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nah that’s way too small, you’d be at 50%++ dr already
I always forget about the search function in discord 
It’s 2455 for m+
He means K Value, not key scaling
already understood this
DoS, sacrifices that turn into small hakkar mobs that aoe like crazy
pugs don't focus them
WTF

and then blame tank
GREAT SHIT
so now i'm stuck with 3 epitomes at the same time
not being able to find group because "warrior bad"
not being able to raid because "warrior bad"
and getting old notes of disgust for pugs that i had in S4
interrupting casts? Nah, we're gonna blame the tank for "being paper"
focusing shit that will wipe you afterwards? Nah, we're gonna wipe and blame the tank for the same shit
Anyone know why this may be? ....
i heard them say ur ugly lolol
in reality if you've gotten renown 7 by not the campaign
its probably from the campaign
I got it with the 1k anima
check for a campaign quest or something
have you done quest?
Isnt there a quest to get the upgrades unlocked?
its mre than likely a reward from the campaign
@cerulean quest There's a quest you need to do to unlock it. Check your covenant hall
iirc 7 was a quest renown if you're capped
there's a specific pvp veteran quest that unlocks this
Sounds just like coffee to me
having to come into work has ruined my monday
smh a good cup of coffee is heavenly tbh

most coffee, especially in the states, is garbage tbh
tbh, blizz have done a good job at making dungeons oppressive enough to require good communication early on into the tier
that is to say commercially available coffee. like if u go to starbucks/dunk
this also means that pugging is ten times more cancerous
I've really enjoyed SL dungeons so far
i don't really like sanguine depths
actually fuck plaguefall too tbh
dungeon design is pretty good so far, BUT pugging is cancer
Yea @still pagoda , I've had like 3 keys busted in a row due to horrendous pugs that couldn't interrupt/do mechanics
green 🤮
I'm between plaguefall and NW
same
They’ve tried to make dungeons hard enough that they require sufficient coordination that good groups can’t just mass pull everything whilst also ensuring pugs can still do them reasonably
They’ve failed at both
i don't have a group because most of my friends quit the game, S4 group i was part of died and M+ discord pugs don't even consider warri no matter the place where these people are
Like.... easy keys...+7/8 rip because 4 missed hooks in NW.... missing spears on devos etc
neither i can find a raiding guild now
I had no problem getting into pug groups last night for up to plus 10s:o
Just switch to NA, smile
minecraft oof sound
Haha yup
zero interrupts, healers not using CD's for 30 minutes straight despite the group almost dying
and so on
We timed a +8 spires.... With 22 deaths LOL
I’d rather quit wow, before I get back to pugging
and all blames goes onto the tank afterwards
DW if SL continues as is, you can take over my spot
why is prot discord SL emo :^(
wtf is going on with nom
???
Because Karton is here ;)
i'm not emo
😂
That's exactly what an emo would say
YEah sock; he's scene
just too frustrated with the state of that shit

not the game as it is pretty good
whatever, i talked about this before
Hey I get it man, shitty groups are frustrated
Just got to change your mindset I guess
As resident shitter
If you have a group, m+ is fun.
If you don't have a group, don't do m+.
Like, it's a video game
Nothing that happens is going to have any actual effect on your life
I really like both the dungeon design and the raid (froma dps perspective on the latter atleast)

exactly. Yet it still frustrating that i can't enjoy WoW in my free time because WoW community fucks over people like me
And all the pugs you've run, you haven't come across a single good player?
unless you're lucky to be part of a guild that doesn't care and pushes anyway
Try to get the pugs on discord. That helps a lot.
If I ever find a good player I tell them that they are awesome and that I want to keep playing with them
That's how I filled out my friend list so I don't have to pug quite as often
Get this
Last night?
I played with a ret pally from Ragnaros
And he was actually amazong
Like, never seen higher pump
Was absolutely nutso
So I told him he might be the only good player on his entire server, and now we're friends
Thats rag tho sock
is sigment of tormented kings viable to play with as prot in high m+? can you still parry, block etc?
Rag is either absolute dog shit or the best player you've ever played with
0 in between
Yo Ragnaros is a cesspool of shit players
Finding even one good player is a fucking miracle
only 2-3. Only one i was able to add to my friend list, just as the dude is frustrated by the state of WoW community himself.
I don't consider myself good either, but at least i'm willing to improve and work with what i have at hands to achieve the maximum result. Just as i'm willing to cooperate to time much more dungeons
but oh well, pugging keys on EU is cancerous enough rn, just as you're no one even touches your notices on M+ discords because you're a warri
124 messages what did i miss 👀
sadly, WoW community became one hell of a huge cesspool
Mostly Karton being sad.
not just some separate servers like US-Rag
extremely frustrated*
karton always sad whats new 🤷
nothing
wowhead articles aren’t helping as well
Maybe you would have a better experience if you switched classes?
I've been declined/removed from groups due to being a warrior as well. 
I know that's not what you want to do
If you SR Dance recital on council what exactly does it do? I did it several times on my pulls but I still had to run with my partner
Yeah I got removed from a group by Ragnaros players for being a warrior,
But i simply don't care cause there's like 20 other groups looking for tanks.
I don't speak Spanish, but I can read it well enough to know that the healer said he didn't want a group with me
I laughed because they were still looking for a tank 45 minutes later after I'd finished the next dungeon
Theater of pain isn't nearly as bad as I thought by the way
I mean we timed it with 22 deaths, so it was fine

Wait no that was spires
We timed theater with about 11
The healer wasn't quite prepared for the amount of group damage in the lich room
How are you guys dealing with the big trash pull before the second boss inspires?
I applied to a +2 Spire to get my legendary and the group lead literally wispered me "dude no, lololol i cant heal a shit class like prot warrior"
😂
was the most
Ive ever felt
Spires sucks ass I hate it
its bottom 3 for me
idt its that bad but its def the most bfa of all the dungeons
whre like
your surivibility is dependant on everyone else playing the game
Does anyone have an updated spell reflect spells for Castle Nathria and dungeons?

Using spell reflect on reaper's scythe on the last boss of theater of pain almost feels like cheating, by the way

Spires or de other side? @modern brook
spires
Yeah it blows
There’s a reason I don’t pug
Oh no, a really hard-heading half magical tank buster... Just kidding spell reflect lol
I feel terribly for those of you whom are forced to
Using spell reflect on reaper's scythe on the last boss of theater of pain almost feels like cheating, by the way
pugs aren't bad if you use raider io
ftfy
I feel like the best thing you can do right now is just try to spam plus sevens for gear
They're nice and easy, and they get you normal raid loot ilvl
yeah untill tomorrow
10s are easier
tomorrow spamming 10s prolly better
I've heard people say that Jakey but I don't agree with it
there is an even bigger problem with all of this.
While meta exists per say, it is impactful only at the highest levels. Lots of statistical data backing this, even with the start of this season.
Yet it still propagates itself in increasingly toxic attitude big part of WoW community takes. "Meta this, S tier that" while not even understanding that every single spec surely competes and good at the almost highest levels of keys and raid progression. Even goddamn BfA sub timed +26 in Season 4, a spec that was dumped by blizzard for no fucking reason and was not touched ever since mythic zul nerfs. And that is a really high point so to speak
10s only 203 ilvl right now, will be 207 tomorrow
I understand that prideful make certain things easier, but The overall difficulty of the trash isn't worth trying to pug at a 10
Jeah, of course. Meta is a thing and people will follow it regardless if it applies to them or not.
ppl talk about s tier like they're not grey parsing their hunter logs
even at +8/9
8 to 9's I haven't had much of a problem with
i had the most frustration in 8/9 so far
i've been orange parsing as fury... in ToS. And people still said "why are you not playing arms it is objectively better" 
yer but its like in bfa 12-14 were the worst keys to pug
and this was around WR2000-2500 level
I mean they're not wrong though
An orange parse Fury does like 15% less damage than a green purse unholy right now, lol
I don't think the buffs they're getting are enough personally
speaking of meta... DH tank damage is broken, my DH tank partner in raids is regularly pulling off me if im not constantly slamming the target, its kinda silly
Henlo, i'm tanking some keys for my friends when i have to and i'm mainly dps. I use signet legendary and the prot guide said it was bad cause of random BS. Why is a random Bs bad? i can still use defensives? should i cancel it if it procs?
you all are making me feel incredibly happy that my guild enjoys running m+ with me and i never really have to pug otherwise lol
i was talking of Tomb of Sargeras in this message. The time when arms pulled over by 5% at max yet people flocked to the spec after rework and few nerfs to DoS and CoF
idt theres a single buff coming tuesday that is enough to make it overatke unholy/mm
random bs is bad because u cant block during it im p sure?
you can
I lied
u can block
do i really need to tho as long as i have shield block and ignore pain?
i'd cancel for a stun or interupt ofc
an arms/fury wouldnt lol
thats my thinking
shouldn't get you killed, especially because u can anticipate losing control of ur character
shieldblock before avatar
and whatever happens happens
yeah i'll just be mindfull, ty for the inputs.
Man late legion arms felt so good
Probably one of my favorite classes in the history of the game was late Legion Arms
I can't even explain what felt so right about it, but everything was just perfect
And then BFA came out, and look what they did to my boy
just as there was my favourite iteration of fury
i feel like i need to detox from WoW again
from pugging especially
even 10 keys were enough to get that frustrated
I think I would agree with that statement
Your spaghetti has been awfully upsetti for a while now
of course it is going to be really upset when you get screwed almost every single time you're trying to do anything fun in the game
i'd try not to beat yourself up too much about it, though. it's really easy to get tilted when we're all going as hard as we've been on WoW since expac dropped
speaking for myself, anyways. i definitely feel like i need to pull back from WoW a bit
ymmv
One thing I'm really enjoying about this expansion is the difficulty
It doesn't feel brain dead easy like the first tier of Legion, but it doesn't feel overly oppressive
yes
this is great
but at the same time, it makes the game frustrating if you lose any possibility to do the content that you like because your spec got deemed "bad" by whatever tierlists there are
And while I don't love going four dungeons in a row without loot, It feels much better when you do get a piece knowing that war forge and Titan forge doesn't exist
i'm either up to pugging, which is hell, or not playing
or doing happy farm dialies in the Valley of Four Winds
That's a good point that I hadn't really thought about when getting flustered about gear. It definitely feels great to get something and not think "... but it COULD have been better ..."
I did four medium key dungeons in a row, My friend got three pieces of gear and I got nothing, but when we did theater of pain plus eight and I got the 200 shield, it made all of it worth it
its the same thing tho
the satisfaction of beating it
theres fundementally 0 difference between doing 4 dungeons and getting no loot and doing 4 dungeons and getting loot that you wont use.
^
I know
It's like you're agreeing with me
But saying it in a tone that suggests you're not, lol
I'm not agreeing
Seems like you are /shrug
I guess it's a psychological thing. Getting useless loot kind of feels worse to me than getting nothing
🤷♂️ I'd kill for a 170 off hand rn
i'd kill for any kind of shield rn
yeah thanks dad if only i thought of that :^)
155 shield is not a joke
I bought the conq shield
Look here young man
i literally ran spires 18 times before i got the leggo to drop
Just because I just got done making breakfast for my daughter doesn't mean you get to call me Dad
need to hit 1400 and upgrade it
and in that time i got ~700 anima
I'm torn because I want to try and gear up my DPS alt
But it feels like wasted time not running dungeons on the warrior to get gear on main
just get the conquest shield tbh
But that's more a problem of having a family and limited play time, lol
made a huge difference from my 171 with minimal effort
What item level is the conquest shield?
200?
Oh wow, didn't realize it went that high
with upgrade if you hit 1400 rating
yea the unranked conq gear is all 200
not sure how high it goes though
But I would still rather commit honorable Sudoku than step foot into any form of PVP ever, :)
pvp is probably the best its been in a while
but yeah hard agree
i suppose the suggestion is just that there are certainly alternatives to fill the more crummy gear spots
Oh I'm sure it is, but I know myself too well
especially something like a shield
I don't like the person I become when I lose in PVP games
So I do my best to avoid them entirely
I just slapped on a 155 two hander and spam queued with my dh buddy
we got to 1019 in two hours about a 50% w/l
not to mention the weekly for just winning 4 bgs is 100 conquest
which is already a little bit of the way there!
I can't decide which of my DPS alts I would rather focus on. Enhancement or Survival
I have a ton more experience with survival..
hit my dh uip to 60 on saturday, immediately skipped into m+, so much easier than warrior. not even funny how dominating dh feels
wish i had known the weekly would have been bg's i would have done it lol, dont know how much time i have today -.-
Yeah when your tank is putting out damage on par with the DPS everything gets real easy
Fuck vdh lol
dh was so easy to level with
IDK i was comfortably tanking +4s at 160 with a 131 shield
I feel fine during ravager
i played dh in legion when dh was not overtuned early on lol
I really want to keep warrior main, but I chose to raid as fury, and its dog shit still
feels bad with bad DPS/healer. But that goes for every tank spec right now. Tanks are even weaker than in BfA now
warrior tank will always feel bad with low stats
i ran DOS like 15 times before my raids started this weekend and never got the trinket from hakkar now i'm suffering for it because my overall lack feels really bad
I'm in 180s on war, keep getting poor luck from dungeons on loot
still using blue 1h and shield
currently 184, get chunked really bad by Inerva and tanking Sun King's just feels impossible but it's probably stuff we're missing
whereas I got 2 two handers from m0 first two weeks, even though i went prot spec whenever a shield was a possibility
184 weapon and shield both from honor pvp gear, no lego yet but i got the wall from devourer today i just need to get soul ash and craft it
Hi, all any tips how not to get fu***d hard in 9+ keys ? Or i should just grind ilvl ( atm im 185ilvl and no leg, thinking wall or thunder)
where do u guys get ur routes from?
I make them myself
I take them from nomer
smh
Pay him ! For his hard work 😄
I make mine
I would but hes not affiliate
I make my routes
In 9s you shouldn't have issues if people do what they're supposed to.
Aka dealing good dps, interrupting and so on

ladies and gents, would the Indomitable Darkmoon deck: https://www.wowhead.com/item=173096/darkmoon-deck-indomitable
or
Blood-Spattered Scale
https://www.wowhead.com/item=179331/blood-spattered-scale?bonus=6805:1472
be better for us for M+ paired with the Anima Field Emitter?
https://www.wowhead.com/item=180118/anima-field-emitter?bonus=6807:1498
This blue trinket of item level 200 goes in the "Trinket" slot. In the Trinkets category. Added in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Always up to date.
This blue trinket of item level 158 goes in the "Trinket" slot. It is looted from . In the Trinkets category. Added in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.

Then other question, what peeps should do on Other side dung the red trolls ? I mean when they add red mask adds just nuke or cc
@sour sluice indom deck is hot garbage
scale is literally the best trinket you can get
field emitter is decent too
all the damage in that is avoidable
my group just nukes the raging masks, i tank them on the platforms so it doesn't get crowded on the staircases
dont stand in the circles and punch the guy
you just don't stand in the bad
You can literally clear like 75% of the masks with shockwave/stormbolt/fear just by yourself
🧠
Or have a NF boi use the urn
thanks
The zulgurub trolls that put the bleed on you, and the giant pull outside of the Zul'Gurub area are the only hard parts of the other side
Honestly I think lusting on that pack instead of a boss is probably the best bet
The one at the base of stairs?
Yeah
Has anyone found a spires route that lets you skip the trash before the second boss and also lets you skip the stair trash before the third boss?
Those pulls are fucking nightmares
yeah it's fucking bad
Stair trash before third boss? You can skip the middle pack by going right on the ledge and the pack on the stairs you can have someone cc the guy on the right and jump up on the right side of the wall to skip.
u can skip the mini boss and the pack before the stairs
and the ones on top if u have a lock
stair trash is skippable. Carefully jump over the brazier near the hellion mob and move on the edge of the bridge
@gloomy sundial Right, I know you can skip all three stair trash, what I meant was a route that gets you 100% enemy forces that doesn't need any of the three packs before the third boss, and doesn't need the pack before the second boss
Also what mini boss?
I feel like an idiot not knowing any of those. Only skipped with a rogue
Tbh that second pack isn't too bad as you can just outrange the goliath and deal with him after killing the other two.
We're talking about spires not necrotic wake
Does the Goliath just stand still? And not do anything if you don't interrupt him?
I think it is, not 100% sure but I do recall being able to outrange the pack before the stairs
There's also a way you can skip the top of the stairs with just a monk and no shroud
Monk needs to paralysis the mender on the right and then ring of peace him away so there's room to walk by
I skip the middle pack before the 3rd boss, spear is great when dealing with pesky packs as well
The big spears you pick up for being kyrian that is
I pull that middle pack :o
You don't need shroud either way, rogue can sap, dh can imprison etc and you can skip the stairs pack. @open monolith
Middle pack, and both sides of spear throwers
Mind soothe if you have a priest works well too
^ true
speaking of priest
i do that too sock, ez percent
I ran a heroic leveling alts with a preist who MC'd adds and jumped them off
does that count towards %, anyone know?
it doesn't
big rip
we tested it in my group lol
woulda been hilarious
i sorta assumed it wouldnt but it made me laugh so i was hoping
Honestly, I feel like the trash in spires is a bit over tuned
yeah one of my priest friends tried it on some mobs at the beginning of halls of atonement
when you're fighting the shards of halk
I don't usually complain about balance, but the trash there is so much significantly harder than every other dungeon
theres a lot of casters
Wait can you kill enemies by mind controlling them off the edge in spires?
they die but they don't give %
Because if you can, fuck it I'll pull extra to avoid some of those ridiculous pulls
you can do it in halls too
That's awesome
Spires and sanguine are the 2 dungeons i actively avoid
Spires pretty much only has a decent trinket i care about.
The video is trash otherwise, but the macro caught my eye
It seems to do shield block, shield slam, demo shout, avatar, revenge, and thunderclap
That looks less like a macro and more like some bullshit script kiddie stuff that blizzard wouldn't be happy with you using
its also bad to use
Don't quote me on that, but I've never seen a macro constantly switch between icons like that
It's possible it's an add-on that both recommends your next ability based on a priority list and also gives you the button for it
I know there are add-ons that show you what button you should press next, but I've never seen one that also gives you one button that you can spam
That would be against tos, right?
I'm not entirely sure
no
An add on that just tells you what to press next is not against TOS
I don't know if there is some weirdness with creating a button that constantly changes though
That looked really weird to me. I don't know what that was, but it doesn't seem very fair
I know hekili recommends the next button and that's fine, but making 1 button do multiple different things sounds like something that would break tos
Yes Griff, we know
We were discussing specifically what was happening in a video
Thank you for your input
We're not debating that, I'm just trying to figure out that video
Lol
If it's legal, I wouldn't mind a watered down version that did a small priority list like shield slam > thunderclap > free revenge or something
eyir get him some socks

🧦
Unsolicited feet pics
My eyes have been violated
This is why we don't get invited to pugs
@vagrant cape there are definitely add-ons that give you a priority like what you should press next
that any sane person would want you not to use or even speak of it
But I'm positive whatever that guy was using wasn't within TOS
I went kyrain for a reason
Hekili
I mean um
Feet are gross
no i didnt 👀
works properly only for pala tho
Wait...priests can mc spires mobs and Chuck em off edge???
yeah 😄
Those fucking stupid mobs that stay at range are the worst mobs in this expansion to me
At least most frustrating
Yeah, I use hekili sometimes. I like it a lot for ret pally since they just play whackamole with their action bar
But weakauras do the same thing but better
I used to use CLCret for enhancement back in WOTLK

I suppose I could be arsed to set up weak auras
Weak auras is the only add-on that I honestly consider mandatory for me
It allows me to play without staring at my hot bar
I like to set up my hotbars so that they're near the center of my screen. Just the ones I use often and want to track cool downs and procs
Yeah that's where I put my weak auras
Just beneath my character's feet
Oh and also: Masque: Darkscail
It makes everything look so much nicer
The issue is that I can't seem to find a weakaura that functions exactly like a hotbar icon.
As in:
- It greys out when not available
- It shows the gcd spinny thing on it during the gcd
- It shows its cool down when on cooldown
- It shows the key that it's bound to
That definitely exists, without the key that it's bound to
If a weakaura had all of that, I'd be set. But hotbars do all of that out of the box so I just use those
Afaik it can do all of those
Yeah, I need the key it's bound to XD
The only one I don't know about is showing the key bind, but the weak aura set I use does everything else
You shouldn't need the key its bound to, muscle memory should develop fairly quickly tbh
^
Yeah, not when I play like 4 different tanks
I run the timers on my buttons, but they're posted below my feet, most of my rotation is memorized by this point
But I'm also fairly certain you can get it done
Also I'm bad
You can build a generic muscle memory if you bind everything similarly across all your classes
Have consistent bindings across them, I play all the tanks and don't need to check the binds
Like, Z is always my interrupt shift+c always mitigation CD, alt+~ is always self heal etc
Not bad, just need more experience 😉
you can literally just add a "3" to the icon
I try to do that, but it's the little annoying things like how warrior has two mobility skills where most tanks have 1, prot warrior doesn't have a spammy single target ability if devastator is talented, etc
I meant intercept and leap. I forgot that charge is separate as well... Fuck
Intercept is Shift+Left Click on the target I want (using Clique) :)
Guardian druid
you have rocket jump to add in as a 4th if youre goblin
Monk
Venge has one, brew has one, pally has one. Guardian has... Oooonnee?
Brew has more than one
Does anyone know what shouts are effected by the Torghast anima power which increases damage by 20% ?
All of them
^
Which is why the description says all of your shouts
battle shout as well?
Brew has 2 baseline 3 talented
Well it specifically says enemies affected by your shouts
And since battleshot doesn't affect the enemy, no
Roll/transcendence and then tigers lust
BATTLESHOT
you don't have to be facetious bro
Yeaaaah baby
but thank you for your help
I'm not being facetious at all
And guardian definitely has 2
I'm answering your question
Dash and stampeding roar
I didn't read any fecetiousness in that answer either
so is it just intimidating shout?
And demoralizing shout
Man, I should really subscribe to this game so I can experience all these cool post-20 abilities.
ah ya
And challenging shout
And challenging
@astral crystal I don't believe that's a macro, I'm fairly certain it's something against the TOS
You can get a power that extends a random shout duration and it can be challenging
ty
Every comment in that video is asking to explain the add on/macro in that video XD
looks like a cast sequence macro with all abilities idk
I don't know of a macro that allows the icon to rapidly change
How high is the block difference between a 184 shield and a 200 shield?
big
any NF prot warriors able to weigh in on how it plays? I main arms for raid but tank M+ a good amount, debating switching from venth to NF seeing how it's getting closer for ST and it seems like a healthy compromise good for both roles
200 is kike 1544 or something
major
Oooof
Best shield between Stonewrought Gargoyles Barrier and Builwark of the Stone Legion from Nathria's token ? Haste/Crit one for pve right ?
I don't want to do Arena LUL
@dire jolt with current gear levels, nightfae is pretty good, but with how often we need to kite right now You're not going to get full benefit out of your covenant ability very often at higher keys
Kyrian is great for kiting, lock em down and jump away
So question, how is it fair that some specs have to get two pieces to "complete" their weapon while others just need a single two-hander?
Life isn't fair, neither is wow
I mean...
At least rerolling to venge is easy
It's not that big of a deal
Only if you can live with yourself while playing a demon hunter
Hmmm... Is it okay if I play all six tank specs a little bit?
Or does that make me a degenerate AND a traitor?
Well tbh
yes and no 
People who only play one class forever confuse me
It sounds more like you're learning the game period
I switch almost every expansion
So I would say it is kinda bad
play whatever you love
Plus if you were serious when you said you aren't subbed and so only 20, you should probably play everything so you figure out what you like
I've been playing since legion on and off, but I've only really played pally and warrior in mythic raids
Just simply because you're introducing so many elements and changes that it might be harming your ability to get familiar with the game
But that's just my take
I like playing things that are specifically unpopular, because I'm an MMO hipster and I want to be a special snowflake
I agree with sock 100%
I played prot warrior before the buffs in bfa and quit when they got changed

I was one of the few people on this Discord who were like, "Yo, warrior buds, we're fine. If they take IP off the gcd we're gonna be op as fuck and get nerfed next expansion"
Lo and behold
What was the name of the shitty third mitigation tool that wasn't shield block or ignore pain
And it made mitigation real confusing
Demo shout
Shield barrier ? 😛
No I'm talking about a few expansions ago
Critical block?
Yeah that's the one
Oh
Shield barrier
I remember needing to like study calculus to understand the guides for when shield barrier was better than shield block
I need calculus practice. Which tank requires the most calculus in shadowlands?
The offhand token on Stone General can only be used to redeem the vers/mastery shield over the crit/haste one. That's not right.
IP going off the GCD had very little to do with any tangible power gain
there should two version for each ilvl.
Are you sure about that? More IP uses meant more anger management cooldown reduction which meant more rage gen and it snowballed
It's fewer global cooldowns spent spending rage and more global cooldown spent gaining rage
You might be sure, but you are wrong
Just timed 12HoA was pretty chill. 223 gear Inc. Yeeee boi :)
Noyce
Taking it off the global cooldown was a very obvious power gain
What else did they give prot warrior when they buffed them in bfa?
Negative chief, giving us the ability to block projectiles and BoM was much more impactful
Lol
The amount of power given by a different buff has nothing to do with the fact that taking IP off the global cooldown was a power gain
And plenty of the yellow names also said that IP off GCD was not a meaningful power gain

^
It's literally mostly QoL

and multiple people admitted that IP is not a meaningful thing unless you're using it as a rage dump

Just because something is mostly quality of life doesn't mean it isn't also a power gain ???
A quality of life change can easily be a direct buff if it makes it easier to do more damage and take less damage.
IP off the GCD was both a power gain and a QoL improvement. But just because it was a power gain doesnt mean it was what "snowballed into us becoming OP"
This is a stupid meaningless argument anyway, lol
People shouted for "QoL changes" when they were asking for a direct buff
Yeah I never said it was a massive power gain, but it was definitely a power gain
You guys are just waving dicks lol
it just brought enough attention on top of few gamebreaking bugs and azerite traits like pre-nerf DC
Quit arguing about shit from 2 years ago
and lack of any nerfs for 2 major patches in a row
8.1 was just the result of power we already had being realized by people because we received some bandaid "fix"
Would "shield block no longer costs rage" be too good of a buff?
Wot
Just asking a question for the sake of conversation
Sometimes I like to think of various class changes for funsies
K
same will be with 9.1 and so on again. Like literally, all tanks specs share the same problems right now. Need of extreme attention from healers and and gaps in mitigation
Hard to know in all honesty
We dont have much of a rage feedback loop anymore
they pushed for gaps fr years
I feel like it would be a pretty fun change. It would allow more revenge casts which would help with threat, and it would also help with the awkward zero rage beginning of big pulls
Wdym dude blood is self sustain
Haven't you played the new tutorial? Always engage with charge to generate rage for the start of a fight :P
:| no shit lmao
DK is also highly susceptible to getting outright oneshot if you're not playing perfectly @chilly brook

i was swimming in RP in m0's wdym
though it was in m0's
where shit barely tickled
Don't forget to dump excess rage into whirlwind, execute, and slam.
Did a fucking 5 De Other Side
#Homogenization
Had to kite the first pack
Yeah that big prot slam...
did the same in +8, next pack. I die from getting 3 casts into my face, group dies

interrupt that shit suka blyat
Imagine not pulling every pack with shield wall up
I literally died the moment I charged into the pack in front of Zul'Gurub. Charged -> dead. Was funny

if pugs can't be even arsed to interrupt scribe and similar shit i don't even know how much more cancerous it can be
it is already 10x the cancer of BfA pugging
Those tiny skeleton warriors have something called bone slice that hurts REAL bad
Interrupting lotus
I put interrupts on my meters over dps now. It's so much more telling of who I want in my groups or not
yeah, permakite is the only option. And to do so, you need DPS and healer helping you in that. With cc of course
cc, displacement and so on
Yesterday i had a group that was:
Me: 20
paladin: 16
Dk: 14
Shaman: 14
I was so happy
Damn, nice
zero such groups for me
(hunter: 4) LOL
The shaman was the healer. He was a tiny bit in over his head
De Other Side feels stupidly overtuned trash wise
He admitted he was kind of new and wasn't 100% sure on what he was doing
But he did well enough
I usually end up doing about 50% of all interrupts 😦
just like King's Rest on release
That pull in front of hakar is stupid
@chilly brook bruh. Spires..
I miss legion prot pally. Covering every single interrupt in the dungeon
if not 70-80%
Spires felt reasonably ok
Hakkar pull is external on pull plus hero basically
All of the trash leading to hakar is stupid. The blade storming guys have a bleed attack that chunks ridiculously
If I'm being honest most of the content feels overtuned
Spires is super safe if your group nukes etherdivers + you're a dorf Kyrian ;)
The difference between a 3 and a 5 is pretty fucking stark
I agree that everything feels a tad harder than it should, but I'm okay with it
and this makes pugging actually fucking cancerous rn. I've tried to do few 9's today. One bricked and another 4 not even completed
Time your shout stun,then your spear of they spin again, storm bolt works wonders too

I dont even want to think about what pugging normal Nathria is like lmao
The spin actually isn't the concern at all
In fact the blade storm does less damage than anything else they do
I let them cast it because it gives them less time to put that fucking bleed on me
this instantly reminded me of why i hate pugging since the last season
probably the absolute dipshit
I had a pretty positive experience on the first five bosses
just pug hc 
I wasn't able to get dark vain down in my pug
Lotta ppl got carried to high keys by corruption stacking and a LONG season, so they're feeling entitled to those same keys again week 1 of m+ and...well this is the result
I mean like I said the scaling feels very off
A 3 to a 5 is huge
Not rly, it's overtuned but not by a huge margin imo
I don't love kiting, I know it's essential, but I would kind of like the balance to be less around kiting and more allowing a tank to be a tank
Nothing feels worse than running away from mobs as a tank
^
I feel like kiting shouldn't come into play until keys above 15
I mean I wouldn't have expected to be having to do 5k+ hps as a blood dk and having to kite the fucking shit in a 5
And in a 3 it tickles
or at all. Blizz made another problem they can only fix by reverting all the mitigation gaps
Still have packs that slap me with shield block up with a 190 shield
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
do you know how i feel with 155 shield rn
Just gotta play through it
I'd rather not know how you feel with it
It's like, two BGs worth of honor to get a 184 shield
Hard disagree
Getting slapped around in low tier content isn't fun
With a daily win+ epic BG
450 conquest=ilvl 200 shield
Never has been
free
And it'll only get worse
Getting more gear won't help with how hard everything hits, kiting was a major thing everyone did on beta because of it
What
Of course it's gonna help
But m+ is infinitely scaling
So there's always gonna be a threshold
gear good
Getting more gear might trivialize things under 10 but 15s are still gonna truck you because of the scaling
IO=clout tho wth
I don't need to compensate with my IO score
We legit haven't been this squish as tanks since like early Cata
I'm very comfortable with my smol PP
Carton just roll a healer, switch to NA, and change your schedule to match mine
We'll make our own group, with blackjack and hookers
At least you guys dont tank as venthyr, right? Never use condemn...meaningful choices btw. 😞
i do 😔
Venthyr tank Lole
Look I'm not going to deny the fact that condemn is possibly the most satisfying looking ability to use in the game
This is the first time since WoD where I'm actually considering just playing DPS
This expansion might drive tanks away honestly
The tank drought is just going to get worse
Because it will
so what you're proposing is:
-> Move to Vladivostok/Kamchatka
-> Make a new account
-> Spend time i could use to study or enjoy IRL activities to level up and gear holy pala ASAP
-> Spam holy shock for the rest of my life
No one wants to kite

we had enough of this in Legion
Yeah karton
No one wants to feel like they're paper
Sounds like a solid plan
I don't know where those Russian cities are that you just mentioned, but I assume those are the ones that I can see from Alaska right?
Lole
No one wants to fight for aggro
Agro is actually the one thing that I think makes tanking fun
when I can use thunderclap once and then never have to worry about aggro for the rest of the dungeon I get fucking bored
I would rather worry about juggling aggro than having to kite and worry about dying every other pull
i'm willing to fight for aggro
but feeling like paper and having to kite once every 12-18 seconds(not accounting for bolster there)
no fucking way
I would rather worry about juggling aggro than having to kite and worry about dying every other pull [2]
You know what feels real good though?
Charging mid heroic leap
Something about that always makes me really happy
I don't think I would blame you bud
Raid tanking is hilariously easy compared to mythic tanking right now
raid tanking is a snoozefest at best
was so on most bosses at least
but interesting sometimes non the less
Just kinda annoyed over how shit the experience is for tanks tbh
I don’t know ive had a good time tanking both. If you’re good at knowing when to kite m+ ez clap
Raid tanking is only fun rn cause damage is high cause no gear
woo love being told im a shit tank, then none stunned the mobs that give the debuff at the start of mists, and the healer doesnt dispell the debuff
apparently there's a lot of bad prot tanks
yes when im taking 60% more damage i cant do much 🙂
just got praised for actually mitigating damage
Yes. About 20% of tanks are good at their job
so, it's probably everyone's default "you probably suck" mood
combine that with 80% of people just bad in general
you get 64% (is that math right?) who think you suck but suck themselves
Multiplicative percentages right? lol
and know you know my experience with pugs for the last year or os
people blaming tank just because they fail themselves
well i pugg most of the time as my guild always run dungeons during the day when im at work and then they dont want to when im on
they falmed me flamed the healer
and didnt cc at all
So AMITA? I kicked everyone from the group and broke my own Key because I had 43 interrupts and the person below me had 2 and I was getting shredded the entire time from Magic damage in DoS?
welcome to pugging
Like I dont understand, the rogue I brought was 630 iO .... idk what god of a tank carried him through those keys but he is one beefy dude
rio doesn't matter in first month of the tier
at all
^^
^ He had a +13 DoS done so I figured he knew mechanics
I'm oddly thinking about playing a rogue
Yeah, honestly the carries are healers and dps
no one carries more so
just be toxic and youll be fine the guy flaming in my group was a rogue that did less damage than me and didnt do anything cause he was typing all the time XD
Kek
blizz did a great job with this except for overnerfing tanks, but it made pugging an actual fucking unbearable cancer
Tbh as a tank you're doing too much focus on staying alive normally to actually carry with current tuning
Idk any tanks that can just eat 20 shadowcores D':
Yeah, that's a bit much
I think my druid was having a heart attack
"a bit"
I'm only 590 :( I need to do a Hall s and Sanguine higher than 5 to get that up
Get kicks in, use CC to make the pulls smaller
probably doing somthing wrong or no cc or interrupts or a bit of both
any logs?
Welcome to Shadowlands key scaling lol
SD isn't too bad if your group doesn't stand in stuff and overlap the group with blood circle >_<
oh, in SD in that last bridge set of pulls
+184, did +9NW with 3 minutes over the timer thanks to healer being such a moron who doesn't use any cooldowns, be it throughput, externals or utility
this shit is fucked up
Is the overseer supposed to be separate from the other two with him?
pugging is literally impossibly cancerous now
@craggy harness You can pull the overseer with the other vampire separate from the gargoyle if you taunt the overseer
agreed
Honestly, I'm chaining my CC, took storm bolt to help even.
Focusing uptime on ignore paint and shield block
I think my dps buddies aren't using any of their cc and stuff
Get the trinket from DoS it can help mitigate some damage where you have gats
gaps*
okay... cuz i threw at whatever the lead one is, and got him and gargoyle, but not overseer
so was confused
it was a cancerous clusterfuck before, especially at 3k rio trap and other similar bragging rights contests. But now it is literally impossible to stay sane even after 5 keys
you need to focus on effective uptime of SB. By affective meaning when you take hits that are blockable. IP is nothing more than a rage dump. Kite whenever you're out of gas SB charges. If your DPS and healers don't use anything, you're fucked and this key is bricked. No matter what
Definitely it's not supposed to be only you taking care of CCs
I'm just having really hit or miss pugs atm some we just completely smash the key with several minutes left
and others are just insta key breaks
If I strafe can the mobs hit behind my shield?
easily. It is 180 degree radius iirc
I've been only with protection even doing WQ, thorgast... pretty much anything the game as to offer, what do you guys think? I know it's not optimal but I don't like to be constantly switching and I'm a tank at the end of the day... any comments?
Are you all running ravager or unstoppable force in m+?
strafe improperly and you're dead
what is not optimal?

can you put your question properly first and foremost
please
doing dps content with protection spec
what? any content is tank content
rav is better
shoudn't I be doing world quests with arms or fury ? it would be faster no ?
not really, can pull more as tank
what about thorgast ?
tank spec is ez mode
Probably easier doing torgast as prot, can pull a ton of stuff and get a lot of self healing powers
well, to be fair, if you're going to be dps when not solo
in raid or m+
i might make another choice for first
but you should tank 😉
I don't see any reason to change the spec even when doing solo content
Does anyone know if the "unbreakable will" legendary grant shield wall to the whole raid or just your party?
party
Just your party
lol ok but I made it clear at the beginning that I'm a tank
Yep then no worries, but that's about the only consideration I can think of
Thanks
Anyone have Wall and TL leggos? Which feels better for m+? I like the idea of more consistent shield slam rage gen
What is the difference in DR between a 171 and 200 shield, I wonder
I prefer the wall
Conquest shield super easy to get
I can't decide if I want a rank 3 tl or craft wall next week... If we get like 1270 ash tomorrow i can go straight to rank 2 wall
you're lucky to have a choice 😛
Can do it math wise but idk the numbers this expansion
Do the equation with the k value and block value
But wall is better for smoother rage and more oh shits for bigger pulls
That's what I was thinking
it is not an oh shit if you're using it properly
This just blew my mind. Handling all 3 without having the dps die on a +8 felt like pulling teeth. Gonna try it out next time (thankfully we did time the key lol)
i feel a bit squishy with the current specc u get from wowhead, any talent suggestions?
the wowhead guide is wrong
rav is better for both damage and defence
if you need to be more tanky u take bolster as well
ah thank god, can someone just givve me the 1-2-3-1-2-2-3
here you go: 1231223
ty
Anyone else just not getting loot? I'm 14 M+ Dry just anima
no silver that is an aweful build
jakey give me yours then:D
2/3, (what ever), 2, 1/2, 2. 3. 1/3
eveything to make me tanky tbh
I've gotten no loot above a four but I've done up to 10 lol.
then 3,3,2,1,2,3,3
Really want a new shield
@jagged pier thanks alot
im mainly arms, signet works fine with both ravager and avatar i geuss
doesnt seem like signet procs from ravager as prot
I haven't seen a single afflock all expansion
what about dps warriors?
Are you guys running bolster or anger management in m+?
I think people in pug scene just forced to change to meta classes, well warrior is a popular class so some still trying to play them
higher keys make bolster pretty mandatory, just did a 13+ was just crazy tbh
Odd since they're performing really well in raid
Should i be running lightless force? I see people using ascended vigor and Celestial Guidance too
lightless does slightly more dmg on aoe
celestial guidance is solid though, and 10x cheaper
if im raid tanking tonight should it be lightless force?
has anoyne tried naything w/ gluttonous spike
its solid
newsflash
its better to play AM+The Wall in de other side
as like 80% of dmg in there is fucking magic
and the 2min CD on bolster just isnt gonna cover shit for inner circle or hakkar wing
I dont have either legendary but I'm starting to feel like the wall is a safer choice than TL for M+, between more SW and better for bosses
I want you to close your eyes.
Now imagine we had legendaries as fucking busted as Guardian Druid has
How do you feel?
i feel unappreciated
Lol

Forget that you ever had any appreciation
I enjoyed brew in Legion
I played guardian during the first few raids in legion and it was so insanely broken, I like wars playstyle infinitely more though
well, for dps warrior, asmon was doing CN normal and had dog shit dps, then he got N sword and his dps went up like, alot
I was pretty sure a lot of attack based classes like that get cucked early on dps because most of their dps is just based on hitting
warrior is all about the weapon and/or shield that you have and they carry you.
speaking of, i need to do more torghast
still don't like monk or disc healers, anything else is preferable
Does anyone have problem with druid or am I just thinking they're dogshit heals so far
Yogi did you know that if you stop watching asmongold You will instantly become 10 times better at the game?
resto is fine becuase its so brain dead that they are also catweaving and doing markers and dungeon non combat shit lmao
That dude's eyebrows have higher APM than he does
Where will be the best place to watch WF race tomorrow?
Twitch

