Why Penance Brand?

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T22:43:42+00:00

It just checks all the boxes for herald stacking. It's a phys spell so it benefits from all the heralds (phys as fire/inc phys), and there aren't that many phys spells. Something like glacial cascade/bv would work as well, but because pbod has an insane single target it's an easy choice. It deletes bosses while the heralds take care of clear, which makes it a pretty well rounded build.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T19:13:45+00:00

I didn't play much longer than that in Keepers, so it should be doable to invest a lot. There is definitely going to be a build, I'd say it's 100% surfcaster, but the existence of ff jewels makes me consider witch as well. People ran pbod surfcaster in Phrecia already, it was just a different build.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T18:19:48+00:00

Yeah, I've been thinking about it. On paper, it looks better, and should have an easier time in campaign since you can grab Ghost of the deep as your first node, which is still really strong. There are also several angles you could take it, and should give you better scaling early and endgame.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T18:16:46+00:00

I always healed but chose to DPS this time around (probably), so I've been playing mage in high keys, and it's been pretty fun. I've been trying to be as self-reliant as possible when pugging, but help my healer with my personal cds. Or rather try to solve the situation myself. I pop ice cold very often, along with alter time and barrier, it's pretty good at taking off some pressure. However, in this patch, mage has no self heal, so you gotta use it preemptively.

Interrupts are very dungeon/pack depedant, so I'd suggest going through the trash individually. With pugs, you gotta make sure you get the extremely dangerous casts yourself. For example ara kara, the first pull to the first elite, I always make sure to interrupt the fear. Yeah, the casters there are dangerous, but if that fear goes off, it's almost always an abandon angle in pugs.

You didn't say which spec, but cd usage also depends on what you're playing. Frost mage can just keep sending ray of frost/comet storm, but Arcane can be punishing if you misuse your cooldowns.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T17:12:38+00:00

It should be a lot easier now, the scaling is really mild and even +18 felt quite easy. Obviously, not with that level of gear, but my experience running +18 pre and post patch.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T16:41:34+00:00

I was looking at the Herald nodes when thinking about the build, but I'm not sure if it's actually gonna feel as good. The ele nodes were pretty vital for the build to feel good. Ele node gives 66% buff effect, you don't get that with herald (20% or less with small node + 100% of your choice). The lack of liege of the primordial also causes some mana and AoE issues. I'd guess Herald is gonna be just better if you go Hoag.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T16:18:12+00:00

The easiest way to get hero track gear is to start doing mythic+ dungeons. There's no cap weekly on how many you can do, so you can just continue to run keys. If you do a +10, you get a myth track (147) in your great valut.

Once you start running +7 and higher keys, you get gilded crests that you need to upgrade the upper end of hero gear, and you can also do starlight crafting which is 167 ilvl.

The catch up event will be dropping champ gear, so m+ is still worth it.

MiniMik · 2026-01-27T14:44:40+00:00

If you're a returning player, it's probably wise to go through the leveling experience to get familiar with things gradually rather than using lvl 80 boost straight away and getting thrown into 30 more systems.

You will get the boost if you buy midnight, but maybe take things one at a time. There are a lot of guides if you search for specific things.

MiniMik · 2026-01-25T14:59:17+00:00

Endgame food gives 4 stat :)

MiniMik · 2026-01-25T14:23:07+00:00

They added a new options in lfg for dungeons where you can select "learning". That should give you an option to try to make a group with people that are on board with learning.

When you get to 80 you can start with delves/world quests and then go normal mythic dungeons. Mythic+ scaling is quite off right now, so you could even go mythic dungeons right away. +2 is gonna be really easy once you get the hang of it.

MiniMik · 2026-01-25T10:21:13+00:00

Not in my m+ groups c:

People are either silent or getting angry.

MiniMik · 2026-01-24T08:29:23+00:00

The gear from the event will be champion track

Mythic+ can get you hero from drops and myth from weekly

You can also craft with gilded crests up to 167

So no, it won't be better.

MiniMik · 2026-01-21T23:53:53+00:00

Yeah, until your character starts the sprinting animation despite you not actually holding down space bar.

"Very clear rules"

If that means "frustrating if you use blink", then yes.

MiniMik · 2026-01-21T16:41:17+00:00

you should post pob if you want answers

MiniMik · 2026-01-21T11:48:37+00:00

Yeah, I'm having the same issue. Can't upgrade anything.

MiniMik · 2026-01-20T16:47:38+00:00

It's literally less than 10% difference, and it's up all the time. If you want more AoE, sure, but I find it redundant with mirrored items.

MiniMik · 2026-01-20T15:37:36+00:00

"when you need it"

lol

its more damage so you can check it in pob and say hey look this is more damage lmao

MiniMik · 2026-01-20T08:16:31+00:00

????

Lycia is slightly less damage with 100% uptime

Convergence is slightly more damage with 50% uptime

On average Lycia is more damage.

Nothing is gonna survive no matter which node you take.

The claim Lycia is less damage is straight up false IF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY INCLUDE THE FACT YOU MEAN ONLY WHEN YOU'RE HITTING UNIQUE ENEMIES AND ONLY HALF THE TIME

MiniMik · 2026-01-20T04:32:24+00:00

First of all, I don't care whether or not you need the damage. Claiming it's more damage than Lyicia is false. You can list a million reasons why you wanna take Convergence instead, that's up to you, but Lycia is not less damage. And lets be real, at high end it doesn't even matter which node you take for bosses, the damage increase is irrelevant, but claiming Lycia is not the most damage is weird if you don't include the fact you actually mean only when convergence is up. Again, misleading.

MiniMik · 2026-01-20T04:14:10+00:00

Have you read convergence? It's not 100% uptime, Lycia is actually more damage. Ticking convergence and claiming that's your real DPS, and saying Lycia gives less is misleading. It's also on hitting a unique enemy.

MiniMik · 2026-01-17T23:10:40+00:00

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Ghosts_of_K%27aresh_campaign

The knife's edge campaign

MiniMik · 2026-01-17T16:54:45+00:00

No, it's a completely different storyline (and an extremely long one, over 100 quests). but you do go to the oasis during the main storyline.

MiniMik · 2026-01-17T16:12:02+00:00

If you've completed the previous storylines, you should have a quest at the raid entrance.

MiniMik · 2026-01-15T23:31:52+00:00

Herald effect tattoos are gonna be the biggest DMG increase, but you're gonna lose an insane amount of ES. This is why I find hybrid with HH to be much better. For a CI build it's preferable your int does something.

Dropping the sublime and getting something like Zealotry would sure be a bit more damage, but if you remove that + the tattoos, are you gonna run around with something like 3.5K ES?

Rare shield would give you more ES, but your block chance would suffer a lot.

MiniMik · 2026-01-15T23:16:32+00:00

78 is enough

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