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Did like all of nax or something on bear
yes, it was possible, but with the 2006 level of play, you were doing yourself a disservice by not having a warrior mt
still are tbh
how old were you when vanilla was current?
You could realistically fill the raids with all non optimal classes rn and be fine
That was what 04?
8ish
2x
we had another vanilla bear tank who made it a personal mission to tank all of ZG. he also sucked at the game in general and was a huge asshole
almost everyone from the group he dragged through quit the guild, it was so exhausting being around this person
anyway vanilla at the time for most guilds was about scraping together enough players who understood the game to carry the other 60+% of the raid who were just making it up as they went along lol
"why are you wearing this arcane resist green"
"i dunno it might come up"
Quick question- If you are at 90 rage with no SB available, and you get a SS proc, do you use it right away? Or do you revenge?
^
tbh
Well of IP is up too
both is perfectly fine
IP probably isn't capped
What Im trying to ask.. is it more important not to rage cap? Or use bigger damage? Which in this case is SS
I do play AM
even if you pump it into a useless IP
yes
Go for another one
even if it's capped
Thx
Any NF prot warriors got any solid use out of Korayn's standing still trait?
Yeah, kinda figured.
I mean you have to be standign still quite a long time
Yeah, which at 15+ is not happening
Thanks for the feedback
Dunno if the NF one is the same, but the Venthyr one sticks around for 6 seconds, so in most raid fights it can have decent uptime
it's just stam and healing done, so it still kind of sucks, but...
"Checks his warrior healing abilities"
actually I might try out that 15% physical DR
it'd be annoying to play around
but its 15%
Not like burrrrrz is doing anything for me.
thinking of bleeds in some fights, since thats physical damage.
btw, is there a default profile for APL work? Was just trying to recreate my old on on my character (go a bit over a 100dps out of it through some conditionals for pure dps) but I don't want to make any more claims without comparing against the dummy
also getting some really weird results on it regardless in terms of action priority
Best race for warrior?
the one you think looks the coolest 
the "good racials" are:
dwarf
belf
vulpera?
panda?
race will most likely not make any difference, most of us just go for looks
Best racial is FemOrc animations
they serve different purposes
i got the trinket from hungering
thnk you
imagine having enough trinkets that you have a choice
Panda is highly slept on tbh
just get them 4head
I finally got a weapon
nice
perhapse RNGesus will finally grant me a scale
a 220 weapon
but still, better than the hand me down 213 I had
40/60 stats from food is really good and you also get an incap that you can use to stop casts
Super useful
Tbh
well i made kultiran female
yeah the extra stop is real nice
iirc their racial procs herbs
kul tiran has BIS cool looking jacket
brush it off seems nice
so big haste buff if you're NF
its nice, but like any other passive racial you dont notice it
Plus
im not a big fan of their active racial due to the cast time
Pandas have best animations
but its not wrong
Just sayin
<<<Pretty new and wanting to learn a bunch more. I have read both Icyveins and Wowhead guides back and forth. Any content creators or videos to research with. I have made Heroic prog to Stone legion with a fresh guild as prot. having tons of fun.
lovely to hear mate! hope youre enjoying the spec 
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Basically any more or anywhere else to turn to get better. wowanalyzer doesnt seem to support our spec?
A new prot whose first question wasn't "How much vers do I need to stack" I like
it should still be updated for current patch
Great people you can check out, Plka, Sense, PawRevere has raid content iirc
@chilly brook Thank you so much!! I am getting the end of researching builds. Very thankful to find somewhere to watch/practice implementation.
@sweet summit i beleive i saw that the writer isn't continuing because of a paywall on the timeline feature
yeah he pulled out. but it still works fine!
@chilly brook you got me beat. I have 0 videos, ..... because i suck lol
I mean, its far more valuable to learn to read your own logs
Its still up to date
you can always post logs here and people more often than not take a look if they have time to do so
@sweet summit NOW thats GREAT NEWS!!!!! Its has usually worked well for me on DPS, is it still constructive direction for tank specifics?
it yells at you if youre not using SB and/or cooldowns ๐
yeah like "You had shield wall off CD for 70% of the fight, get out of here you damn brewmaster, L2BUTTON!"
i personally havent used it, like ever. since it wasnt supported for warrior when i started playing
Hey folks -- I was buying gear for my alt prot warrior & accidentally nabbed a dagger and equipped it without realizing. Do i need to replace this or is it okay for 180ish?
When you die as prot, after a bit, you can almost always identify without really looking at logs why you died
how often do i need to shieldwall like i hold it on when shits hit the fan
"Oops turned my back to Sire Dentapdancerinmyasss"
you cant use revenge with a dagger, so replace it asap!
@sweet summit @chilly brook I am familiar with reading my DPS logs and how to compare them against higher posts to find ways to improve. How do you, or is it similar for tank to compare.
thanks erga
So instead of looking at rotation, look at the "Damage Taken" section and identify spikes
and then check what CDs/abilities you could have used to smooth that out.
looking at rage (overcapping or not) casts of rotational abilities, blocked hits, cooldown usage etc
yeah rage budgeting is a skill.
Prot is very good at smoothing damage in general, and occasionally just reducing it to nearly zero
I was talking with another tank (who raids Mythic CN) and he was telling me that Punish is something to use as a talent during raids, especially during Heroic Sire (which Iโm currently stuck on with around 205 pulls). Is Punish a good talent to use? I can see it being viable due to some damage reduction.
i firmly believe devastator is better on every raid boss this tier
Checking blocked hits is a great way to start
Like so
You're really sacrificing a lot of RPS I think with not having devastator
Checking whether you mitigated or had a CD per each major boss hit is also a good place to start
Erga helping 
Other than that its honestly just like being a dps


Don't listen to Jakey, he only believes in pumping
You're either a pumper or you're a dumper
can't hurt you if it's dead
My line bro
youre sighted
Always
Woo, what they're trying to say, is keeping you alive is the healers job, just keep SB up (because its a DPS gain)
and press revenge a lot
Do what you need to stay alive
also, The Wall is a DPS gain, and SW costs nothing

OOOOH, good question I am using the Anger Management talent w/Stalwart Guardian Conduit and the wall lego
yes
slap SW as often as you can as long as you don't need it for a mechanic
my goal is to reduce the CD
is that worse than the bolster
so you can hammer on 
its fine, but bolster is still better in m+
I use AM on all raid fights
anger management is good in raids
Cuz it pumps
yeah ^
๐
And wall is really valuable in raid so more walls is good
If making a warr now, would it then make sense to go necro or safebet on kyrian / or nF?
yeah, i JUST GOT thunderlord and was planning on starting that lego once i finished my wall
id hold your necro horse for now
its still on ptr
true
does anyone else get wrist problems playing warr but not other classes?
i would go which ever u like the look of most
like they really hurt
then change necro if its better
play what you want, im venthy and doing just fine in 14-15 keys
I did in Legion but not now
If you think its spammy now t21 in Legion was wooolad
I have more experience on other tanks which probably contributes
but still its really noticeable
I see on logs its almost a 50/50 between into the fray v unstoppable force, i am assuming that since i want my WALL lego, maybe go w/fray for more haste to lower the CD inherrently and more SS to lower CD?
what
You want itf
on logs its legit 100% ITF
okay 1% play UF
1%
the 3% that are ravager just forgot to respec out of it
the 1% UF is just braindamage
ITF is how you PUMMMMPPPP
UwU
oWo
PUMP PUMP PUMP
I'm just a fury boi now
itf ftw (i dont get to tank for my guild v often so this should be better tbh)
i presumed but still i am arse at the game
boss dmg we were equal on inerva
for example
but you got so much more dmg on adds than me
TC damage for me, but i mostly do m+
Someone say heroic logs?
my heroic logs are trash
ill link mine in a sec
havent done this year
Ashen is big
we are just now getting to mythic in my guild and im not a main tank so i dont have any mythic logs ๐ฆ
I'm just busting your balls

@chilly brook Ashen>Piercing Verdict?
i know hahaha
For Venthyr yes for you no
getting good dmg out this reclear was impossible cuz entire raid instance was laggy, we didnt have monk and our hpal had to sit out so healing was OMEGA scuffed on inerva and hungering
but somehow still got #5 shriek
without monk buff 
Would nf be a good choice for prot warr? I'm Romanian, my English is horrible
yes
Going to be such a parse monkey now that I switched to venthyr
always parse
literally what it did for me lmao
NF is big dam
Did the big brain move and paid our priest 1k per boss to PI me kekw
Huge dam
i think NF is really strong personally, i loved running it over kyrian
You're literally getting a free 200dps from burrs on top of AA being really strong damage
Spear travel time really started to annoy me
I was gonna go nf but I feel like burrs is gonna get nerfed
Also dps could be higher on burrs
and ontop of that the ticking CC does wonders for smoothing damage in keys
I have a shitty parse on council for some reason
Anybody provide individual support?
damn here i was happy with my 3 orange parses i got
BIG PUMP
i hate the council fight so much. DPS always nuke me w the damn dance
dats not an orc 
Just practice and youโll get better logs mate, so dw

Pandas represent
hell yeah brother
yah big panda
Here I thought I was decent; y'all are pretty good at this :o
Panda panda panda
lmao theres some mad chadds in this discord i wouldnt worry ab it too much
tbf let me say most of my logs are from when our main raid still cleared hc
not pleb fridays
need the team to do the log
Lol
you gotta fix huntsman though

Dont have to worry about it anymore
cant we do pleb runs only now so have to do mechanics
Ya boi is a dps main in raids now
๐ฆ
i remeber that guy who said tanks couldnt be good dps ๐ค
F
i recently heard somebody say that ranged dps players make the best tank players
and im like

im not getting into this argument

You mean a certain water based mammal?
yes
nither been nice tho
got prolly banned
Kekw
he pissed off me, late and mwahi a couple times ๐
@chilly brook i might be following in your footsteps soon lol
not a good thing to do
Going dps?
Just a lot easier to find a spot
^^
My raids issue atm is dps and atm I think if we find a decent enough tank then we would be better off with me on dps
Just gotta say Prot Warrior till the day I die. My thumb might need replaced (14 button mouse) using all these dang abilities this xpac, but by god I aint quittin!
So like honestly on most fights the actual performance doesn't matter what does matter is the mechanics
but numbers are fun!
I agree, my guild is stuck on heroic sludge because the DPS can't stay alive.
oof
they blow their chains off or do weird stuff?
All of the above. We've got some "control freak" officers and they're trying to have the melee and ranged all stack on one officer respectively to follow around, but yeah... just not working. That and sometimes the RNG of those falling rock floor AOEs are just killer
we actually do that in range
but our officer calls where tthey move in advance
so everyone can mentally prepare
and doesn't ahve to wait
I don't think stacking is inherently bad, it's when the FORCE it or yell at people
but for melee,... it doesn't work
totally works even for melee
the problem happens when calls are done too late
you just dont really need the calls as often
yeah but the 2 melee pairs,... they can just arrange themselves
After pillar 2 it's like my raid turns into headless chickens...
it sounds like they need it, and can't just arrange themselves
everyone should be stacked on one marked melee, and one marked range
and just move with them
easiest, brain-off
yeah and if you then tell them where to move next it get's a lot easier
it sounds like it is necessary here
two marked stack players is the safest securest way to do it
I agree, but the marked players can't run crazy zig-zags...
mark better players
or move late
Eh I've felt safer when me and my partner just go where we want as melee lmao
hahahahahaha. I'll let you suggest that! ๐คฃ
i just did
yeah mythic shriek it's nice to be somewhere around the mark but not strictly neccesary
if you can move and ahve eyes
m shriekwing another that benefits from strict brain off markers for the blind
Man I need to bribe healers to save their externals for 20% so I can pure execute greed :(
It kills me watching a DPS just stand there as an echo works its way towards em and you can tell they're not looking from top down and see nothing behind them
@wild chasm yeah that's pretty nasty
should get your healers used to give them to u
@jagged pier externals are amazing ! whenever we have a trial heal I'll jsut call his external early in the fight to see if he has it keybound xD
Yeah but we have dps that get saved by them and can't really just replace them cause morning guild
OmniCD/ERT are your friend
my healers complain i dont call for them and im like i cant call for them as u pop them randomly and dont have them when i need them
Oh I know when they are up they just usually get blown on non tanks
big brain solution: call them early so they are just about ready when you need em
hjad that convo on sludge progression (hc)
when we got to enrage i was like i need them for then
but u dont ask
I've had healer just pop them on me because I wasn't asking for them and I'm like
I'll ask for it when I need it
well, many tanks call for them 10 seconds after they need them
and not 5 seconds before
Also HATE when they pop it as I'm going to pop my wall or something
I mean bigger brain solution is probably going to be have dh solo tank as much as possible at 20% since I trust him to call when he needs a taunt if his cheat death somehow procs
I played heal for a logn time in myhtic raids...
It's like I will communicate when I need it
often I just use it to not worry
But I'm gonna use my tools before yours
I can probably beat half our dps during execute burn sadly so it's definitely worth if we can get away with it
Thats the issue lol mechanics are getting failed by the dps players that I can't do as tank on a consistent basis atleast
oh well, I just use em, as if they were my tools @chilly brook so they can't blow em
Well like for example, I'm doing a big pull
I use wall
yeah but performance actually matters a lot this raid,... along mechanics
oh M+ ...
In raids it's the same deal
on progression always bolster tbh
I'll wall usually and then if I need I'll call for bark or something
Nah
Tbh I hate M+ this season just not fun only reason I'm still doing stuff is raids
I usually open with wall and then pop all DPS CDs with pot and everything and ask for a bark
on M council yes
so I can style revenge with no problems
Bolster I'm assuming?
and last stand afterwards
Missing td go brr and making dps cry way too much
i ran AM for M inerva and i felt that cdr on avatar a lot lol
when I'm out of SB charges
AM on sludge, bolster maybe on Hunts depends, everything else pretty much AM
felt like i was using it every 30s
Council and early huntsman i needed bolster cuz I was squishy as fuck with no gear
@chilly brook AM on hunts if you're on barghast
Haven't done that yet so can't talk to it
That's what I did yea
pop 1st wall on first bleed, then you have it for 1st and 4th rip soul
On sludge has anyone tried running heavy to just max shield block uptime seems like you could have crazy uptime with the pillar downtime to regen block
why AM for hungering?
What's your guys' average % damage mitigated in CN? I'm sitting right around 60%, don't know where that stacks up.
Short tanking bursts plenty of time to regen
oh well yeah
And the extra CDR on Wall is goat for expunge
70-80% i think
@wild chasm pick a fight and I can check, I play very offensively and still get > 70%
on blockable stuff atleast
Having to save wall for every expunge because dps hates running out is annoying though :P
Yeah, I'm getting the feeling my rotation is a bit off.
Reflect is your friend
:^))
I use that to eat the orb after
Reflect on CD basically? I've been working on getting better at it. So many things to rotate in...
If its magic damage ye
I have wall for everytime I'm actively tanking so it's not deadly just annoying
It's more nuanced though too
Because reflect has some interesting interactions with some bosses
Right, I know my statement was broad brushing it
But yes if you're taking magic damage no reason to not hit it
Just figured out it eats that frost wolf in mythic Mists....
if you're at 60% it might have a few different reasons, either you're greedy like me and use no IP to spam more revenge, or you don't use your CDs or use shield block when bosses are not attacking you
Part of the reason we have issues is lack of personal responsibility which means when we hit a fight that requires it and tanks can't carry it's a probelm so a massive chunk of this tier :(
It's one of the reasons I left my last guild, that and feeling like my time just was being wasted
Oh I super fucking greed revs only up when actively tanking
I think you're right there about SB, I've been trying to be more intentional with it while not leaving it on CD too much.
yeah timers and knowledge of the fight + training are the best friends there
btw they fixed shriek finally
Not really many options work shift sucks and co tank is a bro who I've played with for years if he gets a new shift though at some point who knows
he now bites the active tank and not the highest aggro tank
Could maybe look at oceanic but ping is ughhh
So I saw the vid on tanks from the limit dude
and he said we goin necro
should we swap now or what
Only world first
Unless you want to pump someone elses damage you should be fine to stay spear
I like my SOB too much to switch...
Yup will require significant coordination to maximize
even if it's not optimized it's still solid, especially if the fleshcraft thing goes live as is on PTR
The phial is ok too I guess. ๐
I'm tempted by venth because with the buffs to exploiter 2100 will be a walk in the park even early on level with convoke go brrd
spear > condemn in PVP
Exploiter gonna be nuts
Condemn>spear in 2s
The exploiter buffs will make condemn absurd
yeah but unhinged...
You will double condemn into sharpen ms of 180%
yeah but exploiter...
I like unhinged ๐ฆ
Plus the overpower buff
And then condemn again if they somehow aren't dead

or you just eat a disarm shrug
Plus they will pop defensives when you early storm for rage
Like there is basically no setup needed if exploiter gets this buff just get rage and at any time you could randomly do a 100-0
Just wish prot had massacre or something similar then I could already justify going venth or if they buffed the defensive part of condemn
As baseline though not a talent
For reference @outer solstice this is what my breakdown on the prog kill for Hungering looked like
give fury execute and WW
Not enough execute greed there
Pretty low IP casts tbh
u dont really need IP on a lot of the bossses
yeah but my raidlead wants me too,...
Yeah but healers get whiny if you have a grey parse even if your damage parse is pink :(
use more IP
Lmao
not rly
oh I play AM on hungering, I play AM on most bosses
i grey parse every single boss on healing
Your's don't mine do
But why
they do.... that's why I got called out
dafuq
yeah
thats some beta ass healers
youre not dying are you
I am basically doing as much DPS as our low ends...
That's called being in a late tier ce guild it's fun sometimes but other times it's...... great
we 5 healin...
Why would they be mad about your healing parse?
Both of our tanks tend to beat at least one dps per kill which given how bad warrior dps is ....
oh when I die it's with IP up...
You having a high healing parse means you're actually fucking up or getting fucked up
like when heals run to africa
oh well as IP is an absorb,... it doesn't work that way for us
Like I could just not block, spam all rage into IP and use last stand when I'm low on HP and have a huge healing parse
But I'm also inting and taking more damage



Yeah but see you have 60 revenge and that rage could have been spent on IP making the job of the resto shaman easier somehow
what trinkets? spike?
I just told you how lol
It's a useless metric for us
I mean the way you parse heals Is really simple never block drop as much vers and mast as you can stack haste and use every drop of rage on ip
yeah but needs more omtimization...
Also stand in shif
60% monkaS
Healing parses arent even a real metric for healers
most recent kill
on hungering
i took 1k less dtps but had less healing done
OMG
IMPOSSIBLE
Does Bron @ Mikanikos do actual deeps or just a meme?
Did you do the other tank from 20% so I can execute thing :P
Xy-mox
I'm 100% doing that this week
what
the fuk is that trinket 
Bron is pretty unnoticble
ewwwww darkmoon trinkeeeeeeet
He mostly shows up and fucks my restealths
no you want to tank with execute
cuz you get more rage that way
use what ya got... ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
But then you have to spend execute rage on shield block
there are so many crazy trinkets from WQs @wild chasm
Idk is that worth in terms of damage?
this is my xymox
some of them even <200 beat out 213 trinkets
Vulpera gasp
So most current kill of hungering for me @outer solstice all I did was focus on pumping but look at how much less damage I took and how easy I theoretically made it for my healers despite having a gray healing parse
hi guys i have Stalward Guardian on 213 Unnerving Focus on 184 Brutal Vitaly on 184 and Fueled by Violence on 200 so wich Conduits i should Take?
don't use revenge? *think

Like healing parses are just absolutely idiotic for prot
but yeah his indom healing seems super low
yea
Bro I'm telling you, play with bad healers and you end up using a lot more ips because you start to feel like you are drowning otherwise :(
Sure
But that many is yeah
I have many fights where I cast IP more
But it depends on the fight and how swamped your healers are already
my guy
And that's why I'm here to learn and get better.
we happy to halp โค๏ธ
Wait yeah wtf that's only 32 ip over what a six minute fight?
And that level of indom what are cast counts and rage usage?
I mean I got used 12 in a 7 minute hungering kill
I'm saying to have ip that far over indom with 32 casts
hi guys i have Stalward Guardian on 213 Unnerving Focus on 184 Brutal Vitaly on 184 and Fueled by Violence on 200 so wich Conduits i should Take?
Means missing a lot of rage gen or sitting capped
@graceful cobalt checked the guides yes? there is quite a lot of it on icyveins
I don't feel like I'm sitting capped so it's gotta be the former
UF and SG are basically your go to
are you runnign itf?

only 45 SS
SS is biggest โค๏ธ
Always shield slam over anything else
I'm smashing it every time it's up I feel
needs more shield slam casts
You're not
alot more shield slam casts
lol, I believe you
lmao
Wait we have access to WW
Trust me
remove Whirlwind yea
unpruning
Are you running devestator?
yes devastator
Actually just link the log
nomeratur can u try signet bonegrinder whirlwind gaming for me
yeah link the log, we can look into it together
no i dont have signet
hmm ok
Very low revenge casts
so I am > 14 CPM for slam, you're below 10 you sitting on proccs?
only 1 spell reflect on xy'mox
This is a major problem
I (try to) hit every proc. Yeah, reflect has been a weak point I've noticed and I need to work on
also shockwave? 
Like major problem
Found the brewmaster main
anyone play prot warr now is wasting his time , we are incredibly trash right now
You also used demo shout when near rage cal because I see 30 wasted rage from it
lul
I play it because no dps warrior
eh?
"That's just like, your opinion man" -The Dude
@chilly brook you talk alot of nonsence , just confess you are trash
Tank = utility bitch for raid but I ain't going necro
Got reference this is what my 4:30 kill of xymox looks like @wild chasm
Where is my Oscar the Grouch Xmog with trash can helm
Ok guy?
Anyone who comes to a class discord just to say a class is trash is a big old nerd donโt @ me
โค๏ธ
fudge, I've had the wrong mindset towards revenge....
Revenj
Just the wrong mindset towards tanking. Tanks are dps with extra jobs
But we are still dps all dps matters
do you have the weakaura for the IP amount and cap and such?
@mellow patio
Same with healers when you can you gotta pump
Revenge is a major portion of our damage toolkit even in single target, doesn't really require much thinking press it if you feel safe and have rage to burn IP otherwise
Come on bro I said DONT @ me
Yes, I try not to overcap IP, I've got a weakaura that track it and SB counting down
thing is u cast WW
sorry but you just looked so cute ๐ณ
Nothing sets me off more seeing me at full HP and a healer with full mana not on the DPS Meter!
wehn revenge is just better in every way
@mellow patio
and costs less rage
Now Iโm being trolled
yeah but don#t use WW or shockwave on xy'mox ^^
trolls are tasty
This is not a game you folks will win I promise
E V E R
@mellow patio is cute
yeah never ever WW as prot
I am the most toxic person you have interacted with
Whirlwind is a trap pretty much every ability not in the prot section is trap
hawgz is cute
Yo im kinda confused are you guys trying to help Brona do more damage or play prot more effectively?
Donโt make me break my chain
ww had to be a fat finger, I do have a habit of hitting SW when nothing else is up(or maybe I'm not seeing what I should be doing in that second)
both
I've interacted with myself @mellow patio so I doubt it :)
He might have Shockwaved a MCd person on xymox
Playing prot more effectively is maximizing damage while surviving
Both? It's not mutually exclusive
6 times?
Is there a difference?
Mayne not 6 times lol
(โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต โปโโป
Bro heโs stunning the boss
A lot of people waste rage on IP when it's not needed
But you never know lol
Anyone know if its possible to quickly get renown on ptr right now?
IP rage waste won't make or break you
not pressing shield block
is going to get you murdered
^
And a significant portion of being as tanky as you can be is actually tied to your damage
If its dead it can't hurt me.

i had to break that habit too, it doesnt stack more then two times. i usually try just try to keep the buff up as much as i can
If you're purple parsing you could be only spending rage on IP but doing the basics of your rotation well and as a result have good damage

I legitimately get angry at people who are like tank damage doesn't matter I'm a survival tank not a damage tank
I know I do hit SW, but it's 0 rage and not on GCD, if I'm good on IP and SB and TC are on CD what should I be doing there?
This is me
in my raid I do about the same damage as the bottom 3 DPS
Just seems like this conversation has gone around full circle like 10 times.. TLDR of warrior is if youre getting near rage cap and your IP is fine, then hit revenge. Unless youre way overgearing content and dont need to think about defense at all you should try and keep IP up as much as possible when tanking
I'll never be a big pumper like Nom
Or you can be me and ignore ip and try for that sick prot warr parse :)
Its a by feel thing
Realistically IP isn't going to save you regardless of if you're geared or not
if your healers are not bitching, you're obviously doing ok
Make the healers bitch and moan and earn their keep :P
yes I get it.
I prioritize SB of IP for sure, though I know I'm not perfect about it in the heat of the fight.
My healers have started to learn now that we're farming that when 20% rolls around
Oh god not the tanks make life easy for everyone else argument
They get to work for their meal
I'm well aware of what the function of IP is
Not my job to make life easy
IP really doesn't do that much now if you aren't blocking on the other hand you bad
also don't use SB when the boss is not attacking you
But most of the time it doesnt even do that
My job is to tank and spank a fuckin boss
Unless things are actually bad
If a healer canโt heal a tank and the raid they are bad
and kill it!
Also yeah at 20% I'm popping cds but trying to get every scrap of rage into execute when I can
I SB constantly to pump
why only at 20% ?
I'm honestly so glad execute is back
He means he saves SW for execute phase
Cant execute before 20%
with AM you get soooo many burst windows before
? on SB. 2 charges, we all know that. But how are you spacing your casts of it?
when I tank I use em
when I don't tank I don't use em
when the boss is about to cast a long ass spell I don't use it
I burst before then as well but I save major defensives where I can for 20% so I can spend rage on execute
@mellow patio I guess it depends what content youre doing. Tanking M denathrius and I dont hit revenge at allw ithout procs. because Id be fucking trolling to not make it easier for healers to heal me
Dear Blizzard, please replace Dragon Roar with Massacre and Punish with Sudden Death. Signed, Protection Pumpers
idc if i do 200 dps less than I could
200?
Well sure but double dick Denny is one of the only bosses that actually hits hard
I mean if you're not hitting any spenders unless they're free it's a lot more than 200

You want as much sb uptime during the period that you are taking blockable dmg @wild chasm
Especially on donny where part of it is killing adds
omfg i wish
Right, is there any problem with casting both charges back to back, or very close to rage depending, after taunt swapping?
My new method of Tormenting my raiders will involve using Reprisal
Also don't use sb when not tanking unless you will fully regen both charges before tanking again
if you'll have the boss for a full 12 seconds
and he'lkl be meleeing the entire time
I like reprisal but the wall with am is way too fucking good
not on most bosses, but some bosses liek shriekwing do very long casts
Go check out Darkees vods and watch his IP disappear everytime he gets melee'd unless youre about to cap rage you dont spend it on revenge
Also, Sludgefist you'd think would be a constant melee attack boss
Theres obviously a balance to be struck
It depends id rather take an auto without sb rather than a blockable tank buster
but he has a lot of casts
Also, don't we want to use it on sludgefist since damage is split with offtank?
Yes Donny hits hard as fuck most of the raid doesn't
My IP disappears in basically one swing on hungering what's new?
sudden death replacing best served cold makes more sense
its not split, he literally attacks twice
No, BSC has a use (kinda)
Right, sorry, next closest to active tank.
both tanks get the same punch, your mitigation does not cover the other tank
Dragon Roar is literally garbage
its good on st
You always want to block on Sludge
isn't it like a 2% gain (within margin of error)
over BV
Sudden death baseline and massacre baseline we are by far the lowest single target damage tank throw us a few bones
thats good
roar got nerfed by an idiot doing balance fixes
yeah but on sludge don#t waste a charge just before he does a slam and such
Ok ty, just making sure I'm understanding the "when to use SB" correctly.
with less RPS?
yes, it fills a talent slot
Booming voice equals more execute though....
when something is punching you
they need to hire some designers to work on classes, obviously the current lot are useless
But also using arguably the hardest hitting fight of the instance on the highest difficulty isn't a good thing to compare to a fairly trivial heroic boss and tell him to play uber defensive of said boss because Donny hits hard @unique cloak
they literally saw every warrior grab DR in prepatch and went "Oh thats WAY too popular"
Take your time and just try to not cast it when you arnt taking blockable dmg unless the charge will be back before you take the boss back again
"Uncapped DPS is not allowed to be held by any but VDH!"
I've seen so many good ideas to fix classes but keep seeing fucking aura buffs
and survival hunter
That class doesn't exist

Hunters and Demon Hunters have 2 specs
Like Havoc is about to be giga busted because they keep aura buffing it
you mean,... hunters have 4 speccs like droods
Donny is like the one exception where I've actually had to play defensive in the raid
Kinda wish there were more
Donny hits like a mack truck
Phase 2 is ouch because sword
Just dwarf the dot off :)
Phase 3 I'm screaming IRL because he punches me through the internet
It gets better when people stop being dumb
Sword bad
Donny is Truck Kun he's just trying to send you to your isekai harem world
I wonder how defensive Sense actually has to go in mythic Donny
The man just doesn't give a fuck normally
defensive sense?
might see soon tbh
shocked
Honestly p3 isn't that bad until you hit like 7ish stacks and theres an overlap
You mean literally right away?
it opens with an overlap
8 stacks is fine when theres not a hand and the soaks
P3 is Orb, Slap Hand Orb Orb SLap
we got him to 20%~ some of my DPS make me wanna flip my desk over though
P3 is just the scorn stacks because it ticks every second.
Welcome to world of Warcraft
"take impales clockwise
Takes impale through center of raid ftfy
IT MEANS RIGHT
(โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต โปโโป
I even gave em a marker
alawys 1 dude out of position
I thought that second tank hit is calculated after main tank mitigation
puts sword through literally every person
A dps out of position? Unheard of
OH go no
if that was the case you'd see double prot
Just no damage
you would see a lot of tankswap for big CDs and such
Nah the off tank is really just a target dummy who takes the same damage but does actually nothing
well the off tank is really important
Will see that next tier for world first guilds lol double prot necro intervening out to drop banner for boomkins then back in
to stand properly
so you don't get like 15k or 20k raw DTPS in the face
@wet compass they don't intervene out, the DPS that get it will already stand there
I would not constitute standing in a range an important job but I suppose if youโre just shit MT dies
the warrior self is doign a lot of his damage in that window too
Mm depending on encounter requirements
yeah but only having 2/3 affected ppl hit the boss is stoooopid
It's the two closest so we will see it's not worth it for anyone outside top 10
also still haven't tested on PTR, does the banner buff persist on the first ppl that get it?
Isn't a buff that you get on drop or does it dynamically update?
yeah tanknotes is 100% wrong there
I haven't tested it on PTR
I caught the norona and lied flat in my bed for about 2 weeks
@proper pecan it's pretty easy to see if you look at raw damage taken, both tanks are pretty much taking the same raw damage
Damn dude must be nice going from 3/10m to just being picked up for Sire
However you swung that you lucked out @unique cloak
@outer solstice seem to be so, thanks
I mean most guilds don't grab people with that big of a difference in prog just sayin
Regardless of role
โค๏ธ
Big flex tho looking me up to prove a point
good luck on the kill, you got him down soon!
I think you're assigning malice where there isn't
we 0 intelligence, we smaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssh

I think youโre all giant nerds
Truuueee
I have superior intelligence! oh wait when did they take that away?
Oh yeah, I own it. Better to be a nerd than a dork...
anyway, good night lads (and maybe ladies)
Later
fuck the spear, i go kyrian because i love thicc blue ladies carrying me around by my neck
Guys in Mists I am getting destroyed by firsts packs
how do you manage to tank it
even with full cds I'm getting rekt after my shield wall
if you mean the soulsplitters you can reflect the cast they do
get dispelled
reflect the uhhh thing
yeah that
shaman, priests and bloodelves
belf 
Are you talking about this ? https://www.wowhead.com/spell=322557/soul-split
If you Shockwave, and then cast Spell Reflect after the stun is over you'll double reflect. Just make sure to get the Harvester kicked consistently or else he'll munch the reflect
That pack with the Villager is probably the hardest in the whole dungeon, esp if you do it with the five Spiteclaws; But DPS will have CDs, so kill that and it's smooth sailing
That's exactly what we tried !
We tried to BL and take both packs
Everything was fine until drudi decided to use trees in sanguine
That's a different problem then
Then we got em out, and I just got destroyed
But thanks for the tips I'll train these packs in lower keys
I would tell the druid to wait until the Spiteclaws are dead, then reposition the mobs a few feet and then trees
Well drudi was pug and only told me I can't even tank an easy pack ๐คก
Nah, I legit think that's the hardest pack in Mists.
The rest of the trash is pretty easy
But thank you for answering guys, I guess it's still mb. I should've know I had to spell reflect this
first/second pack is 100% the hardest pack(s) in mists
Double/triple pulling the last 3 packs can be kinda spooky too
Spooky for the dps maybe ๐
They look spooky but liken80% of those packs are nothing mobs
@tired hawk it's worth reviewing before every dungeon/boss what you can and can't reflect https://tinyurl.com/ReflectGuide
Reflecting Soul split makes those packs much nicer
Reflecting Soul Split x2 and Corroded Claws x3 pre-nerf put me at half mast
5x Aether Wing dot
Always top DPS on those packs, it's ๐
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But at least this all has been hype af
TBC boutta be liiiiitt
Asking people to pay for character copy though is kinda a yikers if they want to play both
legendary changes makes one of them give 2 charges of shield wall
so it's for a legendary
what secondary split do you aim for in M+? haste > vers > ... ? or are they rather equal. Or do you even change gear depending on dungeon?
its pretty equal tbh
so is it viable to go back to venthyr yet (mythics)? I want that venthyr mount QQ
thinking about making seismic reverb for funs, and hopes we get the buff. Head or Shoulders?
Anyone planning a swap to Necrolord?
Or I was even thinking NF since Iโm about 50/50 prot and fury in M+
Currently Kyrian
venthyr is viable




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