Brikker
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I'm sorry, that would detract from the sense of excitement you felt when gaining the item and the wonderful story that was created for you to tell your friends upon obtaining it!
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I'm sorry, that would detract from the sense of excitement you felt when gaining the item and the wonderful story that was created for you to tell your friends upon obtaining it!
Fyff
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Lol Brikker. In raids I assume the absorb neck is fine as you tank swap often and have tmes when you have down time. It helps the healers balance out their healing when you engage. *shrug*
Edit: Just noticed it got changed so you gain the shield even while getting hit.
Edit: Just noticed it got changed so you gain the shield even while getting hit.
Sumdain x
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I have literally never had this thing go off as one of the tanks in our heroic and mythic groups, generally when the other tank has agro its because you have a DoT waiting to tick off or you need to drop a debuff in some random spot in the raid. the changes im actually pretty okay with though and can see getting a bit of mileage out of it.
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Some of these prot warrior changes are...interesting? I didn't really expect them to change this much of the spec. I'm not going to paste them because mmoc's diff method is just terrible.
Revenge now costs 30 rage, 3s cooldown, parry or dodge makes it free.
Shield Block now costs 15 rage.
Tclap doubled in damage, generates 3 rage and has 30% chance to reset shield slam.
Best Served Cold moved up a few tiers to replace Ultimatum and does 5% increased damage for each target revenge hits, up to 5.
Devastator replaces the aforementioned, causes autoattacks to generate extra damage, generate 5 rage, and 30% chance to reset shield slam.
Revenge replaces Focused Rage in Vengeance.
Unless you HAVE to use revenges non-free, that seems like a ton of more rage for prot tanks.
Theorizing some more...Devastator probably replaces Devastate, so probably not much more extra rage actually.
Revenge now costs 30 rage, 3s cooldown, parry or dodge makes it free.
Shield Block now costs 15 rage.
Tclap doubled in damage, generates 3 rage and has 30% chance to reset shield slam.
Best Served Cold moved up a few tiers to replace Ultimatum and does 5% increased damage for each target revenge hits, up to 5.
Devastator replaces the aforementioned, causes autoattacks to generate extra damage, generate 5 rage, and 30% chance to reset shield slam.
Revenge replaces Focused Rage in Vengeance.
Unless you HAVE to use revenges non-free, that seems like a ton of more rage for prot tanks.
Theorizing some more...Devastator probably replaces Devastate, so probably not much more extra rage actually.
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Noodleface
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Nite1
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Sarcasm? love how they tell us no major class changes this expansion into that. after the nerf we got today I could see cancelling my account when that goes live
Sumdain x
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Few observations:
Yes it replaces devastate, im playing with it on the PTR it seems to give me more IPs but they are 25% lower since you cant take Devastator and Indomitable. it feels weird right now
also weird on PTR we get a honor pvp ability that buffs commanding shout as prot, we dont have commanding shout currently (on PTR or live) in prot spec. so that is probably either a mistake or a good buff being added.
DPS as a prot warrior seems to be generally higher
you cant 100% shield block anymore since they adjusted the cooldown, its around ~10.5 seconds with 25% haste
Thunderclap is part of the rotation now which feels odd but i guess it works?
how does devastator interact with Kakushan's gauntlets?
Noodleface
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Dalien
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Yeah, speaking of "no major class changes" they are competely gutting Fire Mages in 7.1.5. As in not just adjusting some numbers here and there but completely changing how the spec plays. Here's a short summary of the changes:
For those not familiar with how Fire Mages play, our DPS is completely reliant on a small burst window where we drop ROP, Combustion, and use Fire Blast/Flame On to shit out as many instant Pyroblasts as we can (and hope we don't get shit on by mechanics and have to move during this time).
Outside of our burst window, our sustained damage is hot garbage, and these changes are going to destroy the burst phase. Granted it's early and on PTR so maybe this is just a first pass with more changes incoming.
Othwerwise time to try out Frost I guess? (LOL BRB FARMING 4 MILLION MORE AP)
Asshat wormie
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Yeah sarcasm. They have no idea what the shit they are doing.
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Nite1
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You know something new to try would be to smooth out the downtime between bursts would still involve skill but not get boned you know small buffs instead of nerfs or mechanic changes
Sorry exhausted plus salty as hell. I just don't get why they can't build something have it be awesome say look at the skill involved and then try to bring other classes closer. or you know create mechancs in raids that allow others to shine so they don't have to nerf