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legion I think there was something something
It was a mistaken venture for like a couple months in early legion I think
Ye early legion
what ilvl do you start keying on alts
what do u mean
140
ah like that
I Lied, my last one was 168 cause I can craft that crap now
DK started keys last week
was thinking maybe I'd just clear mythics first
you will always find that one dude on discord that ll tell u he started tanking 15s at ilvl 158
haha
the tuning on mythics felt the same as the tuning on LFG tbh
but i'm more thinking about the most efficient way to get gear
pvp
No you stole my joke
hey did yall put your wall legendary as cloak or shoulders?
Shoulders
well it is the most efficient way
Cloak is the single worst slot to put a legendary on
Legit the worst slot for legendaries
damn i literally just bought conquest shoulders ๐ฆ
dont think im gonna be pvping on my 150 guy
u can dps with it
Can spam bgs for 197 gear
yeah i have legendary arms gloves already for dps/pvp which is what i was originally doing
that sounds revolting
just the conquest will give u quick 207 gear
have to be over 1400 rating for 207
M+ gearing is dead unless you get armor stacks and get legti everything
hm
1k4 is reachable very very easily
Not at 140 ilvl I reckon
I cant get conquest consistently without trolling my group though right
I got 30k hp as tank
its not good
You're gonna need to be carried big time
1400 is pretty easy but not at 150
the most fastest way
everyone in pvp rn is close to 200 in arenas
there are alot of bads stuck below 1400 with 200+ ilvl
I'd say, fastest way is do 1 m0 world tour in armor stacks
i just tanked my first 6 and it went smooth from my perspective
dps was hella low tho so we didnt time it by a minute or so
i'm ok pushing I just figured the loot would be really low
i have done nothing but pvp all xpac so i have no idea how to tank or do m+
Ye it's a process
i need to grab weak auras to watch my shield block uptime
Lot to learn in terms of routing and general CD management if you're entirely new to it
i always seem to wanna save defensives for bosses
But the same principle as in pvp applies, you see yellow bar? Kick it
tbh, a good start is to keep track on SB and IP and u good to go
u want to save defensive for trashmob in fortified
dont worry DPS literally always save their CDs for bosses in lower keys
that's just how life is
You see thing that sounds scary? Get out of it/stun it/use CDs for it
yeah i mean
i went into the dungeon completely blind
Often you can judge by the name what it does
Ye but it helps to think about those stupid sounding things
what ilvl do you think id get accepted into pug raids tho
Names very often give away what it does
just keep going til the point where something starts to hurt badly, then look that thing up on MDT and keep going from there
You can get accepted as low as 190 into normal raids if you're lucky
But ilvl requirements rise quickly
shit do you think they'll take me
As the patch goes on
ok cuz im like 193 equip 197 overall
I mean people are declining a fucking 2.1k 226 equipped feral for 12s

So there's that aswell
god bless
pvp scum
Never took enjoyment out of fully scripted scenarios having to wrangle 20 players to step out of fire
I only enjoy pvp when I can one shot someone with my opener
which should mean I like SL actually
You're not too far off in the early rankings
As arms anyway
i hit a decent wall on my way to 1600 as arms
195 ilvl just isnt enough rn
at decent ilvl
i get out dps'd by everything
legit burst as arms can chunk someone in the first few seconds with UH
Arms in PVP is stronk, and Prot in PVE is stronk
Fury is stong in M+
we're not meta
(well arms in PVP is meta)
thats why i went prot
but doesn't mean we're not doing pretty good
so i can delve into some pve
yeah arms is good
Fury is a bit ahead in M+
due to better 3+ target dmg
its the only place I can keep up with the UDKs in my guild hah
Huntsman!
huntsman
Big arms fight
denathrius
yea
you can cheese some massive rage on denathrius
everytime i get into a pug, i just give everything on hunstman so they keep me in it
x D
infinite condemn
We also skip p2
its maddening
like when we have to swap
my co tank is like "Ok grab the sword"
and i"m like "LITERALLY WTF IS IT"
Our warri gets only like 10 seconds total of Remornia cleave
Other times it's just impale-massacre-impale spam
Like can you stop already
that legit war machine condemn rage in phase 1 tho
I like it when someone leaves the impale on the other side of the room
but the tank brings it back through
only time I've seen war machine be a DPS gain
so it impales literally across the entire room
P1 
just have everyone soak first two ๐
400IQ answer
:oof:
three even
its better to have half then all all half
early enough to pop a healing CD
for better blood prices
brain smooth
Ye we just chill half half
nah, do all first
And take legit 0 dmg
Spirit shell
spirit shell ๐
SLT
So why bother going big dick
P2 is the
We Lust the second we get down
because big dick?
Wcl was also fucked
probably a warrior timing a 21 made it crash
X D
that some uiversal law was broken
ye
pika
is
and tbh at that point
im his most fervent supporter
cause if we didnt have pika
we would have to answer no to ppl saying < do warrior can even time 20s?><
and it would be fucking terrible
Now I know why he isn't going kyrian
why
Need that dungeon buffs for hoa and sanguine
And he's the scapegoat
And not having necro is "only" a 10% vers buff in top
And those slime buffs in plague
Not really important cuz they're range based
(also dps main for raid so yeh)
why is he dps main anyway
wish there was reason to push higher keys tbh
go tank go
0 desire
So much this
what other reason are u looking for than personal desire for it
Fun
But you're a masochist if you seriously push keys rn
As tank
Gimme a proper ingame ladder with cosmetic rewards
And I'll play the fuck out of it
Yeah there's legit nothing after 15. Hell, 14 if u don't care about cheevo and mount
what value does that have if it's a single player doing it?
the value to say its not impossible because of the class
Some people actually only care about that as a valid benchmark 
idk i wouldn't assume it's impossible with prot warr regardless, just that nobody bothers because it's overwhelmingly "easier" on vdh
you truly gifted as someone able to make other say things they didnt say
Oh but they do
In vdh cord there was literally an argument
How much worse pwar is because its only 1800 score
Vs vdh with 2300
Not understanding how polarisation and popularity influence the max score
Yup
I'm happy with warrior.
Not the best in m+ for sure but not lagging too far behind
Great for raid though
tbh, being able to push the highest u can with ur class is good enough of a goal, why would it be less fun because others can do higher in an easier way
i dont get that
My biggest problem with pushing high keys is not having a dedicated group that wants to sink the time in.
I should look outside my guild
probably the most common problem of ppl wanting to push high keys
there isnt any secret to that, i think, be nice be good and dont forget to offer it to people
Once you reach the high levels of pushing you actually can pug quite comfortably cuz everybody knows everything
Not as much in s1 cuz new xpac and everything has to be found
I'm only 725 io, I'm not selling a premium product just yet.
But then people will be also blindsighted cuz they've probably never played with anything but a vdh
So they aren't open to new possibilities
221, but I haven't done keys since I was 217
k
I do, kinda, but 2 of the people who want to push are a Bur and Windchime
So I assume it's 4kish this week
i guess it explains 500 dps but not 1k5
im 208
im stuck with kleia soulbinds cause of pvp
I'm 212 as of this week, just got my weapon to 207 so maybe I'll pump a little harder this week.
Not sure what my average dps is
slap revenge
i slap it a lot already tbh
make it a heale rproblem
Also the better your dps players are the more dmg you can do
big slap revenge
On average im at 3.5k-3.7k dps, in dungeons like plaguefall or spires ofc lower cuz small pulls and alot of single targeting
it feels weird to me to concede a bit of mitigation to spam even more revenge but i can try
Damn
During last stand. +Ravager I spam nothing but revenge for example
I need to see if I can pug the start of mythic.
Si
Don't have double endurance?
idk im havint the wall
Well same
i like short SWs
alt soulbind not good for pve?
Think of it this way Teish, UF gives you more rage, to pump Rev with, more rev means more SS resets, so SW CDs faster anyway
Okay that UF scared me
yeah sorry
Lol
Unnerving Focus, not Unstoppable
Unnerving force
Unstoppable Focus?
I just pretend unstoppable force doesn't exist anymore
I get ptsd when people mention it
its
I still run it, the options on that row kinda all suck.
BREH
like keeping the corpse of a beloved friend strapped to your back
so you can be reminded of what was
UF is a 400dps LOSS
pressing TC is a DPS loss
Wait what
You lose dps by playing UF
it competes with 
Oh oh, I'm dumb
and itf
It also fucks over your rotation during avatar
Because you can't use revenge as often
I meant the other stupid thunderclap talent.
Ravager is 1 GCD
Ah
I'm dumb
Well that's just personal preference
Itf or rav 100%
TBH its pretty garbo
I use Crackling for Sunking
To get adds, besides that kinda meh imo
But again Personal preference
I'd think its a detriment
Lol imagine saying all the talents on the second to last row are all meh.

Ravager pumps
big rage for revenge
They actually managed to save it, after 3 expansions
Of it being a dead talent, they actually saved it
All they had to do was kill AM+UF
I mean they intentionally killed it
Well and rework ravager
Ravager was at -80% damage
Yeah
I tested ravager just before pre-patch
And it did a total of 3 Autos worth of damage
On 4 targets
If old Ravager gave rage and was 100% parry

woulda been like
ok
but I prefer what we got
just wish that yeah we didn't have to lose AM and Bolster synergy
It legit did 3 AAs worth of damage on 4 targets with all buffs imaginable up
2 expansions they were legit to lazy to look at talents
they just made AM so insanely OP that nothing else got touched
Yeah. Then we had something good going on even if you ignored any numbers
and, we were ok with that
But current prot is also good
I am enjoying current prot
My favorite part of bolster and the wall, is my cd's all feel short enough that I don't feel like I will need them again before they're up.
I do lament the old damage synergy
That's all it takes
we had a flow
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I mean its still lazy design what we got
"HOw do we make it so they pick something besides AM? - Nerf it into the dirt and put the other crazy strong talent on the same row"
Poor heavy repercussions, the new 
Heavy repercussions being in the same row as bolster feels like a crime
if HR was 1 second extension
and not 0.5
it'd have almost a chance
but it isn't
yes
The best change would be "grants SB for 1second"
Then it'd be god tier
And actually fun
Instead of only extending SB
yea that is actually a good change
but feel like it would still be trash
compared to the other two
having last stand on my bar without bolster talented
Well yeah
just feels like I've made a mistake in life
Last stand without any sauce feels weird
Its an outdated design of a CD
Both bolster and AM should be baseline
It would add so much
yea talents needed some better new additions if they were gonna butcher them
not power level additions just some diversity
shattering throw shatters on impact, hitting everyone in aoe for 100% of dmg done
random shit
hmm might try HR On Sludgefist then
was it 0.5 at some point?
IDK why I'm thinkin that
Maybe in legion
Or make shattering throw actually do good single target damage
and they shaved .5s offa it
Its big rage gain though
yeah
๐
Yuh
Mhm
Same with my unhinged
Has neat little cheat sheet
I put haste mastery to trigger vers stackers
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have you met someone who demands you should be stacking vers because warriors are shit vs magic?
I have.
Its a bfa meme
It's not just a bfa meme 
We get like one a day
It's starting to become an SL meme aswell
who wants to throw chairs like its Geraldo
I want all the vers and haste, but that's because of pvp
because we don't agree that vers is #1
PvP trinket bonus is big.
jfc like 23% base Magic reductin
And they stack legit the same stat we do
"Needs vers"
Paladins are haste > whatever
At least that's what my cotank keeps telling me whenever a haste plate piece drops
they do
greedy lil bugger
Idk according to @maelkenar God may rest his soul, 15% is enough to maintain 100% sotr uptime and then you stack vers/mastery
Jk
Poovepee
I put haste mastery on my 190 The Walls shoulder on accident, and I just stuck with it all the way through 235 /shrug
If I die, it's because I dropped shield block or turned my back or some other stupid misplay, not because I'm missing x amount of vers lol
preach
I sometimes forget that kiting is part of the meta and dont leap away when i should
If you run out of shield block and any other CDs, then leap away/intervene your ranged/healer
Just a general rule of thumb
Yea im stubborn and sometimes think IP will keep me up
You can generally face tank shit with block up, except for the packs in the central room of DOS. Fuck taht place
No way Jose
IP gets shredded fast
Only way I'm staying in with IP is with Demo Shout and pooled rage
even then it's dicey
^ true
Healer CDs and affixes
All the casters in DoS outer rooms be pumpin
3 mobs casting scribe plus Shadowcore
DoS casters just need to be killed fast
yuck
it's unsurvivable eventually
I straight up drop Avatar Spear Ravager and just run down the stairs to LOS them (and my healer)
Lol
I make sure to reflect shadow core first
idgaf
Then yeah peace after SW ran out
my only complaint about prot war after switching back from vdh (switched to vdh to be fotm, then guild realized we needed battle shout for raid) is our damage
i can do all the same pulls my vdh did in M+ but at the end of the run my damage is a good .7-1k lower than what I would've pulled on my VDH
Doesn't the damage of vdh just come from the kyrian covenant sigil?
yeah lol
but damage is damage
i will admit that on prog I try to save Last Stand (with the rage gen conduit) for 20% so i can just spam my 5 button
u think its less than 1k difference?
In raid you use rallying cry proactively or reactively?
i have to look at my dh's logs
you should have a plan when you are going to use rally
Like do I hit it when I know raid wide dmg is about to hit or just after it hits?
just before
I feel like prot does more damage than vdh in sustained dmg
VDH is pitiful outside of Fel Dev and ED
Ahh kk thanks
what does sustained damage really mean tho
vdh just does more
overall or whatever
you cant create a scenario where warr overtakes I don't think
sigil is only 1min cd
Yea fair, just my personal experience I guess, I haven't done many high keys as prot
I dont think prots damage is bad in keys
its definitely better than bears
but vdh is just different level
Is there a happy medium route to go to with Spires? Got told that I'm a good tank but that my route sucks so
Maybe the guy was talking about the very end that I could skip with invis the pack after the one that you walk around then go back to kill it but idk
Left route is harder in the beginning, but you only fight one big pack before the 2nd boss
Right pack is easier, but you fight two of the big packs before 2nd boss
Pick your poison
personally I just do the beginning right bit then do full left
and skip everything before 3rd boss
but you need to spear some stuff
and cc in some cases
With some CC the left side is actually pretty ok once I figured that out. The only thing I need to tinker out is the end part.
How quick are you guys able to use shield wall using "the wall"
Around 1:30 without AM, slightly below a minute using AM
Is that with the conduit?
Yea
if you do what i'm saying you can skip everything at the end apart from the one easy flying mobs pack
Is it worth getting it for M+? I've moved away from prot becuase its not as easy as it was in 8.3. Just trying to stay alive
yea its totally fine in m+
Thanks @undone jacinth
I have TL and The Wall, ended up using The Wall more
I have TL and The Wall, ended up using The Wall more
imo just feels nicer because of the 20 rage
but that's like, half the discussion in this channel lol, so personal preference
yeah it's hard to go back after getting used to constant rage income
yea its funny how rarely people ask like how to approach specific packs
vs how often they ask TL or Wall
or X lego
i don't know why never been doing mists m+ all this time, but seems easy enough
lol
it's probably the easiest?
the easy tier is like mists, hoa, theater
spires has some awful pulls but the timer is kinda forgiving of a few fuckups
I honestly find spires one of the easier dungeons tbh
Same
how easy spires run is is based on how many giants were interupted
I always tell my group I am getting the first interrupt
and if you used both the spears well
it got easier once i just started skipping everything between 2nd and 3rd boss
Are all spears on the right side or?
No, there is one on left side as well
One on each side and one on the penultimate platform
I always use second spear on the very last angel that has all 3 buffs
I also lust that bitch
So what I'm getting is that I should look to get enough % before the 3rd boss so I can skip all of it beside maybe those ez packs that you gather behind the pillars?
Alright. Then I need to plan something out
3rd boss platform should only be three pulls: the single hellion, and the two packs of non elites that hurl spears
That's how I do it regardless of whether I go left or right
if you just do the beginning right area
the two dog packs
and the 1 flying girl
and then the entire left side
Yeah
That whole dungeon is honestly easy to tank, it's more of a group wide thing to make sure kicks are properly done
I'd say from a pure tank perspective, even Halls is harder
Let me load up my routes in a pastebin
Sec
213 low haste/high mast or 210 high haste/low mast necklace?
@valid zodiac https://pastebin.com/kSTw9tjw Spires "left" route
I'm curious how everyone handles plaguefall trash between 1st and 2nd boss. are you utilizing the canisters and plagueborers?
Group up shit and blow up the plagueborers
And then the rest dies to the explosion/dot
https://pastebin.com/kpN6BDha left route. Does this work?
Nope says page no longer available
Says now its private or pending moderation. But no worries m8 i'll finde on that I'll modify
lol, sorry
I pretty much do this (no skips version) https://raider.io/news/168-the-weekly-route-fortified-spiteful-volcanic-and-prideful#spires-of-ascension
That brings us to this: In this guild we run 3 main tanks. Each take takes a turn tanking the bosses (depending on comp, gear needs, attendance, or just letting people sit out bosses they dont like doing when they dont need gear) . We ask that you maintain a dps set with the ability to push good numbers as a dps (not as good as a main dps, but not a carry). If you are unable to dps or choose not to, you would have to take a turn sitting out of the fight. We guarantee that you will get a boss kill if you are out for the first time for whatever reason.
Thoughts?
IMO better to have a consistent pair of tanks that can generate synergy with each other for prog. In my guild we have 3 capable MTs but we just have the best DPS spec (WW in our case) just go full time DPS until one of current MTs miss a raid
The word synergy is sometimes scoffed at but it's important for the raid to know how the boss will be positioned and stuff so that the DPS can know what to expect and properly line things up or do mechanics
Just my opinion though
Yeah 2 mt with a off spec dps fill is best imo
In Nyalotha our monk and DH were the MTs because I was pumping on arms. Now in SL he's pumping on WW. Simple as that for us
When other players are dying, squeezing every ounce of damage out matters to try and beat timings
we do the same tbh
I do the most dps so play that
but switch to tank if needed
but they want me to play boomkin and I can't stand it
swings and roundabouts
Hey yโall...I have a 187 neck, where can I find a decent neck item to replace it? Ilvl is 203 now I think itโs bringing me down :p
Pvp upgrade is an easy way. Get 197 with just honor or 200+ with conquest
if you dont like pvp you can just spam +7 halls of atonement
pretty easy dungeon and good 200 neck there
which one? 210 is a dps loss on simcraft but I'm thinking haste is a lot better for surv?
I have 14% haste currently
it's incredibly inconsequential to the point that I would wear the 13 just for ilvl
but some people will definitely prefer the haste
most people even
yeah, I'll give it to my boomy
yea for sure if somebody needs it
mages combusting packs and getting it off CD before the pack dies xd
MDI actually having close games
Guys, if I kill first 3 mythic bosses in Castle Nathria, can I get Stone Legion or Denathrius 233 ilvl loot in weekly vault or 226 ilvl is max?
you're not meant to be able to get any loot from sire or generals unless you kill them
but random strangers have claimed to get 233 weaps
kk
my mage friend got a denathrius trinket from vault without a denath kill.
so its either bugged or the loot being locked is just internet horsehit
tumbleweed
after some sleuthing between myself and dolphin, said friend may be confusing the order of events
sherlock and watson
watching other m+ teams get wrecked by stradama always makes me feel less angry about my wipes there
nerf has gone for a lie down after ellsemere got tapped by skellies XD
yea everything about that fight is too much
they stopped adds scaling with tyrannical so in exchange they just made the adds insane to begin with
aside from the whole video game aspect, it always strikes me as really odd when tiny mobs do huge melee damage
5 of them in the pack so you're like well they aren't gonna hurt because there's 5 of them and they are tiny
then wham
Any tips on Good prot War streamers or has Every streamer gone dh?
oh the cell guys, the shadowy mobs?
frenzied ghouls
it's like they actively tried to defeat tanks in every aspect
how can we get them this time..
yea thats what I pull for count
theres 4
its awful
they do the same damage as those bonesoldier guys in DOS I think, but theres 1 more of them
another small mob hidden in a giant deathspeaker pack
yea both them and the ghouls do instant cast shadow damage
dunno why thats even a thing
yeah, I'm more scared of the small mobs in DOS, not really bothered about the big dudes
raptors and cultists are pretty grim
another clever thing they did there
putting 7 packs
when they added 5 cap aoes in
yeah the aoe cap thing was just a bad idea
what lvl is 210 from m+
15
I kinda bought in to what they were trying to do with it, make fights smaller and more meaningful etc
well fuck
then you realise they just didn't cap mages etc
and suddenly the whole thing is a joke
won't be upgrading weapon any time soon then for what i really want
What you got atm?
supercollider 210
the rng vault, love it
if you just run the dungeon you need enough times it's bound to give out what u want some point
mists is bis weapon I think right?
sometimes have to run it 30 times but it will drop eventually
Legit. PvP weapon is BiS
well bis for staying alive
Haste vers. Caps out at 233
true, pvp
If prot was fun in pvp I wouldnt mind that much, but it's shit
Pretty sure ghandi said that
so you have to play arms and get killed in every 1v1
mists axe and PF hammer are both exceptional tank weapons
need to bribe a pally to babysit you, just like vanilla
there is antoher one in NW too thats the right stats
grinding mists is easy though, pf and nw a bit less so
Whilst ret blasts
i just don't want to get in a nightmare group where the symbols are ancient heirohglyphics to our team
I watched some double ret arena last week, it was both funny and sickening
get stuck in maze section for 7 minutes
Just do the maze yourself
Grab a WA for it
Tell the healer to run around
You put a world marker down on the right one
That's what I do in Mists groups
Better still if the healer does it but plan for the worst
I've been somewhat lucky with vault, gotten weapons and shields every week
worst case is i tell everyone to go sit at seperate log
Must be nice
same, i got 2 of the same shield with haste mastery
it's like someone skipping all days and only working out their right arm though
and a weapon, but it wasn't a good one, i'm really not going to complain about loot this expansion
They need to add more drops to raid bosses. The situation is pretty grim.
sounds like a good move yeah
Make every boss drop 1 slot machine token
And at the raid entrance is a slot machine
You roll and lots of boss faces spin around
lol
Match 3 and you get an item
You've gone full Activision
I'd spin the wheel
Galywix Crush Saga
tokens become literal slot machine tokens
and you have to do a gambling rehabilitation questline with the goblins to play again
What bout re-roll loot token? Or coin i don't know what it was, did it still exist in BFA? Will we have some at some point?
we had bonus roll tokens in bfa, yes
One each week?
2 I think
I want this 35 anima
You have unlocked new transmog options!
Cost: 3500 anima
closes vendor
The one way portal to oribos is taking the piss too
my guildy just did a legendary seed thing in ardenweald
thinking there's gonna be some sweet reward
got 6 soul dust lmao
that is classic
does feel like they just didn't have enough time to flesh rewards out properly
even if the content itself is pretty smooth
killing your guildies
probably not in raids
you could leash your healer on necrotic weeks , is the best use I thought of
your co-tank could leash you on stone legion if you're on boss and he's on adds maybe
you could face tank the gargoyle on blood council and leash to someone you hate
unlocked the 3rd soulbind just now
I'm curious about Indomitable vs Impending Victory
I really miss Impending Victory when I'm getting my shit kicked in
I never do any harder content with it because all I've ever heard is that Indomitable is so much better
just feels like having an actual heal is better than having slow padding
whenever something bad happens
considering turning my warrior prot for mythic+ and CN. is it a waste of time and effort? should i wait for a patch for them to be stronger? - i've got a guardian druid alt that i can use for mythic+ if it's the case that prot is weak. I hear alot of people saying that :/
so, if im kyrian and i can have only 1 potency, do i get Piercing verdict or show of force
i want both
but i cant
@merry bronze I was maining prot until i hit keys above 10+ below that they are actually great, ignore pain covers the shield block downtime w/good cd use. After that your ignore pain no longer handles the downtime in cds, your spear becomes a defensive cd, with spear and heroic leap being your strongest defensive cds. Shield wall is nice, but usually you are popping it on pull for really hard pulls. Intervene is supposed to be a spell to help save a teammate, instead it is usually the last thing available to save my life.
oh and if you arent kyrian
good luck
I love my warrior, and he's been a tank before. I really hope that they will become stronger than they are now.. hate to park him. Yes I am Kyrian, thanks for answering ๐
so no insight about piercing verdict versus show of force?
piercing
for dmg sure, but i definitely use spear as a kiting tool more than a dmg burst
i found show of force incredibly underwhelming, with clap being so underwhelming
TC, ravager, deep wounds, and Shield slam are usually all pretty close in dmg for me
guys, am i crazy to favor Disturb the peace over rallying cry
8sec on shockwave feels so good
whenever i play shammy i always take the stun cd reduction, idk why it doesnt appeal to me so much as the conduit for warrior
i've never actually tried it
always been rally
its actually better than the shammy talent
I play both guardian and prot, prot feels tankier with the exception of when incarnation is up with the UFR leggo
tbh they're pretty close, guardian is a bit more interesting when kiting but has much lower overall damage
So..has anyone upgraded the 'sacred trials' in the path of ascension thing in the kyrian base? what is the weekly quest?
Hm..simc isn't reporting the Flame of battle trinket properly at all; anyone play with it vs the bell; what were your results?
So this 184 flame of battle is worth getting?
i am rocking a 220 stone legion and 210 scale and dont want to replace either.
Well since you have scale, in M+ content you'll always use that and stone legion prob..but the bell is more dps than any other trinket for us because for prot war mastery scales insane
but I'm trying to see if the flame is good too; but I have to actually field test it; so literally doing a key with it now
Mastery scales very differently per class and is the only stat in Shadowlands that isn't subject to the 30% DR rule. And for prot it scales DUMMY THICC
if you got the 184 bell from WQ or table in the last couple days; the proc on the bell ALONE gives 27% mastery. Bell+Kyrian Spear = like..? 79%? mastery for me (with my gear included which is like 32%)
dude..that's ..a few seconds of 79% critical block chance.
that's also insane dps boost
The 184 flame gives me 12%~ mastery, so 6% worth of DR. as well as being for 12 seconds vs 9. so a 33% increase in uptime from the bell. But gives less damage (check that just using tooltips)
mostly because it's like 200 something less versa than the bell gives mastery. So even though SimC isn't showing the bell right at all (it shows it at 0 vers right now, so you can't even sim it) Maybe for the defense benefit and the longer duration it could have 'more' value? None of this is based on testing yet, just on looking at what it does/etc.
However, all of that being said Warbean. If I had a 210 scale (and I do have a 220 legion trink) I'd probably always use that combo in keys. Unless this Warflame is srs bznz. Tanking keys for us on fort weeks, once you hit 14/15+ range is burst > then kite..like every tank. So having 12 seconds of huge mastery that lines up with avatar is really good for that scenario.
Guys Prot Warrior is my go to tank, and now that my main hs finished the content I'm thinking about tanking a bit. But on the matter of M+ Prot seems to be the weakest tank. Is there any change coming, And 100% shield block uptime isnt possible, right?
- We don't work for Blizzard or have psychic powers so no idea if change is coming! But prot warrior is very capable of doing keys, just not optimal for pushing wildly high
- No, you can't get 100% standing uptime, but like... in M+ you wanna kite, and in raid you have tank swaps, so you don't really need it
any high key prot warrior gameplay i can study?
feeling pretty doomed as a warrior when im watching all those DHs in mdi
MDI is the harlem globetrotters, it's not real life
https://www.youtube.com/c/SenseNurfed/videos Sense has a bunch of high key vids
DH in MDI is not a reflection of any other tank being bad but more a reflection of DH being really tanky and utility bots
ty for the channel
If I were to craft one offspec tanking legendary. Which one should it be?
Any sort of all-rounder
If youโre going to be doing m+ and raid go with the wall
Best way to get better is to practice
Yeah
Any trinkets worth gunning for in Timewalking?
Eye of Unmaking looks like it could be OP
From DS, that is
DS is the TW raid, no?
Or is it FL
Anyone have a rpeferred race for prot warrior in raid
@grim zinc I'm currently pushing 12-13 keys. Not high, but it's fun. I don't feel a lack of tankyness at all. Hell, I'm even doing it as venthyr which is surprisingly convenient for kiting with door of shadows.
A few tips...
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Create a @focus intervene macro. When kiting, use it to pivot around a pack and kite the other direction.
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Create a @cursor leap macro. It will reduce crucial time needed when kiting.
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Pick the mob in the back of a pack you're currently kiting, charge to it. This will kinda re-condense the pack for your dps and give you a new view on the field of play.
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RESPECT YOUR COOLDOWNS. Pop them one at a time. The next pack is just as dangerous as this pack.
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Understand your soulbinds and covenant choices. I went venthyr/Draven. I can Shockwave every 18 sec. I door of shadows into a 15% hp shield. If I die it costs less money. I especially love the last one.
Sorry if there are typos. I'm just poking around on discord before bed.
Oh and spiteful shades are these awesome little charge targets that won't fight back. :)
Check out my shit parses. :(
Council on was prog.
Thanks @rich ember
Nice tips Beerbrawl. Going to level it up, already started actually. But they kinda massacred our talents. Anger Management and Bolster on the same row. Well, too late to complaing about it, lets go with it.
can we have a battle rez in the grp without one of the CR classes?
Engineering has a combat ress
not easy to use when you are the tank though :p
Hey guys, what should i aim with logs as Tank ? I tried to apply your tips last night. Just lost parses as dps and increased healing one but i dont see if i used SB correctly or not
[Disposable Spectrophasic Reanimator]
But i wanted to go too fast and used it offtank.. dont think its worth
Am I the only one that thinks next week will be off week for tanks? I mean, the worse possible affixes all together
Whats the macro to intervene Focus?
[@focus]
Not sure what you're asking
What are the affixes next week?
necrotic boltering
Necrotic is secretly a nonaffix because u cant face tank anything anyways
why unstopable force is bad and ppl use ravager? the guide just says its not a good talent any explanation ?
yeah uf is dead
Nice dmg and rage
:clap doesnt do damage anymore
Uf cant compete on damage or rage gain throughout to ravager or itf so you run one of those instead
Oooph
Its not that it's bad its that it's the worst option
How long do we still have to try key master?
until next season
When is that?
so a long time
A while
I was told to work on my SB uptime to increase my tanking. But dont know how to check if i tanked well or not. I try to check healing over dps
In your logs you can check % of attacks that were blocked
So if I am farming 10โs now its safe to say i have plenty of time to try it?
Thatll give you a good metric for effective shieldblock uptime
you have like 15 weeks or something
I have to check Melee hits only ?
Is it better to try to keep SB and IP up as much as possible, while maybe delaying for mechanics, or only use it based on what damage you're taking and maximise the amount of rage you can spend on revenge?
Yup i made a mistake yesterday. I obliged myself spending more rage on defensives. But i did it even in Offtank phase... meh
But i needed to train the defensive rotation over offensive one. Now lets do both
on pelgos do we choose the 35% more heal on phial or the potency condut path?
Mitigate when being hit and revenge to make sure you don't cap at 100
So only revenge when about to cap, and try to keep both mitigation up at all times during the fight.
Alright
Hm, is there ever a situation then where you'd forego having IP up to get more revenge casts out?
what are good trinkets for m+?
if youre not taking a fuckton of damage or youre engaging a new pack and need to grab aggro
blood splattered scale and anima field emitter
You all go kyrian ? Night fae is very cool though
Makes sense, thanks
Nightfae boi here
Plenty of us exist for prot tbh
Night Fae gang reporting in
Oh yeah, fellas
souldbind for night fae prot? niya?
i think so
can you still spell reflect mueh'zalas melee hit?
if you mean soulcrusher or master of death, yes you can
aight thanks
anyone try prot in torggast?
ofc
yeah i do it
its the easiest of all warrior specs to do torghast as
its pretty good tbh
how so? what powers do you prioritize
none
i think icy-veins have a "tier list" but idk how good that is
regular torghast you dont need any powers
the 4.000% shattering throw and heroic leap/charge 200% damage are pretty good ones
for twisted corridors you wanna get the execute power, like 3 shout powers, a couple IP powers and 2 SW powers
and then youre good to go
and get like 40ish souls
Iโm on layer 8 of TC and struggling to find the easiest spec for it lol
cant clear it
idk i oneshot it easy as prot
prio getting alot of powers on early floors
if you get to 50-60 powers, once you have enough SW uptime and the execute power ready + the heroic leap/charge granting 200% dmg increase
you can start skipping the last floors
and just run through
Iโm kyrian will that matter much



