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ZOOM
that doesnt want to zoom
I'm not a numbers man
pwar got a decent chunk better, but uprising, idk
Yes, and yes I'm sure but bet it's temporary
We're going to see a lot of FOtM chasers roll prot and then give up when they can't figure out why they're getting flattened in +8s
This discord has gotten significantly more full over the last few weeks, if that's any indication
It has.
Imo, most people will not enjoy the reprisal playstyle
I like it
Even tho everyone in here seems okay with it so far
little wonky at times
Fotm people will get annoyed by it easily
Fotm? Following the meta?
Aha 😂
I'm sure my pally friend will be pleased
FOTM is just people who roll whatever is doing best, even without knowing WHY its "the best"
a bad warrior is easier to heal than a bad DH
should you line up every aftershock with avatar as NF with AM?
who can't even use devastation properly
You can, the breakpoint being around 12seconds
if you have to delay longer than that its not worth it
you'll miss casts per run
Prot is hard, I’m really jealous of you guys who can play the spec good.
God, I wanna swap Night Fae but also don't wanna end up in 5 night fae dungeons 😄
gotcha, thanks. i assume that you are running the nf conduit too? @uneven mason
apes I tell you.
yeah Nes
mostly because what other potency conduit am I going to use? Ashen?
lol true
I cringe because sometime I want to try other builds
hey any boys tried Necro yet?
but all the other good ones have 2 potency in them
and that isn't even close to feasible for prot
I’ve tried necro today tanka, between buffing group and fleshcraft im happy
@uneven mason I was helping a guilty level last night and bro
The amount of fotm prot woyers leveling rn

Most of them running dumb talent builds
Raises hand
So did you come from kyrian? Missing spear?
I’m a FOTM reroller, went straight to necro so admittedly I don’t have the knowledge of what I’ve lost but I wouldn’t change from necro tbh now, fleshcraft is consistently 2nd highest healing in M+ and banner is so fun if you play premades
youre not running indom?

cuz like
this is what my healing breakdown looks like
idk how fleshcraft could come even close to that
I guess I’m doing low enough keys to not be doing IP often enough :p
Vulpera OP
🦊
ITs not so much about fleshcraft as about the buffing of the party I guess
Which one?
that fleshcraft is 2nd on healing
how big is the fleshcraft shield
like 25k
40% hp?
It can be like 60k
Edit: I'm bad at math. My highest is like 34k
its comparable to bloodscale tbh
I’m getting a fleshcraft shield once a minute ish and tryna buff it when I can
The fact they buffed scale to me is still nutty, lol
its not a scale specific buff
they addressed how the hidden values get rounded
I know, they buffed a bunch of non stat trinkets
not even that
Is it possible to parse as a necrolord?
they just changed how values get rounded, and that in turn buffed secondary scaling trinkets by 10%ish cuz they rounded up, and nerfed mainstat scaling trinkets by like 0.01% cuz they got rounded down
they just aura buffed every bit of dmg, healing, absorb on raid & dungeon trinkets
interesting
no?
tf is an OPC
wasn't it by like 1 crit or something
it's dead
🦀
yes
but Is there anyone here whom actually tried necro coming from kyrian on like, 17ish keys?
Plka
the fact that it stays on the first 2 targets that were hit by it, is actually pretty nice for QoL
what charge/intervene macro u guys using? i saw someone posted one that priortizes your mouse over target but it was like 5,000 messages ago lol
Hey warriors, quick question: i've recently started tanking 15s-16s on my offspec (I'm arms venthyr) and I was wondering which soulbind was best to use between theotar and draven as I keep niya for arms
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead, exists]Charge;[@mouseover, help, nodead, exists]Intervene;[harm, nodead, exists]Charge; [nodead, help, exists]Intervene```
On that macro
It will randomly target whatever harm near you and charge
I've pulled bosses like that :p
I prefer those skills split
/cast [@mouseover, help] Intervene; [@mouseover, harm] [harm] Charge; Intervene
Is what I have
Aza does yours automaticly target smtng If you dont have a target?
#showtooltip Intervene
/cast [@mouseover,help.nodead] Intervene
something like that
No, not sure how you'd go about that, Tanka, never looked into it
I'd feel weird about intervening a target at random
yeah thats cringe
Its not intervening targets on random
Its the charge you gotta worry about
hahah
How good is the Pulsating stoneheart as a defensive trinket?
you could make it intervene like
party5 or something
if you wanted but still p bad
trash
I've been using this
#showtooltip Charge
/cast [target=mouseover,help,exists,nodead]Intervene;Intervene
/cast [target=target,harm,exists,nodead]Charge;Charge
:/ Ok
😔
exists and nodead are redundant fyi
it is what it is
err
#showtooltip Charge
/cancelaura Bladestorm
/cast [exists, nodead, harm] Charge
/cast [@mouseover, exists, help, nodead] Intervene
/cast Hamstring
exists and harm
I use this
harm checks for exist
ok thx
Can an argument be made for Best Served Cold how that revenge i used more frequently ?
ya defo
yes
Definitely, revenge damage is back up top now
if youre using reprisal or seismic you play BSC
Any venthyr prot warriors? Can't decide what soulbind tree to use
With reprisal, I feel like I never get Hold your Ground up
whats the best soulbind for nercolords?
Nadjia
I simp for my queen, Emina.
whats what i was think for the bonus for the banner right?
It is not the best nor the worst, its simply what I use. If i'm banner whoring for my premade, i might aswell dedicate to it.
Fleshcraft while moving is BIS QOL
Now people have had chance to try the changes out, what legendary is better for overall content?
I'm not gonna be pushing 18s but I wanna raid and m+

Ty
reprisal has been great for m+ and even some raid fights, but Wall is still the go-to for many/most raid fights
^
I do intend to get both, but I levelled a new warr to try out tanking as a necro (I enjoy venthyr fury to much to swap entirely) so trying to decide what I take first
i started reprisal, it is incredible for early gearing proccess
Yeah I'm thinking that is prob my best bet initially
Perma SB uptime as long as you intervene and charge on Cd
Ye
Shockwave leap charge if in longer fights the way to go for it?
I intervene a ranged and re-charge.
Trying to figure out how to use my abilities effectively
Isnt that overlapping the buffs though
Doesn't matter if i sack 1 revenge, i'm out for the SB time.
Or do you get enough uptime regardless?
Ye I wasnt concerned about the revenge it was sb I was concerned about mostly
Or intervene a melee and take storm bolt 😝
As long as you dont cap your timer (x3 of initial duration) then ur good
storm bolt is really fuckin good
Storm bolt is reccomendable, yes.
Yeah taking doubletime instead of storm bolt in m+ might feel bad
Do people generally still take stormbolt?
Cool
I'm so glad legendary powers are account wide also
Having to get them all again would have been annoying
We've been outed boys
i demand answers
someone @ him
I smell a rat

Why is that Listed as a bug?? Its clearly a feature!
Of course, the bug was saying 4s
Hey! I just leveled a warrior alt to push keys. currently like 1900 io (Rogue). Do you think for high keys that necro will be needed for the defensive?
no
So kyrian damage is high enough that it should be fine if you dont have a doomkin convoke with every flag?

i did D:
I mean Plka was doing all 21/22's before we even got the banner change so
its obviously not needed
the thing is banner isnt as big as ppl think it is some guy was in here early changing back just because it didnt buff as much as he thought it did
@deep steppe Thanks! Im thinking the snare prob helps for kiting more than the necro shield will prevent
its like what, 3% max on some classes?
3.6 which is boomkin according to sims
on 5 min fight
And thats including convoke
Idk it feels like Necro is super niche and comp dependant to get good use while phial for Kyrian is just giga broken all the time
So they need to buff it to 750mastery
its 3% Single target
Exactly
^Me to my dps this last week
Mixed with the fact that the opprotunity cost for Prot warrior is basically "Youre less excited to play fury or arms now"
You sit back and spam your moonfire I'll do all the heavy lifting as usual pal
PLUS it has the F O R B I D D E N S Y N E R G Ywith reprisal
So yesterday someone posted a chart on who benefited from banner. Does anyone have that chart?
PLUS no one else wants to play necrolord

We can't talk about forbidden synergy otherwise they'll make a wowhead article on it and get it removed
ill find it
y
LOL
Bro idk
@ionic fern is slacking
also cause Fuu over there probably posted it to get people to stop asking about it
Rogues really think they're gonna get checks
Thanks man
1-2% dam increase from us?
i imagine it was more to answer "How much does banner give us :Poggers:????"
ROGUES DONT EVEN LIKE MASTERY
rogues dont even get into my keys, let alone my banner (if i had one) 
Rogues thinking they get invited to anything 
oh its the meme sin build lol
Rogues smell bad
If you haven't yet you should pin that chart if you can.
woooow D:
nah nah, when you're here, you're warrior
hi guys, if you have to choose between haste and versatility what do u pick
Y'all hung out in a sewer while we hung out with literal gods in legion
haste, but ilvl > secondaries
Skyhold Garden
im kinda low haste 16%, and i have my 207 neck low haste big versa, but i have this 210 neck with big haste and small mastery
would u wear the neck with high haste instead?
well yeah, i think like necro war prot is like ... nah, prefer nf
its higher ilvl so yes
cuz losing 130 vers feels big
Lowkey I think NF is giga slept on
what content are you doing? cause you dont need vers unless you're in like 20's
ye but its neck, so no str attach and its only 3 ilvl diff, we talking about losing 130 vers here
Yeah but like who cares
vers is literally a meme unless you're in the super high key group
130 verse is like ~3%?
im undusting my protwar rn, so doing 17/18 this week in planning of trying 20+ nxt week
so you're losing 1.5% dr and getting bigger blocks and more haste
If you want
I can just say "use big verse"
and you can use big verse
cause frankly at the gear level you're comparing
its not going to make a difference
ye tbh im just sad i have to choose
I'd go haste too.
btw
what are your thought about pika playing Sanguine Vintage 233
and no hakkar trink
@patent osprey whats with this 233 sanguine vintage plays
Im guessing its straight ilvl
i mean its a phat absorb
half the cd as well
ye but i thought hakkar trinket was just
deffo better
i even remember one day coming here asking about this trinket and everyone answered me its complete dog shit
without being able to compare i'd expect it to be a couple things
press x
- he might not have a 226 scale
100% remember it, the argument was like, <its not enough absorb<
- idk what the absorb diff is between a 226 scale and a 233 vintage is
well a 220 vintage is 17k
and a 207 scale which i have is 22k or 40k on a pack
so its a big difference
- On bosses, I.E. one target, i bet a 233 vintage > a 1 target scale
I'm callin it now that its just strength
ye thats my guess as well
yeah thats prolly the best thing about vintage
and you could maybe even game the healing aspect of it
in certain spots
like hitting it right after a big hit to heal you up 6sec later
more dam
well
so like what if you intervene ur co tank on sludge
I think it really dependson what your group looks like
cause if you're the only melee
do u get punched in the teeth
You tank both hits and die
i think u just bite the bullet and lose a revenge proc
cause the 4s of SB is effective rage as well
?
It'd probably work out better to stagger the CDs. Maybe with DT it's not an issue, but I'd prolly never take DT or SB
or repost tham and pin them so someone that isnt me has the post credit
was doing yesterday wasnt killing me 🤷
I'll understand 😦
Don't think anyone cares about post credit
Were you taking both hits?
I do
who the fuck is bullfango
wasnt really caring cause my DH co tank was spiking like crazy
where i wasnt really at all
SB op
like legit 90/95% blocked hits doesnt really hurt, but i never got to enrage
so if i get to enrage and it hits too hard
ill just swap back
no probs
speaking of sludge, is there a way to consistently make sure chain slam targets don't accidentally get bopped by giant fists
me and co tank are standing on top of each other but some ranged still occasionally get hit
Tell them to not be dumb?
Never had that issue
this but nicer
That sounds very heavily like a raid leader problem
is it because they're not moving out right away
that or they're moving the wrong way
The only way it happens is if they're moving through you guys
you should have a range guy calling movements for things like that
ah ye that makes sense - ty
Like have tanks on one side of boss
Everyone else on other
Shouldn't have an issue that way
yer make sure the range dont run through u
Always had a healthy distance between us and the dps
literally how does this happen?
Tbh if the ranged are getting hit by fists when running out after chain slam it IS partially a tank positioning problem. It takes no effort at all for tanks to position so that they're out of the way and the ranged can run straight back
Basically if the ranged get pulled in over your head, it's partially your fault. It's a different story if the ranged are being Mongos and getting knocked into you or running through you despite you being out of the way
with Reprisal what would be the better conduits to use then? im NF
"if" dps are always mongos wdym
Mongos or not, the mechanic should literally just be a straight line for them in and out
you running Niya?
reprisal dosnt affect anything
Take the Cov Potency
i think its the same ones now but i opt into the intervene finesse one now
Understood. Yes im running Niya @sterile moss
last row you can swap between Unnerving and safegaurd for the haste or for burrs
obviously you can put unnerving on the vertex instead if you prefer it
Always burrs 
I wouldn't give up burrs it's really good ST dmg which we're kinda lame at
will do. Thanks a bunch
Theres a lot to be said for Niya giving even more passive stats on a spec thats a hardcore slut for more
the bigger loss imo is having to pick between unnerving and stalwart
does ip even count as a healing spell?
hey guys, question, does anyone have a macro to cast intervene on focus?
Oh it procs off indom? That's nice
yes but i mean like it also procs off your out of combat HP/5
that shit'll proc on anything
thanks, didn't know that
FWIW i would also not give up burrs
But its more that Burrs + Unnerving is better than haste + safeguard, IMO
BUrrs go BRRRRR
where on raidbots do you compare soulbinds?
top gear
Aside from the trinket from DoS, what other trinkets are tanks running for mitigation?
ty
In M+ or raids? In raid on prog fights I'm using Sires tank trinket; but for actual 'mitigation' there's ? only the armor kit thing? (oh god no) not sure what else? Everything else is a ward proc (barrier/whatever in wow) Healing procs, or damage.
anima field emitter is great defensively and offensively for haste
So a LOT Of tanks are running the SLG trinket, pure versa, also usually a couple people in group have it.
I like anima field as well, but I always now run my 226 spike, and either SLG, or the bell for M+ (for damage, not for survivability)
The mythic version of the anima spike went from a meh trinket to something really good; as far as a combined value of damage and healing.
leg (thewall) better on back or shoulder in terms of stats?
Shoulder
Which slot has more stats? 🙂
and of course you can always sim trinkets, but that only gives you dps. If you're looking for trinkets that have a combined damage and healing or mitigation utility you'll need to test yourself and weigh them. Be careful though..I don't think SimC/Raidbots is displaying damage values correctly for trinkets flagged as dps trinkets, while we're prot.
Back is the worst slot for stat budget
bruh is it just me or does the first plagueroc in PF pull a lot nowdays
didnt have that problem before
I always pull it because I've literally never had a run where some flipperhanded monkey didn't manage to get it
i had a lot of it before this patch
isnt the first plagueroc right next to the entrance?
Thanks guys. Gonna mess with prot more in keys now. I have a 226 emitter already and working on the DoS trinket. Ready to see what this new leggo is all about
Its about slapping
First plagueroc? did they put it back? or do you mean the one that flies overhead?
the one that sleeps
the one that flies overhead
^ that's what I thought. I've never had it pull..yet..
and I mean..it's literally going over my head as we go in...so?
idk
Is it pulling to YOU? or is someone else doing something that's aggroing it?
Yea I'm seeing that. free damage and mitigation is how I like playing warrior lol
Who remembers sidewinders in early legion?
Is there a Vers threshold? I'm sitting 28% right now
Going through a Halls of Valor just fine and the hunter suddenly dies because they pulled all the flying shit in the wolf area
noice - more vers is good verse imo
big fun with that roc
Perfect
No, we don't generally stack a stat at the cost of ilvl tho..but damn boy
LOL I was like "flying shit in halls of atonement..WTF..oh valor..? LEGION? OHHH yeah..."
"SIDE" winder, more like "IGNORES Z AXIS WINDER"
but just a general rule of thumb shadowar - 9.0.x we wont be hitting diminishing returns on any stat
DUDE speaking of legion..I had to bank, and retire my really nice hunger of the pack, with speed tertiary...after 3 expansions.
I could drop maybe 4% for more ilvl then. Only 225 leggo boots for now
like..WHY the FUCK did that get on their radar all of a sudden?
they fixed rounding
primary stat is king which means more ilvl is better
..rounding..?
also, TFW during prepatch the Antorus titan trinkets were BiS
That's what I was thinking. I'm sitting at 20% haste with 28% vers and it feels good to some degree. I just need to play around with it more and I'm sure the comfort in damage spikes will feel smoother.
hidden values of how trinkets scale, they rounded alot of trinkets up in their values, trinkets scaling with secondaries got rounded up
Yeah I know I had mine, and the shield proc from the trinket from..? aggramar? was like..still insane after the stat squish.
Yeah but that wasn't the issue with that, it just gave 30% run speed, which means it had permanent value.
yeah
if you want to say "well 30% in SL is..X run speed value.." then sure.
@pearl jetty here is the dr graph https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/989870.png you can see that at 30% dr hits but its not yet penalizing. at 40% though the penalty gets noticable
But either way; the way 'we' perceived it was...30% is 30% run speed forever...so that trinket was cool for a lot of stuff.
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And now what's killin' me is..there's a play style difference in using wall and reprisal...and I'm swapping them in and out now..and it takes me a min to adjust each time LOL
dude I feel awful doing this world quest where you have to kill any of the stewards in bastion..
i wish they gave Aggramar's Strides back
You mean Leaper?
Triple leap shoulders/ Run boots...is still the most fun combo of items warrior has ever had. Regardless of how 'powerful' any other items have been.
Gotta' go fast is warriors SHIT son!
lol..naw; even with the mount..maw is still garbage content. the zone looks AMAZING. seriously the design in there is really cool...but what you 'do' in there is so dogshit.
aggramar's stride on Corstilax in The Arcway was fucking amazing
Ah I see thanks for this
its just world content that i cant mount in
I also dont know if they fixed it
but initial sharding in there was actual horse shit
and single handedly makes warmode unplayable this expac
maw with the boys is top tier content
more like Nah with the boys
Catch me never in there fam
SMH 💪 i dont need a strong mind
It's still really bad, every now and then doing the weeklys I'll try and join a group for the..? Titan core thing...just because solo'ing him is like 5+ minutes long... and EVERY time I try and join people, it's fubared.
Twisting is kinda fun with Guilford assuming u are playing a class that is actually fun in torg
Guilford
Nicr
I dunno what guild is doing either; it's gotta' be a strat (focus target) issue. We got 5 gargoyles deep on council last night..and it was a CLEAN fight until then, like..0 deaths...maybe 1 brez early?
How have you guys done it? cleave garg 1, focus until dance on 2...focus boss/kite garg on 3 for kill?
Any Necro tanks? How is the exp?
🤫
none of us have any problems with that
It's just a bug; the problem is..I wonder how they're going to fix the bug. The lego gives..as it should; 'shield block' which of course just calls up the spell shield block..dunzo.
If they alter it to 4s, that means it has to be a new spell ID right?
Which means there's a likelyhood they screw up it giving the damage bonus to shield slam, just like last stand did...ALL of BFA.
all good and well
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You dont need to do the shards in any order right in HoA
welcome to the reprisal club!
Reprisal would be better on boots ya? Since you can get 233 from SLG
233 pants from them
cuz its not guaranteed that there will be higher ilvl legs from the last bosses of next tier right
yeah but do you actually kill SLG mythic?
and can get them
Progging on it now actually lol
then its up to you if you wanna commit 5k ash on them for now, and run into the possibility to recraft it in 9.1 for a different slot
Guess I'm thinking long term
i crafted legs
Long term legs is the way imo
I'm also suspicious that instead of letting us wear 2 leggos they'll have us add an additional effect to the same piece.
Sanguine Vintage is generally regarded as one of the weakest tank trinkets for other tanks, why do I see a bunch of prot warriors running it?
Because it's a pretty good defensive trinket #shrug
And you can get it at high ilvl 220/233
Short CD and it's another tool that helps mitigate predictable spikes (which is basically the name of the game for us)
Is it better than a Blood spattered scale for that though?
Not everyone has a high Ilvl scale
Or any scale
Or any scale
😢
RNGesus keeps being like "Yo I heard you praying for that trinket from DOS, HERE YA GO! - IQD 226 #13"
cool, thanks that's what I was mostly trying to figure out, it seems very similar to the scale, but I was wondering if there was a reason to use sanguine vintage over the scale
If I had a comparable ilvl scale I wouldn't use sang
TFW you get excited about your parse...until you realize theres literally less than 30 prot warriors in that bracket
Just gotta get one to drop so I can lvl it up
I'm praying for a sludge kill tonight so that we can reclear meme next week before the long slog of SLG prog
you know what I like this class discord better than the rogue one. This one is full of shit posters and rogues are just weebs
really its just one shit poster, but I post a lot
Yeah, foreverguy is pretty toxic

I think this is an awesome discord, I remember at the end of BFA we had a long discussion on how often warriors should take a shower and if you need to clean your armor or not.
When u parse a 90 on prot war but u never used rage in sheildblock that is the way

Mythic sludge is fun
This discord is the best
Sludge as paladin is fun
If you use rage on defensives how do you do dmg?
My monk co tank got benched for a prot paladin
SB Is a DPS increase
^
Reprisal
its stilla DPS increase
korayn the stronger choice in m+ with reprisal now?
Ah I get what your saying
U saying I coulda parsed 95
simming 200+ dps higher for me on add cleave
?
just a reminder that the warrior discord symbol used to not be shit.
What was it before
Hey boys, random question.
The Gargoyles in HoA that can be mind controlled. I know during Raging weeks the damage buff will carry over if you get it to 30% before you mind control it. Can anyone confirm if bolstering works the same way? Now that it has an extra 15 seconds duration it might be worth fitting into the route on a bolstering week.. just thinking
do you guys think they nerfing the reprisal back to 4sec?
Bolstering drops when you MC it.
Confirmed 100%?
regardless of if they do or not, reprisal is the go to for M+
cool, thanks!
also i have the same doubt
The nerf will scare many of the FOTM monkies off my parses
korayn now?
doesn't sound right
🤔
burrs goes brrrrrrrrrrrr
cool
but sim it
I simmed it in aoe which makes sense I was just wondering if it was a lot stronger now
reprisal, BSC and first strikes has a nice synergy but it's a question of how impactful it is
with a melee in the group it's very easy to get two empowered revenges off in the first strike window
as well as AA
I like korayn for fury
yeah it's big dmg for fury which is what got me wondering about it
Korayn is good for prot, too
it's always been good I'm just wondering what the impact of reprisal/BSC has with korayn's first strike is
if any, because niya is also extremely good
I think the issue is that the conduits you have ot take for Korayn endup being rather blech
For mythic sludge running wall and bolster how should we use avatar and demo shout?
really? Seems like you can take potency + finesse + 2x end
which is basically optimal?
it's same conduits as niya if you're going first strikes
nm yeah for some reason I was thinking of the dmg reduction conduits on Kora
I found using everything off cooldown and reducing dmg taken/overall out dmg through the entire fight was better than waiting for pillars to use them. If I remember my avatar lined up for the 3rd pillar that way. If you are kyrian and spear off start you also have it forr every pillar
it's what, 60s between charges on mythic or less?
then you can get pull/2/4 or 1/3/wall for avatar
every minute
roughly 1 min between ye
we're not up to him on mythic so I wasn't sure
Basically yeah. Reprisal is really good for that fight if you are a gamer and can charge without killing your co tank
The wall is safer tho, you can fill in your shield block gaps with shield wall and basically have no downtime in mitigation
if you intecept your tank there I would be kind of scared
any sludgefist reprisal players in here?
IDK, but if you say you can't charge on sludge Erga will call you names
👀
doin it as we speak
He doesn't hit terribly hard, you would take 2 good swings but you'll have ignore pain up and it will take pressure off your co-tank
Just intervene co tank 
when we did it i was intervening cotank with shield wall up only
if your cotank cancels intervene before the next swing
so we charge like madlads
Saving things like ancient Aftershock for pillars definitely makes a difference
force them to macro a cancelaura into every button
I accidentally ran seismic instead of reprisal for an hoa and while it got a bit dicey goddamn does that thing pump
Ok fam I just race changed from Vulpera to Highmountain Tauren for prog. My racial reduces damage by...19. Is it just me or does that seem underwhelming.
Nose for Trouble in keys was good.
They're not that impactful, just play what you like
HM honestly has one of the better racials but that's due to utility
along with gobbos
bull rush is super fun
oh good point
vulp's racial is honestly decent when you need to engage a group but don't necessarily have CDs
like a BDK vulp seems like a solid thing
exactly that's why i was using it for keys. but we are on last boss for raid at 4% so trying t oscrape everyting together to min max. prob gonna change right back when it's dead. i miss the bag slots and quick travel.
yeah, that ain't gonna matter for dps through a raid boss
Yo just got bullied by salty guys pretending they know everything in the game, they told me reprisal and AM was completely dumb and enough blabla
but you get to enjoy having awesome antlers
did you meet people like this since update ?
folk meta followers
when i said wasn't kyrian they went crazy too
idk, everyone I've talked to is happy, thinking of trying protwar or otherwise like the buff
i think.. they're stuck in time
Vulpera looks impressive over the course of a key but imho the impact of it is lessened quite a bit for a class like warrior
Yup, just killed It on mythic with Reprisal
A class like DK is the most vulnerable at the start
We're kinda the opposite
Least vulnerable at the start
WHy the BDKs are all clapping about CRW
because you can have your 5stacks with avoidance on pull with a short CD
Bdks pretty good now right?
all the tanks are doing fine
they're still going to get gloablled inside their mitigation with runic power then 
you basicallly have VDH (kite) > Guardian (facetank) > yes
shame, I like bdk
Big kiting
But yeah BDK can't mongo pull like warriors
but they don't get instagibbed to the caster pack in DoS
kinda lame considering they have the best tools for it
there is a reason why they were nerfed to dirt
because they dominated the MDI for all of legion
then they started doing it again in BFA
Eh
Blood is only fun when it's broken imo
By broken I mean actually self sufficient
but way more entertaining to play the BDK over my Guardian or Paladin atm
Blood is still a ton of fun, especially if you are running 15s or below
did anything change in prot trinkets?
Blood is able to complete some mongo keys
or is Phial + Heart of Alar a good option?
ya it can, but sub 15, you still feel OP
it'll work
I miss legion BDK
ah yeah Zen, BDK is pretty stonk in low keys, although tyrannical makes my butt pucker cause of the 90 - 10 - 90 playstyle
I miss legion tanks in general except for monk
"I reduce damage to 1% until 1% is enough to 1 shot me"
Current BrM is better than Legion brm
you guys have 10? Cries in 3
with reprisal being the thing, does mastery increase in value?
no
where do you guys find its best to use items in necrotic wake these days?
for 15s~
I typically lust + Kyrian bonus boss one. Spear+orb+lust boss 2, spear+orb boss 3, spear+lust boss 4
No particular timings for hammera
on tyrannical, bosses 2 3 & 4 all need to eat a spear at least
Does the change to banner affect what covenant prot runs?
I think its in pins, but depends on if you are in coordinated groups or not
Kind of. I switched from dps to tank so I switched to necro for now
My group has a boomy and a fire mage. We stack them together, I intervene to one, banner, charge back in if necessary. Bonus points for using Emeni to give them int on top of that.
My damage is lower than if I was kyrian/NF, but party damage spikes hard
I know you don't have to stay in range for the banner, but do you have to stay in range for the emeni trait?
Can someone tell me how to make a macro to use intervene on my closest ally?
Not that I'm aware of.
or point me in the right direction
I bind charge and intervene to one mouseover macro. Pretty handy
I'm at work right at the moment, but if you google charge/intervene macro you'll get some good results
ty
/targetfriendplayer
/cast intervene
/targetlasttarget
I think I already wanna swap to NF from necro lol
Can I just copy and paste this in my macro board? Ive never made a macro before
I'd add
#showtooltip Charge
Whoa dude...very handy. Thanks so much
I feel with double time I have too much charge and without I have too little -.-
Not having stormbolt isn't an option for me
better too much than too little
I needs my stuns
especially with reprisal
is there a world were you run reprisal and not double time?
I ran a couple of dungeons and didn't use double time
I would charge dump rages then intervene dump rages do some rotation stuff spear and then charge back in
I did bolster haven't tried AM out yet
I felt very sturdy with reprisal so much better then thunderlord. Night and day
Thunderlord feels like crap now
yes, a lot of people dont use doubletime
is Ravager an auto pick? from what I read here it is.
also yes
man how things have changed. I last played my warrior during mythic jaina progression
UF is worse in terms of both dam (slightly) and rage gen
ravager gives a lot of rage
Well bfa warrior was a beast.............bastion of might plus vision of perfection. I would top dps chart in a freehold run
that build has been gutted, it doesnt really exist anymore
somebody got a shout wa which reminds me if one of my party is missing it?
I dont even have it keybind :D
earlier somebody mentioned using BSC. is that really a thing?
si
with reprisal yes
From what I’ve read, with reprisal yes
if you dont have reprisal you use BV
Just ova here trying to get some random 190+ gloves to replace my 225 thunderlord for reprisal pants D:
Life is rough
If you got anima you can buy the gloves and upgrade to 197 I think
Yep, that's the best solution
what talents are you running with reprisal for low content
I'm going 3 3 1 1 2 2 3
BSC is super good with reprisal. BV is nice (for obvious reasons) but you get a lot of free revenge procs with reprisal
Is draven a good option for being tank?
Im fury with nadjia
Do yall recommend The Wall for someone newer to Prot? Having to switch to tank for my guild.
no double time for reprisal?
Stunnns
i guess yeah
Double Time is good, but stormbolt is good for my party's playstyle. That row is mostly down to personal preference
wall is still the raid leggo
Anyone have a good weakaura for Fleshcraft + Shield Barrier? I'd love to see absorb stacks for certain fights.
Stormbolt in pugs is prob a req
im gunna try 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 maybe
guilds usually make people switch for raid, but if it's m+ then play reprisal
If you have a boomie and a healer that isn't a shaman, I find it necessary to use stormbolt just to smooth out interrupts, especially in dungeons like NW
Do you always run AM when running The Wall?
No
i got the 3 best rank 4 legendaries, so im okay with that
hm I struggle between Reprisal and Thunderlord for M+. new to prot
TL is more defensive
reprisal
reprisal is for if you can play loose
What?
no
resprisal gives us big shield block up time
and phat dam
and rage
the other option would be the wall
as shield wall is v-good against magic dam
thunderlord is good vs physical and magic right?
its ok vs magically but not as good as the wall
and reprisal is /much/ better against physical
as you literally dont take blockable damage while shield block is up
add in the free revenges and the 20 rage
is big
Mwahi wrote it up nicely in the pins
Reprisal answers so many issues as Halberad said. SB uptime, upfront dam/threat, rage
the last 2 talent points, which are the best with Reprisal?
Ravager & AM
^^
now dont get me wrong
TL is ok, I got my KSM with it
but its just flat, not as good as reprisal
There's really enough SB uptime to run AM over Bolster? I know it says so in the pins... but man. Id feel lost without bolster on fort weeks
people have gotten over 80% uptime
@deep steppe I mean my target is just +15, I'm not interessted into +18, ... or stuff
Yeah thats pretty nice... sure beats 40-50% lol
I mean people like nom did 14's week one with no lego at like 180 ilvl lmao
We can do that content with whatever sort of cov/lego set up you want, but if you're asking "best" its reprisal
@deep steppe and when u drop "best" and go for "most fun"? Which talents would u take with Thunder?
what if reprisal isn't the play :O
Well you would know @patent osprey lmao
I mean my version of most fun is different than yours prolly, but i like /P U M P I N G/
I'm just gonna push with the maw legendary next week
just gotta spice things up in here
Charge into the fight to start, free 6 secs of SB. When it wears off, cast SB to get the charges recharging. Intervene to a nearby friendly (or a backline if you need to kite), more free SB. Cold cast SB when it wears off, you can leap away and charge back in, etc etc. There's lots of free SB from intervene, to say nothing of all the free revenge procs at +50% damage with BSC
Signet for those sweet reck procs off avatar
Weird flex but ok
I got a stygia mission this week, will I also get a Soul ash one?
Becasue else I cant get rank 4 next week of reprisal
I would legit run signet only if it worked with ravager on prot
question about the wowhead guide, why does it suggest darkfrost helm over wrathbark which has more haste? (to preempt, i'll use whichever I get first, I'm just curious as to the reasoning)
guys, im thinking of chaning from necro due to me having a m+ group where i will be playing fury. i thought that kyrian might be the best compromise between raid tanking and m+ fury. Does nightfae hold any good tank values or should i go kyrian?
prolly cause its haste/vers
NF is big M+ pumper for prot
i am not doing m+ as prot
nightfae > kyrian except u play pvp. Also for Tanking with Reprisal you can use that Blink for a free Charge like the Heroic Leap + Charge Combo
so the gap between vers and mastery is bigger than the gap between haste and vers?
for purely raid tanking i'd say prolly Kyrian, cause the phial
Kyrian is a pretty good all-arounder, as is Night Fae.
that actually sounds good, the nf blink. what does NF offer otherwise for a raid tank?
i increased dps from 3,5k overall to 4,5k and dmg taken from 4,5k to 3,5k in 18s. also no more kiting needed
I mean our "stat prio" after ilvl is Haste>Vers>=Crit>Mastery
right, but it's twice as much haste
I mean NF>Kyrian even in raid
Any peeps run Reprisal on Denathrius yet? Curious if there's value in using it over Wall... but frankly I'll probably fall back to Wall lol
NF big pumpa
72/39 vs 46/65
dam sure, but utility i feel like is preference base
and i like saying bye bye dots

DI dwarf master race
my paladin healer is already all 90's he doesnt need me
Phial is good for like, Margore bleed and that's trivial anyways
works on SLG too
Not on mythic, does it?
pretty sure yeah
haven't gotten to M-SLG so idk 
does not work on M SLG
also Carnage on Sire also i think?
RIP
Does dwarf racial work
don't believe so
@patent osprey hi dad
only the crystalize cast removes bleeds on M afaik
has blighted margrave over twisted loyalties too 😦
so is it safe to say instead haste > vers >>> crit > mastery?
Hi @sudden crescent
😄
@patent osprey fyi, you made nat cry when u hosted us ❤️
was you, hype, and naufer all within like a hour
phial doesn't work on SLG fyi
that was one of the changes they made early in the tier
Now Im actually considering changing to NF, I knew it didnt work, but now im sitting here wondering why Im still Kyrian
but its still kyrian that logs highest
it feels weird to lust on 2nd boss in HoA cus its not back up for last boss
but at the same time 2nd boss is such a must-kill
so it feels like youre inting if you dont lust it
Last boss doesn't do anything scary anyway
@patent osprey you still a tree boi?
and the phases on it are pre-scripted %
hes a necro-boi now
Gross
this is a better example, if haste > vers >= crit > mastery, shouldn't the distorted be a slam dunk choice?
how should i deal with [Overhead Slash] ?
❤️ @sudden crescent <3<3<3
Banner boi atm
on a high key we lust first pull, 3rd shard, 3rd boss and the very last 40 seconds of the last boss
We pride shards 1, 2, 3 + 2nd boss
how should i deal with [Overhead Slash] ?
Make sure u always have block up when it happens and pair with demo shout if you have it
Been watching your stream vods @patent osprey as a filthy EU pleb while gearing up my 205 newly dinger warrior. Thanks for the content!
its ok to have no SB up when hes auto attacking u, but u insta die if u dont have SB
if you have nothing use Shield wall
thx
cycle through demo shout/ignore pain, then shieldwall, then last stand
after he casts the 2nd Slash
bank a full bar of rage during bird only phase
right before hes gonna cast the 3rd, just start kiting him and he wont use the 3rd
^ this is super key
hakar trinket can eat one too
assuming youre doing this on tyrannical yeah? otherwise 10 min between 3rd and last seems like a long time
no assuming its fort
🤔
hey guys, new to game and want to play tank. like the fantasy of warriro but do you think its a good class to start with when tanking is new to me? xd
so means ur doing that 3rd boss at around 11 minutes left in the key
on lower keys
u probably want ot lust 2nd boss and last boss
Im a supernoob at prot but i just got reprisal tonight and holy fuck combined with double time im never worried im gonna get smashed or not hold initial aggro anymore
im debating the wall or repraisal.. i have 5,150 soul ash and was thinking
I'm gonna play reprisal on every boss besides maybe sludge now
Damn they reverted the nerf to reprisal to 6 secs instead of 4
i do mythics but still wana do raid 😦
So good
I’m gonna only use this lego
"reverted"
Or just forgot to nerf it
Who knows
Nothing official yet
So for the necrolord banner in a raid setting can only people in your group get the buff or can anyone get it
2 closest ppl to you when u cast it
damn so theres no fixing the groups to ensure my co-tank isnt the one who gets it?
intervene who u want to have it
wait a second
all i have to do is casually kill someone on sludgefist for that extra damage on convoke
i see this as an absolute win
Hey i just tried prot war for the first time, how do you kite adds such as the bears in HoA ?
And how do you mitigate the bleed ?
You get out of melee range?
lol
Leap? Intervene? Thunderclap and run out?
yeah not dumb
Plenty of options
necrolord tank is for buffing melee, dont want to waste banner on casters
It's more simple than you think
Since haste-vers is good, would that make conquest gear incredible for prot?
and how often do we use ignore pain ?
P good yea
Trying to streamline my gearing on my new alt as cleanly as possible.
Ignore pain is very simple
Ok neat, thanks Matt.
thunderclap to snare, then leap or intervene away if available, then use the w key
Does this hurt like a bitch? Use it, if not more revenge
spam Ignore Pain if necessary
Ahaha ok
I'm still struggling with AoE aggro on pulls
shield slam still hit harder in ST than an empowered revenge with BSC?
Charge -> Revenge -> Thunderclap just isn't enough sometimes
Yes I have the conduit as well, pluss Best Served Cold
ravager should be up for each pull almost
Ravager -> Charge
do I get double fisted if I intervene my co-tank on sludgefist? 🤔
I definitely know thats a huge problem that I don't use ravager enough.. Is that gonna fix a 15k+ burst from DPS?
On AOE opener I usually do 15k DPS with all CDs and ancient aftershock
im necro beta cucklord though. dropped Kyrian just to try it out, could def switch back.
send halp, ive dinged 60 today on warrior, currently tanking most things but occasionally getting pulled through some stuff as fury, reprisal offers fury nothing, how much does signet offer prot? (is it worth crafting signet as a multiuse leggo before reprisal if i may have to fury as much as prot till geared)
Signet will give you more damage on prot but won't help you tank
signet will 50/50 cast BS which can be a problem
not if you have ravager
Oh right, true
or is it different than arms ?
ive wondered how it would work with ravager
I might be wrong about prot but in Arms if you have ravager it will proc it instead of BS
Yeah for arms it will replace BS with ravager but I don't think it does the same for prot
any banner bois tried to pug is it worth or just better to stick to kyrian for them pugging times?
Anyone have a doc detailing all the blockable/relfectable sources of dmg in shadowlands?
check the pins
prot cucked from signet memes
O tht pin is tiny i missed it the first time thanks so much
understandable 🙂
let's goooo boys
Pretty sure you can block during BS anyway. So it’s not that bad
U can IP and wall too and any shout


