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I was skepticle. Who knows what crazy shit Vince might say
Apply Aura: Mod Minimum Speed % Value: 100% yep there it is
good catch Vince
Effect #2 Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Snared) on BoF,
give it to a shaman and make them ghost wolf for it lol
only reason i know is because eye beam for havoc dh also applies the same modifier as merektha's fang and freedom doesn't let you move around while doing it
and the reasoning for it is because they don't want to actually root you in place but they want the same effect
because otherwise you could freedom/beam or use beam/fang to lock yourself in place during a boss knockback for example
yeah, makes sense
Is it just me or do you generate more Rage with the Devastator talent than Booming Voice? I get back to back Shield Slams and I find myself "over-raged" at times. 🙂
RNG
True, but it does provide more Rage than BV consistently. At least for me since I switched the other night.
do you have logs for it? mathematically deva should only provide as much rage per minute as bv on average (ie consistently) with unrealistic uptimes
assuming you get a "full reset" on ss every time from it, at 20% and a 1.5s swing timer (meaning you need ~74% haste), it provides equal rage to BV
realistically you're going to be at maybe ~40-50% haste with procs bringing it up a little over that, and most of the resets aren't going to be a full reset
I think logs have been dissected enough in this channel to prove that BV provides more rage.
Can always get lucky with RNG and have a one-off but it's not consistent.
what should i wear assuming i upgrade the boots to 425
Are you going to be raiding? Or no?
And then my second question would be, if you're raiding, are you trying to get high parses?
yes and yes aotc and 3/8 m
im not the type of tank to go full turtle i like to just get baseline defensive so that i can take the training wheels off and do as much dmg as possible
then definitely benthic
ashvane needs everybody pumping
protect warrior is pretty tanky already, avoidance and 10 ilvls of Stam won't make as much difference as the damage of the boots
like when im in keys and other not nazjatar things the other boots?
yeah i can upgrade them again today i just need to go to naz
crit/haste with a socket will beat 10 ilvl
for dmg
and it's barely behind for def
yep
idk what trinks to use either i have so many now lol
430 urchin 440 animated blood 440 bandages 430 inkpod 430 socketed phial of arcane and 415 laser mech trink
I'd go ink pod urchin myself
lately ive been using the urchin and animated blood just cuz i like hitting shield slam for 50k lol
you gotta stop using prot loot spec lol
unless you're on a specific boss/dungeon for shield/1h
well i dont on my old dk main lol i just dont want to get 2h weapons
thats what i like about blood dk
i would LOVE inkpod if it would apply to multi targets on my thunderclap and stuff lol
it does
does it? i was trying it and it wasnt working for m
inkpod stacks apply on all aoe stuff?
p sure yeah, i haven't tested for tclap specifically but
i know fury whirlwind cleave applies it all over
doesnt appear to be im trying on multi target rn
whirlwind might be a little different i feel like it kinda smart targets mobs when it strikes multiple times as opposed to tclap and rend which is just like a circle of damage yknow
Revenge might work?
I think it night be because fury aoe is weird and has a target cap
but ww doesnt
so idk
20 targets is the default target cap, game wide
oh, I didn't know that
that's different
over 20 targets is where damage starts to get split amongst all targets, it doesn't just randomly stop hitting targets past 20
fury's aoe is a real target cap where it doesn't hit targets beyond 5
and the spell is "copied" 4 times from your primary target to the secondary targets
yes
that's why I think it might work for them
it's not real aoe
it's cleaving
So I got the Mechagon HM helm, I assume when I can buy a 445 residuum piece it would still replace it, even with the perfect azerite traits
Ya
And the mechagon helm is not perfect
PSI is good, with the correct red and correct yellow
Im using the cyclone red, and a vers/crit card sadly, but only cause its ilvl 445
That's a big card ngl
Wish it was haste, but I cant be picky
I guess that leads me to my next question, would it be worth using the PCI trait? Or just use the BoM, since the PCI would give 324 vers
How much mastery is bom
642
Let's go through this together so you can see my line of thinking
We'll use this
Crit - 72
Haste - 68
MasteryAP - 72
Verse - 85 / 170```
642 mastery with 60% uptime
Or 324 vers with 100% uptime
That's your choices
I think I'd still go with bom here
Thats what I was thinking, I only get 2% vers from it
It's better to make your strong phases even stronger (known as cd stacking) than have it spread out
Yeah, I like the burst from BoM, but I appreciate the help!
I could have just told you "use bom"
Because that's the correct answer
But you'd never learn that way
Fair enough
Ah! Is simming with Prot viable then? Or is this just stat weights through some other means?
simming for offensive, yes
@inland ice those are not stat weights
Those stat points per % are subject to DR right? Not trying to derail your argument, just trying to make sure I understand the details. @sick sentinel
Oh. Hmmm. I thought there was. I would trust your knowledge over mine though.
There are no DR on stat gains
There is dr in stuff like parry rating
e.g. 85 haste is 1% and will always be 1% haste
Ohhh, so it’s just for block, party, dodge? Like things derived from other stats?
Party 🎉
LOL. Autocorrect ftw
That change in effectiveness... that’s dr though, right?
I had a 400ilvl Gore block and no other crit procs
When I had 15% crit and gore proced I got more parry compared to when I was at 25% and got a Gore block proc
But I got the same crit chance
Unless if I don't remember correctly
It's been many months
armor is the only one that doesn't have a true DR but it's capped
https://peakofserenity.com/2017/10/16/stat-weights-and-you-round-2/ is helping me out
@lapis topaz the odd thing on prot warrior is mastery
The more you have, the more dr it gives
Also the more haste you have, the more haste your ITF gives
Yeah but I think that's just because ITF is multiplicative, not additive
Ya
all haste buffs are multiplicative
er, all haste buffs that aren't from haste rating
haste rating is additive
Yeah
Itf = into the fray?
Mmhm
Hey guys how much damage does a 430 Inkpod do compared to a 430 Block ?
I mean looking at it the block no doubt double dips more crit = more parry unless I am wrong, and then the dps gain from the crit, but wondering how Inkpod stacks up purely damage wise
i mean the free revenges aren't that good
you're spamming Tclap so much and unless it's a decent sized pack (5+) a shield slam would be better
I'd rather use a free revenge over a devastate
does ink pod do less damage for prot? if not it's p good and I'd use it over block personally
This about inkpod is
It caps at 1 target
The bigger your pulls, the better goreblock will be
is devastator a decent talent for single target fights or is it always better to use booming voice ?
hmm im trying to put out more damage and just looking at ways to do it !!! what essences do you use for damage output ?
Cof major
If you care purely for st dps
Just sim top gear
That's literally the only thing the right answer is 
For everything else the answer is "it depends"
im reasonably new to prot our tank bailed and i was asked to tank so im just trying to pick it up
Focus on survivability
Dps will come along
And please play booming voice if you're new to the spec
what is the best profession for pve? Is engineering good?
Eng is amazing for pve
booming voice has been my go to but i was going to play around with other options i just feel if my dps is low i parse low and people start questioning why i parse low
this week im trying cof major and the cyclotronic blast trink
@sick sentinel Why?
is good for protection? my focus is M+
and thats only if you get mythic right ?
Yes
@warm plinth @lusty grotto i bought a piano, sorry
Whatever, you abandoned us
🤷 where u at now fam
is edicts trinket worth it
What ring you guys this is better to run with a 440 Footbomb ring from ML, 430 Seal of Regal Loa with a leech bonus, or 430 Pulsing Veins from UR
@sterile mantle edicts is one of the stronger defensive trinkets
thats yummy
Question is what other one would ya guys run with ithttps://gyazo.com/64a64ec130002542344690c8e53563ea
At least the logical answer to me feels like how bad do I need the haste and admittedly my Vers is considerably lower then my Haste which is 43% with 5 stacks of ITF so to me it feels like take the Vers but second opinions and all that
I'd still take the haste heavy one. What your vers is compared to your haste doesn't make any difference
Defensively I guess you could go for the vers/haste one
bad tofu
Nah we talked about it in DMs
Ok what is the allure of the Dreams End weapon I guess the attack speed buff from it, even with that bonus it seems so meh as it stacks from auto's ?
He didn't even bring up leech; I'm so proud
Meleeing is actually a big part of our damage, and the parsing meta is RF+Deva which synergizes with increased attack speed
Hence the allure
Ah ok
So more or less looking to push big parses people go nuts for RF, Devastator, and since Devastators damage is all melee yeah that makes sense
And of course EP is for the most part all ST yeah I get it
Deva and RF's damage both proc off auto attacks (they don't increase AAs themselves) so the more auto attacks the better
But yeah you have the idea
ty @oblique garnet
Hey all, does anyone have any recommended weak aura "packs" ? I really like the ignore pain WA that's listed under the resources channel but was wanting something more "all in one"
Been running rank 3 crucible major this week, nice dps increase
Managed to get coral and vision this week as well. been getting lucky on rolls
Is null worth using at rank 2 @sick sentinel ?
yea I guess I should get around to grabbing null 3
mines at rank 1 😐 soon as i got flying i said fuck off mecha
I've been doing the daily wq every once and a while
have rank 2
I'll need to farm spare parts for a while
I'm just tapped out of Oscillators
I need to stop using my parts
and RNG'd off chests
shiiit i get 1 a day maybe 2 if i get lucky on a chest
you can get them from chests
they do not come easy
you have 8, you need 15 for r3
spare parts are easy if you have the time to join a farming group
yeah so a week
spare parts are hella easy
Junkwatt depot farm group man
like an hour killing mobs and doing the repetable quest
look in the group finder under custom
make sure you get all the chests daily they have a chance to give oscillators
and the world quest ez
i got heaps of oscillators
but i need like 16 crates
should hit exalted tomorrow
I'd have heaps to but I literally stopped doing mecha dailies as soon as I got flying which was as fast as you possibly could get it lol its been like a month since i've done anything in mecha
i stopped doing them on my main when i got flying
and started doing them on my warrior for null dynamo
That's where I'm at right now
gonna get exalted on warr before main
Has anyone played around with blood of the enemy for necrotic this week?
Wait.... what?
Bote only works for dps 🤦
how does the shorting bit band work
Unstoppable force or dragon roar for necrotic week?
@sick sentinel combine rings from hk and gardener
if you wear both you get the effect they combine to do
combine rings?
two sets of rings drop in mecha with passive affects they go together
So you need both
yeah
HK-8 drops the "if" statement if you will and Machinist drops the ring that triggers the effect
I'm not sure on that. Haven't bothered simming them
Ye it siming higher than a gemmed item
that is 15 ilvls higher
so ye
and I don't have the if statement
just the equip
interesting
you would just Sim it as if you didn't have anything
they're also really heavy into one secondary
I've got two 440 haste crit rings with sockets. curious if one of the sets is worth trying to get
@carmine light always UF
Any tips for kiting
So can i really tom break with war breaking?
Oh sorry
Just reading guidelines like arch told me too
He was theory crafting earlier about it
@carmine light never use DR
What’s all this talk of kiting as a prot war during necrotic
olay i gots a question yall
[Lingering Sporepods] or [Subroutine: Defragmentation]
is 28.5k sim high for no benthic?
Link the sim for an answer
What essences? Talents? Ilvl? Trinkets?
With benthic mine is 38.5
Gentlemen. Heroic raider rogue main rerolling to prot warrior. One simple question towards my AP grind, what would you consider a hard must for heroic raiding, 57 neck or higher? Thanks
Okay sweet, should just take a week or so then. Thanks
Even then you could definitely get by without that if you had like 430 ilvl, atleast for a week or so
how to look at EDRPS
or whatever it's called
EHRPS
It's in damage taken
what's a good mitigition %
Is there a crash course for the new neck system/ patch? Or will I need to reread the standard shit?
What's average
surviving
tbh i made the statistic up. However, if you are only taking 30% of the baseline damage, you are probably doing fine. Numbers only verify so much. You will either need to post logs or talk to your healers/ raid leader to get accurate criticism. The fact is that you will get cookie cutter advice if you say such things
people will say "make sure to not be drinking windex instead of paying attention" "save cool downs for bursts instead of dying" "Knowing the fight is important, dont not know the fight, instead know the fight"
Why do people not use Never surrender
on radiance*
as you take you can have 100% block uptime during boss because of how often tide fist happens
because of effective hp
i dont fully understand why you want bubble % over last stand frequency/effectiveness tbh
bubble is a very ineffective damage mitigation outside of the bump and grind from my understanding
Because you take absolutely no damage from the boss itself
and adds are pure magic damage
so last stand doesn't work besides the 15% health increase
It's 30% and, the boss is easy AF, it's a waste to build around a boss that does effectively nothing
Also mvpg im at like 30k Sims without benthic, so 28.5k is quite high yes
Hey guys needed a bit of advice, I recently went prot, and i have about 22 haste / 15 vers, char plays pretty smooth, i mostly just prot in keys, u guys think i should stack more vers ? could i give up a bit of haste for vers or is 15% good enough.
Then start yelling at your healers
We try
Sounds like you don't think we know that :(
So why bother
I fail to see the issue
so why do people not use it
600 gold?
For only to still kill the boss
It's 0 gold
So you're only tanking radiance
I'm tanking all of them and sometimes I don't on beh
So why bother wasting time specing into NS
Who's time
The guilds
Less required healing, less time spent on having troubles keeping tanks up and more time dpsing boss to 2 phase it
30% increase on IP surely will do amazingly at that
It will
If youre 0% hp
Yes
It 50% increase at 50%
And chances are, you'll not drop below 70%
I dip more often to liek 30%
Like, an 70k/80k IP isn't gonna save your life there, or help the healers amazingly
It's a trivial boss
Tbh radiance as a whole does 0 dmg
Just save cds for intermission and gg
Don’t need to respec
Is nullification barrier major worth for necrotic week? Did anyone test already?
Aaah. It’s physical. Dam I didn’t tank necrotic for ages then. It was magic in legion though or am I tripping?
That’s great, thank you!
Aggro problem, I have recently been moved from dps to main tank (not tanked in years), I am coping ok with learning what to do, however I have an issue with aggro over the other tanks. Last weeks heroic palace run was a death knight and this week a Druid, both had the majority aggro on trash but my main concern is that they were pulling aggro back off me on one or two of the bosses purely from their own dps rotation. Am I doing something wrong, is this common?
Ok I’ll go back to the guides, maybe I’m focusing to much rage on mitigation and not enough on dps...that even sounds wrong to type lol...but at least it’s my problem not the class
the thing is
you have to spend rage
in order to get rage
playing offensively benefits our defense
like you can hardly play defensively without maxing DPS too
use avatar on CD
use Demo on CD
TC and SS on CD
dont overlap Shield block / Last stand
thats the crash course
Rage Management with IP / Revenge you'll have to learn
but dont Cap on Rage, rather just spend it on IP even if you dont get a bigger IP
spending rage = more CDs ( avatar / LS / shieldwall )
more avatars = more rage
More rage = more rage
and bdk
optimal HS's lead to better RP doe
and to better dps than just marrowing
ya true fair point
then youre big dead
I find the more offensive i play the less IP’s you get off....I’m never rage capping or even close. But still good to know the issue is mine, that means it can be fixed 😃
na, hardly as any tank you have to hold anything
but as BDK? lemme just sit here until i take dmg
ok, most players*
@idle current playing more offensively doesnt mean spending rage on revenges
playing offensively just leads to more rage
ye
which means more ip's, as you put it
same goes for defensive playstyle
like, i tried it
and still did decent damage
according to parses
there's a reason it's called active mitigation and not passive
you gotta do something
not just wait for smacks
ok unless you're a monk and can be litterally carried by the class
fuck monks
fuck monks
Muck fonks 
Defensive build is better for keys right
Is it worth losing a stack of bastion to get reckless flurry for higher dps output
if you don't have issues tanking
and really only worth if you have the zaqul weapon and devastator talent
I see, so I should probably stick with the bastion then
zaqul weapon with devastator and two RF is like a 7% dps gain for me haha
I just need zaqul weapon
:(
So guys in kings rest what's the best way I'm am supposed to handle the bleed from the berserker adds just shield wall or ?
dont let them apply it in the first place
About 3 seconds after they do their leap, they will attempt to bleed the person closest to them
dont be that person
necrotic + bursting... anyone feel like this a stealth nerf to prot in m+? prot feels bad on this combo
And screw a dps?
What problems are you having specifically @soft rampart?
@tender burrow the DPS should be kiting the berserker during this window too. Ideally she swings and only hits air
Yo guys. Is there a haste cap as tank ? I sit around 45 % haste in m+ (ofcourse with the "into the fray" talent)
No cap
Keep stacking yummy haste
Ok , I was wondering if I would benifit from dropping some haste and getting more versa.
Haste is best defensively because you get shield block to recharge faster
That being said, I feel fine defensively in m+ and raids and have been getting more vers for DPS purposes
I sometimes find it hard to know wich items I should use. I still use a 420 ring (302 haste + 192 mastery) but got a ring 430 also (329 crit + 182 versa). So should I use the one with haste still?
What's your third ring
425 ilvl ( 344 haste + 158 crit )
I'm typically willing to drop 10 ilvls for a haste+crit ring, harder to say when it's the options you have
I'd choose the crit ring personally
Alright will use those for now than. Thanks for the help 🙂
You could always sim yourself and pick the ring that gives the most DPS
Can do , I never realy simmed my tank chars before. Only my DPS chars.
Prot war is DPS 
Damn right 🙂
It's not like we're worse though
Warrior does fall behind abit ST but in M+ oh boy my nrs go high 🙂
Still pulling 25-30k single target
What setup do they need? We have a BrM trying to get his orange parses but hes shy by afew k
There fire breath traits I imagine?
IDk look at logs
"training of niuzao
and tides
looks like what they are s tacking
that's not true, in raids in ST it's paladin >= warr > brew > dk > bear > dh
warrior is definately not lagging behind
I wonder if monk seems inflated cause most people are using monks to prog
it isn't and it does not feel inflated
on certain fights they can abuse null barrier r3
if the kill timers are favorable
Pally pumps
where are you getting your stats
you must be playing the wrong game
@hallow phoenix Elusive Footwork is a pure single target trait for monks, triple ToN is lovely too. The fire brezth trait isn't 'that' important. Certainly not for stacking it.
Thanks @marble cipher I'll pass on the info
Tides trait is only good if you manage not to dip below 50% to avoid proccing the debuff.
warrior and paladin are within a neglijable margin
Looking at very top parses when they can be stacked with kill times, RNG procs and other factors
33k on monk, damn, I got some catching up to do there it seems
top parses are a joke
Does the "damage done to bosses" completely exclude adds?
if you think looking at top parses actually mean anything
cant cleave anything
you're dead wrong
check every stat 95%
then i guess we should stop talking
idc about people playing suboptimally
and thats completely wrong, but you'll keep believing your own narrative i guess
doesn't matter teh suboptimal
Just show us 99th percentile
Close?
because this patch 40% of tank dmg comes from external sources
because benthic
top vs bottom its a 2k diff
tell me how that is a quantifiably strong difference
top damage will show you orogozoa mythic
Cause adds matter too :(
since that is the highest dps fight atm
you got adds to pad all thru ohase 2
surprised bears arent higher tbh, since they pump on aoe
Everyone is still very close even with padding
well yeah
Even that one VDH is doing well 😜
benthic 😛
vdh are strong this tier wdym lmao
dk's are the bottom feeders
sadly
they got dicked hard this expac
someone’s gotta be on bottom
it's not even funny
Big tru
I thought VDH's were in quite a bad spot?
nop
they strong af
esp in EP
15% base magic dmg reduction
theres a shit ton of magic dmg
they were, got buffs, people still complained, but benthic + revel in pain being realized is legit AF helped
with fiery brand cd they are one of the best orgo boss tanks
arguably best zaqul add tank due to the mitigation
if they play vop+gluttony they do silly hps as well
talking 50k+ hps
turns out like 1.3 mill health is sweet
week 1 there was a dude solo tanking h behemoth
Hm, didn't know that. Wasn't really following their viability since our guild doesn't have one anyway
power creep + content changed
they also did get some solid buffs
Might have to level my DH then, just for a change here and there 😜
they’re super fun to tank with
the only thing thats really busted is monks
stagger*
I know, I main BrM
turns out giving them self sustain makes them even more retardedly broken
(in raids anyway)
what with benthic contributing to a ton of dmg
Do swim speed pots stack on with the swim speed/water breathing mechanic on behemoth?
you do it for stagger ultimately
blueprynt was talking about pumps needing
3 direct heals
on azshara m
that's beyond broken
Having a teleport to reset a failing fight is also very nice
And, I'd be curious about that 'self sustain' too, my hps is not 'out of this world'
or essences?
celestial fort makes null barrier retardedly strong
the benthic gloves are super good on them
and some more
You use the dps gloves, not the heal gloves
wait a sec
BrM crit% adds to absorbs
Null Barrier is lovely, so are stuff like Edict trinket
thats neato
Overall, the idea of BrM and stat interaction is very good.
Just stagger is too powerful, or rather, the ease of 100% mitigation
well the “time” offered via stagger is the strong point imho
null barrier interaction is silly as well
Gives too much time to live over any other tank :(
huge nukes
it's not that they live longer
they live easier
if you're a mediocre player you will be carried by the class itself
very hard to make deadly mistakes
^
Change to ISB post uldir was a good one though, but it's still a safe class to play
longer allows healers time to recover you from your mistakes thus making the overall experience easier
So we're having this issue on sivarra where occasionally tank stacks will drop due to avoidance. Raid wants me to just turn around or something but I'd like to know what others are doing. Seems to only happen after an overwhelming barrage followed by a parry or two.
It's fun tanking Gorgonzola's first hits on BrM though, especially if I see our DK do it afterwards 😜
You should be swapping on every overwhelming barrage
Tried that and our BrM took too much damage or something from high stacks
Yeah idk I didn't find 10 stacks or whatever it got up to too difficult
Shouldn’t be 10 stacks I don’t think
I definitely got up to about 10 before a barrage swap
I went up to 5 before swap on our kill yesterday 🤔
Let me search through logs to find the few attempts we tried swapping on barrage
I got to 5 frost marks doing that
On mobile so this will be a journey
During the swap, you need to go and trigger the stack explosion though, to remove what you had
Bdk I tank with maxed out at 7
Do you shouldn’t be getting to 10
Are you solo soaking or standing with melee?
I don’t know how you’re getting hit by more marks
Yeah, shouldn't happen, unless you didn't trigger the stack drop on swaps
Would love a second opinion
I got the Anodized Deflectors from Mechagon
Ifg you're not aware, they cme with an effect instead of stats
The dmg and parry effect right?
562 Parry, 399 avoidance, 6 sec- then Shockwave for 3,6k damage. 30 sec CD.
Yeah.
They, damagewise, sim better (!) than my 430 with Socket
With the right trinks as backup anwyay.
Ah, then you could use them I guess, I didn't, but have 450 bracers from weekly chest...
I should scrap 'em, right? The DPS boost is tempting me but that's a lot of stats I'm missing out on
You could just run a few M+ with it and check details after, see how they feel
Well that's awfully sensible of you
I should be less hasty.
Although I've not yet logged for M+ ever, so I wouldn't know what to look for- I reckon that's a good habit to start with now.
@hallow phoenix If you take boss first, you swap at 5, then you take back during barrage, and repeat
Woop, newbie tank finally killed H Azshara. Definitely been gimping myself by abandoning Nazjatar dailies after getting flying... time to farm benthic slotted gear for M 😦
dont do that
benthic is good only for dps in the raid
thats it
you can justify losing 15+ itemlevels just to gain a socket
I mean, I'll keep my gear for non-EP, but aren't the bonuses BiS for EP?
w/ slots, that is
the bonuses are bis for ep yes
thought for a second you wanted the bonuses for m+, mb
ahh gotcha
nah Mythic EP
our casual guild hasn't really done M in prior tiers, should be interesting
Yeah, I gave up on them - but thats cause I had some really lucky TF in certain slots
I can't bring myself to do Nazjatar quests on more than one character, but I guess that's why I'm in a casual guild
to farm more benthics
@cinder roost is it repeat whole thing or after the first 5, swap every barrage?
Nah, I would just swap at every barrage personally
Seems he was only getting high stacks at the very beginning when he grabbed her first
We just always swap at barrage, no other swaps
Have him call for an external if needed, or have him pop Fort Brew, or run dampen harm talent ( I wouldn't take DH, but it's a possibility)
I also got some grief for parsing ~50-60, so I swapped bloodthirsty urchin to phial of arcane tempest and nabbed devastator... survivability definitely dropped but now I'm parsing 75-90. Hate that people pay attention to that (for raid tanking). Changed back for M Sivara wipes, but feelsbadman
I'll be paying more attention to it this Sunday
Our raid is having difficulty being responsible about clearing stacks in general so that certainly wasn't helping
@hallow phoenix Repeat whole, basically YOU always take 4-5 and taunt back at barrage
@lone socket As long as tank dying or healers exhausting their mana isn't an issue, going DPS is the right choice I reckon 🙂
@lone socket you take less overall damage if the boss dies faster amirite
@inland ice I was first death (to boss dmg) on H Za'qul the first night I started swapping things for DPS but I think healers have adapted by now
lol, true, true
I did friendly warn them that I'd be less invincible
I don't think worrying overly much about tank DPS is a good idea from the raid though
Every time I've ever died on zaqul it's because heals literally stopped healing me for 10 sec during tether
If I was DPS in raid, I'd prefer tanks to be cushy and safer so healers can be more mana conservative
it was more friendly ribbing but I've got a competitive anxiety thing goin'
Hey now, you're not raiding if you're not whoring the log!
I'm the same, I want to be #1 as long as it ain'tj ust padding
My raid lead is a bit too heavily focused on raw hps over the fight
aye
Ironteats - everone's role is to safely maximize dps
How much survivabilty you can give up depends on your situation
For sure! I didn't say otherwise. That "safely maximize DPS" is quite vague.
Check your healers' DPS parses
our top healer mentioned a few wipes in, "I just set a personal record of 0.1% raid damage that pull"
If they're orange you can sacrifice survival
that's, well, good, not bad
well could be bad if people are fucking up and taking extra dmg
It is intentionally vague. You need to work with your healers to determine what you can give up
but primary roles > secondary
hence why on Ashvane right now, Im asking them as I go more offensive if its still good.
oh yeah, our druid healers are in the orange area for sure - DPS and healing
at least in H
Until I go tto full offensive on thursday and they said they had no issues keeping me up
essences too?
I've been meaning to start farming DPS ones
(mostly in anticipation of finally getting a single 2h drop)
but for tanking, too, sometimes
CoF + Vision. Null will be next week. I didnt have rank 3. Cyclo + Gore crusted for trinkets and ran 2 RF, Swiling Sands, and whatever else I could to maximize dps from traits, Lastly - Devastator since Im going for dps
awesome
I generally feel like warrior has a solid enough toolkit to get me through anything without essences so I generally just go full offense there
I don't raid mythic tho
so it's just to fit my guild
we are a super casual heroic guild, still working on court
I'm gonna give that a shot. I'm a bit behind on neck lvl but should hit 60 by Tuesday
for rank 3 CoF
"a bit" - 🤔
yep, that's when I switched
major vop and cof minor
also I kind of feel like I have to mention this, I don't raid tank super often, like 40% of the time
most of the time I'm fury
we are all beefy boys
biggest beef
my fury has 100k more up than our disc priest and it always makes me laugh
hp*
is there actually a Haste Cap ?
kind of, 100% is as low as your gcd goes
I've been lootspeccing Fury for Radiance and Orgozoa for 3-4 weeks.. no 2her yet 😦
dude pdf
I haven't gotten a trinket drop all tier
I'm still rocking the punchcard and a 415 I made on mecha that's a haste proc
@wise wyvern I'd be interested in haste cap too
I want an inkpod so bad
@lone socket actualy i around 41% but only 4 % vers
Tried it out for a while in muhplus, didn't seem all that impressed tbf
it's not prime for aoe, but st is where I want to improve anyway
Ah, yeah, I can see it being better for ST. I don't raid on warrior, well, I do as fury
I've been trying for urchin over coral
Do you like phial @lone socket
the visual is annoying but the damage is nice
In raid or m+? I can never get it to pump
giant white swirling circle around you
isnt there a reason to take Sporepods in m+ ?
in M+ right now, I used it on za'qul for adds and iirc it was pumping fairly nice
@exotic spoke where do i find it ? 😄
okay 😄
iirc I was getting more healing out of my 415 urchin than 420 sporepods. don't remember feeling strongly about their dmg one way or the other
hey, I am in the process of re-rolling from a holy priest to a prot warr for doing m+. do I need the blood of the enemy minor for higher keys? icy guide doesn't mention it but it makes sense to have it?
Blood of the enemy is dps essence and you cant use it as tank
did something happen to the cyclotronic trinket recently? tooltip dmg is lower than real and it feels like it pulls aggro better on pull than it used to. maybe i'm crazy idk
@oblique garnet my friend has it and said he is using it and it's a must for high keys? are you sure or is he stupid?
He is stupid
if i post some logs from last nights raid can any1 look them over and see what i could do differently its only my 2nd week tanking as our tank bailed but im trying to get better
Will we ever get enough haste to take punish over into the fray as our 15 talent?
no
hi
hello cat
120 Strength gem then haste
on weapon haste too or the new one?
Force multiplier
thx
whats the better weapon paralytic barb or the royal scaleguards battleaxe ? is the barbs use ability worth it ?
Are they the same item level?
the battleaxe is 335 the bard is 330
battleaxe
Then the battleaxe is better. The barb's effect is pretty meh. It's a tiny DR that's never going to save your life, and it reduces your damage as well.
No, that's it
I thought it was +10% dmg -10% taken
and i fucking macrod it to avatar
whilst trying to get logs tonight
That's a RIP
Damn that's crazy
What did you get rank 1 on Fum?
heroic azshara and queen's court i think
I've got 3 rank 1s on mythic, 5 on heroic and 3 on normal I think
Nice
but I haven't done normal since the first week
I can't believe...
how stupid...
i was
literally 10% less damage for the majority of bloodlust AND the entire avatar
because i can't read
o o f
😦
That means the rank 1s I lost but got top 10 on
i coulda...
and i was sitting here wondering why my logs weren't as good as they should have bene...
i'm gonna go catch up on sleep so i don't make more mistakes like this
Press F for fumeiyo
Wow cat, that guy worked hard drawing that pfp for you and you already changed it
smh
L
What minor are you guys running for M+ this week?
Only got the 1 minor and I'm not pushing high at all (around 12's) and i'm going the normal major and conflict and strife for minor.
And I've been playing prot since vanilla and I just joined the server like 20 min ago so Hai ^^
👋
@true plover I'm running CoF major and VoP minor
I’m running the standard visions major and lucid minor
Haven’t switched them up at all lol
@tawny maple CoF over Visions? I thought Visions was by far our best
CoF is better single target dps. And you still get the shortened CD for Avatar with VoP minor.
Cof is big titty ST dmg
convergence of fates
Makes the big bad bosses and dangerous mobs go bye bye
🗞 🐱
@tawny maple What key levels are you running this week?
This week is easy
I don't like the combo too much tbf
Was thinking of running Vision/Sphere for necrotic but mighht just try CoF/Vision if it works really well. I'm running the same key levels
But wouldn't call it overly hard
I usually run Visions/CoF. Switched to sphere major this week
It seems like people run so many different combos
Oh yeah I don't like CoF I think it's boring AF but it does like good damage so
I'll almost exclusively run Visions major though, dem avatars 🤤
Exclusively running visions as well
But I don't raid as prot
CoF is conflict and strife or am i missing something?
🤔
oh, is that actually a dps increase over vision? 😮 I mean, I'm having issues with not getting rid off my rage already and then add another GCD for that 🤔
Is CoF on the gcd?
Yes
ah dam
@sick sentinel it's better ST damage
@sick sentinel also if you're having issue getting rid of you rage IP more
Oh yeah, i was thinking wrong. I basically can't IP more. Atleast it feels that way xD
While i'm here and b4 i forget. I got another 430 head so i have 1 with bastion and the engi goggles (430) that ofc has defeaning crash. I do have bastion of might on both chest and shoulders. Should i be using goggles for def or go triple bastion?
Do you have DC on another piece?
Nope, either 3x bast or double bast+DC
Then do double bastion + DC
The 2 BOM
^
I have 0 right now 😬
Imagine not having 3x BoM lul
But my war is still a baby so I have room to grow
Feels bad Gnash
Only 418
I bonus rolled radiance helm
😮
yea that's what i was thinking aswell. Didn't realise i only had 1 of em atm. Something it feels like i'm missing atm tho is DPS. I kinda feel... obsolete like a concrete wall jsut spamming flashy lightning bolts xD
I got lucky and got the Kraken shoulders week 1
I coined the court trink first kill, I don't raid but was pugging for that and the court trink
@oblique garnet 
🙂
I only have 2 when I do M+ and I hate it
Also - 269 games on steam and dont feel like playing any of them >.>
@exotic spoke 😮
@exotic spoke Dark Souls Remastered imo
dont have dark souls
In the MDI do they just pick 445 or can they pick WF/TF pieces as well?
set ilvl
I see
@exotic spoke Battalion 1944 is fast paced shooter
not the shooter Im looking for ghash
Though cuphead is somethign I need to pick up
Late - CS set in 1944?
@exotic spoke titan fall 2 and apex legends
Is there any way to "best" set up CoF in an m+ run or just use it on cd?
Checking it out. thanks also mr. 2012.
Part of me wishes old school CoD games / games like that were big instead of BR games
On CD Nem - as long as you don't overwrite the buff at the very beginning when you have two charges availabl;e
titanfall2 is just a straight up arena shooter like cod
but with the best movement I've ever seen in a game
and also giant robots
Yeah - but its not on steam and also its like CoD future shit right?
Im old 😦 Give me like MW 1 - MW 3
advanced warfare ripped off the jump pack from titanfall, yes
Or cod1-3 as well
and did it way worse
Yeah I never liked AW
titanfall2 also has the best campaign of any shooter imo
Still waiting for this wc3 reskin
Go go gadget steam wallet from CSGO Gambling. Awwww still paying dividends
