Speaking of PvP, with the new season the Conquest bar reset with new rewards. If you need a weapon, this week’s bar gives a choice of 375 weapons.
Yup cranking away on this on a few alts just for that.
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During the Nazmir invasion it wound up being like 20 alliance vs 10 horde. I still managed to complete the load up the caravan quest with 5 alliance attacking me (I died but they couldn't kill me or the peon fast enough to prevent the turn ins).
Well thats disappointing. Because its the only thing holding me back from making a kul tiran survival hunter with a big anchor looking weapon and naming it some variation on Ward. The whole aesthetic can come together so close to ward from FF8.
We’ll see if i end up even wanting to play wow in a few weeks. I basically spent the whole long weekend playing warframe. The time gating bullshit is just so tedious to go through on multiple characters. Like i dont want to clear 6 zones worth of wqs then grind island expeditions to try and catch up on AP because you basically stall in the high 20s and have to wait for the big AP rewards from weekly stuff to continue. Not to mention the slow scaling of azerite lootboxes makes getting 370 pieces from anything other than weekly chests kind of a pain.
Yeah I'm noticing that once you have 340-345 gear that it's real hard to go further than that. I have one piece of gear that's 385 and I have no idea where I got it.
Every time darkshore or arathi flips do the quest and you get higher and then as your ilevel improves the WQ and emmisary rewards improve. Prior to tuesday my emmisary stuff was dropping 370 azerite gear and now that will be higher yet. Basically as you get better gear you get offered even better gear so just keep going everything will get upgraded soon enough.
Holy shit, this is really good to know!
Sadly right now we're waiting on Alliance to flip both Arathi and Darkshore back to us. But I'll definitely prioritize this now.
I have yet to turn War Mode on. I might turn it on for leveling my Nightborne Prot Warrior, but we'll see.
If youre playing horde there really is no reason to turn it off. Its like a passive 10% reward buff. Ally has to work for it a bit more. Only reason i dont use it on my ally priest is because priest is just chum for all the melee sharks in war mode. Though ive been destroying people in bgs 1v1 so maybe ill dive in. Certainly if ilvl 400 gear is involved.
Wait, I thought it was just an XP buff, it buffs rewards, too?
At max level it gives a 10% bonus to gold, AP, and war resource rewards.
Jeez, okay then, War Mode is getting turned on tonight.
Actually being in the process of flipping those is good. Alliance will get the darkshore ilevel boosted quest reward a week or more before the horde will and I think the arathi one as well. I think those will be ilevel 400 items if I recall correctly.
Yeah, the Darkshore warfront gives 360 items from doing it, and then a 400 chest with a random item in it from the per-cycle quest.
I got 405 boots out of it.
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arathi isnt getting ilevel updated. only darkshore I believe.
arathi s the "entry level" warfront
darkshore's requirement for entry is getting increased as it's now the tier 2/season 2 warfront
My first raid into Dazar Alor is tonight. I'm pretty excited. Everything I've watched and read about it says it's one of the best raids they have ever made.
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My first raid into Dazar Alor is tonight. I'm pretty excited. Everything I've watched and read about it says it's one of the best raids they have ever made.
They made it as a terrible capital city as possible so it worked for the raid
CD Projekt Red Creative Director Sebastian Stepien appears to have left the Polish-based company for Blizzard Entertainment. The change was noticed by a keen-eyed ResetEra forum user who spotted the change on Mr. Stepien’s LinkedIn page. His LinkedIn page now lists his current role as being a Creative Director at Blizzard Entertainment.
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Sebastian Stepien first began his career at CD Projekt Red as a Junior/Specialist/Senior Dialogue Writer in August of 2006. He was promoted to Lead Story Designer in January 2010 before being promoted again to Creative Director for Cyberpunk 2077 in February 2013. He then picked up an additional role as Narrative and Setting Director in July of 2016, juggling those duties with those of a Creative Director up until he reportedly left the company in January of 2019. Mr. Stepien is a graduate of the University of Warsaw.
Eh, he probably isnt in charge of anything wow related, and if he is nothing we will see for a couple years.
Anyway today was a great day for my ally characters. My priest snagged some nice 400 ilvl gloves from the warfront. Then i had to do a heroic on my pally to try to gain 2 ilvl for the warfront. Titanforged a 370 ring for like a 60 ilvl improvement (like 4 for character) and could now do the warfront. Did that and got 400 shoulders, which was like 110 ilvls better, and whatever dropped from just doing the warfront titanforged to 370. Did a couple world quests to shore up the other 2 azerite pieces to 360, and a trinket as well. Then only needed a couple kills to finish the pvp quest and got a 400 shield for my prot pally. Ended up going from like 333 to 353 today in about 2 hours. I plan on tanking some +0s and hopefully can make more big gains the rest of the week.
Also it is completely stupid you have to do the questline to open up the gate to waycrest manor, and to see people in anyport(with that questline). Ended up camping the horde boat area to finish my pvp quest.
I'm legitimately unmotivated to enter the new raid this week. The new warfront, the storyline quests, the raid, it's all meh.
If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
At this point my whole motivation for playing is prepping this tier for the showdown with azshara next tier. I guess i also just liked leveling as prot pally more than playing a blood dk, even if the dk is better. I also heard shadow priest is really good in the new raid.
I'm legitimately unmotivated to enter the new raid this week. The new warfront, the storyline quests, the raid, it's all meh.
If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
I've always had a hard time caring when the story is poor. No matter how great the mechanics or encounter design, if the story is bad is taints everything else. I agree that a break us probably a good idea.
I'm legitimately unmotivated to enter the new raid this week. The new warfront, the storyline quests, the raid, it's all meh.
If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
I've always had a hard time caring when the story is poor. No matter how great the mechanics or encounter design, if the story is bad is taints everything else. I agree that a break us probably a good idea.
Yeah, I still think WoW has probably the best traditional MMO gameplay, even in a rut like BFA, but I'm playing other games (FFXIV for raiding, ESO for fucking about) and haven't subbed since before 8.1 purely due to the story frustrating me enough that I can't enjoy the rest.
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FFXIV question, is it like WoW in that nothing you do while levelling up matters? So far it feels like that basically I should just keep up on the MSQ, ignore everything else, and race to max to start the real game, a bit like WoW.
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14's real game is the stories to do along the way. So long as you are at level for the story missions, what class you have been leveling is whatever you want to play. Its a great system.
The main drawbacks are 1) the world is hard to get into in that awkward JRPG style where there is too much high-concept nouns when "mailbox" would do and 2) its super grody and awkward about women and social issues in that way that JRPGs always are.
FFXIV question, is it like WoW in that nothing you do while levelling up matters? So far it feels like that basically I should just keep up on the MSQ, ignore everything else, and race to max to start the real game, a bit like WoW.
Yeah, pretty much. There might be things relevant to endgame gameplay that you can unlock much earlier, but gear and whatnot work the same as WoW. MSQ, your class/job quests, and unlock quests (have a unique icon with a...+ on it, I think?).
If you want to fly in xpac areas, you'll need to do the sidequests associated with the zone by zone unlocks, which are also marked now iirc.
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I may be having a brain fart, but I don't think I've seen a PvP trinket with that style of ability. Could actually come in handy.
It is all sorts of OP in PVP though. You can go 3 dps teams, and effectively coordinate like 70k damage and a near unhealable shield for 6 seconds. Outside of just having a full out CC session on the enemy team every 2 minutes defensively, you can't do shit about it.
It is also only a random drop till week 4, so anyone with it can pretty much noob stomp HARD right now.
I'm legitimately unmotivated to enter the new raid this week. The new warfront, the storyline quests, the raid, it's all meh.
If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
No offense taken, truthfully I loathe the current story direction so none of the content created around it appeals to me.
I had legitimately planned on unsubbing after my guild killed H Ghuun, but as drama drove away the rest of the competent raiders right after we had spent a night practicing on him, well...
I really enjoyed the first 5 bosses of the raid. That's as far as I got in our time allotment. Looking forward to seeing more on Monday.
My DK is an Orc, so during the faction change section, I was a Dwarf, which is awesome. And it made me remember that I really do prefer Alliance to Horde. I wish I was playing Alliance full time. Sadly, all of my RL friends who play are all Horde, so I'm kinda stuck if I want to play with my friends. I've got 6 friends currently playing. We're all Horde and we're all in the same guild raiding. It's a lot of fun, and I love my guild, but man I sure do wish I was Alliance.
Also - as an aside, tanking the Loa council boss, the 3rd guy has that stacking bleed, and it was sooooooo nice being able to Stoneform that off. Sadly, as a tank, my Orc racial doesn't do me a lot of good for survival. Obviously more DPS is always good, so the racial isn't bad. But I'd rather have a racial that directly helps me complete my primary role of tanking.
I'm legitimately unmotivated to enter the new raid this week. The new warfront, the storyline quests, the raid, it's all meh.
If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
One thing I am noticing is a lot of people who I think played the hell out of legion are starting to hit the burn out wall. Its okay to stop playing wow. Do some other games hang out have fun. The moment a game is no longer fun for you it's time for a break to recharge your batteries. I even had some friends who basically were grudge playing. We are in a golden age of gaming tons of great stuff has come out in the last couple years there is no reason to feel stuck doing something if you don't enjoy it.
I may be having a brain fart, but I don't think I've seen a PvP trinket with that style of ability. Could actually come in handy.
I think stuff like that was added as there needs to be more ways for other classes to create kill openings. Stuff like that basically shuts down healing for a window of time to give you a shot to burn somebody down. Some arena fights are taking a lot longer than they used to because healers are pretty strong this expansion.
I had some difficulty last night on the first boss in Dazar. I was tanking the adds, and man... babysitting them through that fight is a huge pain in my ass. I felt like my experience in doing it was nothing like what I saw in the Fatboss video for it.
Having two caster adds makes dragging them around to dodge the light waves very tricky. Additionally, that melee guy's cast time on his Blinding Light spell is like 5 seconds long or something. If a wave of light happens to fire off while he is channeling his spell, he's gonna get hit.
Just overall, it was not a great experience being the add tank.
I had some difficulty last night on the first boss in Dazar. I was tanking the adds, and man... babysitting them through that fight is a huge pain in my ass. I felt like my experience in doing it was nothing like what I saw in the Fatboss video for it.
Having two caster adds makes dragging them around to dodge the light waves very tricky. Additionally, that melee guy's cast time on his Blinding Light spell is like 5 seconds long or something. If a wave of light happens to fire off while he is channeling his spell, he's gonna get hit.
Just overall, it was not a great experience being the add tank.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong or what, but the only class that probably has an easy time dragging the adds around, with the frequency those waves of light are coming out, would be like, prot paladins? It was super annoying trying to corral the caster adds.
About the recent QA: Ion keeps arguing against the playerbase instead of listening to it. I feel like all the problems with BFA boils down to that. Instead of actually considering whether a suggestion is good or criticism on point, he reflexively counter argues instead.
He only seems to come around months later after it has been proven he was wrong and no one came around to his point of view, like with the GCD changes mentioned during the QA, but by that time the damage is done.
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About the recent QA: Ion keeps arguing against the playerbase instead of listening to it. I feel like all the problems with BFA boils down to that. Instead of actually considering whether a suggestion is good or criticism on point, he reflexively counter argues instead.
He only seems to come around months later after it has been proven he was wrong and no one came around to his point of view, like with the GCD changes mentioned during the QA, but by that time the damage is done.
Well thats what happens when a machinina creator becomes lead dev of an mmo instead of i dunno the cinematics department.
I had some difficulty last night on the first boss in Dazar. I was tanking the adds, and man... babysitting them through that fight is a huge pain in my ass. I felt like my experience in doing it was nothing like what I saw in the Fatboss video for it.
Having two caster adds makes dragging them around to dodge the light waves very tricky. Additionally, that melee guy's cast time on his Blinding Light spell is like 5 seconds long or something. If a wave of light happens to fire off while he is channeling his spell, he's gonna get hit.
Just overall, it was not a great experience being the add tank.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong or what, but the only class that probably has an easy time dragging the adds around, with the frequency those waves of light are coming out, would be like, prot paladins? It was super annoying trying to corral the caster adds.
I was thinking that too. But I think only the initial hit of Avenger's Shield silences. I don't think the additional bounces silence so they're really no better off than any other tank.
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I don't think you're intended to keep the adds out of every single wave of light. Many of them just won't be relevant until the seal flips to Reckoning and you switch DPS to the adds. In that phase you can just purge/dispel/mass dispel the HOT after the wave passes through. Otherwise it seems like ring of peace is probably the best way to physically force the adds out of the way.
So here's a question - does it even matter if you're dodging the light during the boss phase? Can you just hold them wherever they may fall during boss phase and only worry about moving them when DPS switches to killing the adds?
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As long as you're able to burn them down before Reckoning phase ends, I imagine that would be okay? We downed her on the first pull and it was a little chaotic, so I didn't really see that much of the actual fight mechanics. We might get in there on heroic soon so that should be more informative.
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Yeah, I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong or what, but the only class that probably has an easy time dragging the adds around, with the frequency those waves of light are coming out, would be like, prot paladins? It was super annoying trying to corral the caster adds.
It's not super necessary to have them dodge it. It's the first boss, it's undertuned intentionally. During the phase where you kill the adds, even if the adds are all full health, you're still going to end up having to wait a bit before you can safely attack the boss without giving her Zeal stacks.
I was thinking that too. But I think only the initial hit of Avenger's Shield silences. I don't think the additional bounces silence so they're really no better off than any other tank.
They're far better off. They have a normal interrupt as well, like all other tanks, plus the Avenger's Shield one, which not only is an extra interrupt but also procs constantly to reset its CD, and procs more often when tanking multiple enemies, since it resets on a dodge or parry. A prot paladin will typically be able to interrupt three or even four times in the same time period as another tank can interrupt once.
And that's without considering Hammer of Justice too.
I'm legitimately unmotivated to enter the new raid this week. The new warfront, the storyline quests, the raid, it's all meh.
If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
One thing I am noticing is a lot of people who I think played the hell out of legion are starting to hit the burn out wall. Its okay to stop playing wow. Do some other games hang out have fun. The moment a game is no longer fun for you it's time for a break to recharge your batteries. I even had some friends who basically were grudge playing. We are in a golden age of gaming tons of great stuff has come out in the last couple years there is no reason to feel stuck doing something if you don't enjoy it.
Last couple years? the last few months alone have been NUTS for great games.
Moving to an MMO mouse is like being asked to learn how to type all over again, holy shit.
I do wish, however, that the G600 didn't just replicate keystrokes, and instead let you assign all those mouse buttons as just more mouse buttons. I've got the bind space for it.
I do wish, however, that the G600 didn't just replicate keystrokes, and instead let you assign all those mouse buttons as just more mouse buttons. I've got the bind space for it.
I'm not super versed in the inner workings of the OS but I think that's an OS limitation more than anything else, as literally every other MMO mouse is designed the same way. If any one of them were able to do it, I'm sure it would have been a big marketing feature.
Once you get used to using an MMO mouse with WoW though, you'll wonder how you ever played without it. It will also bleed into other games as well, I'm frequently using the other buttons as keybindings.
A good plan to get used to it is get an action bar addon like Bartender, and set a bar up in a 3x4 square similar to the layout of the pad, and assign the keys to that pad, with the skills assigned to their relative locations.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong or what, but the only class that probably has an easy time dragging the adds around, with the frequency those waves of light are coming out, would be like, prot paladins? It was super annoying trying to corral the caster adds.
It's not super necessary to have them dodge it. It's the first boss, it's undertuned intentionally. During the phase where you kill the adds, even if the adds are all full health, you're still going to end up having to wait a bit before you can safely attack the boss without giving her Zeal stacks.
I was thinking that too. But I think only the initial hit of Avenger's Shield silences. I don't think the additional bounces silence so they're really no better off than any other tank.
They're far better off. They have a normal interrupt as well, like all other tanks, plus the Avenger's Shield one, which not only is an extra interrupt but also procs constantly to reset its CD, and procs more often when tanking multiple enemies, since it resets on a dodge or parry. A prot paladin will typically be able to interrupt three or even four times in the same time period as another tank can interrupt once.
And that's without considering Hammer of Justice too.
It's worth noting that the most consistent way to spam avenging shield is to constantly be trying to proc grand crusader. Which procs when you avoid attacks, OR when you use hammer of the righteous. IIRC there's an azerite trait to buff the Grand crusader proc to 20% instead of 15% when using hammer. So you throw out one shield, then use both charges of Hammer of the righteous, and you have relatively good odds of getting another shield again.
It doesnt come up all the time, but if you're doing something where you know you might need a ton of interrupts it can help to save both hammer of the righteous charges to quickly pop both and roll for a GC proc to throw that shield again.
I do wish, however, that the G600 didn't just replicate keystrokes, and instead let you assign all those mouse buttons as just more mouse buttons. I've got the bind space for it.
I'm not super versed in the inner workings of the OS but I think that's an OS limitation more than anything else, as literally every other MMO mouse is designed the same way. If any one of them were able to do it, I'm sure it would have been a big marketing feature.
Once you get used to using an MMO mouse with WoW though, you'll wonder how you ever played without it. It will also bleed into other games as well, I'm frequently using the other buttons as keybindings.
A good plan to get used to it is get an action bar addon like Bartender, and set a bar up in a 3x4 square similar to the layout of the pad, and assign the keys to that pad, with the skills assigned to their relative locations.
I use Bartender a lot, but I'll take the 3x4 idea into consideration. Right now I have a 4x10 on the bottom and a 2x10 on the right.
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Yup cranking away on this on a few alts just for that.
Actually being in the process of flipping those is good. Alliance will get the darkshore ilevel boosted quest reward a week or more before the horde will and I think the arathi one as well. I think those will be ilevel 400 items if I recall correctly.
I got 405 boots out of it.
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arathi s the "entry level" warfront
darkshore's requirement for entry is getting increased as it's now the tier 2/season 2 warfront
They made it as a terrible capital city as possible so it worked for the raid
Anyway today was a great day for my ally characters. My priest snagged some nice 400 ilvl gloves from the warfront. Then i had to do a heroic on my pally to try to gain 2 ilvl for the warfront. Titanforged a 370 ring for like a 60 ilvl improvement (like 4 for character) and could now do the warfront. Did that and got 400 shoulders, which was like 110 ilvls better, and whatever dropped from just doing the warfront titanforged to 370. Did a couple world quests to shore up the other 2 azerite pieces to 360, and a trinket as well. Then only needed a couple kills to finish the pvp quest and got a 400 shield for my prot pally. Ended up going from like 333 to 353 today in about 2 hours. I plan on tanking some +0s and hopefully can make more big gains the rest of the week.
Also it is completely stupid you have to do the questline to open up the gate to waycrest manor, and to see people in anyport(with that questline). Ended up camping the horde boat area to finish my pvp quest.
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If that's the case then it's probably a sign that you're mentally/emotionally done with the game for a while, because this raid had some legitimately good hype leading up to it and is also shaping up to be a top five all time raid. If you're not enjoying this then you're clearly just done with enjoying WoW - this is great content.
Edit: this comes across more aggressive than I intended, I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, rather providing context
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I've always had a hard time caring when the story is poor. No matter how great the mechanics or encounter design, if the story is bad is taints everything else. I agree that a break us probably a good idea.
Yeah, I still think WoW has probably the best traditional MMO gameplay, even in a rut like BFA, but I'm playing other games (FFXIV for raiding, ESO for fucking about) and haven't subbed since before 8.1 purely due to the story frustrating me enough that I can't enjoy the rest.
The main drawbacks are 1) the world is hard to get into in that awkward JRPG style where there is too much high-concept nouns when "mailbox" would do and 2) its super grody and awkward about women and social issues in that way that JRPGs always are.
I may be having a brain fart, but I don't think I've seen a PvP trinket with that style of ability. Could actually come in handy.
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Yeah, pretty much. There might be things relevant to endgame gameplay that you can unlock much earlier, but gear and whatnot work the same as WoW. MSQ, your class/job quests, and unlock quests (have a unique icon with a...+ on it, I think?).
If you want to fly in xpac areas, you'll need to do the sidequests associated with the zone by zone unlocks, which are also marked now iirc.
It is all sorts of OP in PVP though. You can go 3 dps teams, and effectively coordinate like 70k damage and a near unhealable shield for 6 seconds. Outside of just having a full out CC session on the enemy team every 2 minutes defensively, you can't do shit about it.
It is also only a random drop till week 4, so anyone with it can pretty much noob stomp HARD right now.
No offense taken, truthfully I loathe the current story direction so none of the content created around it appeals to me.
I had legitimately planned on unsubbing after my guild killed H Ghuun, but as drama drove away the rest of the competent raiders right after we had spent a night practicing on him, well...
My DK is an Orc, so during the faction change section, I was a Dwarf, which is awesome. And it made me remember that I really do prefer Alliance to Horde. I wish I was playing Alliance full time. Sadly, all of my RL friends who play are all Horde, so I'm kinda stuck if I want to play with my friends. I've got 6 friends currently playing. We're all Horde and we're all in the same guild raiding. It's a lot of fun, and I love my guild, but man I sure do wish I was Alliance.
Also - as an aside, tanking the Loa council boss, the 3rd guy has that stacking bleed, and it was sooooooo nice being able to Stoneform that off. Sadly, as a tank, my Orc racial doesn't do me a lot of good for survival. Obviously more DPS is always good, so the racial isn't bad. But I'd rather have a racial that directly helps me complete my primary role of tanking.
One thing I am noticing is a lot of people who I think played the hell out of legion are starting to hit the burn out wall. Its okay to stop playing wow. Do some other games hang out have fun. The moment a game is no longer fun for you it's time for a break to recharge your batteries. I even had some friends who basically were grudge playing. We are in a golden age of gaming tons of great stuff has come out in the last couple years there is no reason to feel stuck doing something if you don't enjoy it.
I think stuff like that was added as there needs to be more ways for other classes to create kill openings. Stuff like that basically shuts down healing for a window of time to give you a shot to burn somebody down. Some arena fights are taking a lot longer than they used to because healers are pretty strong this expansion.
I had some difficulty last night on the first boss in Dazar. I was tanking the adds, and man... babysitting them through that fight is a huge pain in my ass. I felt like my experience in doing it was nothing like what I saw in the Fatboss video for it.
Having two caster adds makes dragging them around to dodge the light waves very tricky. Additionally, that melee guy's cast time on his Blinding Light spell is like 5 seconds long or something. If a wave of light happens to fire off while he is channeling his spell, he's gonna get hit.
Just overall, it was not a great experience being the add tank.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong or what, but the only class that probably has an easy time dragging the adds around, with the frequency those waves of light are coming out, would be like, prot paladins? It was super annoying trying to corral the caster adds.
He only seems to come around months later after it has been proven he was wrong and no one came around to his point of view, like with the GCD changes mentioned during the QA, but by that time the damage is done.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Well thats what happens when a machinina creator becomes lead dev of an mmo instead of i dunno the cinematics department.
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I was thinking that too. But I think only the initial hit of Avenger's Shield silences. I don't think the additional bounces silence so they're really no better off than any other tank.
It's not super necessary to have them dodge it. It's the first boss, it's undertuned intentionally. During the phase where you kill the adds, even if the adds are all full health, you're still going to end up having to wait a bit before you can safely attack the boss without giving her Zeal stacks.
They're far better off. They have a normal interrupt as well, like all other tanks, plus the Avenger's Shield one, which not only is an extra interrupt but also procs constantly to reset its CD, and procs more often when tanking multiple enemies, since it resets on a dodge or parry. A prot paladin will typically be able to interrupt three or even four times in the same time period as another tank can interrupt once.
And that's without considering Hammer of Justice too.
Last couple years? the last few months alone have been NUTS for great games.
I do wish, however, that the G600 didn't just replicate keystrokes, and instead let you assign all those mouse buttons as just more mouse buttons. I've got the bind space for it.
I'm not super versed in the inner workings of the OS but I think that's an OS limitation more than anything else, as literally every other MMO mouse is designed the same way. If any one of them were able to do it, I'm sure it would have been a big marketing feature.
Once you get used to using an MMO mouse with WoW though, you'll wonder how you ever played without it. It will also bleed into other games as well, I'm frequently using the other buttons as keybindings.
A good plan to get used to it is get an action bar addon like Bartender, and set a bar up in a 3x4 square similar to the layout of the pad, and assign the keys to that pad, with the skills assigned to their relative locations.
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It's worth noting that the most consistent way to spam avenging shield is to constantly be trying to proc grand crusader. Which procs when you avoid attacks, OR when you use hammer of the righteous. IIRC there's an azerite trait to buff the Grand crusader proc to 20% instead of 15% when using hammer. So you throw out one shield, then use both charges of Hammer of the righteous, and you have relatively good odds of getting another shield again.
It doesnt come up all the time, but if you're doing something where you know you might need a ton of interrupts it can help to save both hammer of the righteous charges to quickly pop both and roll for a GC proc to throw that shield again.
I use Bartender a lot, but I'll take the 3x4 idea into consideration. Right now I have a 4x10 on the bottom and a 2x10 on the right.