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i've got the crawg and i dont even care about mounts
Hey was watching the GM of limits stream and saw he was gemming mastery, not seen many people doing this and just wondering why this might be ? https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/illidan/Maximumw
who knows
i mean yeah it makes sense for crit blocks
he explained
prob also some bosses have high uptime atm
yeah there you go @lucid bough got it
Ahh ok thanks
So is stacking DC a meme or no?
its not
its good dps for aoe\
it just brings nothing defensively
yeah i know it was i just didnt know if it made us to squishy
is it better then BoM for aoe?
hell no
so triple stack BOM and DC for the win 😛
mastery = attack power
just didnt know which one had more output
a flat dmg increase will always be inferior
BoM is extremely high dps, in m+ it's king
it's possible TC may be more dps than DC, but i dont have numbers toi back that up
Currently 2x BOM 2x BFI 1x DC 1x bloodsport
and possibly other traits, TC and DC could be on the same ones but i havent looked at the items rings so idk if its always bom and TC
could trade both BFI for DC
I run BFIx3, DC, BoM and IF.
M+ or raid?
So is anyone else out there getting absolutely trucked by Kimbul in Heroic?
Both atm. I could run DCx3 and BoMx3 if I needed to.
I keep seeing my Blood DK and Paladin co-tanks getting shredded and anything more than 2 stacks for me feels like I'm tanking Zul's blood debuff.
?
shouldnt be taking more than 2 any ways
Even 2 feels rough at times. It hits pretty damn hard - and I watch my poor Blood DK friend just melt
uh oh here it comes
Oh we are hitting that Friday what order do you all go in? I'm thinking gronk 3rd cause no debuff?
Gonk Kimbul Paku Akunda
We are doing Gronk Kimbul Paku as well.
Why gronk first?
less people getting silenced
can you just log out for the hidden legion prot skin? wondering if it will just show no emote and ican pick it up
Because you start with Gonk and Paku
no @bright pagoda
Ahh I forgot about that as tank
Mages spellsteal Paku
ya most orders ive seen are gonk > kimbul > paku > kimbul
You mean Akunda last but yeah
ya akunda last
as long as kimbul's second and akunda's last the other two don't really matter 
For normal I just tanked paku to max stacks but I am way over geared lol
but gonk first is definitely less annoying
Conclave, at least on Mythic is about the push times so you don't get bad overlaps.
can a mage spell steal forever on that fight? figure they would run oom unless they didnt attack
ya but also mages get the buff too if paku stays up
If you don't have a mage to spell steal it can just be purged off
yea
@hidden ether you can tank paku in hc to full stacks aswell and just do the tank switches everytime the other one dies
nimchip is there something special that triggers it or im just wondering if leaving my war outside the vault and checking each day is fine, most of the info is mixed from early patch to a few comments in 7.3 flying into obsidian overlook
theres a roar sound and an emote
enter the cave and you get an emote
the chance is daily though, so just keep trying the next day
you can find the macro online and use it to see if it spawned that day as well, i entered the cave early on and got the emote but didnt see it and it never did the emote again for me but the macro still came back true eventually so i had to use it
ok so camping outside the cave each day should be fine then
indeed
From exeprience the emote isn't guaranteed, using the script is though
Go to every pile of gold to be safe
Took me about a month
But you'll get it eventually
So, about the Howler's trinket... Is it better to use it when I'm alone or when surrounded by 4 peeps?
Yeah so what artifact you were talking about an what does it look like?
the only hidden artifact we have heh
The hidden appearance from the back cave of Nelth's Lair
Again
looks like deathwing
No clue what it looks like
Eh
Easily my favorite one ❤
Everyone knows slutmogs increade dps by 150% and that doesnt fit into any of them
spikes shield best shield
😂
dont @ me
if only you could mog the weapon seperately
@undone sun You and your damn spike shield
lol
Yeah the weapon leaves something to be desired
not sure if it's been asked already. is it worth it to craft 415 alchemy trinket?
But yeah when I was "farming" it, I just went to the edge of the cliff inside the cave each day, ran the script, and when it was true, I went looking through the gold piles.
If you aren't likely to get another 400+ trinket soon, I'd say it's worth it.
I actually did see the emote though, so I didn't have to rely on the script to tell me it was there.
i don't recall if i did, because the 3 hours of me "farming" it blur together
yeah I was just helping a dude find his quest, never even played prot in Legion and I saw the emote and went looking
Oh yeah you got it before they fixed the relog thing huh
yup
Lucky. Though honestly going to a cave once a day really isn't that bad. My monk's hidden appearance (arguably the best artifact appearance imo) was obnoxious. Having a single chance every 3 days (and having to make sure you had the ancient mana) was just stupid.
whats the best way to deal with bestial throw?
DId not realize it was nature, ty
it's not
spell reflect before throw
you will not take ticking damage
use SR + full IP and you will survive
otherwise wall before throw
if you don't have any of those up for any reason (you should almost always have SR + IP)
you can call for an external
Tooltip shows the squeexe is physical and ther landing is nature. Can I not SR in the air?
if you SR before youre thrown
you take 0 ticking dmg while gripped
or rather @modern brook did
so at least in heroic you are able to survive easily with SR + full IP before the throw
unsure if it works on Mythic
i believe it works
Sr before being picked it, during cast
thats exactly what that image says
You cant do any thing during grip
that was sarcasm iron
'use reflect before being grabbed to avoid ticking damage' learn to read please
Ive sr'ed before the grip and the damage negated
ok
You can sr in air to reduce the damage of the impact, but doing it before the grab literally avoids the 5 second grab damage
It helped a lot, ty guys'
Idk why it works that way but ill take it lol
Usually on mythic before dmg reductions the grip dot does like 150k so you avoid all of that damage and just take the impact nature damage
chances are, yes so ask questions
why am i pinged?
phantom ping
Yo, any advice on trinkets for mm+ survivability ? I have RAGE 415, Rezan 400, Howler 385, Vial 400, Vectis 385, any tips ?
is there a specfic cast that i should try and speel reflect on jaina for optimal dmg?
checking @swift pier
i noticed a lot of 100k+ melee's from no shield block up
for survivability? Rezan + RAGE @hushed sand
i see low uptime on demo @swift pier
block seems decent
Would trading out 1 BfI for 1 bloodsport be worth it for rastkahan mythic prog?
@lusty grotto do i level up my druid now or nah?🤔
did you take more than 1 rending bite? @swift pier ?
yes late
level up NA
i want me a good boomy or resto
nvm i know exactly why lol
what you mean
Can i have both na and eu wow under same sub?🤔
No
RIp
Damn sorry nim
Two separate accounts afaik
I wonder if its possible to have both eu and na wow on the same battle net tho
That way youd get the champions upgrades
yeah i think its possible
🤔🤔
i have an unused account i used to RAF
the monk co tank took 3 melee hits the entire fight
Yeah pretty much what we did
whoops, i shouldn't put that there just in case
Have the monk take the throws and taunt when i had no cds or 2 bleeds
ya hes wondering why he took so much damage
weird
every pug ive been i always taunt before 2 of the same hits
i feel it works best that way
Eh
1 smash on current tank and another coming up? taunt.... same with bleed
like 1 bleed + smash debuff won't be as bad
If you taunt with 1 bleed and the combo is 3 bleeds the tank thrown is gonna die if he has 2
as 2 bleed or smash on smash debuff heh
Which he will
oh yeah
but that's really rare
at least in my case
it might be more common on mythic maybe?
i dunno
jesus lol
I have my druid at 110 and my paladin at 50 after those im ready
”Wait a couple of minutes till decent blood death knight appears” To do what? Int your key LUL
fun fact
you can Spell Reflect the Bwonsamdi's Bargain on the add's
so if an ally tries to stab you...you can kill them
ya know...for science
That's great
@sand egret link?
@lusty grotto you promise to boost me if i lvl druid in na?🤔
sry was afk
thanks for looking at the logs
yah i do feel like i took a lot of dmg
but im unsure if its a normal amount for the fight or i suck cock
Its pretty normal amount
i think it mostly has to do with how you tanked the fight
you tanked the boss the entire time and your monk took the comboes
which is kinda normal for the amount tanked
cool, thanks
i did get feared a couple of times and took some auto attacks to the back
so i need to sort that out for sure
only thing i can say is if thats how your strat is set up and the healers complain of you being squishy i would have your co tank take the boss just to let your shield blocks reset and take it back
@warm plinth its in the news tab 😃
Yeah I found it, sorry. The title was a little different than I expected.
i have triple Bastion of Might, is that pretty good from a m+ damage perspective?
Mastery raises attack power, but not sure if how effective that is or if there are diminishing returns at a certain Mastery level
hey all...any of you know how to configure ElvUI to set colors on reaping plates?
you basically want BoMX3 for m+
@slate perch BoM is about bis from both offensive and defensive standpoint in m+
@graceful sundial Are you trying to set a specific color for reaping adds, or do you mean get the threat colors to work for them?
@graceful sundial Afaik there are no plateaddons that show reaping threath correctly
Woop
2nd week on H Stormwall finally down
and I got my chest/shield so im glad
@oblique garnet you will have to have 2 subs and to buy the game twice
Weep tried it
@sick sentinel talking about playing NA and EU at the same time?
@warm plinth I mean my regular threat colors don't work on them. For example if I don't have threat on a target the plate is red and if I have the color is green. However, reaping targets are always red even if I have/don't have aggro on them
Yeah there's something weird about reaping mobs where threat colors don't work. No nameplate addons can do it afaik
They have threat tables but it just doesn't communicate like regular mobs
ah right I guessed something like that. Thanks a lot for your answer
Sure thing!
Hopefully Blizz changes something or the addon authors figure out how to do it with them because it can be frustrating.
Boys, 415 Engi helm with RNG trait vs 400 helm with BoM for m+?
had the emote earlier for this dumb hidden skin, second time ive went back to look for it in nelth vault(in prot spec) etc though none of the script check quests said true alot of information pointed to going and looking anyway. i spent over 30 minutes flying around checking every gold pile then literally walking all over and nada
val im not sure if its doable with trait slots but i know with other crafted items people can shred them or whatnot and get the used breath of bwonsamdi's back and recraft the item over and over til they got the right stats on it. thatd be pretty cool if it worked for azerite traits also
Thx
Rng anyway since its 100 dps loss compared to bom with haste or main stat
@bright pagoda Are you looking inside the dungeon?
I know I remember some people in Legion said they found the skin inside the dungeon behind Dargrul
It's worth a look, especially if you're seeing the emote
this is pretty, all your haste belongs to me
fml cant get into lfr to heal
hey! is somebody got a link to know how important is the DR from block number on shield and azerite talents.
Is brace for impact works ? is the gain high ?
There's a guide on icy-veins.com @dense lichen https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/protection-warrior-pve-tank-guide
Guys, any special talent setup for griveous ?
nope
then
1 1 2 2 2 1 1 its fine ?
No, no it isn't
Never Surrender isn't ever worth picking
That middle 2 should be a 3; there's no other option.
Bolster then ?
Yep.
Rumbling Earth is fine. Storm Bolt is probably a better choice but nothing wrong with Rumbling Earth.
I run it myself because fuck Storm Bolt 😄
Depends on what AoE stuns you have in your group too though
And Unstopable force
Yeah, no other choice besides Unstoppable Force
It's too good
Yeah that's fine
Make sure to use Bolster properly. Use Last Stand when you're out of Shield Block charges to let your charges regenerate
It basically acts as a 15 second duration Shield Block; you'll block for the whole duration of Last Stand
@warm plinth hello bro.
I would like to know the formula to know the exact value of block number.
to know what DR i gain when i add like 500block to the block of my shield.
I alrdy tried to find some clue on icy but without result.
I want more precision than : this is best / this is bad from most guides 😄
i alrdy found an old formula(legion ?) which is dr from blocking = block / block + 6300
But i dont know if it s still exact
M0/M+: 8467.2 (x1.344)
BfD/Shrine LFR: 8467.2 (x1.344)
BfD/Shrine Normal: 9311.4 (x1.478)
BfD/Shrine Heroic: 10275.3 (x1.631)
BfD/Shrine Mythic: 11390.4 (x1.808)```
Ilevel upgrades on shields are always better.
great tyvm
Traits are different depending on what content you're doing / what you have access to.
exactly
what's the deal with reckless flurry and prot?
Thanks Sal. I was trying to find where that was 😅
It's probably pretty good for ST, but I imagine it wouldn't be better than other traits for AoE
nope just the vault so far, but yeah i saw the comments on wowhead about the dungeon but i didnt think of going there. ill check it now before i go to sleep. i saw comments of people mentioning a dargrul statue with the shield near it. i wonder if thats why i didnt find any statues in the vault except the 3 dragon ones together
There's a small upstairs space with a bruul statue
One of the shield spawns is near there
When you enter the Vault from the normal side (the one with the big drop), there's a small hidden hallway on the left side before you drop, behind some rocks
Go through it and the statue is there
Check that before you go into the dungeon @bright pagoda
will do, thanks
lol...I got a couple 400+ 2h's so I was thinking about trying fury for fun, popped into fury channel and they're speaking another language in there
..I'll just go dps people in apex lol
I get that it's a whole other tier of min/maxing for dps...but those people are even worse than "which trinkets do I use in M+"
..and then you have to sim crap. ..hell no
Lazy
people are just spoon fed information. they dont want to dig it for themselves which makes them average players
add to that few WA's that tell you what to do
I have a question regarding spell reflection. Which ground based abilities dmg can I reflect and deal massive damage with in m+? I heard that this was a thing but wasnt told the specifics of which bosses it could be used on.
There's a reflectable spell guide in #268491842637660160 though I'm not 100% sure if it mentions anything like that. The last one I specifically heard about was in Legion (Curator's electric puddles). Someone was in here the other day saying you can spell reflect Cyclone Strike from the 1st boss of Temple as well (which is not on the spreadsheet), though I haven't tested that.
haven't heard of any in bfa ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I was thinking mushrooms on 3rd boss in underrot might be a canditate?
I tried that the other day...didn't seem to work other than to reduce the damage taken by the stacks.
Definitely did not prevent any stacks from happening.
Kinda sucks because DK can AMS them, but it's not the first time SR capabilities have clashed with AMS (Bursting is a good example).
What CC othr than Sap, Blind and Imprison can be used to walk past mobs without leaving you in combat?
That's all of them iirc. There are some like freezing trap and repentance that only put the first person to approach in combat (so like a hunter can trap something, go get in combat with it, then the group can run past and hunter feign deaths), but sap and imprison are the only ones that completely prevent combat to my knowledge. Didn't even know about Blind doing it
I think u get in combat if u go close to a blinded mob
Its nice to use CCs like Incap, Repentence etc then RoP the mob/mobs away
Can you pull the adds around the rune bitch in shrine after the first boss without pulling her?
I mean, I can cc the adds, kill her and then kill the adds
you can walk on the ledge to left and just hit the small add farthest out to the left and backpeddle without pulling Heldis
then you can even bypass her completely if you can DISTRACT her so she looks to the right while you walk past her with shroud on the ledge to the left
worthwhile to test i guess, but not really needed this week
i just feel sorry for any group attempting to stack ranged for shrine
cause that 2nd boss is gonna suck
You can do shrine with mostly ranged on any other week tbh
I did a +15 shrine on tyrr (last season, but y) with a boomkin, a mage and a hunter
With mage being a pug that had minimal idea what he was doing
Is there a certain range at which you reflect ALL the cyclones in Sethraliss? do you have to be super close or at a specific range?
I dont understand why overwhelming power is rated lower than ablative shielding
Where is it rated lower?
Fairly certain those are ranked for survival; at least, I'm assuming so since the initial list is ranked that way
correct
Indeed
OP is weaker for survival? Since at 30-40% cds come out either externally or internally, would it be effective?
Yeah
It's weaker from a purely defensive perspective, yes.
Is it arguable with anger management that the haste would make it just as strong defensively in certain scenarios?
Getting hit still diminishes the effects, and armor will always be above haste
I gotta read shit more thoroughly. I thought OP was exclusively over time. Thank you
Secondary stats are better than armor. Armor is pretty weak stat all things considered.
But Ablative Shielding gives ~1500 armor, while OP only gives around 650 max haste, which turns out to be roughly 330 avg for the duration (15s)
Ablative Shielding is also proccing more often
The guide is also written purely from a defensive / survival PoV. OP is quite strong as a DPS trait, if you desire it.
It's just that AS is better defensively.
Yeah, I was interested in OP as defensive for more IPs and quicker cds. I was just flat out wrong, I didn't recall the uptime reduction on hit.
does sims even take in to account that you get hit? If not, then its not quite accurate way to calculate dps. Even as dps you probably never have longer than 2 minutes full stack of OP
Ofcourse depends on dungeon, but its kinda safe to say so
Simming is not reliable currently
They are saying that op is better offensively because AS doesnt do anything for damage
Yes, OP is slightly overestimated in sims (if you sim as Fury for example). It's still one of the 3 best traits for most classes (with Gutripper and HMC)
@warm plinth when you test the SR thing. Bring someone else for ToS
Learned it's only SRable if the target is someone else for clone
If the target is you, nothing happens
That's not true Tofu.
I just did both (one earlier) then one in a ToS 14 a min ago
In the M0 I was alone, did reflect..worked exactly the same as it did in the 14 when I wasn't the target.
The thing is you can't get 'all' the cyclones, step a bit away, as they spread out hit reflect..you'll get one of them..it'll do a large amount of damage, and the others will go by you.
Standing directly in adderis? face (or aspix?) to try and get all the cyclones results in death.
Unless...and I hope...I'm wrong. and there's a specific range or trick to getting all the cyclones that I'm not aware of?
It varies
And I couldn't get it to work properly solo
I'll probably play around with it more later
I would imagine that each one is considered a separate spell so the first one to hit you (even if they're apparently simultaneous) would consume SR and you'd get hit by the rest? Anyway I'll probably mess with it this weekend with/without a partner.
on rastakhan, is it normal for caress of death to come out before the detonation? having to eat that with 45 stacks is a real ouchie
I think so
just make sure you don't last stand during that, it will actually make you lose HPS
You can reflect all, but that's kinda random or proper positioning. When my friend tried it in m0, first time he could reflect everything. There were no cyclone strikes after reflect, and in dmg taken there was a line with 0 dmg taken from cyclone. Second time he moved a bit from them, and could reflect one, while taking others to the face. I guess, he happened to get one strike before the others, so SR was lost.
Also while he reflected strikes, boss didn't receive damage from them, or details was wrong
Details do not show reflected damage
Nah. You can count yourself. Look at the damage done, then look at the boss damage taken. This way you can calculate dmg taken from reflected spells on bosses such as 3rd in Tol Dagor and 3rd in Motherlode
Like for example when we duo 3rd boss in Motherlode, damage taken was roughly 20% more than damage done by us. So this 20% was reflected dot
that's pretty big
It was duo, so every other dot was reflected. Can't happen in 5man anyway
Is trait stacking a good idea to do on prot? Or is it more beneficial to try to grab one of everything aside defeaning crash
for mplus you want to triplestack 3xBoM
I got the helm from jadefire and opulence, I know BM is SUPER good, but CR is kinda bad, which one would be better for dungeons (Crown is better for raid since this is my 2nd BoM)
traits are either BoM + CR or BfI + IF
What ability on 3rd in TD can you reflect? The dot? @tribal schooner
Fuselighter dot if it targets you
I know this IS very Minor but whats the best defensivly when it comes horde races?
highmountain should be gud
You should look for boss' current target to do that, because she targets random party member
yeah, I figured as much! I am actually going over the reflect-list again. Its a good read to freshen up memory!
I hope it continues to take 'effort' to see reflect damage in details, there's a LOT of encounters in the game that if it stacked reflects on top of our own damage..there would be an outcry from the player base and likely we'd see a nerf to it in some fashion (probably reduction in reflected damage)
Okay
Dunno now but at least in legion the reflected damage was reduced
The reflected damage was reduced by SR's dr
we already top DPS metter on AoE, if we could top it on Bosses with reflect the nerfbat would hit us soooo hard
The SR on cyclone strike is definitely unreliable :(
Not sure if I want to be doing it on push keys with my group
Dont want to waste a brez
Isn't the only hard thing in temple Galvazzt?
Yeah, basically Galv is the only hard boss. First boss can be difficult with grievous, especiqlly if jolts arent being interrupted and then ppl are less than full hp during static shock.
Mate
wait...you can SR Cyclone Strike
if You pug the key as most, if you skip 2 packs as most do, if you wipe 1st boss
its a rip key, people just leave
thats why i dont skip 😃
you should because makes better reaping and removes useless trash from the way
this week its not bad to not skip thou
I tried to SR cyclone strike last night and got 1shot
I reflected one but the other 4 striked me hard
It's unreliable
Is there a way to reflect all 5?
You can get shotgunned by it, if you want to SR position yourself at the side of him to get hit by one only.
Right so it's impossible to do all 5
imma do it
#motivated
Caused my group last night to wipe twice
Yup
But unreliable
Just stand on top, ez
Quick question:. Are you supposed to keep 100% uptime on IP like brews do with ISB? Or only use it during windows where SB isn't up?
Hello prot fellas, quick question, whats more important high lvl shield or 1h wep for me as a prot?
My warrior is currently 42 and leveling via dungeon spam
depends on your dmg inc vs. rage gain @slow nimbus
oh you're leveling... mhm
@crisp pecan shield is more important
that is perfect as i accidentally salvaged my 1h
but that is comparing same item level gains
Honestly both are very important
I haven't played a warrior since BC, back when you could viably tank high level content while technically being arms spec lol
shit, gonna farm atal then for 1h
Can you not use item restoration?
yeah item restore should work as long as you have the mats you gained from it
but i am high tier fury so just going to farm +10 atal hardly
i have 340 engi mace now, but thats a joke
i think first week conquest cap (500 points) was a 370 weapon
first week of season 2
It was, but it isn't necessarily for your spec. On my monk it was for mistweaver spec and I'm brew
So he could more than likely get a 2her
nope, i do not
you got warmode on and do assaults sometime?
they give conquest points
check ingame with i
go for pvp tab
and check if the upper bar is full (should be yellow)
if yes, you can go to mugambala in zuldazar and collect a weapon
should be 1hand, 2hand and shield (you can pick one)
but after all maybe farming atal would be better option, it is not a burning issue or maybe heroic raids
well then farming atal is fine, trinket is nice too
i have 400 trinket already
i did set opulence mythic loot to prot, maybe getting trinket
For push mythics+ (+15->), what 's the stats priority?
@thick glacier ilvl > haste > everything else
ilvl is quite important as all stats are good, includeing strenght and even stamina as a tank
all sockets and enchats are haste.... and generally socket is worth 0 ilvl on shield/weapon, 5 on armor and 10 on ring
@floral tinsel thanks for answer!, really help me alot ❤
BoM and DC secured 😛
Crystalline and Bulwark (massive for m+)
hatchet from wm 10ilvl > than vers\mastery weapon is upgrade?
ilvl is everything on weapon
I guess... seen it on players like here
Is it really better than crystaline for defensive thought?
- it does more damage
- I am a crit junkie
or is it the combination of offence and defence that makes it so good?
haha, fair enought
I do not like the hatchet
mog it
@thick glacier M+ is generally Ilvl>Haste=>mast>crit>verse
in SotS, Momload, and other caster heavy Verse gets a lot better
still worse than haste
Cleaver is Lolbad, get rekt for it being your highest ilvl
^^
I'm willing to guess that its probably worth dropping 5 for seocndary stats, Mainhand isnt AS important as shield; but I'm not confident enough in that opinion to suggest it without large disclaimers of feely craft around it
everything scales with weapon damage, from all attacks to IP
🤷
Probably right
Well no, you are right
Does the cleaver dot leech?
It doesnt
yeah I'm just def wrong
Equal ilvl isnt enough Secondaries
@370 its ~120 secondaries missing which def wont make up lower wepon dps
so get rekt; sorry i tried :^(
hey guys i just got ritual feather of Unng Ak ( 525 mastery for 16 sec 1 min cooldown) which is the best moment to use it, with macro with Recklessness i guess?
any sugg?
wrong spec srry
😬
Got a 405 RAGE and a 405 Vial. And the only potential replacements for one or the other (to just not have double on-use) are so such low ilvl that they aren't worth it.
How am I gonna do this
Rage on first avatar. vial on the other
so you have 1 trinket for every single avatar
Man, I hate not having the trinket macro'd in, but I guess that will have to do.
can't you macro both and it will use wihever is not on CD?
🤔 I don't know why, but I was of the impression having both a use 13 and use 14 in a macro would cause failures, but now you mention it I don't know why I thought that.
It will go in order
When hitting a macro it will just use each line in seccession, so it would use 1 trinket first and come back with an error of the second trinket on cd
Fair enough, that simplifies the problem infinitely. Gonna go flex on other classes that struggle with double on-use brb
What are good trinkets for M+?
I suppose deafening crash and mastery in Avatar are go-to traits.
/use 14
/cast avatar``` will use 13, then try and use 14, fail cause of the shared cd, then it should cast avatar
I have a macro that goes
/cast avatar
/use Knot of the ancient fury
When I use it and avatar is on CD but knot isn't it propely uses knot
so it "should" work for 2 trinkets
thats probably better because it rmoves the possibility of use 14 stopping the macro
/use 13
/use 14```
at worst 13 beeing on CD will prevent 14 to be use but I don't think so
or you could go
/cast avatar
/use [nomod] 13
/use [mod] 14
so depending on what trinket you want to you you can just press alt/shift/ctrl to use 14 instead of 13
I don't use them on wy warrior (but my binding are not very clean)
On my healers I only use
/cast [@mouserover, mod] spell macros
so I have everything on 3 buttons
but sometime I fatfinger tanq instead of dispell on my druid
Tested,
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Avatar```
Works without any breaks or failures, and on-use putting each other on 30s CD doesn't interfere with the timing either. Macro works. Thank you
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God Vial makes for some meaty thunderclaps though 😩 👌
For the non mythic peoples. Are you saving Your residum for the specific Azerite pieces or going for the random roll ?
Random roll, mathematically, is the superior choice by a pretty wide margin
random always
By the time you could save up for a specific piece, the trait will likely either have been nerfed already, or the tier is pretty much over and you wasted your time
Buying a specific peice saves you 1.8 and change rerolls
It’s 3 weeks of doing minimum 10 for random and 8 weeks ish for specific no?
If you're doing prog ATM I'd say randoms until 415 in every slot and then save for specific.
Early mythic drops good azerite too tho
Another bonus to random roll is if you do genuinely get screwed, you can scrap it and be up ~300 toward the next.
It's not a perfectly efficient feed, but it does sustain itself a little
Also with the way our traits are I feel like it's pretty difficult to truly get screwed
^
you should push M+ as high as possible for the bonus residum
BoM and DC are on almost everything, and if you're really desperate, pug M Champ for 1 of both.
If less than 385/only 4 rings do a 10 and scrap some for a random 400, otherwise go 415 random then specific pieces
Hard to get a bad piece too
Thanks guys , really helpful
Does spell reflect prevent applications of debuffs such as bursting like AMS?
It can if the spell that you are reflecting
Leaves a debuff
but it doesn't prevent stacks of bursting
So like if you reflect the dot on the third boss in Motherload.
That's not really how one determines if an ability reflectable
Too broad and general, not always true
There is a spreadsheet
mornin boys
no it's not
how strong is https://www.wowhead.com/spell=287605/ancients-bulwark this trait against the other?
You can sim it for DPS
And you can check how much %dmg reduction the vers grants you for survivability
I'd still be glad to hear what trinkets people pushing keys on prot are using 😃
for me
Which trinket is the first one
Knot of Ancient Fury
Still wouldnt sim for dps for trinkets may not be accurate still
I guess you do get to do it every 2nd week, though
Cannot get Rezans for the life of me
Anchor from Jaina is legit, both good
Oh the anchors good? Hrm 🤔
BIG damage
got a 410 rezans and a 400 seal of questionable(with socket+speed) after everyone logged off aafter m+'s
now i gotta find the next best thing for my 2nd trinket
anchor op
at 385? have yet to do anything raid wise on warrior 😦
How high do we value sockets (on gear with str - back in specific)?
aight ty
hey guys anyone else having issues with spell reflect weakaura?
does not work for me
I’ve had issues with it. A lot of times doesn’t pop up for me
callous IMO
talking to its creator now in wa discord
"please leave a comment or contact me on Discord (Marok#1248)."
yeh that WA was made by Marok
Even in the pins "I made this..."
Insufficient evidence
lol checking the pins in 2019
the virgin check the pins vs the Chad ping him in another server
what gem should i be using for mythic opulence, my cotank informed me he can solo P2 so what gem gives more dps?
Isnt it role specific so you cant take another roles gem?
yeah you are forced to pick diamond
^
U can pick diamond and then taunt off him anyways
cause oppulence is warriors time to shine
is there a loot spec to be to get better chances at the on use mastery trinket from turtles emissary?
some are but not the turtles ones
☝ there u go :^)
Has anyone seen a reccomended key binding setup, i.e. 1 taunt, 2 shield slam, etc. I wonder if there is an efficient setup.
nah that's deeply personal
there's no vanilla efficient setup, everyone's binds are completely different
ok cool ty
Do you play on a touch pad like me?
just make sure your binds arent something that is hard to reach or that would trigger a fat finger miss-press
lol that's a +10 right there
touch pad yikes
How do you guys determine what trinkets are best for situations?
what situations to be specific?
and i suppose you're talking about defensive trinkets
something along the lines of maths and experience
it's also very common sense
logs etc
Well just in general. And not exclusively, I got a 385 Tuskarr Sea Charm and don't really know if/when I should use it over a 385 Engine
How accurate are sims for prot?
not that much
@lusty grotto played on a MacBook Pro for years until this post Xmas. Can’t break the touchpad life.
what are your trinkets
Simple answer is just to not bother simming prot
Is it because tanks can't be properly simmed or ?
well that's a good talents right there teseus23
@obtuse shoal that and the fact that ours specifically isnt correctly portrayed
My trinkets are 385 charm, 385 engine, 370 howler, 400 butcher's block, fathoms obv.. 400 sporepods 🤢
Afaik...no one completed prot sims
and you want the highest dps?
On the backend
i suppose you can't go wrong with butcher block and engine for dps
we usually don't go for charm because it's very rare to get on a competitive ilvl
I cant remeber which one that is
yeah i cant either
Technically, block fathoms would prob be best bet
Fathoms is still competitive at a 400 ilvl standpoint
Which is absolutely crazy
oh yeah fathoms
Yeah I'm using block/fathoms and it feels pretty good. Sometimes engine because it feels fun
Yeah, I'd stick with your butcher block
And swap around fathom and engine
At least until you get more trinkets
for the record, the Tuskarr Charm IS pretty dang dope tho if you do manage to win the RNG lottery
How come?
I have a 400 charm, buut I also have 405 rezans and 400 vial for m+
Ya i got one, its pretty nice
Hoping I can get one to replace my 370 lion's strength 😬
honestly, the WQ trinket pool has some really sweet trinkets
I mostly use my alch trinket, R.A.G.E. and 1 other one though, my charm is 385
emblem of zandalar?
it's more haste but less duration
New trinkets from crucible raid pretty nice. Imagine how OP that tank trinket is
Just TC spam and heals boys
Like that rift codex 2.0
Party members better gtfo the way a tank rolling through 😂 thunder smash and drain life
Rift codex wasnt good though it was over 80% overhealing
It was pretty good in m+
I wish anger management reduced the cd of spell reflect for prot
that'd be broken
you know what would be sweet... tichondrius fang 2.0 pre nerf for them necrotic weeks
I know I'mjust glad prot is playable
when hasn't it been?
we were bootyclapping in here @ bfa release despite the reddit whines
It wasn't meta @lusty grotto 😏
heh
If it's not meta, it's not playable, duh
Would giving us MBM back in any form be op?
true
We'll probably be lucky to not have our damage nerfed at some point, so I think asking for anything else would be pushing our luck XD
but are we viable?
BDK still more represented in M+; we're obviously not viable. Don't ask silly questions.
that word gets me every time in WoW context
the only thing not viable in WoW is having a derp behind the keys
I was only kidding Blade; you don't have to personally attack me
although, considering the few guilds ive raided with...that may not be true
to be fair, Ghash, I don't consider myself to be viable 😃 I still overlap LS and SB all the time haha
XD Who needs to be viable. We're still prot bois
I actually have Shield Block macro'd to Last Stand
Wouldn't want to accidentally use the spell properly
hehehe
Still working on a WA that automatically talent swaps me back to HR and Vengeance if I accidentally click off those talents too. 😏
Doing my part to keep the community perception alive
Alright, I'm done memeing now
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fighting my own muscle memory is the hardest part to prot
I still use IP directly after avatar
even thought I started using BoM the day 8.1 hit
well I do that because I don't wanna overcap
same
that's my reason now 😛
because for all i know that revenge is gonna be free
ye
the lurkers gift and idol(130k heal 0.o ) look spicy
just do more mplus :C
That's just too logical
by the way, 73% mastery during avatar 😮
Still have a chestpiece that's 360 :/
@warm plinth thats impressive
That's one word for it heh
well he does not play the game enough as much as as he is here in discord
I haven't really gotten into it yet tbh. I didn't even really play my war until about a month ago and still haven't really gone all-in on it
That is actually 100% true.
I'm in Discord way more than I'm in-game 😂
ghash probably knew more stuff about prot warrior tanking than most prots before he got even his warrior to max level
well if you are efficient with your time you can get 385 equipped in every slot without needing to raid or do much hard content
Yeah honestly most of my WoW enjoyment comes from learning about everything and sharing my knowledge. I get a sick thrill out of teaching people things about content I don't even do 😂
Yeah I have enough residium to buy two 415 pieces....but haven't gotten another to know what two slots to buy D:
Yeah...luck would have it that you'd buy 2 pieces and then get a copy of one of them or something XD
shoulders
Shoulders is definitely a smart buy since the chances of DC+BoM are pretty high. I think all the shoulders have DC on them at least.
10 mythic bosses so far, 1 415 weapon off grong, no other loot 😦 bonus rolled a 415 bracer after cache gave me a 410. Then bonus rolled a 415 diamond, when normal gave me a 420 with socket first week >.>
Dang, no shield yet?
Poor you lol
no, our bad shaman both got one
Nice...
yeah, I cried, shaman pulled 15k on conclave kill >.>
I told raid leader they need to stay in for first boss now to trade me one XD
😂
witch?
we should have a bot that replies to item comparison screenshots
"We have the technology"
thatd be hard cause reading screenshot contents is kind of difficult
is it allways ilvl over socket?
socket=10 ilvls for ring, 5 ilvls for gear and 0 ilvls for weapon/shield
Except for a 5 ilevel difference on some slots and about 10 ilevels for rings, yeah, usually. You can easily calculate it yourself by adding stam+str+stat 1+stat 2 on each piece, add 40 to the socketed piece, and see which one has a higher total.
i wouldn't straight add up secondaries with primaries
like for a ring its ok because the only primary you gain is stam
but adding up str + stam + armor on the same level as secondaries doesn't seem right
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Frankly I think you're right and I really wouldn't ever drop ilevel for a socket on anything that wasn't a ring personally, even if it did have 5 more total stat (because let's face it, 5 total stat is insignificant anyway)
i think kaege has a good system
so for example 410 vs 400 with socket would be 410 vs 405
so the 410 wins
well i mean it's the same system i usually follow but yeah
355 Blockades or 385 Tuskar Sea Charm -- I know the blockades is above its ilvl -- thoughts?
Sea Charm
Blockades is definitely worth a little extra ilvl if you're just looking for survivability but not 30 ilvl against a decent trinket
cool thanks
if you're an alchemist its also 100% worth it to craft the 415 tidal stone
having it in your kit is great
meaning being able to mix it with other trinkets and whatnot
The boost to health potions is really good for this week's M+ affixes too
its also cheap af to make if you are on a high pop server. I'm on us proudmoore and paid maybe 15k in mats because I was lazy and didnt wanna farm
nice
Lol way cheaper than crafting rings.
wtf lol. we're on the same server filmstrips
I've been playing a bunch of fury lately, boiz. Feelsbad. I miss prot. 😦
i feel like im the only warrior on my server
what kinda traits does prot want for +10 spamming
1 DC 3 BoM
tis in the guides
And enjoy
section 2.2.1
@stray kiln 3x bom 1x DC 2x bfi or if is good for tyr/fort respectively
Blood sport gets a lot of value during grievous
3x bom 1x DC is the baseline though
Assuming were talking about competing 415s, we still take Ilvl over traits
thanks a lot :)
kinda hate that gimmicky "hehe now u take dmg xD" shit
already know that's going to get real old in prog
overwhelming power is pretty bad for prot right?
really? even with the stacks going down on dmg taken?
Yeah, there's an ICD on stack loss. You can only lose like 2 stack per second
stacks*
Bloodsport + leech gear is the big brain play for m+. I have like 3% leech and it contributes to around 8% of my overall healing.
All 3 of my azerite give DC on first ring, other options are 2 BoM and 1 IF. right now I have 2 DC and 1 BoM. does that seem right?
i agree with deswind i have 6% leach and its 14% of my healing
Sorry, 1 BoM and 2 IF are the other options voer 3 DC. Have 1 BoM and 1 CR on innter rings
but i dont have bloodspoort
slightly prot related: does anybody have problems between using GottaGoFast and weak auras?
for some reason every time i use demo shout, my gottagofast gives me that fat error window
tradewinds or callous reprisal?
Callous reprisal
hey guys, can anyone share advice on engineering traits? I wonder what's better, absorbotron or the auto-self-cauterizer
how often do you meet bleeds in dungeons?
@primal crypt
U lose 2 a second instead of 1 /s
It has an internal cap to how many it can lose
Oh wow my discord didn't update
That was in reference to OP on prot
Re 3rd ring engie traits
Both are very good
Bleed removal loses a lot of value if ur a dwarf
Otherwise both are good
I am a dwarf 😃 so I guess its absorbotron. thanks!
i figured out my own problem regardign WA and GottaGoFast, marok's deafening crash weak aura was breaking GottaGoFast for some reason
or vice versa
is a 400 jes howler any good for us ?
do i have better chance at a good trinket from Emissary if I switch loot spec to Furyt?
nope
okie dokie
prot can still get the ritual feather of unn ak which is essentially another bom
Is alchemist stone worth creating?
yes
@oblique garnet oh boi
that needs to be pinned
overall?
TOP kek
this probably is better push week than last week tbh
yeah, this week is easy as hell
nah
suh fam, i'm trying to learn prot for general m+ key purposes and was arms last tier with a small amount of fury right now (i'm feral main). Curious about survivability trinkets and how to measure them...is blockades still a decent trinket for surviving vs dps trinks? have a 375 syringe i could replace
have you read the guides in the #268491842637660160 section?
Asuh.
Okay my bad, i'll read it now. Wasn't sure if there was a herodamage or sim like tool/resource for tanks since i'm new to it
not anyone that is particular effectiv4e
simming for survival is inherently difficult
that being said, blockades hits above it's weightclass
you could prob get away with swapping those from a purely defensive perspective. However, remember that Blockades gives little in the way of offense
Good evening
is there a weakaura that shows my ignore pain absorbt amount? No icon, no bar, just a number with the absorb?
I couldnt find one on wago unfortunately
oh nvm, i figured it out. took one that had an icon, copied the custom part and put it into a text weakaura, that worked
when getting the tortollan world querst reward hoping for a trinket, is prot loot spec the go to or one of the dps
doesnt matter
Out of curiosity. If you were to only have azerite from m+ (415 from residuum) how worse off would it be compared to having optimal raid azerite? This is assuming 1 DC residuum piece
If ur comparing sim ilvls doesnt matter
Having the "right" traits won't make or break you
I mean, you can get optimal traits from the vendor afaik. There's no real disadvantage that I'm aware of, other than it's pretty much guaranteed to take longer barring phenomenal luck with random pieces.
So if I were to just gear via m+ I wouldn’t be substantially at a disadvantage compared to raid
Basically is what I wanted to do since alt for fun
As far as what you can obtain, no. It'll just take a lot longer to obtain them.
I have good azerites for both raid and m+
Or in the case of randoms, will rely on a lot of luck to get the perfect traits
and only one piece is from raid
Except shoulders, which are guaranteed to have DC, and are fairly likely to have one of the other strong traits
Is Diamond-Laced Refracting Prism good for warrior? Like is it "bis"?
it is
Defensively it's BiS
absolutely broken
How so
it scales with haste
Oh
yeah
Its dope for sure
You said it's bis defensively but would it be worth using over other trinkets?
I have Ramping Amplitude Gigavolt Engine as well
It's strong enough that I'd personally find it hard to unequip during any challenging content.
It’s like 20% of my overall healing in dungeon. It’s strong
Gash got it imo
If ur doing anything where dying is a concern you should ne using it
Otherwise it's not doing anything
Alright thanks for the info guys :) one of my friends who's a dh tank is trying to tell me it's not bis and it's garbage lol
Yeah well tell him hes playing vdh 🤷
with tripple blood sport would it be worth using never surrender over bolster?
No
bonded soul or bloodsport?
Going to gear another tank. My i do such high dps as arms so i am gonna do that in raids for The time beeing. Feels sad :(
lol
Yeah I know.
xD
ty
In mythic plus does bonded souls have a place? Or is it prot trait regardless?
was asking for m+
Bloodsport is legit one of if not our best survivability traits
The only thing about bloodsport is that it provides no offensive value only pure defensive
So depending on content it’s not desirable
Bonded souls is meh
^ what bin said
I've seen some people run it in M+, I haven't had a chance to try it yet, though
