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Allows the none alchs to take a second on 1 cauldron
Cuz 30 flasks, which covers half the raid with a double

DK still had 1.5h from last week
monk had 1h from last week
no new mats for next tier
so stock up while its cheap
👼
obv too early to tell but im impatient yall think the 15% dmg buff anima power will be the play?
Anyone know what the haste requirements for a 12 sec shield block is? thats when you can do 3 shield blocks in a row right?
22%+15%



16sec base CD
Take away 1/4th
And you got your answer
It's 25%. If nobody got that yet
The famous "22% haste cap" from bfa was because its what you needed for the 3 SBs back to back guaranteed with 1 ITF stack
Aka guaranteed at all situations
That's what some m+ people made up as being a "cap"
Which was just flat out wrong to call it that
Any tip for stone legion mythic ?

There arent really any tipsnit all depends on how your guild does the fight
oh was it 1 stack 
Like i tried to help ppl but they did it a completely different way
So i couldnt really help tbh
As my timings were all different
would be ideal to go kyrain for this fight or night fea ?
It doesnt matter
stacks hurts so much in mythic or not ?
Couldnt tell u i didnt tank kaal
yeah adds do more physical damage so its ideal to war tank it
The only time i tanked kaal wss final phase and it wasnt for every long
But yes dependant on other tank
Warrior should take adds
And having adds is good for reprisal
yeah icy veins says i should aim to have highest uptime on SB
do you have macro to cancel intervene for co tank ?
/cancelaura Intervene?

Slg is pretty light on tank dmg tbh
Kaal doesn't hurt, only the bleeds do once you have 3 or more stacks
On grashaal you swap on 2
Positioning is also pretty simple, just don't stand in the blades and stay close to raid
What nome said if the co tank just macronthats into his spells
Before the /cast it will work
My dh put it on all his spells
You are overestimating what allot of co tanks are willing to do for you
My co tank is our raidleader and he can barely taunt on the third "taunt call"
I often had to spam scream for taunt cuz my cotank had nothing to do besides ook ook boss, and I was always hyperfocus RL
Kinda jealous ngl
I wish I could ook ook boss..
I mean its not hard to do takes like 5 mins if your co tank doesnt want to do it mabye have a word, but tbh only for sludge it matters on slg i was just intervening random ppl who came close
Or just don't intervene cotank
Idk why people think they'd have to intervene the cotank
When there are literally 18 other targets to intervene
I intervened only cotank when I know it would be beneficial for him
I mean also that
Im just lazy and co tank is usualy closest
Exepct my hpala is my intervene target on sire just because he is usually the closest

True
Though
Just intervene other ppl
Sadge times next tier looking like im getting a new cotank that i cant abuse

I would, but hes an officer dont get me wrong a good player and a good co tank, but getting him to macro stuff is big nah
Literally on our first raid night I said I'm not tanking with a low dmg turtle bitch
But Im also officer and RL so maybe that has slightly more authenticity
Well yer thats why he doesnt like tanking with me because he has to play aggresivly
And its a reason why we find it hard to find good co tanks for me
All the way bad on krosus, a old guild tank came back and filled a spot
He was a paladin and was steuggling to hold aggro
And then was blaming me
The officers were like he literally just playing the game
XD
We went through like 5 co tank in ToS
But not all because of me it was ToS
But alot of the players in our guild dont like tanking tbh they should just out source instead of rotate theiugh players
Like my co tank atm itls great good fun play aggresivly but hes playing tank otherwise he would be benched as ret pala
The struggle is real
Shhh monk udo damage anyway
Pog
Yes
Sk got some difficult dps checks
yeah, i was watching their stream when it happened which is how i know they got so excited
quick question p1 of gnome twins DoS, it's best to take him to the middle? (sham suggested it) and whole party needs to block pink beams or just me
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1045032819 kill starts at 1h:11m, and they started work on seed guy last night after
Does shieldblock have a "cap" or can i stack it for aslong as i can make it stack?
max 18 seconds without last stand w/ bolster
Yeah yogi i think the beams only spawn on milhouse’s side of the room
Meaning taking him to the edge of the half-circle can help with positioning for beams
Yes. And not only you.
do yall then take lady millhouse to the edge of the room or tank her in the middle?
some dps requested me tonking her at the edge for easier bomb management
(I am not entirely familiar with how annoying doing those bombs is as dps)
I usually keep her in the middle and try to click bombs as they spawn -- not a great personal success rate, though
You can turn your camera and keep your cursor on her and spam click
yes I tried that a couple of times, not succesfully yet tho
I've probably hit 15-20% personally, but it can help
i probably want to keep LS until lady millhouse comes out too, like around 2 stacks, i think, i was using LS on mr gnome and it wasn't the right call
hey, how can I find the "don't kick - spell reflection" WA?
haha yes i was searching there but typed the wrong terms I guess^^ Tyvm! 🙂
just found it
entirely possible that someone created it from scratch
is it okay if i ask you for link?
i don't have defensive trinkets on DH :*(
I got a scale on my moonkin but no scale/heart on DH
in the middle also press v when tanking her so you can despawn like 90% of bombs
bear is superior next season
Uh, press v? What this magic button you speak of?
hide her nameplate
also dont stay near melee clasees
you can sometimes click on them and not on the bomb
But v is fear!
so you need to do some high iq things and look in options to bind it haha
could be handy assigning an "Interact with Mouseover" key bind, it's good in WSG for fast returning flags when bound to mousewheel down
Gotta spam click so your APM look good.
for milificent i just hold my cursor right where it turns into a sword and just spam click
Works ever tim
I'm not sure about clicking bombs as the tank lads
you cant block during the channel so she just wrecks you
that's usually the healer's job
her melee ain't shit to worry about
The only thing that does damage is the bleed
Does anyone know if I have to stay near the 2 targets I want to give the mastery to with Banner, or does it stay on the same target regardless if I move away?
Considering rerolling necro, but don't know if I want to min/max that hard with position relative to dps players
closest 2 targets applied, but after you use it it stays on them
and it is hard to minmax
relatively
Now run the Anima Cage trinket and go full simp 
I should get one of those for fun tbh. Prob fun to mess around with when selling keys or w/e.
Or them NW Weapons O.o
boys did you try new affix on ptr ?
Yes.
ofc, on my dk i did so much big pull that was insane
We also did a +15 hoa..timed it even with derping around a bunch.
Half way through the dungeon i realized i don't need to look for perfect percentages.
😂
2 of the mini bosses were meh..2 can be troublesome.:(
idk if that was a dps/heal problem but i felt paper, after tried dk ( i did better pull thanks death strike ) im gonna try druid and dh
this new affix is like s4 bfa without fun
i think thats just cuz of SL
there are scaling bugs on ptr, people doing 15's with 200ilvl gear instead of 226
On naowh stream i saw that he needs to relog in order to scale properly inside dungeon
Yeah before key start you relog, if not you stay scale at 170
I dont think so
They have too low hp
I did few 15s and its more like 18 or something like that in terms of killing speed
Yay for k value making sure you dont actually feel like you're scaling defensively

It hurts dps more than it hurts tanks
Cuz they don't get nearly as much defensives out of gear than tanks do
the K value is just making your armor do less though so that should not be an issue?
Usually at max gear tanks are unaffected by the K changes, but dps are actually weaker defensively in the long run
60%+ of dmg taken is physical, and it affects block aswell
So yes, it is an issue early on.
Look at it like this, with a 226 shield, you block roughly 35% of incoming dmg in mythic Castle nathria, with a 226 shield you only block about 15% dmg in sanctum mythic
Just because of K value
Ontop of your armor doing less
Well you see all active mitigation is armor my guy
^
thought it was just armor, block and stagger
Block literally just boosts your armor to the % reduction
yeah thats what I said lol
Just like block
K value just straight devalues everything as soon as the new patch comes out
You never actually grow
^
You just get regression and then get to come back to the point you were at maybe a little higher at max gear for new patch
It's there to prevent tanks from scaling into infinite dmg reduction
But dps get also fucked in the process
Which is quite the design oversight
That never got adressed
It is
why should dps armor values not get devalued? otherwise later on in the expansion dps would take substantially less damage from physical attacks
Because its only thought out for tanks
But dps lose actually armor
Whereas tanks just stay on the same level
Because it's a regression and not a progression?
Dps lose more armor compared to tanks, on a relativity level
^
tried again, same thing nearly
In patch 9.0 a plate dps reduces ( im throwing arbitrary numbers here) dmg by 20%through armor, by patch 9.2 it'll only be 15% or w/e even with max gear
man gnome cast of his ultimate spell and wiped us (pretty sure thats either laser or spikes)
they should just rework armor completely, dont have it scale off ilvl at all
and then let tanks defensives scale completely off of stats and block value
Should have been stoped by line @sick sentinel your DPS effed up
^
That's too smart
And they'd hate it
Because it devalues ilvl

Or just make armor DR
just tie armor to the actual level requirements of the item
And don't increase K value
Then we'd get legion again
And blizzard is terrified of tanks being actual tanks
Literally traumatised
Tanks need to require healers to live and should struggle and and only hold aggro and not deal dps
That's what blizz wants

But hey, then nobody plays tank again besides cucks
So they start buffing tanks again
Step by step
how about a flat magic reduction stat on armor ilvl all that shit, and then you can proc 1% fire res "titanforging" or buy it for 500 valor and equip it to gear, replaces your +leech/speed
And then they get traumatised again
Weird how theres a tank shortage but they keep taking steps to make tanks less fun and worse
I wonder if theres a correlation, nah couldn't be
Cuz everytime tank is fun blizzard decides to kill the role
and so, leather and cloth protect slightly more against magic than it does against melee, and vice versa
There are many solutions
you lose a minue amount of spell red on plate/chain

As long as there are enough people willing to suffer through raiding, that won't change
And raid tanks are precisely the "I only hold aggro and ultra turtle" players
well, i can pop a potion to give me more stamina, or more armor, or i can pop one that gives str or a stat and lets me deal damage and move the timer of the key ahead faster because more dps
i wonder which one i chose

remember when armor gave AP
This depressing topic is great to take my mind off actually being depressed with jobs that lead you on and then after saying they're going to hire you hire someone else
So many sad tanks out there only playing the "I need to be the most defensive and dmg doesn't matter" raid tank types

As someone who is currently trying to hire 2 people I feel personally attacked 
it's one of those things that can't be taught to you though right

if you don't believe you can do it, or that this method works, they never bother tryin
It can only be taught if you're willing to learn
I dunno, seems common sense to me that you can overkill on survival for no actual gain
@rancid ember to be fair in my case I did 2 interviews with them, attended one of their services/live broadcasts did a few things while there to make their broadcast look better and then after being told by the technical director they were going to hire me I get a call from HR telling me they're going with someone else that I wasn't even made aware of that they had another applicant
100%, see all of BFA season 4 warriors stacking vers in 15s
Ok I don't lead on that strong damn. That's a feelbadman fuck em
I definitely once in a while get that solid interview early in the day that sticks out, but then like the last guy comes in and blows em all away.
I stacked versa cause I didn't want to need a healer to carry my friends 
But then I got to TD4 and never looked back...
Yea I'm legit kinda just in a I can't be bothered to do anything mood from that bombshell just being dropped on me last night
I played td4+it2+whatever I could fit in
It was literally the optimal setup for anything lower than 25
I started playing retail again in BFA well after N'zoth was dead. Corruption vendor and all that existed so I was thrown into some fucked up stuff
That was the pinnacle
Got up to 20 keys tho so I was proud of that atleast. You made fun of me back then cause I wanted to stack Versa 
Sorry bro that's rough. Hope it all works out for the better!
You and me both
You US or EU?
And I'll keep making fun of people stacking vers

At this point it's a severe grudge for me
Don't ever change Nom
After that I went to TD and realized I fell for the versa baits
Wasted so many echoes...
Always play max dmg, afterwards you start building defensively when you know that you need more defensives now.
Not the other way around.
Vers is nice just not the god stat people seem to think it is
What’s wrong with being the ‘I care about defense’ and not DPS type of tank? I have my most fun when I have to plan through all my cooldowns. Give me more cooldowns to play with and throw more damage at me, i’m carrying a shield for a reason. And it’s not DPS. I want to feel like playing well meant tanking more and taking more hits and still surviving
Because in 99%of cases you're overkilling defensives
There is such a thing as "too much defense"
You already lived, what more can you do?
Live harder?
Nobody gives a fuck if you required 1 less heal from a healer or not
And thats about the extend of value it would have
Then blizz didn’t throw enough things at us that need defensive. Don’t just give me 1 mechanic. Give me 3 to deal with
Well, but that's not on you to gear for 3 things, when only 1 exists
Ykno
Kinda wasted
You do what you enjoy, nobody stops you from doing so
But it's just not optimal
True dat. I like mythic council of blood on my DK because I actually have to think through every cooldown and when to use it.
Eh
If you swap on 2 it's pretty much a non factor
But thats bdk, you die if you don't chain CDs
Can't tank without a CD up for prolonged times, that's how the class is designed
Not tanked P3 on warrior. But you can’t swap on 2 there 🙂
P3 on warri you go to 7-8 stacks on nik
This is the mantra i live by and what i tell people learning to tank
If you play it safe you get bopped on 5-6 stacks
And then you Gucci
Kiting the add that's a bitch and a half job tho
Much scarier than tanking nik
We just kill the big add
Good old US of A
Thats one thing I never quite understood with tank mentality. Why people want it to only being about pure survivabilty, instead of doing as much damage as possible and making sure you can still live has always confused me.
In my mind, the latter always seems much harder than just "yo I know how to use CDs to not have zero HP at X time"
Also why I enjoy m+ tanking way more than raid tanking I think.
Always start max dam, and then crank up defensives as you need it.
It's a much much smarter approach
Imo
Does haste provide more of a damage boost for AoE than like vers though? Part of why I like vers is that it's both DR and increased dmg
Idk
Haven't simmed since raid release
Vers is aight offensively
But haste scaled really well into aoe in bfa
That and like on the 20 keys and high bleed/magic damage is absolutely terrifying lol
Eh idk
Can always play better / plan CDs better
If people can do 26s with 20% vers and live
I'm sure you can live 20s with 0 vers
:)
Tbf I didn't play WoW since WoTLK at the time. Tank DPS was a Meh thing back then. It was all about being tanky boy. I didn't know how the game evolved through BFA but I def like this style of tanking alot more.
Definitely true, but a lot of the time it's dependent on making sure you DPS properly play. If your dps fuckup kicks, it's RIP lol
Cuz the only thing existed prior to legion was raid tanking
True
So the vers increases error margins really lol
If vers was pure DR only though, I wouldn't like it much.
Raiding is a horrible benchmark in general
Outside of dps
Survival is a given if you don't play like a donkey
raid tanking should feel epic but it's usually a snorefest
doesn't help tank mechanics are usually way simpler than the dps/heal so you're there doing the same thing over and over again waiting for the other 18 monkeys to get it together
Scripted content doesn't ever feel epic.
Same as cutscenes can't be epic
"oh wow this things that's supposed to happen is happening right now"

Hard disagree
Unpopular opinion I know
I mean wrath gate was pretty epic
do you mean like; the sensation of awe
or like, your character being epic
because a lot of blizz cutcenes and cinematics are pretty epic
Illidan slapping Xe'ra was epic
The troll is real
Dogshit
Wrath was good true tho
Cuz it was a plot twist
And arthas was actually a good villian
hey mods, get him
That had proper buildup
Not this jailer sylvanas mishmash of nothingness
That gets dragged out
the sylv x anduin cutscene was decent imo
With mysteries left and right
but bliz story telling is already off the deep end
Not even interesting mysteries
cant be salvaged
They just don't tell a story right now
that's because they have like 3 different writers who take turns piloting the story
or at least they did
It's just "uuugh when is she gonna stop playing games"
Haha I was good, yes, no, evil, good? Evil!
Good?
Arthas we atleast chased from day 1
Always dangling infront of us
With clear intentions
that's because bliz writing has a hardon for morally gray characters
i mean there's no other solution tho
if she isnt all dragged out then all the sylv simps would feel slighted that their favorite character didnt get the proper screentime/ story arc
How can she be a simped character when she was a side character for 4 xpacs
And then they made her into this slogfest that she is since legion
like they wrote her whole personality into not having a concrete motivation
when it would've been much better if she was just flat out bad but had clear motivations like any properly written villain
but they dont want her to be a true villain, since sylv simps would riot
inb4 she becomes a kyrian or some shit
Protection warrior or brewmaster , which is better more fun
They're both pretty fun
warrior ofc
Both are fast specs
Prot is tankier
Brew has more dmg
Prot is a bit harder
Brew has monk debuff
Warri has rallying cry and battleshout
Choose your poison
Thanks mate
sounds and effects on warrior are more satisfying, to me
except revenge
which doesn't have like... a theme
I've been really enjoying BrM as an alt
Its in the best place it's been gameplay wise since WoD
yeah I like my brew alt, it's fun, just not super motivated to put a lot of time into a 2nd tank
Both are great! I always bounce between the two and VDH
I'd actually probably main mine tbh if we had another warrior in our raid
Although I think that says more about the state that prot is in post BFA than anything else
AKA me being jaded about how it used to be
I'm debating between continue my brewmaster or leveling a warrior.
I enjoy tanking.
Tanked briefly as a DK and a little bit as a DH
Nothing to do with how it actually performs
They both offer a lot of skilled plays imo
Can't really go wrong either way
Haha thats what I was afraid of, both sound rad.
I may have to play both to 60 then and see
🤔
genius level approach to statistics
Lmao. It’s close dps wise
There's not a huge gap but we're overall a good notch below monks in all content
Monk is technically above warrior on but there are 3 times more logs for brew than prot warrior. Plus if you look at warriors parsing in the 99th percentile they are actually above brewmaster in dps
It's fine overall tho, we're not clearly stone last any more like earlier in the patch
isn't monk dps dependent on damage taken with the ox thing?
Monk def better single target by a few hundred dps. I would say prot warriors smash any fight that has consistent aoe targets like mythic slg, council and huntsman
It is a component yes
There's a lot of avoidable damage in there haha
Yup ox and tod are big % of monks damage
Brew smashed my rank 1 huntsman parse by 700 dps
Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past.
What are thoughts for Necro warrior legendary going into 9.1?
suboptimal in 99% of all cases
I saw something that said it was okay and apparently it can go for over a minute with the right talent set up
you, as the banner caster, can get 40-70 seconds of 400 mastery
Which would give more block and increase attack power
it would give more attack power and crit block yeah
you get 100% block from shield block, so that part of mastery is irrelevant :(
just waiting on sims to see if its better than reprisal for damage 
I mean I just rock The Wall all the time because I forget to swap for keys
remember that brief whiff of hype i got the day the venthyr one was announced? that was nice
if it worked like i hoped it would 
In DOS, how do I live through the 2nd bosses damage. Those bloods evicerate me
Ignore pain, doesnt really seem to actually help at ignoring the pain there
dpsing makes me mad
like I just want to backseat tank the tank so bad but like Im not gonna cause that would be uncool
so im just internally screaming
we talking hakaar?
gnomes
usually just spell reflect frostbolt ignore pain uptime
dont be afraid to cooldown
I usually have to use LS there
Yea, the one gnome that applies bleed gives me nightmares, but I just got my scale, so that will help.
Getting rid of the darkmoon deck makes me happy

it's a mix of having your CDs up and also having the DPS/Healing needed. Don't blow a CD when she's about to get stunned since you should be able to live those stacks. Spell reflect takes away 1 stack. Kyrian pot takes away everything. Other than that just use your Shield Walls, Last Stand, Demo Shout, Shield Block/IP/standard shit and it should be fine
people usually BL milificent and burst her as well cus she kind of trucks
but you can do all this and still die if you dont have enough dps or if your healer isnt comitting CDs to you
does anyone have a weakaura they could link me.. i just want to see when SB is on me and IP is on me.. i used to have the 2 icons like to the left of my character when the buffs were on me with a timer.. but i cant remember how i did it
nevermind i just figured it out
Yea, warrior does indeed feel like its made of paper when it comes to magic damage. >.>
yeah kind of
when you swap covenant, do the soulbinds that you collected on the previous covenant reset ?
so the collected conduit traits they carry over ?
im debating to switch from necro to kyrian for the pelagos spear and the krian pot instead of banner and fleshcraft
Youll be reset on covenant campeign. Any Hall upgrades. And the Soulbind of your Cov ability
The other ones, will be kept
Like your class ones.
youll keep your renown and anima(?)
on the old covenant
on the new covenant youll start at 0
and theres like what only 1 conduit that is specific to the old covenant, the other's at 226 stay ?
ye
ooo okay im gonna try kyrian then 🙂
You also keep the 2 universal adventure table characters at their level
Hello guys, i have a question about Ignore Pain. How can i determine its cap? Is it a certain % of my HP?
- If yes, does it get affected by Last Stand or Rallying Cry, since they increase my max HP?
2x tooltip value
Based on ap
How do you play NW this week (range m+17-19)? I normally play: 1st boss with Pride and BL, 2nd with Pride, BL, Spear and Orb (2nd trash wave), 3rd with Pride, BL (if ready) and Spear, 4th with BL (if not ready on 3rd), Spear and 3x hammers (for shields).
Not someone suggest to use hammers on 3rd boss instead for shields?
What I see a huge waste of saftey on 4th boss where most of the fight one DPS is not there to damage the shields
I didn't say that I have it on both
Oh you're right, reading comprehension is low
no prob 🙂
If you have really solid dps and a soothe you could save everything for the last 2 bosses. At +18 it's still possible to single phase stitchflesh with a few weapons
But that's heavily dependent upon your groups dps
Probably requires a holy paladin tbh
And ashen would be back up for late phase of 4th boss
Finding holy paladins in pugs is well 😄
but di I understand you correctly
that you support he spear+hammer on 3rd?
Yeah with a pug you'd want to play safer. 2nd and last boss are the pug killers so I'd focus on having lust and a few weapons for those. 1st and 3rd bosses are just matters of "can you execute a simple mechanic while not dying"
yeah hooking the boss seems to be impossible for many pugs..
There's no planning you can do to fix that
well, and the more you pug the more you realize what you can and cannot do
good group you do whatever you want and just get insta healed to 100% don't learn much
yes
this is what igot for stats/gear now
shit weapon and shoulders, but shoulders will be very hard to replace cuz 220, gunna need 223/6 for that
Spear - Yes. Hammer - no
You need all Hammers on Last boss or you will be deleted
If it were a 20+ sure. An 18? Very doable
i still never see the weapon when i run SoA on the left side after 1st boss
route taht you have to giga LOS to pillar down stairs
It's definitely there lol
In pugs? Well gl haha
Same thinh about 3rd boss. You Just kill him in 2 phases with spear
You dont need to kill him in 1
His 1st minnion will die so you will not face 2 at the same time
Some pugs are Actually Good believe it or not
Some. Sure
But why do want to use the Hammer on 3rd boss?
For the chance to kill him in 1 phase?
What the point of doing it
Time
fuck soa tho
Time is not a thing here
i have vlvl (valor lvl) 10 emitter, so i never need to run that place again outside of 15
Why do you hate soa btw
i don't it's just a pain to run
Well ye thats a challenge ofc
But tyr soa is still> fort soa of you can kill the bosses
Kyrian legendary - good or shit?
yep, trash is much harder in soa than bosses
Worse than reprisal
here's a tip for SOA 2nd, he always does the blind frontal right before he does the blot on ground
Bad
and he doesn't even do anything then, he just drops the blot and rando tele's, you just stand there and taunt him back to where he was right beside the pillar
close as possible
Boooo
3rd one, jump away, get group away from the crap
Why do you need to taunt?
because you don't want him to blot in the centre
You lost aggro?
nah
So why do you want to taunt
what i mean is get him to come back to your location
I taunt, no reason not to
Good for dmg, shit for everything else
Ideally you wanna stack the orbs
And you taunt for what reason?
i'm still under the impression it was to make PW who also play fury not get feelsbads for not going NF/V
Mikanikos + kyrian leggo is actually not absolutely terrible for dps specs in m+
sorry ur right i explianed it wrong with taunt
With the ven legendary - does the increased rage gen from last stand conduit also carry on through the extended last stand?
Or does it drop off like bolster?
it's not nessecary at all, we just want to be sure he is in the correct location so he doesn't drop it in a bad spot leading to wipe on his enrage
No
The 2nd boss will always run back to you regardless of taunt
Neither bolster nor the conduit work with the venthyr legendary
Ffs
It's entirely useless
That is so deeply disappointing

Honestly wow is disappointing but its all we have

Its an assymetric abusive relationship
what is the venthyr one?
Fits in with all the rest of 9.1
A whole lot of nothing
All they have to do is have it extend bolster and unnerving focus and it’s job done
Infinite stand 

Every 5 seconds
some talk of boomkins going venth
Its still not the best
It was divine toll every 10s
Thats was crazy
Because how it worked with conduits
Ys they are doing very good in ptr as venths
Also i see bears will go venth for m+ because there no more pulls limited by pride %
You can easily do 30-40% pulls now
it definitely goes up in viability
it probably depends how worth killing the mini bosses are, they take around a minute to kill so bear's will be convoking still if they're worth killing
The problem is you cant convoke some of them without trees
Like you can do with pride
And Yes it will be totally worth o dont think blizz want us to skip whole season affix again haha
I know that feel bro
we have to refarm it in 9.1?
seems like it yea
you cant upgrade s1 items
in s2
dont think its been confirmed though
nah you can still use it of course
it'll just be at a lower ilvl than the "better" gear
anyone else in the "never even seen one" crew?
hey are there any good weakauras that provide reminders on good times to spellreflect in pve? been reading up on dungeon mechanics that are reflectable etc but could use reminders if they exist
https://wago.io/SpellReflectionTracker/12
Its not perfect, but i guess it can help
ehhhh, just thinking of running dos again for the thinket makes me 
I've seen a site claiming that +2 Vault Loot, and +6/+7 End of Dungeon loot will be 226
did a +10 on ptr and got a 229
so seems about right
I'm at 224
Hmmm. That's an interesting question. Do we start the affix cycle from "week 1" again for the lesser affixes, or do we continue the weekly cycle wherever we are at, but with the new seasonal affix?
i think the weekly rotation stays the same throughout the expansion?
Cool
whats your dps protection build?
what content?
general, i just want to farm as protection
devastator - double time - Best Served Cold (aoe)/booming voice (single target) - into the fray (single target)/ravager (aoe) - anger management
reprisal(single target if chargeweaving and interveneing)/the wall if not - Seismic reverberation(aoe glass canon)/reprisal(aoe and defensive benefit)
covenant potency (as long as youre not venthyr) - show of force - unnerving focus
and you can use raidbots to

Quick question i am new to tanking do you use ignore pain at all?
i mostly use it as an off gcd rage spender if im about to overcap rage/im about to take unblockable damage and want to mitigate it
IP is pretty feel-reliant no hard rules
i personally always try and have IP up when doing m+
but i dont prio it over shield block
If you try and maintain ip uptime you'll have no rage for revenge
Well at least in m+
No comment on raid tanking
The only times I really prioritise IP are when I need to ride through a damage spike/ability/magic damage with enhanced mitigation, or the rare occasions when I am in a Shield Block gap.
If all you are taking is melee damage and you have Shield Block up, you should be fine
hey boys i dont have "the wall" crafted yet I only have reprisal so far, that being said would you guys run BSC in raid because of reprisal equip or would you still go for booming voice?
Idk why so many people like spamming ip so much, my failings is often soamming revenj so much i dont have ip foe big damage if im not completely focused on whats going on
I wanna pump
Bsc for aoe and bv for single
Also reprisal is perfectly viable for every raid encounter
Hey just levelling my prot warr but wanted to ask what proper reprisal usage looks like, just try to maximize uptime of shield block by getting it from charge on pull, intervene on cd after using first regular charge of shield block?
If theres an opportunity to charge or intervene take it
Can walk out during casts and charge back etc
True
On low mobility fights you can even use leap to save some time getting out to charge
Or if you have to move the boss, leap further than you need to move and charge back when they are at the right position
not 15's, but i'm happy with that, and i got an upgradeable scale/emitter out of it
thoughts on the new Necrolord legendary? If skipping the 50% slow miniboss becomes normal its a really high uptime slow immune. So far I got up to 1:20 uptime on a target dummy. Probably more is possible
Outside mdi style things i kinda doubt meta will be skipping in most cases with how impactful the anima powers are
I heard that skipping the slow boss will be meta for most dungeons you can
the minibosses take a minute+ to kill so it could be worth skipping them
especially if it doesn't hinder you on the last boss
Thanks
gj dude we all start somewhere!
depends on anima powers in boses
some of them can speed up you
and 1 minute will be nothing for that power
I would advise that you try to get a 14 done, possibly in a "no leaving, just for vault" group
just for the sheer fact that you can only do 220 gear at vendor?
and you can get 226?
14 is max vault
That way you can gear up much faster if you atleast do 1x 14 a week even if it takes while
15 is for KSM valor upgrade anywa
Well ye, but usually by the time you have KSM you don't need 220s anymore
i would, never did a key higher than a 12
so biggest reward 220 so far
this is what i'm currently running
Or last stand, or shield wall, or rallying cry, or trinket, or call for externals
Or if it definitely won't be fatal, just eat it and make the healer sweat
heroic leap out can give some distance so you don't get immediately get hit, reset stacks, prevent melee swings (giga bolster)
Oh forgot to add spell reflect
generally speaking the play is SW=/=LS last stand more for melee, shield wall more for magic damage
LS for melee only if your playing bolster otherwise it doesnt matter when u use it
i don't want to live in a world without having bolster
with reprisal its totally fine to not use it
even still i'd rather have it
something very nice about an "i probably won't die with this up" button
bolster is bad np
Yeah. A 14 - even if you don't time it - will give you a 226 in Vault. Well worth doing one 14 per week on newer characters.
Does prot warrior have the worst conduits out of all tanks
probably lol
I like bolster for when I want to eat a bowl of soup or something while I'm tanking
It also empowers you to have a very effective cooldown for basically every pull
If not gonna run am id rather just play hr tbh
Essentially 100% uptime on block with hr if really feel need even more defense
do you guys use last stand preemptively or as a heal?
14 TOP sounds like a nightmare, applying to a few 14's but no accept
ToP is not the most pleasant of dungeons on any week, to be honest
top is my favorite dungeon
Preemptively most of the time - but if i didn't plan to use and things get hairy i pop it
Is warrior harder to play than other tanks? It feels like there are lots of cooldowns to manage
I have limited experience with the other tanking classes, but overall I found Bear the easiest, and Brewmaster the hardest
do you guys hold avatar for like 5-10 seconds for big dps CDs
It has a long duration so the answer is usually no, but like everything it depends
Long duration and relatively short cooldown
I'll hang on to it for anything damage ampy, or at least a few seconds before. Ingra maloch/soa 3rd boss
I usually use avatar on pull for optimized cd and opening rage
if you use it at the start of a boss fight, even without AM you probably are gonna have it up before the end of it
i mean say your cov ability has like 25 seconds left on CD, can you hold it for 5 seconds so you can use it during the avatar window
I dont try to optimize it too much
cause what are the stats on dmg increase
30% right?
yeah 20%
so with for example, spear of bastion, you do a total of 7 thousand damage without any crits
with avatar optimized, you would 8.4k smg, which is a nice increase, but its not worth completely optimizing. I like to use avatar as more of a defensive cooldown because of the rage it generates. It allows me to get a higher uptime than if I tried to optimize its use. Kinda similar to how whenever im a dps, I hold my cooldowns for certain pulls, but it ends up being a dps loss in total, because the uptime of my buffs was lower
do you guys feel rage starved?
to need avatar for defensive rage
holding stuff for short periods isnt a dps loss tho
max buff uptime =/= max dps, cuz you do more dps on bigger pulls
i think that if you play reprisal you will never be ragestarved unless you straight spam revenge
I dump a lot of rage into revenge
spare rage allows you to play for offensive
obviously your not gonna use all of your cooldowns on cooldown, hold major ones for pulls you think are gonna need it, but saving cooldowns like avatar which are like 45 seconds at most for your other longer cooldowns is going to add up to a dps loss
especially for coolodowns almost 50% longer than it
we had really good pace for 14, net drops again
9.1 show up a good legendary for prot ? I am thinking in craft the wall for raining or wait to 9.1 release
Mine too 🙂
No new good leggos reprisal is still on top
If your feeling rage starved, it means 1 of 2 things your itjer over using your spenders or under using your generates if you have logs i can a quick look for you
Imo probably yes, or if there is like a vry heavy magic damage fight like inrrva the wall will still have a use
for avatar what do you do, do you use it on cd for its rage generation and higher uptime, or do you save it for optimized cooldowns like cov abilities
I just use it on cd really
i hit 60 3 hours ago xD
gz
haha ty, was replying to him asking for my logs
just full cleared heroic but idk if a ilvl 136 tank logs mean much..
which leggo should i go for first
reprisal
and before you ask: If you don't have access to SLG mythic: Craft them on legs instead of feet
Just realized I crafted mine on feet bc I saw all warriors doing that but I know legs are better since I have 2 other tanks with leggo on legs. I’ll have to remake it on legs lol
If you can acquire the SLG mythic legs with your warrior
well got 3-4 weeks for the RNG gods to bestow me
would love to have the mytrhic CN opportunity too, but my guild doent raid (only did heroic and this was close that we even killed sire there)
would love to get the achievements there 👼
i wonder if its still worth to get reprisal on feet this late into the xpac
considering you will do a m15 in s2 and outgear 233
where as you can upgrade the leggo and get more main-stat
than what you'd have on the feet
we'll ahve to craft new legenadaries anyway
you mean i can't upgrade my current reprisal? 😛
as far as I understand the PTR reports you have to buy a new vessel for rang 5/6 and as always -_-
throwing tons of gold into the maws of the 2 or 3 who leveled this stuff
well you always needed a new vessel for upgrading legendaries right?
i honestly dont remember lol
yep
I would not sign this
but I'm not sure if I understand this correctly
I personally udnerstood it the way that for 5/6 you need the soul cinder on top of it
like you need 1k soul ash for rank 1 but 4k more if you want craft rank 4
but as said: I'm not sure
rank 4 leggo is 5k soul ash
and same, i have no idea how they gonna do it for 9.1
but my understanding was that youd still need soul ash for first 4 ranks
then cinders for the next ranks
From what I saw you don’t need soul ash after rank 4
You just need the cinders which is the new currency in Torghast
that's what I tried to say
ah
yeah
it feels weird if you could skip those ranks tbh
then soul ash is just useless
depending on how hard it is to acquire cinders
yeah but on the oither side this is the "catch up"
thorgast 9-12
mate said (DH DD) it was easy for him soloing
I've been told that the recommended iLvl for layer 12 is 220
monks can just vivify it at 150 ilvl
Hey guys, did anyone test how much cdr the kyrian spear gets from the mikanikos cap talent?
mwahi might have but a lot of things still arent working correctly
like if u equip the paladin kyrain leggo and mikanos
its ups the cd of DT or it did when the paly in my guild tested it
okay damn, 20 seconds cdr. is insane, thanks
Anyone knows what ilvl does nornal raid in 9.1 drops? First 6 and last 4. Thanks in advance
I somewhat hope that for NF covenant lego, it heals us when we stand in it. Something along the line of paly venthyr yet without the long ass cd
226 and 233. Only the last 2 bosses drop 233 though.
So what belt enchant worth using with the worlds best tank, cardboard assassin, being nerfed?
Thank you
prolly invis
2min cd, doesnt share cd with anything
I thought that but cant think of many uses since if it backfires cant invis guess can work situationally if wipe or something
if it backfires you use normal pot or deathskip
🤷♂️
but other than that there are no good belt enchants
Debuffs you to not be able to invis but ya
What soulbind as fae is best in Dungeons?
I was thinking maby koryan with first strike?
Ya thats big
Guys, how are we for 9.1 on m+? Reprisal will continue bis?
nothing changes in 9.1, so yes
yup, i love wow and all this and that love the keys
can't keep doing every night at peak i get cut out mid key though
u cant invis for like 15 secs
Understood, thanks
if only there was some tool to log your combat that would make these comparisons easier and require less than 4 screenshots in a discord
whelp, i guess it's too bad that the tool doesn't exist
What is survivors rally?
autolog and upload to warcraftlogs?
final soulbind trait of niya iirc
nvm thats not it
almost final :p
Stygian king's barbs is an anima power, i presume?
Ye
Nature's fury is the NF leggo
I guess anima powers aren't rng then?
And you have a set Set of anima powers per dungeon
Just started with prot, first in damage is shield slam Everytime - I catch my self using ignore pain a lot. Should I better use the rage on revenge ? Playing ignore pain heavy is wrong ?
(Using reprisal)
just kinda depends on what you care about more that moment
If you can survive without IP, then your Rage is better spent on Revenge. In general, I only use IP to ride specific damage spikes (magic attacks, tankbusters etc) and the rare occasions when I am without a Shield Block charge to use
reducing incoming dam a bit or increasing outgoing dam a bit
Okay. So I can say I am a very conservative tank 😋
Thanks for feedback, will try to pump more on revenge
Ultimately, if you time the key you're not doing anything too wrong
Sitting at ilvl 200 - with a similar group - was +10 sanguine +3. Seems fine then
Yeah, if you're doing that well then I wouldn't worry about it
Sometimes you have too much rage to spend on just revenge and shield block
First 20 seconds or with all cooldowns up for example
Which leggo would you guys get first for raid
Avatar, ravager, bv demo shout, reprisal charge/intervene, covenant ability. They all generate rage
If all you care about is raiding, the wall. If you will ever do m+ and you could only pick one legendary use reprisal
how do you use reprisal in raid? charge into every taunt swap and intervene your cotank?
Can intervene whatever target.
cheers1
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=162309/kultharok#comments i'm slightly confused by the range check ability, which is jarring with the tornadoe affix
so, it's melee or a cast? and whats the minimum range i have to be from boss then, says i took 47k damage from spectral reach
It's a cast, can be intereupted
hmm, okay, i got to that boss and we tried 3 times, dps just got completely deleted like random it seemed
they were saying "don't run parasite through group"
Parasite is different to spectral reach, parasite puts a circle around your character that does damage to anyone in it I believe, can't be interrupted and shouldn't be ran through them
It's just a dot that ticks, has to be outhealed
Tank just stays close to him
Aaaand yeah.
That's all you do
Spectral reach you shouldn't get ever
Since you can't reflect it
right, so what do i set my range to for range check tool
Or if you do get out of melee, charge in and interrupt his cast
Or you can be out of melee range when he does his channel (where he rips the sound from the dps' body's) and he won't cast it, so you can use charge there for reprisal/rage generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoS-pMWCnvk this is the past 5 days of my life
One of our Talkback 16 callers makes a correlation between the areas increased use of traffic roundabouts and "tornaders."
evening.
theres nothing in 9.1 that seems like it would replace the reprisal lego, right?
nope
should we consider items without versatility when they are higher itemlevel then the ones that do (but not by more than 10)
Generally speaking, iLvl > All
I have looked through resources but was not able to find an answer. If I use Kleia as prot, which final node do I take - the crit or the healing one?
also would the crit trait convert to parry or is that only rating rather than percentage?
Usually the crit
best cov for early raid prog in 9.1?
prob still kyrian>=nf
is NF more dmg?
yeah
why not necro with new leggo? can have 1.2 min uptime on banner giving 3 party members that mastery buff
because that will require you to be a support character and you will need a lot of coordination
not that much. And if you're trying to max raid dps and it's more dps
I got that uptime fooling around on dummies, it might even be more
40-70 sec ish
it only extends on the warrior
it requires great coordination and positioning
really?
yes
only extends on the warrior? if so thats not as good
that is so, unless they changed it with the latest build


