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you just need to go to a server that has a lot of people, and work on making yourself a better tank
Most guilds don’t recruit tanks it’s an unfortunate fact of the game and many recruit from the inside. Best chance to get into a cutting edge guild imo is network through m+ since it’s a more accessible part of the game
I’m on Tich bruh it’s a huge server
I agree m+ is a good way in
99 parse by definition is not easy
it also helps you meet people
you understand what the parse means right?
So... Theorycrafting question totally off topic of the current convo here. Are there ANY circumstances in which I should prioritize Ignore Pain over Shield Block? One of my friends is trying to "prove" to me that dumping ALL Rage into IP is better in all situations, and I'm highly doubting that.
it's not competitive at all
the majority of parses are warriors not even trying to parse
the orange logs are there for the taking
@rigid yarrow absolutely not, SB is warrior number one midigation
Spend rage on IP instead of SB when you're taking magic damage or have excess rage
what the heck?
Unblockable damage / magic damage *
unless you are in situations where you are taking almsot pure magic
@rigid yarrow no
do you hear this guy
Unless you can’t block
lol "shield block always besides time you can't shield block
Block is always better in situations where it can be blocked
Parses are not relevant to what makes a good mythic raider. They show the ability to press your buttons and cheese encounters. What’s relevant is how well does someone handle a mechanic, how consistent is someone in handling mechanics, and how effective are they in group dynamics
When you're going for a prot 99 you're competing with people who don't cast revenge, barely use avatar and don't use unbridled fury pots
It's not competitive
Go look at a 50 log compared to a 99
@rigid yarrow fights like radiance of azshata for the adds
Unblockable damage
the 50 is just bad play like that's it
There’s a lot more to it than just that but you need to be focused less on parses and more on the general gameplay and working with your guildiws/those around you
like missed globals and all
Tank logs are the least competitive of all and if you want 99s they're not a big task to get
So SB always unless SB is useless or SB is still on CD, is what I'm hearing XD
well man, thats the thing about the game. and honestly it translates to every part of life too. BETTER YOURSELF FIRST. When you spend so much time making the grass in your own yard green that you don't notice other people's yard. you will notice that those problems you had about finding groups, are not problems anymore.
Why are 50 parses even in the conversation?
No one in here was talking about having bad parses
I'm talking about how easy it is to get a 99
@limpid pawn I’ll say this then I’m leaving it dead and not responding any more
Imo you’re drawing a false comparison because this is a game that people play for fun. there is skill involved and it is no one else’s responsibility to help out a struggling player
That is different than a real life situation and I think if you’re honest with yourself you’ll agree. Because a game isn’t life or death - unlike real life
i don't have them because i'm good
there is no competition, just don't waste globals and press avatar on CD
that's it
@rigid yarrow yes generally SB should be prioritized when tanking mobs that primarily melee or have attacks you can block, whereas IP is generally better served to be prioritized in high magic encounters I.E, shadow of zul or OT zaqul
tbh its strange, many guilds ive been in have different opinions when recruiting tanks
some want big healing/mitigation logs,m some want big damage
yeah, my guild is oversaturated with tanks, so I'm exclusively World Content and Dungeons 😛
Healing/mitigation logs 🤔
You want to have logs to show that you can do hybrid, full healing and full offensive
If you cover every base you're a prime applicant
I mean as warrior I feel like you have to sacrifice so much rage to IP if you want to healing log
I don’t really think you can say 99s are ez, purple parsing sure
so youll only get like a 90 log on damage
@rigid yarrow I would go to weakauras - addons, grab a shield block uptime WA. and practice making sure it is ALWAYS active while you are activly tanking a mob or boss. and fill in gaps with IP.
Look at a 90-95 log comapred to a 99
it's still them just not pressing buttons often enough or on cd
like I rarely do much damage on progression
the only competitive part of prot warrior logs is the top 10
but on reclear i go like crucible/barrier
ok fumi
once you master that you can focus on when to take one over the other, because if your like me when i first started getting better, more technical, I didn't realize how often I didn't have SB up.
so 10 people are the only "good players"
i didn't say that
i said the only competitive prot warrior logs are top 10
and that 99s are just by pressing buttons on cd
Parsing 99’s as a warrior is gated this tier largely behind Null barrier R3, Cyclo blast, R3 CoF, neck level, azerite availability etc
I mean theres a few prots on the top 10 that sculpt pulls
I mean like how you gonna parse 99 when you pulling the aggro off your cotank tho?
lol
@willow scarab I agree with what @weary thorn said. It’s pointless to continue this conversation
griff, this guy is completely out of touch with reality
My thoughts got me the spot that i'm in
your thoughts got you the guild you're in
I guess that's all there really is to it
I think that’s a pretty mean way of looking at it Fum
He just called me out of touch with reality though
Both sides should take a step back and listen to each other
the truth hurts sometimes
I think people are too willing to automatically jump to conclusions and not see the nuance
I'm not obliged to be nice to people, I've said what works and how simple it is
But it’s honestly pointless to continue the conversation - that’s directed at people on both sides of the conversation
@hasty nova what's your opinion of the HeroRotation addon?
hmm let me look that up right quick is that a WA? or actuall independant addon
independent addon very similar to WA
Real talk though (this isn’t to continue anything) I actually hated one of my cotanks in legion because he would mess up my parses cuz he couldn’t hold aggro
The fact of the matter is that parses are often gated behind time spent outside of raid, and then dictated by how well you cheese the encounter in raid. On the other side, it’s important to realize that parsing isn’t everything and that the top 10 warrior logs don’t indicate best warriors. There’s a lot more to an applicant than parses and taking the time to focus on those things is much more important
It puts a box next to the mid-screen health bar that tells you what to cast when, using SimC APLs
i use these two weak auras
very small minimal screen and helps A LOT
i'm not familiar with the one you asked about so i couldn't give an honest opinion on it sorry
but differnt things work for different players
I should get some WA. But ehhhhh
what you SHOULD do however, is log yourself in the next raid or dungon you do.
I’ll forgot by the time I’m home in 5 hours
and see what your UPTIME for block is
Are yo utalking about one of those addons that tells you the rotation
that would be a good way to gauge if that method is working for you or not
I like to maximize my damage output, but I also prioritize not taking a ton of damage @honest frigate
But how do your healers parse then?
i generally dislike addons that "circle" the butotn i should press.
By healing the idiots in the fire @exotic spoke
Like, when they get bored and want to parse I know it means I should go super offensive
Good healer logs come from standing in mechanics on purpose
Like - zero survivability traits/ trinkets / talents
and using less healers
Lol when healers want to parse it literally does not mean you go super offensive it means you stand in fire
and high leech
Oof
rip
Think like this right
ashvane is 3 healers
imagine... 2 healing
if you actually manage to kill the boss you're getting 2 rank 1s
Tank trinkets and azerite traits largely don’t matter for prot warrior in raid and all of the content can be completed with a pure offensive set up 🤷🏻♂️
I mean - yeah you right
I’m actually just considering becoming a healer
It's like that hpally who blasted rank 1 in BoD
Would be way easier to get a slot
when they discovered glimmer and he solo healed the first boss
HeroRotation is ALMOST like spellflash, except it doesn't highlight the ability on your ABs, it just shows you the ability icon next to the health bar. GCD abilities in the big box and anything off GCD in the smaller boxes right above it.
Holy pally here we come! 🙃
Using a rotationhelper is a bad idea and you'll do significantly better just learning how to play the class without one
Break out my original character
It’s the same reasoning to how I got a rank 1 healing parse in legion
If you’re supposed to two tank the fight and I solo tank it cause the other one dies - as long as I can tank both bosses and not die I Winn
Rotationhelpers to me feel like 1 step away from botting
Like... you're almost not even playing the game
Solo tanking felhounds 🙃
Well, getting a spot as a tank is certainly more demanding than a healer. if there is 10 raids, there would only be 20 spots for a tank, where there could be either 40 or 50 healer spots
Blood DK felhounds was 😂
you're really salty about not being able to get 99s aren't you
just press your buttons properly
it's called - limited spots fumeiyo
usurp
Jesus ducking Christ. Let this fucking drop
yo
as an aside
i love this discord so much
half hte people in here don't even play prot war any more
but we still argue about nothing
anyway
That's the most annoying part
LEECH
AT least let me argue with prot warrior players
@chilly brook Yeah boy! I did 1.5M HPS as a prot warrior solo tanking the hounds
oh come off it, @limpid pawn I understand why you are resistant to what fume is saying
but think about it this way, when i came to this discord i was 1.5k raider.io and 2/9M BoD. @willow scarab is actually specfically the person who helped me with a few tips
those tips brought my sb uptime WAY up, and my damg WAY WAY up.
now i'm 2.2k raider.io and in a different, better guild that is 4/8M EP.
so while i understand why you are frustrated, don't be petty to someone who has helped a shit ton of ppl on here for no reward
even if he is being kinda a dick right now, (still love you fume)
I'm a dick all the time
Some of us still do play prot, just not as much as we used to
Well if you think of Raids as a movie, and rotationhelpers as a script, most of the best performances in history were way off-script. You just have to know when to ignore the helper and panic-smash your defensive CDs lol
or be like @analog swift and work meta magic
There are minor things that your rotation helper won't help with
Gus, you 2.2 current season? Grats
for example
If a boss casts an 8 second cast and your SB expired - the helper will tell you to apply another SB
I just really wouldn’t even worry about a rotation helper
but also remember that tanks are REQUIRED to be good af. there are only 2 tanks sometimes 3 in a raid. if you are not ABOVE average (OF THE GROUP YOU ARE TRYING TO GET IN, NOT the population of wow as a whole) as a tank you will have more trouble
but you can hold it for 8 seconds and bank up an entire charge
I mean my guild are asking me to reroll Brewmaster
Prot “rotation” is really simple
<3, this chat is my favorite thing to do when waiting for my case to be called
@empty spire unless you need the mystic touch debuff or are stuck on radiance that's dumb
You in court?
A lot of guilds want BrM
What did you do?
or court
they're good in this raid and always good for prgo
court is fine for warrior
OH i'm a lawyer lol I thought you meant queen's court
Ahhhh
well we have no monk
court is sort of okay for warrior
yeah same why I went BrM
and 2 monks is generally better than not 2 monks on prog
just don't solo tank the zealous erruption during no heal phase
When I said court I meant real life court not in game
hahahahahahah
god damnit i missed another rare enemies in mechagon. i can't handle you guys anymore lmao. i gotta go play wow. good luck to all of you
yeah Brew is the best tank and MW is meh and WW is mega mehhhh
see ya next time.
yeah it's 5am i should get a few hours sleep before this becomes an all nighter
@hasty nova fine - dontnanswer me. I’m a sad panda
WWW is so much fun
enjoy skyhjold
MW hasn’t been the same since they took away chi
I SEE HOW IT IS @hasty nova
they posted in the WW section for wind-announce
@exotic spoke lmao riki LET ME LEAVE PEACEFULLY.
No
2200 current season?
also i'm 1.5 to 2.2 last season. this season i'm 1.8 atm
I kinda wanna run a resto shaman
yeah not enough time lately, been slacking I think i'll get back up there when i can find more time
I feel like they’re about to be nutty
but everyone says taht am i right ? 🙂
Like literal aids. We had to pick between that or siege. In hindsight I’m not sure we picked correctly
yeah
they shouldn't have nerfed % AND the canons
I hated the canons before but now there's just sooo much %
and you can't really pull mongo with the current layout
Plus the emissary placement is aids
My group currently has 2 sieges and 3 shrines to run ;p
What levels?
a 17 and an 18 siege, and the shrines are all 17
Also, UR was nice this week. Shrine wasn’t bad. Missed shrine by a few seconds when our rdruid died on last boss and we couldn’t res him since he ended up in shadow shit
TD is big gay now
I’d do shrine - it wasn’t bad at all
The nerd to cannons was too big
UR is one of my favorite dungeons in general, so I never have problems running that.
we did a 16 shrine already, and ya. Not bad at all
At this point you waste more time to try get maximum use out of them as if you were to just not use em at all
Yea.. I never liked TD, really. Since the changes I try the following: kill the first 4 mobs by the first cannon, use the first cannon to kill the far pack, then try to double up on the 2nd pack with the 2nd cannon.. Group kills whatever is left. Then skip everything after barrel boss...
The most annoying part is
Walls
Walls don't exist in TD
I've had 2 runs where I pulled packs through the wall with Tclap
Back to back
Just because this dungeon is retarded
it's especially bad with any of the reflecting emissaries
pull through walls, ceilings, floors
everything
It's disgusting
Like how can this fly
Just make normal fucking walls
How hard can it be
Or fucking Dh eyebeaming through wall
Or we/
honestly, walls are kinda hard
pretty soft according to Nome
really though the dungeon walls have been pretty shit all of BFA, but that new emissary has definitely made it worse
with never surender and 3 BS traits at 1% health it blocks 140k damage for me
😡
Why the fuck would you use NS
am i not allowed to test things?
yeah youre right ill take indomitable
Lol
Cause Indom is soooooo good
im taking indom just to piss other warriors off
Cause you think gladiator still exists
This just in - it’s dead
Current Prot is a better DPS than Glad ever was.
It doesn’t exist because it’s not a dps spec
If you want to dps as rank that’s fine - but don’t expect to be invited as a dps spot and stay when they see you’re doing sub par dps numbers
If only M+ had existed in WoD, maybe it'd have been well-received.
^
I’d be embarrassed if I thought it was still good enough to do it without causing problems for the group
i think ur just jealous
I mean, obviously Prot's only competitive in M+
Jealous? Ha! I do the dps you do and actually tank the boss
how bad is prot war on azshara, is it worth juicing up a monk at this point or nah. Startin zaqul soon
I think you’re being selfish and not realizing it’s dead and gone
It's literally always worth juicing up a Monk for raid.
Mythic or heroic?
I think there a few prot warriors that have killed azshara so far on mythic
But it's doable as a Warrior.
mythic
Any end boss is doable as any tank
not asking if possible, just asking if its worth swapping for last 2
No point in gearing a monk if you want to play warrior but if you want to play monk go for it
Not worth imo given essence gating and the amount of progress you’d need to compensate for outside of raid if your monk is not already raid ready
didnt know if anyone in here was progging azshara and had opinions, no public logs of it on war so far
@hasty nova killed it I believe
He did ashvane
It really just depends on how much more work you need to do to get your Monk up to snuff.
Oh oops my bad for the tag
I wouldnt say it’s worth I’m not swapping for azshara 🤷🏻♂️
But there's no reason to not have a Monk ready to rock for raiding if you're a serious man.
That’s only the top 1% of raiding honestly
A boss has a final phase with a stacking mortal strike effect. It stacks on autos. Dodgeable autos.
Pretty easy to know which class is going to reign supreme.
Not relevant what tank you play if you’re not competing for world first
i see warriors using Heavy Repercussions
you already crippled your guild by going prot war this tier may as well stick with it until the end
Prot warrior kills will come in just like every other tank
I guess everythings possible
heavy repercussions is the future of prot warrior
I sincerly hope so
I think @oblique garnet is on azshara
I mean how good actually is it considering Brace for impact is a thing
I see people successfully playing suboptimal garbage as a testament to the indomitable nature of the human spirit more than a justification for that trash being not-so-trash, but maybe that's just me.
hm?
You’re working on azshara right?
Someone was asking about prot viability for it
heavy repercussions sims well depending on how many bastion of might traits you have vs other stuff
im playing monk
Ahhh rip
why play monk its only relevant on world first kills 4head
yeam my guild wants me playing monk on that fight as well, gearing it this reset
end of this tier is gonna be a fat dream's end with 3 rf and heavy repercussions cant wait
I’m soooo happy i don’t worry about that
Mmmm that does sound sexy though
So glad I don’t have to worry about Gearing monk I mean
thx for input azshara folks 🙂
Monk is just better for the add movement because taunt gives ms
and also being able to dodge jolts
warrior is perfectly fine for it
monk is just better
p much
Sensemonk when?
never
Good
Ill prob warrior cuz my monk is so behind, first tier tanking I wasn't prepped on everything
Kingfuriki is coming for you Late. She’s 62 and probably won’t hit 70 until next year
some good prot warr streaming m+?
theres an ok prot warrior streaming m+ and progression
could you tell me the streamer name?
its me lol, just started streaming this week, not sure im allowed to plug streams outside of promotion channel but im 6/8m and do mythic+ on warrior and monk
Why did I decide to trial on Fury. Uff.
I have no idea how that spec works...
Should have tried to get a tankspot after all 😄
Any tips how to sidestep Cragmaws (2nd boss underrot) frontal? It seems to be really hard as he traces for like 80% of the cast and if you don't hit the timing perfectly you get hit
You don't sidestep it; you back away from it
i might try HR build with brace for impact next raid
ill blame warrior discord if it doesnt work
When the timer hits slightly under 1 sec left, he'll stop moving. You can literally backpedal/strafe back away from him and it'll miss you as long as you keep moving until the cast goes off.
So literally outrange it? Or you mean like a diagonal strafe to the right/left?
No you just outrange it
@sick sentinel it's an 8 yrd frontal cone
walk backwards 8 yards
and then promptly fire a /dance macro
You can literally backpedal and make it out in time as long as you start moving at slightly under 1 second on the timer (when he "roots" himself)
or be an actual tank and side-walk it (it's faster than backpeddlin)
But strafing perpendicular to him gives you a bit more wiggle room
oh I lied, it's 12 yards
So like (BOSS)(YOU). Boss is about to cast Indigestion. You strafe so (BOSS)---->(YOU). Best diagram ever.
also TIL that each tick is it's own individual spell....they hand place tick numbers....
yeah summon tick is a single tick instance
they fire 6x of those
instead of a single spell with a dynamic range
My favorite part of Tantrum is when you got everything cleared and then he's like nope, let me shit out some more for you rq
Indigestion is fun 😃
just block indegestion
....
or take 0 damage
You can't block it 🤔
raise your shield above your head and let the indegestion fall off it
Also just noticed the spreadsheet still shows it as requiring leap to outrange
Which is definitely not the case, since I did 2 13s this week on my pally and just strafed to avoid it
i strafe it every tim e
Wait that sounded like you strafe before he starts casting it
it's literally just a 12 yards cone. Can you run 12 yards in 1.5 seconds? Yes.
Yeah, I just look at the boss timers and when it's at like .9 or .8 seconds, I start strafing. He roots himself for the cast around that point
psh timers
but he does cast an ability* at his energy intervals so it's pretty readable
- the fact that he's a big boy and you don't have to be sitting on the origin to tank him, so you're running less than 12 yards
Mmhm. Pretty easy to predict even if you don't have timers
Just might strafe for nothing if it's charge first instead of indigestion lol. But then you can intercept for more rage 😄
honestly I just run during the timer itself and it works out /shrug
You have to pre run on every ability until he casts indigestion
To make it safely out
Yeah since the only one you know is coming is if he does charge/indigestion/charge, and you still have to pre-run for the first one just in case
once you get the hang of it, it's super trivial imho
Yeah. Good thing too since if it does hit you, it hurts a bit
that DID racial comin in clutch there
Oh shit
I... I honestly forgot that movespeed bonus existed
Pro strats
it's poor man's GonkGang
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
Literally poor man, because Zandas get more gold from loot
oh my god I finally understood it, thanks alot bois. I thought YOu have to wait until 3/4 of the cast is DONE and then start moving. I didnt get that you start moving before he starts the cast
noooo
No no no
If you do that you're getting nailed
Oh wait
I should read the whole message
Yeah - that’s how you die. Personally - I don’t like dying
The first thing is how you die
That’s why you move pre cast - like you said
The second part is how you do it correctly
unless you got a movespeed boost, or have an insane reaction speed, you need to anticipate the cast
I have leap ready Incase I fuck it
Yeah, I always thought that he traces til the very end of the cast and then stops moving, so that you have to time and wait til the very end of the cast and then start moving at the exact right moment. But yeah, its clear now 😄 thanks a lot
That sounds like a healer problem to deal with
Or dps I guess
@sick sentinel Just in case you want a video example, here's Sense doing it: https://youtu.be/2c_MQTBYojA?t=793
he traces horizontally but he's stationary
also to point out in that clip, doesnt' even look like Sense pre-runs. He starts moving as the cast bar appears
Yeah I noticed that too
so, like I said, no pre-run necessary ;P
So looks like you have quite a bit of margin for error
(but not a bad habit lol)
Yeah especially while you're getting used to it
I'm sure he is lul. Just to make HMT not feel like molasses
Just play goblin
Or Kul Tiran. Be a big boi without feeling slow af
John Cena philosophy. Clever.
Well played sir, well played
late response, sense looks like he maximizes melee range tho for the run
@oblique garnet mind letting me know when you finish that run? Just have a question for you
@exotic spoke hm?
@winter skiff That's with procs during drums buff :p
oh i see
Can someone please make it 7 pm eastern. I want to get out of here
Man I leave work at 3 or I'll never make it through DC traffic
I also get in by 7 though for the same reason
@warm plinth premoving is mostly just a safety precaution because on the first cast it can be either charge or frontal and if you are too slow to react you wont make it out of range
I.e if its charge first you know when the frontal is coming and you can move accordingly when the cast comes looking at timers but on the first cast its safer to premove a bit
I always premove. Better safe than sorry
@weary thorn you may not be able to log in. I had issues connecting to wow and it is apparently still going on - especially if you have Verizon
And I’m close to Annapolis.
Also - fuck DC traffic
hmmm
I'm down in Fairfax, but I was on just an hour ago
I'll double check right now
Apparently was an issue with Verizon
yea, I'm in. And I have cox 
And you should be fine if you connected 30 minutes ago
yea looks good on my end
Whomp whomp
Hi guys, Fury is my main spec. Prot is my alt for Keys, but which Trinkets would you recommend?
This week or in general?
In general - and this is slightly vague sorry - I would do no more than 1 defensive trinket personally
I haven’t played around with edicts yet because I don’t have it - So id use urchin. Maybe edicts in places like mother lode.
As for the dps probably gore crusted or rezans
which one out of the ones I linked would you use?
If I didn’t think I needed the defensive I’d sim and figure out which gave the most offensive - I think gore crusted is up there and probably rezan
I think those are all linked?
yeah the 2 equipped + the 4 below the frame
Urchin (rarely edicts) and probably gore - though that 440 eye is sexy
If I don’t need defensive trinkets I’d use gore and eye
whats the Urchin/edict?
Is that the trinket to the right of gore crusted
thats a razor Coral
And edicts of the faithless - isn’t that what you’re using
Oh it looks the same or similar
thats the inkpod
alrighty Thank you!
Hey guys, do you think that swapping one of my BoM to Loyal to the end ( asuming that other raiders have it ) is worth ?
No BoM is definitely better imo
If everyone has loyal to the end it's not a bad idea
You're helping them and 351 mastery constantly vs 700 on your avatar is similar value
But make sure you have at least 1 BoM for the IP part of the trait
yeh i'd say your raids benefit would outweigh your own loss quite a bit, depending on how many are also running it
Guys I need a bit of help. I want to try to time a +10 KR, but I'm afraid of the little guys at the start that they are going to wreck the group
Are you alliance or horde?
horde
Just invite a belf rogue and have them go in and cloak/arcane torrent
hmm okay
Or if you're a belf you can probably berserker rage/arcane torrent
Never tried that though since I'm a dwarf, but we do the rogue strat on my horde team
If there's no void at the start, you can also shroud/invis past the first pack of them and rogue can do it on the ones that spawn in the boss room
You hit the gong, rest of the group stands back by the gong, and the rogue stealths to the spawn and cloak/torrents/vanishes
You'll be out of range of bursting and rogue doesn't even have to die
You can berserker rage into arcane torrent to them, rogues can also distract into belf
Is guild launch dead for anyone else?
That's a much more sophisticated Strat, we just clear them then laugh as our Resto druid gets worsening blood pressure
What rogues can and should do when they enter the first boss room is if they are belfs and the adds spawn Distract them->Belf->vanish that way all the minions are cleared and if its bursting rest of the team is out of range while rogue can just cloak
so, is there a range on bursting? i know its about to end but i might give that KR 10 one more go
we were like 53 minutes few too many wipes at the start
60y I think
wow, thats a bit scary
Don't quote me on that
my other idea to get it, was to have a pally pull it when it pats and then he bubbles or has a SS, and then we get him to rez healer and then us
the bursting stacks wont kill you because they are simultaneous it doesnt do as much as staggered
I think a 10 over time on KR is good enough for me this week, I beat 8 of my previous records this weekend anyway, did a bunch of 10s on time
not the best times, but i did them at least
@sick sentinel just shroud past them and then you’re fine, no bursting to deal with either
You could also bring a spriest and mass dispel them then have your healer top everyone
well, there is a pack at the boss room which i am more afraid of
That one is actually easier
Pull the left pack back to the golden button which starts the room
The pats will stop at that spot and are free to be dealt with separately
Alternatively you can pull both right and left packs together and go back to the golden button. That will give you even more space to deal with them
You progging zagul fume?
Stupid boss
8% best wipe, we’re like 70 attempts in
Being the tank that has to do literally everything sucks
And when the tentacles spawn on top of the circle he’s gotta soak? 🙅♂️🙅♂️ miss me with that
being a main tank can be stressful as all hell, but when that boss goes down and everyone cheers at you for it, it's worth it
While you’re right - just wait till mythic zaqul. You have so much to do the entire time
It’s like 2x the normal amount of stuff to deal with and the other tank mostly gets to afk
mythic zaqul, no thanks
is your cotank still the dk?
you mean fumeiyo?
Yes
okay, because i used to have a dk co-tank, but then i left the guild last week
Yeah still the dk
It’s pretty nice for add control and he can heal himself through the mitigated damage I give to him
Monk obviously better but it’s working fine
The only reason the boss isn’t dead is because my job is so hard 😊 sandbagging the raid
monk taunt is real nice for moving the boss :))
It’s so tilting having dps make remarks after wipes
Like their entire job is to follow the boss and stand in a few circles
Would u guys sacrifice a 3rd BoM trait for an azerite 25 ilvls higher
yes
for m+ that is
depends on the traits
Id lose BoM and Blightborne Infusion
And your options are?
and gain Deafening Crash and IF
yes
why do you have 3 deafening crashes
thunder clap dmg i guess and no better traits to choose
I would suggest changing some of your other DCs
Sucks to lose blightborn snd bom though
25ilvl is worth it
I’d run 3 if I could
If you’re in a position where you’re using 420 Azerite then you can deal with using a BS trait
Full damage builds are for when you’re 450 not 430
im 440 😛
still wouldnt run 420 azerites
I only use one crash for m+ and I’m 446
^
I’m actually really enjoying full defensive play and doing bigger pulls this season to let dps carry with new essences
What level keys are you doing? It doesn’t really matter as much in low keys
Do whatever you want then
But for high keys it’s really nice being a brick wall
It sucks to not do 300k burst on reaping but our dps got nerfed anyway so I build around utilising the dps as best I can because their gain will always be so much more dps than my dps build offers
So is still Bloodsport worth over a 2nd or 3rd DC
yes
Yeah only use 1 dc this season
The extra defensive traits means a bigger pull and an overall faster key
thats affected by multiple things
Have a look at logs on some warriors you like and check their uptime for a realistic answer
Wish you were up at 5am for the good discussions here @orchid token
@oblique garnet I mean u can atleast keep it up 90+ percent right
some 1 is trying to tell me its not possible
are people using the edict on magic damage and the urchin with the null barrier this week?
for m+?
That's what I was using
On necrotic?
That's the worse possible choice you could make
Don't use any of those this week
Anyone else experience world lag today? Or was it just me and my shit internet again?
its just u, man
sorry to say it
its just you
like always
....
@novel temple why kultiran, bigboy??
this is a good reason to play kultiran
superdad, the dad who saved my mythic dungeon
was a bit creepy
hi should we take multiplikation enchant or Quick Navigation?
force multiplier
ok thx becouse i read on icy-veins quick navigation and here mutiple force
icy veins is generally based around being defensive, FM is better for DPS.
naga hide would be better for defense than quck navigation though
debatable
@sick sentinel its cause you got them white claws doctor
one trinket question. i got Razans eye on 450 za qul trinket with damage reduce/trade to a party member 430 and mechagon trinket with the cards on 422 ( red heals me yellow 179 haste+59 versality wich combo i should take? ( the red with 1200 haste proc i was destroying
and is the red one only a drop from mechagon or can i make it myself by the ingi robot there
not chains of suffering
Use rezan's everywhere
rezan for sure
and sec trinket?
Honestly non of the others is good. You better farm gore block, vial or some raid boss trinket
or i have 430 the trinket from WM that gave me krit for 15 sec
I would use rezans and buy the cyclotronic blast red card for raid
The. Get a better second trinket for m+
Rezan and gore block is a good combo
Barnacle is good in dungeons with lots of yellow quality mobs to spread it
Gore-Crusted Butcher's Block that i have
Yes use it with rezan for m+
ok thx
Do you guys usually open your M+ chest as prot or DPS?
if you have 440+ shield and weapon open as dps
Sporepods are nice if you pvp as arms at least
But yeah after suffering a 425 machimbas last season I’d have to say it’s pretty sketchy to loot as prot
why wouldn't you use cyclotronic/safeguard/badge + insignia for pvp?
I open it as prot until I have a 445 wep/shield because I'm hoping for a titanforge, after that I open it as arms hoping for a 440+ cut of death
Idk I’ve really enjoyed sporepods in pvp it does pretty insane healing
what rating are you playing at?
Nothing high this season, but it’s even recommended by joefernandes
Only playing at 1800 though atm
pvp is the only good use for sporepods
👀
What would be best for M+ in yalls opinions
between 400 Rezans eye, 400 Urchin, 450 Gore Crusted Block
rezan+gore
@oblique garnet get fucked nerd
@sick sentinel ?
What do you think, about mythic plus, idk if i level up blacksmith or eng, but i'll peffer eng
another month of raiding heroic, because I forgot that engi helms need drops from AEP 😬
Is BoB any good as a trait?
Barrage of many bombs?
@hallow phoenix yes.
barrage is good for damage if the fight is stationary. otherwise gizmo is better. Ive heard good things about synaptic spark capacitor in m+, but have never used it.
overall barrage looks the coolest so i tend to use it...
and a word of note on absorbotron: it can pull mobs during shroud or invis skips
for raids id always use gizmo
Thank you for that. I am torn between prot and fury in M+
I think prot might be more valuable as a whole and get me into higher keys faster than Fury
if you plan on pugging
go prot
100%
your biggest enemy is community autismo
if you have a stable group
play what you want tbh 🤷 figure out what the team needs more
Is it worth doing more than 1 deafening crash or am I better off justing picking something else?
Just 1 is enough
What I thought. Had a friend tell me I should drop one of my BoM for DC 2x and wanted to make sure nothing changed
If same ilvl, I'd always go for 3 bom
With VoP you have avatar up all the time and the extra mastery is nice
it's just ilvl > first DC > as many BoMs as you can get
goggles have DC so at least it takes care of that
also I believe they sim very high
Gismo is a good trait
for dps just sim
ok
@mint imp I had to make a choice between 2xBoM and 1xBom + engi helm.
Engi helm was a 15ilvl upgrade, and the sims showed more dps as well, so sadly, I dropped to 1 BoM for now
Will be gambling chests from now on to recover another BoM there, while wearing the engi helm.
I currently have 2xBoM + engi helm all 445ilvl. So i will try to get helm for residuum with BoM and sim with 3xBoM.
I've seen some do that
I actually just upgraded the benthic helmet for the same thing Nome
As I don't have any boms, I think the 645 mastery is better than gismo + having IV
yeh that's fair, I've seen quite a few running the HM helmet
uhh sec see if I can find it
I mean - that helmet is also 10k TR towards the 200k I need
Erm sorry; it’s not 10k - is whatever 430 is I can’t remember
It’s very solid
that's pretty nice
@mint imp
boys I was so sad yesterday Was 515 rustbolt rep short of exalted, so no null r3 during thiccvane prog last night.
yeah that would be crazy
yeah they are nutty for sure
Truth
@weary thorn i feel your pain. I've been pushing achieves and didn't realize R3 would need so many spare parts, so now I'm trying to get those all done
yea, I'll have to farm a few crates before next raid, but nothing crazy
and you need to complete HM to get those goggles right?
funny thing is, its just for ashvane. As soon as we get to gorgonzola I'll be back on my brew
yes hardmode Kobris
HM and 1/5 chance to get it
yep, 445 eng helm is better overall no?
better than a 420 if you dont have the HM helm
as much as I hate Mechagon, I'd use the goggles
and 420HM helm is better than 445 engi helm?
Mechagon isn’t that bad
HM helm is 430
I'd say the mecha HM helmet is only better in m+
If you don't have any boms
Engi would be better for raid
For M+, yeah, I'd use the Mecha HM helm, traits are just perfect, which probably makes up for the ilvl loss over the engi helm
No luck in getting it drop yet though
still have hardmode this lockout, but, slim chance that I'll be doing it tonight since I raid till midnight....
2nd time I got it, last one I scrapped cuz I didn't think too much about it
So this one ima use
I got it on my monk, but not warrior rip. Its a decent windwalker helm though at least
Whats best minor for m+ null? Maybe sphere from pvp on nec weeks
r3 null is pretty solid. Sphere is good if you need to kite. I swap between vop and lucid as well depending on the run
Lucid it is
I always run VoP major - Lucid minor
But, I run 10-13 keys, so, it's not really that I need to minmax
Keep in mind that sphere and clap slow don't stack
Makes sense i used it in pvp alot when i was grinding honor didnt seem like it did shit
leveling my shaman as i que into a cata dungeon with a warrior tank that doesnt know how to hold aggro https://i.imgur.com/uT8gtHw.png
Prob doesnt stack with other slows and overrides them?
he ignored me after the last message
What lvl
When i started playing i use to bubble to save myself
My eyes, what have you done to me g dollar
get the poor man some misdirects so he can use shield block 😝
Queuing as a tank
How do you fail at aggro at 80 ik theres a aggro issue if your overleveled
It’s so cute
no he needs to dump rage on revenge for aggro
Eventually he/she will learn from their mistakes
Or they won’t
or he will rage forever and change classes
^^
he had heirlooms so its obviously not a new player
not the chat for ragging on #protection players tbh
What tanking did they do in legion
speaking of aggro, i still get DHs pulling off me with beam on big packs. despite my best efforts/rotation. any pro strats to try to mitigate that?
We talking eye beam or iris?
eye beam
thunderclap harder
mis direction and coordination are the easiest methods
you should have avatar up for big pulls, unless you arent really doing big pulls
VoP major and you'll have avatar up for every pull
Don’t avatar into Demo back to back. Weave a thunderclap in between the two abilities. Otherwise without more information it basically comes down to “TC More”
@weary thorn the problem isnt big pulls, its the 2 pack after that they decide to eyebeam
Don't speak about beams here man I get a full stack of dps popping Iris on skittish weeks
Bull - I can’t fix stupid
^ the tank mantra
what about dps popping iris on small hp packs with bursting??
Your dps are idiots then Quackr
then you let them die if they pull aggro like that
@sick sentinel lol
Darwinism is a cruel master
hoenstly i have no problem with that
I'd much rather low hp bursters die together for 8 stacks then extend over natural cleave for the fight
i miss when in legion we could survive 11 bursting stacks no problem
@exotic spoke thanks, i do tend to avatar into demo w/o tclap in between. easy fix
yea no shit, If I see some mongo intentionally ripping aggro from me 0.5 seconds into a pack then they get to tank it for me
i mean i think thats like the begining and end of the aggro discussion
like as long as you're actually pressing your buttons, aggro is a non-factor unless your monkeys decide to make it one
bingo
Truth
Basically Beguiling has 3 variations
where each emissary is more prevelant
last week was enchanted
There are three emissaries now. They rotate what the primary / most common emissary is
this week is void
Next week is cancer - fuck tides
Tides def the worst tbh
I did not know that
I thought em's were totally random
(well, fixed for the week, but not on a rotation which one would be more prevelant)
if that makes sense 🤔
I believe that the location of them is still random per week
just that there will be more voids this week
I'm not positive on that though, I've just been staring at MDT every teusday
Teeming, Void, Quaking, Fortified - If MDT is correct, yes?
I believe so - going off memory
The location of emissary spawns is set.
gross is it really ?
I thought it was.
if MDT knows the upcoming week, has angrykeys been abandoned? I thought it was still random and thats why the mod is broken
It was just different based on the week.
the guy that made MDT got onto the tourney realm after method killed m azshara
from what i heard
so i think MDT is the current source
gotcha
Like each of the three variants for the emissary types have their own set locations.
I mean thats not wrong :^)
I keep wording that ambiguously.. I need more coffee, but I'm pretty sure y'all understand what I'm trying to say. lol
YEah
haha
It's too early for me.. Only good thing so far is that I decided to work from home today. ;p
I have friends coming into town tonight through the 30th. I have off tomorrow through then. So, I'm pretty much in the same boat. haha
I'm ready for my cache of disappointments.. and then imma force some of my guildies to go through mecha with me so i can get my rank 3. :D
I'm such a bad wow player
I've done hardmode 4 times already
But i havent activated the level 2 thing yet
so none of it matters
hehe
I've not gone for r3 vop either bull
If it makes ya feel better, bull, I dont even have Rank 1 Conflict and Strife :P
I do!...on my brew
I was about to say "I dont really care about VoP" but then i remembered the discord im in 😬
My Warrior is almost at 49 neck 😎
:D
an uncomfortably large portion of my play group comes from this discord
so i dont really play prot anymore :^(
what you on now?
I've been playing Rogue for the last 2 seasons
and im like pretending to level a rdruid behind it
pretty much just waiting for 2.5 cause holy shit is this patch alt unfreindly
I'd love to have a druid, but i only have time for two classes
I'm waiting to see if my guild survives the WoW Classic Release, and Mythic Ashvane.
I am just super unexcited for wow Classic tbh
Same
I have like none of the nostalgia
A lot of my guild is all about it, though.
I did it all before, have no intentions of "actively" doing anything classic related this time around.
But yeah, we'll lose some guildies too, for a while 😄
Prob lose my whole guild for a month no interest for me
I'm fairly certain the ones in my guild are just dissatisfied with WoW, and they think Classic is gonna be better for some reason.
cant raid mythic, have to progress MC for a world first Ragnaros down.....because it totally didnt happen over a decade ago
World First! For the... second time... woo?
Prob gonna die to method 1st pull
Fuck doing vanilla all over again. I did it once. I don’t need to see old content again
No Roger? Cant beat easiest end-raid boss
They lost crucible cuz roger wasnt there
Im gonna go out on a limb here and say that Rag is a slightly less intensive fight than CoS
I mean. Rag had like what? 5 mechanics that involved "Oh. Dont stand there. 5yds to the right? You good."
I’m going to go out there and say most of the fights are less intensive than the majority of fights in retail
Like all classic bosses
Late AQ they added some interesting stuff - and it continued in Naxx
Hogger though....
warcraftlogs down rn?
I hated Huhu. One guild, ironically the one i joined in BC and am in now, had a lock down on the green dragons. So, trying to do Huhu in Mauradon Nr gear was cancer
above all things wow is most fun when you are playing with people you like a lot doing content you all think is fun
personally I really enjoyed the battlegrounds back then.
and the leveling
and the raids
but like 2000 other ppl have said
i have already done that
and the grinding is WAY worse than the grinding is now
I enjoyed what inplayed back then. I enjoyed the fuck out of it. It was an amazing game for the time and I take nothing away from it
so i'll just stick to the nice fancy graphics, large pool of playable classes with different specs, and engageing mythic raiding.
But, zero interest in doing something I explored close to 100% of
What I didn’t do would take so much time I don’t even care about it. I hit rank 11 in the vanilla pvp grind. I cleared almost all of AQ and cleared Naxx. I don’t care about a boss I missed
I think the majority of classic players will be players who didn't play vanilla and people who have been off the game for years
oh wow you did nax in vanilla?
Most people I've spoken to that played vanilla aren't interested in classic
World 39th
gosh that was a lot of work back then
highest i got was knight-captain on my rogue
Twinsy!
not sure what rank that was
I recently merged my vanilla account to my main
Commander Riki. Now Field Marshall Riki
so i got commander and master seargent achievments from vanilla
I'll just play vanilla cuz it gives you smth do to
grinding AP is something to do
I mean sure but also ^^
haha grinding levels in vanilla around level 52
And or carries or play another game (which while technically classic is I would want a step away from wow
Fucking around in vanilla is atleast smth
Last 3-4 levels for me was in deadwind pass as it wasn’t too populated on my server. Farming ogres
I think i'm just gonna play classic as a twink
like exchange bfa gold for classic gold and get a full +fire spell dmg set for a 39 mage twink
I’ll screw around On it but if I hit level 40 I will be sooo shocked
I have 0 plans to hit 60 in classic
You’d have a hell of a conversion rate with someone you trust
I'll just fuck around with the boys
Spirits on the lake then Moonkins from 53 to 60, in Winterspring, still have PTSD
man that tv show was so good, "the boys"
I think the place for classic for me is where hearthstone currently is
sometimes you just wanna play a different game for an hour or two
and that'll be classic
He has. But how do we know he’s the evil one? What if you’re the evil one Nome
I agree with riki
Yup and that’s how I’ll approach it
