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Q&AWith the changes to Arcane Torrent in BFA do you think Horde will remain better for M+ or do you think that Shadowmeld or other Alliance racials may make them better at the very top end?

As you may have realized the Blood Elf racial has been really useful in dungeons since it’s release. If you haven’t kept up to date with the latest BFA changes, now removes 1 beneficial effect from all enemies instead of silencing mobs for 2 seconds. This puts into question if Horde will keep their king faction status for Mythic+.

Some like to think Alliance may be taking over in terms of racials because Horde is losing Arcane Torrent but Arcane Torrent isn’t necessarily useless. It will be useless in a lot of cases but could be very strong in certain dungeons. I have personally been spending a lot of time on BFA Alpha/Beta and there is a decent amount of dungeon trash that you can utilize Arcane Torrent on.

Alliance has Shadowmeld. This is a strong M+ racial since it lets you skip some packs of trash very easily without having to incur a 10 minute cooldown on your potions. You can even Shadowmeld a mechanic over to someone else. For example, if you get targeted by Arcing Bolt and realize you don’t have any defensive you can Shadowmeld to make it retarget another party member. That really is the only good racial for alliance currently. Dwarf Stoneform is a pretty decent one for grievous weeks but isn’t always useful. Even the newly announced alliance allied races racial aren’t really looking great in a Mythic+ scenario.

I predict that Horde will still be the dominant faction since they also have the best dps racials between the two factions. To top it all off horde recently received the new Nightborne racial which slows enemies by 70% for 12 seconds, this could lead to you being able to pull big and just kiting the mobs just like in Neltharion’s Lair where it’s basically known as a kiting dungeon in high keys.

With this said, keep in mind that it is still pretty early to have a good statement on this since Mythic+ is not accessible on the beta client and some racials still haven’t been added for the new allied races.

Is there a particular reason why Guardian Druid has been so weak this meta?

There are many reason as to why Guardian Druid has fallen off the meta. Druids are basically as good as other tanks in terms of physical mitigation but their self sustain is nowhere near comparable. They get completely crushed by magic damage so any sort of high magic damage fight will usually result in the Guardian Druid lying on the floor.

It’s also good to look at helpful tools that a tank class can bring in a dungeon. I like to break this into 2 parts, Group Control abilities which help you and your allies and Mob Control which helps control the dungeon trash abilities. If we look at Druid’s Mob Control abilities there’s only Stampeding Roar, Typhoon and Thrash slow that stand out. For the Group Control abilities they have Rebirth. Having a battle res was a very big deal in the past because it brought an extra combat res to the group but since the recent changes where you only get a certain amount of combat res per dungeon it’s not really impactful for any serious groups.

Let’s do a Death Knight breakdown to compare the two classes. To start off DK’s Mob Control control abilities are Death Grip, Gorefiend's Grasp, Death and Decay slow and Control Undead. On the side of Group Control abilities they have Consumption leech, Raise Ally and self-sustain to the point where you question why you have a healer. Now that we have both side by side we start to see very clearly why druid is basically worse for 99% of the situations in the current meta and doesn’t really bring anything to the table to make themselves stand out of the pack.

What is the most optimal key for me to bind taunt on for skittish for maximum spam?

This changes from person to person. Someone might like hitting Control-Alt 7 to taunt everytime they have to while someone else prefers simply hitting 1. I would recommend using any key that doesn’t require any sort of Shift/control/alt modifications to be easily hittable since it’s on a short 8 seconds cooldown.

Make sure to rotate your taunt on different targets so you don’t just increase your threat on your main target.

Is there a particular tank-healer pairing that seems to work best for Prot Paladin in M+?

This is a question I get a lot from any tank player. Should I be taking a Resto Druid or a Holy Pally as “X” tank? This really comes down to the team synergy, the dungeon you want to run and the current affixes.

Holy paladins have Blessing of Sacrifice and Aura Mastery which are 2 very strong externals, they also have Blessing of Freedom, Blessing of Protection and an immunity to “cheese” some mechanics. Resto druids bring Ironbark which is a very low cooldown external. Paladins are very strong in burst healing situations while Resto Druids are better against constant damage fights.

The healer you want to bring may also change from week to week. You may play with a paladin healer every week but as soon as a Sanguine week comes around you might start to dream about playing with a Resto Druid for that sweet extra Typhoon option. Now if you want to run a Lower Karazhan you might want to think about bringing a holy paladin to basically completely negate the hardest fight of the instance, Moroes.

What is your best advice for trying to tank high keys in a PUG, when people tend to blame you constantly even when its not your fault? I want to stay cool and not force people to requeue, but it’s very frustrating.

Number 1 tip to be able to do well in Mythic + is to have voice communication. Nothing will get done the way you want it to get done if you can’t communicate with your party members.

As the tank you are the one setting the pace to the dungeon so it’s easy for others to blame you as soon as something goes wrong but keep in mind that “It can’t be your fault if you make it be their fault”. What I mean by this is that if you call out every single mechanic and every single cc/interrupt then nobody will really be able to blame you since you would have given a clear indication of whose torrent was coming up next for example.

Let’s say you are about to pull a pack of trash mobs, take a look at what cc is available from your group and call out when you want someone to torrent, stun and so on. This way, every pack will go the way you want it to.

At the end of the day, people in pugs don’t know you and you don’t know them at all so it can be frustrating but there’s also a bunch of really nice and good people out there.

Things to Look For in the EU MDI This Weekend:

Team Raider.IO will be playing the 4th round of the EU regionals. These guys are one of the rare teams currently holding a 28 key done in time on live servers. They have also placed 4th during time trials.
Method EU will be playing the first round of the EU MDI. This team has been taking over the M+ scene recently, being the rank 1 M+ score team in the world and the best time trial team not only for EU, but worldwide.

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