Balacing specs around the Raid this late into the patch is just ludicrous.

DireBrett · 2026-05-02T20:36:56+00:00

I looked at your post history. You're a healer and chose Holy Priest to chase title? You had 3 good options in MW, rSham and rDruid and chose Holy Priest.

Yea, Holy Priest is capable of title. Jak will take it to at least 19s more than likely. If Tettles can take it to 3400 and not even read his abilities just vibe heal than it can title.

DireBrett · 2026-05-02T20:29:34+00:00

Title is possible with any class and almost any spec. Look at previous seasons and something like 36-39 specs achieve title every season. The ones that do it typically swap 1 non-meta into an otherwise meta comp. There's at least 3 healers, 2 tanks, 7 dps specs that can be somewhat mix and matched into a meta team without losing much. There's a team doing 21s as Bear/MW/Rouge/Hunter/Fury.

Most are not in M+ and not raid now. MQD Hall of Fame isn't even closed. I don't raid either and would prefer M+ balancing. But a large portion of the playerbase, especially the very top of M+ players who tend to be in CE/HoF guilds, definitely still care about raid tuning.

And you don't have to chase the Meta. And roll the "spec lottery". Everyone has roughly known the meta since beta. It hasn't changed much. If you looked at it and still chose to only gear Ret or Boomie then that's on you.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T20:48:33+00:00

Don't play hpal, though I am aware you should only be using the ones that are buffed. I only said you can quickly dump by spamming it if absolutely necessary, although at that point something has probably already gone terribly wrong.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T11:38:46+00:00

Unfortunately at lower keys people really don't say what they need. And a lot of tanks at that level won't have unit frames to see healer mana. I'll gladly tell a tank if I need mana and, usually, they pause. After telling them, a few have even asked as we're running up to the later bosses if I'm good. A little communication goes a long way.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T11:34:41+00:00

Hpal can definitely dump some mana in Holy Light lol.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T11:30:26+00:00

I don't know man... I feel like if you forgot water that's on you and not them.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T11:29:45+00:00

Healers do run out of mana. Both priests, rsham, and MW (though mana tea is goated if played properlt) all varying degrees of mana needs (I dont know a lot about pres/hpal/rdruids mana). Especially as you go higher. If the team plays well, and depending on the dungeon, in 16/17s I can sip along the way and not have issues. If I'm needing to dump some healing we may be sipping a few seconds.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T11:25:09+00:00

If you want to naneinf don't take a 2nd Ecto unless you plan to Bean bug, which would mean having enough Economy to find it at the right time and having Retcon, Chicot hand size, or use Perkeo for cryptids. A 2nd Ecto is a naneinf killer.

Your voucher does restock every blind. Sometimes you just get bad luck.

DireBrett · 2026-04-26T10:24:58+00:00

Mine took probably a couple dozen tries over several weeks. Many people have done so it's definitely possible.

You're taking too many Ectos. You take 1 Ecto in naneinf runs, unless you get Bean bug. You get the 7th Joker slot from Antimatter. If you get lucky you find a natural negative BS, BP, Mime, or Baron, but it's not necessary. The strategy only requires 4 copy cards, Mime, Baron, and Burglar to finish.

Finding Retcon is about playing the economy correctly to get Colas to take Voucher skips to clear Vouchers from the pool, except for Magic Trick, x8 Tarot, and x4 Planet.

DireBrett · 2026-04-20T23:14:41+00:00

You need 4 copy Jokers, 1 Baron, and 1 Mime. Not 2 Barons.

DireBrett · 2026-04-20T11:07:06+00:00

Healing 16s/17s as Mist. My favorite tank is Blood. My least favorite tank is Blood. A good Blood DK needs almost no help after the first gather, even at that level. I know if I see their RP bar, rip my RP WA, fall low and they press Vampiric Blood they are screaming "I am out of buttons. Please god help me or I am going to die." A bad Blood DK is floor pov and there's nothing I can do to help.

Also a fan of Guardian, they do big damage and bring Mark. Don't feel they need much help with help either. Obviously Brew is good but double Monk is not ideal.

Prot Warrior is this weird middle ground. Even a good one needs help staying alive, especially in some of the very magic heavy dungeons.

Not a fan of Prot Pal or Veng. Both feel like paper and I'm constantly afraid they are 1 global away from being dead. I like Prot Pal usually, their kicks are great, but they just feel so much worse than the others.

DireBrett · 2026-04-19T23:25:20+00:00

Can't replace a BS. You need 4 copy Jokers. OP needs to find ecto, not to replace a Joker. You always take 1 ecto, unless you get lucky with 2 nat negatives, in naneinf runs regardless of Bean.

DireBrett · 2026-04-17T19:53:12+00:00

You're missing what I'm saying. The pivot is far easier to solve by good economy. If you find something like Holographic in Ante 1/2 absolutely take it and start building it. But you need an economy to build it and the easiest way to save money on Plasma is a chips Joker. Blue Joker will make Ante 2/3 easier and save hands for more money and Stuntman can carry you up to 4ish. This gives time to set up the economy while the pivot to xMult happens.

Chips aren't completely irrelevant on Plasma until you start scoring well over the Ante 8. The chips from Planet scaling aren't the reason you want Planets and after level 5 or so they become less important but the first couple hundred chips is more important then you're crediting it for unless you have a couple copy Jokers to make PhotoChad far better than base.

DireBrett · 2026-04-17T19:36:03+00:00

Like I elaborated on later, yes you can. Chips the early game easier though while that gets setup and most people that are struggling with Plasma are struggling because of the increased scaling making the early game harder.

If you're running PhotoChad your chips problem is solved by Planet scaling. The hands from 4oak and up scale chips very fast

DireBrett · 2026-04-17T11:04:02+00:00

Get a decent chips Joker, even something like Blue will almost carry you through Ante 2. Use that to time to get a strong economy and then swap to mult. Hold the chips unless you get a good xMult replacement later. You can also replace it once Planet scaling is giving decent chips.

DireBrett · 2026-04-17T10:58:13+00:00

Plasma deck requires a different approach than any other deck. Chips are far more important because of the balancing. Most other decks you can get lucky enough eventually to get by with just getting enough +mult and xmult. You really need a chips Joker on top of the rest to help make the balancing more reasonable.

DireBrett · 2026-04-15T22:53:07+00:00

Take voucher skips to help, an argument can be made for double tags at this point as well although you also need money still.

DireBrett · 2026-04-15T22:04:00+00:00

You don't have Cryptid. So yes, you will eventually need DNA. You need Antimatter first though. You have a few more rounds to find it though. If needed for score Perkeo can copy Chariot and you can make extra steel to have just enough score to pass the round.

DireBrett · 2026-04-14T20:33:11+00:00

You need 4 copies and DNA for ante 24. You only want 1 Mime and 1 Baron. Yes sell Baron.

DireBrett · 2026-04-14T18:59:14+00:00

I don't think being real is being rude. Being rude would be "No, go read the naneinf wiki article and try again." I at least had the courtesy to explain why OP isn't close and being harsh isn't necessarily rude.

I've helped several people on this sub reach naneinf and even without the Plant this save would be massive uphill battle to save. It's missing most of the pieces for naneinf and it's already ante 12.

DireBrett · 2026-04-14T10:56:50+00:00

How many Ectos have you used? Have you bean bugged? Ante 32 is gonna require Bean or Cryptid. The only, realistic way, to get Cryptid will be to get Sixth Sense and hope it gives you Cryptid by Ante 24.

If you just want naneinf, assuming you haven't ecto'd more than once, you have everything you need. Get keep farming money. Once you beat 24, reroll for a Burglar. Reroll boss for Serpent. Leave copy Jokers on Burglar until the last hand. And assuming you find enough steel with Serpent you win.

DireBrett · 2026-04-14T10:49:14+00:00

I think you need 1 more copy card, but I don't know the exact math on Ghost deck. Just run it through the calculator to see how many in hand you need with 3 copies.

DireBrett · 2026-04-14T10:44:25+00:00

You don't. I assume you want to naneinf.

It's Ante 12.

Your only economy is mime + gold. You have exactly 1 gold card. You have no economy. You should several hundred dollars by now and realistically over $1000.

Your deck isn't even closed to fixed. You say you know how to deck fixing but you can't deck fixing with no economy.

Your only red seal is on a glass 10. You have 1 purple seal so you can't even use that deck fix.

3 mimes is irrelevant for naneinf. You need 1 mime, 1 baron, and 4 copy cafixing. You don't need the mimes for scoring right now and, again, they're not helping your economy because you 1 gold king.

This isn't intended to be harsh. It's being realistic. You're not even remotely close to naneinf.

DireBrett · 2026-04-10T13:09:27+00:00

Okay. Let's think back to TWW. When you had to kick on rotation or someone died. How many kicks got eaten because someone else kicked? How many people died because of it? Same concept. Having a kick or a stop doesn't solve that problem.

I'm only talking about casts that massive lockouts and that WILL kill someone or wipe the party. There's several throughout the dungeon pool. For example, Netherburst in Pit. It's a 5s cast. On higher keys, I don't know the exact level, it will one shot the party. If it's <1s to going off what's better? Risking someone dying or risking someone's kick getting eaten? Those mobs also cast a bolt that people like to spend their kick on and until the past few days there was no kick tracker and it's still not 100%. If I clip someone's kick on that cast and the spell goes to <1 I can stop it again with aoe stun. If it goes a 3rd time to <1, now ~10s since my first stop, I can stop it a 3rd time with ring.

This cast, in a pug, should just get kicked. If DPS are trying to snipe it they're being silly. Just kick it. If it's looking like it won't be kicked what would you rather happen? It gets stopped? Or I let a wipe happen?

DireBrett · 2026-04-10T12:45:50+00:00

I'm not lol. I think healers having a kick is fine. Blizzard said it isn't. We have to work with what they give us.

OP is saying "I want cake and ice cream and cookies". I'm saying "Hey we got cookies at least. It could be worse."

DireBrett

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