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Oh, that's right they where announcing a whole lot of. Nothing today.
Under the guise of being something
scalies rise up
well no dragon tank ๐ฆ
Na we have enough tanks
it will be 1 path
Get rid of DH. Shit class is taking up space
to claim them all
Not if they actually do what they said they were going to try to do which is disconnect the power and adding more utility based stuff
Besides illidan was havoc
Plz bring old paladin back
Louder so they can hear you in the back
right is probably gunna be 1 path
Vault was kind to me
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What are our best trinkets for M+?
aegis ows 
Over codex?
aegis for sure not sure about ows
aegis ows scale probably
codex is ok tank trinket, but it is better for DKs than for Warriors
how often does it proc?
pretty often
It gets better the harder the content you do as well.
its like 2/3rd effectiveness of a RDM
and does z dam
and gives stamina
that being said every other trinket just blows so much donkey balls


doubt
My only dream is gladiator stance back.
Truuuueee

dude new expac looks so good to me
yeah I like the look of the zones and the idea of learning to fly over time looks cool
i'm always skeptical about talent systems like this not just being a zero-choice annoyance but
there's some hope
they literally announced nothing much
but cant wait for an envoker to full charge a breath
and i move mobs out of range

still though. we will see how well they actually "listened" though
first expac ive been this excited for in a hot minute
Hunter wild spirits complain
well they didnt mention new systems, is that because they havent got any or they waiting for make them sound better 
just looks like a solid "core game" improvement
We can already annoy dps
yer but its better when its a new class
Does the 10% DR from Codex show up as healing under First Technique?
Actually true
it seemed like they were pretty overwhelmingly messaging that they're doing talent revamp etc instead of an expansion system
I'm fine with that but they didn't explicitly dispel the idea of a new system so
Oh, that's right they where announcing a whole lot of. Nothing today. Under the guise of Something.
yeah it does
they said right off the bat "we've heard loud and clear that it feels bad to leave a bunch of stuff behind when a new expansion comes out"
I was gonna go back a rewatch that
How did they address that Harrow
I forgot what ion said
the entire theme of the new expac, new race/class, zone reveals, professions revamp, talent revamp... i think for most normal wow players this is about as much as anyone was expecting to see today
basically just said what i said right as they introduced the talent system
so the intent sounds v clear to me
Yeah looks like their moving their borrowed power systems into talents
And expanding that per xpac
Yeah, I wasn't expecting a lot. I'm just being cynical.
glad to finally have the talent rework ive been asking for
but idk if i like the execution yet
will have to see
i just... this is quite a lot for an expansion reveal? what kind of stuff would've made you happy?
like all things
it sounds good
but execution is the key
What is the best way for Prot to handle explosives?
let the healer do it
it's not really it's less than a normal blizzcon
its a healer affix, not yours
Like we didn't see any dungeons or peeks at raids
ever since they made explosives baseline 1shots, its become a healer job
nobody else unless he calls for help during hectic moments
usually there's more of a gameplay trailer
but honestly I'm not going to complain much
we're getting a lot of what we're asking for
?
its always been the typical
"new zone, new level cap, new class/race"
never did it show actual gameplay
it's true that sometimes there's a tiny playable chunk at blizzcon so there's some stuff that comes out of that
ya but its blizzcon
but we're further out than usual from release tbh
a whole convention of multiple trailer releases and infos
and yeah it's not a blizzcon, so why would they rush something out for a video reveal
this was just a few minutes reveal
like 1 panel
of the 30 you get on blizzcon
anybody who expected more from an "expansion reveal" missed the point
i don't even care at all to watch someone else play 2 mins of a zone or dungeon, tbh
I distinctly remember playable portions being shown for both Legion AND BFA
in the quest zones
BFA was the swamp zone
Legion had DH stuff
thats not expansion reveal
thats another panel
which we will extremely likely see in the upcoming days/weeks
Which is hand in hand at blizzcon
At the end of the day
it's not a huge deal
I think they hit what they needed to and now it's just "this sounds great, but show us the execution and please listen when we tell you some things don't work"
i think no release date basically just means "2023 but that's not exciting to say"
well ofc
nobody expected a 2022 release
nobody who is in their right mind*
my prediction is Q3 2023
at the extreme best, Q2 2023
Execution will be the biggest thing.
I'm eith this prediction as we have our wierd SL season 4 coming still. Plus a prepatch timeframe
I think Q3 is likely
I'm debating playing wrath classic
ya the announcement of S4 coming made me move my release date from q1 2023 to q3
I will be
i wont
bro those dragons all look like warrior orderhall mount
Also although I like the way S4 sounds
I don't know if it would hold my attention much tbh
I started laying warrior in wrath is my only reasoning to play classic wrath
Go back and see if I'm still good. Lol
The Wyvern looks cool tbh
I'm at work so no trailer for me until about 4pm pst another 6 hours from now.
im curious to see our talent tree
see which interchangable spells we get for it
cuz the arrow slots are powerful spells to choose from
so probably banner vs X in 1 of the slots for us
really?
:susge
My only hope
but banner would be cool
maybe it gets built in glory
I will main glad stance until the day I die if we get it back.
and remove the group buff portion
banner without glory is extremely weak but building glory into it would make a lot of sense
Also banner off GCD would be nice
getting glory banner from the start is way too optimistic
They almost have to add glory to it going forward.
Otherwise it's low help
make AM the first talent
yoooooo
I GOT ONE
AM shouldnt be interchangable
Builds a cycle on good play as well through rage management
it should be giga early in the tree
for an easy snag
100% pickrate
in the warrior tree
not the protection tree
prot tree can have dragon scales again tho
^ that's what i'm saying
like
the problem they have
is they keep adding AM and it has to be viable at a base level
but then we get all our new shit that gives us more rage through the expansion
that makes AM even BETTER
then it becomes mandatory
give
so like
just make it baseline and make it easier for balancing purposes
THAT ISNT HR OR BOLSTER
THANK YOU
block is our main fucking thing
our MAIN THING
but we have 0 interaction with it besides reprisal ultra bandaid after the fact addition
and HR
punish doesnt count, dogshit talent
buff mastery
Like even pallys can block spells but the guys skilled enough to reflect a spell arent allowed to also block parts of them?
you throw a potion on your shield
which reflects the spell
runs around with 300 potions at all times
Fuck devestator needs to be baseline now
We haven't moved off of it since it was added
yes pls
Legion or whatever.
we did move off of it in bfa
in all of BFA we played BV instead of Deva
unless for parsing
Fine, then let the potion residue allow me to partially deflect/block spells
and in legion we only started playing Deva after its buff because it gave +5 rage per AA
and now we play Deva because its the most rage gain cuz it competes with literally worthless talents
fuck it make block a baseline thing where we always block and % of dmg reduction based on mastery or something
i just want to be able to reach 100% block uptime without external help
devastate does like 2.5x the dmg of devastator proc and has 30% chance instead of 20% chance
but yes
honestly i think wed just stop using TC in ST/less than 3 targets
and exclusively use TC in aoe
and i dont mind that at all
ya the new talent tree
Hmm
yea just trying to see if I can glean anything useful from it
its alot of 1 pointers
Please don't be filled with bloat
wait
only very few bloats
Gain 10 stamina to get to a better point. Is stupid annoying.
you can get bash and typhoon
extremely likely
Oh that would be fantastic
Titan grip prot war and maybe ill reinstall
i could see it
in the warrior tree
prot ish stuff in the middle
just enough for you to reach into fury
arms not being able to reach into it without sacrificing wayy to much
could make sense
Hmmn
Fury used to stance dance in pvp to spell reflect/shield wall.
So we could get some cool interactions if they brought stances back
Kinda a reach but maybe stances come back as part of tree? Doubtful but hopium
I miss stance dancing.
tbh
i miss it because of nostalgia
but in reality its just another macro
and like druid shapeshifting
True
yeah three buttons instead of one to zerker rage wasn't really top tier gameplay
Maybe a streamlined version where if press the skill it auto shifts stance etc
Yeah, it did seperate the good warriors from the average player too.
good warriors are very separate from average players right now, lol
we're probably gonna get nelth's fury as like a mid tier talent
Its probably just nostalgia for me as someone who used to stance dance.
based on literally nothing but a guess
condemn pls as warrior talent
I wouldnt mind that if they made it worth pressing. I'd be afraid it will be wasted space.
Not wanting it to be too strong.
Hmm the more I look at that tree I'm thinking we could get some cool interactions in the warrior tree.
Recklessness for prot and the like.
reck is not going to be in the warrior tree
they said it's a clear split between utility and throughput
Some wonky set ups for pvp and m+ Incoming
I would argue recklessness is utility because rage generation but yeah fans not allowed.
I havent had a chance to actually watch stuff yet as I'm at work.
Crit chance increase too
I forgot about that part.
There is some cursed stuff that looks like it can happen
like balance
but they put points in feral stuff in the class tree
I'm sure there will be a million theory videos on YouTube by this evening.
Reck will 100% be on the fury tree
Very early on
Same as rampage
Bladestorm/ravager however
That will be on warri tree
Same as dragon roar
Mortal strike will be the first talent on arms tree
I'm gonna sit in my corner and dream about glad stance.
Normal or
1 of 7


Basically lol
Oh we got our doge back
Cleave coming back maybe?
Lowkey my favourite thjgn about the tree is gonna be loadouts
AND YOU CAN SHARE AND IMPORT THEM
SO WE CAN JUST PIN THE BEST ONES
AND DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS 3000 TIMES

Instantly the best part

People will still ask. No one looks at the pins we have now.
Although I'm not gonna play warrior next xpac
I'm gonna be an OP dragon boi ranged DPS


I only play warrior.
jk
I have no idea what they even announced
dragonflight
Pog
we going to dragon isles
we getting GW2 mounts, flying from the start
Not interested in the ranged dps
we getting FFXIV professions
Apparently the crafting system is 1-1 copied from FF

To be fair FF has good crafting
minus the having to do button presses to play a mini game
we getting a new hero class that's dragon based with a healer spec and ranged DPS spec @blazing condor
we getting talent trees back
pretty much everything they told us I think
Coolio
My wife is gonna love the new class I'm sure.
no release date
We are guessing q3 2023
Since they announced wrath classic for 2022
I got convinced that it's actually gonna be q1/q2 2023
Cuz 9.2.5 ptr is already up in the works
So we gon have that in maybe 3/4 months
yeah i'm vaguely confident it's first half of the year
They have done raids for a year+ before. So we could be stuck in SoFO for a while.
Evoker is for sure gonna be very burst playstyle
Holding down buttons to charge them up
it seems cool enough
Though maybe that's why they are doing season 4
And just like that
Could lead to clipping your charge to optimize the shit. Could be cool.
Hopefully they take our feedback on it when the give it to us.
Shield slamโฆ hold for more smash
That better not be Ion
is 9.2.5 going to be s4? saw someone claiming this the other day

Now I know what my mom feels about me looking at the new race... Disappointment
now we have scalies and furries
i think it looks weird in the stills but looks good in motion
Deff gonna unsub after this season untill 10.0
I was expecting something like wrathion where u turn into a dragon not a reskin worgen
New affix looks cool but not enticing enough to make me stick around
I don' mind the design of the race
but the faces are too soft
too humanoid
like make them harder please
harder?
I don't want attractive furryized race
harder as in features of being less humanoid and more draconic

it's a hard thing to quantify
the best way I can put it is the faces look like they got the worgen remodel treatment
The dragon faces should be ridged/jagged. Look more lizardlike.
I liked worgen snout for one reason, warlock mop challenge set
11.0 waiting room
Which tier is ours
it makes sense that they've honed in on the common silhouette for each class
and this is a cool version of it
but wish we could get a bit more variety in silhouette
i guess we can always steal the non-tier variants for transmog
this
not the soft rounded look they have with this
also kalecgos changed for the worse
Ehh, at least this tier looks like actual plate for us. Hate when we seem to be wearing paper
my SL transmog had been the bandages + sweatpants lmao
I mean I used the brawlers guild set appearance for a long while minus that stupid helmet
I was also playing fury at the time though not prot.
what are you talking about
that's not our tier
our tier is the one that looks like our tier from dragon soul
furthest left is clearly us
it's an upgraded dragon soul one
That would make sense lol. Reuse old assets with a coat of polish to make it seem new.
Jailer confirmed gigafun for prot warrior
No it's not lol
That's envoker
It's too small for plate
Also yes deffo this
looks so similar to the current tier
how good is our 2 piece
Very good
Very god
cool thansk
are the affixes this week as scary as they sound?
Don't tank raging mobs
bring rogue/druid for raging casters
Hunter can also soothe
it's horrible lol
they removed it for a reason
then added it back in for no reason
eks dee
I just saw the new talents and oh my lordy
"How do we prevent players from being upset that we're turning base and core abilities into talents?"
Make it all talents.
I really hope that the new talents aren't bad.
4 words
The idea of an entire tree being dedicated to the base class makes me wary.
Titan grip warri tree
Doubt they'll be doing it like that.
It could happen
Looked like you got spec tree + class tree. Some elements of your class tree are influenced by your spec.
PLEASE GOD let me use spear and shield
Given that TG is fury, doubt it.
please god
1 thing that's for certain tho is bladestorm/ravager will be in warri tree
Maybe. Warrior isn't even demo'd so speculating is literally throwing shit into the void
if you look at the structure of the druid tree
it's very hard to actually get spells from other "specs"
Yeah, like I said, we've had a few good rage engines these last few expansions from the way the trees work and how our abilities are setup.
Throwing ahit into the void is all we can do to hope for our best class.
If this completely upends that we may have to say goodbye, but I really hope they haven't been ignoring the gameplay vectors of warrior (especially prot) these last few endagmes.
Because their high APM feedback loops is what makes them fun.
Stares in Gladiator Stance
90CPM
Pure joy.
Until they confirm it's not coming I'm gonna keep hoping.
Strong Bad teaches the world how to draw a dragon.
summary of today
Is legion time walking 2 weeks or 1?
Here's hoping. My luck was not there at all.
Just one but Mattacate is EU
So he's in the past.
Lucky bastard
Gets the same amount of time as we do in reality.
it'll be worth it when you think back on your good times with trinkets on your deathbed
What are you going for in there for that many attempts?
faulty countermeasure
Countermeasure

im pretty sure deathwing stole it?
The gave it to power the demon soul
and put it in a pancake
no they willingly gave it away when deathwing was defeated
wtf
the end cinematic
Turning it into the dragon soul to lash out at deathwing
their eyes stopped glowing and shit
Then they gave it away
Why you playing slands then

that's why there's no borrowed power
we hit up the dragons to borrow some power
"sry we're broke"
the borrowed power is gonna be flying
i mean they're still big lads who can fly breathe fire and shit, they're not useless
sorry i mean DRAGON RIDING
also the idea to hold a button and have it do diff stuff is terrible
it's pretty cool in dozens of other games
might be good here, might not be
what if we
try it
interesting way to live
i will go back to mop private servers for another expansion
I remember Tera having a charge up system and being fun to play. Haven't played Tera in years though so yeah.
The number of people who had no idea who Chen was and obviously never played WCIII drive me nuts.
wc3 was a decade old at that point
chen appeared in an optional long campaign not many people played
attempt 52 incoming, my 6th consecutive attempt with 4 traders
Fair enough, I remember talking about Chen with people because it was such an interesting thing.
it was a little weird... the brewmaster hero appeared in one secret mission and just seemed like a joke character
then later they added that rexxar campaign and made him a little sidequest character, so he seemed more "real"
To be fair Rexxar is a way better character.
anyway i just want people to always remember than even for stuff that's beloved now, there have always been loud haters
don't really believe there was a "golden age" where the vocal community seemed happy
Anyone of you warrior mains play any other tanks as an alt?

i've dabbled in brew and bear in 9.1, played paladin briefly in bfa, and have leveled the others but that's it
I have a bear purely foe the mage tower unlock.
same, then i played resto for pvp with it so that was kinda fun
I just got my dk itโs 4pc as itโs my alt and it just feels broken.
kinda want to level my DK and just see how that goes but im still having fun on warr so meh
I find prot war more fun, but this dk is broken
Kinda surprised it hasnโt been toned down
i think prot wari is the most fun tank specc
Our tier is balance, brew, dk, pala tier are broken is my feeling
Renown grind is gonna be back.
barely counts tbh
well there is nothing about player power mentioned there
we always have rep
Getting renown for other 3
Unless you chose poorly and weren't kyrian all until 9.2
That was the annoying one

All I had to do was play the game every now and again for 2hrs a week
And then do zereth mortis as necro
80 on both with the least amount of effort possible

Fair enough.
Only renown I have left is vynthir which isn't worth my time.
Unless I decide I want cosmetics
Zereth mortis campaign gets you from 40 to 80
Without anything else
You don't need homer or Eminem
I wanna try venthyr fury in arena 
So you can skip that campaign
Venthyr 2H sword is cool
Nothing good for prot imo
Shield this entire expac are largely bad
White NF shield is cool
Sod ones aren't terrible
Fml I need to see all this shit now when I get home
Tarra shield > sylv shield
U can also get it Guardian, right?
Dragon race + class exclusive to each other
New talent tree is combination of classic talent tree + current talent selection + soulbind
That's all you need to know for now
Dragon race u mean female worgen reskin
Idk i like the customizable mount
Haven't looked at them
Imma change that mf weekly for tmog
Adding new class is a mistake
Instead of a shit class why not account wide shit
I don't want reprisal
Can prot wari channel make a wishlist and post it to forums
Just give us achievable 100% block through playing well without sacrificing dmg for it
Is this a viable strat
Forums are a strat yes
It's only a mistake if gigabroken or just bad
But it's not the only strat

It's a mistake because there are like 12 other specs that are very poorly designed or tuned
Adding 2 more isn't gonna help that
It's not just a balance issue
they still probably would be uber slow to do anything
Issa ranged
Balance doesn't matter for shit
Also in fairness it's literally 1 dps spec 1 healing spec
At the end of the day it's just numbers that matter in terms of balance
no
Dh is a mess of a class ever since it's been introduced
Identity issues like mad
Demo has identity issues
partially because half the class was the artifact weapon
demo identity hasn't had any issues?
it's just not been the play for a lot of the rework period
THAT'S WHY THEY GET REWORKED EVERY EXPANSION LOL
Uh needs a rework
it's been the same since legion
Legit hasn't
thalkiel's just got rolled into decon
im going to
, as I have it
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They legit reworked Demo every expansion prior to legion
Every single time
And they had to come up with something new because they took meta and gave it to dh
^
I said since legion....
I miss demonology warlock glyph that let you tank.
Still doesn't mean it doesn't have identity issues
3 expansions where it's been "hey I summon lots of pets to buff this big one"
Buffing the big one has only been the thing cuz it's the strongest numerically
So it's just been alot of??? Here's alot of imps
That was the point of the rework
was to make you feel like a master summoner with an army of summons
is it boring?
yes
Still a wildly meh spec cuz it's just meh
ret needs to go back to no holy power
Arcane
it needs to have a system more like Enhance
All troubled specs cuz they're poorly designed
crusader strike and divine storm on CDs
Enhance was another one

But the SL rework is great
bring back exorcism
What about aoe
press one button on CD
Divine storm spam is really really
that's gameplay baby
Shit
oh
Ret aoe is terra miserable if u put storm on a cd
Itd be fine if they keep necro gavel thing
All they have is wake
Which is a dope Cove spell
Uncapped i thought
That's they should've announced in xpac reveal
No like it got uncapped
Ret is giga hardcapped
Already
divine intervention ๐ค
maybe make divine storm and judgement interact similarly to storm strike/crash lightning
divine storm on a short ish CD
but allows your judgement to cleave and deal more damage per target hit
I like currently ret with build spend
ez pz
Not good but kinda fun during cds
Isnt ret omega trash
ret is doing better than Fury
Not omega trash but you know what I mean
If it did better than fury then why dont I hear anything about Rets ever
It's only frost dk and fury war
It's so good they benched narcolies all tier even tho he had 4pc
it's performing good
Would've been too easy
our ret almost quit the game
but we got him to reroll hunter and now he's thriving
My guild had a Ret Pally in Nathria; she did top top DPS in there. Sadly she quit and went to play classic during SoD
Ya I don't trust those tables at all
I can't really say I blame her either; SoD was an awful raid
arms warr on life support
battle shout, good early prog, rally, doesn't sacrifice anything to get aoe
Shit is omega scuffed cuz alot of multitarget fights
yeah....it's unfortunate they nerfed the original 2pc/4pc set bonuses
we were good before 2nd lego
but with everyone having 2 legos and full tier
warrior just isn't comparable
Ret not good means Design
It's a bit dull being a builder spender
Could have a twist or something but doesnt
Probably just sense
100% uptime on banner and you get to just slam
idk
Go to 99th %
boomkin overall damage is ass
Overall boomkin dmg is ass yes, but they're still good in pure ST
entangle bitch
but they still retain the ability to have wild swings of damage to trivialize certain parts of encounters
Exactly
As long as % phasing is important venthyr boomer has a nieche
Or dmg in a certain window
how does Prot warrior DPS compare to the other tanks? When looking at logs, we're only above DH's
Like arthas or Lords of dread
What's this a chart of?
that's M Lihuvium dps but only 5 pwarr parses 
Pwar is top 3
In tank dmg
Good pwars do boatloads of dam
what's a good fight to gauge for DPS? Skolex?
Nice
If ur close ur great 
Just some heroics and the first time I've done any of these fights as a tank but does this answer your question?
erm, your dmg relative to other prot warrs would prob not answer the question lol
sir you're just flexing that you beat other prot warriors
we are all, of course, as good as sense
yeah, I see that warrior is #3 on Skolex, but once you add in some AOE will drop to #4
which i respect but
it also shows the damage tho
vengeance DH is the lowest DPS
Vdh is by far the lowest yes
BDK cleave goes up to 5 so im assuming they win Pantheon
we're not the worst by some metric, we should rejoice
this tier has a bit of swinging around in terms of ideal tanks for damage
Lmao gotta cancel out ww
Pwar gets a bit more dmg from longer execute Windows
"accidentally" hit dps with mechanics right before going into execute
Vengeance has always had a damage issue
Vdh damage in s1 was bleh tbh
Vdh was the worst tank in S1
Im st
unless you were running paper build
Cant really speak of tanking at that point 
And in raid they were only played cuz havoc sucked
Tactical running 
Well they were good for m+ dmg in low keys
I wonder what theyll do to bdk
Until they kneecapped spb
literally 10 straight hours of grinding it

58 kills
This man has done more vaults than I've done m+ in s2+s3 combined
i mean
We all expect you to push to rank 1 on logs now. Beat Sense.
more than i did in s2+s3 too
i did more votw in the last 72 hours than all of legion
speaking of M+ I tried doing a 22 last night
votw is now the key i've done most this expansion
Went fairly well up until the priest died and then I tried to reset
healer left
because apparently 18 minutes left on the timer on 2nd boss in Spires with lust available isn't enough time
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13min when going to the 3rd boss is quite tight on timer already
You need like 9min when you're going to the last 3 angles
killing boss and getting to third shouldn't be more than 4 minutes tbh
since you wo skip now
maybe I'm too optimistic
It's defo doable
But if dps isn't on point last boss on 22 takes like 7min
Or some bullshit
Long ass cancer boss
last boss do be aids
i did a high SOA tyrannical and the man BL'd the last ad
the one that gets speared
lets just say pushing into intermission the 2nd time took like 4 minutes
"New Talent - Anger Management
Every 10 rage spent reduces the Cooldown of Shield Wall, Avatar and extends Shield Block duration by 1second"
I was trying to come up with a way to increase SB uptime through gameplay that isn't just reducing its CD
And without the dumb HR
wow players when their boss tells them to go to HR: 
Would make a great cycle that rewards good play.
Just for the love of God don't make me choose between AM and anything else
Give me AM without losing other shit
i will play AM over a superior talent
AM is just generally solid.
Spending rage rewards you. Thus you attempt to play better so you don't waste it. So on and so on.
I feel the return of glad warrior with the talents
whenever i start thinking about little tweaks for prot warrior i look at that sphere grid ass chart of talents and realize that a ton will probably change
who knows if we'll be in remotely the same paradigm as 9.0
My one and only hope.
gratz @oblique garnet

I wouldnt be suprised if they give us some thing back but change how they work. Indomitable for example.
I felt more deeply for a Watcher golem than i did for any shadowlands character
Ngl wow cinematic team is hard carry everytime
Hard facts




