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the ITF + HR stuff is literally just people being ultra lazy
its the max turtle build
which results in a rage, dps and threat gen loss
so people just turtling while healers arent geared?
no, its just people trying to copy andybrew
without understanding why he played it
they see the increase in blockuptime and nothing else
HR is good on tyrannical weeks on bosses where you cant charge often
and for when you want to be lazy, nothing else
well, plkas reasoning for running HR was "so you can focus more on other stuff in keys" because you need to think less when playing it
im not ashamed. i like thinking less...
i dunno turtle build is fine for protecting against a shitty disc priest and specific affixes we need to be wary for grievous / necrotic but then i am a noob
i dont like the argument "in case of a shit healer"
if your healer is shit you wont be doing high keys
yes ๐
dogshit
there's no meme dream going on with it?
nop
like infinite bolster
lmao
it doesnt extend bolster
it doesnt extend unnerving focus
literally only last stand
@strong forum I tried reprisal now in a m+ and those are the logs https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/XwTyQdBfgxPH6jaW/#fight=last&type=damage-taken we talked about it today and I tried to do better with blocking hits. I guess I improved?
ya 77% looks aight, could be better
now you just need to use SS and TC more often
and a bit less ignore pain
those are rookie numbers, up that
@strong forum Where do I see the total blocked numbers?
ok
but in m+ you slacked

which results in less rage generated
which also then results in less damage done and less survivability
okay I'll check
You guys tried logging M+ with the addon they made?
how bad is venthyr in m+? should i even bother trying to tank m+?
its fine
i'm doing it, timing 16s week 1, obv not the best if you want to push way harder than that but it's beyond fine
?
Logging m+ is a thing since m+ exists
Yes I meant like warcraftlogs In game addon they have on there homepage its in beta rn
I was vague lol mb
hit a wall last night because our DPS group is a radical collection of underachievers
oof
please kill me
you can 1 button macro all those specs and parse better
it gets a little better by bracket but still like half are gray
what fight? and what's the problem?
is it uptime or like... do they just not know what they're doing
H Soulrender
I think the group finds the mechanics persistently demanding enough that it's just fucking them up + our brands aren't always optimized
But mechanically the group is very good and comfortable at this point with every element of the fight
The callouts are flawless, there's always maximum cleave
how do we feel about glory legendary for m+?
We don't have a DK which hurts a fair bit but we have enough other knockbacks we're able to address the adds just fine
It exists
Just play reprisal
But it's there
reprisal is actually just too sick in M+, i don't see myself ever giving it up
how do you people stay alive in m+, Im dps main tanking because noone else wants, have like 85% shield block uptime in the dungeon but i feel like im dieing every pull
Halls, DoS anything with casters just depletes my hp bar
Are peeps kicking?
cant kick with inspired
CC the inspired and pull away frm them
Or nuke it
You cant just CC every inspired you need to pull big to time
Nah you can definitely still time@it
Wiping wastes more time
This week feels so bad on prot warrior
In dos thereโs like 4 packs max that need CC
Both stuns are useless
If you cc and nuke its like 1 min loss at max
Well then find better people
you can still pull big and CC the inspire, and use CDs, just takes proper planning
Dos has a lot of inspired on cc immune adds
and we already invis skipped in mechagon + hakkar
but the big caster packs in the main area are so rippy
you either need to have DPS big enough to blow up the inspired so you can start interrupting shadowcore
or CC it and just mop it up later
you can just pull in the inspired when the main threat is gone and it doesn't waste that much time
but you can't just be eating every shadowcore
at least we can reflect one while inspired is up
it's literally just those two packs though, it's a pretty easy week for the rest of it
if warrior still had rage from damage taken
if youre not in melee youre just fucked
feels so bad lol
cant even press IP
you shouldn't need to if your dps is doing it right
Ardenweald was sketchy too
I pulled 4 groups and after about 10 seconds i almost got oneshot
what key level?
didn't even have a lot stacks, on my druid that now has 10 ilevel less you can pull like 7 groups and be god for 30 seconds, very balanced
16 dos
also had no melee, triple caster noone with uncapped aoe
so packs didn't die
Unlucky I guess
probably worse on the interrupts front too
the caster packs need legit interrupt coordination at this gear level
uptime means nothing
Yo a question regarding domination shards. May it be worth to go for Unholy bonus instead of Blood as a necro war since you can stack so much main stat?
Not sure how much impact prot potency conduits have because I just run with the DPS soulbind, can't just switch 4 conduits everyday with this fantastic system
Only the Covenant specific Potency for NF/Kyrian would impact somewhat. The others are w/e.
Chances are, no. Atleast not with the base profile. You can sim your own character tho. ๐
I could put the aftershock one into the middle row for niya to have at least one useful for prot i guess
instead of second endurance one
It won't save you from "feeling like dieing every pull".
yea but the extra hp from more AA uses could
That has to be either:
1)Poor play
2)Poor DPS'ers/Healers
or the everprevelent 3) everyone is bad at this game
I donโt think people really get the patch scaling
See a lotta folks who definitely werenโt doing 19+ last season hopping into pug 16s being like โwhy is this harder. Group sucksโ
^^
So as far as the pinned trinket info, is that to explain to people how it works as I thought that was obvious already, or to highlight it actually being a pretty good survivability trinket ? or well both
People thought the damage reduction was capped since the damage is
So kinda both
Clarifying how it works, and in doing so pointing out its bonkers defensively
Ah ok yeah did not know that people thought that
hoping it does not get the old nerf sledgehammer
How are doing torghast, are you running as prot or slipping into a DPS spec?
It's likely slow and steady to do as prot, but maybe i'm too cautious, or that's the nature of it, but it just takes too long to be enjoyable, or achieve better than a 2-3 star run
I mean... I don't know your wife..
Is there a list for our best m+ powers right now?
you need to do 1 dungeon and youll know yourself
I second taking your wife to torghast. Esp if she's an ele shaman with the silly bloodlust-on-totem powers.
like, there is no actual choice in the m+ powers
theyre all pretty on the nose which ones are good
WoWhead had kind of a more or less pick these in kind of this situation, but after enough dungeons you will know what to pick and why as lets be honest a lot of them just suck
theyre incredibly boring
again run enough dungeons and you will know the very generic set of powers you will always choose
I personally hope the choice of powers as season 2 progresses will change as several months of these will get old very fast
lol
Ok wtf..no one else is having this happen?
Did the maw quest where you get the 'shroud' ability. it's randomly cancelling constantly just like my invis pots in keys.
Does anyone know what is up with this?
what being cucked on gear from raid yes definitely
omg kreven preach.
I've done 2 normal full clear, 1 8/10 heroic, 1 9/10 and mythic tarragrue. I have heroic gloves, 3 blood shards, 1 dyz...2 normal mode trinkets.
nah just kidding but seriously got cucked so hard 2 weeks in a row now, either someone at blizzard really hates me or people should steer clear of me on the off chance this bad luck rubs off
Like..? KT loot pls..PLZ I beg? or remnant of nerzhul loot?
I wish the m+ powers were more random but I also know it would make gamers mad lol
Also I would get very impatient with people burning timer to read tooltips
I keep getting nothing but conduit upgrades, and Ner'zhul cucked the fuck out of me 2 weeks in a row for my chest on normal and heroic
I have gotten 3 pieces of actual loot, 1 shard, and conduit upgrades
wait 4 pieces of actual loot, conduit upgrades, 1 shard
guys is there a way to see inspiring mobs in MDT?
Thx!
Anyone able to look at these logs for me and give me any pointers? I hit KSM tonight off of these two dungeons but want to try push higher this season; much love โค๏ธ https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/TQcGy4kDv2MAFxLr
So, I just got the shard of zed, the unholy aura one. the wowhead said it doesnt proc on pretty much anything. but with my testing, even thunderclap procs it.
how do u determan who gets necro banner buff
Closest people to you
whoever trades you enough gold
You really just wanna get that blocked hits % up, you're at around 60 and could get a lot higher
There's also banner info if you check pins
Things are prone to changes.
It did not used to proc off of anything, seems it was changed then. ๐ ๐
i haven't gotten a better piece with a different set bonus yet, so i've been trying the frost one in the meanwhile
it is INSANE how undertuned it is
good lord
The crit absorb one?
yeah
yeah, mega doodoo
is that at rank 4?
Max rank jeah.
from a 5 mob target dummy just doing damage rotation:
siphon essence doesnt have a target limit, so probably pretty value in M+

could anyone explain me why So'leah's Secret Technique sim so bad? isnt it a 82 str and 111 haste stat stick?
it sims as +111 haste as default i think, and i dont know the command to change that
but stat sticks are generally not that great for tanks, usually damage procs are better
Hi all. Bit of a noob question. I'm struggling to keep aggro on pulls in M+. I'm following mostly Pika's pug friendly routes as a Kyrian prot warr. Apart from using challenging shout on CD, does anyone have any tips?
Are you running Reprisal with BSC/Ravager/AM?
I always throw ravager and tclap at the start, seems to grab them up pretty well most of the time.
You shouldn't have threat issues generally if you play the rotation correctly unless the DPS'ers are going full ham before you get to grab aggro.
Yes
Could also be the issue
Then the next suspect is your Rage usage.
If you are spamming IP you won't have enough rage for Revenge which is the majority of your AoE damage.
Is it worth running Crackling for the increased range of tclap
Jeah, it's good in Mythic+. ๐
But i doubt that's your issue currently.
I try to use the opener on IcyVeins, but I suspect I'm not using enough Revenges in turn.
I'll keep it in mind. Thanks both
The opener is mainly for ST situations on IV.
In AoE you generally:
Ravager->Charge+Avatar->Revenge
Revenge should be your primary RAge dump in most situations as long as you have Shield Block covered.
Appreciate the tip Mwahi.
Do you have a damage brake down of your dungeon by any chance?
Not at my PC currently. But I assume Revenge should be pretty high?
usually #1
Awesome!
Maybe it's just my mind set. First proper tier tanking and maybe it's just my mind I should just be using defensives so should save to do so
the only time on AoE especially I am not going full mongo padlord with spamming Revenge is when I am saving enough rage to keep SB up, but with Reprisal helping me out with that from my intervenes and charges I am spamming Revenge A LOT ๐
IP just doesn't reduce that much damage for the rage cost, it's mostly just for excess rage that you'd otherwise waste
Or the worst situations where you need literally everything you can get to survive
Need to spam more Revenge then I think!
@urban quartz Also do not fall into the trap of forgetting we are preemptive tanks in terms of damage taken, do not try and react to damage taken, learn to and get used to predicting what is about to happen and reacting accordingly, well seeing what is gonna happen so to speak
Will do.
@urban quartz By doing so you can see when using certain abilities is more necessary and when your clear Revenge spam to your hearts content, one thing that I find a lot of people do wrong as a Warrior tank is say for example casting SBlock when you do not need to such as on large packs of casters, or not using SBlock when they should as the other side of that situation such as when they might waste rage on IPain. I know this post is a bit off the main question you asked, but knowing when to use what helps you to be able to spend that rage on more damaging ability casts.
You've given me plenty of information to get me started. I appreciate that.
Its all a balance of when you should use what and knowing when X ability or Y ability should be of higher priority than each other and why
DoS pack with the purple guy that knocks you off is mostly/is all casters right? , so why would I SBlock for example
There's definitely enough melee in those packs to justify SB
Honestly, with Reprisal allowing you huge uptime, there are very very few packs in M+ where SB isn't worth it
True
No there are absolutely melee mobs in that pack, but if your only spamming IP there for example trying to survive the damage your going to die, but also if your just using SBlock and not going into that pack with a CD or so and preparing for the damage that is coming your also gonna die
As well as you should yourself try and interrupt and so should the dps as well, but trust me when I say in pugs dps will commonly not interrupt because there mongoloid personas will tell them "but my pretty dps numbers will be lower" which can and will in turn screw you
So to solve that issue run with people you know and trust and you dont have to deal with mongo dps
Always a better way. Pugging is hell. Luckily most of my guild members like doing M+
As I said learn what should be used when, and plan for the damage before it happens, a lot of people talk about SBlock flat uptime as the end all be all of Warrior tanks, but truthfully its by and far way more about effective uptime, meaning making sure your getting as many actual blocked hits as possible. That is not to say that keeping SBlock up period is not ABSOLUTELY important during blockable attacks because it just is, but I am highlighting the value of making sure your blocking what can be blocked and not wasting casts of SBlock casts on things you can't block in the first place. Either way man keep plugging away, you seem to have the desire to play better and be the best player you can be so that is the right attitude, good luck man
Thanks Drkreven. I appreciate you taking the time out to give this to me.
Harrow, you too
I'm having a hard time understanding if I want Best Served Cold or Booming Voice for M+. Any thoughts?
I know Reprisal is too good and have read the pins but if you were to run Glory in keys, what talent set-up would you run it with?
BSC dinner reprisal gives free Revenge
Default back to the old Ravager/BV/Bolster most likely to cover for the SB uptime decrease.
Thank you
i'm tanking salvanas... but on p3.. if the floor is destroyede i couldn't jjump over
oh can i just say
Shard of Kyr is NUTS
Just ridiculous how much that thing does over the course of a fight, it's like practically up there with Indomitable in my healing done
In love with warrior prot 
so sinful surge extends the duration of Last stand, but if talented into bolster it doesnt give SB as long as you can extend last stand. which i would assume it should?
but the tooltip says for the duration, and if i can extend it then it should give me SB for the full duration logically and yeah i just tested that out too which sucks
You can easily argue it should work. But yeah sadly it does not
well thats annoying, ill submit a bug and hope they see it lol
Personally I doubt it will get fixed, i imagine it was bug reported when it didn't work on ptr
do prot warriors still gain 2 rage per hit and 3 rage per hit taken w/ a 1 sec ICD?
as a good rule of thumb, if at any point in your wow career you find yourself defending an idea with "but the tool tip says" - thats a strong indicator you're wrong
So if i want to do M+ i have to be kyrian?
No
I don't think diminishing returns will matter til near the end of this tier
So I can go necro then? is there a big difference defensively?
Phial is more convenient to use than Fleshcraft, or to save for big incoming damage.
Spear better damage than banner, plus add CC
But play what you like, I still enjoy M+ as Venth, which is worse for DPS and Tanking
Okay thank you!
The actual, real downside of going anything other than kyrian or NF is pugs might be judgmental and not pick you
In terms of performance you can do whatever
Prot definitely has the best argument for necro though too
Why does it feel like I'm getting absolutely destroyed by Fatescribe
guys I have a question - I did not know where else to ask this, but hoping for an unbiased answer...
I am trying to decide between taking my prot warrior or brewmaster for SoD, not sure which one to take (they're both within 1-2 ilvls of each other) and the co-tank is a vengeance
raid comp is like 70% casters/magic dmg dealers and 30% melee/physical dmg dealers roughly
and I am equally comfortable with either
Are you doing CE?
CE is?
Cutting Edge
killing the last boss of the raid on mythic before the next tier begins usually
eventually aiming for that, yes
Wasn't gonna bother doing Timewalking, got roped into it, and got Aegis
honestly, the main reason for my confusion is the buffs that both bring like idk if mystic touch will be better for our raid comp than battle shout, and the other factor is the tank dps - like although the group isn't short on dps or anything, so idk if that would even matter...but my brewmaster sims at about 4.5k patchwerk, while warrior is simming at 3.6k
in my understanding, tank dps won't really matter since group dps is good enough to get us past things
personal dps isn't nothing but it's a small part of the overall raid damage, not the biggest deal if you're not pushing for top 100
also it's a much bigger deal to figure out if you're getting more out of warrior utility vs. monk utility
if you have no other warriors at all, battle shout + rally might outdo monk
Mystic Touch should be more DPS than shout every time i imagine
Tho warriors bring Rallying
It really depends on your comp if you have other warriors/monks
And honestly it shouldnt be much different tbh
This raid is heavy on magic damage and its pretty bad on warriors
i believe on Eye there isnt a single blockable thing for example
Hmmm, then I guess the brewmaster might be a better pick
from what i've seen so far, it's not a huge tankbuster raid and rally might be the biggest factor tbh
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just a lot of huge raid damage checks
I don't think it's the magic damage that's fucking us.
It's that most mechanics that hit massive are not blockable.
And they're all tankbusters.
yea
Mythic eye feels like dogshit.
Now that you mention it, i think Deathlink is phisical right?
Bro play what you like more or are better at. If you need the class utility you can get it somewhere else
Yeah lots of physical tank mechanics aren't blockable this tier
But they were blockable week 1
I dont get why we cant block or reflect anything on that fight
Its beyond me
I was getting so pissed on our mythic prog on it
i think the literal only thing you can reflect is little eyes casts
i hope so
it feels really bad to have block being literally useless
and sr close to useless
I keep thinking about stagger, dampen harm and celestial brew, feel like that might better than warrior defensives
But honestly I am not so sure
Warrior is pretty tanky
And honestly tankyness doesnt reallly matter all that much
I feel like last stand and rallying cry with ignore pain is also pretty useful in many situations
Any class can survive mythic prog
Hmmm
It really comes down to raid buffs imo
If you dont have any warriors, it should be a better pick
Same goes for monk
If you have both, it shouldnt really matter
Got it
If you really want to bring a bit more, Cry should help on progression on a few bosses
Its real good on Painsmith, with big damage spikes
But not so much on fights like guardian with constant damage
But its still doable w/o it
I think itโs coming down to a coin toss for me
Have you played both a bunch?
Yes
But I think Iโd say Iโve played prot more than brew
And this might be irrelevant, but I think Iโm luckier with gear on my prot than on my brew! ๐
hi wich talents and conduits if i play M+ with the wall
what way is everyone going in dos this week
left
yikes :/
its far better
ik
u get 2 power early on
but my teams healer is a holy priest
and?
and she cant live through a mask this early without a urn or 3 powers on a 20
u dont need to deal with that spirit straight away
ik
trying to avoid a whole lot of back peddling :/
I'm running a day care here with my team
Guys. I have seen a good mix of the wall and reprisal in mythic sod. What u recommend to upgrade first?
Cuz some boss abilities hit really hard and I think more shield wall is huge there. And cuz of some long tanking downtimeโs reprisal seems a bit useless sometimes
We killed the eye mythic on Thursday and the magic dot in intermission is ticking really hard and I needed shield wall as often as I could get it to survive this
is there anything in Tazavesh we're super interested in? So'leah's?
u should be useing the wall on the eye its a fight to fight basis
but reprisal is better on more fights
where the wall is better on the eye and maybe/probably sylvannas
I still haven't quite figured out what to use where as far as legendaries go
Using reprisal everywhere in dungeons, torghast and open world shit, the wall entirely in raid, cus raid is still new to me
Note that I didn't really play much since 9.0.5, so reprisal is new to me still lol
what are the new best Tank trinkets for M+?
reprisal basically everywhere, wall if you dont have to block much or need more shieldwalls
reprisal has a bit of a learning curve but is just more fun and rewarding
That much I get already, why I like it better
Old warrior's soul + scale and you're probably set 
For trinkets
the one in the pins is also good apparently, did 350kish absorb in my nw 17 last night (226 version)
i used it on the major pulls and some smaller inbetween
it doesnt feel like doing this much bc you dont see it live but looking at meters ist is not to be forgotten
Old warrior's soul is juicy but can fuck your invis skips so beware
I hate invis skips ๐ I tend to just plan my routes around them, though they do really help sometimes, it's just...very hit and miss in PUGs which is the vast majority of my m+
The new shield trinket I got as well from normal, will have to try it, not very enthusiastic about it so far
Ty! Which talent in last row would u choose for mythic progress? When playing the wall I guess AM. with reprisal AM/Bolster? Also have seen HR in Logs
Old Warriors Soul doesnt it drop off between packs?
It lasts a bit after you drop combat so you can keep it up if you pull fast enough
Has a 15sec grace period
ah ok, thats pretty cool ๐
In my experience with it, it rarely drops off esacially if you keep an eye on it (and your healers mana).
It is solid, i played around with occular gland and prefer warriors soul, because it has no downside (sub50% hp) and is most of the time more stats gained.
10/10 would reccomend and play
what neck is currently best for us?
there's none haste versa
only pvp
xd
there is one in new dung but its 233
are there some vids explaining haste? i dont get why ppl start playing 'into the frey' now
SB uptime
Purely because it grants a few more% of SB uptime
i tried high versa and its shit
Which isn't needed whatsoever
haste is so good
If its the eye AM dont know about slyvannas depends how muh blockable damage there
First boss of top with big add together if you don't have high SB uptime you are just dead
mortal strike just hit like hell
plus heal reduction
@jagged pier ty. and over all in Mythic raid? AM should be best or?
Sounds like people not using defensives tbh
You should never get more than one rage cast
And if everyone just uses their defensives, it's not hard to live through one
If your running reprisal yes if your running the wall no if theres any amount of blockable damage u take bolster with the wall the eye has nearly zero blockable damage so its pointless to take bolster
Sylvanas doesn't really do enough 'white swings' for you to be worried about block uptime
At least on heroic
Managing to get some pretty crazy Banner uptime with the new legendary in keys but
Sacrificing the SB uptime is way too brutal
yes
does vers reduce magic damages?
Vers reduces all damage
With Reprisal I always use Anger Management. When using The Wall, usually I take Bolster or Heavy Repercussions, depending on the encounter.
Oh crap I was scrolled up
Which site is the go to for up to date warrior guides?
you enjoying the absolutely rare mount?
all same from @jagged pier never had problems
hi i have a question about the 50 talent for prot warrior when i use anger management and when heave repercussions?
heavy*
if your running the wall u use bolster in dungeons and AM on some raid fights
if you are using reprisal u use AM all the time, unless you are at this time doing 21-22+ lvl keys then u use HR it lets u stand in packs longer
and even then u can still run AM u just need to think more
ah i see thank you so much ๐
do i need to recraft Reprisal for socket if its in Boots?
u should recraft it anyways as sylvannas drops boots
(But it's not for socket reasons)
alrdy have Halkias Towering Pillars
haste/vers legs
probably wont kill Sylv on much higher than Normmal anyway
unless you want to spend a big amount of soul cinders on crafting reprisal on boots, to then later recraft reprisal on legs
soul cinders?
the thing you need to craft a leggo higher than r4
where does Soul Cinders drop?
torghast
my leg is haste mastery and id like to put vers on it, do i have to recraft everything?
yes
shield > weapon > armor > jewelery
unless its a bis item
na i mean like a real item
like scale or neck
i wouldnt use my valour until i have a shield
its gonna get superseeded instantly as soon as you get a higher ilvl one
so i wouldnt say its worth spending your valor already
ya
yup
how much is weapon to upgrade anyway
id say hold off uprading until next week then
cuz shield costs 250 per
so if you are to get a shield this week, you wouldnt be able to upgrade it
Shield is big
is Axe of the Deadgrove the best 1h?
technically The Devouring Cold is the best 1h ๐
crit vers?
max ilvl
what does the use do?
its higher ilvl, so it wins
ah from Mythic Raid ๐
on use is cosmetic
the use is only cosmetic
ohh for More haste
so axe is #2 ?
๐
and celestial guidance is better than lightless force?
has anyone been able to test if the Blood Link shard set is ST or AOE?
save enough valor for shield maybe even scale rest can be spent is my opinion
like legit
getting a 246 shield now would be a ~30% increase in tankiness
its absolutely vital
wtf jakey did you not get any gear?
I got a big shield in my box last week... it was either that or pants
I feel cheated cause Mythic Tarra gots a shield
similar to me, i got Darkfrost Helm, a chest, and a shield from vault
had to go with shield
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Hadnโt thought about this. โDamaging a target establishes a blood linkโ so if you tclap itโd pulse a blood link w each of them? Say on the Nine?
yeah, i've been wondering for like a month+ now lol
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Not too much multitarget in raid but thatโd wreck in Torghast. At max rank each target is 500dps&hps
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Crit haste is the best from Dung?
What's the rule of thumb on ilvl vs dom socket pieces? 239 dom <=> 252?
Ok, so if I get a vault piece that coincides with a dom socket slot, then take the other vault option
is Dom > everything in M+ aswell?
Ya, outside of the speed and leech sockets ofc
It's only 1 target
1 target
even in M+?
Depends on the specific socket, but Dom shards are huge even without the set bonus
good to know ty
What should the optimal uptime of Shield Block for the entire dungeon be when using Reprisal in a high m+ key?
Uptime itself isn't a relevant metric
What matters is the %blocked hits
Which can only be seen in logs
Shield Smashers - what would be best on this you think? ilvl obviously the ring, but a trinket and weapon...
why would you pick a 226 weapon if you can just go and do m+ and get a way better one
that would only be a very short term gain
6/8 of the dungeons drop a weapon so unless you raid log only that ring is way better
The real split was the trinket vs the ring.
And yeah you're right muyuu - I get M+ every week.
then dont mention the weapon :p
well the trinket is useless in raid pretty much
but apparently really good in M+
however you can easily get a higher ilvl one if you do at least HC raiding
the ring on the other hand is useful everywhere
it obviously depends on what you have available as well as what content you do
Yeah we're AOTC, team I'm too lazy for Mythic.
Pushing for 20s for the teleport this season.
does it make sense to do LFR to get gear with domination sockets?
or is that not worth?
I did LFR for Shards of Domination, not sure if the armor is worth using over M+, that's a lot of item level loss
maybe in raid for the shard set bonus?
the set bonus sometimes works in m+ too and i have no idea how/where/when
but the shards and shit are totally worth having/getting
shard sets only work in maw/raid i thought
and thats from mists so i got stone ward just before the first boss so only missed 2 packs with it
They're bugged
Sometimes they work in m+ but absolutely shouldn't
A fix is coming soon tm
is the blood link still considered best for prot warrior, after the recent buffs to the dom set bonuses?
Yes
kk
It's the best by like 300dps
ah ok, pretty significant then
Very
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KEK
that dps is including the set bonus?
its comparing the set bonuses
are there sims breaking down the dps value of each domination shard? Just looking to see the value of 1 shard in a M+ environment
Is NF or Kyr better for high M+ keys
Guys I got this one just now. My current trinkets are Blood Spattered Scale always on and for the 2nd its either hear of al ar or old warriors soul.
Asking weather I should trade it to some of our DPS in the guild.
When do you see that we (prot) can use that ?
trade it away to a dps
scale and OWS are really really good trinkets
does the value of mastery go up with reprisal? pushiung it above any of the other stats?
Haste->More stats-> all other combinations
it goes up but its still below ilvl haste and vers :p
ok; i was just wondering whether to spam mists for the haste/mastery shield; need to replace a 213 season 1 shield
That you can Do
Shield Ivl is the biggest thing We have
And with good stats its even better
there's a crit haste one as well in ToP, although not much fun farming top :S
Honestly the numbers don't lie
And scaling if frekking weird on the mini bosses in ther they CLAP ๐๐๐
Thanks thanks guys, I gave it away to one of our hunters.
Fuck maaan
I skipped the vault chest
With bloodrune
Wow lmao nice.

@ the eye
Erga am I just a smoothbrain or what because H Fatescribe kicks my ass
That diviners probe is probing my supple behind
I gotta line up an IP, SR, and Demo shout just to live it with any stability coupled with the tank detonation
Is it just me or is halls actually kinda hard this week basically asleep at the wheel any other dungeon then hit halls and life just flashes before my eyes, that bolt buff seems insane
halls fucks on fortified inspiring
It's upside down world
It does hurt a bit, but nothing crazy tbh.
Just SR to deflect
mists scary the dungeon thats 99% physical damage ๐ค
^
Mists first packs are rough, rest seems ok. End is bananas mass pulls anyways
Weird is hoa feeling harder than top
literally shockwave stack the debuff and SR it
Just pop last stand for the dammmm
hoa is more difficult than prot for a prot warr I think
even before they buffed bolt by 27% (why blizzard)
Which stats do I use to craft my legendary with ?
Haste/Vers.
thanks fam
it's not the damage, it's just dps fucking up targets in the maze with inspiring lol
That's only one cast, he does 3.
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Yeah, we did a +16 HOA to pad GV and I died to Wicked Bolt. The buff is obnoxious and the damage was like... 38-40K per bolt this week in that run.
But if you can line up the bolts on double obliterator packs and SR them both ๐
At any rate, yeah you gotta kick bolts, CC mobs, and either out-range it or LOS it.
Just one or two casts of it without CDs and you're gonna get fucking bodied.
huh, SR can reflect the probe from Fatescribe?
i was using it to reflect the Twist Fate debuff lmao whoops
if you are really afraid of thoses cast, just use shieldwall, there is no other dammage coming to you in the fight. And you will probably have it up for the next overlap/p1
The issue is 22K damage every swap overlapping (sometimes) with Twist Fate and the Invoke Destiny pop.
And also I think partially healers are just not prepared for it either.
You should be going into that with 100 rage+DS up every time
Almost every healer I've pugged it with I've had to tell them the biggest spike of tank damage is the tank swapping onto the boss.
๐ค ...why would I cap rage?
I'd rather cap my IP and spend the rage and have 40 leftover to pad out my IP after Probe splats it
Which is what I do
idk i just have 1 tank swap before p2 on heroic
It's just obnoxious
I dunno, i found that taunting with some IP and 100 rage and DS was enough to just blast a million IPs and push through it, as long as the healers know it's going to happen
it hurts a lot though
i normally slam fleshcraft if other stuff is happening during it #bannergang
ew banner is โฟ parses
idk why but even if i go a dps covenant i literally cannot parse on this class anymore
i had full purple/orange for every fight on mythic in legion but in this expansion i just cannot dps
That's because late legion warr was busted
Now you gotta actually bigbrain DPS sometimes to get parses
Or just run SR on cleave fights
kek
i got a 90 second long banner uptime on a target dummy though so that was fun
i mean late legion warrior you had to have zoomer reflexes and just spam your fucking keyboard to parse
and early legion warrior you just stacked crit while all of skyhold told you stacking crit was trolling (because it was)
Can I somehow mark players that are more than 8 yards and less than 25 yards away on the unitframes with elvui? I would like to have a indicator where I can intervene and charge back easily
Eyes
you could probably do it with a weakaura
or, someone who's better than us at weakauras could ๐
Yeah I don't think elvui can do that
You could, but I don't see why you'd need it. Melee DPS or just eyeball check
lol
Do you guys think that going Glory in m+ and taking HR so you have more than 0 uptime on shieldblock is trolling
Yes.
Damage times keys.
HR isn't really necessary unless you're doing massive keys
Glory does damage
I'd be shocked if it simmed higher than rep
Also AM
Like Rep + AM simming higher than Glory + HR is almost guaranteed
Yeah I'm 99% sure that reprisal is just way too good but I'm gonna experiment on like a 16 or something
Just sim it on a dungeon slice
How often is banner up though
And does that offset the amount of damage you get on every charge/intervene with BSC
It's up on me for like half the time i'm in combat
this trinket is nutty
?
did 260dps in muh+
Aegis?
phial
I'm forcing my guild to do mythic Nine before HC sylvanas because i want my fuckin Aegis
that trinket looks so juicy
2 is the sweetspot i think
what missives for reprisal?
Haste vers I think
fucc ok
yap
oj oj oj
Any necrolord glory warriors that can vouch for how it feels to use
What does feeling have anything to do with it? ๐
One persons says it "feels" ok, the other says it "feels" bad.
If you're doing keys where you are not punished by the lack of SB that Reprisal provides then go ham and enjoy Glory.
Damn homie I was just asking peopleโs opinions
I understood that and i provided you with the answer with reasoning. ๐
@ionic fern Can you shed some light on why mastery is not preferred by many as prot? It seems OP doubling the value of SB. Am I missing something?
RNG.
Also if you actively chase mastery you are losing other stats including Haste which reduces your overall SB up-time.
I can see that argumetn
It's not a bad stat per-se, it's just RNG and tanks usually want consistency in their survivability.
I'm at 22% haste/29% Mastery/17% Vers (Into the fray 0 stacks).
Yeah I can see that, but I'd think that would mostly apply to big tankbusters. Say you are pulling packs of 8 mobs, none are tankbusters per say, but the overall reduction then might be nice.
Jeah, sure - but now you're tailoring the situation for mastery artificially increasing its value.. It could be done pretty much for any stat.
In raids you could probably get away with going more mastery/vers heavy due to having 2 tanks for example.
I guess I should ask instead, does glory used correctly add more dps to a m+ than just being kyrian with reprisal?
Overall group DPS ? Yes, if your DPS players are not bad.
@ionic fern My context is purely M+, should be noted
Jeah, see in m+ you are constantly tanking so going too heavy on mastery would lose you out on haste for example.
Most people feel "comfortable" around 25% haste..so you have to find that sweet spot for yourself.
Good evening, I would like to know if someone could inform me on what to take in legendaire to make a max of damage in quests and especially in the tower
I had a tank in a +15 PF getting 55k hits from the 3 slimes before the big group in front of tentacles. We are wondering what he was supposed to do ? any ideas?
The whole group has to interrupt
there were no casts before he died. He got legit oneshot at pull
On the Rotmarrow Slimes?
He say it was slimeclaw. The small ghoul like things
Oh, not the slimes
yeah mb
Their cast is brutal, but can be spell reflected
okay thanks
You either want them synced up so you can reflect them together
Or staggered so they don't hit simultaneously if spell reflect is down
okay i will tell him thank you very much
np!
@sick sentinel i absolutely wouldn't use glory in any dungeon other than SD and HOA. i'm not sure if its better than reprisal in there but i've been experimenting with it and I like it so far.. i need a non grievous week to be more sure
(because non blockable dmg is unusually high in there)
@sick sentinel I'm currently experimenting with Glory+HR and it feels... ok?
I run with an extremely good ret pala and a priest so I just banner+PI him and he globals everything, good co-ordination seems essential as always
But you can get some insane uptime on it, it's a lot of fun
Reprisal is probably gonna be better for basically everything, I'm only doing 16/17s so going higher might be rough, but yeah. Feels ok.
i prefer bolster cause you can pair it with every banner and with that 50% more rage while last standed conduit you have really explosive openers with ravager and whatnot
Yeah I forgot bolster lets them line up together
Feels like your single target damage with Glory is quite a lot better too
You have so much uptime on the strength/mastery/rage generation
single target is slightly ahead maybe but your overall will be lower for sure compared to reprisal
in a dungeon
significantly lower, your dps players have to make up for it
Yeah, I guess
Probably Glory in some dungeons if you have cracked dps that you co-ordinate with
And a healer who knows how to max range you and dodge the buff
another problem with glory i find is that the classes i want that really love mastery cooperate very well with classes that hate mastery
for instance rets are absolute blasters with their 2 minutes as well and love mastery but havoc hates mastery which is good with ret
enhancement also is wonderful for us because windfury gives so much dmg and rage to prot specifically..... but they hate mastery big time
i traded away 2 IQD for my good karma and got my scale only in 20 or so runs this time around
as opposed to 50 or lord knows how much last patch
I got scale from first vault last patch and i think that was all my good rng gone forever
i got heroic weapon and shield first week so cant complain ๐
All I want is a damn shield so I can uipgrade it to 246 ๐ฆ
Good evening, I would like to know if someone could inform me on what to take in legendaire to make a max of damage in quests and especially in the tower
Yeah reverb is fun for torg
which one is it?
Is Taragrue mythic a big bounce up from hc in terms of dps/heal/tank checks?
@swift prawn do whichever one sounds fun. If quest content is your end goal, it doesnt matter at all.
My guild killed M Teragrue before killing heroic Painsmith, it's pretty easy
Aight coo
It is especially to be able to rush it in a minimum of time
Reverb on packs of 5-8 is big damage.
Avatar + last stand + ravager -> revenge spam with reverb is a lotta damage
thx
ello looking at the leaderboards i saw the russian prot thats r1 play best served itf and HR pushing keys. Would this be seen as this best build for these kinds of keys?
@blazing condor Tarragrue is a loot pinata, if you don't kill it in 1 or 2 pulls just reroll powers. If your tanks are low geared they might need some good powers
I tried doing tarragrue with 4 dps powers and got absolutely slammed into the floor lmao
R u Lil blocky
yes
I figured cause I saw your latest album drop ๐ฅ

damn
Should I ever take dragon roar for M+?
with Reprisal do I run bolster talent in keys?
never
and you never run bolster with reprisal
is storm bolt > double time situational or always
Bounding stride gang
I got double time personally
I really dont feel the need for the extra interrupt
fair enough seems abit overkill with all that shield block
yup
i like double time
Any necrolord gang got thoughts on our soulbinds? I've just been running Emeni in everything but I haven't thought about it at all
whats best torment powers to choose?
@strong forum what was your route for that SD?
only place I've really changed a route for very much w/tormented is DoS
you can have 3 powers before 1st boss if you choose with no real waste
it's nifty
tormented is 1000% better than prideful, good lord
yeah
it doesnt fuck you over
except the frost guy
he fucking sucks
shit fucking powers
Executioner is the homie i want barbs forever
Damn
Show us a breakdown
Thats alot of damooge
lemme log
I never go above 4 4
i havent been below 4.9k today
Aight brug
was in soa i think
What level was that?
What shenanigans r u using
6.3k in NW
6.1k in Sanguine
4.9k in SoA
5k in ToP
5.3k in DoS
i think that were my numbers today
What kinda levels are you running
Im doing 18s
15-17s were that i think, cuz we're undergeard af
I botched a nw pull on narzudah
(also bad)
are people snapping tormentors in NW and SD?
I'm managing 4.5k in 16s with Glory+HR but eugh I need real trinkets, I'm still using the exact same two trinkets I was using 5 weeks into 9.0
no pets in comp ๐ฆ
What trinkets are you guys even using
i was using decanter/phial/meathook
cringe
Give me anything else and I'll use it
why would you run glory in m+
I'm using scale plus the new cheat death
Testing it
Everyone in here says it's absolutely dogshit garbage and that normally means it's ok
Sure but I'm not failing a 16 either way
Bolster is better in that case
So I'm testing it
no but its still 
Gonna try Bolster next
You should really play reprisal once you get the hang of it it is an extremely fun legendary
I have played Reprisal, I only made Glory yesterday
And yeah, it kicks ass
But having a 90 second long banner also kicks ass
I love thunderlord, miss it
I wish I could wear thunderlord
thats my dmg breakdown Twin
Yeah it's the spear of Bastion that's making the difference
? you venthyr or what

cringe
and bluepilled
but yeah, venthyr makes you lose alot of dps in m+
and with week 57 kyrian stonks are ๐
i will defend banner but i gotta admit spear of bastion fuckin CRANKS
i feel like they made it hit harder this patch
idk why
i feel like it does alot more dmg than it did in 9.0.5
Do you need to last hit an enemy for War Machine to proc?
hm interesting
doesn't matter either way because if i ever have to actually press devastate again i'm deleting my character but
o.o
understandable
yeah i'm never not going to have devastator
i aint tryin to make room on my bars again
that's prime real estate
i still have the passive icon for devastator on 1
mine is still on 2
exactly
my bars would look way too weird without that icon
its been there for like 7 expansions
wow yeah 7 expansions actually jesus
SEE
i'm definitely not interested in not having devastator ever again though
wish they'd make it baseline
Yeah
that said, i'm quite pleased with our spec these days
yeah i think we're probably one of the best specs in terms of covenant balance
maybe even THE best
just sucks that over the last ~3-4 years we've had so many cool and fun things and most of them got moved to awkward talent rows or straight up removed, but core gameplay is really quite good
i think tank balance across the game is possibly as good as it's ever been
yep
we're all just utility bots with slight differences in survivability and tankiness it's great
so what is more prio Shield block or IP and when do I spam Revenge , having diffucult making the call when you use it and not
SB in like 99% of situations
And do I use more IP over Revenge?
Depends entirely on the situation
I'm currently 198 ilvl so im getting rekt
Ye that would do it
so focus more on IP
I'v been doing this
Bs-> Revenge-> IP when rage up
I only use IP to avoid rage capping and when I know stuff will hurt/does unblockable dmg here and there
But with 198 ilvl everything hurts
yea
got him up this morning ๐
rocking full blues almost
maybe I shouldn't do like 7-8 keys
since they legit destroy me
You can buy full 200 ilvl from AH
yea idk if I wanna fork out gold atm
dat haste ๐ค
yes!
Also should've crafted reprisal on legs
yea I'll do that later just threw something on to get going
Unless you're not gonna upgrade those 190s
I'm mostly only gonna do keys on this toon so idk if domination socket matter taht much then
Dom sockets aren't on reprisal slots anyway
I mean with 200 you should be fine in 7-10s I feel like
It's moreso the quality of player that is in those keys is what's hurting the most
Not your lack of ilvl
what is BS
SB*
You can get dom armor from the weekly time walking chest yes?
Yeah at 226
Can you get kt/sylv loot and get lucky 233's?
so i have been farming the scale in DOS in +10 to +14 ans on the second pack of the donjon i have been dying in every single one of them i need help i cant keepup like that
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