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Ignoring what your alternative items are for each slot, here's a rule of thumb for legendary crafting slot selection:
Chest >= Legs >= Head > Ring = Amulet > Shoulders
= Boots >= Belt = Gloves > Wrist > Cloak
This is generally going to be the most bang for your buck out of the extra ilvl, with some variance on the relative value of jewelry depending on what you are optimizing for._
@still pagoda no i meant for the conduits, like the 184 execute was the first thing i got, along with unhinged
shamelessly borrowing from DK discord
Thanks
So, despite what Ive read other places. Crafting legend chest is ok?
what are you gonna craft?
I got thunderlord dropped yesterday. I mainly gonna do M+ with friends
ah fair enough
I need an opinion. I know that thunderlords is best for m+ but wall should be solid until the higher keys yeah?
tyrannical bosses perhaps
thunderlord is craftable only on boots/gloves
The wall is craftable only on shoulders/back
going for boots.
Im just wondering because if we can play around offensive cooldowns like a fire mage, the value of shield wall would go up I imagine.
Pssss... shoulders from stone legion are garbage so you know the trick if you're going to craft wall at some point
shield wall is not an offensive CD lul

Playing like a fire mage (like you do a big pull with your cds and dps cds then pull small to medium in between)
you can live that pull normally anyway
Have more DS
:)
Thats true
Don't get me wrong
TGV is more offensive than the wall is
The Wall is nice with the extra rage from shield slam
Karton I cant play correctly, I was still using UF until like last night
But you get more mileage out of TGV in a dungeon by far
^
I have bettet threat gen without it
no matter the talent build
*better sorry
Yeah. I swapped it with ravag
wait, I should go for Ravager guys ?
Basically yes
ok thank you
Ravaged is pretty solid this time around
Yep
the extra chance to parry 😉
I always wanted ravaged to be a legit competitive choice in that row, it just looks so cool and fits so well
all talents are good in that row
Very debatable itf is basically dead tbh
its the best talent for ST dps :)
look at sims my man
so i would not call it dead
its just not head and shoudlers above the others
fax doe
so whats the best stats for thunderlord's legendary?
Its just that in the situations where it shines is the situations that you're unlikely to have an assured 5 stacks
haste vers
haste vs
tyty ❤️
LIke, ITF is fine ST - but thats raid boss tanking, and you might not always have all 5 stacks
so just 
10 yards?
Thats tiny area
even hunter pets iirc
idk i like itf but liked it more when it was 15% haha
Yeah ITF is almost always full stacks in raid
What covenant y’all running with prot? Is venthyr viable with it?
Viable sure
I mean, friendlies and pets count towards it too, so you will kinda have 100% uptime on 5 stacks, but don't tell anybody
Great not really outside of pure single target
Is prot warrior viable in shadowlands
Many time
Or is prot warr floorpov
Not at all floorpov
Most people are running Kyrian with Night Fae being the runner up
I like how
is no longer a meme
Yeah it's goat now
35%
Unforch
Gross
Ogod
Lmaoooo
what should the ideal hast/mastery/vers be for a prot warr mostly doing dungeons? have you played around with it?
Hi paw :)
'Member when he said he'd never go play classic? I 'member
Ola
He's prolly farming billion resist pots for naxx
Just alot haste, rest is irrelevant
Get that big ilvl
And haste
That's it
And paladin feels like paper
Idk have only leveled war
Paladin felt fine to me on beta in keys
Druid super smooth
I think you meant druid feels zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yeah I'll give it the zzz
But it's up there with warr
Feels really good in dungeons
No
There's no such thing
Hi guys, currently playing as Arms warrior, damage is nice but I feel a bit squish., How are you guys finding torghast offensively and defensively as protection?
alright then
Come back and say that when you have no SB cd
Even 50% isn't too much
I wish I had 50%
tried torg once as arms
Walk in the park
It's piss easy
died to boss, swappd to prot, effortless
:)
I mean you can do it
Idk everyone complains about doing it as DPS
It's just so much easier as prot
Can i pull the whole floor as arms?
Just play second Wind
I normally play prot anyway perhaps I shouldn't of switched. I assume covenant it's the blue boys that are best for prot
And you won't need food
Lul hi mwahi
Hi.:D
But dk
But frost
But dk
Not even the broken spec
Doesn't matter
Ooh,i wanna try fdk...but it has always seemed so slow
You still get ds procs
2h oblit is dope
At least you can dump rp on dk
I'm sure dual wield oblit is machinegun spec
Are they still running the dragoooon?
Breath?
Yes
Depends, you can either go breath or obliteration
Should probably give it a try then. 👀
Mwahi about to go dragon on people in BGS
Obliteration means big big obliterates during pillar of frost windows
Throw that shit down mid
No no
You wanna know what else crits for 8k?
yeah but like ret dumps out 10k verdicts
My execute
Ravager spin to win
You wanna know what else can crit for 8k+??????
this
Fucking vulpera on use racial
Lmao
horde master race
You fuckin furry
Fuck furries
Lol
That shit legit OP
It is pretty strong
Man, getting the IP triggers SW anima power is actual lols
I think
Especially with the getting hit has a chance to proc IP power

I only went to it for memes, liked it, and turned out to be bis
I like having a hunch back
Twisting corridors is gonna be silly
So I have all the reason to stay it
Also vulpera doesn't have much trouble with clipping
Honestly I wish they would have dropped twisting corridors already
So that's really good
Orcs with shields, trying to transmog gives me so much anxiety
Since nothing works
I have still been using the nzoth trink over the trinks i have found in shadowlands for the survivability should i just replace it with a high ilvl trink instead?
I mean
Or the one from sire denathrius
Everything else loses defensively vs LPS
Lps is still immensely strong
Uptime hasn't gone anywhere
Ok just making sure i wasnt being dumb
You did good
Wot LPS
Well i pull huge groups
Same
Can pull huge without it
Havent tried tbh
If you pick up dps trinkets, roll with those
So its probably very possible
There's a couple nice ones
I'm using voracity + dps
I'm using a mission table one
Decanter and the uh, crit buff one
Appreciate the feed back boys
Can rng it up and do 300 dps even
test hakkar overall dps you will be surprised
Oh also frost DK in torghast is hilarious if you get the ice chipper power, just randomly chunk 20% off the enemies because frost damage
Which is hakkar is it the hook?
@ionic fern
Ah
Havent seen it
Have it on my monk
Hmmm
It's a monster trink
Ya Iz gud, big want
40k absorb shields 😄
in m0 you can pull big use it and you dont need IP for that pull so you spam revenge
big deeps
what's everyones go to trinks for raid looking to be
the ones that sim the highest 📈
its kinda very almost super bad
Yall doing m+ first or raid
alche is low ilvl
For now
we have no info about upgrades
I dont remember the last time in recent memory that they didnt have an upgrade path when raid drops
its still gonna be low ilvl, even with crafters mark 2
By the time raid drops
we will have access to better ones
I think I'm gonna level my paladin tonight
Should i go heroic hakkar?
Nah
Fuck playing a spec I dont feel like playing for the most part tbh
True
No need to stress over loot
Get that fat m6 hakkar
the dream
For the chest
I feel like I have no life with these ilvls
And then you wait
he stole my heart 😍
His kidney lol
It's what I got boi
With shit trinkets
Lmaoooo
Lmaoooooo
I don't have anything else
Do a wq

Top kek
Go do nzoth
Literally any item is better
Lol
Never got Vita
Griff done vendored all his shit
"Just give DK a month"
I should have just made the other guy play something else
Fuck me
Wait what happen
We were both going to play prot pally
We did so during prepatch
He swapped to blood dk because for some reason he felt compelled to because UtIlItY
Must have watched YouTube tier lists
Is no one maining prot war?
They all gave dk STier
So I decided to be the nice guy and not make him feel compelled to abandon his main of like 9 years or w/e
I feel like its pretty good
Prot is very good
And like leif said, all the tanks are good
I just feel squish in nacrotic wake
True
Other than that i feel like im slapping 3-5k dps pack pulls
ye prot does good damage
anyone know how i can farm 184 of the piercing verdict conduit?
1.5boss which isnt great
oh
I physically cringe anytime I hear anyone in my guild refer to TaNk UtIlItY
Lol
for real lol
Because we have literally every class that can tank as a dps or a healer so the argument is moot to begin with
like in a raid scenario, it's literally just, will you get one shot by X mechanic? no? good you can tank
I'm a utility boi
I like getting 1shot
look, you're a simp @primal crypt
We CaNt HaVe TwO oF tHe SaMe TaNk BeCaUsE iT hUrTs ThEiR uTiLiTy
Lmao
Makes me fit in with everyone else
But we have all of those possible tanks as dps or healers?

Like paladin tbh is probably one of the tanks that actually gains by having more than one lmao
I love safeguarding my party as well
Blood dk Stier M+ healer tho
Double spell warding doesnt lose value because you have two

It means you get more cheese
📈
I stopped multi tooning this xpac
i have had all of the tanks mythic geared from legion through the end of BFA and plan to keep doing so.
1 toon only
i think someone told me that DH was good for m+ but i really dont know.
Paladin>warrior>dh>>>>>>>>>dk>>>>>>>>bear
VDH slaps in M+ rn yeah
That's a list of my enjoyment btw
Yea
Dh is good
Not of how good they are
But I hate dh because
But tbh paladin is actually pretty far ahead in my enjoyment
I like the lack of brm
Didn't even make the list
nope
Lmao
Fuck that class
You right
Idk the first week i was pissed my war felt like shit then the second week idk what happen he just started slapping
You prob picked up a higher ilvl shield :)
That's all a warrior needs
Dank shield
warrior feels good tbh
Then you op
I bought the 190 shield as soon as I hit 60 lmao
I'm really sorry for how i was being a drama fucking andy last year about my guild and shit. i've gone ahead and deleted hundreds of messages where i ws just bitching and moaning and carrying on.
I should have never done that and looking back on it i am truly ashamed of how i was acting.
Lmao
190 shield
what's the current stat prio atm?
Ilvl and haste
ilvl>>>>>>>>>>>haste>vers>=crit>mastery
high haste low vers for leggos then?
They're the same
50/50 on legos
i just got into the drama last year with old guild, and i posted about it hear when i never should have, that was fucked of me to do.
i should have never subjected anyone to it.
Happens
I just took it overboard so i'm never going to continue drama like that in the future for any reason.
I love how excited I get going from 142 to 148 shoulders lol
Dont mind people venting in here tbh as long as it's not over the top
Shadowlands has me in a good spot mentally :)
I've done it lmao
sounds like you've grown as a person 
badowlands 
radowlands
I need to go after some of the cosmetic stuff
Like I need to get me the blood mist horse
TL;DR someone was an idiot asshole, now he's blocked on everything imaginable.
Was it me?
First thing I went and got was sorrowblade
Ive been called both
Because transmog is important
nah lol. it wasnt you
Sorrowbane*
no, you are
Worst part of shadowlands is no more all tank raids
Thanks :)
Lmao, my raid leader asks
How come your warrior is the most geared
Your other tanks are behind in renown
Yet he is reading your msgs in here about him
Ask him if it would be a problem if you did

This will be my first time as brm
RIP you
I hate stagger
Prot warriors not common in raids now?
I feel like I'm doing nothing
i like brewmaster in raid, i dont like brewmaster in keys
nah for some reason everyone thinks we're bad in raids
I don't like brm
Prot is really good in raids
Primary example is Sense
Always crushing it
But it really depends on who you raid with
And whether they accept you for who you really are
my guilds raid nights involve everyone getting intoxicated and attempting to kill mythic bosses
somehow we get CE
I mean BrM is actually somewhat more interesting now because you have Celestial Brew
But also
Not
i like brew in raids because i dont have to pay any attention to my actual class because it's so simple
But yeah
Because you basically dont have a reason not to hit it on CD and purify all the time because you get so many purifying brews
Either
US is such a weird country
Wat
Can't argue that
you can get a medical card at age 18, walk into a dispensary and buy two ounces of pot. no one blinks an eye.
but god forbid you want wine
i mean, booze is more dangerous
It is
yes but u have pow pows
You want to be impaired, you drink
and pow pows are even more dangerous
still i just think it's really strange
wtf is a pow pow
Police
what
oh that's poh poh
what
Bangbang
POW POW is an award winning plant-based Asian, organic and kosher certified fast-casual restaurant located in the heart of the popular H Street
LMAO
TIL
thank you Waat, very cool!
@sweet summit
Plant based =/= Asian
griff is that an airsoft gun
No
That's his super soaker
😳
2020 model
theres like a borderline world famous case of the cops shooting a 13 year old carrying an airsoft gun in my area
I'd argue it's no more dangerous than anything else I own tbh
The instant you see cops you make your hands empty
Requires either gross negligence or a very intentional act to actually become dangerous just like my car or a kitchen knife
he took off the orange tip and was walking down the street with it
Oh nah
you can look it up if you want, the shooting of Andy Lopez.
but it apparently made almost world wide news and almost went to the US Supreme Court.
Is trinket BiS list out yet? With trinket breakdown, like we had in Legion and BFA
Ickus trinket>blood scale>everything else
bloodmallet isnt updated yet
I am the poor
@ionic fern
I got Grim Codex and Hakkar trinket, both 184
jesus
Codex honestly doesn't seem too bad
only im using atm is bear
It fits with tusks
The legendary trait for thunderclap can only drop on m+ right?
I like axes, so I dont use flail
Noo
ye, spires of ascension
all difficulties mate
oh yeah all difficulties
Don't encourage the most boring and average mog ever
sorry lol
I got it on m0, on my second try
nome ur a fucking vulpera
TRUE
Furry opinions don't count
Yeah, my tmog is on point.
Being a furry automatically means you have bad taste
T. Panda
Gotta be honest, that was a genius comeback

panda is the best race in the game
Ya'all lost
Wtb kultiran horde
Wtb dwarf horde
Gotta get that extra xp thooooo
Yup
Especially in maw its death
Took a step out

Also prot paladin leveling is so ezzzzzzzz
And my computer lagged loading all the ally
Just waiting for the weekly resets for it to be enabled.
Theres your answer @primal crypt
You da best
we love mwahi
who doesn't love mwahi
Are you guys speccing into Devastator for Mythics?
Yup
devastator everywhere personally
Yup
What do you do for rage generation/filler? just kind of wait? I just tried it out and it felt good but I felt out of rage a lot and nothing to press without Devastate as a filler
wait
if you feel out of rage, try not to spam so much IP/revenge/SB when its not needed
True, not just out of rage but more like, nothing to do. If that makes sense
ye it happens sometimes
You need to think in advance about your rage use
devastator everywhere personally [2]
same goes for almost every tank rn
out of recourses/CD's - wait
So I can't seem to ask this question in Arms chat because they are a Condemn boys club.
How should I be weaving my Spear of Bastion into my ST rotation? After CS but before Bladestorm? The spear adds a 350 Mastery buff for 10 seconds.
Figured more people would know here, since Spear might be more popular on prot mains
smack it on CD

So its my first button after charge?
We open with spear
after avatar and demoshout
Depending on the scenario
you do charge+avatar->spear->ravager and go on
it doesn't
Went venthyr for fury and hating not having an aoe covenant ability when i switch prot to help friends 😦
you need maximum dmg? You do spear after your CD's
@warm apex can you do a sim as arms and link it here
Of course
im not 100% sure but i can check the apl
If purely for dmg purposes
But you'll use it for its utility as well
At least I have
I don't have a lot of experience running a sharable sim. But I can give it a shot
But I'll try and have a avatar rolling
just run a sim, copy the url and link it here
Simc don't work for tank specs
Not yet
i said as arms
Well hello my fellow prot brothers :3
it does if you write your own apl
His condemn boys are ousting him
I off tank for the guildies, so I went Spear Arms
any venthyr prots here? do you just ignore condemn at the start of a pull in dungeons?
you kinda have to
Spear arms is good
to maintain aoe threat
Depends on the pull
yeah thats what i was thinking, feelsbadman
Why is Mastery valued so low when we don't have azerite traits pumping it sky high anymore?
WTB AoE condemn for prot
Because it doesn't have a whole lot of return for reliable mitigation Jim
You get more block by hasting your SB cooldown
and Vers is always on
yes
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/jBFtnbYndN6GrQ9YrCyqc7 @sweet summit Is that what you needed?
Btw got thunderlord yesterday, and if you double down on that demo shout build the rotation is getting mega clunky. Every 2nd GCD is thunder clap
Thanks!
And due to the 5 target limit damage is quite meh as well
Swapped to ravager and Oh Boyyyyy
love ravager
This is the dream
ravager owns
Rava is love
i miss thunder clap on every gcd with ineffable truth ^-^
I mean
TC on every GCD in SL
would basicaly be like taping a feather duster to a fan and hitting things with it
you can't get much weaker than it is
what else can they do, triple the rage per second?
@warm apex you use spear after CS/WB on the opener (before BS) then just on cooldown as long as you wont cap rage
That's what I guessed, thanks!
pretty much just follow that and youre golden. thats the prio, you use the button thats highest up if its not available/applicable go down one row and repeat
do you guys know where i can see all my memories?
went to the runecarver guy but couldnt see them there
sweet bro thanks!
shutterfly?
did someone summon me
@strong forum @primal crypt ???
sirs ive been playing retail but there's nothing to do
until next week
did all my weekly quests between tuesday and wednesday lmao
log in to do Maw + the covenant shit
Have fun in torghast
NIM
i did torghast
I was telling them
steamrolled
We now officially 
i like torghast makes me feel like a god
No meme
yeah i use ravager
Had to ping the chef
Why the boots though ? Why not gloves?
haste versa
Yup
are we aiming for haste heavy items, or versa heavy?
Haste
haste heavy
To 40%
for m+ or raids? or both?
both
Both
What is this 40%?
Smoothes out rotation and rage generation
yeah that 40% came out of left field
use haste above other 2ndaries, period
full stop
ilvl > haste > versa=crit > mastery
I quite enjoy torghast actually
I find it tedious.
yeah same
you only have to do it once a week
It will be better when the twisting corridors are open tbh
Just another monotonous chore tbh
is it ok to buy the 190ilvl boots and not the 210 ?
yeah but you had to spam visions
for sockets
you dont spam torghast
you do it once a week, thats it
I actually find it funny how many people hate it because they dont feel powerful enough and fail their runs
And you find out they're trying to zoom zoom through it and skip a ton of power ups
i cba
which prot warrior feels bad?
literally was streaming on disc to a few friends me bashing my head in
The maw is ass
Thx 😄
unpopular opinion but i also like the maw
wth
Oof
The maw is hilarious
false, it sucks donkey 
I love that it gets harder to traverse and keeps giving you extra challenges. Especially when you go as a group
the only reason i kind of dont like the maw is that it feels repeptitive currently
i dont have friends so im kinda stuck
i just solo it
Never grouped for mae
Ngl, i haven't done anything in the maw.
with WM On
The maw is ass because it artificially stretches out your time there
i pop one of the venari invis pots to get through the dumbass alliance at the entrance
Wtf is work this no mounts bs
and then just solo everything up to lvl 5
its supposed to be roguelike

ya i did level 5
if you had a mount you would do it in 5 mins
its supposed to be roguelike
literally, you die and lose stygia
both have different aspects of rogue games
is souls not a rogue type game?
No
the fuck???
youre smoking crack, which game made rogue games mainstream?
because it starts with a D
FTL
and ends with a emon SOULS

also hollow knight, hello?
that is some fucking bullshit

some nerds thought Soulborne games werent rogue
and put that in
its like arguing about music genres
its literally the same thing
semantics
the first thing people think when someone mentions Rogue is Dark Souls or Demon Souls
Dark Souls 1 and 3 are not difficult
That's why there are mods to make dark souls a roguelike amirite?
i definitely dont think of dark souls when i think of roguelike
what about HOLLOW KNIGHT?
hollow knight is a metroidvania
Roguelike has permadeath restart from square 1
That's not the maw [2]
The maw sucks quit talking about it
:^)
FTL is literally the first super popular modern roguelike
jesus
enter the gungeon had some success too
but it was more niche
for lack of the word autism
Wasn't that after FTL
and just playing DK
?
no
this is depressing
today i learned soulsborne games have THEIR OWN GENRE
SMH LMAO

Soulslike is great
I mean, that's what happens when you make something unique in the genre?
Just like BR is it's own thing now
difficulty for the sake of difficulty and quantity over quality ruined DS2 for me
someone asked if they could join my guild saying they have potential, they were unholy last tier with only green and grey parses 
next up we'll discuss post-hardcore vs hardcore
Thats what you word on a resume as "Always seeking new ways to improve"
I leave for lunch
SIC EM PAW
Fuckin nimchip comes back
WAIT WTF
And now what the fuck is even going on
paw they have been talking about diablo this past few weeks before SL launch
literally posting screenshots
facts tbh
i thought you would get on their asses
Yo dawg I stayed hella away from here
what legendary should i farm to craft first as prot warr?
Comfortably nestled with da lads in SL prot chats
dude its the warrior discord, we talk about everything except wow
thunderlord friend
^ put it on yer feets
is it a drop?
drops from third boss in spires of ascension, all difficulties.
I had the hands already crafted and didn't even think twice when I got the drop
Unforch
Not a big deal tbh
its not a big stat difference friend
ah okay, so it's an item you can craft it with, guess I'll farm that dungeon then
:D
yeah i mean whats important is having that thunderlords
facts




