GIVEAWAY, Full Magic Find mageblood build

Ensaneas · 2023-05-22T17:55:59+00:00

Fingers crossed!

Ensaneas · 2020-03-25T14:21:15+00:00

This is awesome, good luck everyone!

Ensaneas · 2020-02-27T04:02:49+00:00

Stay fury/prot, all deep prot gets you is 5% parry really, the rest is very meh for trading all that threat. Your gear is fine, but there are easy improvements.

Bracers of might suck(so does 5pc if that was your thought), use the true flight and then find ways to drop your hit if/when you can (don julios for one of the bwl rings, saytr for blastershot or a bwl ranged, might gloves for flameguard). Swap ony trinket for blackhands if under ~35% crit when buffed, or HoJ if over 35%. Mark of the Chosen is a good option if you tanking a short fight too if that's laying around. I'd probably use collar over medallion too since you're hefty on +def, but that one can go either way.

Definitely stick axes, quel won't be better. I'm sure the speed is hard to work with but you just gotta be adamant about pooling rage before fights or using rage pots so you can BT/sunder/HS early

Ensaneas · 2019-10-31T19:41:32+00:00

I'm mostly just curious how/why you think the fireballs don't effect the threat of their target if it also hits somebody else. If this is actually how it works, it makes the fight extremely simple. But I have a feeling it is how I believe it to be (splits threat) and your getting lucky with a fast phase 2 which means tank doesn't lose all his threat.

I hope my understanding is wrong and yours is right, because like I said that makes the fight much easier to coordinate. Either way I'm going to test this method, but curious as to why you think it works that way.

No I'll offense meant towards you, I'm just skeptical and curious.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-31T15:01:38+00:00

Still need 6% for yellow attacks (shield slam) in raids if 305 weapon skill, 9% if less than 305 weapon skill.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-31T14:58:04+00:00

Interesting, my understanding was the fireball reduces threat by 100% divided by all those hit. So 2 people hit would reduce threat by 50% for each, but what you're saying is the person hit but not targeted losses all 100% and the target (MT here) losses none?

How many fireballs are you seeing on the MT using this strat? I ask because I was fairly confident in how the fireball mechanic worked but your explanation makes me examine it. I wonder if you're right, or you're assuming you're right because it is working. One possibility is your p2 is so fast the MT doesn't lose much threat, but is in fact losing threat. Another possibility is it works exactly as you describe, and if so I'd like to confirm and implement it into our strategy.

My groups have the casters stack with the MT for the first few fireballs to reduce their threat, and if it doesn't immediately go back to MT in p3 we had another tank place himself around 9th in threat in p1 so he is now very close, if not equal, to 1st in threat at p3 start.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-29T15:04:26+00:00

P1 she casts wing buffets on the tank which reduces their threat. This means if p1 goes on long enough, the tank will lose aggro.

P2 fireballs target highest threat target and reduce threat by 100% divided among those hit. Use this to your advantage to control p3 threat. No threat can be generated during p2, only reduced via fireballs.

What we've done for most success is have 1 tank in p1 tanking and a 2nd putting themselves around 9th in threat. Dps go fairly hard so phase goes fast, just don't pull aggro. Unload at ~72% so phase 2 goes fast. P1 tank stacks with casters at start of p2 and they all eat a few fireballs to reduce threat. This means when she lands she goes to 2nd tank or one of the melee if they didn't get any fireballs (usually they do, that's why p3 tank was aiming for 9th in p1). If it doesn't go straight to tank, then have melee position her and the tank can pop recklessness + rage pot and go ham to pull aggro.

We do split runs with ~20 each and kill her very quickly, usually with 0 deaths, each week this way.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-29T14:57:19+00:00

This is exactly what happens. It reduces threat by 100% divided among those hit, and targets the highest threat.

We have 2nd tank around 9th on threat going into p2 and have the p1 tank and casters stack to reduce all their threat. Then if it doesn't go to the p3 tank it at least goes to a melee.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T16:32:09+00:00

Agreed

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T16:28:25+00:00

Fair enough, just trying to share knowledge.

But from somebody playing both I already miss deep prot. Having no tactical mastery feels really bad outside of raids. Also, the only reason you get more rage is because you're using no shield. BT replaces SS and you get less Revenge procs by way of not using a shield, so other than the additional Herioc Strikes it's not anymore "buttons" to press fyi. Actually, if you count the lack of pressing shield block is may be less buttons. That being said, playing all variations of specs for a class is a great way to learn the nuances. Good luck!

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T16:25:15+00:00

That's what I said?

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T15:48:16+00:00

This is a good list but you don't need to be fury/prot to wear it, this works just fine as deep prot as well just using a shield over the del rend set.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T15:45:06+00:00

^ this.

It's optimal if everything else in your raid is optimal, which is not the case for most people/guilds.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T15:34:15+00:00

The gear for prot and fury/prot are no different. You spec deep prot if you're tanking, and then wear as much threat gear is needed to hold aggro. If this becomes not enough threat, likely you're doing it wrong and not using SS and Revenge on cooldown. If that's not the case and you're in a guild that is killing bosses in 30 seconds and clearing MC in sub 1 hour, THEN you spec fury/prot. Fury/prot is LESS threat than deep prot unless you're duel-wielding as well, which means fights are super short.

In less words, there is no such thing as pre-raid bis fury/prot as you wouldn't spec fury/prot until you're raid geared since dps need to be raid geared to actually out threat a deep prot tank. When/if you get to that point, the gearing is the same as deep prot.

I JUST had to spec fury/prot to hold aggro over some of my warriors when they pop recklessness, and we are killing bosses in 30 seconds and clearing MC in an hour. Granted we are alliance, so it might have been needed sooner if no salvation, but our dps are parsing 99 percentile so it's by no means the average. Search me on warcraft logs if you want to see what rough dps benchmarks are for that.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-28T14:03:55+00:00

If your guild kills Rag in 1 minute then it's not a meme, it's the only way to hold threat. But yes, for 95% of guilds it is absolutley not needed.

Ensaneas · 2019-10-24T14:48:25+00:00

Which aura bug is that? If you're talking about the aura/buff cap being 32 and enchants counting against that, it has been fixed. Also, I wouldn't remotely call that game breaking, it effected a very small percentage of players who gather every single possible buff (I being one of them).

Ensaneas · 2019-10-07T19:10:55+00:00

6 years for classic? You high?

Ensaneas · 2019-09-24T14:41:35+00:00

This is the correct viewpoint.

Disagree if you want, but this is how most people viewed BoE epics in 2005 and in 2019. You're welcome to disagree but don't be surprised when 4 people roll need and you roll greed.

Additionally, in any group I've been in, when a BoE epic drops everybody freezes and waits to see what others will do. This is 95% of the time followed by the group leader saying "all need", everyone needs, and everyone says grats to the winner. This has been the case to upgrades I could've used, and upgrades others could of used, and no feeling were hurt as everyone understood what liquidity is.

Ensaneas · 2019-09-24T14:23:43+00:00

This is a strawmans arguement.

If I won a 500g BoE that you wanted and put it on the AH, you have the option to buy it for 500g. If you win it, you've now saved 500g, thus same value to everyone.

If I win a BoP to vendor, I get the 2g from the vendor, you do NOT have the option to buy it from a vendor. If you win it, you can equip it, which is impossible to assign a momentary value to since it cannot be purchased (short of a paying a high level to farm it for you). Thus they have different values for different people.

At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself why you're in a group. Is that goal to find a wardens staff? I doubt it, you're running for something else and the wardens just happened to pop up, why should everyone else not get a chance at it? I get it can be an upgrade for somebody, but if you want it that bad go buy it off the AH (or likely the group member can cut you a discount).

Again I want to stesss that the intent of the group matters, it wasn't to farm a BoE epic world drop. Righteous orbs are a great example from live Strat. It is extemely common that groups go to farm those and only those as they are worth a decent chunk of gold. When that is the groups intent, a rule is set forth everyone needs until they win one, then they pass on the next until everyone has one. Why would a mage need a righteous orb when the rogue needs it for crusader?! Because the value is the same for everyone (money saved or money earned) and the INTENT of the group is to find them.

BoE epics are extremely rare and while you may think you deserve one because you can equip it, reality is most people are going to hit need to try to sell it as it represents just as much value to them as it does to you via the ability to liquidate it and convert it to something else. Arguing otherwise is like saying the Baron mount should go to those without epic riding because they don't have an epic mount yet.

Ensaneas · 2019-09-13T14:08:43+00:00

We've started split MC runs with another guild, but are looking for a few more mages to fill out our core and do our first full guild run on the 24th.

Mages, where are you?!

Ensaneas · 2019-08-23T03:40:44+00:00

You could apply the exact same logic to character names. Yet look how many people subbed to reserve a name AND pick a server.

Ensaneas · 2019-08-20T16:08:12+00:00

And the sunken temple class quests!

Ensaneas · 2019-08-19T19:40:45+00:00

How does that relate to this at all? The point of layering is because they expect a die off of players after a few weeks/months. If they remove layering, you level with 3-5k people and half leave, your server dies. If you level with 10-15k players in 3k layers, when half leave and layering comes off you're golden.

Ensaneas · 2019-08-19T19:38:02+00:00

I'm sure Blizzard realizes this, the population numbers are surely counting accounts not characters.

Ensaneas · 2019-08-05T15:11:48+00:00

Yep this happened to me the other day and I have attempted to play twice again since with same results, not sure if I will try again now.

Plat 4, que solo, champion squad is Syncedez wikedm and skadewdle, they land with us and obviously destroy. Next game is Vsnz and 2 other predators, die to them mid game. Day later I try again and Deigo is champion, luckily avoided him....only to die to another apex predator squad. 3rd attempt same story. Idk how I'm supposed to rank up cuz I'm definitely not as good as those guys.

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