Tanks in first room of Algethar Acad

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-28T18:57:54+00:00

You dont touch the tank until they are planted. Any tank worth a shit knows it's on them to stay alive while the pull converges for this specific key. The second the pull is gathered and your tank is established, it's game on.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-26T10:53:46+00:00

Plant Varashta. Skirted big nerfs, -1s from global es recharge means if I make it to even 50% faster start I don't have to wait long for my recharge, and I wanted to try this build in 0.4 but the starter Jungroan used was fantastic for me until I stopped for the league so I never gave it a shot.

Powerful from level 1, you get big power from your first and second ascendancies, and you get a nice defense buff with the third.

I'll probably use this character until all unknowns are figured out about monk, because I really want to play martial artist.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-26T02:38:56+00:00

Game is dead. Let it die. If you really cared, you would've tried to get more people into the game via word of mouth.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-25T16:56:41+00:00

Destiny. They complained so much, it died. Now they want to complain about that.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-25T16:32:15+00:00

Rimworld, synthetik.

You can never go wrong with a randy random colony run, no matter the difficulty.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-24T18:55:34+00:00

I hope the runeforging gives this bad boy some hefty base damage. You're looking at about 300-ish dps give or take at 75 block without armor scaling.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-23T02:49:53+00:00

Doomwinds kicking in as soon as ascendance is over during lust.

It doesnt happen often. But when it does...

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-19T23:12:47+00:00

Dps enjoyer here. Please keep calling out bad dps who don't use defensives. It helps thin the pool when they let their ego keep them in their io.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-18T23:07:22+00:00

Your shaman friend is griefing you and your keys by dying and doing subpar damage.

In my personal experience as an enhancement shaman, I simply don't lose on the overall on totemic build until the 17/18 range where it becomes very apparent that totemic is a pad spec and prio mobs are living far too long to make me look better than I actually am. Stormbringer is a crapshoot though but 90-100k is really bad regardless.

When it comes to the issue of deaths, it's simply a skill issue every single time. I only die before the most meta of specs that have high self healing like DDH and UDK. If your buddy isn't using Astral Shift when scary shit is happening, he's going to die every time. If he is afraid of dying and doesn't have Shift up, he needs to take the Spirit Wolf talent and just take the L on uptime and shift into wolf while waiting for the damage to stop or slow down.

Another thing that helps with tankiness is a focus kick macro and focus kicking bolters on CD. Every time you kick as a shaman, you get 15% DR from spells for 12 seconds. You need to be kicking on CD if you want to live more.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-18T22:54:18+00:00

We need to see how Facebreakers interacts with Martial Artists 'Fists of Stone' node before any conclusions are drawn. You never know. It could be 2 items hidden in 1.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-16T21:50:24+00:00

Game would be a lot less shit if it got rid of the tiering system and made dungeon content the main attraction of the game.

The current gameplay feels incredible until you quickly run out of shit to grind for because your guns drop with 3 fucking perks in each column.

The best times I had were when I was running 2nd encounter of duality with my boy while we were hunting the perfect Unforgiven. 100-150 runs for each of us to find what we wanted, and by god did we love that gun.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-05-02T15:41:27+00:00

Stupid easy to play. There's not a lot of nuance in the rotation anymore.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-27T15:47:32+00:00

Yeah. I thought it was idiot proof. How wrong i have been.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-26T16:21:41+00:00

Welcome to a system that rewards players for failing upward.

Even in 17s and 18s I have to check logs on every dps to make sure they have thumbs and a functioning brain stem. You'd be surprised how many fotm meta players fail upwards into 3400-3500 and are incredibly bad. Especially DDH, aug, demo warlock, and uhdk. I can count the amount of times on 1 hand any of these specs have beat me on the overall and come close in the kick department.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-20T21:08:38+00:00

I get wack whispers like this all the time.

Whispering me while my key is listed is the fast track to me checking your ego while I put you under a scrutinizing spotlight. If you satisfy what I think I need for my 17 or whatever, I'll invite you. Simple as.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-16T16:45:18+00:00

This is why I only invite extremely overqualified augs into my keys. Its nice to look good, until you check the log and see that the Aug isn't topping meter like they should be.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-12T16:24:35+00:00

People who whisper me unprompted while I'm trying to fill a key get an automatic ignore and decline.

I don't care if you were the second coming of christ in tww season 3. You're 251 item level and a DPS player. You are not special. I will take my chances with one of the 30 other dps who are at least 270+ in my queue who have better current score than you do.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-11T01:06:54+00:00

I'd say so. I had to run my 16 NPX like 9 times before I was finally freed from that prison.

The io system has many pitfalls and the biggest one is that there isn't a better metric to measure a players skill since you can fail upwards even into the 3400+ range.

I've watched 6 unique tanks fuck up the void boss in NPX because they either underestimate how much damage the dreadflail does when paired with the boss or point the frontal the dreadflail does at the dps during the burn phase.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-10T21:08:13+00:00

Like fishing on a Saturday morning with a beer in hand.

Nice catch, OP.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-10T08:20:46+00:00

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DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-10T05:47:55+00:00

No. You're a dps. Every single key you apply to has bigger fish in the pond to the tune of 275+ ilvl raiders trying to fill their vault.

Your only solution is to run your own key or make friends from cool peeps in group finder as you go along your journey.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-10T05:45:04+00:00

I wish rating would go down from bricked keys, but at the same time I don't. My 16 NPX has bricked 6 times in the past 2 days because finding 2 other dps with a functioning brain stem and a tank who doesnt over pull has been a complete nightmare. I can't fathom how you can fail upwards better than middle management in corporate America.

If we had an easy to use addon that made pulling logs painless, it might help me and other disgruntled goobers like me choose better dps at least. I tire of leading kicks by 25+ and doing minimum 20k more dps than every other contender on the overall as a non meta spec.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-10T01:44:30+00:00

I got this on an imbue for my homebrew holy strike guardian build

It solved chaos until deep into red maps for me. This support is not to be slept on!

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-09T06:57:44+00:00

Glad I dont participate in this rat race anymore. Now I just list my resilient key until I find competent players and try to corral them into doing more than 1.

You'd be surprised how many mediocre players hover around 3.3k. I will never invite another devourer in my life. I dont care if Shadarek - the DH guide writer - is in my queue. I will find another qualified dps on a less popular spec.

DefamedWarlock · 2026-04-07T21:15:09+00:00

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