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I just startet on my prot warr and now i got Sepulcher's Savior and Assimilated Safeguard borh from mythic, what should I use 😄
assimilated
more saying that they feel easy, even if play is poor
Random thought: Can you swap Shields during M+ runs?
You can swap weapons, right?
ive never tried anything fancy like that
I'm just wondering if you could be ultra-nerdy and swap to Sep Saviour when def mode is up and to a stat shield when it's not
I'd assume it goes on 30sec cd once you swap to it?
you can just leave it in def mode all the time
Blizzard making useless trinket/legendary everytime
i keep forgetting that the default hunter is now melee spec, so i invite them thinking them are bm/mm/ but mostly, lust spec
same tbh
i dunno if there is a version of melee hunter uses pets too ,but that would be fun and cool
They can Lust
surv hunter does use a pet
well, we got to first boss of TOP, and i pulled it no, lust, someone died, wipe, etc etc you know the rest, el depleto
surv pet is their resource builder and tier proccer
"hunt u have to lust"
and should default have a ferocity pet (lust)
My favorite part of pugging keys was pressing drums if the hunter was too slow
"hunt u got lust pet?"
leaves
most groups target melee first boss?
Top?
i've always done it sath
anyways, i didn't get enough aggro on melee mob looks like, warrior got smoked,
Oh one thing im actually really curious about, i saw dorki tank the 3rd Boss nw creations diagonally to the room, roughly where the gaundlet spawns are.
Any obvious advantages that come to mind?
attacked the relics instead of attacking the boss
people going alpha strike on a mob that I haven't built threat on is always a pain
Anger management should work on taunt shout
odd....survival hunter pet should be lust pet for the leech
too many times to count in BFA, 5 times a day
You have to interrupt the caster, so you can group them all
the only spell you want to focus on is Searing Death
Is there any aura recommendations for making sure you dont cap out ignore pain?
capping IP doesnt matter
Oh. Good shit.
capping rage is down bad
Also, if you run with a fury/arms, make a habit of using challenging shout
What is this "TOO FAR" that is popping up?
U want to spend rage to get more procs from the tier and reduce ur CDs with Anger Managment
So it's better to "waste" rage on IP
So u don't overcap
That said I do IDEALLY want to keep enough rage for a Sblock right?
yeah, try to stay between 30-70
sure, but with necro 4 pc that shouldnt be a main concern
But we have so much rage with 4pc, it's hard to NOT have 30 rage
we're generating shitloads of rage constantly
unless you have charge or intervene available
pull faster, spam ip
revenge more 
Your cpm of revenge is abysmal
and pls
Same as your cpm of SS ( which comes from not using enough revenge)
bind execute 😦
holy u wasting a lot of rage for a raid fight
I honestly took execute off my bars. I was super sketched from tanking heroic on it as a lock main ha
Huh??
Execute is the whole reason why banner is sooo good in raid
Guild has talked way down bad on prot warr so i prepared for the worst ha
execute is like, the best button to press when its available
out of melee range of target
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/BVnrMad16FJQRxKy#fight=20&type=resources&source=7&spell=101 this is bad 10% of your rage gone
spends a lot of rage, generates a bit, resets SS
As soon as the boss is in execute range you stop using revenge and IP
And just spam execute
Oooooooh
Should I be leaping out and charging?
just gotta work on your rage gen, not wasting it, and cast numbers
u can literally walk out and charge
Like, you did less dmg than I did without tier.
just charge when your co tank taunts
Whilst having 270ilvl and 4pc
your not even running ashen jugment
Lots of info to soak in. Thanks for all the tips and info folks. Sorry to hit ya with the trash logs hehe
Nothing to be sorry about
Thats the goal!
Playing necrolord reprisal pwar is the hardest tank to play optimally, it's only natural that people will struggle with it
@blazing saffron My brother in Christ, you best be hitting execute
Good goddamn
Execute is big chimp energy
And the main reason why we even show up on the dmg meter
Clearly haha thats nuts
when someone starts memeing about "prot warrior utility" i'm linking them execute damage logs
I really appreciate all the help folks!
Grow strong 💪
I'm not kidding when I say I have literally been doing resistance band exercises to strengthen my rotator cuff muscles so I can play it better without getting sore.
And it's working. Irl exercise made me better at Prot Warrior again. Happened in Legion, happened again.
1000% true
And the strongest tank is basically stand there and spam 1 button
How ironic
all those untimed keys probably
Also LFG is toxic af due to the nature of it ha
The other day, I had 2 DPS drop rather than go with a Prot warrior
So we got 2 more DPS and +2d they key
Their loss
nice
In all 3 of the keys ive done this week ive been second on dps 
If those 2 dps were so fixated on the 'meta' that they refused to run with a prot warr, you likely dodged a bullet by them leaving
Is it still because of the Spell relfecion ?
No
Yer the other column
but it isnt even fort
Ppl will look at evetything
And fort keys are harder for tanks so as they see u dont have them timed thats an F
and I think I have run about 2 of each key on fort cause the weeks are just cancer or I dont feel like running them.
Well why would they take someone that only runs keys half the time 🤷
Thats how their looking at it
why would someone with a 2100 io and a +15 take a 2916 prot warrior >_>
With multiple timed 20s....
That is only timed runs
I still have timed 19s and 20s on fort
I dont all my keys are timed at 19 or 20 for both weeks and i dont get declined 🤷
How 

I press buttons
Someone link the picture
Ty
yw
got nothing to do while I wait for the 6 people to decide whether or not to accept me to a +15

Well its time for 

12k
Did like 13.5 today with rep
And 15.5 ish k with seismic today
Depends on key of course
But 10-12 should be the average
Well probs 11-12
No one is going to like this suggestion, but go run at least one time a week
increased circulation, better core strength, more oxygen, you're literally making yourself better even in games since you're basically diverting more energy to the brain and also helping protect against injuries when gaming
if i wasnt able to go bike riding i mightve gone insane over the last 2 years
If you catch me running, it's going to be a 'for my life,' scenario
and I probably won't succeed
lol like I said, start with once a week
I hate running
but the benefits are there, also trail/nature running is a game changer
i'd run if i was near a trail but i cba driving
instead i watch anime on the exercise bike
Im too scared to touch grass
Llarold do me a favor and tell the rest of the wowhead writing team that the Blue Dragonflight magic is Arcane and not Frost. During the ordering of Azeroth, the titan Norgannon blessed Malygos and his flight with power over the arcane and the duty of ensuring it would never be abused.
😄
Had the same thing happen to me last week. Didn’t realize there was disdain for prot wars. People too fixated on meta comp. 😦
it's funny, the things I hear most about Prot Warrior, at least in terms of negatives, are that it has poor threat and survivability
which is just... no
to both of those, hell no
leftover stigma
exactly
although both of those have generally been not true the whole expansion
like people in Monk world saying Haste is a worthless stat
yeah, in Legion it was
that was last decade
survivability just skyrocketed this patch tho
I find that my initial burst threat is somewhat lacking, compared to (say) a Paladin
I do
you should be using execute quite a bit in keys
literally everything lacking compared to Paladin's opening threat, tbf
3 targets or less execute is used
it's like saying "I feel weak and small compared to LeBron James"
you're supposed to
he's Herculean, he's probably on HGH, so are Paladins
yeah, I would think so
Blood dk tho
Paladins and BDKs seem to be everywhere at the moment. VDH have just vanished. Or at least that's my impression from playing my Shaman
Don’t you lose all your borrowed power in prepatch or what’s the deal
usually
legendaries will probably stick around
In 9.0 you lost corruptions but kept azerites?
BDK still has a baseline of really solid defensive value, Paladin's basically only going to have the amazing group utility
I'd assume they'll do the bfa treatment
Yes
that's all barring talents, I mean they may just give Ashen/Divine Toll, etc. to Pally in the talent tree
in which case never mind, still absurd
Blood dk had it really bad until 9.2
aka legendaries will work until probably like 65
they were defensively adequate in raids, at least
turbo-ass damage output, of course
I tanked with a DK in 9.0.5 and 9.1 homie was fine
that is true
I mean, even if Legendaries turn off in Azeroth or the Dragon Isles, they are still 291 items, so they will last for a good few levels
I was still wearing some Ny'alotha gear when I hit 60 IIRC
I used my vita for a long time
lol
Yeah if you had bis gear it would prob last for all of leveling
Saaaaaaaaame
vita lasted until 60
One of my guildies had played a single character all the way through BfA, so her Heart of Azeroth was some stupidly high ilvl that she didn't replace for months after she hit 60
Even just as a stat piece is was better than anything short of Vault or Mythic Raid gear
Heart went infinite Ilvl or something?
I can't remember. There's probably still someone out there trying to get it to ilvl 1000 or something
i swapped off the neck while leveling for a downgrade just to get rid of that god forsaken rock
my bfa neck is 149
blue dragons live in snowy areas tho
and turn into frostwyrms
Do they though? Cuz like all dragons lived in north rend
So is alexstraza frost too
does she live in a snowy area
thats the 9-5
the 9-5
Frostwyrm is like 100% just from being undead
bet he'd be a frostwyrm if you raised him tho
and lived in da snowy

so if not specc'd frost, they sure are frost hobbyists at the very least!
none at all?
This is like saying all dks were frost mages
frost hobbyists for sure
Tanking M Halondrus
Advice?
For big deeps?
Other than just like
The conventional shit
SMH the trolling is real
Banner uptime is fucking hard on Mythic Hal holy shit
I'm just gonna go Kyr/NF for the braindead gameplay
idk what to tell ya. some blue dragons be frost breathin. fire dragons be doing life stuff. they dont have to be just one thing 🤷♂️
let em embrace their passion
like a nickelodeon special where their father wants them to be a professional dancer but they sure love rollerblading
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when i see there is 5 colors of dragons
and will anyone be suprised if the Azure Span is snowy as heck and theres blue dragons frostin the place up? nope. will they also do Arcane things? surely
throws fireballs, turns into emberwyrm. blue dragon. looks like they dont have to do arcane things
dragons also have sharp teeth and claws, thick armor
they sure do, yogi
Technically arcane is the building block of all magic, fire mages are just using arcane mastery to conjure fire
Arcane mage as something like a warlock maybe where it put dots on everyone or just 1 guy could be cool, time magic, then you could slow down or speed up dots
Best way I can think that accurately describes arcane is time magic
Feels like arcane is pretty much exclusively leveling and pvp
gratz
Ty sep. nice weekn for u
boy do i have the trade offer of a lifetime for you i will give you 600 gold for that
is it better to gem/enchant for haste or verse for M+?
haste unless you're at like40%+
ok, thank you
I mean, I wouldn't say dogshit, but you definitely shouldn't be aiming for it.
And you certainly don't have a benchmark % for any stat to perform well.
Sigil is pretty cash on some fatty pulls tho
Tangentially, I know you saw me climbing. Don't act like that last 100 io was just because you felt like it
what trinkets yall suggest over OWS/Aegis? didnt play my warrior last tier 😦
yeah been trying to grab OPC since i still ned it for fury, wasnt sure how good it is for prot
are you talking raid or m+? will be a bit different
OWS great in either though, especially if you got a 259
hard to wrong with set and forget trinkets like phial and ticking sack if you dont need aegis for whatever particular key you do
anima field emitter is another decent option from spires if you got it
Hello guys im offspec tank, and some times i have to tank, i figured out scolex mythic and with good cooldown rotations we were able to kill him, but for everything sacred dausegne would kill my ass off really easy with the cosmic damage stack, i dont know what to do
at least in my own times on desausage i wouldnt end up with more than 3 or 4 stacks at a time when we would swap. rough times are naturally when you are going through rings since its just another magic dot so i was using cds for those times. the add will absolutely clap though if people let its bolt cast go off
Do you have logs?
Does this look about right? It was from the final boss of a +6 NW
ty
Running emeni, gross
Would you happen to have some logs so that I can see how to improve ?
nope my computer is too potato look up nomeratur if u want logs
how much rage is too much rage wasted
More than 3-5%
Ideally you want it ofc as close to 0 as possible but that's giga hard
Yeah, I think most recommend the Last Stand rage regeneration conduit instead
It's literally our best endurance conduit
You're literally immortal during it
Turns a shit CD into our best offensive and defensive CD
I'm immortal 100% of the time bruh

looks wrong because its skada in 2022
or that .. its to long ago when others were useable or good 😄 or at least good looking LUL
skada better looking a lot
u can take wotlk version and with some tweaking make it look like details
do we know if s4 tier will be the same as s3 or anything new?
It’ll be the same
alrighty, maybe its time to level that DK to 60 then
haha
S4 will be the same
Just different dungeons and all 3 raids
It's the mega dungeons from legion bfa and SL
- 2 wod dungeons
nice with mechagon
Agreed
didnt like that you had to do such careful planning
Mdt mandatory ass season
I think an affix that makes you play very specifically like Prideful did, would be better placed in a later season when you are used to general routes so it forces us to change it up and keep the dungeons fresh
Not so much the first season of a set of dungeons
Pretty equal
depends on grp what covenant i should play?
Kyrian is easier, necro is more consistent and better on bosses
Necro is also alot tankier
In necro we trust
more fun as well
hmm
did i dream
but is there a vendor somewhere that sells loot boxes from different dungeons?
There is a vendor like that in oribos, or at least I remember one being there, but it sold a box with random items from m0
im so happy that i get to play necro. even like the covenant itself a lot more than kyrian
even played some necro arms in s2 just for fun 🙂
yer but mechanics easy just mass pull everything onto bosses
damn inspiring week :<
is there a bug with the nl legendary? just did a whole dungeon where banner didnt get extended at all
Sometimes swapping covenants break Unity
yeah that sounds about right, so just need to unequip and equip again after swapping covenant?
Ye
Plague deviser marileth the best prot warrior soulbind?
It is
Thanks. On first glance I presumed it was the worst. Oops
https://wago.io/IxMhs-_dB this will warn you on readycheck if unity is not working https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/unity-legendary-broken-on-gear-swaps/1233852 <-- relevant post
shit broke last time they fixed an 'equip multiple unity' bug
Captain holt would never say "oops"
Except for the hula hoop move the oopsy doodle
But no one will ever believe you

It's wuntch time
bigthank
not a huge fan of i have to attack/taunt the relic to have it stay in place and then whn it spawns again, i have to attack/taunt the thing pops out
- its another dude that can go around fucking the entire group up
those yellow swirls from urh cause me to take 25% more dmg for 5 seconds?, i mean, shit, now that i understand that
theres something tied to urh relic that makes you take 25% for 5 seconds anyway
deconstruct
not dodgeable
thats not the same as the swirl, so its a melee or something? that probably explains why im doing fine and then randomly die when urh shows up
i never had any issue with Uhr honestly
i wasn't fully aware he also made me take more damage somehow, so i can at least try to correct that now
Deconstruct is also a fervent strike, which can be fun
i have a vague idea of what those are like how gorechop does some hateful strike hits a second melee i think
rly? on wowhead it says "targets highest threat target"
'in range'
i mean its not notice able tbh
There are a handful of abilities that will just strike the nearest Target if their highest Target isn't in range. Haymaker in gambit, deconstruct from urh, notable one was ataldazars' fervent strike. So we just call em all that
also 25% more melee damage means nothing
Just block it
Legit didn't even know it did anything besides "yeah okay it does a cast on the tank"
The stun, sure just walk out of it
Haymaker will fuck up a dps tho, especially if theyre raged
On ultra keys it fucks up vdh and dks aswell

And pally I guess if they don't block
ive frequently noticed pul pull when urh comes with a boss till he dies gives me a bit of hell
could just never nail the problem down
vy,, seems to do literal nothing besides shoot a short range line of stars on ground that hurt you
Vy shoots targets at random
And that line
Dangerous on high keys cuz she can just outright kill your group
lots of groups like to go for vy instead of urh i notice
alot of bad groups
an infinite ocean of wow pepegas
vy is dumb
he teleports really far, thus you lose time by killing it instead of cleaving boss+urh
sometimes vy nice for a complicated boss on low keys im doin.... don't have to worry about a yellow circle that 1/3rds me

the yellow circle is easily dodgeable
also Urh means you can spam SS for 10 seconds
Oh? Dis true?

yer it has very low cd
do you just not press TC during Uhr?
Well yeah
It's just SS revenge ss revenge SS revenge
Throw in some IPs in there aswell
And Sw
u press TC if u have nothing else to press
and yes if u are pulling a enlightened pack u should just use SW
cause urh gunna be getting it back

By no means the highest ranked here but really proud of this

Higher than me!
we doing more keys tonight @strong forum
Double tank meta?
im still bad at keys, but i never give up
🤷♂️ already did 7 keys this week 
F
also never invite wtf?
It was during peculiar times

Big cop in a small town
Still first haha
So I'm trying to learn this new Necrolord job, can anyone point me where to improve ?
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/L3DmhvVNqFtKxB8z/#fight=last
Your log doesnt work
All i cay say is dont spend outburst on thunderclap
ok I know the thoery there - it's a matter of learning to restrain myself
my dmg is miles away from the 12K people seem to report here, that's why I'm wondering
That's beyond my control, especially since I pug a lot
Id ignore damage for starters and focus on cleaning up your play damage comes later
I'm all ears 🙂
Im not nearly as good as the yellows but ill check your casts and compare it to what the yellows say is where you wanna be
at least the intervene casts seem low
yep, I only use it to escape stuff
this wil also improve a bit more if you use itervene more
through reprisal - got it
yep
i dont wanna give further advice since i really really dont wanna tell you something wrong
jakey or someone else whos actually good can prolly help more with smaller htings
your casts are way low, utilize reprisal more, so try to always keep charge and intervene on cd, revenge more to get more SS resets and stop using outburst on TC
"your casts are way low" and I thought I was spamming haha
these are your casts
and those are mine, in the same dungeon
just to put into perspective
you cast less TC than me, but it has a higher uptime - what does it mean ?
(uptime of a buff I know, but TC ?)
yeah, so if another player has a stronger slow it gets overridden
you can see it in buffs
I knew this - just I don't understand why it doesn't show in the cast report like ignore pain
good enough for me
spent way too much time in maze on 13 mist and trying to warlock the priest skip i brought and explained
This was my cpm for example in streets this week
But I played fucking awful
@echo egret
313 ss/pm wow thats alotta dmg, actually, new key is a streets and i timed that this week +13, that should be easy
does it even fucking matter who picks up which intsturment
the horn looks and is hardest to use, i tend to go for the one that makes you jump and its 3 in a triangle
Slap da bass mon!
🔺
Only thing that kinda matters is for a ranged to pick up the drumset
Rest is w/e
horn i mean the one that you have to line up and it scoots you forwards, i don't do that cuz i will fuck it up
i never pick anythging else, i tried the guitar once that was in
no fuckin clue if i tired any other
The same macro that lets you use the Naaru shield on kaal will activate the instruments at My'Za's oasis, FWIW
/click ExtraActionButton1
What was your banner uptime for this run? (Knowing that streets has a lot of RP/dead time)
would rather have it as a macro to add more shit into it
70.58% according to logs
I put it on a macro because I already have a ton of keybinds
So on details it's a bit higher
Uh yeh, no worries, just a soft 50% for me so I have work to do
Macro takes up space on your action bar
Keybind in default Keybind interface doesn't
I'm sure I'll cope
And the "adding more extra shit to it" is a moot point cuz you never do extra shit with it :sus:
I mean whatever works, works, but I don't see a point to slap it onto an action bar

Logitech G910 and G600 FTW
Keybind is keybind, for me it's "alt ^" to use it
And for non German keyboard owners(the button to the left of 1 is "^")
I never use modifiers; my little finger on my left hand is kinda fucked up, so I can't rely on it
Swifty?!
?
@oblique garnet imma getting close without over the top pulls
Swifty has a fucked up pinky aswell
You've already beat him
He did the 15.8k with seismic
I don't know them; it sucks though. You'll never realise how much you use it until you can't any more
nah he did like 14.4 or somthing with rep
i did 13.8k in HoA today
that was a suprise
I really don't get why the best DPS score on warcraftlogs is only 8.4K
In HoA for example
because it takes in travel time
and people dont upload
details is just in combat
or hides them
also ppl not logging
id bet you 99% of all raids are logged
i literally cant log my pc just shits itself
and less than 50% of m+ is logged
Depends on keylevel
I do not think "people not logging" would explain a 50% difference
You gotta check active time
if you wanna compare you can look at total damage
Not overall
its around the same
^
yeah I'm more towards the travel time
else It would mean that absolutely all top players hide /dont upload their logs
Top players usually log
like the total damage in logs should be the same
exactly
It's the middle that doesn't
And ofc lower end
You also gotta sort by dmg + specific key level
If yiu only sort by dmg overall
It's gonna shit out highest, and then sort by dmg
A 26 with 5k dps will be higher ranked than a 25 with 13k dps
good job im proud
that would be really nice if the dps meter always showed the covenant of player
i did 12 hoa and dps slammed it, 11k and 12k, but i still only did 5.8k, i'm still just failing to get the set up
"group adds so we can kill em fast" all the adds dies, nothing left to do, sadge
hey guys whats the best leg dps output (MM+) for an NF prot warry ?
Seismic
Your covenant Lego plus reprisal or seismic yeah?
well, there was just like huge downtime of boss do nothing after that
Yes if you never drop combat and pull around seismic
If you do same pulls as with reprisal its probaby better
ok thanks
so, this week seems like free 15's if i just get to it and don't do nothin too dumb
every week is free 15 week
and you guys are telling me on big pull with all cds like final boss or start of dungeon, you want me to use banner and last stand before going into charge, and ravager when charge in or do i miss a step, demo i'm not sure when
You want to have Last Stand up for the Rage gen from your Charge and your first Intervene, so yes
Yogi you need to get used to not leaping into a pack
what addon do you use for logging?
Warcraft logs
i can't log into warcraft logs because reasons, and didn't set up logging properly to my knowledge, have some logger head thing installed but god only knows if it works and is readable
well, logger head it pops up with a box and it says "do you want to enable logging for spires of ascension?" y/n
I think I have a weakaura that automatically turns on logging for all dungeons/raids. I just have to remember to go clear out my logs every once in a while.
slash click InterfaceOptionsMousePanelLockCursorToScreen is nice macro if you have 2 monitors and you want to be able to browse while playing and switch to locked for key or raid or something intense
1 click mouse locked or off, been on side bar ever since i figured that one out
I think is called autolog, but have to check st home
you don't know who swifty is?
yeeesh
man is the OG warrior pvp legend
lost his pinky in a motorcycle crash iirc
Eh he was fine
I prefer bajheera
And at least bajh didnt have a scandal blizz level
I miss pilav, I rarely watched his content but there's certain nostalgia not seeing him upload videos anymore
Yes its name is "AutoLog"
"scandal"
- like I said he was the OG
- it's only a "scandal" if unproven accusations are automatically true
Coming home and hopping on wow and seeing how swifty released a new one shot macro
Back in the day where i did pvp
"pvp scaling"
homie did a lot for the pvp scene tbh
my favorite was the tank in pvp in 8.3 who loaded himsefl up with 200 corruption and mega TD and 1 shot ppl
Recount or Details ?
details probably, but it doesn't really matter because logs are better than that and videos are even better
Well details is helpful for uptime of banner
Since its only combat
And you shouldnt have banner active out of it unless u are like chain pulling and fell off combat for 1 sec
I don't do wow PvP, so 🤷♂️
Is good fun sometimes
Almost all M+ I know have some frequent running-out-of-combat moments
Some have more than others
Why would banner uptime out of combat be important thou?
It aint unless you get slowed outside of combat
But i mean having a high banner duration left as you exit combat is nice to carry it over to the next pack
Yeah it is
Unless you have high banner duration cuz you popped it 15 secs before enemies died
Which I’ve seen happen often kek
If I have banner off CD and the next pack is close I’ll pop it 5 seconds before the current pack dies
Doesn’t matter to me I’m all about the uptime baby
Even ToP there's a run after each boss to get to the next wing
Yeah so what we do is we run war, lock, druid, rogue and mage
And we do the glad guy first. Lock leaves portal down from arena to the middle zone. We jump down, grab lock port, druid uses roar, I leap and start pulling the abominations area
Gotta go fast #zooooooom
I always go to the Platforms wing second after Xav
Gorechop last
Lich Lady is the easiest boss to tank, but she tends to really stress the healer
Im not sure why but sounds fair
I dont tank higher than 20’s so I just tell the healer to dispell whoever is not the tank
And I pop something
Amz, ams, spell reflect, something
So I see some prot wars run booming voice and others run best served cold, is there a time when u run one vs the other?
bsc for more overall, BV for more ST and easier banner management
it's a preference
Ok
Was curious, starting to push into 22s with my prot so just making sure I'm not missing anything
Always ghost wing first
If a top is going to fail it’s going to fail there
Save yourself ten minutes and fail it fast
Chop wing is exponentially easier and can be played around, ghost wing is a lot of oneshots
I prefer ghost -> chop -> xav
I haven't failed a ToP in months
I did a forti 22 last week and we got btfo by soulstorm
Forti top is ruthless
I've had more problems with Forified HoA than with ToP TBH
Oh yeah I have an intense dislike for halls forti
I got my 20 and never went back
Those Obliterators are vicious, and thrash hurts
Does reprisal memory come from upper reaches and soulforges floors?
Just Upper Reaches IIRC
If that's not a currently active wing you can repeatedly reset Twisting Corridors until it gives you Upper Reaches
Layer 3+ regardless
That’s a healer gap
No comp should melt under soul storm before a 25
It's more likely a DPS-not-using-personals gap TBQH
Ye
Tbf there’s 2
Tho most personals should be up
Either way it’s not the tanks problem
used all my dps cds on the fun pull, have nothing for the unfun pull
When I go on my Enh Shaman I almost always personal the Soulstorm
healer issue
The only thing you can do as Tank is to Intervene on someone if you're using the Safeguard conduit
soul storm if its the TOP trash ability im thinking of
it either deletes the group, or does nothing at all
It’s the ghost aoe
the big ghost
he can be a slight problem this week untill you kill the inspired mob because it means the other caster is allowed to free cast forever
Inspiring doesn't stop you from Spell Reflecting
Also Inspiring doesn't prevent the best form of CC/Interrupt, which is to murder the offending mob ASAP
I strongly recommend the application of extreme violence to the problem. Solves all sorts of issues.
mobs with tank aggro will still just cast crap at whoever randomly though right
Varies by mob
Some will randomly cast on anyone who is on their threat list (like the bowmen on the way to Xav; they do that), others cast on their threat target
One of the big problems comes about because casters tend to stand off, don't get hit by Revenge and Thunderclap, and if your healer generates enough threat then they will turn on him and nuke him with a tankbuster... which tends to be a OSK
Yeah bone spear in inspiring does go crazy
so, what happened that pull, is the bone spear mustve gone off a bunch of times an put healer into stress
This is why good interrupt usage is not optional at high level. Or even medium level.
Do you all macro certain things together?
I macro my racial into Avatar
wait no, i know, i charged the OTHER bone spear guy by accident and wasn't able to interupt, because gamestate had already commited to sending me to him
only charge/intervene
Smart. Didn’t think about that
Yeah that’s what I have now with mouseover. Just feel like I’m mashing buttons like a mad man… thought there was maybe some trick I was missing 😅
But avatar CD is like 20 secondes with AM🤣
Its bad to macro it with a 2minutes racial
Macro it with banner
But if you are good you’ll never press banner
You press it once at beginning of dungeon
Makes no difference, youll cast racial on your fifth avatar doesnt matter
Dont mind the math😂 still the same point

A good point anyway just macro it to an ability you send in cooldown. Like avatar
Shield slam
Most of my groups have hd issues with the 5 mob path in the gladiators area. The one witha captain, 2 arbalests and 2 melee guys. The 2 arbalests just murder people
I've been debating on switching from VDH to ProtW (there's a myriad of reasons which I probably shouldn't go into) and I was wondering if anyone had significant experience with the two classes at large in which to answer my very arbitrary questions. Or would it be better to just apply a wall of text here?
I play both, you can dm me your question
Or just drop it here for others to answer too
The best part about prot warrior is that you’ll never be baited on living
ask em
You’ll know when it’s your time to die
lotta altoholics around
Whereas on vdh always have hope that you can heal through
I mean...VDH feels like a lot of "whoops, I died"
going from 100-0
I was thinking about ProtW vs VDH in a general perspective vs how they're working on their current borrowed power.
Example, VDH is more kiting/squishy extremely high speed but low raw mitigation with long range both in damage and control, IE: Sigils and 12 second leap.
Warrior usually has more damge and pressure with lower control level and shorter range, IE: Shout and Avatar
My primary hesitance is that protW feels REALLY complex compared to VDH. I'm not particularly fond of addons and it feels like you NEED one to properly play protW to maintain 8+ rolling CD's. But as primarily a raider, the utility of rally and raw damage might outweigh the inconvenience of the spec.
Like how much more complex is the rotation of protW compared to VDH, is it worth the tradeoff for the stronger general raid contribution?
Also I switched from bear to VDH and good gravy is it squishy.
I dont play vdh but our guild’s tank is a vdh and he is squishy as heck. On my prot war I usually can handle stuff a lot easier with less cds in comparison. I dont think prot war is that complicated rotation wise. It’s basically a “smash revenge and SS, keep TC on cd but never use with the set bonus buff, use IP to dump rage and not overcap” and since we go necro most of the time we keep banner up 100% of the time
Probly the hardest part of prot war is properly using reprisal leggo
Mostly looking at block uptime
maintenance
Like i dont feel squishy right NOW. but historically itwas/is a problem and I imagine when borrowed power fades it might happen again
Nah
In raid it shouldnt be due to tau t swaps
Taunt*
And there is a chance when borrowed power is gone that heavy repercussions will be the choice again
Also even during prolonged tanking periods, double charge and intervene with reprisal is 12 secs of shield block I think
I mean that seems like a lot of maintenance for just baseline defensives (keeping shield block up). A raid fight is about 4 minutes ish? Tanking half the time is.....30-ish button presses to just keep up block. Not including IP and you have a priority damage rotation on top of that. It just feels like a lot comparatively.
Charge, sb, intervene, sb, leap+ charge, sb
Dont see how that is 30
The 30ish is to keep banner up
over a 2 minute period
6 buttons presses for 30 seconds of SB x4 is 24. So I overestimated including IP in there
I guess I imagined clipping every once in a while as well
I mean don't get me wrong, i'm picking nits 100%. but thats a lot of concious effort to keep 1 buff going
I imagine thats part of the problem, is that it feels cruicial
Like bdk DRw falling off
and its not....fun gameplay?
But you have last stand, demo shout, shield wall
I'm comparing this to VDH which doesnt have that
Even if u fuck up and sb falls you have ways to survive
Hell you could even hardcast fleshcraft
I’ve done it
It is like the fucking worst thing to do in a “maximized damage scenario”
But its a good defensive when it aligns
Im not sure what you consider fun as tanking
right, i'm not saying its untenable. Just....not engaging gameplay, and a lot of mental maintenance
I honestly dont know
Most tank discords will always try to maximize their damage. Surv is rarely an issue outside mythic raid or really high keys
As a bear, I had no thought in my rotation, but I ended up leading raid, and that made it engaging/fun.
I mean is it fun to maintain a buff and try and push damage?
Dunno man. Your view of fun is different to my view
Truth
I love having a super fucking fast paced tank spec
And seeing my necro banner get back from being on CD and still having the buff up with plenty of time left
If you want the benefits of rallying cry and battle shout for ur raid you might be better off with a dps warrior. Not that they are easier but if you die at least it was not a tank who died
If you feel prot war is too much
I mean we have an arms warrior who....doesnt want to play his warrior?
but i like fury
and havoc
so its kind of a wash there
Well tbf arms/fury dont feel amazing when you get paired with a destro lock pumping twice ur damage with 10 less ilvls lmao
but we have a 2 havocs already...so brand isnt an issue
thats outside of the genralities I was looking for though
Jeez where you get all these dh’s? We are stuck with a VengDH cuz no one else would go dh and he does not like havoc
one of the havocs wants to switch to enh real bad
and i'd play havoc if we had another decent tank, but the only reason i'm tanking in the first place is because they were just so bad I couldnt take it anymore
Average uptime of conqueror's banner on tank?
Above 80% i think?
Bad
Well
Raid or m+?
We dont really use seconds. We go by %
In raid with 50% tank uptime you should be able to maintain banner the whole time if using reprisal and booming voice
And in m+ there will be downtime due to time between pulls even if you try to chain pull as much as you can but you can have banner back sooner due to relics
M+ soz, i was on dungeon. Just asking because im leveling another war just to tank
and be clear of what to do
Hey guys, is there a way to view combat time only in wow logs. rather then the entire dugeon.
In second as long as u can get it do into the minutes long so 100s of seconds
U play well you should only cast banner a few times a dungeon as u carry it from pack to pack
Longest singular Banner we've seen was what
9min?
But that was with Bolster during ptr
The longest actual one was I think 5.6min
Aka like 320 seconds
😮
I've gotten my banner buff up to a minute remaining on me before
Execute phase first boss of plaugefall with red ooze
I thought it capped at like 18 seconds
nope
Complete feelycraft but i think ive had one longer than that
I've definitely had one longer in dos
Meme no leavers key kept up banner from first pull to boss and cleared almost all trash out
As long as last stand with conduit and get a fk ton of rage at starts of banners they go LONG
Anyone have good routes for 25ish key levels. Was curious what anyone else was doing
Because I been struggling a lil bit with my buddies xD
Could be
On average my banners in keys lasts about 2min
This was my longest I think
I been playing with a frost dk so I been usually blasting it with his 2mins anytime I could without it meaning I'd drop my banner for any other pull
the farm is done, I can now rest for a bit
Do you never recast it? To give it to friends 🤔🤔
Sometimes i have 20sec duration left, but recast it anyway
I only do that if I know I can maintain good duration afterwards
But if there’s a break coming up I just hold it
My uptime is more important than everyone else’s
Fuck them
Isn't that always?
Lul
Ah ye true
Its a personal buff the mastery really doesnt matter to anyone anymore
Yeah. Think of giving other people mastery as a nice side effect. If it goes to those who can use it nice. If it does not, w/e. But definitely not worth losing uptime on urself just to buff someone else again
If ur banner buff on them lasted as long as urs it would be sick thou
@jagged pier / @strong forum is the JC 262 neck with the harmony buff so strong that so many wear it? I'm wearing 272 carbon of infinite flight atm with and getting thinking if I should switch
I wear the JC neck
Insane amount of haste for ilvl
Dont know which one is the harmony buff but i use the avoidance one
granting primary stat if you collec tit
No that one is shit
The avoidance one is the best
Would i take a 278 taz neck or a 278 hoa neck maybe 🤷
but not a 272, I understand
I wouldnt but neck and rings are all up to your choice
I think I will try it to get a bit more haste back. enchanted/socket versa atm so I'm only at 33% haste, 21% mastery and 23% versa
I understood it the way, that we can get a little less haste this patch to get more versa for high keys
High keys for are atm 23/24, trying to push further
switched back and now iam back at 36 haste, 21 mastery, 20 versa
and changed to the neck, to get the avoidance bonus
an now: BBQ time 😄
thanks jakey
Lot of people have that cuz it is the buff it came up with when they bought it
At first I was wondering if it was good or anything but most people I asked they were like “no idea, it had free buff so i bought it”

What rings you got? You can also go crafted jc ring if u have a good necklace
Thats what I did since I already had the taz neck
Jak, could you please show me ur conduits as necro
which ones you poke
the same ones u use as any other cov
like this?
it always goes to someone who can use it in M+, usually the only issue is if it goes on healer 🤔
I mean... healer means higher hps
Like 2nd banner in stradama usually aligns with 3rd phase
And in tyr week it is nice to have the extra healing for 15 seconds
I didn’t know the extra duration buff was only to the warrior, that sucks
The mastery buff is close to irrelevant. 100% uptime on 25% strength sucks?
400 mastery kinda boost our dmg , minimal but still
the mastery buff FOR THE ALLIES is close to irrelevant
it was never talked about banner mastery for you being useless
Compared to the rest of the ability, i wouldnt say the mastery buff is why we go necro
Not many specs benefits from mastery
no its the perma 22% strength
I know this😂 im talkiing about op that says not extending the group buff “sucks”
if it extended the group buff it would be more OP than PI
idk man, perma 400 mastery on a healer is kiinda good
and any spec that benefits from mastery tbh
bro where is the reading comprehension this saturday
Its saturday
Our brain is off
In my defense I had to wake up at 4 am to drive 5 hours so my wife could attend her Chinese tea degustation
perma 400 mastery on a healer is kinda bad :p
So im in automatic mode atm
My fire/arcane mage would murder for 400 perma mastery
yeah cause mastery gives them dmg
Mastery gives dmg to everyone
It just scales really bad for most
for healers it's througput, which in some situations is very very good
cause theyre going for dmg, not healing
You dont play a healer for dmg though
yeah you do lol
meta healers are the ones that do the most dmg
Yes
And guess what
Healing people faster = more time to do damage
And its not like they are sacrificing anything for that extra throughput
they're sacrificing 400 mastery on a dps eh
I mean I get what you are pointing out but still wrong. We don’t play banner around the group to buff people
So it’s irrelevant wether a dps or a healer got the free 400 mastery

well if that extra throughput helps keep the dps alive i'd say its more worth on the healer
But again we dont bother trying to actually give the right people the buff so the conversation is kind of moot
extremely unlikely scenario
I mean I’ve never seen a single prot warrior go in voice “healer, I need you to back off so you dont get mastery buff cuz it is imperative that the dps get it”
plka often literally said "oh damn aimer got the mastery"
and told him that hes gonna banner so he told him to back off for a sec

usually on pull on bosses
Dunno who that is
I do this regularly, it's an important min max especially in current dps meta
cuz thats where youre most likely to banner, and like the 1 scenario where you banner for your group
or rebanner
Like as if you wouldn't if you have the opportunity
Yeah, but after that is like “yeah fuck it, whoever gets it can say thank you”



