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what’s rival, 1800?
ye
hi guys how good is [Darkmoon Deck: Indomitable] for prot war? 18k in my server is worth? my focus is m+
its bad
Get LFR trinkets
@strong forum I hate you
I'm rocking the nathria norm shield
200 :(
At least it looks sexy
Hmm. Ive used that one and everytime I enter combat I get a pop up error. Rip
is it better to use shadow oil or stone?
Oil
Is the overhead slash nerf on spires first boss live? If so how is it now?
its live yes
Sweet! And if you are 1800 rated you can just buy that 220 ilvl gear straight from the vendor?
its sweet gear, got neck and ring, upped to 220, mad vers on them
Damn I need to get on it
i do pvp mainly, and tank as a side gig, and haste vers PvP gear fits perfectly for both
man wish i could go venthyr or necro, but spear is BiS
i dont care about gatorade angels
I miss being kyrian
So good for pvp and tanking. Now I have an ability I barely have rage for
So how are you guys doing the first boss of Spires. Do you guys try and keep them stacked or let the bird fly off and separate?
I think you can stack them now that overhead only hits one person
"You now need to PvP for long periods of time to get the best PvE gear"
Thanks Blizzard, very cool
Necro feels too on the nose for warrior
You could always stack the two
and you always should have
and should continue to do so
they share health so cleave is like double damage
anyone got a WA or smthing for bosses energy bar? cause i cant find anything in plater/elvui to make it more visible or an extra bar or w/e
That’s what I thought. Had a 900ish IO guy die to the slash and blame me for stacking them and not keeping them separate. Was almost second guessing myself.
Nah, the 900 IO guy needs to pull his finger out of his ass
you dont play tank in pvp.
outside of rbgs
in arena you just dont
1800
😐 RIP
Thats a bit dumb tbh
1800 for 220 gear
Just be solid at holding a node and calling incs
Its super easy to setup macros at the start of the game for inc calls
Anyone tanked heroic hungering destroyer ?
yep
When he puts that circle around you, what do you do ? I just stand still and deflect that orb with reflect
Yup
If you're low health I'd reflect the expunge initial damage
And then hit the orb l8r with reflect when you're not tanking
Basically that is what I was doing
It's dangerous to tank the initial expunge damage if you're low HP and have no defensive, because the healers are all spread out as well
So that's typically the most dangerous time as a tank
Especially of the boss is meleeing you
So I still have that raider skills in me :D
i mean, tbh, i don't think a prot warrior should be soaking orbs anyway
But ya. If you're high health reflect the orb after. If you're low reflect the expunge and deal with the orb after next time reflect is up
I usually asked for external when I was dry, when healers spread as well
Sock, isn't soaking
Heroic mechanic
yes, but why have a tank with shit cooldowns do it vs a dps class with invulns
You will get the orb as tank
like hunter using turtle + cheetah
Because the hunter needs to deal with the orbs behind the boss
You can clear your own orb with reflect
Just that
oh yeah if it's just one orb, whatever ez pz
Yea, you just leave one
That fight kinda feels like sludgefist. Hungering destroyer TRUCKS
Prot is so good for it
Love prot in raid
Had a prot co tanking today
Prot pally
Damn his hp is just flying up and down
PW is as stoic as a man can get
With our active mitigation the big hits in raid are EASY to deal with.
Well I tend to raid with pugs, so I am forced to use my CDs alot
run AM with the wall or keep Bolster in raids?
is the word out on prot warrior or something for m+ pugs? seems im getting a lot of insta declines whereas if they checked io I'd be fine
Only vdh can do 10s, dontcha know
i've already had a group rage me out in a +2 because somebody died on 3rd spires boss and we wiped, and to make up i pulled instantly final and got called smooth head baboon or something
are the BFA primary stat gems still worth using?
but, i've made loads of mistakes in these keys too, it's tough to learn.
I believe so, Procede
AM is great for raid if u got the wall
both
depending on boss
you swap here and there
hello, if im venthyr prot. where do i use condem?
Bolster for bosses you dont tank swap often
and on mythic you practically play bolster for everything but Shriekwing
@open monolith ty
yea seems like its worth it for that
lol
like, I understand that ITF does something.
but, I just never notice it when I have it
it's all about FEELS. Feelycraft > Theorycraft
wanna know what feels the best?
ravager
I hope you fall down a flight of stairs

and like, don't really injure yourself
but really scare yourself
like that adrenaline dump you get in your stomach when you miss a stair and go down a little too far?
that.
I want that to happen to you
just use a 155 til you really push keys, then you'll be over-proactive
yeah lmao
or when you cant find your phone
and then notice its in a different pocket
😐 bro if you're getting an adrenaline dump from not finding your phone
you might have some other issues
that need be addressed
you damn kids and your technology dependence
how else will i shitpost in discord
I REMEMBER BACK IN MY DAY WHEN I WANTED TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT A TOPIC AND IF IT WASN'T IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA I WAS JUST OUT OF LUCK
yeah same?

I would love a 220 shield
but I'll wait until the vault gifts it to me
because I won't be getting it from PvP or mythic raids
ever
Once I get 1800 from BGs I'll have my 220 shield
Hakkar trinket
Its special but I can get shield from pvp
Ya he typed it first
Fuck
Legit tho icyvein says lots of different stuff. What are the 2 BIS BIS trinkets for raid and m+
The hakkar trinket and what
i assume denathrius trinket
but i'd rather have an anima field emitter and either hakkar or denathrius
anime emitter, denathrius, decanter, phial of putrification
kael'thas trinket is great for pugging m+
those are all very good
it's saved a number of runs already for me

I need this in my discord lol
ravager doesnt proc signet does it? or does it?
Nope.
does not
peeping
more context pls
can you guess who those # parses are of
tanks in HC raid

wait what
unfortunate, i was thinking it should but i think i saw someone say it doesnt. so prot has 1 ability while fury/arms has 2 (talented)
its a trick they're all warriors
ATTA BOY
POG!
literally the biggest PP in this room right now
went to the gym, feeling YUGE
are there any pvp pieces worth targeting?
shield, weapon
what about the hast trinket? is it worth?
probably
Are prot warriors unpopularity just a l2p issue or are they weaker than the alternatives?
shield, weapon, boots, theres a decent ring, necklace is good, cloak is great
it's easier to be a bad warrior than it is to be a bad monk
prot warri is IMMENSLY ilvl dependant, moreso than other tanks, overall not very popular
Barely popular when the spec is not meta that is
even when meta
its not popular in raiding
its the least popular tank for raiding
ever since monks exist
Really hate the thunderclap spam
we can hope that the mouth breathing metachaser tier-listers will change their mind about warrior when they see all the WF guilds running one
they probably won't think to0 hard about WHY they are running one, so maybe they will just think "YAAAY ME WANT WARRIOR CUZ LIMIT HAVE WARRIOR"
why do we care about those people
They won't
is my question:)
Been playing the avatar tc talent
Remind yourself about DH in nya
They won't
who
Are the new torghast floor ok to do solo or is it a pain in the ass?
Oh okay, what about into the fray?
ITF you play in raid
i had no issues
did it first try quite comfortably
like 15-20min per layer
ok nice
BR guy?
thx
I ran new torghast while drunk off my ass layer 8 yesterday
Probably doable sober as well
probably harder sober lol
Huntsman so easy when shades are perma ccd by DH 👌
Still need to do my M+ for the week, it's starting to look like a job
Yeah but make dh run out cause fuck em lol
And the huntards were too busy shooting big dic damage to do mechanics in our pug
Guys I want to ask ya something. I want to try out tanking for the first time and I'm drawn towards a warrior. However, everywhere i see (icyveins, wowhead etc) it says that warrior is the worst tank and cant compete with a DH for example. Is it that bad or its not that big of a problem? Im not aiming for mythic raiding or very high end m+ keys, just wanna have some fun with friends. Thanks and sorry if its inappropiate to ask this here.
Play warrior if you want to play warrior
All tanks are very much possible to be played on almost every level of play
I know that, but sometimes the community is a bit toxic and avoids "underperforming" classes
okay, well, the community hasn't changed
play what you want, and if that is too mitigating of a factor for you, play something else
but do you see a possibility of warrior getting super strong later on (highkeys?)
never base your decision on playing a class around what you THINK it MIGHT be in the future.
i am concerned about less physical dmg incoming in keys
bruh look at your incoming damage on any given dungeon run
having some threat issues with my ape paladin in my group any tips?
ask him to burst a few seconds later than he is currently bursting.
or use more revenge in the beginning of a pool (which may result in your healer having a heart attack)
yeh i have been doing that but even after t-clap 2 revenge he is still ripping
or pool rage at the end of a pull so that you may open the next one with mitigation AND revenge.
mark something with a skull.
make sure he targets the skull.
if he is just going apeshit on a mob you aren't focusing either A) you need to get better at spreading your shield slams around to solidify threat on everything or B) he needs to stop being an ape and focus the right targets.
and even if he does rip a mob off you, you have taunt on a fairly low CD 😮
if he is ripping everything.... i don't know what to tell you. I have not experienced similar issues.
yeah just gonna have to tell him not to chimp out every pull like gimme a cpl gcds
Nobody should be ripping off of you if you are using Spear / Ravager early.
venthyr 😦
ah you fucked up
save ravager for pulls I guess
toss ravager on the group, charge in, T Clap
if you open with ravager the first tick or two should solidify your threat
I wonder how many people who come in here feel giga squishy because they don't know that you can't block mobs behind you
How accurate is the Icy Veins guide for Prot?
yes
Like I've been debating swapping to Ravager since my only leggo that works in Prot is Signet
doesn't work with ravager
damn
but ravager is an extremely good talent for m+ anyway
you should probably be using ravager.
Unstoppable Force still seems like the go-to for threat gen
Anger management for DPS, Bolster for mitigation
Booming voice hard yes, unless you desperately need the snap aggro of dragon roar
devastator yes
Devastator feels so hollow compared to when they originally added it
devastator = more shield slam resets = happy warrior
it used to also give a bunch of extra rage on it's own and did a not insignificant amount of damage
Any good WA for tracking SB uptime and cooldowns ?
just make one with a premade icon and add SB as the buff
or download the Luxthos warrior core / utilities / 3rd one
that has everything
that one
you have to download the utilities and dynamic parts as well, but i love it.
What's up with people doing m+ and not knowing the most basic mechanics of the dungeon 
I've tanked like 3 or 4 dungeons today where people just die to dumb stuff even after I explain it to them
Blizzard have created a culture where 75% of content you can faceroll - when it comes to doing the other 25% people dont have a fucking clue
and someone ends up leaving/DCing so we don't even get a clear
yeah
only way i've gotten past that is by routinely being vocal and friendly in groups, and making friends to put on my friends list
I now have a loose group of 3 - 5 players that I can routinely play with. Much better than the usual pugs
@open monolith it doesnt have covenant ability, and adequate SB uptime timer/bar. Im using that right now
it does have covenant ability, so you're wrong on that
and I guess I disagree on what you consider adequate SB uptime
Like IP bar
it makes the SB icon glow with a CD swipe on it, and you can always edit the WA to also show remaining duration in text
What is best weapon enchant? celestial or lightless?
I believe the difference is tiny and celestial is gigacheaper
ah ok, ty
Oh.. Im stupid then
not stupid
just.... misinformed 😉
if you want to see the remaining duration on Shield Block, just find the WA in there for shield block and in the text area put %.... hmmm
I actually don't know which % it is
but if you hover over the field it should give you the list of options
I find the text-less version to be adequate
Anyone got a good discord for M+ ppl? pugging dps is giving me a headache
If you use it too - I just wanted a SB bar be like IP bar
Im new to pwar, and frequently dont pay attention to duration on SB...
ty sock
Ye, like that, but horizontal
done
done
Roger
Show only if buffed
you can then go into it and fiddle with the colour and text and size
Am I stupid do you mean?
Nope, just want to be with my hero forever 😄
I'd never get married so that wont be possible I'm afraid
o.o
Marriage is wonderful.
You should reconsider 🙂
like, just now I text my wife from work, "You know what sounds really good? Taco Pizza from Godfather's"
and she said
"Want me to pick one up before you get home?"
bam. Amazing.
Legally sign away half of my wealth at the risk of anything to happen in the future... no thanks... if she wants to stay with me forever thats fine, if she wants a ring and a fancy dress ill buy one but I'm not signing my life away
why can't I transmog to the wall, when I switch gear out
they make legendaries non trasnmoggable?
Pre-nuptial agreements exist o.o
you can't transmog legendaries
(yet)
they usually unlock them for transmog in the next expansion
quick question. for thunderlord boots or gloves?
either.
Pre-nups have historically been ignored in divorces.
Ok
yep
only when they aren't valid! but this is a stupid conversation to have in a warrior discord anyway
it's faceroll easy
really easy
it's basically free as prot
warrior is easy overall
first week i found it hard as Arms
Good. Guess the next question is what memory fo I want to grind for.
if you primarily raid, The Wall
the Wall is amazing in raid and still good for m+
if you primarily m+, Thunderlord
thunderlord is really really good in m+, but not very good in the raid for fights without adds
The Wall is your "good for everything" go-to
arm is easy, i did mine pre nerf with arms
u just have to abuse ignore pain and ignore pain animas
I was thinking thunder lord to. I'll mostly be doing mythics and maybe raids if my work schedule changes.
? o.o
At least in higher wings
I'm doing 8 right now
Unless the nerf was that major lol
Does raider io score not show before you hit a certain number?
yo is the deep wounds healing conduit any good with best served cold? or trash
It’s low so not really a big deal
Imagine saying it was too easy for tanks so you make it harder only to less than a week later, nerf the whole thing

what did they nerf?
Everything
So for M+ is Thunderlord still god or have we gone to worshipping a new M+ leggo?
both thunderlord and wall are good
some might argue that wall is better for certain dungeons with super high magic damage (de other side)
Never gonna be pugging super high mythic so I’m just sticking with thunderlords
Kek
So I'm mainly a dps warrior, but I've been finding myself running keys (7-10 range) with some of my guildies as a tank. I have no plans to switch from Venthyr, but should I craft a proper prot legendary at 190 or just stick with my higher level Signet?
For those levels you'll be fine with Signet.:)
soooo is memory of the tormented kings good for m+? current top prot war is running it, some other top rank prot wars too for m+
the lego that procs bladestorm/avatar/recklessness
also works with ravenger
works with ravager?
ya
Nor for prot
i think so
Not*
it says in the description ravager works
it does not work with Prot ravager, unless they ninja-fixed it recently
says on here ravager works
Any advices for thorgast as prot ? Specific talent build or smth else ?
Guys you think we maybe have it in game and are telling you it doesn't work?
it works on ravager for arms because ravager is a replacement of bladestorm.
Lol it works for arms revenge not prot
Hes arms for raids and you are seeing his logged out gear as arms spec?
the #1 prot warrior is not the #1 prot warrior because he uses a certain legendary
yes
Its bis arms and bis fury aoe leggo
so hes #1 prot war in m+ and mains a arms legendary lol
that's because prot has shit legendaries in general
so whether or not you use the BEST one isn't gonna make a huge difference
It still procs on avatar and has dps benefits
was hoping it worked on prots ravager cuz thatd be sweet as heck
probably because ravager is a replacement for bladestorm on arms
and it specifically says it works on "avatar, recklessness, and bladestorm"
does it work on talented Avatar for arms?
Yeah
well, then that IS dumb and probably bugged
yeah if it works on avatar and bladestorm for arms but not ravager and avatar for prot then its bugged?
cuz I rlly wanna bladestorm ravager packs on my prot : D
can you even block during bladestorm?
I think so idk tho
dont see why not
Even if recklessness procs, 10 secs of 20% more crit and 100% more rage generation means shield slam gives 40 rage instead of 20 so every shield slam is a free IP pretty OP and if avatar procs free 20% more dmg
if they fixed it to have ravager work for prot that might be a BIS legendary for M+
maybe for keys that you absolutely don't need any additional defensive value, sure
You can.
best defense is a good offense, if u kill a whole pack because ur tank becomes a godly dps then gggg
best defense is a good offense when the incoming damage isn't crippling
It procs for like 4seconds
go tank a +14 fortified with less than 200 ilvl and tell me that the best defense ISNT more defense, lol
I tank with it becuse its all I have right now and I pretty much cancel the bladestrom everytime it casts. Feels pretty awful to tank with
Getting reck feels nice though
You can SB/Ip during it
does the bladestorm proc generate rage? prob not thatd be op
Yeah I know but it doesn't feel like you generate rage in those 4 seconds as you would to shield slam and tclap.
Also he could just be wearing arms spec atm. I have both my arms and prot legendary
As arms u get all 3 random procs.
As prot you get reck or bladestorm
Hello, sorry, noob question.. Ravager vs Into the Fray, is it a huge difference in Ravager's favor? Or can I use Into the Fray in keystones? (not pushing anything crazy, around 10s and 11s.)
Low keys doesn't matter
Pretty sure he's just a raider who tanks m+ for his mates. Playing venthyr, using a pvp shield and a dps legendary.
If you play with some of the best DPS in the world as part of your 5 man group, you can get pretty good keys done even with suboptimal tank setup
Thank you
doing torghast as prot
is insane
good thing i went the permastun build
else the boss would 1shot me
do conduits follow the ilevel rule?
anyone know of an up to date guide with every classes' raid CDs?
or a general cheatsheet for major spec CDs?
you mean equip ilvl over everything? no
Can I do rage bar glowing when 100, as shield bash glows ?
use an addon, exrt has a good raid CD managaer
@astral crystal well just asking because i have a ilevel 200 show of force and a ilevel 184 piercing verdict
I'm looking for more of an overview of who has what rather than tracking it
hm, you can just familiarize yourself with it by reading up on class abilities i guess if that's the case
Like I know warrior has rallying cry, resto druid has tranq, etc
Yea, I suppose, just wondering if someone has made like a "raid leader" type guide somewhere
random question anyone know any good shield weapon mogs 😄
thats based on ur taste xd
im just using the green artifact one cause its cool af
and the green sword from icc
i dont have the artifact one 😦
trying to find a nice big fuck off shield
u also get the dragon mount
Hows prot doing in keys right now? I was gonna play druid but I see so many of them I lost my appetite. Miss my warrior and still havent pugged a grp with a warrior (I main resto sham)
it's early to call anything and we are all trying differnt approaches
@fallow violet blackrock bulwark
does anyone know if its possible through elvui/plater to get a seperate boss energy bar? similar to how you can get a cast bar for targets?
just enable enemy power bar and detach from frame
in elvui unitframes
you can probably show power on nameplates too, can’t remember
problem with unitframe powerbar is that it'll disappear when i switch targets, right?
you can have boss frame show power
or if it’s for a specific boss/fight then just use a weak aura
how good is gluttonous spike
doubt anyone really knows yet
nice, yeah the str alone will be insane
atm there’s not great data so just keep track of how much it’s doing for u in ur logs
the WCL site explains it for u
I can seem to get a weakauras working that shows external cool downs of the party. I’m using Quazzis. Anyone have any solutions?
hello fellow warriors
It should all be in both written guides in the faq and the pins
Yeah, I have ZT but the only thing it doesn't show is the external for some reason?
I remember ages ago I had a problem with the load settings and I had to change the combat tick box and also change the instance/party in there as well... if you mean specifically their tank external like priest pain suppression then that’s just customising which spells it shows which u can do inside the WA
the first time I added it, it just didn’t work at all and I had to delete everything and start over by installing the lib first etc
We did it! 200 ilvl
Think I got it to work dolphin, thanks
How good prot wars are at m+ and raid now?
good
Guys, if I have a weapon and another piece (not shield) to chose, both giving the same ilvl gap between the ones to chose and the ones that I have, should I opt for the weapon even tho the stats from it are not good?
what slot you guys think is best for thunderlords?
the shield block it dont mitigate anything when you are ot on sludgefist right
@honest wedge considering you can parry the hit....I would assume it does
haste food is straight bonkers
my loadout has something in it that auto skips dialogues and it fucks me over with the golems for kyrian on necrotic wake, i have no clue what it is has anyone dealt with the same issue?
it seems to be only active in mythic dungeons so its probably a m+ weakaura or addon
its Angry Keystones
Uncheck "Automatically select gossip entries during Mythic Keystone dungeons" option
Prot feels so good its nuts
feels like stepping into a comfortable pair of jeans
Just hit 60 and tanked my first normal dungeon. It was fun! Got bored of DK and pally, War is def fun
How’s self healing for torghast?
in terms of playing or generally class performance?
Bois I got a tough choice between 4 trinkets
Overwhelming Power Crystal 197
Macabre Sheet Music 200
Decanter of Anima-Charged winds 200
Phial of Putrefaction 207.
While it would be smart to go the 207 I feel like losing out on the tank stat bonus uses and only getting damage and a 2 strength bonus isnt worth. Thonks?
Both?
i really prefer playing prot. the balancing between mitigation and dps (and utility) is fun, but feel like prot might not be that great right now? im really squishy unless i focus hard on mitigation. even if i do some dps it's not that great compared to other tanks (?)
granted, i'm new to war and prot
I just did a 10 NW and its felt great wasn't very squish at all
what are your secondary stats like?
It wouldn't have a spot in WF raiding if it wasn't solid either
Like 26.5% haste (running itf) and 11% vers
when is the play for running itf?
i feel like i've seen that specified a lot, but wasn't sure what the general use case was
i have thunderlord so dunno if i should go itf?
thunderlord is sweet but feels like i get a bit less flexible with talents
Who's running warrior?
Limit
^ lol
might be mostly due to commanding and battle shout (?)
they have a dps war as well
at least on stonedude he was only warrior
if you're looking to optimize synergy with thunderlord UF would probably do that best, but a lot of people including myself go with ravager anyways cuz it's thicc on demand
Ok, thanks. Was not aware they did, ill check it out
just not sure myself when people seem to be going itf, maybe it's more of a single target play
They've been running warrior the whole time
Including when they've had DPS warrior
nice
Lightee has talked about how much more solid Warrior is than BrM
i have no clue about warr in raids.
anyhow, this was linked to me. is he talking crap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=515&v=4GR3CpSup98&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=MadSkillzzTV
World of Warcraft (WoW) Patch 9.0.2 Shadowlands best DPS ranking video based on real people information. This video looks at heroic Castle Nathria DPS class performance including early M+ data.
I also talk about the latest DPS class nerfs and buffs and how they might impact them in raids and mythic plus.
Became a monthly supporter and help the...
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I mainly use it for single target but I've been running it in keys this week because Lightee was talking about how he thinks it's the play over ravager and I gotta be honest it feels really good in m+ with The Wall/AM build
100% wrong on prot, there are reasons to bring arms because execute damage is actually pretty powerful, fury really is just kinda trash
This is just 8.0 all over again
But what's new
would definitely see his point if it was just fury. arms has seemed great to me so dunno what to make of it (i dont raid mythic)
from a melee perspective
it's hard to justify arms over other melee spots
but it doesn't matter
warr/arms feels like something i could enjoy playing for a long time/not get bored, so his criticism doesn't really matter anyway
tried dk and it was definitely not in my taste
Everyone rides blood DKs dong and tbh it's probably realistically the worst tank
why do you think it's the worst?
horrible damage, most punishing and very little gains for playing well, the thing that everyone likes to harp on (their supposed self sustain) is a meme because they still take similar or more healing than other tanks
true
playing it just made me want to play prot instead. cant deal with the shitty mobility either (even as goblin)
I guess using ITF opens up the option to stack versa instead of haste, so it could be really good. For me itf fealth underwhelming cus i ended up on 28% haste
Not that haste is bad, i just couldnt really tell if i had 0 or 4 raidmembers near me, which lead me to believe i dont need that much haste
any boss or encounter in m+ where reflect is particularly good? try to use it all the time but no idea where it might be more important
so prot isnt bad right now? every where i look i see nothing good and my guild are adamant that its worthless 😦
might be that they're expecting bfa-level good or just exclusively considering it based on rio rankings i guess
Define bad, I guess. It's not FOTM anymore
warr in general doesnt seem to be
basically saying its super squishy
pvp arms is crazy though
Saying "its bad" doesnt make any sense.. all tanks are viable atm, but they have different weaknesses. You need to figure out how to use your strengths and you'll be fine
I enjoy the current prot a bit more than tge clappity we had
It's definitely not squishy
It's not the monster it was in bfa, but it works
avatar not randomly procting and giving thousands of mastery is a big difference lol
but its still good
is it rewarding if you can play it well?
In what way
also seems like a lot of people saying this are players at fairly low levels/not competitive, hence class of tank is not likely to be the margin/factor they should be focusing on
M+? Raid? PvP?
pve content
In raid its very rewarding, M+ is annoying but pretty good if you play it properly
played all tanks except paladin and it's by far the most rewarding to me
where would be the best place to practice it if im trying to get into tanking?
just go tank dude
pugging actually the best place because player will do stuff you would not imagine
do i need to farm new set of gear besides my arms stuff?
you need a shield and a 1hnader
I’m finding pugs this week hard man
Only idiot-guilds force people to play certain classes anyways. Learn what is blockable and what you need IP/CDs etc to mitigate instead of wasting time playing a monk (unless you like playing a monk ofc)
they are @cerulean quest
They don’t kill mobs together, boss mechanics go on and on and someone gets hit
And I always seem to get the dps that have the same dps output as me
🥺
well come to pugs
Tell them their class is bad 
i was top dps in an 8 last week 
i pump dude
Jesus christ, limit is close to 200 pulls om stone legion
that nothing for thoughs guys unat was like 700
And best attempt on 40-50%
i mean thats not to bad its a really hard fight, back in legion, method put in 300 pulls to only the first phase of KJ because the fight was broken and you couldnt get past that phase
stoen legion is killable
Havent they requested some balancing from bliz?
theyve asked for some bug fixes
how does blizzard even balance/tune those encounters. just handicap themselves then try to account for that? i assume they can't kill the bosses themselves
or some AI perhaps
they cant kill bosses but the tuning is actually pretty good take sludgefist that was perfectly tuned and a lot of the boss are actually really well tuned theres just some bugs left behind really
yeah i had the same impression. hence curious how they actually pull it off
considering the game has been out for so long i assume they have developed AI for it
The fight is bugged as fuck
Ty :) im not actively raiding this exp, but i like to stay up to date on what people are doing
no problem
I’m in a super casual guild that’s doing some normals 🙂
It’s fun, but defo not in a position to critique classes!
I did get The Wall last night. However, I am on T3 Thubderlord so I’ll bank that for a bit
In normals what class you play shouldnt matter if you play the class well
But people watch some random youtuber say something is trash and just assume its correct
or stare at warcraftlogs
And dont really check things out, which is a little frustrating when it comes to m+
Haha yeah I get people telling me prot is junk etc. But it legit doesn’t matter at that level. Just play what you enjoy. No one is min-maxing at that level. And if you are you’re doing something wrong 🤪
"Lol warrior cant tank m0" is what i got week1, when nobody knew wtf was going on in the dungeon anyways
But you need to be fotm to get access to mythics i guess :D
How do you deal with bolstering? Save shield blocks for later in pack as they don’t hurt this week?
Only ilevel200 DH for m+1
What do you mean? From my experience bolstering is only a problem if some retard in the group focuses single target and refuses to stun
Does Demoralizing shout affect everything or just autoattacks?
Everything. Hence why you use it before ravager for instance
you use it before spear not ravager
Yes, but for the DR?
Oh, my bad, i assuned BV
it does work on everything
E.g does it DR Piercing Barb on Hakkar in DOS?
yes
Ok, thx
So ldelating Demo for anything heavy hitting is a good idea
Delaying*
Notspamming on CD
Why not? You might lose a tick of damage?
point them to every WF kill Limit has done
not really its 20% and im pretty sure barb can be blocked if im not wrong which should be enough
Holy shit lmao
I'm spamming heroics because augment runes are selling for 1400g a pop
But in I am thinking in general, not specifically hakkar
then use SR its more DR for magic damage and a shorter cd
you can do that but it locks u into gcd's and as it has no intial damage, i throw it for aggro charge, avatar demo spear in pack and you miss like one tick which honestly is nothing in the grand scheme of things
True true
should i use the wall first or thunders
I really have been loving The Wall
It's more versatile
But you really can't go wrong with either
I prefer the wall but its all preference for you really
Thunderlords is likely better for M+
But The Wall with AM and the shield wall conduit is pretty nuts
like ~60 second CD on shield wall
You can fully deflect piercing barb with spell reflect
I took the ignore pain conduit, seems everyone is using the last stand rage regeneration one.
because its big when you run bolster
Noob warrior question, should you use shield block while shield wall is up?
Like. I don’t think so....but I wanna be sure
Yes
you can if your about to take a really really big hit, but you can also use it to smooth incoming damage in the gaps between SB being down
Cool, appreciate it!
Tbh I mostly use it to cover gaps
really useful running the AM build
But it's also up so much running the AM/Wall/Shield Wall conduit
What talents are you guys running in m+? annd what trinkets?
hakkar one i know is good
Depends, there are a few viable builds rn
Although tbh it's really just a few variations of certain rows
Although they're typically variations of something like this
I'm personally running ITF and AM rn
@feral vine
As far as trinkets are concerned it really depends on what you have
great vault bugged, still not counting missed keys in the tooltip?
I gotta do more keys tomorrow
Amazing how much people are surprised at how prot performs
Also amazing how the same people who were slamming prot are now making tier lists putting them high
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My tier list of every single spec in the game for raiding Castle Nathria in Shadowlands.
0:00 Intro
3:22 DPS tier list
28:17 Tank tier list
34:08 Healer tier list
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According to wowhead most ppl (no idea of the sample size) use AM over Bolster in CN - I can’t imagine sludge without bolster 😵
Warrior feels pretty good in m+, but you need to learn all the spell reflects/high burst magic (especially stuff like mists starting trash on fort) to not fall over.
Yes because AM means more damage
They are probably not taking into account respeccing for certain bosses
No your dps needs to actually kick nothing new here for any tank rn
Hello all,
I main arms warrior, did some tanking in wotlk and now i wanted to tank some mythics, i have been doing some 8's and 9's as Prot but i am having a hard time gaining aggro in packs with like 5 mobs.
Any advice for me? How do you guys handle this groups
Avatar,BV,Ravager,Spear/Ancient Aftershock are all there for you. 👀
Run Ravager
Ravager never tried, good advice.
The others i cant im venthyr for arms, mythics are just with some friends i know its not the better no even close.
But ill try ravager
Thanks
Remember that Revenge does more damage now than TC so you want to get a couple of Revenges out asap as well when struggling with aggro.
I was negletings revenge and focusing on Thunderclasps
Whats is BV ?
Booming Voice.
pok ok
There is also commanding shout
Some good advices very fast, i was not with ravager or using revenge that much
Yikes
$pb 721386789083938836
Done.
Mwahi best warrior of light or whatever that guy was saying
Fastest fingers in the East.
if you are "blessed" with a high level Inscrutable Quantum Device and no real alternatives so far ...is there a reason not to use it on cooldown. I know it's semi-random but never bad, right?
Which Covenant is currently recommended for prot?
depends on sutuiation, but generally you can just use it on cooldown. i linked a weak aura that tells you what youll get from it here
https://wago.io/mtea8Bup0
kyrian>=night fae
thanks, that looks useful
they showed it for every boss - only Denathrius showed 67% of ppl using bolster over AM
Is there any sort of argument that can be made for conqs banner as prot, considering the 20% hp buff it gives, or is it just pure trash?
20% health just isnt good
Nah it’s trash tier
plus 3 min cd compared to the others
Why only 5% warriors only play as necro
God I wish it was better tbh I love maldrax but I can’t gimp myself that much for literally the worst abilities right now
Now if they wanna do 20%hp 20% dmg reduction with an increase to haste or something and either make it mobile or increase the range then we can talk
Yeah, I really like Maldraxxus but the ability is so shockingly bad.
Are the tmogs account wide?
I'm not sure.
That’s the only reason I’d play em is to use a class that benefits from necro
no
Yeah so there’s your answer
Literally no point
Venthyr would be second worst for prot
Which honestly as prot has only felt beneficial in torghast
What trinkets would u run in m+, i got Anima Field, Pvp trink both 184 and Gluttonous Spike 213
i would go field and spike
anime + spike prolly
but all of thoughs are good
btw does haste have a point where its no longer any good?
nope
or do u just keep getting haste/vers as much as u can?
Sounds good to me
Lol prot is new fury at that speed
Didn’t play prot in bfa
prot was the fastest spec in the game, only beaten by havoc 👍 now idk
Last time I 100% prot was MoP
I've been trying out Shattering Throw on a few shields around in m+, but can't find any real use for shattering shields, since it mostly doesnt work. Did any of you find any good shields to watch out for with shattering throw?
Yeah it's not for the shattering of the shield, but the increased damage it does to the shield. That's about it
The only time I’ve ever pressed it has been to pop paladin bubbles
keep in mind it only shatters magic immunities, vs ANY OTHER SHIELD it only does 300% more dmg
And I guess that one ability in torghast
unluck :]
it doesnt just break every shield
If only!
That makes it do 10,000% damage or w/e
its good vs hakkar
vs necrotic wake last boss
and thats really all
everything else has too small shields
alright, thanks 🙂
how the crap do warriors mitigate Magic dmg in higher keys is the legendary for Spell Reflect worth it ? the 60% uptime or are we just fucked?
wait whats demo?
Demo Shout
ah
yea i just feel like i get fucked hard in higher keys
define higher
10

is the highest ive tried
10s are easy af
wdym
theres alot of reasons why a key can feel hard
either youre playing wrong, you have bad dps, bad healer, no coordination, bad route
and im assuming youre pugging
so you prolly have a combination of all 5 of those things
Tyrannical can fuck right off
when im not pushing i pug
we +2d' mists 12 this week, feels great so far tbh
but to be fair, mists is free
ToP 14 was fine for me
but needed more coordination
Hello, fledgling Prot warrior here. I have read/seen all sorts of doom and gloom stories about how Prot is going to be shit in SL but so far it seems to me like the woes of Prot have been exaggerated? The spec doesn't seem to be that bad, granted I haven't stepped into higher keys yet. Just comparing it with some other tank specs I've tried in SL.
yes the woes have been extremely exaggerated
warri needs alot of ilvl before it starts to play good
and 99% of all people who doomed warrior, didnt even try it properly and are bad at warri to begin with.
Pwar itself is just not a popular tank spec, so its very easy for "content creators" to bandwagon on saying "yo prot is terrible"
Is the prideful affix straight forward to understand and control? I’ve only done up to +8, don’t want to get flame for not auto knowing in a +10
I only did Prideful as a healer but man it's a blast
every 20% the mob spawns, once you kill it you get a 1min buff for +30% dmg and healing done
The buff is so exhilarating
dodge the lines it spawns on your friendlies
boom, done
its a small healing and dps check
Excellent ok. In some routes you can time it so you have it for a boss
Okay I’ll try a 10 now. Is there a list of dungeons easiest to hardest for M+?
Mists and Halls of atonement are the easiest dungeons this week
and all weeks, really
Had an awful SoA last night on 2nd boss. People dying to bleed
ye SoA is one of the harder ones this week
Sanguine Depths is the single hardest key this week
Plaguefall must be worst , yet to see a PUG not die to last boss
Plaguefall is challenging indeed
Is crafting the Wall over Thunderlord a super bad choice for m+? I know Thunderlord does better in AOE situations but the Wall seems like a great overall choice
im running the wall for m+ over Thunderlord
i prefer the steady ragegain and SW CD reduction
How should I go about SW use with the Wall? Just blow it right off the bat so that I can start benefitting from cd reduction?
no, just as you need it
only if youre playing AM+The Wall you might wanna use it more loosely
but with Bolster+The Wall you just wanna use it like usual
would be bad if you used SW when you didnt really need it, and then you cant make it come back up by the time you could actually benefit from it
Yeah, true. No need to try to supermaximize cd reduction then I think. Thanks for the advice!
You cannot kick the shadow cleave or wretched phlegm or corrosive claws. They are all pretty big reflects.
Prot is probably the worst all around tank right now, but balance being so close it doesn’t matter all that much.
It also has the unfortunate aspect of being the one tank spec outside of like VDH that punishes you the hardest for being shit.
So a lot of the people early in the xpac and beta crying about how bad it is probably are just partially bad at the spec itself as well.
Yeah. Looking at veng, they have cheat death and meta. Just being in meta is like 80k+ hp. With that much hp and armour and passive magic mitigation it's hard to go wrong.
And even if you do go wrong, you just cheat death
If you really want the good advice about which class/spec to pick — go with whatever gameplay or aesthetic you like the most. The way blizzard balances classes makes it entirely irrelevant for most players to go with FotM because they will almost certainly be nerfed into irrelevance.
And unless you’re doing CE in the current raid tier, you can easily clear any content with any spec no problem
you can clear it with anything
you can literally clear CE with anything
Good old community.
hey guys what item do i go for hands or feet?
seen this so many times XD
its alright depends what else u have
Blood-Shattered scale
well you want that
like i've got that spike and the scale equipped that's what i meant
sounds good to me
I don’t think Prot is the worst tank. Logs are saying middle of the road and I think it’s the most fun
Geez the ammount of DH parses...
Yeah. I remember when I played DH tank briefly it was susceptible to damage spikes and if did no damage what so ever
& If you did you would die so
that feeling when you get rejected from a weekly no leavers key 
I like that people think prot warrior is bad, it means I get nicer logs 
I didn’t play much Prot during BFA
Wasn’t it good because of into the fray + anger mgmt + VoP
They want holy priest 😂
Can’t wait to get rejected from CE PUGs because I’m 9/10 as every council group I join can’t do enough DPS
you guys think they will be balancing any of the dungeons soon?
certain parts of a few dungeons feel... insanely overtuned on both fortified and tyrannical (even considering lower ilvl blah blah)
council is only a DPS check if you are doing the stupid order, Jny
Can’t trust PUG to not interrupt Frieda. Believe it’s best to Frieda last right ?
we do her first
Frieda last is great.
Pugs are far more capable of kicking something than they are doing the DPS check of Stavros last.
Stavros last is a trap for pugs.
Hey warrior friends. Just out of curiosity. I am in a CE pushing guild and the GM wanted me to not play my prot warr going into Shadowlands. I see some of the top guilds are using them in raid? Does anyone know why they are being used at the moment? I want to have an arugment supported by facts so I can play my warr again 😛
Battle Shout is a required raid buff
Prot Warrior is better than Arms or Fury.
Rallying cry is also very useful.
Prot Warrior is still the best physical mitigation tank, and is more than capable of tanking everything absolutely fine in the raid.
Your GM is dumb 🙂
if your GM would rather bring 1 arms warrior to every fight instead of 1 prot warrior, your GM makes bad comp decisions.
In fairness we have one warr who plays arms/fury no matter what every patch/xpac
You’re GM might be like my OT buddy who reads those what’s the best class tier guides and uses it like a Bible to make judgment calls for their raid team instead of bringing a skilled player
So if it is only for the buff then it is probably a no go
Well here's the thing
the tank you choose will absolutely not make the difference between your guild getting CE and not getting CE
What’s going to matter is your team doing the mechanics in castle and passing the dps checks
Limit is using a prot Warrior tank I’ve been watching his POV since they started and they are doing good granted their team in phenomenal
i just got a confirm from a support forums from wow that i can join back kyrian after reset had to do a quest once i found out all the prot warriors use it for dungeons but i was wondering what does the kyrian ability do for prot it makes aoe so u can aggro better right ?
Spear does damage groups mobs gives rage and the conduits are very good for raiding and m +
kk ty
Mwahi has a very good break down on the Icyveins guide for Prot War on conduits and covenants
is it better to use the wall as a cloak or shoulders? Or is it just whatever you have thats lower?
shoulders have significantly higher stat allowance than cloak
fark i run bad i have a terrible cloak and heroic shoulders :p
I have a question for the community here, someone has tried to run Seismis reverb + BSC ? Kinda want to go that path but i'm afraid of rage starving
If anyone would try to tell me what to play in a game I pay for that guy would be on my ignore - deal with it...
I kinda knew it would come: Kin-Tara
Overhead Slash now only strikes her primary target and its damage has been reduced by 40%. The tooltip will be updated in a future patch.
Increased the distance at which melee characters can attack Kin-Tara.
So were you always supposed to be hit by it?
i think to too
random rant - I really dislike "upgrades" like this 😦
you could always side-step it to take reduced damage
I'm downright tempted to not equip the new wrists
