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shoulders
shoulders
Shoulders have a better chance of getting a good item.
Helm for soulspun casque :^)
Also - just go pug the first three mythic bosses and get the helm there ghash
They are easy mode
i scrapped my "good" helm to buy shoulders
RIP my bastion
2nd eng helm heh
What did you get?
c'thraxxi
pog
now you have to parse in raids
Grats on big dick prot parse shoulders
I'd have to raid first š¤
Pug first three mythic and win ghash
I had a fury war in my raid group roll BiS for i think trench tyrant
when he had cthraxxi
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i didnt know what to think so just gave it to him cause i woulda just scrapped š¦
I think Iām just saving TR now
Well at least I can feel good about having Swirling Sands instead of having to have 2x DC
And it does have OP and RP
Wonder how much Iāll get before season 4
The plate bois in my raid make questionable gearing choices
Yup
I really need trinkets though; they're holding me back
3 DKs, 2 warriors, 4 paladins
wat
the dream
In mine
My druid is the real winner this week; 440 ignition mage's fuse
2 ret, 2 glimmer, 1 Bdk, 1 frost, 1 unholy, 1 fury, 1 prot
Our healing team consists of rdruid, disc, 2 glimmer, rsham, and MW
only 20mins later
Any trinkets that can just be scrapped? Need to free up bag space š¦

is good spend 47k TS to roll a chest or better wait 200k to take specific item? (my chest is 420)
We have 6 so we can mix and match and people know their offspecs @onyx vessel
figured
455 Razdunk's in chest.
Why wouldnāt you save TR. I have nothing I want to spend it on
tfw DH actually gets exactly what she wanted for azerite
He has a 420 chest
If you have all you need that's different
Pretty much. May check out helmets and find a good parsing one but Iām debating that
this is my equip: https://raider.io/characters/eu/nemesis/Tinycharge
I hear @distant crystal has a decent getti

I can find you one madjay. Itās in my bags
vicious rumor
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damn i managed to sneak into a pug mythic
with a bunch of insanely big dicks
yoda from methodna is in here on his monk lol
In your group, yoda is. Wipe you will not

You should run anima
Well, from a healing standpoint, anima R3 will be an improvement
Since you only have a 25% heal until then
But I mean, if not killing harlan saves you the 20 seconds, skip him. You don't get bonus XP or anything for him in a non-random. I can't imagine that he adds too much; maybe 10k XP per run or something at most
Can't eat? What do you mean?/
And what XP buff
Oh I got you
I mean, that seems like it'd be marginal tbh
and if you die you lose the 10% exp buff from hallow's end
Fair enough; didn't know there was an xp buff from hallow's end
But why do you care about the 10% xp buff I guess? Because you're not leveling; the other person is.
Yeah, most likely
Hmm, I guess I'm not seeing the reason behind that. Is the entrance too far from the third island for XP? XP has a pretty large range on it.
So they have to follow you?
Gotcha
So they have to follow you at least to like the middle/end of the bridge
And then (sans hallow's end) die to reset
Yeah I mean I don't have any experience in it. I was just clarifying it for myself
Just curious, what do you do to prevent the teleporting on the first island? Do you just have to run down the front stairs (where you come in) and they won't do it?
ye, dont jump down
Well I was trying to go down the back stairs and had the same problem
So I guess it has to be the front stairs
That actually saves a lot of time because then you can funnel onto the bridge and do the whole first island at once; I was doing it in 2 pulls because I couldn't figure out how to stop them from porting me
You kill at first boss. Then jump down and kills. Then after first bridge. Then towards shark boss. Then back towards Harlan stopping before bridge. Then everything with Harlan.
At least thatās what my friend does on hdh
I was doing 2 pulls on first island (one was all the mobs toward Kragg, then the other was the downstairs part), then doing the entire 2nd island at once, then Harland's island
with Harlan
the entire second?
Yeah, except for a couple pulls on the very top level, didn't seem worth it to get the like 6 mobs up there
by dragging them after you
and then killing them more after each other than at the same time
harlan gives 15k xp
I just mounted up, ran around and got everything, then killed it all by Harlan's bridge
thats what i did at least
its definitely worth killing
trying to gather 2nd island and getting harpooned 6 times in a row 
He was doing the area right after the bridge - all of it at once. Where the event is to do the council of captains.
He would then go along the buildings (not towards second boss) and kill towards third. Then loop back towards council - killing more after clearing around shark boss
and how do you survive that big burst then?
It was like 6 or 7 pulls
I just do 2nd island in 2 pulls
Idk, it was sketchy on a couple of the tries
Did you clear towards third boss late?
Yeah
I take the middle area and 2nd boss room under the hut first and then take the rest
Also - that was specifically for hdh. I havenāt tried it cause I CBA
After that i take everything on the 3rd island with boss
Dropped to like 10% a couple times. Would've been more comfortable with Anima though tbh; I was running Vision
He does last island in 1 pull.l with Harlan
I could probably stream the route i used
Yeah last island pull is a joke
The only irritating part about it is the casters that apparently don't believe in line of sight
Every attempt I had one or two of them somewhere waiting to die
He does like 6 pulls total
if you go into the little hut on last island casters will come eventually
you will die to giant stun in the hut?
I just strafe around the pack in a circle
If I think I can't get out of a boulder throw in time, I shockwave so the rest of the mobs don't instagib me
Can always heroic leap if needed as well
I definitely need to run Crackling Thunder though; I was just doing it for fun so I wasn't really trying. Still had safeguard on
I should try it when I get home and test it. Anima vision aegis @oblique garnet ?
Yeah sphere is nice because you snare everything as you go through. Especially helpful to put distance between you and harpooners/brinescales on 2nd island
I have a shit sphere - CBA to grind that honor. Iāll make due then since Iām just testing
Defensive traits or offensive
Sucks when you get harpooned and then frost blasted š¤¢
I mean honestly if people are doing 2nd island in 2 pulls, you should not need anything defensive
I mean thatās fair - I just havenāt done it at all ghash so I have no frame of reference.
I'm just sharing my thoughts. I'm not an expert either :p I've done it like 4 times
Yeah, I think HDH typically does like you say with the 6 smaller pulls
But they can also kill it all wayyyy faster
So they can afford smaller pulls
True true
So first island, event area, rest of 2nd, then 3rd island?
yeah
That sounds way easier than what I was doing. 2nd island was annoying af to pull all at once
Except for the 2 packs on the 3rd level, I pulled everything
I might have it on vod actually; can't remember if I was still streaming or not
everything below 5 min there is no point yeah
everything below 6 you mean
Anything below 6 is no point.
Was hitting dungeon lockout everytime while boosting getting the new one right after as the old one was done so i didnt get locked and the boost was done in like 2ish hours
Ah, forgot twitch is blocked at work. I'll see if I have it on vod when I get home
Small brain question here, because I can't find any real information: Brace for Impact or Reckless Fury for PURELY dps. Do Sims accurately track Reckless for Prot?
depends if you count resetting, porting etc.
Porting out and resetting takes like 20 seconds
I can't remember; is the port out for FH actually outside or is it one of the ones that ports you to the entrance but still inside
entrance
and technically there is always a point in case you only boost 5 level of course ^^
Never take those buyers only ones that want full 10 levels because its more gold 8)
Well if you guys wanna gear a war on NA rq, you can practice by boosting my 112 rogue
I won't even charge you
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just one question pls i dont found a 100% answer :S for m+ essenzes minior should i take lucid dream and nullification or lucid dream and aegis or conflict an strife it confuse me rly becosue i think agies and conflict is only depend on how big i pull or ?
Conflict is static vers regardless of pull size once it stacks up. Aegis depends on pull size.
I use Conflict and Sphere personally. Null is good for damage if you have R3 in a lot of dungeons
Never ran CnS
aegis is a dead minor on bosses, cns isn't
but tbf, you can't go wrong with aegis/sphere/null/cns/flame minors
just experiment with them, see what works for you and your comp
Yes, and yes
What can I say, sometimes I get lucky. I figured I had a 50/50 shot at each question so I went for it.
I have to admit, it was a ballsy call to go with yes for both but it paid off.
which azerite armor traits are the best for freehold?
Pretty much the same as for m+ i.e 3x BoM
thanks guys!
get dat vampiric speed as well
You're a vampiric speed
Whatās a good weapon and shield mog for tier 3 - anyone use this set?
hi
thanks
@warm plinth
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Hi catfriend
is booming voice mandatory compare to devastator?
Defensively and on multiple targets, yes.
how much haste should I aim for?
Whatever you can get
Use highest Ilvl and if you have two of the same piece go for the one which gives more haste
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Looks way better on a dorf
It looks just as good on both
Well ghash is blocked
For being 
No but really - what do you all have against goblins
Extra haste is nice and rocket jump is good too for more mobility
lol. I have nothing against them except aesthetics
And thatās why I question your taste
um
riki do you even highmountain tauren?
loved soloing orbs as brewmaster for ghuun
I mean, I love how HMT looks aesthetically but fucking slow as balls
/cast bull rush
rip
no ashvvane kill on warrior's mythic pug
muh urchin/coral :~(
and/or bom chestpiece
Yo dude Iād smash a female goblin
I hate playing as a Tauren. Huge fucking model makes me feel like im moving through molasses
Wouldnāt play as them. Goblin is awesome though
@exotic spoke is onto something
Iām on a lot of things
That female goblin actually isnāt half bad
Syrup, painkillers, cigarettes and weed, Hennessy and vodka ... Iām on errything
Iām on errything
Sorry - got a song stuck on my head
Is Queen's Court mythic a tight dps check?
or is it one of them if everyones alive should have some room to spare kinda things
No clue on queens court but I mean if everyone stays alive then the boss should die in every case š
Hi catfriend and yeah heās being
today
Queens court is less so than orgozoa imo but not an easy one imo
depends on how many totally balanced shadowpriests and warlocks you have
Hi cat
One of each - feels bad man
Man Iām still pissed about that 4% wipe on orgo
could be a lil tight then
Basically wiped because I couldnāt do my job as a tank because my game froze because it was rescaling my UI for no reason
5 melee. Thatās cute
2 ret, 3 DKs, 1 rogue, 1 fury, am I missing any?
I think I have all of them - thatās not including melee healers or tanks. So 7 melee
i mainswapped rogue to spriest when we got to QC
not turning back
my scuffed spriest alt shits all over my supergeared rogue main on that fight
1 rogue, 1 DK, 1 DH, 2 warriors
and p much for the rest of the tier
Oh and on our raid team, we previously had another fury and 2 DH but they quit with classic
Although now we got people rerolling shadow priest because theyāre so balanced
Theyāre getting nerf
they're still gonna be sweet
they're topping a lot of fights in the new raid on ptr right now
although one of the nerfs from the patch notes isn't live on ptr, but it may or may not make it
I mean I donāt think the nerf is gonna severe enough to knock them out of top 5
Honestly I donāt see them moving anything past 3
are you all enjoying wow
Especially considering how far ahead spriests are in current tier
Define enjoying
TBH itās a love hate relationship
I practically raid log and enjoy raiding but I also hate it
I am catfriend. I enjoy m+
I made a goblin. Did you see? Closest I could get to a gnome horde side
what's the emissary this week?
Void I believe
Correct
I'm sad first trinket without a socket
Hate
xD
imagine sockets
have been incredibly unlucky with sockets so far
last tier i had like 6 sockets at this point, rn i have only 3
Wut happened
Merektha's Fang channel doesnt let us block, dodge, or parry right?
correct
or move
Does that make it garbo in mythic + or just needs to be paired with Demo Shout or some other personal?
correct
you have to play around it to make it usable, its not a recommended trinket to use
@hallow phoenix gambled on a helmet since all my azerite was 430 so ended up having to reshuffle traits in order to keep DC, so dropped 2 BoMs
Just scrap it imo
It's all I got Riki
My druid just passed my warrior because he has better trinkets already x_x
I donāt believe I stuttered
Hello guys. Can you tell me how secondary stats should be ? I dont know my cap (max stats weight...) and that's kinda hard to find. Can u help me ? As warprot
At what point would ya guys say its better to set your loot spec to a dps spec to hunt weapons or more so trinkets... for me I feel now is as my trinkets are my lowest ilvl pieces and rings you can get regardless of spec
@warped stag not really how stats work anymore
#268491842637660160 has a little section on it
give it a read through
also 2 445 shields neither are the ones I want but hey 2 445 shields are 2 445 shields
time to dual wield those bad boys
@waxen cradle so you have a 1 hander yet thatās good? If so - since you already have a shield Iād swap to fury
Does ignore pain limit the amount of magic damage reflected by spell reflection?
no
Or does spell reflection take priority over ignore pain
you don't take the dmg at all
so it all gets reflected and nothing is taken off your IP bubble
Cool
unless you mean, something not reflectable
No no
and the DR portion of reflect
nope
I can reflect back by stacking some other motivations
Mitigations
Cool thank you š
what pots do you guys use for dungeons?
how do you guys value rings?
ik now for gear pieces it's typically ilvl > stats
but for rings
is it purely stats of haste + vers
outweigh everything else?
because i got a 440 ring from my chest that is crit (main) with a little haste
which would replace my 400 haste vers rings
is what i'm contemplating
@shadow wind empowered proximity unbridled fury and improved strength pots
@vale kestrel Ilvl > * if you gave a socket itās roughly 5-10 ilvl
It absolutely would replace a ring 40 Ilvl lower
got it thanks riki
@warm plinth I am not some reward to just be handed out to anyone and everyone.
I GOT EXCITED
Lol
:suspiciouschicken:
is there a promotion/recruitment channel?
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its from another channel
just 15min earlier
im confused as to why they would ask again
Ohhh. Weird
Maybe they have that disorder where they forget everything every 10 minutes
i just started tanking , is there an addon that auto targets the high priority target in a m+ mob with a skull? or do you have to do it manually with a skull target macro and choose which target in mob yourself?
There are automarking WAs but I'm pretty sure they just assign marks when you mouseover in a specific order or something
It's not full auto
And you don't really need a macro for target markers; you can bind them in the default keybindings menu
oh hey, great thanks,
Also if you use the addon ERT has a marking bar that makes placing marks fast really easy
@warm plinth
someone linked me this one, anyone try this? https://wago.io/3bViaBtT1
I've never used it but heard about it before
I didnāt see blood rite listed on icy veins. If given the choice between that azerite trait and blood sport, which one would you take? I mostly tank m+
why not on court?
it was on ashvane too
cuz he does like 10-12k dps and i do 24-25k
like tank trinkets wont change alot maybe 2-3k dps loss
i just wanna play how i wanna play
doing as much dps as the healers will allow me too
sad
What pot do people use in M+?
greater str
empowered proximity unbridled fury and improved strength pots
How does the improved strength compare to unbridled fury?
Single target vs. cleave us?
use
unbridledly is st
improved strength is like 2-3 targets
4+ is empowered proximity
unbridled is single target
@spice ferry not on court because she hurts for progression. when Im comfortable Ill swap back
i found court pretty comfy, seeing as its super scripted. was easy to plan for things
but definitely can be useful early on
We've been on them for like a day and a half
yeh definitely fine to run some defensives then if you're still getting used to the damage
just didn't take long for my dps trinks to go back on š
@ionic fern is this item bis for Prot warrior?
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As prot 445. Should I pursue Haste or Crit?
yes
I'm trying to see if I can get a 30% leech build going
with these corruption pieces
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So this means no corrupted gear in M+?
Should be eventually, since "corrupted" is the name of +10 affix
does raidbots sim booming voice properly?
haven't heard of any problems with it since it's been implemented however many months ago
just wondering why people use booming voice when devastator sims higher?
Sims higher in what kind of sim?
If Patchwerk, that's to be expected. If you are referring to dungeon slice, that sim WAY overvalues single target damage
I mean unless it's a pure patchwerk fight there's no real reason to use it
why does dungeon slice way overalue single target damage? seems awful design
how do you guys sim for M+?
afaik dungeon slice isn't reliable at all
I mean if I'm simming for AoE just hectic add cleave
Usually 5 or so
or that
Can you use berserker rage before Radiances bubble to not get it at all?
Not radiance
Azshvane
My biggest concern is if it still bubbles the other people
@wooden radish Unfortunately no..you'd need to to be 6.1% leech then it would be sick.
Anyone know the ICD of https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/566104917480308738/636429250680979476/unknown.png
I think the cooldown is the 6 seconds you loose the haste
Id assume that's the point
Fuck it I'm testing
@ionic fern know anything about it? I had never seen it until ghash linked it to m
@terse wedge yes - you can pre-cast beserker rage. You should. Also, it will still bubble people aroundyou
I used pwar for our first thiccvane kill specifically because I could immune bubbles
Since then I just bring who I need for trinkets
Agreed
and I take every single bubble except for the 1 I cant immue
I just get a pain supp for the 1 I can't immune
Can't say i do @exotic spoke but going by logic it would make sense it's the 6s.
Works out fine
So basically 18 seconds ICD?
I just logged a couple minutes of it; gonna see if that checks out
Because otherwise we cold proc the shit out of that
Our guild just basically got over myth radiance and we were theory crafting some strats
between taunt, intervene, IP, casting on GCD, etc
For azshvane
I feel like even if it has the 6 sec ICD it'd be better than Overclock yeah?
It would be 18 second ICD
That's 3ppm
12 for the effect, 6 for the second effect yeah?
Yeah
.667 APM*
Try it and let us know @warm plinth 
But that's only 6 sec of negative, wouldn't you just count that as the icd for computation purposes?
sorry .667 APM*
but 12 second of buff and then 6 seconds after is how I read it @weary thorn
Right I get it, maybe I misunderstood what you were asking about
That's insane uptime if true
I could see the ICD being 12 or 18
we'll basically proc it every 18 seconds without trying
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It has same uptime on prot and fury
havent seen it before is all im saying
Of the top of my head i dont remember it
Soooo
It has an 18 second ICD, but the real negative is that it doesn't start counting abilities again until you lose the debuff
Its good punchcard
interesting

really?
Iirc you can prestack it
Daily reminder -> WowA is Good for prot warrior. Use it or i cri
No cri. I'm a sympathy crier.
Still weird.
Side effects are like "Increses damage taken by x% and reduces healing received by x%".
Depending of corruption
And you can get 'corruption resistance' too
I guess side effects are threshold based
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We'll see.
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I like it
Tbh
For now
You can maybe make some interesting shit with it
To min max
Ohno
another wednesday and another tough decision
Should I switch the breastplates?
If I go for the 450 I will be left with only von BOM
Doing m+ only sub 20 atm
What do you guys think?
von = one BOM
Pick blightborne on your 450 instead of CR
Then take the 450 chest
And pick gutripper instead of crystalline carapace
Then you have a good 450 chest
@exotic rapids
Nice thank you
hmm I swear I remembered there was a pin about leech and avoidance gear, can't find it, anyone got a pointer?
Do you have a specific question about them
"If you have it on your highest ilvl piece, gz, use it. Otherwise it's pointless".
You're welcome.
No. š¦
If I wanna kite i go with sphere š
Socket > tertiaries then too
Kite?
you can still clap while kiting
SS.
true, gets you out of scuffy m+s faster too
Asked btw cause I have been called out by 3 different healers for having less self heals than other warriors they play with, I had around 13-14k in all runs. They have been linking details of 20k-ish, and most of them had leech trait/gear
Probably not a big difference usually, it had to be for grievous
Leech never makes up a large % of overall healing
o.o
More likely stuff like:
IP, Last Stand usage , IV/RP/Vampiric
Etc.
Tell the healers "I'm a warrior not a BDK so fuck off".
My HPS varies so much dungeon to dungeon I never pay attention to it
I have 20k hps without any leech, if that helps you
No edict, no impassives, 1 resounding, rip
Well there you go
Looks average to me
That's a lot?
Honestly have no idea how much I heal per m+
I wasn't looking at it either until those crabs started calling it out xD became my obsession since
To answer your question:
1)Trinkets add a lot of HPS
2)Certain essences/traits add HPS
3)Skill usage adds HPS.
Leech itself is nothing.
Unless there's leech on like 8 pieces of gear
In which case it might tie last stand
^
How much leech is that
Iirc that was 17% leech
Jesus
But was it worth it
I miss +8% speed enchant on boots
Fucking pointless leech loo
I've managed to reach 24% leech from the new corrupted gear
Ptr?
Now use lucid major
Most you should be able to get is 80% from the gear.
80% leech sounds spicy
What's the downside
Yeah
With all those corruptions
LMAO
Varies.
100+% reduced healing
Hmmmmm
Hmmmmm indeed
AND damage taken increase.
If you go high corruption
- you start to look like a shadow priest
So that's a minus.
Well the part that matters to the leech is the reduced healing
Run that and bring 4 self healing dps
So you're getting all that leech, but you don't actually do it
I mean, I'm pretty sure leech is impacted by healing reductions
Depends if it's a health transfer or an actual heal
Spirit link for example doesn't care about mortal wound effects
Why are we talking about leech. Can corruptions give speed
nope
I'm quitting
ngl
The health Regen one bodes well with my troll regeneration
2-10% is the scaling factor for everything except total health regen which is 20% or 30% (Might be more need more looting).
Isnt leech cap 20%
How the fuck did you get 24 if cap is 20
Not us tho
Yeah it's not working properly rn though
depends how it works
It's proc rate is pretty nutty
it'd be better on a warrior than any other class tbh
I changed my mind
since a lot of short cd's
HR is already a thing wdym
It's a thing in CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
Fight length dependant.
Get that 50 DPS increase
oh i'm sorry
"Not enchanted" rings, smh shame on you
Everything needs to be accounted for with such a varied audience.
Ofc
^
well I swapped to my Warrior
/dab and log out
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/em dabs.
I want the character to dab tho
Well too bad
:(
I want to test out the new affix but we can't always get what we want now can we?
/grovel is the worst emote
also with the corruption reducing effect nyi, but looking to be added
this looks like legendaries v2
you'll prob be able to have 2-3 effects active without downsides
this will completely hinge on how you gain those corruption reducing effects
based on how that's done, it will make or break the system
More Stats > Better Stats right?
Yes
For survival
For damage you can sim
Does anyone else still have their eye of nzoth?
i have it on my woyer
but i think i only did a key at s3 start and never logged on again
I'd better get something for having this eye instead of a helm for months
you get a toy
Something good
No removing it gives a toy
Is this on ptr
Mael I'm a very trusting person please don't play with my heart or my nzoth eye
you have 2 debuffs at 20 corruption
Corrupted Zone and Grasping Tendrils
You get the 3rd one at 40 Corruption
4th one at 60
Which is the damage taken increase
3rd debuff , can you kill the Thing From Beyond / cheese logs by spawning them / can other people see or attack Thing From Beyond aswell?
Is there a good place to find MDT routes? I know most dungeons % requirements, but as i'm stepping into higher keys and there's more skips and stuff, and now with teeming it's sometimes hard to keep track, and know exactly what i need. Thanks for any help ^^
Thanks guys ^^
Hello friends, noob tank here. I have a question about Underrot, how do we deal with the pack right before the third boss? The no cc emissary + dmg taken increase curse mobs
1)Keep Rooting it if you have a druid
2)Have someone taunt it away so you can kill other guys
3)Nuke it down and rotate defensives hoping for the best.
Thanks, pretty similar to my experience from a little ago in a +14 then. Though we didn't have anyone to root the emissary. Does our fear work on the emissary?
Stuns/fears work as well jeah.
But it has a max duration of 8Seconds per CC.
With no DR's.
Alright, thanks a lot!
you can place the emissary on a hill so it doesn't affect the others with aura
since any z-axis difference disables the aura
the way my group does it is we pull all 3 of them to the hill on the side
Thought they fixed that..guess not then.
i stand slightly up the hill
a dps/healer taunts the emissary so it runs up the hill past me
and when it reaches them i taunt it back
so the tides is on higher elevation than the other mobs
and we cleave all 3
while still getting kicks out
and we mainly focus 1 of the two casters first since you'll have to move if they drop the totem
and it's easier to manage kicks if you have all 4 people on one, tides itself isn't dangerous
Hi all, speaking about my alt, is Anima worth major/minor worth using? Not sure if I should get the dps or tank r3 dungeon essence
Vision+aegis/memory i guess
Ye
Will go for r3 dps then
Good call
Thanks though
My friend is telling me that overwhelming power is bugged and that the stacks dont go down when taking damage, is it true?
Well kinda yea, you lose one stack a second with 1 second internal cooldown. So you only lose 1 stack a second no matter what. IIRC
ill try it out then
OP is OP
Minimal duration of OP is 12 seconds
You lose 1 per second by default and 1 stack per second if you get perma attacked
Greetings fellow warriors.
Where should a fury warrior main start when trying to learn protection?
edicts good for warri?
Read the resources, mainly what talents, essences, and traits to get. Stack ilvl. And just jump into dungeons and smack that thunderclap. Learn by doing is the best to learn tanking.
@floral spindle get Sword'n'Board, check the guides and lets go
@simple salmon yeah itās good.
Icy veins has a complete list of defensive trinkets assuming equal Ilvl
I mean, what content are you doing and do you think you need. Itās survivability
Do you think you need more survivability?
so for higher keys survivability would be nice
What Ilvl is the edicts you have
430
Personally I donāt think Iād use it, rezan is good and 5 levels higher. Then 20 Ilvls on vial
at all?
I personally wouldnāt most of the time. Maybe motherlode.
I also think 1 defensive trinket is almost always enough and rezans fills that role
If it was a higher Ilvl Iād use it. Also the motherlode is probably when I would use it
But, you can try it out. What works for me may not for you. No harm in testing it
what specificly you have in mind where it has so much value in ml?
I couldn't be more excited for this new affix
No point in not running both edicts and urchin in keys
Shit is gonna be FIYAH
Your damage wont take a big hit from it
warlock shadow priest druid meta baybeee
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I donāt see much of a point in running two purely defensive trinkets. That and with only a 430 edicts I like other options o have
which engi 445 helm traits would be the best for freehold boost? im thinking about stacking 3 defeaning crash for more speed
@exotic spoke 445 urchin vs 430 edicts
I was just going off what I remember from icy veins late.

I like my inkpod ;P
My 450 edict does slightly more than 450 urchin
slightly
Both are 3k to 3.7k hps in keys
which engi 445 helm traits would be the best for freehold boost? im thinking about stacking 3 defeaning crash for more speed anyone knows? https://www.wowhead.com/item=165898/charged-sp1-r1-73d-orthogonal-optics?azerite-powers=1
What do you mean stacking 3 DC for speed?
more damage with thunder clap
Breh everytime I tune into this channel all I read about is FH boosting.
Get briny barnacle, and idk urchin. Big clap talent 3x bom 2x ms 1x dc
Can't be that insane to min max no? Or be any different to regular m+
I donāt think traits are going to be the deciding factor between a 6 minute run and an over 6 minute run tbh
Just normal M+ traits should be fine. BoM would be your biggest assist probably
MS?
so all the 3 engi specific traits with the bombs are pure trash?
Engi doesnāt have BoM does it?
it has dc
Ah you mean bom
I read DC
For some reason
General best setup for engi helm is DC + RNG
Yeah I wouldnāt use engi helm over one with BoM. None of those traits does more than BoM
For FH boosting it think bombs is better
445 helms dont fall from the sky sadly so i made the helm
Engi helm is 4th best in the game, only trumped by 3rd radiance helmet, 2nd Sea Brawler, 1st Abyssal Malevolence
Hey if you got it, you got it.
I got parse shoulders this week when I donāt raid š ready for disappointment on my next 445 too because I have 430 abyssal helm
hopefully i dont drop the radiance helmet ever
engi helmet giga for KR
thanks, i mean the helmet costs 15k not including the expolsum, but now i dont have any expo left
does somebody know if you get the expolsum (most) back from the 445 helm if you scrap it?
Pretty sure that goes for any crafted item, should be all of it.
You never get all of the expulsom back
Itās close but definitely not the full amount.
thanks, then it was fine either way
@coral marsh The only traits that matter are 3x BoM and 1x DC. Could run literally anything else and do just fine. Could even run like 1 BoM and be fine
How you pull the mobs is the most important thing. Gear is secondary
What are peopleās thoughts on the new TF replacement based on what we know now?
Conceptually, there are some interesting points and things to try / expand
However, I think that another tier of loot will need to be added for m+. Because m+ was designed with TF in mind. If you donāt have it, then really m+ gearing for m+ progression is stupidly hard
The benefits.... yeah... gimme flash of clarity please
many people cried they arent special anymore from raid gear because of myth+
i disagree
If you like to run high keys youāll better raid mythic next season, if they donāt implement anything else instead
I mean - I do both right now. But, m+ gearing was balanced around WF / TF
And next season is not looking good for mythic raid for us
But was hoping to still push content in m+
I hope they add another tier at like 15 or higher for mythic, or almost mythic level, loot
They probably wonāt, because you could farm it without a cap or something
Having other options for end game being gated by raiding isnāt healthy either
I have...thoughts lol
I'm not thrilled by the multiple levels of RNG required to get a good item
Current stance is that the RNG fiesta, without a deterministic end will feel silly. It will raise the skill ceiling in the game, which is appealing. It will also further incentivize and distinguish a mythic raider for the rest of the plebs
Like you have to get the affix you want, you have to get a high tier, and then you have to get a low roll on corruption for that tier
They need to add the second half, a deterministic element, to the system or yeah it's just way more muddled RNG
I love the nuance the trade-offs bring
Idk Iām not really hyped for the corrupted stuff too. But can someone confirm that different tiers can roll on a mythic piece. Or are the tiers actually normal/heroic/mythic items
The trade offs are fine. I donāt have an issue with that.
I have an issue with the fact that a progression system they put in place for small groups to do hard end game content is being nullified as a real valid option for end game progression
like an affliction warlock is going to be monster on some fights. You can go up to 60+ corruption and if they're good enough with their use of Burning Rush, positioning, and banishing the Thing from the Deep, they can reap the benefits of a shit load of haste stacking.
I love that shit
It sounds like it's just a random roll for the tiers, as far as how they explain it in the wowhead article
making it harder to set that up to DO that....is where i'm really worried
Kinda like in Diablo how an item can roll ancient or primal ancient
well it's more like a PoE system where you get tiers of a prefix and a suffix but the prefix is always the same, bad stat and the suffix is the good one.
and just like in that game, they should mitigate this buy currency to reroll tiers and stat ranges within tiers
I've never played PoE so I was drawing comparison to what I was familiar with
And since it's a Blizzard game I figured others may also be :p
the Diablo comparison is the a legendary with "good" rolls vs "bad" rollls
and those stat ranges vary
Won't m+ gear being able to corrupt be equivalent to farming for benthic gear? Lower ilvl but you can endlessly grind for the corruptions you want. And only the really rng mythic raid pieces will be better (assuming corruptions are as impactful as benthic)
I was only comparing the tiers to the ancient/primal ancient, not the entire thing
well primal ancients have fixed/maxed stat rolls
as that is the distinction of a primal vs a normal
so pushes up glasses it's different š
I'm aware. I was just saying that the tiers were random rolls, just like an item in Diablo can randomly roll 1 of 3 tiers (normal/ancient/primal ancient)
I wasn't saying the entire thing was the same
yeah, i'm being difficult
i get what you're saying
@hallow phoenix yeah, basically it's benthic like you farm M+ for tokens for good rolls, but Mythic Raids are where you're going to get the already max ilvl upgraded benthic tokens....and hope for a good roll
But yeah, it's literally just a way worse benthic
Except the item level will actually be higher as well from the sounds of it
The difference between a lucky vs unlucky player will probably get smaller. Even if you get multiple good rolls on items you probably wonāt be able to equip all of them because of corruption
Yeah I mean, depending on your spec you may not even be able to equip 2 Tier 3 items
Since not every spec is gonna be able to deal with a random add chasing them for 10 seconds
But they did mention corruption resistance and shit so I'm sure that will factor in a decent bit
My gut instinct is that the corruption resistance is gonna be tied to the paragon trait on your necklace tbh
i'd put money on that
Makes sense; the stronger the heart of azeroth gets, the more resistant to corruption
or a raid-specific azerite trait as well
Yeah
Yeah I could see that
interesting balancing questions now come up: Classes that deal better with higher corruption scaling disproportionately
Also I can almost hear the person writing this article going "more fucking RNG"
watch us get into a world where raids are just like "fuck it all our melee going to flex that tier 2 corrupted status and leech/sustain through the clouds". Suddenly good mobility/self-sustain is going to be more tied to overall damage output š¤
leech OP confirmed.
Watching world first stream where all melees run circles around the boss will be fun
lul
Good shit guys. And also I read it wrong; it looks like there's no item level increase for it
So if it is the replacement for titanforge, that means 10 level forge max
so you want a WF + Corrupted?
Ideally a mythic raid WF+corrupted
It'll prolly be wf
Since that'll have the highest base ilevel
or is it either or
Na
Imagine getting a warforge in mythic and being pissed because it didn't proc corrupted. Or it did but it procced the wrong affix, or the wrong tier, or the wrong corruption level š
Well, if it does my point stands though
Yup
So literally the same place we are now except it'll have a larger impact on the raid if you don't get the right effect/tier/etc
all I know is, we're missing a few key details i'm keen on learning
they'll prob be some clarifying blue post soon
maybe theyre increased dropchance
who knows
the thing is
the effects are on multiple pieces, and hopefully not stackable
so chances are massive to get something useful
my boys, what essences are u guys running this week?? talking about 15+ and higher
cheers!
Anyone done ptr keys? Warr tanks looking to be op. Spell reflecting spirit breaker back on a corrupted elite does like 800k dmg 
I doubt Blizz will leave in a 800k dmg reflect. Just look at that Ra-Den reflect people found the other day. Blizz overlooks stuff all the time
Regardless of the damage, reflecting anything is op.
Even if it's like 100k damage reflect.
I'm really interested in that affix and how it could create interesting comps
Corrupted seems pretty interesting now that thereās info about each guardian. Definitely an upgrade over beguiling
yeah with stuff like tremor for that fear break , specific dispels, and the such could shake up some strats as they could enable you to pull X guardian at the end where normally it'd be too hard. At least that's my hope
Anyone know if activating an obelisk is instant or a channel? Essentially I am thinking if it is possible to activate an obelisk along a route you don't plan on taking by a player clicking it from stealth and then SM/vanish while the rest of the party pulls it by actually entering from a different rift.
@potent anvil i love reflecting on third boss in shrine. And want to murder dps who kick when I call it out
Havenāt done ptr yet - but affix looks good.


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