Exactly and now the Russian player is rolling with a ton of material towards Germany.

Forgot to add, one Russian fighter will typically be in Archangel which someone else mentioned. That’s another defender that brings German success down to 7% even if the US takes and loses the battleship battle.

Less bombardment for UK attack? Watched more of the vid and came back to my own ask lol

For ST the answer is DS. We get bonus damage for RP. But it is also just better rotationally since using Death Runes for Heart Strike forces them back into Unholy/Frost which makes our DS less consistent/flexible.

Compact Runes addon (available on Curseforge)

No, Haste is actually the worst stat more or less. STAM>Mastery>Hit(8%)>Dodge/Parry are the goals. Stam is good damage and healing

​@@zaldinfoxI go for 26 exp too for soft cap not to be dodged but I'd say hit cap and exp soft cap r def under Stam>mastery

@@anotherhuman21 Yep Exp 26 before Dodge/Parry is good.

See comment below, but short answer is HS in ST to spend 1 blood rune, or up to 3 targets. If you need to survive, Rune Tap instead to use up that Blood Rune (so that we can float 1 blood).

It's TellMeWhen (link to profile in description), which is available on CurseForge.

Thanks for the kind words, and I hope you enjoy getting into dungeons on BDK! If you get a chance, swing back and let us know how it went. Happy to help with any questions. Cheers.

Thanks for the question. I use Heart Strike on 1-3 targets, and BB for anything over that, but a more nuanced answer is that our current cycle of runes (and our survivability) are major factors. What I mean is that I may elect to pull a pack and burst down with my opening set of runes, pressing BB back to back. In this case we overcap RP and ignore Rune Strike/Death Strike. We might also be in a 1-2 target situation, but have full Runes with a plan to use Empowered Rune Weapon, so we have no open GCDs beyond DS and Rune Strike, in these situations it is very normal to proc a free Rune, convert 1 of our Blood Runes via Blood Tap and hit another DS, which keeps the cycle going. We might also eat a Blood Rune for Blood Tap. Finally, we might be part way through a pack and need to pestilence again to keep our diseases up (which takes up a Blood Rune). This lets us float our 1 Blood Rune efficiently (holding it so Rune Strike procs Frost/Unholy). All of these circumstances push us away from casting Heart Strike, but it has more to do with how our Rune/RP economy functions than it does with the spell itself (it hits very hard in 1-3 targets). I hope this helps unpack my reasoning! Thanks for the question.

​@zaldinfox Wow thank you, a very informative reply! I had a feeling it was a matter of circumstance rather than preference. I am using Heart Strike as an aoe pick up/threat refresh, which seems to be a similar use to your Blood Boil timing. I will give it a go switching to Boil as talented you get a chance for free ones anyway so the synergy does seem nicer. Thank you for explaining so effectively.

Look up "Compact Runes" addon (available on Curseforge)

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@@zaldinfox oh it expired

@@drow233 Ah, sorry. It's just the default Plater to be honest; no special changes. I'll probably adapt this later when I get into heroics or raid.

Totally agree, when are we going to see one of your plans played against a proper opponent, appreciate the thought you’ve put in but ………

This purpose of these videos must be to be a solid stand pat wood player 😮

Yes, I imagine there are a few refinements, especially as you note, fortifying London G3 somewhat; I was mostly trying to sketch out the general strategy.

I think you overlook the problems with UK stacking Infantry in London. You can see the detailed math I do analyzing the various contingencies in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIPFYpWharl_a9E Essentially, 3 transports in SZ5 enables Germany to fast-track troops back and forth across Germany, making it an extremely flexible strategy, which can easily pivot to out-stack Karelia.

How come you won’t play an actual game with anyone who disagrees with this strat? I’ll even go best out of 3 or 5 or 10.

@@zaldinfoxwhat troops as you spent ALL in navy?!? there is NO MORE troops in Germany to transport...

Agree with this analysis. Also, please don't use the in-game calculator. Use an online calculator. It's better. G1 build threatens 4I 4T 5F + 3C 1BB, essentially 13 units. UK starts with 8 defenders. I assumed the UK was building 6I 2T, but you pointed out that 8I works just as well. The UK now has 16 defenders against 13 attackers. The Tank in Canada makes 17 defenders. The US Bomber makes 18 defenders. Online calculator gives G2 a 9.7% probability of success, assuming the UK and the US did nothing about the UK Battleship and Transport. Assuming these get traded for the Destroyer, the probability drops to 0.8%. Now let's see his analysis on the problems of stacking infantry in London as a legitimate response to a Sea Lion threat. Added - He did use an online calculator in the other discussion. I still don't see anything wrong with spending 24 IPC for the UK to defend against Germany spending 38 IPC on a threat.

@@zaldinfox you are completely wrong. First of, I'm not sure if I'd do 8 infantry in UK as that's only 24 IPC. I'd go with 2 tanks + 6 infantry = 30 IPCs. The two tanks give a little better defense. Second, I'd take the UK Air Force into your 3 cruisers. It's slightly better than 50-50 odds. Not sure why the calculator you use says improbable because the cruisers defend on 3. The two fighters attack at 3 and the bomber attacks on a 4. Sure, if you do low luck roll, ok, but as a competitive player, no way I'm going to agree to that. Third, if you truly are going to do this insanely bad strategy, why go with 2 additional cruisers? That's 24 IPCs. For that amount, you could go with an Aircraft Carrier and a destroyer for 22 IPCs. That is assuming you are truly going to protect the fleet. But as Jake already mentioned, if you do this, you won't have any troops and as Russia, I'm going to smash Karelia and Ukraine hard and then it's a march to Germany. Since you don't have any tanks, I can drop 1 infantry into the Baltics and consolidate everything into Poland and then just make 2 stacks to whack you. You also don't get anything from Africa at that point and you're really just hoping Japan can take India fast. If you want to play for fun and do it, have at it, but any seriously competitive allied team is going to laugh at this and know that this is an easy win for them barring just horrific bad dice rolling.

Yes; the Bombardments in 1942 online occur before the attacker turn, but combine with the attacker's rolls against the defender. The defender can never deal damage to the Bombarding ships, but those defenders who were hit by the bombardment still get a roll against land/air forces. Apologies for any confusion!

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIPFYpWharl_a9E Detailed explanation of the math and long-term value of the transports in SZ 5. The short answer is stacking Inf in UK overcommits IPCs that are dead or locked, and Germany can pivot with tempo to shuttle troops to Karelia.

@@zaldinfox have you tested this strategy against good gold or platinum players? A lot of your narrative suggests that this has not been tested in battles. The units are not trapped in the U.K. since the Allie’s answer is go KGF once the initial assault fails. Always open to new approaches but haven’t seen any of the top platinum players play this (for this that post videos) nor have u seen it as high gold. Your rank?

@@matthewhudson3180 wood.... but votes as everybody else...

Wood for sure

Thanks for the in depth feedback! I want to respond to your remarks about tuning (over/under) by pointing to a few details in the design, but first by saying that there are a number of pieces here that could be tuned without losing the flavour if it turned out to be too strong. Here is a list of the parts I have gone back and forth on to get this "right" but have lots of leeway to adjust: 1. PoD tuning (CD, Mastery interaction, Heal v Shield, relationship to Haste) -All of these items or tuning knobs are in scope to bring the core ability into alignment with other Hero trees. The CD is half way between Prayer of Mending (12 sec) and PW:S (8 sec). Each spell accounts for about 8% to 10% throughput in all PvE content (M+ or Raid), and there is a slight advantage for Holy Priest in their use of PoM (it is a more important button to press rotationally than PW:S and with my suggested tree, Holy is casting it 17% more often). -I'm not sure if you overlooked how strong PoM is as a "shield" for Holy Priest if it also procs Echo of Light. In Raid it makes Rapture slightly stronger, but Disc will get less overall value because the CD is 2 seconds longer and PW:S is not the primary atonement applicator (FH/Renew fill this role). -note that any class/spec buffs to either PW:S or PoM are automatically applied to PoD. Holy has a much broader scope to take advantage of this (esp. talents like Divine Service, Prayers of the Virtuous, and Say Your Prayers). 2. Dispel Theme -You are right that this moves slightly away from the theme of "plan ahead" and could certainly be adjusted or omitted altogether as an idea without losing too much; it does offer a secondary theme of magic-dispel, which I think of as thematically related to ancient Oracles and their roles, but this is a flavour dispute, not a mechanical one. -With respect to "two dead talents" I actually think this is part of what makes this tree favourable or viable as a Hero Tree; in other words, it is important that a niche be created that is not overly relevant for all situations and has clear drawbacks, so that other Trees can shine. 3. The capstone Fate Scribe is actually very easy to tune and I would welcome it, since the design is so cool! I have moved this number around quite a lot, but you could adjust the tag for 100% increased effectiveness outside of Raid and lower the number to 5% of all damage taken, or whatever made sense; in addition you could increase the channel time to make it more difficult to use or make the CD longer if it was cooling down far too quickly, but this one seems very straightforward to adjust after some testing. 4. SW:D I went back and forth on in a number of directions; at present it mirrors the functionality of PW: Life (35% threshold), but you could easily tune it by increasing the cooldown on SW:D to 30 seconds, lowering the trigger point to 20% health, reducing the Fate's Due buff time to 5 seconds to make the gameplay loop sharper (so that the player has to respond at precisely the right time so that mastery of the idea is difficult); you could make the debuff of Fate's Due (3 mins ICD per player) apply to the casting Oracle Priest, meaning that you can only "save" someone through this mechanism once every 3 mins. This final idea is probably the most elegant solution since it gives a meaningful tool with very unique flavour that is not too hard to use but doesn't clog up GCD usage. I hope this helps clarify the goals of the design and the thought behind some of the tuning choices. Thanks again for writing your feedback!

Thanks for the in-depth response! I actually started with a review of each talent and realized I was writing an essay about an imaginary hero talent, and went and touched some grass. Now here's a much more in depth response... so I guess I should have done that to start anyway lol. 1. PoD tuning. Overall agree, I just think tuning this is a bit of a nightmare for disc in raid. The biggest bottleneck is attonement uptime on raid. CD wise I think it's actually really smart balancing PoM and barrier giving Hpriest the bigger benefit overtime. Soft ramp with PoD seems like a great way to add some extra PoM value. Rapture ramp is where it gets tricky. Boss dependant, but rapture applying 10 PoDs, by the end they've bounced covered the entire raid. No radiance require which means ever 2 minute interval you get an extra soft ramp using radiance. Overall I think this coverage just gives disc too many applications of attonement. It would change the playstyle to have more attonement uptime which would be nice, but I think it would also require slight nerfs to attonement to balance, which likely affects the important damage timers in raid. Reducing number of bounces is a clear path, but finding a sweet spot seems extremely challenging. Balance seems much more effective and easy to manage in M+ 2. Dispel Theme. Agree. I also give Unending Praise a pass now. (The naming and themes you came up with... Chefs kiss) 3. Captstone. I definitely agree with tuning here, I just worry that having another CD will bring too much for priest in raid. For Holy I can see the balancing, overall throughput seems more consistent, the CDs are good. Fate Scribe into symbol of hope is an interesting idea. Disc priest having another CD on top of having a new soft ramp everytime 2 minutes due to how effective Rapture + PoD would be. The question would become when isn't disc healing their ass off in raid. Honestly requires PTR and balancing idk. I think without losing disc identity it will give them too much flexibility. Especially with a cool new SW:D button. Maybe this brings a new meaning to "full up" disc. Oracle Disc always has healing uptime, soft ramp, rapture ramp, soft ramp, Full up, soft ramp... This could be fun. Don't spec into Mindbender beause you'll be smiting less. Voidwalker could push further into the currently play still where there's less but more powerfull ramps. Disc priest overhealing chart would really go brrr even more that's for sure lol. 4. SW:D definitely intereting, can definitely work I just hate to eat into holy reactive healing "niche". I like the final idea, I think it's really good in M+ and is a challenge in Raid to keep track of, but that's fine, it's a sweet ass button. Redemption but worse and harder.. maybe that's just right and if not tune it. 5. New Topics: Righteous Hope - Add Flash Heal. Time of Need - The PI nerfs feels like it's in a good spot where it's nice, but not defining in anyway. There was so much complaining about the external, and in the meantime they made aug. Then Blizzard said, you know why stop at a good thing and brought us this garbage oracle hero talent once again picking a scab. I like the idea of this being more supportive, I think healers inherintely like supporting their team, and yet we get so much whining... This seems good, but I worry about picking the scab. Support when it is a damage buff seems to upset players, not everyone gets, it messes with logs etc. Time of Need being CDR like Blessing of Autumn or another avenue of support may be an alternative route. Simply so I don't have to hear people complain about haste buff anymore. Sonorous Voice - first flavor critique. Who knows what Sonorous means. That being said, love this for holy. I think DR is something Disc has been just too strong in espeically M+, I think Hpriest would appreciate this greatly. This is one that seems insanely strong for disc raid. 20 player attonement, obviously not all fights but quite a lot are you getting 10-20 players. Continues to play into disc always has healing throughput so maybe it's fine with tuning, but man does disc raid seem cracked with this (so maybe I should just say I love it and move on). Sounds super normal in M+ Overall: The more I think about it the more I like it. I think disc raid could see a whole new playstyle from this which is cool. Hpriest and disc M+ just getting a lot of flavor and a couple fun new buttons. Button bloat is always a concern here, but maybe that's the price you pay when you're the oracle, keeper of fate. I think this also fits since Holy+Shadow and disc+shadow will likely be simpler than this which gives people options. @@zaldinfox

​@@jarritsaal8397Thanks again for the thoughts. I do want to ensure there is not a misunderstanding about how PoD functions for Disc because your opening discussion appears to make an assumption: only the upfront cast of PoD applies atonement. The little "mending" shields that bounce around do not. So for Rapture you get the exact same Ramp effectiveness in terms of applying atonement to targets and you would still need to use Radiance to apply Atonement. The PoD bounces are just tuned to always shield the target "as if" atonement were present for Disc or produce the Echo of Light heal for Holy. For Righteous Hope, I thought about adding Flash Heal but it becomes far too strong for both Disc and Holy; the talent is designed to give "free" PoD casts at a marginal rate, and I index into Heal specifically because a Holy Priest using a Heal build devotes significant uptime or mental attention to Lightweaver maintenance. FH is also an atonement applicator for Disc so they would effectively never have to think about how to maximize this bonus. But the larger problem is that it closes down an avenue for introducing the Aug-like support that Blizz wants Oracle to be. In my view the best place to develop this flavour is through the FH buff (Time of Need), in part because it forces the player to think about their FH use more carefully to get the best outcome, but also ties it to a spell both specs use with enough regularity that more average players will still feel like it is getting some use. This is part of my resistance to the Premonition design of PI. You want the design to be very accessible to players of all skill levels while offering the strongest or most skilled players a way to express that skill through mastery. If you contrast the major support ideas in my tree, you will see that capacity in each of them (an average player gets some value and it is intuitive; a great player can make having 1 Oracle in raid/dungeons a major asset). By the way, I think you make a reasonable point about button bloat (and this would apply to all the new Hero talents). Whenever you go up 10 levels in WoW, the danger of button bloat is substantial, in part because players feel like something fresh ought to be added to the spec. Blizz has a difficult task of creating the appearance of freshness without going overboard. My tree leans quite far toward the addition of button bloat, and it is probably the single most problematic part of the design. This could be resolved by removing some of the ideas altogether and replacing them with passives (I would start with Prophetic Word: Wrath and the capstone - which could be changed simply to an additional charge of PoD), which I think would be somewhat sad but entirely reasonable. I would argue that it is preferable to have a cohesive and cool design with button bloat compared to the divisive and untuneable repackaging of PI (Premonition). Thanks again.

Paiinn. Haha apolgies for the confusion. PoD doesn't change playstyle which I think lends to the other parts of the tree adding some buttons, I agree it's expected and I think of all priest talents coming up this is the talent that will most likely have the most bloat regardless. It's always a concern, but I think I would be happy to see these buttons. Adding FH to Righteous was only when thinking of how many more procs disc will get from Righteous Hope this may be alright, PoD reducing CD for Holy and increasing CD for disc, this is a good way to give disc a few more triggers which would be nice. I do appreciate talents that feed into themselves, so I would vote for PoD being included in Righteous even if that means the # of casts is increased, of course all based on tuning at that point. I didn't think of Time of Need when suggesting Flash Heal that's a miss on my part. Time of Need, I love it tied to FH. It makes a lot of sense, players won't have to think about it since FH procs are very frequent and this feels quite intuitive while players can use it more effectively. I just have a slight fear of giving other players damage amp with how contentious is has been, but I personally enjoy that. I do think this falls a bit into feels bad at higher play where you want to cast a FH proc on a target but it's either a tank or another class that's less effective with haste. I think changing it from haste to flat damage % or something more universal would be nice. I just hate to have 2 haste buffs that I will only ever give to a handful of classes. I love support, but understand how frustrating it can be for dps when they are just lower on dps meters due to something that can't have unless they play a class where it's more effective. Damage amp is very interesting and may help balance priest damage coming into an expansion where other healer talents will enevitibly see damage increase when matching with a DPS talent, and not lose out too much dps compared to taking shadow. PW: Wrath seems really good, extra healing for disc and in turn more damage for holy is smart. 9/10 no major complaints, love it. Would love seeing community feedback on this rather than the sh*t blizzard gave us lol

I hope too, becouse thise one, and a totemic shama idea of yours is much better then any blizz dev can come up... ever i think. If orachle stays this way, or almost this way as it is... i just stop playing priest. Blizz sould do some voting for these hero talent community idea as they did with the S4 tier set chose