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sweet kayak
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Yeah that mob has two schools cast 😡

primal cape
strong forum
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ye for raid

rough egret
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for me kleia still sims higher ST dmg 🙂

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*as arms

strong forum
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ofc as arms lmao

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im talking as prot

rough egret
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I mean if you use mikanikos for arms m+ and prot then i would change Mortal Combo for Ashen Jugg , execute is big dmg portion in m+

strong forum
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yes

patent osprey
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Mortal combo you never change

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that shit is so much dps

rough egret
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not for m+

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if you should pick 2 conduits then its CTR + AJ

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its also rng 🙂 still a chance to proc

sick sentinel
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covenant for fury warr venthyr

patent osprey
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don't see a reference but I could be wrong

vapid berry
strong forum
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channel has been taken over

rough egret
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i mean just hop in #arms they will tell you same 😄

patent osprey
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I haven't tried both but I still think MC is big value but yeah maybe. I'd need to see the #@

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especially since OP is > prio over execute

rough egret
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for ST yes

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but we speaking about M+

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you hunt executes with massacre

inland raft
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In m+ spend a ton of time doing stuff other then casting mortal strike which deives value of mc down

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Overpower and execute high prio

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Especially with ss up

daring marlin
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Plus consistency vs rng

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MC procs are phat but rng sadge

solar hornet
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why are we talking so much about arms in the prot section 🧐

inland raft
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Personally running piercing instead of ashen but only cuz i dont wanna spend energy between prot and arms

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Cuz we zug zuggers

jagged pier
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the whole disucision started because we were talking about arms and prot cross tree

sacred timber
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This is why I have trust issues

patent osprey
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wait ur dps kicked?

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lucky

sacred timber
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bruh, even as fury I usually kick off cd

zenith vigil
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plka please you play with elite gamers who kick everything

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you not fooling us

daring marlin
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he's the puppet master tellin' them to kick

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:^)

patent osprey
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yes. Thier kick is just an extension of my keyboard

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if I don't say anything they let the incinerator kill us

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Check my vods, it happens

daring marlin
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big true

inland raft
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ive had shamans who dont kick if not emphatically told when to

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never underestimate non-tank aversion to kicks

zenith vigil
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It interrupts their dps obviously

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When u mash the keyboard in a certain way

inland raft
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opening kick counter at end of dungeon is a near sure-fire way to see who has ever played a tank before

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tank players have high kick counts even when not tanking

strong forum
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if my kick is not on CD

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something is wrong

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or there are no casters to be found

inland raft
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facts

jagged pier
patent osprey
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you can see how I fix the route everytime my team pulls something by accident. Happened in both HOAs this week

jagged pier
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i saw the invis skip at the start was the best bit

inland raft
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your team telling you they know a better route then you keksquad

safe thistle
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damn pug didnt knew you needed to be bear only for DoS .... some ppl just want ardenweald in 3 pulls

zenith vigil
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you can't do ardenweald in 3 pulls on your warrior?

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wtf. SAD!

safe thistle
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yah im terribad

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😛

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i do it in 5 pulls 😦

inland raft
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running double potency as mika or using the knockback on phial use route in bind? double potency making phial get auto consumed kinda sus feels like

ionic summit
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how are you guys feeling war in m+ currently? i thought it was going to be really good this tier but ut seems like just brewmasters and guardians running the show atm? or am i wrong?

strong forum
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guardian will likely be meta tank

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but pwar will be solid tied for 2nd/3rd

inland raft
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Pwar #1 in our hearts though

zenith vigil
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tell me what u see

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in top 10

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u see a lot of druids

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u see a couple monks, and a pally and a dk

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but u know what else u see, carving his lil niche?

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ONE OF US

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ONE OF US

inland raft
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Well pwar has an extremely low player base so the rankings dont reflect where we stand

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We are def number 2 or at worse a close 3rd

zenith vigil
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part of me wanted to play vengeance, just because havoc was kind of more fun to me than arms

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but prot is >vengeance to me so

inland raft
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Vengeance lost a ton of favor with cardboard nerf plus just general changes

ionic summit
obtuse monolith
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Anyone Prot / Arms and Kyrian? Do you have to swap conduits each time?
Looks like Mika’s best MT for both and Kleia ST

short kiln
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Tagging @strong forum for his tree which shows this exactly

obtuse monolith
strong forum
obtuse monolith
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Can’t believe you can fit 4 endurance conduits into that tree as prot.
For some reason I didn’t realize Fueled by Violence worked for Arms too

sleek spindle
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how's venth for tanking

zenith vigil
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bad

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well

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none of the covenants are horrendous

obtuse monolith
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I’m still Venth for now and it’s alright. Condemn is a nice rage dump because you get a bit of Revenge’s damage and a bit of IP’s DR. But having to wait until sub-20% to use it again after the first 20% blows by sucks. Would be a lot better if you could condemn at 35% like DPS

zenith vigil
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But there are better choices

ocean yoke
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its not crippling just not much of a benefit

obtuse monolith
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Door is not as good as soulshape but still nice for Painsmith or Eye if you like to live on the edge

ocean yoke
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im already contemplating the swap back to fae for when my team gets to painsmith

jagged pier
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but u can just leap over the spikes

ocean yoke
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oh shit

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i didnt realize that ive never tried lol

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i knew we could the balls probably shouldve figured

obtuse monolith
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I save my leap CD for the tank swap tho

jagged pier
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and ull have it back in intermission

ocean yoke
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yeah im thinking the intermission part

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hell yeah staying kyrian then

obtuse monolith
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Ahh yeah. Good for that

patent osprey
patent osprey
ocean yoke
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cool, thank you pika ill remember that

modern brook
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@patent osprey did u try leaping while jumping?

daring marlin
young oasis
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Man, I just hope they don't nerf Mika. We feel much better with using him

daring marlin
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Be pretty pepega if they did

short apex
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first time breaking 7k as prot

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fucking love this spec atm

strong forum
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nice

obtuse monolith
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Nice!

jagged pier
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nice

obtuse monolith
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Boomkin tip you well?

blazing condor
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tfw you out-dps your primary dps-premade as arms

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busted spec

rugged mural
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Hey guys, newer to raid tanking. My blocked hits are only about 45-55% of the hits taken on a boss. I'm using the Wall if that's relevant. How bad is that?

jagged pier
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bad

rugged mural
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What should you be aiming for? 90+?

jagged pier
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no depends on talents and a lot of things

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if your were using reprisal which u should be on most of the fights then 80+ as least

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as your using the wall on blockable fights u should use bolster

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do should be around 75%

rugged mural
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Ah, i'm using AM.

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Bolster is the move if using the wall?

jagged pier
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if its a block fight

shell hill
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would running reprisal be troll for raid? obv the wall is better but i just don't want to grind more torghast

rugged mural
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Non-block fights are Eye and Sylv? Others still look to be majority melee damage inc.

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Nine is a bit of weird one.

chilly brook
shell hill
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oh good lol

jagged pier
shell hill
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would it be bad for me to use reprisal on those 2 though? for like normal/heroic

jagged pier
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on hc slyv yer

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eye

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no

shell hill
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doubt i'll get to sylv mainly just eye

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alright

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which soulbind do you run for raid, pelagos?

jagged pier
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mik

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left side

thorny stone
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should i change a 252 helmet for a 226 with dom socket? i dont have the 3 unholy shards and do m+ mainly

short apex
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random 15 sd and everytime he died he said hes ramping

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venth boomie brain worms HAHAHA

chilly brook
sturdy sable
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Honestly at this point i really dont think venthyr is the move for boomies

inland raft
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It doubles down on boomkins being stupid

sturdy sable
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Which is the last thing you want lmao

shy coral
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how do you see your % of blocked hits?

sturdy sable
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Warcraft logs

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Melees

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Hover over it and it should say blocked

sweet summit
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hover over the "hits" portion of melee damage taken

shy coral
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can you not see it without logs?

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no addon for it? or details?

sweet summit
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not as far as i know
details does not track it

blazing condor
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holy shit arms is fun

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if a noob like me can top dps after only having played like 3 keys

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then its a good spec

strong forum
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thats usually how it goes

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big numbers? good sped

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small numbers? bad spec

blazing condor
strong forum
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big numbers = fun

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small numbers = not fun

blazing condor
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idk i feel like arms is fun because it has a high skill ceiling

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not to say fury does as well idrk

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but it feels like there's a lot of room to either be complete dogshit at arms or a god

hollow sun
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arms is too cd relianr

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t

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not really my style

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and i sim 5.5k in ST 😂

strong forum
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fits m+ quite well tho

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2x 40-45sec CDs

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and 2x 1.5min CDs

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and all of them line up every 2nd cast

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thats why it does numbers

hollow sun
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i have to say that the double bladestorm is pretty satisfying

strong forum
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elysian might > signet

zenith vigil
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I love all these people like "my god mikanikos so good"

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it's like they don't know about my homie Korayn, smh

strong forum
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well mikan is what makes kyrian better than NF for m+

zenith vigil
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🤌

strong forum
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because the CDs line up better

zenith vigil
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you think it's just unequivocally better?

strong forum
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for dps, i think so yea

zenith vigil
strong forum
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elysian might + mikan > NF + signet

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pretty sure

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not certain

zenith vigil
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oh, what if both have reprisal?

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which is what the near-entirety of the player base is likely to have tbh

strong forum
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im talking arms here, in the event of prot, kyrian and NF are pretty much equal

zenith vigil
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Oh

strong forum
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literally equal

zenith vigil
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Heh

strong forum
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kyrian might have a slight edge for dps because of mikan tbh

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prot doesnt play neither elysian might nor signet, both are not dps gains over reprisal or seismic

brittle owl
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ye but spin to win tho

strong forum
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i think bladestorm is a dps loss tbh

brittle owl
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probably

strong forum
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doesnt hit hard enough and you dont generate rage

brittle owl
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but it's dope af

strong forum
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fix prot ravager

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kthx

brittle owl
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ravej yep

hollow sun
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Can't give up on soul shape

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I think phial can't really compete

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It's better in very specific scenarios

brittle owl
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they achieve diff things

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cant quite compare

hollow sun
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Yeah but usually people say that phial is more defensive while soulshape allows very easy kiting

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I always struggle with damage though

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As Nf

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I have never went past 5k

strong forum
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that is probably a you issue, because NF has defo been more dps than Kyrian until this week

hollow sun
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Yeah I am aware of it

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But honestly I am not sure how to improve it

strong forum
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press buttons is 99% the solution

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it literally always is

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unless youre less than 220 ilvl

hollow sun
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I had some dungeons with almost 60 cPM and still did same damage

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I am not saying that it's not my fault but it might be due to my low FPS in game as well

strong forum
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depends on the dungeon

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like in mists you should be able to pump 7k

hollow sun
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No but I tested it in mists, same thing

strong forum
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then youre defo doing smth wrong

hollow sun
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I am 234 now

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With a 226 phial

strong forum
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maybe youre holding stuff for too long, or not being aggressive enough with revenge

hollow sun
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My defensive play improved a lot

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But damage is still lacking

hollow sun
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Well, I use CDs almost on cd, that's definitely not the issue. Maybe I will do some keys tomorrow to show you the logs

strong forum
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this was my SD with 6.4k dps a few weeks ago

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compare it with your stuff, maybe you can spot smth

hollow sun
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Higher ss casts

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And less Ip

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But I found that if I don't use up I overcap like crazy

strong forum
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works for me

hollow sun
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I would say 70% of my IP casts are to not overcap

strong forum
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and i already use IP quite alot tbh

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i use IP alot more than Jakey does

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but our overalls are the same

hollow sun
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Sometimes I have a scenario like this: your rage is at 50, you have a ravenge proc and intervene out of cd

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If you intevene and don't use ip you are likely to get ragecapped

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In the next seconds

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Wince that free revenge won't make you spend rage

strong forum
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keep in mind SB is also a ragedump, maybe you dont dump enough with that

hollow sun
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Wait, I logged a dung yesterday, let me find it

strong forum
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im fast as fuck boi

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holy shit

hollow sun
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Yep

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I play on a laptop

strong forum
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this was a log from march

zenith vigil
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Press

strong forum
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when reprisal came out

zenith vigil
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Revenge

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More

strong forum
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oh damn in that SD i also had 71cpm

zenith vigil
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refuses to elaborate further

strong forum
zenith vigil
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leaves

strong forum
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im fucking zooming

hollow sun
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mycpm arelow i guess.but even when i am atlike 56 its mostly the same dmg

strong forum
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yeah your TC and SS casts are low

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this is my PF 16

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our IP casts are the same, but youre just generating way less rage than i do

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in a 1.5min shorter dungeon i generated 500 rage more

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thats massive

hollow sun
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almost 4k more rage

zenith vigil
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unironically smash buttons faster dawg

strong forum
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i generated 500 more rage from TC and 800 more rage from SS than you did, but you used ravager more often and used reprisal more often so the gap is closer in rage generated

hollow sun
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i just don't know how to

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well

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spam the buttons more

strong forum
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well its pretty clear

hollow sun
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cause to me it feels like i am spamming them

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a lot

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it might be my latency or the not stellar fps

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idk

strong forum
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it may sound stupid, but its literally as simple as press SS and TC more

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pay more attention to them

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you also have similar haste levels

hollow sun
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they are literally binded to Q and E

strong forum
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so that isnt an excuse either

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:^)

zenith vigil
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I don't even pay attention to SS and TC beyond my weakaura

strong forum
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but yeah, having a shit setup can influence performance

zenith vigil
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i literally just mash them nonstop with one finger

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two*

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unless I'm trying to time a TC for right before i kite

hollow sun
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you basically prioritize ss over everything else

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unless you overcap

strong forum
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yes

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its your hardest hitting ability and generates rage

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you only prio revenge spam when ravager is up

hollow sun
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one thing that is weird

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i used 50 more revenges

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you used around 45 more ss

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and your dmg is way higher

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ah, and 40 more executes

strong forum
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well i do have a 252 weppy

zenith vigil
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what are your trinkets like?

hollow sun
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i have it too

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226 phial and 220 scale

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but it can't account for 1k more dps

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actually i am better geared

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well

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i will try to get more ss and executes

strong forum
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my stygian king barbs also did 200k more dmg than yours

hollow sun
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that i don't really have an explanation

strong forum
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we both have same blocked%

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so... yeah idk

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ah also

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it was fort vs tyr

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so i got barbs earlier probably

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and mobs lived longer

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but yeah, press buttons

hollow sun
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i even tried to macro SS with SB but it doesn't really work well

strong forum
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dont do that

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macroing stuff together is not a good thing

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the only good macro is the intervene/charge macro

hollow sun
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if it worked it wouldnt have an issue. In theory, you use SB before using SS, do you don't overcap

strong forum
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youre just gonna end up wasting SB charges

hollow sun
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but in practice with the latency and all it might end up that you use both charges at the same time or cast ss before sb

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so i dropped it

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no but, it was a macro that made me cast ss when i casted sb, not sb when i casted ss

tribal pagoda
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Heyho 😄 Our Reflect-Sheet says you can jump over the Painsmith balls... Did any1 actually test this?

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too afraid to try in our prog <.<

shut summit
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you can, its finicky and i didnt find it super reliable

zenith vigil
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jump in a straight line and put the balls at the apex of your jump

inland silo
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I tried it a bunch while we were wiping. Felt sorta consistent if you leapt from about 2 tiles away

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It’s always spooky though

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I jumped before leap too idk if it actually does anything

shut summit
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main problem is the timing isnt always the same for tank debuff / balls overlap, far easier/more consistent to just NF blink behind them

short kiln
opal kettle
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bsc vs bv for m+ with reprisal?

zenith vigil
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It's close

lofty widget
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bsc

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bv is for ST

latent pier
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Is prot really the weakest tank or is it pretty much just that the bad ones really suck?

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Everyone's trying to talk me out of it but I want to play it.

vapid berry
latent pier
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Awesome to hear! Just got a 236 shield from mists so I'm finally able to try it soon.

shell hill
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is mikanikos still bis for keys too?

zenith vigil
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@latent pier stop dooming and go look at top 10 raider.io m+ tanks

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tell me what you see at #9

hollow ferry
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tbf, 1 outlier doesn't prove anything

zenith vigil
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another in top 15

hollow ferry
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ok 2 outliers

zenith vigil
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ok then, resume dooming

latent pier
zenith vigil
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can't talk some people out of it

hollow ferry
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and let's not pretend that the absolute top tiers means it's the same across the board

latent pier
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:)

hollow ferry
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chill, im not the one saying prot is bad

zenith vigil
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you really are, actually

hollow ferry
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um

zenith vigil
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"haha 2 outliers doesnt mean prot war gud"

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"but no thats not what im ackshually saying"

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k

hollow ferry
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damn

sweet summit
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you need to calm down lmfao

hollow ferry
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yeah, I don't know what's up with this guy lol

zenith vigil
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dunno whats up with u either

hollow ferry
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Ok cool, been in here 1 minute and some dude is whining at me

zenith vigil
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prot is fine, and saying "those are just outliers" is pretty much saying that you don't think prot is up there

sweet summit
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why are you putting words in his mouth

latent pier
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so uh, thanks for the encouragement. :)

zenith vigil
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I'm not? He called them outliers, what else is that meant to mean than things that shouldn't be there?

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I don't think their presence means warriors are god tier either

sweet summit
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but yeah, prot is pretty good atm deswind

hollow ferry
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It's OK to just say Prot is good but it's not Bear druid atm

sweet summit
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that's true

simple mural
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You can look at the statistical data, all the tanks are doing over 20.

hollow ferry
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and that could just be because Prot is harder to play than just spamming Thrash

cinder pasture
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Bear is snooze mode, I can't stand playing it

zenith vigil
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I'm actually genuinely curious what that chinese DK is smoking

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there's not another dk till #30

sweet summit
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prot is also a historically underrepresented spec (when its not hard meta), people prefer other tanks over it

latent pier
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the fumes of progress

river escarp
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Anyone know the exact dialog for doing Prove your Worth/Rebuild our trust to swap covenants? I dont want to agree to switch and then having it switch instantly. The amount of dialog that you have to go through saying that you agree to swap back to a cov and then not being able to switch til a week later is confusing.

vapid berry
# hollow ferry tbf, 1 outlier doesn't prove anything

I mean you had nerftank last season push io as high as his demon hunter on his warrior as a statement that warriors still fine and they aren't a dead tank like everyone thought they were. Warriors are not a limiting factor in key push groups

hollow ferry
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I mean, I'm sure if you're playing with a group of 5 top-tier key pushers you can make lots of uncommon things work tbh.

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Not to take anything away from prot

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im gearing mine right now for more xp on it

dark lark
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And by squishy I specifically mean outside of brand and fel dev meta

modern brook
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You mean downtime.

dark lark
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Lack of uptime :)

zenith vigil
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The superior tank is paladin

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Eltharien will prove it one day

vapid berry
ocean yoke
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ive had it as a lazy alt and divine toll is basically crack

kindred plinth
sturdy sable
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Yeah you can fill the bar and sit on the completed quest

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Just dont do what i did and accidentally turn it in halfway through sludgefist prog

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Because they dont ask you if your sure its immediate and just a click away lol

river escarp
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@kindred plinth Weird, I am getting this

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I've rejoined Kyrian before

sturdy sable
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They reset everyones cov standing in 9.1

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So you got your freeby swaps back

river escarp
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I used it for Venthyr and swapped instantly

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I thought it was a one time thing, but is it for every cov?

sturdy sable
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Yeah every cov once

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The first time is free

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Except the one your currently leaving iirc

river escarp
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Ok cool.It's just sooo confusing y'know? Just say, you gotta do these weekly quests first and then you can swap, but no, you have to agree 2-3 times, but still cant swap due to a quest. ty for the help

sturdy sable
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Yeah meaningful choices ect ect

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It should just be like changing talents imo but

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Im not a dev so

kindred plinth
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I was worried about the “going back” clause. Because I couldn’t remember the exact wording. I just know I was caught off guard myself by how fast the auto-swap was.

fringe marten
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@zenith vigil There's always an OCE tank way up in the ranks doing some wonk shit that I'm always curious about.

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There was a point in BFA..can't remember if it was early or late? might have been like season 3? He was like #2 prot war for keys, was korean I think ? judging by the text on his name..(was not boost) but he absolutely ignored haste, versa..everything else..went FULL Mastery and gave no fucks.

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Off topic: I'm guessing we never talk about Unbreakable will because it's effect is limited to your ACTUAL 5 man party even in a raid? 2 charges of shield wall combined with Anger Mans honestly looks more appealing to me than running the wall.

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Mward I've had so many paladins say the same thing; divine toll is so awesome to play/etc even if Ashen Hallow is superior for raiding/whatever..we have a ret pally who stays kyrian because of that. What is it about divine toll that makes it 'play' more ...fun?

latent pier
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It slaps things really hard.

zenith vigil
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Yes. I trust a tier list from someone with 188 subscribers.

wraith anchor
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you obviously don't watch enough YouTube conspiracy theory videos

zenith vigil
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haha, he deleted it

fringe marten
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lol?

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what's this about?

wraith anchor
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the superiority of demoralizing shout cool down reduction I think

lavish oracle
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Actually, now that I think about it, would Unbreakable Will be better than The Wall on eye?

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Not that it really matters since it's a 2nd boss

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Less rage Gen, but probably just as many shield wall casts plus a minor DR

wraith anchor
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Two charges is cool, but that can't possibly compete with 5 seconds off shield wall every Slam. Plus if we're gonna pull party survivability we still have commanding shout

lavish oracle
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I mean, it probably would compete on the Eye, the encounter is short enough that I don't think you get enough shield wall casts for the difference in CDR to matter

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It's probably academic either way, just an interesting to think about

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Still interested to see if, in 9.2 or whenever, if we get the ability to equip 2 legendaries, there will ever be a need for UW

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Say, in high tyrannical SD, or something

fringe marten
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I dunno if I never noticed it before or it's new? Has the 2nd wall charge always been on that legendary memory?

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I'm not in a huge rush to try and shoehorn it into a fight and say "it's great" 'cause we cleared some mythic progression with it..simply saying that in actual real world use 2 charges of shield wall, combined with Anger management is probably going to yield a situation/s where you actually have shield wall most ANY time you'd want to use it. Rather than it being say..20 or 30 seconds away on CD etc. But in no way would it have as fast a CD as 'the wall' or having higher rage gen from reprisal.

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And if it applied to the entire raid team I'm pretty sure it would be kinda' mandatory for raiding prot warriors...because 2 charges of 25% DR on demand, on a super short CD compared to most other raid cd's of something around that power? it'd be kinda' wild.. so I assume it HAS to be PARTY only.

lavish oracle
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@fringe marten Added in 9.0.5

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the 2nd charge, that is

fringe marten
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Yeah I kinda' overlooked that..didn't know that. That's ?? Honestly ..kinda' damn good..

ocean yoke
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if the wall use applied to the raid we would be in dragon soul again where it was absolutely op

fringe marten
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Right; if it applied to the entire raid..it would be in the pins as "you raid with this..don't ask about another legendary unless you're trying to personally parse"

lavish oracle
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Also, yeah, it's party or it'd be OP

fringe marten
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It wouldn't be OP..it would be a LEGIT choice..ya' know..like leggos are SUPPOSED to provide?

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Wasn't that the point? meaningful 'potency' boosts for class specific flavor stuff...to warrant a 'decision' as to what to use?

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Instead of "dis has most throughput..use dis always"

ocean yoke
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i mean half of wall would basically be a non range limited barrier, it would be bonkers

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lucklily we arent locked like that

fringe marten
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Yeah that's why I'm saying....half of that leggo is semi wasted? Sure it's NICE but ? what do you do "put the people who die all the time during prog with the tank/s"

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So in reality it's ...a legendary that gives shield wall 2 charges. And honestly that's STILL not shabby?

lavish oracle
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I think a lot of our legendaries are good 2nd options

ocean yoke
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yeah were pretty lucky with legendaries and covenants tbh

fringe marten
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We're BLESSED as far as covenant is concerned...provided you're basically ONLY prot.

lavish oracle
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Eeeeh, I mean

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the DPS covenants aren't that inflexible either

fringe marten
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We're ? the only? class that's had one of our best, if not the best covenant option..stay the same the whole time so far?

lavish oracle
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For Fury and Arms

fringe marten
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No I mean...I get to have all my followers maxed out..and..my covenant crap all maxed out because..? I'm not ANY other class..if I was a mage or rogue or pally or whatever I'd have been flip flopping constantly.

lavish oracle
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Oh, I see

ocean yoke
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i like having the options even if i dont swap again

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knowing i could go fae or necro and not be trolling for my groups

fringe marten
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But anyway; that's an aside.. I think I might go just make a 235 unbreakable will ring..JUST for da heck of it.

ocean yoke
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yolo bro

fringe marten
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235's are dirt cheap now

ocean yoke
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its worth a shot just to see how it goes

fringe marten
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I mean..I made 235 seismic boots, I think I have my old Tlord boots in bank..235 elysian might boots, 235 wall cloak..next week it's 262 wall cloak.

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Hell I made the 210 arms belt..just 'cause

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and of course the standard 262 reprisal legs. But...WTF not toss in that 235 unbreakable ring.. Who knows maybe I go "yeah..I wouldn't mind back to back shield wall in this specific encounter~..would make things easier"

lavish oracle
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I still need to make seismic, been too busy padding out my DPS legendaries

fringe marten
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I made the elysian might boots to try and cheese single target dps in normal raid runs...it's pretty strong actually.

lavish oracle
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I've been using EM for fury keys because it's very fun

ocean yoke
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just remember that pumping is easily the most important thing

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meters are life all else is irrelevant

fringe marten
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AH..ok blood mallet did get updated.

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I've been using ticking sack for a week or two now? and the last time I looked at sims they had it weighted way too low for prot..now it's pretty right.

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I haven't been able to touch a salvaged fusion amp..if I pull one from heroic they 'might' force me to loot council it to a real dps. =\

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Does the mailemental trinket shift to 'melee' if we use it?

ocean yoke
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you may already have it but id definitely go for the guardian trinket if not

fringe marten
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I don't..I haven't looted either guardian trinket yet. The problem is..I tend to be in black or white situations. where I want maximum defense/utility or maximum dps. So..? I dunno if I'd WANT to run the defense matrix over what I already have for those situations.

ocean yoke
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that trinket is pretty cracked, its a solid 200-300 dps and hps for all my raid pulls and a bit more in m+

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the passive part is always lame but it still slaps

fringe marten
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Similar to codex of first technique..which blood mallet erroneously has at 0 LOL

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Codex is solid to very strong depending on proc luck.

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(in challenging raid content...it's mediocre everywhere else)

ocean yoke
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i cant speak to the codex since i havent gotten it but the matrix slaps

fringe marten
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Right but look what the matrix does right?

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The codex is basically very similar except procs for reflect 'windows' and only for a portion of damage dealt rather than a flat number.

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So the codex shines when you're being hit by a very strong singular target, or a strong DoT

ocean yoke
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damn i wish i had gotten the codex so i could actually talk about something known lol if nothing else

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all i know is matrix slaps

fringe marten
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The matrix has consistency+ mainstat over the codex. So the matrix is likely just kinda' the better version of codex of first tech..but the codex is actually very strong, if not quite possibly stronger on mythic raid fights.

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Mward run Hm taz with me each week LOL

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I got my cotank one.

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so now we can run and trade it off.

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Now I'm trying to get my cotank a ticking sack.

ocean yoke
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but one of my dps went tank spec and got me a shard so im happy

fringe marten
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shard?

ocean yoke
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the nine trinket

fringe marten
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OH

ocean yoke
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got that one and the guardian trinket currently so i feel super set

fringe marten
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yeah I have the normal mode one..we're like 2 or 3 mythic kills in, and 4 norm, 4 heroic kills in..and I haven't seen it in our raid drop SINCE

ocean yoke
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yeah i only got it on a heroic reclear, no mythic version yet

fringe marten
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Speakin of which I gotta' do my normal clear for the week...I dunno why? maybe for sylvanas shoulders???

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LOL so if someone wants to run a pug normal clear I can trade off normal aegis IF I get it.

ocean yoke
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one day ill get the KT helm

fringe marten
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dude..

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DUDE

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I had the heroic in my vault last week

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but I HAD to take the chest, so I could finish a blood set...Thanks blizz for shitty design~

ocean yoke
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i had basically the same choice in my second vault

fringe marten
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I had heroic guardian chest, heroic KT helm..on my raid tier, with 1 mythic piece that sucked hard.

ocean yoke
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my guild is slower so ive had a 252 helm since week 1 so that helps but still

fringe marten
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I wanna do Mwahi's 4 prot warrior key/s this week

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This would be the week to do it.

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I was looking at a DoS 18 I did and realized my single target isn't as awful as I thought.. I think 4 strong prot warriors and then any healer could actually cut through any 15 this week with serious ease.

ocean yoke
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ive had cracked damage in keys lately and not even trying too hard to do a ton

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its felt great

fringe marten
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yeah in that dos I was approaching like 8.5k overall after ardenweald wing..I think it dropped to 6.8 end of zone or 6.2? I had a 6.8 somewhere and a 7.2 without 'cheese' damage from dungeon tools like orbs/spear. (these were all using seismic boots)

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you do see a lot more dps, but you DO feel those gaps in shield block time..even in lower keys like 16/17's (this week) you start kinda' wanting to kite on some packs once you have like a 4 or 5 second window where you'll have no block..you start gettin' tore up

ocean yoke
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nothing quite like making your dps feel insecure over their numbers though

fringe marten
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Yeah I was carrying some alts? from some guild that's like 8/10 mythic atm..in a necrowake last night.. I was top dps zonewide with just the 2 orbs used =\

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I thought their alts would be a little stronger but they were leanin' on carries hard to gear them up.. the healer went from an amazing disc priest, to a dogwater mist weaver monk LOL

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Play competency with class > any gear/ilevel/whatever (within reason)

ocean yoke
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i did a key with one of those elusive survival hunters the other day and god damn was it easy

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his aoe was bonkers

fringe marten
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DUDE yeah I wanna find a good one..I legit haven't yet. But I've heard it's awesome.

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But then again..would he just have been better aoe as marksman anyway?? =\

ocean yoke
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i had pulls where i was like fuck it hes uncapped lets see what happens

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and he crushed it

fringe marten
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Interesting..how strong are they in a raid situation on a single target?

ocean yoke
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im not 100% sure, he was a guildie but a different team

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looking at their logs though hes owning in comparison to them

fringe marten
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I just wonder if..you have very high competency if it becomes quite strong; or even if you're great it still underperforms.

ocean yoke
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weird to compare survival hunters but hes on a kinda meh team but is parsing like 100 lol

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i definitely liked my key with him, never raided with the guy though

fringe marten
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He's parsing 100 because he's the only survival hunter~ lol

ocean yoke
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youre not wrong lmao

shell fox
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i have a friend on my m+ team that does 10k overall

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and hes survival

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ppl just dont understand the spec and start to complain about it

fringe marten
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Yeah but people who DO understand it also complain about it..the issue is this; what is he doing as survival he couldn't do as marksman, or even BM...and have MORE tools at his disposal? or just another class?

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That's kinda' the thing about each class..even if they're not the TOP dps or the MOST durable tank, they should bring something to the table a little unique..something worth going "hmm a frost mage could be good here? or a ele shaman for insane aoe?" that kinda' thing.

wanton panther
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Hello warriors, can I ask something, I see here it says "This applies to dots applied to you". Is there any special thing about Aegis, because all bubbles absorb dots, no ?

blazing condor
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aegis is an uncapped 8 second damage reduction that mitigates all incoming damage, including dots, not only dots

zenith vigil
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And each tick of the dot

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Not just until the shield is gone on another trinket for example

wanton panther
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so basically lets say blood-spattered absorbs 50K dmg. If you have 15 stacks of Basnshee's mark it will expire in just 2-3 sec but Aegis will stay on for 8 sec no matter what. Right ?

blazing condor
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Yeah

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Its just uncapped

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So in m+ it will potentially absorb way more than 50k

urban portal
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it literally absorbs 5-6k of every tick of a dot

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so its absolutely nuts

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if a dot is doing 8k or something

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you are reducing 75% of it

blazing condor
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Not to mention it also bounces back damage

wanton panther
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Damn that's bis. Thanks my friends!

fringe marten
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Like all trinkets for prot war...it's just another tool for the tool belt.

urban portal
fringe marten
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The damage aegis does is...we don't talk about that~

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The trinkets that 'bounce back' damage, are the Defense Matrix and Codex of the First technique.

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They 'reflect' a set amount..or a percentage..respectively; of the damage you're taking. So they 'reduce' the damage and do some back.

jagged pier
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its not an absorb

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its damage reduction

fringe marten
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Yes; but Goodstuffe said 'it bounces back damage'

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which aegis does not

jagged pier
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i mean

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it does

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just a very small amount

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in a very small cone

fringe marten
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But it's not an actual reflect; it just does a set amount of damage after it reduces a certain amount.

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Just being picky about the wording since how the trinkets 'work' does matter. Where as the Defense matrix and Codex reflect various amounts of damage, and reduce the hit you take by the same amount.

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But semantics story short~ There's some nifty tank trinkets with very solid defense value this tier..instead of the good tank trinkets being damage procs or stat sticks.

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I just wish we had an "Edict" trinket this tier..really liked that one.

blazing condor
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Yeah bad wording by me its not scaled damage in relation to absorb amount

fringe marten
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Anyone else have this nagging feeling that the aegis is so solid in M+ that they feel the hammer is gonna' get swung on it any week now?

blazing condor
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Dont know because it hasnt dropped for me yet

fringe marten
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It's not as impressive on bosses/raids but on large trash pulls it's amazing how suddenly rock solid you become for those 8 seconds that barrier is up.. I feel maybe we're over hyping it a little, but it is ...it's own defensive cooldown for trash packs in keys basically.

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The scale was and is very strong, and does a LOT more damage overall but it doesn't give me the same mental feeling when I use it..like "pop scale..ok got a couple seconds breathing room and I can run away/get healed/whatever" aegis gives you the feeling of "Pop trinket..ok facetank and plant mobs" that's why I prefer it.

fossil river
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hello

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what are best stats for reprisal leggo?

tame jasper
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I have haste and versa

fossil river
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kk

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ty

jagged pier
wide pilot
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@jagged pier you were right the mortal strike guy in top hits like a wet noodle. After finally getting a pug that was able to keep searing death shut down the fight became significantly easier

jagged pier
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👍

north rampart
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im running a LFR agies, and it is better than sheild wall on a was shorter cooldown

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eat tripple pulls for breakfast with it up

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fills the gap between shield block charges recharging perfectly

wide pilot
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Are ppl replacing scale with it or using it along side

blazing condor
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Replacing

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You dont want 2 on use

bold linden
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I have replaced it and running phial+aegis

blazing condor
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You can very freely run a good dps trink with it

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For those who like playing splinter it can also remove the need for that as well

subtle tulip
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Matrix + aegis sounds tanky af

jagged pier
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its on the same cd

subtle tulip
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rip

mental scarab
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for aoe dmg what do we use in m+? have the matrix wich is a given,

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have decanter and phial same ivl and tormented rack fragment hc

jagged pier
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phail or sack

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decanters okay but sack and phial do more

tame jasper
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sack?

jagged pier
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taz trinket

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sack of terror

tame jasper
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ah k

river escarp
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When you're opening the urn in SD, can you still block/dodge/parry?

mellow bridge
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nope

blazing condor
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Nah youre very exposed

zenith vigil
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usually someone else is a night fae tho

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I'll usually pull and hit aegis if I need to do it

blazing condor
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NF in SD

strange sphinx
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Speaking of which, can I NF in DoS safely?

zenith vigil
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what?

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are you reading the chat?

strange sphinx
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That’s for SD though. It’s the same?

zenith vigil
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my mans JUST asked that like 5 lines up

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SD is not night fae

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oh

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wait

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WAIT

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lmao I'm the dumb one

strange sphinx
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I know but this game is never consistent

zenith vigil
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who thought it was DOS

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no no carry on LOL

strange sphinx
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Lol

zenith vigil
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my brain literally read DOS from his question

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and no it's the same

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but if you have a CD you can get 'er done but more people are generally night fae

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and can do it for you

strange sphinx
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Gotcha. Thanks

thorn remnant
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Hold on… I need an assist in understanding here… are we saying a 239 Shard of Annhylde’s Aegis is better than let’s say a 242 Blood-Spattered Scale? And I shouldn’t run them both defensively?

zenith vigil
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it is better in a dungeon yes

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and you don't really need double defensive trinkets

thorn remnant
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Is it better in raids too?

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Right now my only secondary trinket option then would be a Decanter.

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This is rocking my world because I thought the Scale was just the end all be all of trinkets.

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I assume it’s because that 8sec applies to any damaging event during that time?

jagged pier
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scale is better on probably 1-2 targets

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equalish around 3 -5

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but past that aegis is just stupid strong

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like aegis is slightly harder ot use of course because positioning etc

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but in m+ its stupid strong and is on the same cd as SW

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so u can basically rotate one each pack

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if u want a better dps trinket than decanter i would suggest phial or sack of terror they both do a fuck tone of damage

thorn remnant
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Thank you for this info. I been running both aegis and scale. But sounds like I need to do a little swappy between raid and M+. And keep farming me a secondary trinket.

jagged pier
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yer running both is kinda overkill tbh

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i did it for 1 dungeon and never used scale

thorn remnant
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Been dreaming of that Old Warriors Soul

jagged pier
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same

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does it still break stealth though?

thorn remnant
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Wowhead prot warrior gear guide lists Aegis twice as both S tier and A- tier. Thought that was weird.

thorn remnant
jagged pier
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well it has been

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dont know if its fixed yet

thorn remnant
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I haven’t been using a lot of stealth routes or anything this season. But good to keep that in mind just in case.

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Thanks again for the info @jagged pier. Appreciate you.

tame jasper
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Which decanter? 😄

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but I wait for aegis anyway, still no drop 😦

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neither lfg, nhc, hc or vaultr

obtuse monolith
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Sending luck to you. Got LFR version then got 239 in vault 🙂

tame jasper
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@obtuse monolith ❤️

latent pier
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So we eventually drop scale for aegis?

lilac bloom
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p3 on heroic sylvanas do you taunt only at arrows when she gives u 3 banes.. cos i have no idea as tank i get that debuff .. should i go grab all the purples on the floor and next platform then come back .. go to corner and get dispelled then taunt the boss back from the tank? i think if i dont get my buff dispelled fast enough.. ill die

tame jasper
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@ionic fern Please gimme a quick enlightingend: Absorb vs damage reduction: lets say boss does 100k damage, I have SW for 50% reduce (for easy math) and 10k absorb: if I understand it correctly the 100k gets reduced by 50% to 50k and then 10k of this get absorbed, so I got hit for 40k?

woven bear
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I'm wondering if it's woth the 1k valor to upgrade and switch the shields

safe thistle
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they will both end at 246 :/ if your valor sit and your capped why not it should cost around 1k

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i prefer to boost rings first

woven bear
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I have a 252 death's god signet and a 239 stichflesh signet

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so yeah, prop more haste to get there

safe thistle
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yah that stitchflesh 246 would be nice

ionic fern
zenith vigil
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here's a question

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if I already have scale and aegis

hazy otter
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Do we stack haste/mastery?

zenith vigil
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is it worth switching to arms for looting vault?

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@ionic fern you might know this better than anybody

zenith vigil
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iLVL>else 90% of the time

sweet summit
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id still vault as prot until u have shield and weapon too

zenith vigil
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true

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have pretty shite wep and shield

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but i only have 1 15 done and my next best is 4 10's

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and normal raid 😦

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I guess arms wouldn't offer me anything all that interesting over prot anyways

brittle owl
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come back when you have 4 20's done

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😎 👉 👉

zenith vigil
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pls no key shaming

latent pier
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Whatcha guys think the best key to practice on is?

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Finally got a good shield, and I typically go for the trial by fire approach

sweet summit
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all of them

patent osprey
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plague fall + Dos

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DOS has all our strengths weaknesses + cheese

elfin surge
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I hate Dos, first pull + 2nd pull I constantly get ripped

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gives me ptsd

patent osprey
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cause the spooking thing about those pulls is actually the skeletons + raptors. but people always afraid of the shadowcore boy. But shadowcore Boi is predictable damage. the small guys hit you with our magic and disease too

latent pier
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Scale's still fine, yeah? I might be able to convince the RL to let my war in next week, but no aegis yet.

obtuse monolith
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I’ve done a lot of raiding this patch but all of 4 keys 😦
Need to grind that rating sooner or later

latent pier
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I cannot imagine playing this spec without devastator

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Even in legion

zenith vigil
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is he a cringer that wants double druid and nothing else

acoustic root
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Is the DoS route best to go Ardenwald first?

blazing condor
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thats what most people do

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some go counter clockwise and get the first power then turn around and go ardenweald

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some clear and get all powers then go ardenweald

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but most go ardenweald first

pine phoenix
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I always feel like the ardenweald first path is so annoying with the big rage dude

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You have to wait like 30 seconds if ur unlucky

acoustic root
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I usually go Ardenwald first, but i have had DPS complain about hakkar first

latent pier
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I'm a lock main, I dusted off my war last week.

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Just have to get the chance to show him it's raid ready now, hit 232 yesterday.

latent pier
zenith vigil
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just jump out and charge

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or intervene

latent pier
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I remembered reprisal the minute I posted that, derp.

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Do we just flop if block is down though? I'm a bit nervous of zoning out and dying like an idiot as I'm learning.

hollow sun
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if you don't kite you eventually die, if no one kicks the shadowcore you die

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that is how that pull works

latent pier
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it was more general than just DoS, I just know Pika's a chad prot war. :p

hollow sun
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he is 😛

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regarding to shield block, its not that you mess up if it runs out. Its bound to happen. When your shield block is about to run out you need to think of what options you have: Do i have intervene? If yes use it, no? Do i have charge? If yes you get out and charge

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no? you judge the pull and decide if its worth kiting or not

latent pier
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Alright. And with scale do we rotate it with our other defensives?

hollow sun
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well, there are few istances of where you want to hold your cds. Scale included. Are you approaching a dangerous pack where you know you will need scale? If yes keep it if you feel like you will need it, otherwise use it somehow on cd. This is at least what i do yep It actually does decent dmg and the absorb is very nice. If you hold on for your cds is very easy to waste like 10 scale uses just because you are waiting for the perfect moment to use it

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and that moment never comes and you just keep waiting and waiting

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till you are 6 minutes in the dungeon and you still have to use your scale, that is usually something you want to avoid

lavish oracle
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Sometimes I use scale just so I can dump more rage into revenge or execute 😄

safe thistle
latent pier
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If you're smashing a lower key and know the pack you're doing isn't too threatening, do you pop any of your CDs just to get it ticking, or do you always hold for when you might need?

lavish oracle
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I pull bigger

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

safe thistle
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you never hold dps cd

latent pier
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I'm talking tank cds

lavish oracle
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They mean shield wall and the like

safe thistle
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if you dont need them you dont pull enough

latent pier
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I haven't tanked since legion, feelsbad

hollow sun
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perphaps you don't need them but its good practice

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you don't need to use shield wall on a lower key but its not a reason to actually hold it

safe thistle
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on lower key i do bigger pack

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or dps leggo

latent pier
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Is mouseover intervene a bad idea?

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half considering it.

hollow sun
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nop

near pewter
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i use mouseover intervene and its fine

hollow sun
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i use my partyframe for intervenes but i am considering of making a separate keybind

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cause it will prob be faster

lavish oracle
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I use mouse over for charge and intervene

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Saves bar space to put them on the same key

safe thistle
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#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, exists] [] Charge
/cast [@mouseover, exists] [] Intervene

latent pier
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Appreciated, guys.

safe thistle
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your mouseover gonna intervene if its a player or charge if its an enemy on mouseover

latent pier
#

Last question then, what's your opener at like the start of an encounter?

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where you have zero rage and it's only one target

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Did taz yesterday and I was fine, but the opening few seconds of each fight were a bit sketch.

safe thistle
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you dont have zero rage ytou just charged

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and avatar

latent pier
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Guess I need to charge more, lol

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I'm so rusty.

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thanks again.

safe thistle
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you wanna charge for the rage and the leggo proc

latent pier
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Yeah, I made reprisal after

safe thistle
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its offensive/defensive since you have a free shieldblock with it

latent pier
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it sounds like huge qol in general, haven't got to play much with it yet

safe thistle
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it is since its free defensive and a free revenge its amazing

hollow sun
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you throw your ravager on the pack as opening

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then you charge

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and while you charge you use avatar

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then as first global you use shield block to get one charge in cd

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and then basically it depend on your covenant and its mostly using shield slam in cd, thunderclap and revenge

latent pier
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Aftershock. DPS main but I like tanking too so.

hollow sun
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then use aftershock in a way to benefit from first strikes

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i also use scale on pull 🤡

latent pier
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is that bad? ._.

hollow sun
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idk, for me it works good yep

latent pier
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any big mistakes I should try to avoid? Only other tank I really play is brew, but it's a lot harder to screw up it seems.

sweet summit
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main mistakes are:
overvaluing IP
not pressing buttons
not using abilities
not pressing buttons
actually just not pressing buttons

latent pier
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Overvaluing IP?

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like just dumping too much rage into it?

sweet summit
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aka neglecting shield block and/or revenge to use ignore pain

latent pier
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ah

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what would be the proper way to use it? When about to rage cap basically?

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I assume you'd bank rage for the next block

sweet summit
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use it as a defensive damage smoother/avoid overcapping basically
mainly to avoid overcapping rage

north rampart
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Knowing when a big hit is coming like the bone spike mage skeletons in ToP, can be worth IPing it

latent pier
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shame we can't reflect that, it'd be funny.

north rampart
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Many dungeons have abilities that can chunk you that it is worth having you finger hovering over the IP button for

latent pier
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I have to go do some yardwork now, thanks for all the tips guys! Very much appreciate it.

pale gust
hollow sun
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@strong forum i guess i went too much with revenge

jagged pier
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looks fine to me

jagged pier
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i usually have 15

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u wasted a lot of rage

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u could have used that for more revengj

strong forum
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Getting there, but now TC is omega low

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:^)

hollow sun
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thats true, forgive me master, i changed keybinds 😄

strong forum
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Keep at it

hollow sun
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i actually realized my problem, it was keybinds

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i had Q and E binded to SS and TC

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and i spammed them

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problem is, when both were in cd, it was an empty global and it took me some time to realize that i have to revenge

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so i replaced tc with revenge

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this is why the low tc casts

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i need to get used to it

strong forum
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Yeah, not paying attention at what you're doing is usually what happens

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Glad you noticed it aswell

waxen haven
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where is the prot guide?

latent pier
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So why is heavy rep not really used outside super high keys?

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or am I misunderstanding

strong forum
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Yes HR is only for ultra keys

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Because the survival gain isn't needed in lower keys

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It's so you can be a little more lazy with your play and worry less about using reprisal perfectly

strong forum
latent pier
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I figured even in low keys it'd help you be lazier.

inland raft
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Im still specced into hr from hogh keys last season even though im barely doing keys amd juat doing them for guildies this season, i got used to being lazy

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But am is objectively better if dont need hr which you dont til higher keys

strong forum
inland raft
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Low keys your not taking enough damage to worry anout it so better yo get more avatars and pump and more wall time is good

strong forum
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^

inland raft
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But by all means play it if you want as i said i still do but more cuz dont think about it til already in a key since not doing a lot of keys this season and was already specced into it so just lazy

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But am will help you beat a dps on meters every so often on lower keys which always feels good

latent pier
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understood

amber herald
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where's the sim mwahi did for the talents?

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I'd like to see the difference between rav/hr and rav/am

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because I did 7k in mists the other day with rav/hr which seems pretty high

inland raft
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Ya ive git 7.5 before in sd its not holding you back but am still gonna do more overall in identical scenerio

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Lower key if your team can kill large packs while you are still bursting you can get a nice overall inflated number

amber herald
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it was a week when executioner was the first guy so that'll have helped

strong forum
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HR is a theoretical dps gain in ST by like 10 dps. In aoe its 100% not a dps gain

amber herald
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how much dps gain though 7k is still a lot of dps

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I'm ok with doing 7k and being very tanky

strong forum
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Just have gear

amber herald
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if it's like 7.3k vs 7k or something

strong forum
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And you'll get 7k in basically every key

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Outside of top or soa

inland raft
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Ya dps are pushing 12k on tyr weeks and we atill have a ton of gear to get this season

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Tank doing 7 wont be hard with gear

strong forum
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I've never not run a key with AM since reprisal so no clue how much of a dps loss HR would be

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(I've also ran only like 20 keys since reprisal)

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So that's not a big metric keksquad

inland raft
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Ive done quite a few this season but almost all been 15-17s trying to get gear or for guildies so also not a good metric

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Just close eyes and bang head on keyboard and collect loot

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I used to love m+ but sl dungeons especially this tier aren’t that much fun

strong forum
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S2 is better than S1, but maybe that's because I'm still doing it for gear

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And I get to play arms

inland raft
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Ya i meant as tank

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I been playing arms whenever hce excuse

strong forum
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As tank it's much more braindead

inland raft
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And its fun

strong forum
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And I love it

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Braindead m+ is my favourite

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Not needing to worry about every fucking %

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Not needing to worry about routing

amber herald
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HR is definitely the way to go there

strong forum
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Just go and blast

inland raft
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True i just pull and if i overpull who cares

amber herald
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why I love HR so much is you can chill

inland raft
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Thats dps problem

strong forum
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I mean I can chill without HR, I still like to do dmg

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I'm a dmg whore

inland raft
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Healer asked me why i wasn’t using ignore pain very much once keksquad

blazing condor
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how do yall handle soaking on sylvanas p3? feels really jank

inland raft
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Imagine pressing ip when can press revenge

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Unless capping

blazing condor
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me and my cotank swap on the tankbuster and arrow

strong forum
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My group doesn't question anything besides routing

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But now I can blame them when they don't tell me new shit

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Cuz I play less than they do seanbee

inland raft
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Last season i had an actual group so was doing higher keys, my healer would mutter under their breath every yime i asked “do you believe? Cuz i do”

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Meant i was about to yolo something dumb

strong forum
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Usually it's my mage saying "I have combust go big pull"

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20sec later we wipe cuz I believed

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Or I yell at him that it's dumb as shitvto pull big

inland raft
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My best was inspiring, spawning pride mid way through double pull on both sides of pf third boss arena because mage said they had cds when i asked if they believed

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It went

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Poorly

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3 ambushers with inspiring keksquad

lyric relic
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I wanna slam in a mists with revenge leggo and only damage powers and see how much I can do

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just go full crit and champions brand

strong forum
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Mists is a common dungeon to run seismic in

lyric relic
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yeah I usually do

undone verge
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Have you ever tried to heroic leap during the third boss of SOA and clipped a tornado that you leaped over then dying to the ordinance and you don’t time the key because you have to redo the boss sadge

strong forum
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Have fun 👏

inland raft
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I kinda wanna elysian might there

lyric relic
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but ljke 7.5 is the highest I’ve managed to get

inland raft
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See how compares

lyric relic
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in a 15+

strong forum
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I've yet to do a mists this season

inland raft
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I think seismic still better

strong forum
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And I've not done a seismic key ever

inland raft
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But em might be fun

strong forum
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Em is defo a dmg loss

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Over seismic

lyric relic
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if you crit Em is better 🧠

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just crit every single hit

burnt pawn
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how good is the shard of annhyldes aegis really?

mighty valley
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in m+? very

mellow bridge
burnt pawn
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had a feeling that was the case

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looks kinda busted for keys

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and kinda ass for raid

mighty valley
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yep

inland raft
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Its good on some fights in raid like sylv

strong forum
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aka the only relevant fight

latent pier
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first key went well, just need to work on block uptime a bit more.

obtuse monolith
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I feel set w matrix and aegis. Maybe squeeze more dps out of a damage trinket than aegis on some fights but having an on-use like that is solid

woven bear
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is it even worth it to have shieldblock on silvanas hc?

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I guess I switch to the wall then

jagged pier
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yes

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u can block heartseeker

woven bear
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ah really, that's nice

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still wondering if the wall wouldn't be better here

strong forum
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Sylv is a wall fight

latent pier
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Does prot like OWS?

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I don't have it, I just got embers. :(

jagged pier
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its pretty good yer

urban portal
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You get to decide if you keep the stacks

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It's bis

latent pier
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nice.

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how long do the stacks last?

strong forum
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Until you leave combat for longer than 15sec

visual wedge
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Does anyone else have issues timing Halls atm?

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It just feels there is not enough time to clear

strong forum
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Ya timer is quite tight on tyr

latent pier
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I'm kinda impressed by the damage I've been doing as prot.

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did every war tank I queued with just suck or something? >_>

strong forum
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Very likely

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Pretty much guaranteed

jagged pier
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well u might be doing damage but are u blocking correctly?

latent pier
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still playing with reprisal and timing but I did well I think

visual wedge
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^ Is ur healer just fucking clutching their ass cheeks every pull

latent pier
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I got complimented at the end so, hopefully not

jagged pier
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my route got called shit today even though we 2 chested it

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and when i suggested to the guy who complained maybe he should tank and come up with a route he didnt respond

visual wedge
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Ive perfect my DoS route, been needing that trinket for tooooo long

errant dagger
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if a 226 items drops but i have 220 equiped then go to AH to buy a 230 and equip it can i then trade the 226 ?
obv. all the same slot

lofty widget
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nope

visual wedge
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If you have the 230 in ur bag b4 the 226 drops

latent pier
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If you can get a heroic aegis, do you even bother with scale?

visual wedge
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i wouldnt

strong forum
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Not rly no

jagged pier
errant dagger
visual wedge
strong forum
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You still have to have the 230 equipped before the 226 drops

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You can't make an item tradable after the fact

errant dagger
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ahh ok

visual wedge
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U no longer need it equipped, just in ur bag pretty sure?

strong forum
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Need to have it equipped in the slot atleast once

strong forum
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Dang

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Didn't know

visual wedge
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Tbh thats kinda true

jagged pier
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no

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thats why i was confused

visual wedge
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SD only has one way

strong forum
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Pretty sure it's just go in a straight line until 76% then drop down to 3rd boss lol

visual wedge
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765?

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u only need 69%

strong forum
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Not if you skip those 3 big mobs