#Tank help

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glacial marlin
uneven grail
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I'll see if I can spot another log to help give some advice, but you'll need to give me a sec

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So the biggest immediate thing I can pull from a glance to improve on beyond general basics, basing on this Priory is better timing and utilization of your defensives. You're undersending shield wall from what you can do over the course of the entire key, and during actual fights themselves, you're timing defensives in a way that doesn't give you the most defensive benefit or even just not using them at all.

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As an example, on first boss, your first pull attempt, your shield wall use specifically looked like this in comparison to the boss' bleed he regularly applies to the tank:

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You'll note that you're taking a lot of the initial hits without SW up in some way, shape, or form, even though you keep getting procs of it via Avatar (Immovable Object talent) or the S2 tier set. Even when manually applying shield wall, the two times you did this fight, they were both after you had taken the hit and were suffering the bleed after.

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You can use shield wall right before the initial hit to mitigate that and as much of the bleed as possible after, as well

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Though one other thing of note that caused you to die this first pull was specifically this:

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You took a 20% HP hit from not mitigating the divine judgment in the slightest. That doesn't necessarily mean commit something like shield wall, however. After all, there's a CD you have with a 20s CD that's perfect for chunks of magic damage like this. In fact, you hadn't used it for like a whole minute before you died, so you likely could have used it to mitigate even more damage earlier. That CD is our glorious boy here:

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Spell Reflect doesn't only reflect spells; it also provides a hefty 20% magic damage reduction for 5 seconds, which is perfect for just reducing magic damage you take from tank busters, passive damage, or pretty much anything else as long as it has a magic component to it

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That would be the biggest immediate hurdle to your improvement, even more than managing rage better or remembering to catch shield slam resets, both of which, based on this specific log, would be useful to work on. There's a lot you can get away with as long as you're properly mitigating the big bad times, like the starts of bungo pulls in M+ or tankbuster rotations on bosses (or trash when Blizz is feeling schnasty with their trash design)