to get SB low enough to be able to do?
I think with enough haste you could block every thrash now without using LS
don't quote me on that
obviously
lolololoolololll
no haste requirements @ionic willow
thanks - i'll give it a whirl
so ideally, 1 brace, 1 deafening, 1 archive?
wear whatever has highest ilvl
assuming all 370s
sounds good to me
or do i want 1 deaf 2 brace?
yeah i was wondering since str also gives more armor now
does the brace piece have IV π
hmm i'll check
they close enough imho that the other traits can come into play
thats good to know
25% of this healer's healed to is themselves
is this normal
guys
i might be too big brain to beat zul
Did battle for darkshore.. quest didnt complete /cry
hmmm 370 eye of Rezan with socket or 380?
oh, I thought it was 370+socket rezan vs. any other 380 trink
Lol
that's why i'm asking
so with Deafening crash nerf, how worth is it to use to you guys?
also the 55k IP was with vial up
yes, for sure
vial OP
No. Its the same trinket, why i didnt name another π
use the 380
had all my shit up
then its the 380
weep l2p
Just keep pumping into the boss until the dot is lower
lol
not a spicey boi
Playing as a prot
my vectis was rank2 π¦
didn't help ya live tho
So has anyone tested out the new changes?
How's IP feel? Is #blocktherock real or a dream?
any specific ones or just it in general
IP feels weird atm
still getting used to it
just different
I'm used to it just cuz I was dicking around with it on PTR some
Also is the buff to Vanguard noticeable?
havent ran into any shoots tho
I have 9320 armor now so there's that
when you get a jes howler from cache at 380....when you got one at 385 yesterday
Call for externals pleb @sick sentinel
yes.
yes.
lol
save avatar for crawgs
prot on zul is all about cheesing
i did
I had 10.8 on Zul. My guild wouldnt let me dps
Don't gotta cheese no more with rogues being the way of the doodoo
I'd test them but something they enabled is tanking my FPS into the floor
who cares
i had a dream that i got a 395 shield from cache, then i woke up to a 380 weapon... meh... still an upgrade
technically we get more demo's now but less overall time on one charge of it
lol got trinket on my war and pala
do the darkshore rares drop gear
warfronts drop 395 gear?
what the fuck
What's the azerite vendor prices like?
thanks blizzard
got 99 from a +22
It's pretty bad
to keep you subbed to this shitty game
idk
not really... its more so to give people that need to farm specific pieces of gear and bitching about it what they wanted
How much crack dust do u get from a 340
no
it's to make you FEEL like they did something
lol iron
I laughed at people being happy over this
385 will be worthless
when all blizz did
because mythic will drop 415
was shit in their mouth
be different if you could actually farm residuum and it dropped from M+ boxes
syke
just the weekly box
They did say they are going tk watch the cost over the weeks
cant you get new azerite pieces from world quests and raids and scrap them for residuum
yeah but
From what I remember yes
the amount you get is awful
1 for a 340
3 for 355
12 for a 370
and 35 for a 385
so you can actually farm it though
Is the math out about how long it can take to farm a specific piece/random
i dont understand the alchemist stone addition they did either
Why not?
added 6 new ones, and you can just make the baseline 385 path, but they added a path that started at 355 and goes to 385
when the new path is better and will go to 415, so its useless to try to go through the other path of trinkets
They're BoP
then no clue
I think
It's because
the 355 one doesn't require tidalcores
and the 385 one does
355 one requires hydrocores
Those start becoming available Season 2 but when does that start?
when raid comes out
tidalcores can't even drop yet can they?
mid jan
is your elvui kinda fked right now?
yes
yep
my nameplates are not working
not using threatplates in 2018
why would i
using add-on packs in 2018
can kick spells that are actually kickable
@zinc mauve [nobody liked that]
soo many prot wars!
R U NOT?!
I think I might have to report that toy
loll
fun detected
the amount of rage im wasting cuz of double tapping by accident is hilarious
how are you double tapping with a 1 second CD?
my warfront is ~600 ms
say no more
Lord jesus
it is hilarious
finding a key right now is garbage
every group has a tank
I joined one as fury and someone has been afk for 15 minutes
I gotta 400iq my rage 6 seconds from now to see if ill need to IP
I'd make my own group but blizzard is dogshit and didn't send me the contents of my cache
muh viability
@sand egret so the same as prot before 8.1

I JUST FOUND A PACK OF RANGED MOBS