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chilly brook
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Or I can have a priest and they handle all the dispels

knotty wagon
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for current content

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on what we can reflect

chilly brook
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Yes

warm plinth
knotty wagon
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I should read the faq

undone sun
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Lol

knotty wagon
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and not be that guy

chilly brook
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That is why it exists 🙃

knotty wagon
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I'm new here, sorry friends

chilly brook
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@rain tapir BLUF, play what you think looks cool and you’ll be no worse off

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It’s chill @knotty wagon I just like to remind people that there is a place that could answer the question they have and possibly others that might spring to mind 😉

knotty wagon
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How does reflecting bestial throw work

final mist
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Pop SR before he picks you up.

shut summit
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just dont take damage

knotty wagon
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Does he not pick you up?

shut summit
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doesnt do anything to boss

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still throws you, just dont take the dmg of the actual grip

final mist
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^

knotty wagon
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Okie ^^

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Too bad it doesnt throw the boss instead

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lmao

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that'd be hilarious

shut summit
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melee would love that im sure

chilly brook
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Omegalul

warm plinth
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It was funny the first couple times it happened on Dargrul but it would get annoying fast probably.

knotty wagon
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Reflecting buster cannon

chilly brook
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That reminds me of Dagul SR

knotty wagon
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does that hit the boss?

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or does it redirect?

chilly brook
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Spell reflecting the boss into the lava 40 feet away was amazing

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I used to troll people so hard

warm plinth
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It did get annoying though tbh

prisma ruin
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Sense did you run devastator on jaina just for pure dps?

shut summit
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yes

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and reflecting buster cannon just deflects it

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does nothing to boss, does nothing to you

prisma ruin
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ahh thought i was missing something

shut summit
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but consumes SR

knotty wagon
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Hmm ok, is there anyting we can reflect that does damage to bosses?

chilly brook
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Quite a few

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Depends on content

shut summit
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nothing in raid aside from like first 2 bosses

chilly brook
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Most m+ bosses you can

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Like sense said though not raids

astral crystal
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when you reflect without actually reflecting the spell for dmg it's a deflect

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that's what you do to the buster cannon, deflect it

chilly brook
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There’s a sheet in resources

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But like off the top of my head third boss in shrine is a good example

knotty wagon
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im reading the sheet

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doesnt say if it does damage or not

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just if it functions

chilly brook
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3rd boss in ML pretty sure you can reflect the dot onto her

shut summit
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yes

chilly brook
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Can reflect cyclone strike on first boss in Seth for damage

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Basically what I’m saying is there are quite a few that you can

stoic pilot
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is there any way to check how much damage spell reflect did to a boss overall?

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was curious how much I added on 3rd boss motherlode and then again for first boss in temple

warm plinth
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Should be able to look at damage the boss did to themselves

inland mesa
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why isn't galvazzt not resetting stacks of necrotic?

olive fulcrum
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Is he casting/channeling

rain tapir
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any zandalari in here, what loa did u pick and why? kinda thinking salami, krawga or kimbul

umbral forge
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I picked Bwonsamdi since he fit my transmog the most

rain tapir
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does it even work , any dmg and any healing?

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or is it just w/e

umbral forge
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hang on I should have some data

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lemme log in

rain tapir
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sweet

warm plinth
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I have heard Kimbul does not proc often enough to be worth it.

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Most like Pa'ku or Bwonsamdi will be the one we would use

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likely*

umbral forge
rain tapir
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ohh lord that is actully giga bad

umbral forge
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looking over my logs it seems to do 1-2% of my total damage

rain tapir
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hmm then it might not be so bad

umbral forge
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on Grong it was 1.3%
On Jadefire 1.5%

warm plinth
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That's probably fairly in line with most other racials outside of like the orc and troll actives

umbral forge
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Regeneratin' is really nice in m+ by the way

warm plinth
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Oh? How have you been using it?

umbral forge
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well, for tanking I haven't found a good application this week cause Necrotic except healing up between pulls

warm plinth
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Yeah that's fair

umbral forge
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but as fury it's really nice to jump away and use regeneratin.
I used it on the first boss in Motherlode after a static pulse dot ran out to heal to full, tank was bad and let the golem soak coins so it hit for ~200k overall

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so it saved my life

olive fulcrum
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It’d be good to shockwave and regen?

umbral forge
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Oh yeah for sure. Maybe jump away and regen, too

warm plinth
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You could probably get 2 ticks during a shockwave

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Which is like 33ish percent HP

umbral forge
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which is very nice

warm plinth
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Yeah for sure

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Well actualy, is it on the GCD?

sick sentinel
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If u can't get the full cast just fucking kill urself

warm plinth
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actually*

sick sentinel
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Like it's not hard to get it off in m+

umbral forge
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also if you get the darkshore elite set /pvp elite set the feet hide the toes.

warm plinth
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If it is, you'd only get 1 tick during shockwave

umbral forge
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yeah its on the GCD

sick sentinel
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Just let ur group get aggro

umbral forge
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but like, im fury right now cause doing brawler guild

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every tick is the same

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I thought it was going to increase over time

warm plinth
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Oh like start with a 5% tick and go up each tick until it totaled 100%?

umbral forge
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Yeah that's what I thought

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but it just straight up does 16% 16% 16% 16% 16% 16% healing

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so if you can get 2 seconds off, that's 32% healing

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or well

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not 16% precisely but still

undone sun
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it is on gcd

warm plinth
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Is the first tick instant or after 1 second?

olive fulcrum
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Feelsgoodman alliance

umbral forge
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gimme 10 sec

undone sun
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i would imagine 1 second in

warm plinth
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I imagine with a 6 sec dur it's after 1 second

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Otherwise it'd be 5 seconds

undone sun
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`` Mod Total Health Regen

Amount: +16%every 1 sec``

warm plinth
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So used poorly you could actually get no healing at all from it

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But when you can use it, it's pretty damn strong really

undone sun
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pretty much

umbral forge
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yeah

warm plinth
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Do they have pretty good animations?

umbral forge
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I can use it in my next brawler's fight and record it if there's an interst for it

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Yeah they do

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yeah after 1 second

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correct

dense flame
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Do you guys prefer a mw or Druid healer for m+? I feel like I prefer a solid mw.

olive fulcrum
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Druid

dense flame
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What makes you prefer Druid?

olive fulcrum
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Between the vortex, typhoon or mass entang which are great in their own ways, IB is the biggest reason, allows me to roll CDs well and do big pulls

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Cocoon is too long of a CD for me

dense flame
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So I guess it’s probably on me to figure out how to interact better with a Druid healer vs mw.

umbral forge
warm plinth
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I feel like you should play with what you're comfortable with and what works best with your group.

olive fulcrum
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Yea, also keep in mind the top groups are using prot Druid mostly

warm plinth
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Thanks Jettom

umbral forge
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I don't regret it at all. I'll probably make all my characters Zandalari, they're so effin good

potent anvil
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life cocoon is a very weak external. if you wanna call it that. ironbark is imo way better to use. i would call for cocoon differently than i would call ironbark in m+. even then i prefer ironbark

warm plinth
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Dude they look so badass

umbral forge
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all transmog works on them

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literally all

warm plinth
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I'm definitely gonna have to redo my horde warrior now 😭

undone sun
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i mean cocoon is a healing booster, it wont save from bigger hits

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oh wait

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there is an absorb to cocoon

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🙃

umbral forge
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could we potentially do a regeneratin' in a life cocoon?

potent anvil
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yeah, it just gets eaten by almost anything in higher keys. i dunno

dense flame
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Okay. This week, just curious how you are doing large pulls and staying in to contribute a fair amount of dmg. Like for our group we have been using darkness, stun 1, save stun 2 for high necrotic stacks (20-25), then I can leap and kite.

undone sun
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yeah, depends how long the bubble lasts

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it's dependent on the healers spell power

warm plinth
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It's a pretty substantial absorb; I think it would be better if the healing increase lasted regardless of the presence of the absorb though.

potent anvil
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if you want to use cocoon this week in particular, probably ask for it early or at the start of a big pull. necrotic reduces its absorb so it becomes weaker the longer the pull goes

olive fulcrum
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Run with ele or boomy and you’ll be able to do decent dmg whenever their things up

dense flame
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I see, I can appreciate that difference in external.

warm plinth
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Although either way it's pretty meh for necrotic unless you use it as Deswind described.

potent anvil
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i see warr tanks do necrotic differently. when i was doing a 20 FH earlier, i usually just stay in and dps while rotating defensives. i usually just leave/kite when im at like 40-45+ stacks lol

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some warr tanks would leave as early as 20 and kite

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im also using a lot of crit gear with alch trinket and block to boost my parry

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i get like 35%~ parry with procs, pretty nice to negate necrotic stacks

ivory light
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new prot warrior so probs doesnt mean much, but at 375 in 11-13s today was leavin at like 25ish stacks, could probs do 30-40 easily if 400 ilvl

open bluff
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i just stand and rotate defensives until fireblood's off cd wadner

warm plinth
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I've always preferred the method of rotating defensives and staying in as long as possible, even before I could remove it with my racial :p

ivory light
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what racial allows you to remove it?

open bluff
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fireblood/stoneform

warm plinth
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Stoneform/Fireblood

ivory light
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oh alliance

warm plinth
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Dwarf and Dark Iron Dwarf

dense flame
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I guess depends on your healer. I tried doing that during a 16 FH. Worked out some pulls. Is there a way to help healer out during the high stacks? Just shield wall? Or reflect?

potent anvil
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imagine not being alliance for necrotic 🤔

open bluff
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or have a pally bop you and have a cancelaura macro

umbral forge
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I think I have a pretty efficient way of dealing with necrotic

warm plinth
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Reflect doesn't do anything since it's a bleed now.

dense flame
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Cause I got some pulls where I have been in the 35-45 range. Just felt iffy.

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Ah kk

potent anvil
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my healer has an understanding...the moment he sees im at like 40+ stacks, he just gives up healing and dps's. its pretty much on me to either run or die

ivory light
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at what point do you think handling 40 becomes doable lol. like I said, just started doing m+ today on prot @ 375, in 11-13s had to leave at like 20-25 stacks

open bluff
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my favorite part of necrotic week is healers trying to tell me when to kite on my monk... when there's only a single mob on me

warm plinth
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Well you're going to have to kite earlier if you're 375 doing a 13

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Just because you're going to be taking a ton of damage

ivory light
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yeah ofc, but wondeirn at what point they become a lot easier to do, thinkin like 400ish? which should be like tomorrow.

open bluff
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the only "wrong" way to handle necrotic is the one where you get killed doing it

potent anvil
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depends how much dmg you can mitigate. im pretty geared (417), so doesnt seem too bad. on lower keys ive went all the way to like 60 stacks and just die to the dot lol

undone sun
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and since it's a bleed armor 👏 mitigates 👏 nothing 👏

warm plinth
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Yeah it's a lot about feel. You need to be able to survive the DoT and any casts that get through while you're kiting. If you can, and the healer can top you up before you start getting hammered again, you did it right.

potent anvil
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bleed damage deswind

ivory light
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gotcha

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atm gear is just holdin me back a lot for higher keys lol

open bluff
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necrotic is ultimately down to what you and your healer(s) are comfortable with; it's usually better to start kiting earlier and have a healer tell you they've got you

warm plinth
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Yeah, shield will be really important as you start doing higher keys too

open bluff
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than wait too late and die

ivory light
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hopin to push from 377 to maybe 400-405 tomorrow, and try some 15's

dense flame
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Yeah I suppose that was why I proposed the mw/Druid preference. I was able to take higher stacks without noticing it during a run with our mw vs Druid.

warm plinth
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Your block % is incredibly important, so you need a higher shield asap

ivory light
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what do you mean by shield? like actual equipped shield? or health shield

warm plinth
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Your actual equipped shield

ivory light
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ah yeah, my shield is completely cucking me right now

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340

warm plinth
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Yikes

open bluff
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and honestly, the dot isn't what's going to kill you until you're at 60+ stacks; it does pretty negligible damage

undone sun
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oof

warm plinth
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That's definitely not helping in the +13s XD

open bluff
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the healing/absorb reduction will fuck you up first

ivory light
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nah, they went surprisingly well, chested all of them. just lots of sketch pulls lol

dense flame
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I appreciate the commentary boys and girls.

potent anvil
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well the throughput of a monk is pretty good, they can heal you thru some 20 or so stacks of necrotic if they just tunnel you.

ivory light
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hopin for maybe a 400 shield tomorrow, we'll see though.

warm plinth
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I'll hate you, so let me know

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Still have a 380 myself XD

open bluff
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395 from the only key my warrior's done this season

warm plinth
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🙃

ivory light
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lol, ill be spammin lower keys all day with the groups tryin to grind one out, and 2 chances cause shammy in group

dark junco
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Is the ''bursh it off'' passive any good ? can't math lol xD

open bluff
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yes

warm plinth
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Yeah it's pretty good

open bluff
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it's a decent portion of your self healing

dark junco
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so worth going from dranei to zandalari ?

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kultiran

undone sun
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up to you

warm plinth
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Regular Draenei?

dark junco
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(god I can't think tonight)

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yeah

warm plinth
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Yeah for sure

dense flame
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Also, does anyone have a wa for external cds and stuns and like tracking players meta or major dps cds?

undone sun
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racials are mostly marginal anyways

ivory light
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Debating swapping to Zandalari from Highmountain

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just cause it looks so much better

warm plinth
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I'm going to on my hordie

dense flame
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So I can see at a glance where my team is at.

warm plinth
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I think Tehr's Raid CDs can see all that @dense flame

dark junco
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I mean 2% of damage seems like a decent selfheal no ?

potent anvil
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i use Tehr's RaidCDs WA to track externals/stuns. im sure there are better ones though, like zentracker or maybe even just ERT

warm plinth
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You can add spells to Tehr's if you need to as well

dense flame
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Thank you.

warm plinth
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Yeah 2% is pretty solid. It's like an HP credit card with cash back 😂

ivory light
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are there any haste %'s I should be aiming for? ATM since so low Ilvl I went with versa enchants for dmg reduction, but lookin at other prot warriors im at like 12% haste where it looks like tons are at 20s

warm plinth
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Haste is a better defensive stat than vers

ivory light
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only care about m+, not raiding

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gotcha, so switch it all to haste

warm plinth
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There are no breakpoints; focus on ilevel above all else. If it's equal ilevel, choose what has the most haste

ivory light
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kk, so ilvl then haste. sounds good

olive fulcrum
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As a pure tank haste > vers = mast > crit imo

ivory light
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is ilvl always more than haste? like say 400 haste piece, or 405 no haste, or even 410 no haste

olive fulcrum
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Ilvl better in almost every case

warm plinth
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You can sim from a DPS perspective but typically in general, more total stats will be better than more of a specific stat.

ivory light
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alrighty, so then defensive wise most stats are pretty close

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with haste ahead a bit

warm plinth
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Yeah

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Make sure you use your brain with the sims though, as they aren't perfect yet. We do have an updated APL (not sure if it's in the weekly build but it should be in the nightly) at this point, and a lot of trinkets and azerite traits have been added.

olive fulcrum
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Idk about anyone else but I personally prefer like 5 Ilvl lower if there’s better sub stats but the reasoning is that crit doesn’t necessarily lower my dmg taken so

undone sun
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depends on the slot

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shields are without a doubt ilevel over haste

ivory light
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yeah, trinket wise atm I dont have fuckall, gonna go and get the 415 alch trinket tomorrow as it seems decent

undone sun
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but lower stat allotment like cloaks and rings

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sure

olive fulcrum
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Yea it’s generally very minute changes

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Also the alch trinket is pretty good for tanks and

ivory light
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thats what ive heard, which is why im gonna get at least 400 version tomorrow, wont be able to afford 415 right away.

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will replace a 350 though so either way itll be huge

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for the prot war az trait spreadsheet in pins, best way to calculate actual % of attacks blocked?

warm plinth
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I think logs is the only way to tell that.

ivory light
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also with what it says, is 2 BoM still good, or does BoM drop importance after 1?

warm plinth
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BoM is sought after for the mastery mostly, not the IP, so it doesn't really lose value after the first one.

ivory light
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gotcha

olive fulcrum
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Most of the top warrs run 3 BoM if they can the last time I checked

potent anvil
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Having 3x BoM makes avatar like a mini defensive CD. Its pretty big

olive fulcrum
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3BM and 1 DC was pretty standard

warm plinth
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Yeah, gives you a lot of crit block % and makes your IPs bigger via increasing your attack power.

ivory light
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awesome, ive got 2 atm, but have no DC currently which is killing me

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gonna run norm and heroic tomorrow to try and get a DC piece

olive fulcrum
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First boss mythic drops a pretty decent piece and it’s puggable

ivory light
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yeah, thatll be at end of week, I'd love to but only 377 rn lmao

warm plinth
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He's only 375 so probably isn't getting into mythic any time soon

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Or 377, whatever :p

ivory light
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pushin 400-405 tomorrow and mythic tomorrow night/next day most likely

warm plinth
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I forget how fast you can gear when you actually do content 😅

olive fulcrum
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Start your own group and get carried :^)

knotty wagon
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Right? im 411.38 with just heroic and first mythic boss

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its crazy

warm plinth
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My war is 384 atm but I haven't put any effort into gearing

ivory light
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Was 363 couple hours ago with no intent of playin the alt, now group wants me to gear it for sellin 15's and after tankin 3 12's up to 378 lol

warm plinth
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Just WQs, darkshore, that type of thing

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I bet tanking a +12 at 363 with a 340 shield was fun for your healer lol

ivory light
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it was super scuffed, still chested it though lmao

solid fox
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Are the new races actually worth anything

warm plinth
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I guess this is a pretty good week to do a dungeon undergeared since you kite anyway

ivory light
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the real issue with that one was I just couldnt keep aggro for shit from our DPS lol

olive fulcrum
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Monks have high af through put as long as necrotic was low

knotty wagon
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Kul tirans kinda ugly, racial seems alright

warm plinth
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Yeah, that would be rough

ivory light
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but aside from not bein able to keep aggro on that one, and 3rd boss was just trucking me (siege), it wasnt terrible

warm plinth
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What I love most about my Kul Tiran thus far is that for a large race, they aren't slow-feeling, if that makes sense.

undone sun
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100%

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taurens feel slow as fuck

warm plinth
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Like if you play a Tauren, they feel super slow. But Kul Tirans don't have that feel to them

solid fox
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Are the racials 'game-changing' in any way though?

warm plinth
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Nah

ivory light
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Ye, i love tauren, but havent switched to zandalari yet

solid fox
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Had a look the other day, and they looked pretty cool but nothing major

ivory light
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I heard zandalari have tauren sized mounts, anyone know if thats true?

warm plinth
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Well technically the smaller races have larger mounts

ivory light
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Gnomes/Tauren previously had largest mounts

warm plinth
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Yeah, I was gonna say my gnome monk has huge ass mounts XD

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Overcompensating 😬

ivory light
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is there any good website/resource for finding what does physical /what does magical damage,ie when to SB /IP optimally, or just trial/error

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seems like a TON is physical, so basically been keeping SB on CD, but wonderin if theres anything that really seems Phys and is magical or vice versa

warm plinth
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Well, with block you have to be careful. Just because it's physical doesn't make it blockable. And just because it's magic doesn't mean it's NOT blockable.

olive fulcrum
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Shrine first area is pretty shit outside of that not really anything that comes to mind where SB < IP

warm plinth
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3rd and 4th boss in ML are the only other things I can think of

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Since their autos are magic

ivory light
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gotcha, yeah seems so far its basically SB as much as possible just since so much melee, and IP when lots of ranged/mage

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but seems like a lot of times its having both SB and IP up

warm plinth
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Typically you just use IP to supplement SB though. They aren't either/or type spells

olive fulcrum
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Yea generally you have both up

warm plinth
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Even if SB isn't useful for defensive purposes (like the situations we mentioned), it still adds to your damage

olive fulcrum
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Last stand during Sb downtime with IP does the same job

ivory light
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think having more haste will help a ton with having both up, noticing at 12% or so its a bit sketchy

warm plinth
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The biggest reasons people tend to feel rage-starved is not using Demo Shout enough and wasting rage via IP overcapping

ivory light
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really want to try for the AD trinket tomorrow, seems OP

warm plinth
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With 12% you should have 27% in any normal M+ pack by being close to melee DPS and enemy mobs

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Which is plenty haste to feel comfortable

olive fulcrum
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^ I tend to overcap morethen being starved

warm plinth
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Rezan's is very strong

ivory light
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also seen couple people running devastator, is that better than booming voice now?

warm plinth
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No

ivory light
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kk

little herald
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I got the trinket from AD this week and I can confirm it's very good

warm plinth
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They're running Devastator for ST parses in raids; that's it

olive fulcrum
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It’s for parses in raid

outer dew
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@sand egret call me the #8 NA US Alliance bear

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tyvm

ivory light
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after reenchanting to haste/dropping 5 il on a ring for haste, adn regemming to haste, sitting comfortable at 20% haste

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38% with the 5 people around

warm plinth
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I'd feel pretty comfortable at 20% haste too lol

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I think I'm at like 13

ivory light
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18 crit/20 haste/5 vers big rip, 21 mastery

rough egret
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Heh

warm plinth
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I really wouldn't concern myself with where your secondaries are at if I were you

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It's an easy trap to fall into that doesn't really have a point

ivory light
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atm only 2 pieces dont have haste lol, but doesnt mean anything since im 378 rn and replacing everything tomorrow anyways

rough egret
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Im at 20haste,13crit,2vers,40mastery :D

warm plinth
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What enchant is on your weapon btw?

ivory light
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quick nav

warm plinth
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Ok good

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I was thinking because you had the vers gems you may have done the vers enchant as well

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Er, vers enchants

ivory light
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had no enchant on wep, just got it last key i did

warm plinth
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Ah

ivory light
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400 socketd FeelsGoodMan

warm plinth
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Nice

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Mine's 360 😦

ivory light
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bigwigs decent for tanking? havent used DBM in ages, but also havent tanked raids in a while lol, just m+, last I tanked DBM was still better for raids

open bluff
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they're both fine; bigwigs isn't as in your face as dbm

ivory light
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alrighty, then i stick with the better bossmods

open bluff
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the main thing with bigwigs is you need a separate addon (littlewigs) for dungeons

ivory light
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yeah, I use littlewigs for m+, jsut wasnt sure how good bw was for raid tanking

ionic fern
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It's good.

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It doesn't babysit you as much as DBM does but i prefer that.

open bluff
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personally i prefer bigwigs because it's less annoying and the bigwigs voice pack will actually call out ability names instead of just toss up a sound effect when something's coming

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which is a big game changer in m+

undone sun
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+1 for bigwigs

solid fox
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Anyone got a quick IP weakaura that isn't buggy as shit?

ionic fern
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There's one in the prot section

modest wedge
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anyone switching to kul tiran humans for what sweet hps?

ionic fern
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It's not that big - checked logs yesterday.

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It's constantly there but nothing marginal.

modest wedge
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you have logs to give?

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or picture :P

sick sentinel
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hey guys i've got a question about a skip in sots..... my group tried it several times the last 2 weeks but it's not working -.- we want to skip the second living current group (2 casters + living current just down the second stairs) we dont have a shroud. we tried walking on the wall the farest away from tis group but after 2 people passed through the living current just gets teleported inside our group -.-

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is the skip only possible with invis/shroud ?

modest wedge
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you can just skip it by walking through the torch on the stairs - opposite side ofc

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jumping between rocks and torchs is the way

sick sentinel
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ah thank you

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guess thats our fail ^^

ionic fern
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This is some random prot that uses it

sick sentinel
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we tried cuddling the torch but moving at the stairs

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thanks! we got sots again yesterday and will test it today 😃

modest wedge
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@ionic fern 56.6k almost 100% uptime and 2 minute fight... yeah not worth it

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Yes, u must not touch the stairs its in the aggro area

ionic fern
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As i said..constantly there but pretty marginal.

ivory light
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Zandalari any good racials for us? Debating swapping from Highmountain

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specifically for M+

sick sentinel
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zandalari racial will break even if you got a dot on you, afaik

honest frigate
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We still take 5 ilvls over socket+leech correct?

ivory light
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ye i was thinkin more if any of the Loa's were good

ionic fern
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Nothing too big @ivory light racials are not ment to be "uber-duber strong".
I don't know if Kimbul stacks on AoE but Bwomsandi is only a ST one for example.

crisp pecan
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SO good to stick to paku

orchid token
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is there any good sources for what damage is blockable, like there is for whqt's reflectable/

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for example - big brute aoe in KR? blockable?

ionic fern
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Only for m+ bosses and some general info - nothing for trash afaik.

neon tangle
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@ivory light there are no particularly broken racials on the horde side

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Meld and fireblood are arguably pretty broken though

mossy narwhal
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Wow the 2 good racials on alliance side

orchid token
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LFD racial also pretty great for damage, regular dwarf just as good as stoneskin

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human stun removal or gnome snare removal also pretty useful in some situations

mossy narwhal
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Every horde racial is good though unless i have forgotten a bad one

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Ofc the dwarf one is good, nelf one is useful in some situations but broken? Just look at how useful the belf one is lol

orchid token
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I would take meld, stoneskin, fireblood, or LFD over any of the horde racials

mossy narwhal
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Id take belf

orchid token
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belf is situationally great but not very general purpose

mossy narwhal
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You can dispel at will. That is amazing

orchid token
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amazing for things you need to dispel, sure

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some dungeons dont have a single thing to dispel

mossy narwhal
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There are quite a lot

orchid token
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and in some the things you need to dispel arent particularly benefical to be able to

mossy narwhal
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My warr has fireblood and the bonus to strength is probably OTT but whatever 😆

orchid token
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idk, I did keys on my belf warrior for a long time before making it kul tiran with this sale

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arcne torrent is overrated

ivory light
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I'd take the only horde racial that matters, not shit pugs

orchid token
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classic example, kings rest

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those little shadow dudes

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torrenting those feels super good

ivory light
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and actual population that is able to do content and be competent

orchid token
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but in terms of real actual impact on the success of the dungeon is almost nonexistent

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there's little difference between torrenting them and just using zerker rage to shockwave them and the group hits them once each and they pop

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the only three uses I found for it that I thought "fuck this is amazing" is water bubbles in tol dagor, bone shields in underrot, and most of shrine

mossy narwhal
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I mean, you can purge the watery dome on mobs in tol which is nice. A few things to dispel and it is useful but because i don't have it i cannot list them

orchid token
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everywhere else i'd put it solidly below LFD racial because more damage is always nice while dispelling is not always useful

mossy narwhal
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Yea was just typing that

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Ive heard LFD is op but not used it yet

orchid token
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like torrenting the KR adds probably saves you, what, 5 seconds vs just zerker rage + burst them down

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you save that much by being able to meld skip along with your healer instead of having to die

mossy narwhal
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Them again, 5 secs can be a failed key 🙄

orchid token
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sure, but like i said, shadowmeld saves that

mossy narwhal
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Not with these new timers tho

orchid token
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LFD will save much more than that in DPS alone

mossy narwhal
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I still miss my bull rush 😆

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Not sure how much dmg LFD deal when they die. It says they explode dealing holy dmg

ionic fern
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They deal quite a bit.

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I can't find the logs for it right now but if you hit a ton of enemies with it you deal a ton of dmg.

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😂

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Not that it matters since it's a wipe then.

crisp pecan
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already went 1.8->1.9 on my rio

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yesterday only

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i hate raiding, doing this only for gear

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meh

mossy narwhal
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I mean if there is a bres free i'd just write it off as a way to increase dps 😆 i meant to do it guys i swear

umbral forge
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How do you guys start pushing keys?
What pushes you to go from "a weekly 10" to higher keys?
Best I've done is a Tol Dagor 12 on time. I'd like to start pushing proper

orchid token
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just start doing them

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theres no magic process

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you do them and if you fail you work out why you failed, if there was something you could have done to prevent it you learn for next time, and you try again

ivory light
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what 2 prof's you guys think are best for 415s? thinkin alch trinket and blacksmith

crisp pecan
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i use engi/alch

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cant complain

ivory light
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is the helm decent for us?

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or for brez etc

crisp pecan
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Helm mostly

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cmpetetive traits

ionic fern
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I'm just a really competitive person and i wanna better myself...+ it's the only thing i actually enjoy doing a lot in WoW atm.

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@umbral forge

crisp pecan
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@ionic fern you raid as well?

ionic fern
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Jeap.

crisp pecan
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But i bet you like m+ more

ionic fern
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Yes i do.

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Gonna start pushing again this week - took the weekend off.

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Wanna hit atleast 2.2-2.3k

crisp pecan
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i have such a hard time raiing recently, im like forcing myself to do so

ionic fern
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I mean..i don't have anything against raiding..i just prefer m+

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It's much easier to fix problems with 5 people than it is with 20 people.

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😂

modest wedge
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does engineering new uber -tools of trade item work in dungeons?

umbral forge
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My issue is
We do a key. We have a competent group, a balance druid, havoc Demon Hunter, outlaw Rogue, prot warr (me) and Resto Druid.

We do a +10. It 2 chests.
I go to the toilet and I come back, suddenly the good Rogue left and we have one of the guild DPS with us. "For weekly".
After that run where the guild DPS asspulls, doesn't interrupt and dies a lot and we fail the key, we have a +10 again.
But the guild DPS wants to stay. Now the Druid left. I try to leave. "Just one more! For weeky :)))"

"Ugh I hate pugging, let's ask in the Guild"
And suddenly we're a Fury Warrior, Prot Paladin, Guardian Druid, Retri Paladin and Holy Priest 2 hours into a Waycrest 10 at 111 wipes and I don't want to do m+ again in my life.
For a day.

ivory light
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simple

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dont run with guildies if theyre bad and you want to push

crisp pecan
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i do not run mykeys with guildies

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my keys*

ivory light
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I like guildies, I like pushing, theres certain guildies I wont run with, call me a dick, I dont care its my key not theirs

honest frigate
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Do you take 5 ilvl upgrade for socket/leech loss?

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i assume yes

crisp pecan
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  1. because i have shitty personality 2) they have too low experience
umbral forge
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I try. But with quick join they see it. And they ask. And if I turn them down I'm toxic

ivory light
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Add people at the end of good keys and run with them

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who cares if youre toxic

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just tell them youre trying to push the key

crisp pecan
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@honest frigate i have 410 weapon and 405 weapon with leech socket - i use 405

ivory light
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and want an optimal group, or an excuse, doesnt matter

ionic fern
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That's the thing tho.
If you're going to push - you need a consistent group. Add everyone who's semi-decent until you find people whos playing time matches with yours.
Regarding guildies & freeloaders - just tell them "We are pushing right now". .
I have guildies asking to join higher keys all the time but i just decline them since :
1)They have not put the effort in to learn the mechanics/dungeons
2)They expect a full carry
3)I don't want to spend my pushing hours boosting people.

hollow thorn
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They shouldn't get free boosts because they are guildies

ionic fern
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I usually help guildies with the "weekly 10" on tuesdays.

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Other than that i just turn them down.

crisp pecan
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@ionic fern well said, and i dont give a fuck they moan afterwards, i worked hard key by key to get my rank

ionic fern
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There's a ton of people at around 1-1.3k who are like "Oh, i've done a +12 so i can easily do a +19" while not understanding that the mechanics that you can safely stand in on a +12 just straight out one shots you on a +19.

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And you can't afford mistakes like that on higher keys.

crisp pecan
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sae with selfhealing ability of dps, all of utilities etc

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but well, you understand this from 15+

ionic fern
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Running with a rogue in KR Tyrannical without Elusiveness talent just makes me wanna kms

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"Oh, i have a talent that makes me take 35% reduced damage from the first boss/2nd/3rd boss abilities...nah, won't use it fuck that".

sick sentinel
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For m+ is it okay to just use use simulations to determine which gear to equip or do i have to build around survivability more? If so how do i do that apart from stacking armor?

ionic fern
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It depends how comfortable you are.

ivory light
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you have to balance survivability and damage, which you can figure best by practice/eventually just knowing what youre comfortable with

ionic fern
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If you are not worried about dying in keys then just go full on DPS.

sick sentinel
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Im pretty new to tanking and warrior in general have like 900 score on it only kind of hard to know what to focus tbh

ivory light
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are you struggling staying alive?

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if so, survivability, if not, damage.

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keep flip flopping till youre at just enough survivability, with max damage for the key level you want

ionic fern
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@sick sentinel what traits you are wondering about? We can hopefuly help you figure out the best setup considering your experience.

knotty wagon
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@umbral forge I use my keys, and have boundaries.

ionic fern
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We actually have decent keys for once to start pushing..
We got AD19,FH19,ToS19.

knotty wagon
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I limp shitty people through keys on sunday / morning

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Nice 😮

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im pretty mediocre, cant wait to start keys on warrior

crisp pecan
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i have sots 17 - gonna get it rolling

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heard after nerfs it is quite easy

sick sentinel
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@ionic fern Its not specific traits more stats i assume i want to stack Deafening Crash no?

ionic fern
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For m+ you want to stack BoM.

crisp pecan
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ToS 19 is not that ez on tyrannical - 3rd boss

ionic fern
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And atleast ONE DC for the extended Demo shout + damage increase.

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Talking from pure AoE DPS point of view you want to go 3xBoM/3xDC.

knotty wagon
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How hard do you guys think it'll be to start doing keys?

hollow thorn
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if u play prot, not that hard

knotty wagon
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I play BDK rn, but i hate the class, I wanna swap

ionic fern
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It all depends if you have a consistent group or not.

hollow thorn
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Swap then

knotty wagon
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Im working on it

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I have two +14 FH this week and i dont want to do it

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I just don't enjoy BDK, had to switch for a previous guild

crisp pecan
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ML - EZ AD - Super ez Boralus - EZ

topaz badger
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Mythic Grong, do you guys do the main tanking or do you get thrown? I just die if I get thrown 😐

crisp pecan
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this week

ionic fern
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It's a game..play what you want. 😃

sick sentinel
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sorry what is BoM short for?

ionic fern
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I switch on weekly @topaz badger

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Bastion of Might @sick sentinel

undone sun
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bastion of might

crisp pecan
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Bastion Of might - azerite trait

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you gusy so fast, wtf

sick sentinel
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ty

topaz badger
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switch on weekly? :p

ionic fern
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One week i get to parse on Grong and my co-tank takes all throw

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The other week we switch it around

topaz badger
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but which defensive do you use for the throw?

umbral forge
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SR

undone sun
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you can reflect the dot

oblique garnet
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External

ionic fern
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The thing with being thrown on Grong is:
1)SR EVERY grab
2)Tell your healers that they need to focus heal you if you have a bleed on you as well since you have to be atleast 80% hp before hitting the ground

undone sun
ionic fern
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If you have double bleed ask for BoP

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@undone sun you can't reflect the DoT, you can reflect the grab

topaz badger
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my mate is a monk, they seems to have alot easier time to heal him when he's thrown

undone sun
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hmmm

ionic fern
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Wait, there's two DoT's, guess you talking about the grab ticking dmg.

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😂

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I was talking about the bleed.

topaz badger
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but even with SR before the grab

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damn monks and their op stagger

ionic fern
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The throw is only deadly if you have a bleed on you as well - then you require healing.

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And remember that the impact when you hit the ground is NATURE dmg so you can't mitigate it properly.

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Hence why you need to tell your healers to get you above 80% before you hit the ground.

topaz badger
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hmm ok

ionic fern
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If you have any logs we can go over them.

topaz badger
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ye

umbral forge
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I'm heroic guild.
I convinced my co-tank there was a super cheese tactic for prot warriors/Brewmasters where I take Grong and he takes the throw cause "I can zerker rage the fear".
Am I a bad person for this?

ionic fern
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You can't do that to the fear anymore @umbral forge

hollow thorn
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On HC u can

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Not Mythic

ionic fern
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Oh, HC.

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Jeah

umbral forge
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Thats good info incase i try pugging Grong. Thank

sick sentinel
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So about stats do i really want haste over armor always?

topaz badger
hollow thorn
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Ilvl > all

ionic fern
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For stats it's ilvl->all

sick sentinel
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oh thats convenient

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What about on rings tho? I have a crit vers ring with socket if i get a haste ring no socket same ilvl would i replace?

topaz badger
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socket has more stats :p

knotty wagon
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Socket is equal to ilvl

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so socket > no socket

ionic fern
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Checking Wipe 14 @topaz badger you had bleeds on you both times you got thrown , also you only reflected one throw.

topaz badger
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yeah, possibly

undone sun
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depends on the item slot, i wouldn't drop ilevel on a shield for a socket

topaz badger
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didn't know it could be reflected up to a few tries later

ionic fern
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If you have 1 stack of the bleed - yell at healers to top you.
If you have 2 stacks of bleeds - Ask for BoP to remove it.

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If you're only taking throws you can clearly see from your HP where you fucked up and/or had bleeds.

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THat's my HP when i took all throws.

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The places where i dropped low was when i had bleeds+throw.

topaz badger
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I see 😃

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Thanks man

ionic fern
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On wipe 18 you also diddn't reflect all the grabs.

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But the best thing you can do is be vocal about externals and inform your healers that if you have a bleed on you while being thrown you need to get focus healed or BoP'ed.

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Not much you can do about it yourself other than reflecting the initial grab.

topaz badger
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ye, first time mythic raiding, it's all a bit more serious I guess :p

ionic fern
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Jeah, takes some practice/getting used to.

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Best of luck tho.

topaz badger
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Where do I find that graph you linked the picture of?

undone sun
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resources

ionic fern
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Select yourself from the "Friendlies" then click ->Resources

topaz badger
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thx ^^

oblique garnet
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Get that monk thrown

sick sentinel
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Is there any good weakaura to display if a cast is spellstealable?

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spellreflect*

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and maybe even show if you spellreflected and for how much?

ionic fern
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The numbers you can check from logs only afaik

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Regarding "what can be reflected WA" ->Check the pins

oblique garnet
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Marok made a weakaura that has bosses casts that can be reflected

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It should be in the pins

topaz badger
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oh 😮

sick sentinel
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Nice has anyone bothered to add trash casts aswell?

hollow thorn
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Pretty much any targeted cast cna be reflected

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except if its shoot

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just use logic

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Sea Blast, Water bolt etc all spell reflectable

undone sun
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not always the case though

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its' not binary

knotty wagon
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WHat are your thoughts on crackling thunder vs bounding stride?

crisp pecan
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I use bounding stride on necrotic

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kiting

oblique garnet
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Eh

knotty wagon
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Is CT viable, it looks cool, and feels cool

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#feelycraft

sick sentinel
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i guess in pugs i just use spellreflect if a cast is on me and most of our group has interrupt on cd then?

ionic fern
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Crackling Thunder is very viable, especially in m+.

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@knotty wagon

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It should be pretty much the go-to talent for m+ in most scenarios.

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Don't think i've ever actually swapped out of it tbh

knotty wagon
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^^ thanks

ionic fern
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On a side note..on Conclave Crackling Thunder actually lets you hit Akunda with TC even if she's casting Thundering Storm.

sudden gazelle
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Guys whats the go to loa buff as a zandalari?

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Took the bwonsamdi one but its a bit lackluster

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For tanking mind you

undone sun
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racials aren't meant to be spectacular

sudden gazelle
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Indeed

knotty wagon
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Dwarf is really good

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Dark iron dwarf is really good

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and uh, night elf

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is nice

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Nelf makes easy deathskips

undone sun
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for their actives, yes

knotty wagon
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others lets you abuse debuffs

sudden gazelle
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Maybe the bleed is the best, for damage?

undone sun
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while zandalari still has a good active

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regeneratin

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the loas are different, very minor

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chances are paku or bobs are the choices

old night
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I'm wondering if KT is better than Dark Iron because of Brush it off. Should I reroll? Hmm 🤔

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Fireblood so strong

knotty wagon
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Its gonna do some healing

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but not game breaking

sudden gazelle
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I went zanda because of the looks, as tauren many things looked so fucking out of place :D

knotty wagon
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Question about kul tiran

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does the 2% damage taken over 4s

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stack

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like every instance of damage will heal the damage

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or does it reset every time you take damage

undone sun
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pretty sure it stacks

knotty wagon
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okay, seems really alright 1% vers + 2% damage reduction (effectively)

knotty wagon
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Healed you for about 153k

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Nothing too special, but not terrible i guess

sick sentinel
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Between Diamond-Laced Refracting Prism ilvl 370, Rezan's ilvl 385 (w/ socket) and Alchemy ilvl 415 trinkets, which 2 would you guys recommend for M+? I think Prism is super even though it's 370 but not sure if maybe replace Rezan's with Alch trinket?

umbral forge
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Do you use healing potions often

sick sentinel
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yeah, quite regularly

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but I'm new to M+, mostly 8-10

ionic fern
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@sick sentinel i'd go with Rezans/Alch

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Unless you feel like you're taking too much damage and/or are not that familiar with the class yet - then you can go with Diamond as well.

willow scarab
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Guild won't put logs public 😦

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M rasta fresh off the press

undone sun
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what's the reasoning for private logging

willow scarab
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everyone else is blue logging at best

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except one rank 7

ionic fern
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😦

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Feels bad.

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My guild has such terrible kill timers that we kill Opulence right before 3rd set of adds. 😢

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Like yesterday it died right when it finished the cast.

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😂

umbral forge
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Raid & guild leaders think that if they private log people will focus less on dmg done and more on mechanics

undone sun
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🤣

austere oar
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How the fuck do you 18k conclave without 100% hitting the boss that's gonna die ?

ionic fern
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They fixed that for tanks ages ago.

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You can hit both bosses and it still counts it.

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Even if you 100% hit the boss that isn't going to die it still counts it.

austere oar
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Oh damn didnt notice

vital plover
#

Which of the loa buffs would you guys pick for tanking? The obvious tank buff or one of the DPS buffs?

ionic fern
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Afaik Bwomsandi/Pa'ku are the go to for people right now.

crisp pecan
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sticking to paku, yep

open field
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Crit? But the heal seems so good for tanks or are the numbers for bwomsamdi that bad?

ionic fern
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The heal is minimal - racials will not make or break your performance.

austere oar
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Bwonsamdi is around 2.2% of your dps ST

oblique garnet
#

^

hollow thorn
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@willow scarab I got 3 private rank 1s yesterday 🤷

willow scarab
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Feels bad don't it

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We had unplayable lag so I got 3 top 10s but no 1s

hollow thorn
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I can still screenshot my parses so its fine

oblique garnet
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Oh yeah youre getting rank 1s n such because its new patch

willow scarab
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Exactly

hollow thorn
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Gotta get em while its easy

ionic fern
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😂

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Jeah, parses matter for almost nothing right now.

willow scarab
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That's why it's the funnest week to get them

oblique garnet
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Eh

willow scarab
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I love me a rasta rank 1

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with only 91 warriors as competition

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That's funny to me

ionic fern
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I'll come make it 92 tonight.

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Guild went full mong yesterday and we wiped on Opu for no apparent reason for like a hour while it's been a one-two shot most of the other weeks.

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😒

oblique garnet
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I miss raiding

hollow thorn
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@oblique garnet Dont you push with a Arms warrior called Xentar?

oblique garnet
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Yes

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Havent been pushing for a week now tho

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@hollow thorn why

hollow thorn
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if i only did hc mekka that week xd

oblique garnet
#

Lul

willow scarab
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Is arms as competitive as fury?

steady dragon
#

Does demo shout not redice the dmg intake of bonswamdi's dot?

hollow thorn
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Fury is better

steady dragon
#

looking at logs it doesn't, which just seems odd to me

brazen whale
#

bwonsamdi's dot source is "environment" not bwonsamdi himself

sturdy trench
#

the fury is better argument is rather vague

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on aoe arms is far better

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probably one of the best aoe specs

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and with reaping u have infinite rage generation with war machine

eager hedge
#

Has everyone gone zandalari troll for tanking 😮 i would feel so bad leaving war stomp behind, aswell as my big grong shoulders (:

crisp pecan
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😄

sturdy trench
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taurens are so meme

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im not missing being huge

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at least now i can dodge cross fire ignition in told agor

eager hedge
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I use noggen for that

crisp pecan
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haahaa this one, especially during avatar

eager hedge
#

Also on 1st boss in tos

crisp pecan
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why you would doge 1st boss in tos

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dodge*

eager hedge
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🤔

crisp pecan
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"Also on 1st boss in tos"

eager hedge
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5 cyclone is not deadly 🤔

stoic pilot
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Spell reflect it like a champ

hollow thorn
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@sturdy trench Fury is better, and it doesnt sound like you know much about Fury and Arms strengths and weaknesses. Arms is good at BURST AoE, Fury is good at Consistant AoE

stoic pilot
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I played LFD for a while and I can understand how annoying it is to be huge, Paladin divine steed didn’t work in literally any hallway

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So that’s good zandalari and kul’tiran aren’t so big it’s annoying

full monolith
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@stoic pilot i am new to prot and experienced that you cannot reflect cyclone all the time. is it not reflectable when it targets me?

ionic fern
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Yep.

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If it targets you then you can't reflect.

stoic pilot
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If it targets someone else, you walk in front and reflect

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If it’s on you, dodge

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Face it away from the group so you can tell easier

tidal scarab
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Bastards nerfed the cyclone just to fuck with prot warriors

full monolith
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Aight 😄 thanks!

stoic pilot
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If boss flips, you can reflect, if not dodge.

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When you reflect cyclone strike does it actually get rid of the projectiles from it? Or do they still exist / can hit other people

sick sentinel
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Hey warrior bros, are you guys familiar with that underrot mastery trinket with an on use str buff?

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vial of animated blood

stoic pilot
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I love mine

sick sentinel
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Do you use it with last stand or with avatar?

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or situationally?

tidal scarab
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Got a 415 from weekly, good for meme parses

stoic pilot
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I use it with every other avatar

sturdy trench
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always with avatar

ionic fern
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It lines up with every other avatar,

stoic pilot
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Warrior is so tanky you don’t really need to use it during last stand imo

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So just use it for pure dps

full monolith
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Do you see any reason for using that rasta trinket? the cheat death one. I feel safer when pugging keys... but should get rid of that I guess :/

ionic fern
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No - no reason to use it.

stoic pilot
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^

sick sentinel
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whats it called? i didnt know there was a cheat death trink!

ionic fern
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You're a tank..you don't plan on dying. 😒

tidal scarab
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Actually got it 425 last night, use it on high keys that might kill me off randomly. Saves me from retarded dots and fucked up reaping smashes

ionic fern
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If you get killed off randomly then it's downtime in your AM on higher keys.

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And you can plan around that.

stoic pilot
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Didn’t they fix the smash animation?

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I didn’t have any desyncs since patch

full monolith
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smashes look synced since 8.1.5 for me aswell

stoic pilot
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Also threat on reaping nameplates is ❤

hollow thorn
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is threat on them fixed

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?

full monolith
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^it is? I switched to plater as it managed the aggro kinda good alrdy

tidal scarab
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Threatplates at least are fixed

wide girder
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got 425 prizm yesterday, 27% selfheal, love it

full monolith
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will stick to plater from now 😄 so much cleaner than elvui imo

stoic pilot
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Default nameplates have fixed threat yes

oblique garnet
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so do the new elvui ones

sick sentinel
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I heard spellreflect it broken on 1st boss underrot and 1st boss temple

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I assume its any cast in underrot you can spellreflect

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What can you do on 1st boss temple?

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gust

stoic pilot
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Cyclone strike, not gust.

sick sentinel
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i was in underrot today i dont think you can reflect any spell?

stoic pilot
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I reflected Cyclone just fine on first boss

sick sentinel
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nice, how much does it hit him for?

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also do you see the animation go back at him?

stoic pilot
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Not sure of actual values, around 13% hp

wide girder
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it can be reflected only if you are not a target

oblique garnet
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you can also reflect gust

hollow thorn
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^

oblique garnet
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which is what can cause you to do die

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or jolt rather

sick sentinel
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jolt targets randomly though no?

hollow thorn
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Yes

sick sentinel
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do you guys ever look at meters to see your ignore pain / sheild block uptime?

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if so what is it roughly?

oblique garnet
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from raids or m+?

sick sentinel
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m+

stoic pilot
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Any recommendations on nameplate addons for tanking? Getting stacked nameplates when one mob does something deadly you have to kick is annoying

oblique garnet
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i have elvui

sick sentinel
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tidy threat plates is my favorit

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red if no aggro, green when you have aggro, yellow if youre going to lose aggro

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and even with big pulls im able to click casting mobs and kick em

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even my guildheal is using it, as its perfect for kicking ^^

stoic pilot
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have you had fps drops with it at all @sick sentinel ? or nothing

sick sentinel
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nope no fps drops

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stable 100 fps

stoic pilot
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going to try that one out, it looks nice ty

sick sentinel
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even pulling sots first room + 2 caster an droplets outside together

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your welcome 😄

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@sick sentinel After this recent update my threatplates are a bit fucked it seems its something between stacking and overlapping but it just doesnt feel the same anymore - you experienced this too?

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my group didnt do any dungeons since 8.1.5 our m+ day is usually thursday. we raided yesterday and i was dd with that threatplate addon and didnt had any stacking or overlapping issues on trash

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worked the same as before 8.1.5 for me

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maybe delete and reinstall the addon ? my healer hadnt any issues with that addon too

indigo lichen
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Double check the setting in the regular wow settings, under names probably there's a drop down for stacked and overlapping I think?

lime mantle
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For m+ bonded souls post nerf or shield slam trait?

sick sentinel
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@indigo lichen Neither overlapping nor stacked soom to make it work as it did before

indigo lichen
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Hmm weird

royal marsh
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Can anyone say if Fireblood clears the Kimbul tank dot?

round vortex
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yes

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I usually push it on the instant the 3rd stack hits

royal marsh
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Ok, was contemplating bringing my warrior to Conclave instead of my DK for that reason

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Thanks

round vortex
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SUPER helpful during say a paku's wrath

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i try to save it for there to reduce damage as much as possible

astral crystal
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stoneform should remove it as well no?:

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man if they make earthen playable im done with the horde

late cedar
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Stoneform works

sick sentinel
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@sick sentinel if you use weak auras to track cds/ip/sb then you don't have to look at uptime

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If you are not using weak auras, you should

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@stoic pilot the cyclones still go through you after you reflect them

stoic pilot
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thanks!

sick sentinel
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@eager hedge I know that @oblique garnet went zandalari from belf

eager hedge
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Never been belf. Been playing Tauren ever since wotlk. So used to having war stomp available to me.
Was tempted to go highmountain for that bit extra damage mitigation

oblique garnet
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hm?

sick sentinel
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How's the change, late?

oblique garnet
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Gotta get used to the big ass model

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was hmt before being belf

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but overall

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minor damage increase in st

eager hedge
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left hmt for belf?

sick sentinel
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Because of mplus probs

oblique garnet
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yes

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also

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i got tired of getting stuck on doors

eager hedge
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Haha 😄

sick sentinel
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Lol

eager hedge
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Yeah

oblique garnet
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not even kidding

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when you went to drustvar with mount on and tried to get to the flightmaster you always got stuck in the fucking roofs

eager hedge
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Also the bridges in Zandalar you cant run over with mount due to those frames on em

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I always use whistle, cus cba running up that thing

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I always fly off into the water

sick sentinel
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As an orc I can't dodge crossfire on last boss of td

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With bl and avatar

oblique garnet
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you can

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its ez

eager hedge
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I noggen that boss

oblique garnet
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but as hmt

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you cant see

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at all

sick sentinel
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The selling points for me are 3 things

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Rampage animation
Thunderclap animation
Revenge animation

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I've only seen thunderclap and it's good

knotty wagon
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How accurate is icy veins for prot traits

astral crystal
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it's written by the admin

narrow abyss
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Very

astral crystal
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so pretty accurate

knotty wagon
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It seems like it just wants to make me a conplete wall

astral crystal
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admin of this discord**

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there's reasoning given for all trait choices iirc, just read through them, i THINK he explains which ones are good for dps too

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but i havent looked at the page in a while

knotty wagon
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And audience of icyveins isnt always the same as the people looking for much more, atleast that is what happens on every other guide

sick sentinel
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It's written going 100% for survival

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If you wanna do damage as well it will help a lot less

knotty wagon
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Of course i wanna do damage @.@

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No reason not to trade as much as i can for it.

sick sentinel
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well it should depend on the content you do right_

knotty wagon
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Survival is a budget, as long as you meet it, i say go dps

sick sentinel
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Also he has azerite veins on b tier (down from like A or S)

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some times there is a reason to go full survival

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But it deserves F tier

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Ok look code

ionic fern
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?

sick sentinel
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Azerite veins for prot is super unreliable, all healing it's going to do it pad

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Like when the healer leaves you with hots and goes to dps

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You are either full health, or 10%

ionic fern
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🤔

oblique garnet
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kage the devastate animation on zandalari troll is

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disturbing

sick sentinel
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And it is not ppm or anything, its super rng

ionic fern
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What keys are you doing that you're always either full or 10%?

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o.o

oblique garnet
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you rarely drop below 90% hp as prot in m+ unless there are interrupts that are missing or youre doing something which is heavy magical damage or kingsrest

sick sentinel
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Or your stuff is down

astral crystal
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🤔

oblique garnet
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What kage said

knotty wagon
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Hmm, looking forward to doing keys

ionic fern
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Man i'd LOVE to see some logs where you barely drop below 90%

astral crystal
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yeah that's overselling it a bit i think

sick sentinel
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And considering we're gonna go do our shrine 20 in an hour ( monkaS btw) I think the level of keys I do it pretty good

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I'm not deswind, but I have my fair share of knowledge of both high and low keys

potent anvil
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Azerite veins isnt bad, but its not consistent. I much prefer a more static or consistent alternative.

sick sentinel
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Proc healing is not what a tank wants

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With conditions on top of it

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That's why stuff like IV is super good instead

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Or the diamond trinket

potent anvil
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Having it proc on a large pull would be nice. Having it proc in the beginning when your hp is still 90%+ isnt great either.

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Unless your healer is healing at a minimum allowing it to actually do work.

sick sentinel
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If you run exclusively with a resto druid

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Then it's pretty ok

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But something like a monk or a paladin that tops you in a global or 2? Please no

potent anvil
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It'll have its fair share on bosses where healers have to worry about everyone else. So like first boss KR or galvazzt. If it procs to actually heal you.

sick sentinel
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if it procs to actually heal you

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that's the thing

oblique garnet
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iirc kage had 0 procs during ghuun

sick sentinel
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I had a 6:30 min fight

oblique garnet
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xD

sick sentinel
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where I was not 100% health not even once

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and it didn't proc

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at all

potent anvil
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Yeah. Thats why I'll generally default to w/e else is available like CC or a dps trait like HMC.

narrow abyss
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Hrm

sick sentinel
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@knotty wagon so all that being said ( 🤣 ) if you are not sure about the content you are doing I would suggest you to go full survival and then slowly introduce more and more damage in your kit

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probably start by getting 3 BoM or 2 BoM and eng helm

knotty wagon
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So odd my other character just goes full damage.

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Stupid bdk

sick sentinel
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a full surv warrior will still do more damage than a bdk

knotty wagon
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I'd like to fet into 15+ timed

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Yeah im not even capped yet

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I shouod be in 2 days

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And then gearing

sick sentinel
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gearing is the same for both

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so that's easy

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trinkets might change but that's it

astral crystal
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lol

knotty wagon
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I wont be raising at l

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Raiding at all**

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Im kinda judt done with this tier

sick sentinel
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you can get 410 just with mplus tbh

knotty wagon
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Maybe i'll raid in april, not really feeling it

sick sentinel
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it's just slower

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you need only first boss mythic

knotty wagon
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Yeah my bdk is 411.38 with like no reid gear

hollow thorn
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my priest is 408, 410 max

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only done first boss Mythic

narrow abyss
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Only good thing about raiding for me is the bwonsamdi

sick sentinel
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shoulders from titan juice

narrow abyss
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For engi helm or trinket or whatever

sick sentinel
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and eng helm

knotty wagon
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Why would u want bwan

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Isnt thst trinket shit?

narrow abyss
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The breaths

knotty wagon
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Oh im dumb sorry

sick sentinel
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the breaths to craft

knotty wagon
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Yeahh im oroply not crafting

sick sentinel
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you can also get a helm with titan juice but you can craft an extremely good helm so why bother gambling

knotty wagon
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I have no raid group, and i wont be making one for a couple weeks

sick sentinel
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first boss mythic is puggable

knotty wagon
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I have no rsid group, and building one will take time

sick sentinel
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and HC is puggable

knotty wagon
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Yesh im 9/9h

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On bdk

full spruce
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I do pug groups on my 5 tank alts every week. It’s cheese to do

sick sentinel
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5 tank alts monkaS

knotty wagon
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I left guild becsuse i didnt like how RL was treating me. Didnt have a backup.

full spruce
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I play all 6 tanks

knotty wagon
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Badeline u ally na?

full spruce
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Horde

knotty wagon
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Na isnt as clean for pugging on ally

astral crystal
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NA ally is a shitshow

sick sentinel
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imagine playing alliance btw

knotty wagon
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I like alliance.

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Unfortunately, my wife will not play horde.

astral crystal
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i love alliance myself, would like nothing more than to play dwarf

sick sentinel
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not even blood elfs?

astral crystal
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but the talent pool is pretty dry

knotty wagon
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So its either ppay alliance or find a new wife

narrow abyss
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Easy decision

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😂

knotty wagon
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I dont care about kuch, i just lioe fucking around grinding reps with some keys

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Although im kinda being pished i to a couple +14FH tomorrow

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On bdk

sick sentinel
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we are now waiting on 81 more alliance guilds to kill jaina so cross realm can open

knotty wagon
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Yeahh

full spruce
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Long as you have 400ilvl just start groups in LFR with like “Mythic Champs - BLEEDING HOLLOW” whatever server and spam your trade chat same thing but add like aotc 1/9m. Usually takes me 30 mins a group but you’ll fill up

knotty wagon
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Shouldnt be bad

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Esp since you can single tsnk it

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Pretty free

full spruce
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I always go 3-4-13 with pugging

sick sentinel
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alliance 19th is world 105th lul

astral crystal
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single tank mythic champs?

knotty wagon
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I gotta go to bed, ths ks for chat. Ill be around more with questions at cap

sick sentinel
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yeah you can single tank them

astral crystal
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in a PUG?

oblique garnet
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^