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signal plover
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*as long as your shield is 184

strong wyvern
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Ok, i might be able to get there before tuesday. I got LFR sheild from cov quest

signal plover
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Preferably higher

uneven mason
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If the rest of the raid is 215ish you can probably be carried up until SLG at 180ilvl, holding aggro off of your co tank would be the largest problem you'll encounter.

strong wyvern
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yea, it will probably be prot pally and he does like 4k 😦

uneven mason
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thats expecting near perfect blocking on Sludgefist tho

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sub 30% he'll chunk you

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Yeah, hah similar, I did a normal alt run on my 171 BDK and my co tank was a 215 pal

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I was like "I'll just taunt for bite if you can stop attacking for that 2 second stretch"

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BUt yeah even over 200 SLG and Sire are going to rip you apart

strong wyvern
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We probably will skip sire at least. By the end of the night everyone is a bit drunk for it to work out

uneven mason
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heh

strong wyvern
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We take a few pulls and then call it usually

uneven mason
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You've got those boys being like "hehehe I made Remornia poke you in the butt!" as they drag impale through the raid?

strong wyvern
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pretty much

uneven mason
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Thats ok, my raid is at that point, and they're mostly sober

signal plover
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Man if venthyr weren't so butt ugly remornia would be simp city

strong wyvern
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we're either all trying to pad our parses or scumbag and get people killed

lusty karma
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Sire is a fun fight

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Figured out his teleport and that made it a fair bit easier, but just gun in general

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It's weird though, he seems to work differently depending on the race/class of the tank, no clue but I'm guessing the code is jank for teleport

chilly brook
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Thanks for making me feel like I wasted a majority of my time in the last 10 weeks

timber nest
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gonna be doing some pulls on inerva mythic tonight. any tips? were doing the burn strat so probably not much to say other than face the images and dont stand in the aoe circle at the end.

shut summit
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Yea pretty much, go AM, can deflect big add cast when you're tanking it

ocean bloom
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also enable sound

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you can hear where the ghosts spawn

outer solstice
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what boss we on about?

timber nest
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so reflecting big add cast is very important?

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@outer solstice Inerva

shut summit
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not very important but just something to do

mild compass
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What does everyone think of the shield wall change? Will Unbreakable Will perform better than The Wall now?

outer solstice
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nah

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I mean shield wall is not changed

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it's a technical changed to set up unbreakable will

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might have some niche use maybe, but you lack all the rage and CDR from the wall... that beign sad it would be a very nice intzeraction once we can wear 2 legendaries somewhere in the future

timber nest
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should i be looking to use my CD's when im off tanking with stacks or during? i feel like the DoT will hit pretty hard and i dont want to divert too much healing from the other tank

shut summit
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yea would only be really for some niche situation where its needed to keep squishy classes (hunters) alive

waxen fiber
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I have same question as Zuru

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i just got asked to tank heroic natghria for my guild

outer solstice
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heck dem hunters!

waxen fiber
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i dont have a legendary yet

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what should i get 🙂

outer solstice
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wall

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wall is a gamechanger

waxen fiber
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so thats still going ot be the best

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ok

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i have it, i just need to buy it etc

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that makes it easy :p

arctic wasp
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reprisal seems like a very nice legendary now, any thoughts??, on paper seems really awesome to start pulls in m+

outer solstice
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reprisal might be very good once the patch hits....

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if it hits with the current values

waxen fiber
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well, that's what im thinking

shut summit
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yea it'll be strong in current iteration

outer solstice
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but for raid

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I would still take wall

arctic wasp
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if you think about it that will allow us 100 % uptime to blockshield

waxen fiber
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i feel like you can't go wrong with wal, especialyl since im not a good player

arctic wasp
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plus some extra rage

outer solstice
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you get a lot of extra rage from wall

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and with all the tank swaps you have very high block uptime anyway

arctic wasp
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that's true

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i was thinking more in m+

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but yeah in raiding i think i'll stick to wall

outer solstice
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yeah for M+ I think reprisal is pretty strong if it does live as is

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I can see them drop the effect from intervene

waxen fiber
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wall is going to be safe all around tho

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was going to go wall, but wanted to make sure i wasnt going off meta for new patch

outer solstice
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wall is a gamechanger shrug

arctic wasp
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i already have wall 4 and thunderlord 2 but with this new change i'll wait to get thunderlord 4 because if it goes lives like that i will totally get reprisal

waxen cradle
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OMG so many declines for being a Warrior tank trying to do keys, I have a very itchy reroll finger guys, it might just happen until 9.1, hate to do that to my Warrior, but it might be something I am about to do

outer solstice
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on what level you're trying?

strong forum
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dont be a bitch

waxen cradle
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15's

strong forum
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but also, whatever makes you have fun

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its a game afterall

outer solstice
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we're 100% fine for 15s, I'd say even better than other tanks as we can facetank nearly everything in 15s

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but delices are often not because of ourselves, but maybe because someone else signed up

waxen cradle
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15's and up mainly, I am just tired of getting declined for keys because people want DH's or Monks or anything but a Warrior

outer solstice
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make your own groups *shrug or don't pug

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pugs are super annoying

strong forum
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try to find people to play with, dont pug

outer solstice
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I am sooo bad at M+ and somehow we still timed mists 15 after the raid xD xD

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finding ppl to talk to and have fun with makes M+ 500 times better

vestal peak
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question pls guys, when tanking Sludgefist is there any benefit on making prot warriors be the main target of the boss or the dps is distributed the same between both tanks?

waxen cradle
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Yeah that's the tough one too, finding enough people that trust a Warrior tank to make a group and run with it each week when they could just run with another friend who plays a Monk or DH. That and honestly I do not feel the leggo changes in 9.0.5 will make enough of a difference to reshape the community's opinion of us sadly

flint cliff
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I heard ppl talking in a friends dc that prot warrior might become (S/)A-tier tanks for m+ with next patch. This all bc of the reprisal changes and synergy with double time/intervene and overall higher SB uptime or what is it all about?

outer solstice
strong forum
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both get hit for 42k or w/e

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before mitigation

outer solstice
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yeah 100% the same hits

strong forum
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there is no Zaqul shared dmg

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or main target dmg mitigation lowers 2nd target dmg

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its both same damage

vestal peak
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so the "main tank" didnt mitigate the dmg, will i be taking the same dmg as him or my mitigation will negate that?

outer solstice
strong forum
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its seperate

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you get meleed he gets meleed

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neither one has to do with the other one

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completely seperate

vestal peak
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make sense guys, thanks alot for your help

thorn viper
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just dont piss into the wind

strong forum
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open mouth if you do

outer solstice
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that's general good advice

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@flint cliff besides the necrolord changes reprisal is very good for M+ I guess, but wouldn't bet on everything going live as is on PTR rn

cinder nova
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I love doing a 15 HOA and having the feral druid not specced Mass Entangle on a Griev/Fort week

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Then complain that I should've told him to spec it.

outer solstice
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lol

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should you multibox too?

cinder nova
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Yeah really holy fuck.

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"Why would I ME it's sang"

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???

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Just don't ME them when they're in sang

outer solstice
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0 self-responsibility I hate that

cinder nova
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I'm so tired of failing keys from shitty DPS that think they can coast on being carried.

outer solstice
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talked to my M+ guide... he said as a joke what's the role for DPS: to bring mobs to us

cinder nova
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Also holy fuck Hpriest feels anemic as hell on griev/fort

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Then again Hpriest always feels anemic in M+ tbh

outer solstice
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why?

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I play HPriest myself

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it's perfectly fine if ppl know how to play it

cinder nova
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She was doing like 5K HPS and I was never getting topped

outer solstice
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lol xD

cinder nova
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Always just barely above death

outer solstice
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she used guardian spirit at all on you?

cinder nova
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Yeah.

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Hpal I ran with in my last run basically never had an issue and was a total chad

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Hpriest always feels shit

outer solstice
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I bet she was just bad

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as many Hpriests that can play go voer to disc

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I just refuse to play disc xD

cinder nova
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Just feels like it's not a good spec for M+ tbh

outer solstice
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it's abotu as unsuitable as healer as we are as tanks

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viable for any normal content

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not top notch for absolute top level

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healers are soooo close together

cinder nova
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They have so little preventative care and they don't seem to have the throughput to actually keep anything alive.

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Nah

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I've always had issues with Hpriest

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Never had any issues with any other healer

outer solstice
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well Hpriest is a reactive specc

cinder nova
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Reactive play is dogshit

outer solstice
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yeah as I said, probabyl because she played horrible

cinder nova
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And therefore not a good parallel to prot

outer solstice
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reactive healer + preventive tank works quite good

cinder nova
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Prot is all proactive

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If you play warrior reactive like

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OMEGALUL

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Have fun

outer solstice
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"preventive tank"

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we can't react at all

cinder nova
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Have LS

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That's about it

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Even then, you should be using it proactively

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But if for some reason you get chunked you can always slap it

outer solstice
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I know...

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I'm talking about Hpriest being reactive healer

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and she was probably jsut shit

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holy is perfectly fine for M+

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do you have a log of the run?

cinder nova
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If it is I've yet to find one worth the effort.

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Group literally fell apart 3 pulls in

outer solstice
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that sounds more like DPS messing up kicks and such

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depending on the dungeon

cinder nova
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HoA. I only had 2 stacks of dog bleed and I was like a mile from the adds standing there waiting to get topped up

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Just kept ping-ponging between 28K and 16K

outer solstice
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yeah sounds like a bad played healer

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not a problem with holy

cinder nova
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Then all the Hpriest I've ran with suck

outer solstice
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holy has problems because of lack of utility and prevention

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not throughput

cinder nova
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Because I've yet to find one worthwhile in M+

outer solstice
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that's what many say about us too

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if you noticed

cinder nova
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I mean, not really - most people don't even know a prot warrior lol

outer solstice
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same for Holy Priest man

cinder nova
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We're the lowest pop tank by a huge margin

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I see Hpriest more than I do prot war

outer solstice
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you main prot?

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sure you don't see many other tanks

cinder nova
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I do lots of pugs as fury

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Like 2 or 3 a day

outer solstice
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but yeah I don't bother playing holy priest in pugs either,... as ppl will just get mad before the dungeon even starts

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for not playing disc

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give holy a try yourself, you have like 100000 buttons to press and many of them are traps

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it's very easy to mess up if you don't go deep diving into the specc

wicked lantern
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I’ve never seen a Hpriest in M+

outer solstice
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did it in BfA too and my friend called me a unicorn xD xD

amber herald
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we synergise badly with hpriest because one of their 2 externals increases healing done which is useless for us

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but pretty good for every other tank

outer solstice
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it's OP on DKs though

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but Hpriest heals so much they should not ahve to rely on a tanks self heal during GS...

amber herald
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I imagine it's pretty awesome with pala as well

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It's that it lets them forget about the tank during aoe situations

outer solstice
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well paladins get spiked so hard you can't rely on them to top themselves

amber herald
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so they put it on the tank and only have to heal 4 people instead of 5

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but with warr it's no different

outer solstice
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well you still do the same and pop epihany on the tank and then rotate flash heals

amber herald
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what's ephiphany? this is all 2nd hand what my priest told me

outer solstice
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it's a massive single target heal

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that you reduce the 1 minute CD off by using single target spells

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you barely use your group heals as holy priest in a 5 man

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you mainly spam single target heals, which get replicated on the last target you casted it on as well

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if you play the correct talents that is

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anyway, good night ❤️

amber herald
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nn

warm dirge
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if im making thunderlord leggo boots. what missives should i have on it

waxen fiber
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Beat piece to put “the wall” on?

gaunt dove
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Shoulders for stat budget

spice yacht
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Trying to balance stats are these good or do I need to switch to more haste?

median tulip
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That's about the right amount of Haste

waxen fiber
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what stats do people normally put on their shoulders for the wall

waxen fiber
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ty

last mason
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i think the 20 pride in spires is the hardest of any dungeon rn

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literally pug annihilator

mystic zodiac
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So im in the middle of rerolling from vdh to prot. Do you think its worth going necro now with the changes to 9.0.5? Tbh i feel like id have a better time with NF but necro seems really interesting too.

lavish oracle
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the 20 pride? right in front of the boss?

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@mystic zodiac Probably not worth it for most players, but really which covenant you choose probably won't limit the level of content you complete

chilly brook
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You cant get enough haste

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And your ilvl is the only thing that matters until you can't replace that piece of gear with something higher

mystic zodiac
mystic zodiac
lavish oracle
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Honestly, Goliath and Mender are both fine to kill with pride

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just keep it on focus for kicks and cleave it down with pride

tardy parcel
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pull before ventunax has been the pug killer for me so far. have yet to have a player cc an add without it breaking immediately

spice yacht
chilly brook
mossy peak
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you're not really going to "feel" a few percent of anything anyway

chilly brook
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^

spice yacht
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thanks for the help

chilly brook
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no lmao where did you read that?

spice yacht
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here lol

chilly brook
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someone is peddling bullshitteroni then

mellow patio
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And cheese

spice yacht
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lol kk then ill go back to the slightly higher Ilvl build

modern brook
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whos got the og NW route

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i honestly dont know what im doing here

mellow patio
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Just pull it

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Duh

tardy parcel
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tfw failed to time 4 back to back spires 15 pugs by a single minute because dps be dumb... last dungeon for ksm fml

modern brook
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accidentally faught goregrind with a prideful

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ez +1

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how do ppl honestly brick keys?

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idgi

mellow patio
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NW is legit free

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Spires too

lavish oracle
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is R.io busted for anyone else?

lavish hare
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Do you know if Vial of the Sands is usable in the Maw? I figured since its not a mount...

uneven mason
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@chilly brook Well, I'm done with progression, good number to leave it at.

lavish hare
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😞

mellow patio
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I imagine that would have been tested berimba

uneven mason
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how does one not get absolutely destroyed phase 3 Sire?

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cause that boy hits like a freight train through SB

chilly brook
uneven mason
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heroic

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these boys

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actually reviewing a bit I'm not getting hit hard, I'm just not getting healed back up

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*that hard

modern brook
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Idk why but

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Maybe it was a change pushed on an update?

wet compass
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So anyone else really sad that bc is going to be on the nerf everything patch 😦 looks like I have to pray for live instead of going and chilling in bc land for a couple months

final solstice
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They explicitly said raids are the most unnerfed versions

wet compass
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thing is the class balance changes will naturally nerf the raids

grand drum
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I too hate class balance

unique shale
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I am rage starving in raid

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any tip

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i have log too

wet compass
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Okay so the issue with putting in the rebalances is the first raids weren't tuned with them in mind which makes them an absolute joke. In classic mc and bwl were tuned with the expectation of classes doing literally half as much damage as they were doing due to later patch changes. It will be similar in bc.

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Also if you have log link log 🙂

mighty valley
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They would have to deliberately tune them higher than they ever were to make them difficult to today's raiders

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You can probably find a private server that does that if that's what you're looking for

wet compass
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I mean not make them difficult but make them the same level instead of fall over snore easy

mighty valley
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MC and BWL were both easy at the time, they were cleared by tons of semi-casual guilds where over half the raiders barely knew what they were doing

wet compass
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like mechanics wise they obviously won't be difficult but there is a massive difference in how a casual guild is progressing through naxx vs everything prior because the tuning of the classes in their current state was only taken into account for Naxx much like it will only be taken into account for sunwell

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obviously stuff will fall over for the people going crazy overgeared full gm gear etc but even for casual guilds mc didn't used to be a fall over dead the first night which is largely due to numbers tuning doesn't have to be hard but needs to not be clear the first raid night level of easy

mighty valley
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it had nothing to do with numbers tuning and everything to do with people just not knowing the game like they do now

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except a few cases like release c'thun

wet compass
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Dude you are just wrong lol. Classes are doing literally double the dps they did in classic wow isn't a deep game we didn't learn how to press frostbolt harder very few innovations were made outside of fury prot the majority of this is because the class balance was from the patch right before bc along with the gear rebalancing

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Like imagine if bfa "classic" was released but corruption was in from the first raid tier

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that's the level of difference in damage we are talking about

mighty valley
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I don't know what to tell you, I was there before all of the class talent redesigns, my guild was dumb as fuck, we didn't have good raid comps, people died to random shit constantly, and we cleared BWL in a weekend

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there just wasn't high pressure to have good dps

wet compass
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BWL took 77 days to clear dude ....

mighty valley
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we didn't do it on launch weekend, but once we'd built the stable group that got through MC, we blasted through BWL

wet compass
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before or after zg came out?

mighty valley
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probably after? I don't remember, our guild mostly ignored zg

wet compass
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zg was a major talent rebalance and more importantly had this

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The debuff limit has been increased to 16 (from 8). In addition, the client will now display all 16 debuffs.

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1.8 which was dragons had more major talent rebalancing

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again there are a ton of small changes throughout the life of an expac that add up to if you went back to the start with current systems you could clear stuff with half the raid hell we did that last expac in phoenix a bunch unless it was a mog run mythic uld was usually a 10 man sell and that was for legacy which is first come first served

mighty valley
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yeah, of course it got easier, but even at the hardest it ever was, today's raiders would clear classic raids day 1 every time

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there's just nothing to learn or have to practice to execute well

wet compass
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if you took players who hadn't done the fights and didn't give them video no an average raider would not, now a ce level raider sure but an average raider is likely around 3 to 4 into heroic right now.

You have to realize that the private server guilds have done those fights hundreds of times. The other guilds that took several weeks to clear naxx is what you can expect from average raiders because those are made of average raiders

mighty valley
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but that's the reality, they're classic bosses, so people will go in knowing how they work

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casual guilds would struggle with heroic nathria if they didn't watch boss guides but that's not very relevant

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i just think it's unrealistic for people to expect to capture the exact experience they had the first time, and also see that experience through rose colored glasses

wet compass
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Not the exact experience just not fall over in one night to casual guilds

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Also a lot of guilds struggled in heroic nathria I think only like 300 guilds cleared it the first week

sweet summit
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Game was a lot simpler back then

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You can not compare current tier to very very old tiers

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Game has chaged a lot

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Players have improved

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Addons/WAs has improved

wet compass
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sure but double the damage based off of re-balancing sure doesn't help in terms of non trivialization

sweet summit
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🤷

strong forum
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People rn know how to gear more properly and use voice comms, back then that was not a standard thing.

wet compass
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The only raid that was released in classic actually tuned for the dungeon gear and talent re-balance was naxx it's not a coincidence that's the only one that took average guilds a couple weeks to clear. Not saying it's hard just saying tuning makes a huge difference in whether it's fall over easy or not.

chilly brook
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I mean dude

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Naxx got slapped in classic

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And you're also talking about 40 people having to actually perform decently

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It's already a struggle to get 20 people to not have their heads up their asses

wet compass
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It got slapped by people who were running it for years for most casual guilds it lasted a few weeks. It was also the only one tuned with the changes in mind

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So basically wait until sunwell to have something tuned half correctly

strong forum
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Pretty sure regular guilds cleared it in 1 day aswell

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A few hours for people that weren't private server andys

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Pugs even

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Tbc is gonna get destroyed the same way, so will wotlk

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A couple raids won't fall in sub 2hrs in wrath, but will be cleared day1

jagged pier
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its 'amazing' what years of knowing what the best specs and comps are and all the strats

dry spear
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when sunwell comes out and they put in the unnerfed version of muru in. guilds still stomp that boss. sunwell was a guilddestroyer back in the days.

sterile bluff
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Anyone know how necrolord protection warrior is perfoming in PTR im curius if its going to be new meta tank or not for m+

strong forum
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Na i doubt that alone will make prot meta m+ tank

sterile bluff
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Think is 400 mastery on demand for lets say fire mage is insasne

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insane*

strong forum
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Potential is there, but you're not gonna get a definite answer until top end people actually commit to rerolling and pushing

wet compass
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thing is we just don't have the dh tool kit giving 400 mastery is great but it doesn't do much if you are a smear on the pavement

runic crown
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Is Necrolord good for prot after the buff?

outer bronze
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better for raid than in m+ i guess

sweet summit
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Its not terrible anymore deswind

rare dagger
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Is stuff not gonna limit players ? Even if it didn't seemed to be an issue for the first raids of Classic, I remember back in my BC private server, if you didn't have your hit cap as a war fury you were doing 0 damages

strong forum
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Afaik war is dogshit dps in tbc, so you just don't bring warriors 👍

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Except tank

sweet summit
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Why bring a tank when you can bring a rogue peepostudy

ionic fern
strong forum
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Giving 400 mastery to firemage and boomy can outweigh the differences, but vdh is probably still going to be better

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Cuz it simply does do more damage and gives the 5% buff

patent marlin
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What do people think about the new unbreakable will legendary changes for m+ context?

jagged pier
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still shit on its own

lusty furnace
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400 mastery isn't even that huge for Fire. Like it's free stats but Mastery is very meh in aoe. I'd keep a much closer look to Reprisal for m+ viability than Banner

wet compass
ionic fern
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Reprisal is broken in m+ ..or any content where the majority of the damage is blockable..that's already known.😂

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There are some dungeons that will still favour The Wall tho depending on the damage type.

sick sentinel
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Yea if Reprisal goes live A LOT more Prot Warrior representation in Mythic+ will be seen lol

wet compass
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I wish condemn's reduc was an aura buff on the warrior instead of on the mob would make it much more justifiable

lusty furnace
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Not disagreeing with that Mwahi, I just think the discussion is more productive to keep an eye on Reprisal nerfs rather than if Banner would make Prot meta ^^

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Otoh I wonder what they'll end up stripping away from Reprisal, rn it's just overloaded with effects lol

wet compass
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Make Condemn an aura buff and give us sudden death as a talent and warrior becomes a very interesting pick and not overpowered imo but they won't do that

median tulip
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Make Revenge! procs give free execute/condemn

surreal monolith
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do hunters not have bursting shot?

wet compass
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that would be interesting

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and would definitely help in single target

median tulip
surreal monolith
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yes

median tulip
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MM only I think

surreal monolith
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this mf

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no interrupts, no knockbacks from anyone in the group, no nothing and I'm getting all the hate from this one mouthy hunter

median tulip
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If he letting mobs stand in sanguine like a dickhead?

surreal monolith
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yes

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they all are

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monk no ROP

dry spear
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how do you use LS generaly? to get the shieldblock up when on CD or for the HP increase? or just both and as holy shit button?

surreal monolith
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then the hunter left and killed the key

median tulip
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😢

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DPS that think their only job is yellow numbers do my head in

surreal monolith
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especially when they make it the tanks fault lol

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I just shouldn't pug, just end up raging

strong forum
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If you know its a bigger pull use it early to get the CD rolling on it

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You can chain LS-SB-SB-SB-SB

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Can probably even chain like 5or6 SB

dry spear
#

got u

outer solstice
wet compass
#

fury warriors with glaives could pump but they rarely got them

outer solstice
#

Rouges with glaives pump more

wet compass
#

well yeah but if you don't have rogues them going to warriors isn't bad

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our gm was a rogue who missed two raids total and one glaive dropped each time when we had no rogues in the raid so they went to the warrior lols we always said he should take more days off so we could get more sets

outer solstice
#

Yep, but as I said, you want a good slammer over a good fury

heavy sail
#

I don’t think windfury abuse will be possible without spell batching

wet compass
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I mean everything pre sunwell will fall over since it won't be tuned with the balance changes in mind

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The real question is can hunter do the one button macro

heavy sail
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Yes

outer solstice
heavy sail
#

Yeah you still bring them

outer solstice
#

You sadly wouldn't give WF to the arms

heavy sail
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But Ret can’t twist

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And arms can’t WF slam

wet compass
#

also can't boost a shaman or paladin 😦

outer solstice
#

But still autohit/slam

heavy sail
#

Warrior is kinda dogshit in TBC.

unique shale
#

i rage starving in raid anybody can help me out ?

heavy sail
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All around

outer solstice
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That was no problem of dorll batching, it was due to an issue with the autohits

heavy sail
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They have their niche in arena

wet compass
#

what? Prot warriors are the god of tbc sir

outer solstice
heavy sail
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With mace stuns

unique shale
heavy sail
#

Not really.

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Prot pala is better for AoE, feral better for ST

wet compass
#

crushing still exists in tbc

wet compass
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and mechanics like sheer

outer solstice
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Can someone look at angelnilias log regarding her ragegain? Still at work, can only glimpse at it

heavy sail
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I don’t think tankiness is a facet that’s going to matter at all, I mean look at current classic

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You bring deep fury prot

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Because threat is the biggest issue

wet compass
#

Because you can still pop shield block while tanking shield block itself is what matters because it pushes crush off the table

heavy sail
#

Prot warrior is still better than feral until like

outer solstice
heavy sail
#

Sunwell? Probably

wet compass
#

So you have 16 condemn casts and 50ish revenges not really a surprise you are running low on rage

heavy sail
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But it’s not the god class of TBC by any stretch

wet compass
#

where exactly are the problem points specifically like you don't have rage for block or you just feel low on rage?

outer solstice
heavy sail
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You’re itemized incorrectly

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That’s something that’s apparent pretty much right away

jagged pier
unique shale
jagged pier
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u have 15 SB cassts compared to my 33

wet compass
#

You're constantly running your rage to 0 which isn't necessarily bad but it will make you feel like you don't have rage to spare for sure. and your sb is super low

jagged pier
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you only blocked 20% hits against u

wet compass
#

where did this idea of more than 20% = useless comes from

outer solstice
wet compass
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ah that's the issue

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I've seen it a bunch recently in prot channel

outer solstice
#

Our breakpoint is around 160% so don't bother or stop at 20%

unique shale
wet compass
#

More haste is more resources which is always good

outer solstice
#

Happy to help

wet compass
#

you are spending all your resources on condemn and revenge and are taking a ton of unblocked hits

outer solstice
#

Haste is our most important stat, especially defensively

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And for ragegain

wet compass
#

especially in phase 3 sire will turn your into a smear on the floor doing that

jagged pier
heavy sail
#

If you’re wiping 11 times it’s probably also pertinent to stop running AM and switch to bolster

outer solstice
#

Nah

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On denathrius AM is fine

wet compass
#

I was more looking at shield block uptime

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which is super low

outer solstice
#

Yep

jagged pier
#

yes cause hes favoruing IP

unique shale
#

wipes were progressing

outer solstice
#

But bolster won't fix that, need to use SB better and smartly

wet compass
#

he's also spending a bunch on condemn and rev it can be both 🙂

jagged pier
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condemn is fine to spend it on

heavy sail
#

Just general advice I haven’t looked too deep

outer solstice
#

Or while offtanking, though

heavy sail
#

But when progging I would always run bolster until it’s not necessary

wet compass
#

while not actively tanking but not at the expense of shield block uptime

heavy sail
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Except on specific encounters

wet compass
#

I like AM even when progging tbh only time I run bolster is if there is no downtime to regen charges

#

Have shield wall like every two mins is sick

outer solstice
unique shale
#

i had another problem when i tanking nothing and i have to dodging until the sword coming out what should i do ?

outer solstice
#

Stay alive

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And don't get hit by the boss frontal

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And DPS

heavy sail
#

Only fight I’d say it’s objectively not worth under any circumstance

wet compass
#

only times you aren't tanking on that fight are phase 1 and phase 3 you should be actively swapping one of you on sword one on boss during phase 2 if sword isn't hitting you hit boss and dodge

heavy sail
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Is inerva

outer solstice
#

also be close to the boss when he's casting so you can take the boss aspa without teleporting

unique shale
#

and running through mirror were so scary since i wasn't facing boss and iwas taking too much damage

wet compass
#

strafe

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never ever ever ever turn your back to a boss

outer solstice
wet compass
#

true but then you just dps waiting for sword to come back

outer solstice
#

Yep

wet compass
#

so yeah hit boss and dodge

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but make sure to not have both boss and sword on one tank

outer solstice
#

It's fine just before the cast

unique shale
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if i run backward i cannot make it in time

wet compass
#

strafe

outer solstice
#

Strafe

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Or tank closer to the mirror

wet compass
#

strafing is something you need to get used to doing as a tank

unique shale
#

unless we are tanking pretty close to mirror

outer solstice
#

You should always have him at the mirror for the hand

wet compass
#

strafing moves the same speed as running foward but doesn't give your back to the boss

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also yeah he should always be at the mirror for hand

heavy sail
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Unless you want sire to ravage the bussi

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yep 👍

unique shale
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how strafing moving work yep

wet compass
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go to your keybinds and bind whatever your current turn left turn right are to strafe left strafe right

unique shale
#

btw anything can you SR in sire beside pools ?

wet compass
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second pin

torpid saffron
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What do you guys think about the legendary buffs coming in 9.0.5 ? Do you think we will change Thunderlord and Wall from our BIS ? Reprisal looks kinda dope tbh

unique shale
wet compass
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the second pinned link is a spell reflect cheat sheet

sweet summit
torpid saffron
#

Wait.. where did you see Reprisal will get nerfed ?

wet compass
#

Are they really going to bother nerfing the worst tank though 😛

sweet summit
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Its obv too strong as it is now on ptr

torpid saffron
#

I don't think so.. Reprisal is the only good legendary that we could possibly have

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And the only thing that could help prot stand on his feet

wet compass
#

I mean wall is pretty damn good we are just badly tuned

sweet summit
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Ah yes 100% uptime on block is not too strong

lofty widget
#

what would the nerf even be? rage maybe? but even then its still strong

sweet summit
wet compass
#

I see no issues 😛

torpid saffron
#

There are still a lot of attacks not blockable

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So..

lofty widget
#

other nerf would be to just revert it to what it was, or remove shield block entirely from the leggo

unique shale
torpid saffron
#

But i guess you guys agree that Reprisal is the only lego that looks surprisingly good among those 2, right ?

sweet summit
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Ya

torpid saffron
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Cuz Seismic is kinda meh, as for +1 charge for Shield wall.. i don't think it's that good

wet compass
#

I mean SR is a Magic DR so literally anything that deals magic damage can be SRed to reduce damage intake

torpid saffron
#

Even tho you reduce party members' damage by 50% aswell, that one looks kinda bad too

sweet summit
#

Seismic is a lot better at what it already is good at

wet compass
#

it not being eaten in some cases is positive

torpid saffron
#

Yeah.. farming maybe

wet compass
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but yeah you are spamming ignore pain way too much

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shield block is way better

torpid saffron
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I hope you won't be right.. and reprisal won't be nerfed, cuz that's the only way we can get some love ❤️

unique shale
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yeah i gtg work on that

wet compass
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You are actually putting into practice what we were joking about the other day in terms of heal parsing

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Which is we would never hit block and spam ip 😛

unique shale
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it was my first time in sire so i was in panic mod

torpid saffron
#

Prot warr doesn't have many issues in raid, it's kinda a good tank

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Among the best

heavy sail
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I think you’re underestimating reprisal

torpid saffron
#

In M+ however...

heavy sail
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It’s not “get some love”

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It’s “best tank in the game overnight”

torpid saffron
#

underestimating or overrating ?

heavy sail
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Underestimating

outer solstice
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We're fine in M+

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We can facetank for a lot longer than others

torpid saffron
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I'm not underestimating it.. i know it could add a lot of value to prot

torpid saffron
heavy sail
#

A lot is an understatement

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An absurd buff

torpid saffron
#

We need it

heavy sail
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Like I highly doubt it goes live

torpid saffron
#

Have you checked the charts ? For how many prots have done +15 keys or even +20 ?

outer solstice
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DH is the outlier

lofty widget
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all these naysayers, what do you expect will happen to it? like whats the nerf gnna be

torpid saffron
#

That says a lot..

outer solstice
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I do 15s regularly

torpid saffron
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15's are not hard

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i'm 1300 RIO

sweet summit
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Ok

outer solstice
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Which says nothing

torpid saffron
#

But pushing to 20 won't be a easy task

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With our current kit

wet compass
#

I mean prot warrior is good because we bring a battle shout

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our damage is kind of trash

torpid saffron
#

Fury and arms are good aswell if you need shout

heavy sail
#

You could nerf it very substantially but not make it completely useless by having it be a proc chance

wet compass
#

for raids

sweet summit
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@lofty widget Idk tbh, there is a reason i dont design legendaries 😋

heavy sail
#

For one

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In fact that’s exactly how I think they will nerf it

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If they don’t remove the SB component entirely

outer solstice
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I think they'll remove intervene from it

torpid saffron
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It's not that overpowered..like it's really good, but i think you guys don't understand that some attacks are not blockable

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And with that lego we can spend more rage on our ignore pain and revenge so we can dish out more heal&damage

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Problem solved

outer solstice
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We have spellreflect and stuns

sweet summit
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Im fully aware of that mate

heavy sail
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Something like “Charge/intervene give you a 50% chance of replenishing an SB charge”

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Or something of that nature

torpid saffron
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That would be worse in terms of balance lol :))

outer solstice
#

Also... Do you guys microkite in M+?

torpid saffron
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Every tank has to

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Doesn't matter that we can facetank for longer

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After our defs go down, we gotta kite like there's no tomorrow

outer solstice
#

You don't know what microkiting is, do you?

sweet summit
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I dont push keys so i dont have to kite 😎

lofty widget
#

whats microkiting?

outer solstice
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It's about offsetting swingtiners after AoE stuns

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To not get blown away instantly

torpid saffron
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I didn't see micro, i read it fast

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Only saw kititng ^^

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Mb

wet compass
#

if I was changing prot I would start with making the rev proc thing also allow use of execute/condemn before screwing with leggos but that's just me

lofty widget
#

seems like too much min/max for my smoothbrain

heavy sail
#

I think our defensives are fine and in-line or better than most tanks

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Tuning could easily solve the “balance” problem

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But reprisal in its buffed state is truly absurd

outer solstice
#

You just move out to one since of a pack just out of range of a few mobs, so that some of them have to walk a step @lofty widget

heavy sail
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And I say that as someone who simps for Prot warrior

outer solstice
#

I think reprisal is a lot of QoL for M+

torpid saffron
outer solstice
#

... I'm talking mob swingtimers

torpid saffron
#

That's what is perfect for M+ in the current state

outer solstice
#

We have 45s CDs shrug

heavy sail
#

^

torpid saffron
#

Our CD's are strong.. but the CD's are too high

outer solstice
#

And pretty good mobility and CC

heavy sail
#

DH has one big dick cooldown

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We have several

wet compass
#

DH has multiple big dick cds?

sweet summit
#

Meta fb

heavy sail
#

Meta is the only one I’m referring too

wet compass
#

also fel dev with meta talent

torpid saffron
#

In it's current state DH is best tank cuz it can kite easily while also going in from time to time to maintain aggro

wet compass
#

and their silence sigil is stupid strong plus double leaps and keep aggro from range

sweet summit
#

Fb is basically sw on a way shorter cd 🤷

outer solstice
#

They can maintain aggro while kiting

heavy sail
#

That’s not really why DH is good though

#

Because you just described BrM also

torpid saffron
#

1min CD's + best mobility

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I'm pretty sure that is

heavy sail
#

Not the best mobility

torpid saffron
#
  • very good utility
wet compass
#

dh has the best mobility lol

heavy sail
torpid saffron
#

With silence sigil, kyrian sigil for a lot of dmg

outer solstice
#

nah, the DOS from range is the big thing

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Dmg

wet compass
#

dh's mobility is directly targeted and doesn't get stopped by a pebble on a ramp like roll can

torpid saffron
#

good point

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also double jump cuz yeah

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EASY!

wet compass
#

the jumps are also crazy short cds

heavy sail
#

DH meta slaving is overstated, their main allure is that they snap threat quickly and pump.

torpid saffron
#

Our talents got nerfed, our cooldowns got nerfed, our damage got nerfed.. and with that Reprisal buff you dare saying it'd be too OP ?

heavy sail
#

A few good utility spells as well

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But that’s it.

torpid saffron
#

We need way more love to be OP

heavy sail
#

Like they aren’t extremely mobile kite monsters

wet compass
#

a few good utility spells lols

heavy sail
#

I don’t know where that narrative actually comes from lol

wet compass
#

wtf how are they not rofl

#

the fact they have double jump on a super short cd and don't have sacrifice tankiness for that movement unlike druid?

torpid saffron
#

Some dude tried tanking with a 187 DH and said that it felt better than a 216 Prot Pally

#

I guess that's fair

lucid bough
#

prot pala feels a little squichy sometimes

heavy sail
#

Prot feels awful

torpid saffron
#

same as prot warr without CD's

heavy sail
#

So no surprises there

lucid bough
#

dh has windows of almost full imunity

wet compass
#

they also have a slow field though which is nice in M+ even if it does dick all in raids

torpid saffron
#

But guess what.. as warr you need to face mobs to block attacks

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As pally you don't give a shit

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Armor = OP

wet compass
#

of course prot pala can also do 6k dps soooo

heavy sail
#

Eh

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Nsm

#

They’re kinda limp dick post nerf

#

Like it’s still better than warrior or guardian

torpid saffron
#

Still 2nd best tank in M+ however

heavy sail
#

But they aren’t pumping like they were early on

torpid saffron
#

Why are we even arguing.. prot warr is the worst tank currently and the data shows it

wet compass
#

2 prot pally logs on sludge are at 6k atm lol?

torpid saffron
#

That lego could be the thing we need to help us stand up

wet compass
#

in what world is that limp dick

#

our top log is 3.3

torpid saffron
#

Also.. what slot will you guys craft Reprisal on ?

wet compass
#

I will wait to craft until changes are actually confirmed

torpid saffron
#

There will be no changes

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Not until patch drops

wet compass
#

I rerolled so I'm behind in soul ash will likely only get to craft one second rank 4 besides wall which is alreayd made

torpid saffron
#

Data needs to be gathered in order to see what actually happens

sweet summit
#

You know feedback is a thing ye? It doesnt havr to go live before getting changed

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PTR exists for a reason

torpid saffron
#

Sure, let all the DH's cry out loud cuz they're afraid about getting dethroned

#

Mf's

sweet summit
#

Let the dhs have their season. Warrior had an entire xpac 👀

heavy sail
#

Several entire xpacs*

wet compass
#

Yeah fuck that

#

How about this crazy thing called balance

heavy sail
#

I’m down with the game going through ebbs and flows of balance.

#

Homogenisation makes the game boring as fuck

wet compass
#

I'm not down with a fucking 3k single target gap while being at the bottom in M+ as well

#

warrior were mediocre in raids last tier but gods in M+. Mediocre in both is even fine not shit in both

heavy sail
#

They aren’t shit at all.

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But okay I see you’re tilted lmao

sweet summit
#

Warrior is very good in raid and alright in m+ atm

heavy sail
#

World first CN was done with a Prot

#

Can’t be that bad mate

wet compass
#

Literally are though? Lowest in damage done and any tank can survive at this point it's only early on in the tier where paper tank matters

#

Because they didn't want to bring an arms warrior to all fights but wanted shout in the raid

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World first guilds use tanks for utility largely

#

which is why next tier will be double banner prot to simp for the boomkins if it isn't changed

heavy sail
#

What’s wrong with that lmao

#

Tank is a support class.

#

Sounds like you want to play private MoP servers

strong forum
#

"looks like you want to have fun"

#

How dare he

wet compass
#

I know right how dare I want to do that

sweet summit
#

What

torpid saffron
#

Which xpac did warriors have ?

heavy sail
#

Literally the last one

torpid saffron
#

Cuz 8.3 was a single patch

#

Mate what

sweet summit
#

What

torpid saffron
#

Warrs were only kings in 8.3

#

That was it

sweet summit
#

What

torpid saffron
#

Before that, check logs

wet compass
#

For literally every none top 10 guild tanks aren't a "support class" they are just dps with more jobs because you can't maximize a banner type buff when your dps like the fire cause it's hot

sweet summit
#

8.1

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8.2 was monk/warr meta

torpid saffron
#

From 8.1 till 8.3

sweet summit
#

We dont talk about 8.0 i didnt play prot then

torpid saffron
#

Every tank was viable

strong forum
#

Viable and kings are 2 different things

dark lark
#

ignore pain on gcd has entered the chat

torpid saffron
#

And in 8.3 still every other tank could be played aswell.. warr was just better cuz the absurd Bastion of might trait

strong forum
#

Moreso it was spell reflect

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And higher tank dmg

sweet summit
#

Spell reflect and safeguard

strong forum
#

And safeguard

#

Ye

sweet summit
#

And dam ye

wet compass
#

spell reflect was the biggest thing it was so broken

#

especially on tyrannical weeks

dark lark
#

Spell reflect is still amazing

smoky wave
torpid saffron
#

And for being king in a single patch (let's not even talk about the absurdity of balance in 8.3, cuz remember fire mage/bm hunter, etc.) you dare to say that warr was king a entire expac ?

strong forum
#

War was king in 3 seasons

dark lark
#

Soul split, corroded claws, shadow claws

wet compass
#

No king rules forever you know except locks and fire mages

strong forum
#

And rogues in pvp

wet compass
#

I don't like that class 😦

torpid saffron
#

Everytime prot warr is bad, people just say: "they will scale better with gear"

strong forum
#

Nobody likes that class

torpid saffron
#

The reason they were good in 8.3 wasn't jackshit about gear

wet compass
#

people must because they play it 😛

sweet summit
#

I have never said that

torpid saffron
#

Was about bastion of might+avatar being turned into our best defensive talent

#
  • spamming Thunder Clap
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Oh, also Into the fray gave 3% per stack

#

And Anger management reduced cd of Avatar and Demo shout aswell

strong forum
#

You're talking several different points at the same time m8

torpid saffron
#

Yeah.. well that didn't have a single thing to do with the "gear" that every guy says they need to "scale better"

heavy sail
#

Affliction is fun and games in raid

#

But it feels like hot garbage to play in keys

strong forum
#

Pwar was king from 8.1 onwards

heavy sail
#

The playstyle is so shit for keys

torpid saffron
heavy sail
#

Despite whatever the damage meters may say from pull to pull

#

Shit just feels bad

strong forum
#

Because of the changes they made to IP, introduction of BoM and people finally figuring out how to play pwar

heavy sail
#

I wish destro was the better spec between them

#

I’d play the shit out of it

jagged pier
#

i mean it was king in 8.0 if u knew how to play it just sayin

strong forum
#

And getting good starting gear, pwar is fucking dogshit without a certain ilvl

#

Moreso than monk or bear

wet compass
#

Honestly I like the new warrior it's just missing some damage and one more ability to hit

strong forum
#

Pwar has a hard time getting started

wet compass
#

just give us sudden death

#

do it blizz do it

strong forum
#

Same as bdk does

heavy sail
#

Community perception of monk is just so high I don’t think any amount of tuning is changing it lol

strong forum
#

Yeah it will take a bit

heavy sail
#

And they’re still decent right now it’s just funny how it goes

wet compass
#

biggest reason for the amount of monk was ww wasn't good

#

but ww has fallen off before so who knows

heavy sail
#

WW has also never been this good

#

Like this good

torpid saffron
#

WW will only be good first two patches

heavy sail
#

Eh

#

Wouldn’t be sure of that

sweet summit
#

"ScAiLiNg"

wet compass
#

WW was amazing in uldir

#

then they killed swift roundhouse

#

and it dropped to mid tier in bod then scaling became an issue

torpid saffron
heavy sail
#

Aight

strong forum
#

It's more down to balance changes than raw stat scaling

#

People like to ignore that

#

Alot

heavy sail
#

All the time

#

Constantly

#

Their scaling is bad and would be bad for a game that isn’t actively balanced

wet compass
#

well it's more that monk favored versa by a huge amount and any time a spec favors versa as it's best stat as a dps class scaling is going to bite it hard because other classes are going to hit breakpoints

sweet summit
#

I think you overestimate breakpoints

wet compass
#

Like versa should never be the best stat for a dps class or else the other stats are not balanced well

heavy sail
#

I don’t think anyone would argue against monk secondaries being a design flaw

wet compass
#

because versa does literally nothing other than raw +dmg

heavy sail
#

But that doesn’t mean they’ll be bad in later tiers at all

#

The reason they’re good now is tuning

#

And that can change at any point for any reason

wet compass
#

We will see what happens they also don't have a gamebreaking leggo currently their best dps leggo is just a haste stat stick when they pop their cds

bold turtle
#

I managed to yoink a 194 hymnal. Is it any good as a defensive?

strong forum
#

Defensively no

#

Offensively yes

jagged pier
#

194 will probs do more than 226 spike

#

or about the same damage anyways

bold turtle
#

my trinkets aren't super good, so I think I'll try it

#

ty ty

jagged pier
#

i still used a 168 version up until last week

#

just for context

#

in dungeons only tho its dog in raids

bold turtle
#

for raids I'm using a 207 IQD and a 184 flame of battle

#

I have a 210 anima field emitter but idk if that's worth bringing to raids

jagged pier
#

that its 100% better than ither of thos 2 trinkets u have

#

for dungeons and raids

strong forum
#

I'd run anima + hymnal

#

In your case

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Anima is a great trinket, iqd is quite bad and flame of battle sounds like a WQ trinket and hymnal is the best WQ trinket

karmic plinth
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what is hymnals full name?

bold turtle
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damn, some shithead in M+ was yelling at me for bringing anima cus it wasn't a 'tanking trinket'

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I think they ddidn't know what they were talking about

crisp dragon
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What trinket is Hymnal?

ionic fern
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Hymnal of the Path.

crisp dragon
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I use 226 Hakkar + 220 Stone legion, couldn't imagine every switching that

modern tundra
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depends on the content really

crisp dragon
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I want to try Hungering trinket, but I already parse top 50 in HPS and DPS on every fight

modern tundra
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i'd take a 226 phial in a heartbeat if i'd see it in my chest :p

crisp dragon
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I already have one of those 226, it's decent damage, but not a lot of top DPS parses use it

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Even my 100 DPS parse for Sun king uses Hakkar + Legion

strong forum
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Sunking parse is a meme

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I wouldn't use hakkar in raid either tbh

modern tundra
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kinda true

tropic cypress
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Anyone swapping to Necro if the changes remain the same? And also, when you planning on doing it for max efficiency

ionic fern
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Nope.

strong forum
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Potentially.

modern tundra
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if it remains as is i will be swapping

crisp dragon
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A lot of others would not agree Nomeratur, it is a top pick trinket for most fights

strong forum
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Like I said, I wouldn't

crisp dragon
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Using it on Sludgefist, is great fun, it crits for 50k during burst phase

strong forum
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Dreadfire crits for more Target

crisp dragon
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I dont have dreadfire >.<

jagged pier
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i mean top warrior on sunking is using phial

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jst saying

modern tundra
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phial is such a strong pick even for aoe

jagged pier
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also most used trinket on sludge

strong forum
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I'll prolly just use my 226 anima + decanter for the rest of the tier

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Unless I get 233 dread + herald

crisp dragon
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7% vs 7% for Hakkar/Phial

strong forum
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Stupid using % for trinkets

jagged pier
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top trinkets legit stone legion

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on every fight

crisp dragon
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I was talking about Sludge Jakey

jagged pier
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and phial on about half others

crisp dragon
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But yeah, I agree, Phial is potentially best, but Im on that list you have there, without using Phial

jagged pier
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its the same there XD

crisp dragon
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Phial probably is the strongest if u have a long last phase since u can stack it on every target + Phoenixes, but who even cares??? it's a mid tier easy fight xD

strong forum
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It's lowkey easier than hungering

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Cuz there is no variation or anything

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Hungering has variation

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Also again, sunking parse is purely pad dmg

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Nothing else

modern tundra
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after the nerfs to sludge it's pretty faceroll idd

strong forum
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Sludge you can still fuck up through numerous ways, sunking you can only fuck up if you consistently make several mistakes

wet compass
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hymnal is honestly broken single target like massively overbudget

crisp dragon
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Hymnal doesn't seem very strong, isn't a very used trinket on parsing

wet compass
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feels like I'm going to be chasing a new hymnal each reset

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that's because they have 233 and 226 across the board

modern tundra
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hymnal is only strong if you legit miss the other better single target trinkets

wet compass
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a 180something hymnal is probably on level with most 213s

strong forum
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Hymnal does solid dps, it's just hard to get a good one

crisp dragon
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Ah, in that sense, I see

wet compass
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also it's a stupid high amount of vers

strong forum
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Fuck the vers

crisp dragon
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I dont think you can get it past 200 ilvl

wet compass
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theoretically you can get a 203

strong forum
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You're losing mainstat

crisp dragon
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I already have 23% vers, so even for me picking legion trinket makes me sad

wet compass
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but it's from the bastion cache only

strong forum
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Which is why Sims don't wanna use hymnal over most 213+

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Cuz it doesn't have mainstat

bold turtle
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aside from hymnal, what's a good raid trinket?

wet compass
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out of?

crisp dragon
bold turtle
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I don't have a lot of good choices, hold on

strong forum
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Decanter, anima, spike, Phial of purification, hakkar scale if you need the defensive, heraldry

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Dreadfire vessel

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Those are all the good trinkets

bold turtle
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my decanter is only 184, but I do have a 213 spike

crisp dragon
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I just cant really recall being saved often by my heart of alar

strong forum
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That's why it's not mentioned

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It's only good if you're undergeard or pushing 21+ keys

crisp dragon
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Yet it's used so much by literally everyone else

modern tundra
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i use heart when were starting prog on a new boss and then phase it out towards the kill

crisp dragon
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I try to, but it just never saves me, I feel more confident using Hakkar

wet compass
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frankly that's because most tanks are lazy

strong forum
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And Bad

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Don't forget bad

wet compass
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and don't swap their gear

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I mean that goes hand in hand with lazy usually but not always

crisp dragon
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But maybe it's because I play Prot warrior, I know I'm supposed to mitigate damage preemptively so I know when to use Hakkar

bold turtle
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oki, so for M+ i'm swapping to anima field (210) and hymnal (194), and for raids I'm going to use Spike (213) and Hymnal (194)

wet compass
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in a lot of raids tanks tend to be the worst players since a low damage tank is easier to hide than a low damage dps imo

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look for tanks who say they focus on defense instead of offense and run way the fuck away

bold turtle
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ty so much gang, I was having a lot of trouble with trinkets

crisp dragon
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Honestly, fuck tanks who dont try to parse high on dps

modern tundra
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the famous "if the boss is dead and i stayed alive i did well" quote

crisp dragon
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I manage to be a very effective tank in all aspects, if I need to have around 70% active mitigation uptime, Ill do that, while I still log 80+ in DPS and HPS

ionic fern
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80+ is just playing your rotation correctly.

dry spear
crisp dragon
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Indeed

strong forum
crisp dragon
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Imagine not spamming Shield slam when its off CD

strong forum
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My hps parses are grey

karmic plinth
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on the trinket discussion - unsure which of these i should be using for defense - cant tell whether emitter or spike is better

crisp dragon
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First week of HC I was top 1 in the world for HPS because I had shit healers

strong forum
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Whatever Sims highest illy

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Tbh

karmic plinth
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just sim for tmi or literally just whatever gives me best dps throughput?

strong forum
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Dps

karmic plinth
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fair enough

crisp dragon
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Any tips on how to make your raid team use more defensives? It seems like people dont understand they need to use them

wet compass
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You have a 220 scale I hate you

crisp dragon
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226 scale says hello

strong forum
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Yell at them

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Laugh at them and yell at them when they die but had defensive and healthstone ready

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Nothing more you can do

crisp dragon
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@strong forum Becuase I legit think, combine all their defensives during the ENTIRE raid, I use Last Stand that often

strong forum
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Welcome to dps players

dry spear
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tankbros

crisp dragon
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Even my paladin tank partner has ardent defender vs last stand be 13-50

dry spear
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what do u put onto your chest?

strong forum
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Stats

dry spear
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skirmish or stats?

crisp dragon
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Hairs, becuase you're not a girl

dry spear
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HAHA

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:DDDD

dry spear
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i thought bulwark was the goto

strong forum
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Defensive stuff

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That's like saying you enchanted nagahide in bfa

crisp dragon
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But is Skirmish a DPS increase?

strong forum
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Shouldn't

crisp dragon
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Exactly, that was my train of thought as well

strong forum
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But could

modern tundra
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i think it does but it's extremely small

crisp dragon
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Obviously it depends on luck, but strength matters so little

dry spear
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yeah i go with stats

strong forum
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Strength matters alot

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Wdym

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It's our best dps stat

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Best defensive stat

crisp dragon
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Secondary stats > Main stat

strong forum
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No

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Lol

crisp dragon
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That's at least what I've been told

strong forum
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Well that's wrong

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Very wrong

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very wrong

crisp dragon
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@ionic fern

strong forum
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He didn't tell you that.

crisp dragon
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nah

strong forum
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I can guarantee you that

modern tundra
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i mean i'd take a bis statted 220 piece over a 226 mastery crit piece any day

crisp dragon
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but he might be able to help

strong forum
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I'd take a 220 piece over 226 vers mastery

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Actually no

modern tundra
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in the early stages of gearing ilvl > anything

strong forum
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I'd still use 226

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Cuz it's better

crisp dragon
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But obviously taking a 220 over 226 makes no sense since the stats are much better on 226

modern tundra
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but when it comes down to smaller gains i'd take proper stats over shit pieces

crisp dragon
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I'd rather not lose 60 haste for 60 mastery

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but if it's more than 6 ilvls, you just sometimes have to

strong forum
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Na

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3 for big armor pieces

jagged pier
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^^

strong forum
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7 for belt wrists cloak

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10-13 for rings

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Smth like that

dry spear
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so +crit ++versa same ilvl is better then +crit ++mastery right?

crisp dragon
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Hmm, that's nice

strong forum
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At same ilvl yes

dry spear
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the ++ is the "more" stat

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ok ty

strong forum
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Offensively they're the same

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If they're exactly same stats

crisp dragon
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I get that rings/necks are kinda wack to switch wrong stat for upgrade since its only stam

strong forum
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But vers/mastery are effectively the same dps gain

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But vers is better defensively

strong forum
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You wouldn't catch me dead using a non haste ring

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Or neck

crisp dragon
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ngl, Im using BoE ring

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A little sad that I am tho

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need haste

strong forum
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Fuck outta here

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Get sire ring

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Or inerva HC

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I beg

outer solstice
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Get anything to drop from site xD

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Sire

lucid bough
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ya imagine using the highest stat piece with versa

strong forum
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Cringe

outer solstice
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Haste