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It's the most important slot
Don't look at it like as a 3ilvl upgrade, but only 3 ilvl away from not needing a better shield unless you can kill SLG mythic or reach 2.4k in arena

hm true but 20 ilv on wrist are much stats too
for someone new to tanking: why is the shield the most important slot?
it have armor and block, but block is the most importan stat here
It has the 'Block' stat on it, which determines the amount of damage you reduce hits by when blocked. Blocking hits is your primary form of mitigating incoming damage.
thanks
Heh, had another look, according to rio no one has tined 15s across the board as prot yet on my realm. Someone's 1 hoa off. Sitting on 11-13s myself with one 14. Might give it a punt this week
So i go for shield hmm
Why time as prot when you can play fury and have a dh tank for magic dmg debuff :P
This is the internal battle I have with myself every time I fail to time a key
well, pugs don't take a fury or prot, so why not get declined in your favorite spec?
eh? furys the better spec in pve now
its scales like crazy with prideful
and tank are always in demand i never have an issue
pretty sure +30% is +30% on every spec
True true
but +30 on MeTa class is more +30 according to pugs
idk, pugging sucks
people watching MDI and thinking they need exaclty those classes and only those
failing to see they are still doing +14 and being miles away from even being in the same key as MDI
got 226 version on this trinket today
is this any good? currently have stone legion and anima emitter
or should i take weapon for offspec
its not as good as thos trinkets imo, its pretty meh
It's single target damage, so meh
this is just a meme right?
yus
it can be useful.... there are plenty o weakauras that should tell you what you get when using it and you only ever want it for statws
way better for DDs though
yeah, thanks. I'll just sit untill we're done reclearing raid to see what I'll take
Think the wall is better
i am fan of wall
Theyre pretty much equal, its prefrence
and 9.0.5 rispal
^
ahh sweet , making wall- don't wanna cap soulash haha
this showed up in a wq, it seems not so bad?
sims fairly well on bloodmallet, for whatever that is worth
Hymnal is good
Very good offensively
It's also better if your healers don't like to let you sit low can vary wildly if your healers prefer triaging to the max
hey guys just got lucky with a scale in the vault, what should i use in the other slot? i got a vintage and a spike
Hymnal in a m+ what DMG does it in %
% are relative.....
Get that into your heads people
What matters is dps
Not %
My 164 hymnal did ~100 dps on average
So a 194 hymnal should do 120-150 dps, maybe more
Spike
Double on use is trash
Hey guys, I'd like to try prot warrior in mm+ and I was wondering how important a rank 4 legendary is to do that? I main arms in pvp and there are still two legendaries that Id like to try on my main spec before dumping soul ashes on a prot leg
R1 for the effect is important, ilvl matters just as much as on every other slot, if you just wanna test the waters R1 will be enough
ok thanks mate, already got the rank 1
You'll miss a few stats, but it won't make or break anything
I got the gloves with the power that reduces the cd of the intimidating shout, are haste/vers good stats for it?
and when i ihave scale 210 and Stone leigion 220 switch the stone ligeon to hymnal 194?
haste vers is good yes
Id use hymnal + slg in raid
Scale + slg in m+
Or if its a lower key, slg + hymnal in m+
okay ty i run 15-16 keys i can test the hymnal
Am i screwed playing Prot Venthyr? I have to swap back to tank for our guilds raid group
Nah you're good
any particular soulbind gonna be my best bet?
Honestly, just sim it
Sim the soulbind?...
Yar
Who knows
It'll arrive the day after they nerf reprisal 🤷♂️
does anyone know if Forgelight Prime's stun proc shares DR with a regular stun?
Don't think it does
i did a mid-level key to test out how it felt, and the damage+healing was actually not terrible - bron's healing saved a wipe on a boss
clutch healed the healer lolol
not to mention watching my durability go up over a dungeon was nice
i wanted to test out the hammer of genesis build - i actually liked it
the nice thing is that if the buff actually goes through then we're (more or less) in the safe zone, because they've been making it a point not to nerf legendaries
but we'll have to be on edge until then
Hey guys! So question, i've been looking some wars on wlogs and noticed that on talents some use Rav with AM and others IF & Bolster; also another group caping hast/mastery while other (as i am) capping haste/vers....so what you think is more viable now for raiding?
I'm assuming ravager in raid means people forgot to switch talents after m+
nice, and for stats? (knowing haste is op)
Yeah I forgot like for 3 bosses to switch out of ravager
Itf is just more damage
In raid
That's it
Stats you just equip ilvl > haste > vers
on multipl;e adds its also more rage
i don't play warrior much any more, but what slot are you crrafting for reprisal, assuming haste/versa in most crafts?
legs
Legs iirc
thanks, gonna stay as i am
is the reprisal torghast wing open this week?
this week we have coldhear and soulforges
yeah but that means I would have to do twisted corridors 😭
I have done almost no torghast on the warrior because it's an alt
got just enough soul ash to craft a r4 next week. here's hoping for patch 9.0.5
i got bored of doing it but i go to help my guild members
I have made three legendaries at max rank on my main (Holy Priest) so I am quite sick of torghast
Worth it to open vault in prot or fury loot spec? Thinking prot since shield but Fury since shit tank trinkets
i still don get how the vial is good for tanking (knowing about dps), have it 207 and i still think im doing less dmg than equiping hungering trink+pvp haste trink
Vial?
Prot until u get scale and shield imo
phial*
Phial is insanely strong on low target cleave
Like 1-3 targets
If you want more damage, you can always sim yourself on raidbots
on m+10 on pulls of i.e. 5 adds im doing over 7-9k using rav, hungering trink+haste pvp trink, avatar and demo, but on ST im doing 1.9 (without hero)-2.2 (with hero) with same setup (almost the same for raid just changing rav for if)
Well the good news is that you can sim for dmg so that may be a pretty straightforward thing to answer
probably not til week after next maybe?
next week is renown 40, end of the renown line
i think it makes sense to hold it til the week after
but then again hof is done, it's the wild west out there
Not sure yeah, they'll probably hold it
Gimme them sweet SLG nerfs blizz
Delete slg 
slg looks good from the retired bench wdym
SL looks good if you don't play it 
Blizz said the Sylvanas fight will be epic, but they're trolling us. Here's how it'll go: we start by fighting Sylvanas until she immunes at 50%. Then Nathanos starts shooting us from the ceiling, and Bolvar asks us to gather soul ash. Finally Bolvar is able to strike the ground with his hammer and we fight Nathanos to 50%, all the while fighting mawsworn that randomly fixate on people and do fanning the flames. Then we try to kill Sylvanas and Nathanos together, but Tyrande finishes them off

for sure
when a fight is epic ill give it a 80% chance Cho'gal will come out somewhere

so epic, Med'an will appear
Trying out prot. Have 1800 rating, enough conquest for either shield or weapon, take shield to 220 first?
Yes
anyone use GTFO and offtank sludge? I get a ding everytime I take a giant fist but I don't see an option to disable it
i dont use GTFO because i dont need an airhorn blasting in my ears
👏🏿
I hate GTFO
They put in warnings on the most idiotic things and yeah, don't track spec stuff
this tbh
we just hit intermission 2 last night
hopefully a kill tomorrow or next week
Gimme the sweet everything nerfs
like, it should be like "Oh you're prot, I shouldn't be annoying every time you get hit by a tank mechanic"
interesting
KRYLLS
do you only ever play a tank class?
I fury as well
bet
I have my DBM setup different for both specs
since I have to track different timers
and yeah, for general "not getting hit by stupid"
my eyes never leave my feet
I've got WA that become annoying (silently) to the sides of my vision focus
just stare at my feet 👀
when something important comes up
you guys raid?
yep
yep
ic
Only play tank
And for some reason I also raid
But ive questioned myself why, for a few weeks
GTFO is mainly for DDs...
yeah tanks normally become numb to avoidable damage thinking it's part of their class fantasy to be this meat shield so it's just interesting to hear you guys not really care about standing in that stuff
Have generally found that you can get much better customization for individual mechanic alerts from big wigs than in GTFO
yer i dont stand in stuff
bet
eh?
what
i literally constantly jump and 'a' 'd' like a mongo
especially some of the advanced Weakaura packs :p
Yeh
I avoid as much damage as possible, since during progression eating a pointless hit can kill you.
I stand still... and raise my shield
THIS
but yet avoidable damage is not acceptable to take as tank either
stay safe
Dude gets to offtank SLudge once - thinks he is all that is tank.
Don't be offended if ppl are confident in their ability to avoid mechanics
We could also prolly tap the brakes on the hostility
🤷
Dude just asked a question about GTFO
my co-tank on hungering asked me to tell him when to taunt...
as if I don't have some timers to watch out for
like 10 of them
yeah I don't tank was just asking for a friend
Goat bleat on BW is top tier alert
some ppl really think tanking is only about tankswaps
"Nah don't taunt, I got 🛡️, you good."
oh we know, no worries
yer cheers dude
ill continue to play without sound tho
I'm glad im not alone
I mean ... that's kind how hungering works, the windows are soooo convenient, that you can have SB for a whole "phase" between big hits
I cant tell if jake's guildie's being a memer or if we're getting trolled or if this is a genuine concern
hes not a guildy i know off hes just salty i can use my eyes
😦
As far as GTFO idk if there are any environmental damage stuff thats dropped on tanks very often.
i dont use my ears that why i dont play with sound
like generally if you're getting pools your dps is fucking up
oh I see
why dont you believe jakey doesnt stand in shit
its not hard to not stand in stuff
im confused
because he needs a airhorn to tell him to move
lmao
so everyone else must need one
Yo literally either is fine
if you say so
yer you say so dude
I think that's enough of this troll feed fest eh lads?
Maybe wrong jakey? 
how mnay Jakey play with no sound or monitor?

#ui-addons-manager might be able to help you find how to turn off the blip, if you're interested in an answer to your question 🤷♂️
i can play without a montior now?
You could alternatively continue pretending like this is a productive use of anyones time
What is happening
Afaik jakey doesn't even play on a computer
What's this animosity
Get da hammer nom
word on the street is that he is a mobile gamer only
jokes on you I only have a work phone
whoa dude

don't flex on us with a job
Big nokia lad
I feel like a wow classic tank accidentally stumbled in here
And GTFO didn't warn him to get out

So here we are
what do u need to move out of in classic?
oh rain of fire
Bro there's like
i member from my phase 1 days
I remember being told to stand in cleave for more execute rage on Onyxia
true that one
but i was there stance dancing to zerker rage to stop the fear as our dwarf priests couldnt press fear ward
TFW we had Tremor totem
would have had anything for that, like 1 min of asking for fear ward then just going fuk it ill do it myself
I mean, we still stance danced
then the healers shout at me for getting chunked a little be more for being in zerker stance 1 sec to long

just flash of light palys ez
👏
i actually hoping in on the weekend as my friends want to chill on TBC and i dont want to lvl again
did a ZG
was actually pretty fun
POG
vintage m+
and wod before that perfect expansion to just raid log and the raids are actually good as well
with the necrolord changes coming for the banner, what about the soulbinds?
any good?
Emnenenni
Animenemmeni
Anemumene
only really one soulbind i bleieve
STRENGTH
and that enmemeneienei
anemone?
Emeni spotted 🔫
making a WA that plays altered beast "Power Up" when I press banner.
Hello everyone, question. My mythic group is pushing keys 13s+ and our tank is having some trouble surviving mobs. We tried a 13 SD last night and in the first two packs he got slapped and died. This is with shield wall, IP and demo up.
Cuz that dude gets buff
Emeni competes with Hemnir?
when you grab an orb
probs standing in the traps on the floor
This is his armoury. Can someone take a look and see if it’s a gearing issue? Maybe stats?
The skirmishers spawn animate weapons, those do magic dmg, he has to be aware of that
echoing thrust and traps are also very dangerous
Those should be avoided
also logs would help better than linking char
^
we need logs and numbers
haste after killing an enemy is good in m+
Gotcha! Sorry, we’re quite new. I assume Warcraft logs?
yus
Yeah you'd have to log your run.
yeah, if you're parsing and uploading them.
Yare yare daze
But like, 99% Of the time, if the tank is using CDs
btw tip for the skirmishers if u stun them mid cast of anime wep
they wont cast it again
its the DPs's fault for not providing support/ interrupts
lol
Alright, I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks for the helpful advice
Details can also help determine what's eating your ass
I’ll be back with some logs
what’s the best way to practice tanking - should I just head into a mythic dung? im a 1500 rio healer, but tanking is a diff beast
So, avoid echoing thrust, avoid standing in the traps, stun the cast of the skirmishers that spawns animate weapons.
Those are the 3 things to do on those 2 packs
Also the most dangerous packs in the dungeon pretty much
just get tanking my dude
and also - reprisal seems good... any reason to choose that over the wall?
dont worry about mistakes or anything
Echoing Thrust and Traps are basically u ded
Many reasons, for m+
In m+ after 9.0.5 yeh
oh, I need to read up on the 9.0.5 (potential) changes
compared to other tank legos

Reprisal will be bis for m+ in 9.0.5, more min maxy shit will come later down the line
the wall seems boring tbh
Which leggo isn't?
all our leggos are boring
They're of minimal impact
welcome to our legendary selection
lolol
Charging and intervening to get SB is also not relevating
Will get muscle memory in like 15min
Maybe less
sb?
Shield Block
Shield block
our core mitigation
gotcha
as long as SB is up and we're facing our foes
very little hurts us
Like, doing a DoS +15 lastnight, and my party dies to bursting, I had a matriarch and 2 hatchlings left alive attacking me
I was still standing there tanking them when they ran back
i was inspired by healing a prot warrior the other day who took close to 0 damage the entire dungeon
Surprising isn't it.
he was hopping around a lot with leap, intervene
we are the 'worst' tank apprently 🤔
the tank meta is formed around kiting and DPS which we are the worst at.
if I’m honest, that was my first prot warrior encounter >+15
errrr
Guardian Druids are close
i think bear wins at that
You venthyr again yet?
bears in incarn can go up to like 15 stacks of IF
Lol
literally take negative damage
yeah I know, I ❤️ my guardian
but always warrior at heart
Guardians and their fancy 11second CD on ironfur
with erm, Barkskin
and that torns thing
with the HoTW healing
we are def tanky though ^.^
I'd say you're stealing my thunder here
but Blizzard already stole it in 8.1
RIP Thunderclap
? We're pure % Mitigation, so our mitigation just reduces bigger numbers by bigger numbers.
erm yeah after 8.1
ignore pain doesnt scale with dmg taken though
I quit when they nerfed it (unrelated guild poofing)
It reduces dmg by 50% up to your IP cap?
I mean, 50% is 50%
it just happens that IP cast is tiny
compared to how it once was
it still good for smoothing
We scale really well with high physical dmg intake because we block for insane amounts
when it comes to loot specialization - any reason to go fury over prot? doesn’t even seem like you exclusively get 2-handers as fury
Crit block and the 20k hit is only like 3k with IP up
If you want 2h you go arms
wow til
why didn’t I think of this
Cuz people like to ignore arms
any trinket diffs?
I feel like you never go fury loot spec for any reason
No they're both dps specs
aye, fury is useful for avoiding 
but fury is useless for getting that 226 scales with socket + leech
You mean speed
but the buff lasts for TWO MINUTES
yeah you go prot in dos for the trinket disappointment
avoidance is the only tertiary worth stacking
lolol
Indestructible
When we're all necrolord we'll have slime that fixes our armor while we fighht!
As Kyrian your armors already immune thans to miko
Holy crap, in 9.0.5 we'll get 500 anima from our souls quest
woot, wonder what else I can not buy with that resource
TFW currencies don't have a point.
Like offering to pay me with Monopoly money.
wdym, I've looted tons of white cloth with my Queen's Conservatory
Which would award anima!
you guys help out with mythic log reviews here?
or in #449510248579858432
I thought your job was swearing at your group
i missed that channel, ty
We haven't played in 2 weeks

Literal raid log andy
will do lol
he also sighs in dissapointment and disgust as a side hustle
Truuu
Where the real money is.
😳 on a slightly different website
would you go triple end if emeni on necro? 👀
or i guess the fc while moving isnt worth losing pot for
hi should i take Gladiator Neck ( 220 socked crit/Versa) or my 207 Gaizzelle´s Spiked Collar (Haste/Versa)
well its probs the thrid best for us as mastery isnt great for us, but if and thats a big if you can get the use of the buffing mechanic every 2 minutes fallessly its probably the best for raiding @outer bronze
220
thx @strong forum
aye just looking from raid pov. might be rerolling from gdrui to pwar for 9.1. just looking at soulbinds and non seem that great compared to the NF options (burrs and first strike)
Traitor
its not what it looks like

Man this JY key is actually so fucking hilarious
well the issue is its likely u might have to go like stand at range so you can minmax buffing thos players likely boomkins so u wont do anything while banner is up
Fuck that
not worried about that at all, not too bothered about personal performance for prog, will just do as asked
They move to buff or no buff
yer but if that happens its likely melees will take it or the other tank so then the banner looses it value
and banners not the best for that for us
If you run out to range to buff em with banner you're either simping for your girl raid leader that plays boomy/mage or you're inting
nah im here for quick prog and ce dawg
it just picks the 2 closest people when casted, they get the buff for the full duration even if they move out of range
as i said im not worried abt banner usage at all, was just commenting on soulbinds for necro seeming pretty meh
they are meh
emeni is decent
wondered if im undervalueing emeni or if others are just even worse
rest are garbo truck
That's kinda been the story for necro all xpac
fair enough, cool
pretty sure you take heirmir for the serrated spaulder o think its called
no you'd take heimir for marrowed gemstone and reveries
on mythic hungering, should you just let him punch you after taunt swap without shield block?
because seemingly right after he casts ejection
and mostly wastes its duration
should i use https://www.wowhead.com/item=184840/hymnal-of-the-path 194 trinket or 226 pulsating stoneheart
what should i wear? Hungering mythic trinket or SLG hc trinket?
Its a toss up
I'd say hungeing for str gain
SLG probably pulls ahead with a SLG group
this @narrow sparrow keep tracking the timers even without bolster you can achieve massive block %
you guys still use 4 patchworks to sim for aoe ?
if i wanted to see my aoe in a prolonged 4 target situation yeah probably.
IDT aoe sims for prot really mean anything. most of our st is just our aoe buttons but like on 1 target
you wouldnt stop using SS procs in big aoe pulls unless you're not tanking any of it
which is why free execute needs to be added to the revenge proc then it could actually change based on st vs aoe 🙂
Or they could make it so revenge does the same total dmg to 1 target that it does to 5
boring
😉
give us another button
Fantastic
to hit with semi regularity
I'd rather not have button bloat, and just fix the core spec
that isn't button bloat?
adding another button?
you should be using execute under 20%
Yes
is necro going to be bis as prot when 9.0.5 comes? im about to switch my cov from venthyr but no clue if i go nf or necro

making execute be usable outside venth/20% isn't bloat
Yeah, doesn't really give us a strong offensive dump tho
I mean I'm all for execute being usable always but prot pallys might complain that we might come within a k of them 😛

Would take a lot more.
Execute is pretty "meh" itself, as evident that even during our "time to shine" on the DPS specs we're still pretty far behind half the other classes in single target.
It needs to have teeth to have any real impact, which it doesn't really anymore, yeah it hits hard compared to the rest of our kit...but an ability that hits for 20% more than a pillow is still just a heavier pillow.
Their design goal with prot seemd to be a choice between offense or defense for our resources, and that was fine, back when if we focused on offense, we actually did appreciable damage.
Now its more like a choice between holding aggro against your DPS's burst at the cost to your healer or defense.
I mean if I go all out during execute I can hold 5k so yeah within a k 😛
I'm saying if we could use execute at will
we would probably be second highest single target tank if that was a thing
I'd be more interested in a way to hold aggro vs DPS burst that doesn't involve me having Aftershock off CD
ravager?
Fire mages rip right off of Ravager
its a good upkeep tool
but need some hngggg kaboom
idk only people I lose aggro to occasionally are rets
I lose aggro to rets too, but thats more my interest in watching them die
intervene them then charge in? lol
Thats basically what I was doing with the firemage
I was just hititng my intervene focus macro constantly
if AA was up though
It wasn't an issue
TFW Make Shockwave hit that hard
BUt still it comes back to Xath - even if we had execute for 100% of a fight, we'd still need to make the choice between offense or defense, since we're only REALLY tanky when we press the right buttons.
So increasing our damage in situations where its trivial anyway
Or and hear me out here
I just happen to "forget" to taunt for a few extra stacks off the unkillable dh
and use that rage for execute 😛
I literally let my dh co-tank/gm/RL eat 10 stacks of scorn while i spam executes for my parse
Need actual applications.
I actually did legit do that on hungering but we talked about it at the start and it was planned
MY paladin co tank does that to me sometimes, because he takes damage like wet cardbard in P3
That's an insult to wet cardboard
I know
Meanwhile I'm holding Sire for 18 stacks while we wait on a Bres
That wasn't a kill. Held him long enough for the Bres, but not much healers could do when I was taking ~26000 shadow a second. 4% wipe felt bad man.
lol
If I had a 2nd charge of SW I could've survived it
now if you were alliance that might mean you were missing out of hof because of it
UW use maybe?
lol no
total /s
don't even joke or some poor dude is going to come and see oh 2 charge shield wall that's good right
A lot of warriors came in and asked
when the change was first put in
if it was raid wide
it'd be great tho
its group
so its garbage
Also if the charges were not consecutive
literally gaining just htat 1 extra charge per fight feels bad, when TW gives you 4 extra charges in the same time period.
and gives you a ton more rage.
Seismic for life
I feel that the damage boost will be underwhelming
75% still feels "Meh"
doesn't address ST either
so its a weak option for tyrannical weeks.
if it was just "Revenge casts a 2nd time for 75% damage"
big 👍
I'm telling you we need a leggo for protection only that allows execute at any health level
then we can go crazy with greeding for logs and it will be great
im telling you that should be a talent, and they should fix the base class before giving us borrowed power
COuldn't make it prot only, since they impact the same spells cross spec. So, we share arms spell ID on execute.
☝️
Well it would need to be prot only because it would be broken if it could be used by arms 😛
ACtually, it'd bring arms out of the dumpster
very far from broken
for PVP You'd be sacrificing stuff like Unhinged, so not a big deal there.
On fights that favor it
along with fury
on fights that favor it arms is insane
fury on slg is as well but fuck that fight
Lets ask how our ST is
Sludgefist?
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26#boss=2399
arms on sire if your tanks play around it is sickeningly good
Yes, cleave we're fine and dandy
slude is unique
ST is where both specs are painfully weak
yes but very few wall bosses are pure single target
beyond pain really, humiliatingly
tbh they need to remove buffs and and the magic/phys debuffs
then classes can actually be balanced
This is true, so back to what I said - Execute for 100% wouldn't be broken on arms, it would actually address a glaring gap in our ST damage potential
of course it never stops mages from being allowed to wreck face totally not salty
Dude execute from 100% would be broken as heck lols
What the issue is with balance is they increased NPcs armor by a boatload this Xpac
and didn't adjust classes that are purely melee to compensate it
lets not have a legendary like that. Itll just promote bad tanking practices LOL
tanks just using all their rage on execute lol
but pika that's the fun of it 🙂
Yeah, like you'd see a ton of warriors be venthyr
yeah, thtas what seismic is for 😉
it would be hilarious
and then u run the ashen jugg conduit
yeah in M+ not in raids
If I could cleave condemn
infinite damage
You say that as though I don't run ashen jugg already 😛
never leave
monka
I wish the condemn was an aura buff for prot
but then venth would be insane so 😦
Imagine - Revenge! makes your next ST attack hit up to 5 targets
looks at paladins
yeah the fix is to make all tanks do more damage than dps, not to bring down pally dps xD
But they were fine with it for like, an entire Xpac Plka
let me take you back to MoP
oh god yes pleae
i can fk with that
thats a good change
the only time I ever voluntarily queued for lfr was to spam lei shen kills
decently balanced and would promote a fun play style
Oh
even better change Best served cold to do that~ (Revenge causes your next shield slam or execute to hit up to 4 additional targets for 75% damage, 100% damage when made free by a parry or dodge)
I honestly think for single target something simple that would help is just to make the free rev allow for a free execute instead
so a choice of aoe or st
I could live with that
also a decent change
so, sudden death for prot
They have a rule about allowing people who actually play warriors to work on them.
Its not allowed.
bruh if I worked at blizzard I would have already put in covenant changes with no cd for rl cash and gotten employee of the month
there's no way a 226 gluttonous spike is better than 220 SLH right
this game is trolling
another week of stygia
last week it was 2 cloaks 2 helmet and a pvp trinket
thats what u get for raid logging
now a cloak and a dogshit trinket

yeah that's full on raid logging my bro
Not everyone can get a bis piece every week from doing a single 14 😛
is the healing from spike noticeable at all is it another passive trinket you forget you have on
it doesa damage
i swear
that darkfrost though
what about it
it's really nice what do you still need?
i need artificer chest for tmog
oh nome did I show you what I got from my last minute 14?
😠
dont think so
🙂
got that and socketed death god's ring with avoidance in the past two weeks
Literally had my first HC sire kill, and did a single 15 to try and bait a trinket last week.
Got a 226 cloak and 213 Legs, Belt and Shoulders.
I knew it was going to be a cloak.
because my vault requires at last one cloak, and it has to be the highest ilvl
I just need mythic sire ring for rings which I'm never getting lol
Just do 10 15s ez 👏
Or just do 1 14 a week and get a bis piece each week I prefer that
I might actually need to start doing more now because I have fewer and fewer slots to fill
u mean this ring i got 😉
I'm starting to warm up to this dungeon set, I think
feeling like that
SD and ToP still blow, though
Working audit shift sucks 😦
Not even like difficulty wise, just unfun
i have HC version of that so thats close enough tbh
only 17 haste
actually a full socket
wtf
thats so much
hard as fuck to find high end raiding with my schedule
i mean what is high end
correct
Paw with the boomer joke
is there a list somewhere of abilities that will be blocked by shield block?
ouch man
for example, in NW, can i shield block tenderize?
exactly what i was looking for, ty
so just to be clear, if i cast spell reflect on a reflectable cast, does it hit the enemy with it or is it only avoiding damage?
some deflect, some reflect
The sheet should note on the side if it's a deflect
tell me again why people aren't playing warrior? is it damage output? lol, my first impression is that they're pretty strong
is Anima Field Emitter good for prot?
very high skill floor, not very rewarding in terms of dmg output, lack of SelF heALiNg
thats the point
many dont get
🙂
theyre stuck in BDK mindset that big healing = big tank
Doing m+ on fortified weeks with the BDK is poop inducing scary with how bouncy the HP bar is
going from warrior "HP bar doesn't move with SB up" to "Oh god I hope I can reach my DS button before the next melee swing to heal the 80% Of my health I Just lost!"
Only Burs can relate

I need to find that Bear image we had for BFA beta...with the shield and helmet on.
burr is for fite?
BUr is 4 tank
because at that point in BFA Beta
warriors were not.
Talk bout dead talents? We literally had tiers that were missing 2
remember indom before it was cool 😦
Early legion veng weaving
Remember Inspiring Presence when it was cool
I Mean, sure the conduit was nice
but its not #1 on the healing meters nice
Member when IP stacked and exorsus stacked 2 of em for xavius and ruined everything
lol that might be the fastest I have seen something nerfed that blizz thought would be a nothing
bro i miss inp presence
what a talent
It was mainly for cenarius Xavius was a joke
Sigh i miss damage though tbh
prot warrior feels amazing rn until you look at the meters
What you don't like dropping 99s and getting beat by pallys at 60?
that sentence is literally all my favorite specs rn
just change pally with a relevent spec in its role
what are your favorite specs?
sub prot destro
wait but destro always has a niche
you guys think it would help out us prot warriors with keeping aggro if they made some changes to revenge? like reducing its rage costs?
sure but its worse at its niche than aff rn
I have not had issues keeping aggro in general tbh
rev isn't enough burst threat for it to mean anything also yeah I don't have aggro issues
only issue I have is my single target makes me sad
Reducing the rage cost of revenge would increase our threat gen tho
i mean yeah
yeah but threat gen isn't an issue just damage
Threat is mostly fine though.
Outside of snap in the first few globals (which is usually just mongo DPS and we have aoe taunt for that)
ONly time threats been an issue is when dps pop cds without me and yeah challengeing shout was going to be my follow up
idk i just feel like we got completely bent rn compared to the other tank specs lol. we have to talent ravager and if we dont have spear of bastion we are pretty much fucked
NF ability is good threat too
I feel bent too, just not cause of threat tbh
give me ashen hollow plz
Ravager is a good talent as well so no remorse about picking that in m+
like me personally and im sure 90% of this server would agree that if you multi role as a warrior its brutal
Aoe dam honestly isn't bad but could be beefier
Ehhhhh
Not having spear loses a safetynet for sure
no argument
but im p sure most of the higheer-rated prots here are venthyr
im talking specifically about condemn by the way
at least Plka is
Condemn aoe threat is non existent so yeah that's an issue
I don't think they're gonna change up revenge tho
and it consumes our rage that we need for defensives
thats the slap tbh
yeah
Better fix would be fury execute and having revenge cleave our next ST attack like ww does for fury
fury execute would be nice hard agree
idk about cleave
we dont exactly need cleave
and if executes a gen its sort fo redundant (in that you;d already make spce for it in the rotation)
I don't either
if they gave us the fury execute honestly would be completely game changing. it would be so damn good
But if I look at vdh and ppal dmg condemn cleave could be juicy
fury execute would be so sick
w/ condemn for sure
My main issue is just ST dmg atm cuz I'm a prot main
of course then it wouldn't hit anywhere near as hard
yeah give more single target damage 🙂
Thoughts on whether or not the banner changes could make prot warrior actually desirable for m+
finding ST damage for prot is difficult cause its like
all of our damage is aoe
Or Shield slam
just crank SS
Its this
10k ss crits when 🙂
thats the answer
I think that is the most straightforward answer
30% aura buff for SS
It's alrdy highest prio
And it wouldn't rly affect any other synergies afaik
(doesn't rly help aoe snap which was the original point, but I don't struggle with that anyway)
I would greatly prefer the damage to be in some kind of spender tbh
just make execute 100% usable in prot
I enjoy that our resource is a trade off between offence and defense
will also raise the skill cap substantially with knowing when you can greed or not since execute burns a lot more rage than rev
They can't give us slam since it's revenge for us
make Revenge do more damage if it only hits one target?
without adding anything, they should just make revenge do more damage when it hits 1 target
I don't think execute always being useable will ever happen
on average how much are you guys using revenge in a pull?
Yeah I think ikari mentioned having revenge do 5 Target dmg when it only hits one target
often
I dont have a number for you
like even if its not procing you use it a lot?
Yeah
but if i have cds up and the pull isnt 90% casters
Yes
almost all of my non SB rage will go into revenge
Slam revenge
Lots of folks overuse IP when they're not in any real danger
literally me lol
^^
The other thing about not having a big spender is it feels really annoying trying to burn rage when not tanking to not overcap at times
DoS and first packs in mists
Obviously SB is highest defensive prio (against block able dmg)
Use IP
Enjoying being weaker because we have to pick, while no other tank does.
im glad i joined this discord its giving me a lot of insight
like you get your free rev proc then you get an ss proc and you haven't burned any rage in multiple gcds
i enjoy the decision
the answer is always more revenge
Not that the tuning puts us worse while still being forced to make that decision
technically VDH does but in reality not really because their design is so poor
Well I would too if I felt that actually making that choice produce good DPS
as does bear but not in mass aoe
TFW they dont?
SpB vs Soul Cleave
uh
technically you get more defenses from soul cleave
also of course the whole overcap style
if you have spb you dont cleave
soul cleave is massive healing, the big AE attack is a 1min CD that triggers their best defensive? THeir brand is a defensive that does damage?
but again, in reality you don't really make that hcoice
vdh can basically turn their brain off if playing the optimal spec
SpB is a big heal with big damage?
vdh is busted. even the vdh mains say it is
I see no choice there
Whats the metamorphisis uptime like lol
SpB does less general healing than Soul Cleave and doesn't get you CDR with the leggo
70?
Bears do I guess.
the problem is that the flow of the spec doesn't work so it's braindead
bears share our resorce and also their spender is stinky doodoo
bears basically pick ST or mit, which is hardly a choice
in AOE you just mit, in ST you go with what is needed
Yeah but bears at least have burst
lmao
thanks plka!
Warrior just has the most awkward spending, but also the best thought out in some ways
in that you make real decisions
until new reprisal
@brisk notch my main is Holy Priest and alt prot warrior, good thing I don't like M+ anyway 😄
warr is just kinda missing a “press this to be a god for a little bit” button
not that every tank needs meta or bonestorm or something but like
which lego are you guys using the most? wall or stomps?
cmon man give us BFA avatar at least
I mean, survival wise we do
honestly just give rank 4 Avatar with a rolled in UF
Pressing TC 🤮
Bro give me surrender to madness as prot warrior and i will fucking take it
We need a major offensive spender raid wise
I wonder who that 1.1% is
revenge is not it
I dont give two whole shit about my not dying
and execute is only it during the last 20%R
TC being 5 whole unscaling rage is big sad
flip the script and give us a button that makes rage generate constantly but if it hits 100 we die
TC using a GCD todo an auto attacks worth of damage is more sad.
They could rename TC to :force auto attack: and
Nah that would be easy to deal with just burn an ip
it would fit
I wouldn't mind the damage as much if it was stomp the ground and get real mad
or if Show of Force was crunky
honestly kinda cool ngl probably doesnt work cause IP exists but the concepts sick
would work for non-prot, cuz yeah infinite IP spam would ruin it haha
maybe something for fury some day
IP is class wide now, really just a risk for fury
we need a spender of some sort for prot that single target focused
i agree completely
only prot has no cd though
“Go Ape Shit”
Fury and arms is like 12? 8? something
and is a big rage dump
really? Huh, learn something new
like 40 rage
New lego - "Reflects a portion of damage equal to block value back to the attacker"
I mean worse comes to worse just bring back heroic strike but amped up
warrior DPS fixed!
I mean, if you want to be able to scale in ST you could just make Execute crunky
hmm
Execute already hits like a truck but it's only usable part of the fight
it's not like PLD or VDH have big ST spenders either
we need a base rage spender
pld's rotation does a fuckton of damage as is
and vdh playing normally won't cap shit
the problem is that rage gen in ST is super skewed, yeah
call me a weirdo but.. I kinda want to be able to hit devastate some more

