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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 05:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Protection Warrior Guide - WOW Dragonflight]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Protection Warriors have been in the game since it launched way back in vanilla, and were World of Warcraft&rsquo;s original tank spec, and they are one of only two tank specializations that use a shield and a one-handed weapon. Protection warrior is the tank specialization that fits most completely and neatly fills the &ldquo;Tank&rdquo; image and fantasy.</p><h2>Why play Protection Warrior</h2><p>There are plenty of things to list out as reasons to play Protection Warrior, and to name a few:</p><ul>
<li>The defensive cooldowns that a Protection Warrior has access to are incredibly potent and incredibly versatile, their toolkit is complete in the way that it supports the specialization and it is one of the best tanks in the game due to this.</li>
<li>The offensive cooldowns that a Protection Warrior has access to are equally strong, Protection is one of the highest damage dealing specializations in the game when it comes to burst AoE damage.</li>
<li>Protection warrior has access to nearly unrivaled mobility and it is incredibly effective in all content.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=69901/spell-reflect">Spell Reflect</a>&nbsp;is not always useful, but there are plenty of times and scenarios where it is completely and entirely game-breaking and overpowered.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Protection Warriors are one of the best tanks in the entire game at raw damage mitigation.</li>
</ul><p>There are a few weaknesses of Protection Warrior and it&rsquo;s important to understand those, too:</p><ul>
<li>Protection Warrior is incredibly susceptible to damage if misplayed, you will melt if you make a major mistake.</li>
<li>As a Protection Warrior, your self-healing is limited compared to tanks like Vengeance Demon Hunter and Blood Death Knight.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Rotation does have downtime&nbsp;</li>
<li>Managing your cooldowns, both offensively and defensively, requires a high amount of skill and situational awareness.</li>
</ul><h2>The basics of Protection Warrior gameplay</h2><p>As one of the tanks that has been in the game since the beginning, Protection Warrior has access to a very well-defined, large toolkit. If you are still a junior player and want your equipment to be more powerful, you must collect more <a title="Buy WOW Gold -  World of Warcraft Gold For Sale - RPGStash" href="https://www.rpgstash.com/wow-shop/">WOW Gold</a>, which is very important.</p><p>Protection Warrior is relatively simple in the way that it functions and the complexity comes into play when relying on your situational and spatial awareness to use your defensive and offensive cooldowns.</p><p>Protection Warrior functions by generating Rage, either by getting hit or by using your rage-generating abilities such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=23922/shield-slam">Shield Slam</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6343/thunder-clap">Thunder Clap</a>&nbsp;etc, then spending that Rage on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=190456/ignore-pain">Ignore Pain</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=2565/shield-block">Shield Block</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6572/revenge">Revenge</a>. If you need more defensives, spend your Rage on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=190456/ignore-pain">Ignore Pain</a>&nbsp;and if you need more damage, spend your rage on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6572/revenge">Revenge</a>. Spamming&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6572/revenge">Revenge</a>&nbsp;in AoE or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=163201/execute">Execute</a>&nbsp;in the execute phase of a fight will give you a burst of damage, but requires an unsustainable amount of rage generation, so keep generating Rage with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=23922/shield-slam">Shield Slam</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6343/thunder-clap">Thunder Clap</a>&nbsp;and you will have more damage over the course of a fight, and to reiterate, maintain and use&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=2565/shield-block">Shield Block</a>&nbsp;any time you are tanking, it is critical to your success as a Protection Warrior. Letting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=2565/shield-block">Shield Block</a>&nbsp;fall off is when most Protection Warriors die.</p><p>And lastly, always use&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=23922/shield-slam">Shield Slam</a>&nbsp;on cooldown. It is an incredibly important and potent ability for both damage and for generating Rage.</p><h2>Protection Warrior Cooldowns &amp; Utility</h2><p>Protection Warrior has an almost hilarious amount of utility both for yourself and for your group. Using this utility effectively is what sets a great tank apart. Your utility is the following:</p><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=871/shield-wall">Shield Wall</a>&nbsp;is your primary defensive cooldown, it has a pretty short cooldown with the talents you will take and is a 40% damage reduction for 8 seconds. This is an incredible defensive that you want to use early and use often.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=1160/demoralizing-shout">Demoralizing Shout</a>&nbsp;is a middle of the pack defensive cooldown, it&rsquo;s not quite as strong as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=871/shield-wall">Shield Wall</a>, but it&rsquo;s on a shorter cooldown, especially if talented into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=385840/thunderlord">Thunderlord</a>&nbsp;and in AoE. If you&rsquo;re talented into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=202743/booming-voice">Booming Voice</a>, you will want to use&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=1160/demoralizing-shout">Demoralizing Shout</a>&nbsp;on cooldown, it becomes a major rage generator and offensive cooldown.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=69901/spell-reflect">Spell Reflect</a>&nbsp;could have an entire guide on it&rsquo;s own, it is an incredible tool in any offensive or defensive aspect to applicable spells, but make sure to use it frequently as you can, even if you won&rsquo;t gain any reflected damage out of it or stop yourself from taking the damage, it&rsquo;s a 20% damage reduction from spells.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=12975/last-stand">Last Stand</a>&nbsp;is, while very basic in it&rsquo;s baseline application just increasing your health, if talented into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=280001/bolster">Bolster</a>, it gets a lot of CDR and becomes a major source of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=2565/shield-block">Shield Block</a>&nbsp;uptime and should be used frequently.&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=97462/rallying-cry">Rallying Cry</a>&nbsp;is a your group or raid wide cooldown. This has incredible utility in the way that it alleviates pressure off of healers, and while you can use it selfishly for a last ditch effort to keep yourself alive, you should always focus on using this to help your raid and your party.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=1715/hamstring">Hamstring</a>&nbsp;has a lot of value in it&rsquo;s low cost, easily spammable application to create space when needing to back away from most mobs. It&rsquo;s not an ability you will use often but when you do need it, it is invaluable.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6673/battle-shout">Battle Shout</a>&nbsp;is your buff, and Warrior is the only class that provides this Attack Power buff to your party or raid. This is incredibly useful in increasing the damage output of your group and is a major benefit of bringing a Warrior so you won&rsquo;t have any trouble finding a spot in groups.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Warrior has access to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=6544/heroic-leap">Heroic Leap</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=100/charge">Charge</a>, as well as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=147833/intervene">Intervene</a>&nbsp;if talented and all of these abilities function as incredibly useful gap-closers as well as the ability to create space when necessary.</li>
<li>If talented,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=46968/shockwave">Shockwave</a>&nbsp;is a frontal AoE stun that deals damage and AoE stuns will always play an integral role in pushing through dungeons more effectively. This ability, if talented, will always find use. In Mythic+ it is a must have.</li>
</ul><p>If you&rsquo;ve read all of this and Protection Warrior sounds like the spec for you, I recommend reading through the spell summary inside the game and spending time with target dummies, as you want to keep all of these abilities ready to use. Keep an eye out for more guides, we&rsquo;ll be covering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=69901/spell-reflect">Spell Reflect</a>&nbsp;usage, Mythic+ routes and tanking and so much more!<br /><br />Tired of Grinding? <a title="Buy WotLK Classic Gold - Cheap WotLK Gold For Sale - RPGStash" href="https://www.rpgstash.com/wow-shop/wotlk-classic-gold/">Buy WOW Classic WotLK Gold</a>&nbsp;and Rock the game!</p><p>Article From：<a href="https://www.rpgstash.com/blog/protection-warrior-guide-wow-dragonflight">Protection Warrior Guide - WOW Dragonflight</a></p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 01:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
	<link>https://0xbt.net/blog/view/14067627/riot-will-detect-valorant-smurf-to-ensure-fair-play</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Riot will detect Valorant smurf to ensure fair play]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Valorant smurf Accounts are compromising the fairness and integrity of competition when taking on lower ranked accounts, and Riot Games is taking steps to reduce the number of smurf accounts by adjusting the MMR of the smurf account detection system.</p><p>This approach seems to work. It is very unfriendly to those players who win the game by cheating, but it guarantees the fairness of the game, and most players support it. Smurf volumes are down 17% compared to earlier this year, and new&nbsp;<a title="Buy Valorant Accounts Cheap - Valorant Accounts For Sale - RPGStash" href="https://www.rpgstash.com/game-accounts/valorant-accounts-store/">Valorant Accounts</a>&nbsp;are reaching the correct MMR two to three times faster.</p><h3>Riot is improving smurf detection in Valorant</h3><p>With automatic smurf detection, Riot uses data to place smurf accounts in the correct MMR as quickly as possible, cleaning up the playing field and giving more players a fair chance to play. To test the system, the team tested it in North America in patch 5.01 to check that it could accurately identify smurf and raise its MMR as close as possible to their main account.</p><p>It starts by measuring the incidence of unbalanced games, or stomps, in which a team wins eight or more rounds. Before these changes, the Smurfs trampled their opponents 32 percent of the time or a third of their games.</p><p>One set of data shows 50% of the detected Smurfs and the other 50% as a control group. In the test group, the Smurfs ended up within 1% of Riot's target trampling rate, while the control group still trampled 25% of the time.</p><p>The test was conducted on a global scale for the last time, and the team saw similar improvements again. The system was so effective that the Smurfs were placed in their actual MMR in just four games. On the other hand, even after playing 10 games, the control group's smurf was still about three notches away from their correct MMR.</p><p>Riot is looking to make sure no Smurfs slip away, beefing up the methods it uses to identify smurfs, and trying to make more aggressive MMR tweaks to get smurfs into the correct rank faster.</p><p>Beyond that, the developers focused on addressing the reasons why players create smurf accounts. Players want to team up with friends of different levels, which is what Riot made possible in patch 3.10 with 5-stacks regardless of level differences.</p><p>For the average player, having a Valorant Account that matches your friends is well worth it. Before the official solution to this problem, we will still choose to&nbsp;<a title="Buy Valorant Accounts Cheap - Valorant Accounts For Sale - RPGStash" href="https://www.rpgstash.com/game-accounts/valorant-accounts-store/">Buy Valorant Accounts</a>&nbsp;from reliable suppliers. For safety reasons, we always choose familiar sites habitually. RPGStash is a good choice, with 20+ Years of rich supply experience, fast delivery, 100% safety, and Customer First, is one of the sites with the highest praise rate and is trustworthy.</p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 03:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
	<link>https://0xbt.net/blog/view/14063056/how-to-explore-the-new-world-ennead-expedition</link>
	<title><![CDATA[How to explore the New World Ennead Expedition]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The Ennead Expedition has become New World's newest expedition, with a recommended level of 60 or higher, once players unlock and enter the Brimstone Sands, they can enter this expedition. Stubborn illnesses can be composed of three people, preferably five people for the expedition, please prepare in advance before the expedition.</p><p>The New World Ennead Expedition is located in the Great Pyramid of Akhet, on top of which another pyramid hangs upside down. The expedition consists of ancient and corrupted enemies. To advance smoothly, players had better prepare for each type, and players must pay attention to the accumulation of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rpgstash.com/wow-shop/">New World Gold</a>. The more challenging, the more rewarding it is to complete Ennead.</p><p>For maximum success, teams of five need to have the following:</p><p>A tank that attracts the attention of the enemy<br />Provides three DPS for destructive attacks<br />A therapist keeps the team going</p><h3>Section One Boss: Giant Ancient Scarab</h3><p>To better advance Ennead, players need to prepare ancient guard equipment and ancient bane weapons. Clear the monsters left and right and gather them together, attacking them with DPS at the same time for maximum damage.</p><p>Players will encounter small bosses Shai and Horon in the first part. It's also worth avoiding patrolling ancient ruins when exploring corridors. It will fire beams that deal damage and activate dormant mobs, adding to an already challenging fight.</p><p>The Godling Khepri Supernal is a giant ancient scarab and Ennead's first boss. This boss is level 66 and it jumps into the air and slams into the ground. The number of slams increases as the battle progresses. It also has a laser beam mechanic that leaves yellow spots on the floor, dealing with a lot of AOE damage. Another great feature of Godling Khepri's attacks is the use of orbiting relics that fire laser beams, dealing some serious damage. Tank pros will help distract Godling Khepri so DPS can do their jobs without interruption.</p><h3>Section Two Boss: General Crassus</h3><p>In the next room, there will be three corridors, the Monarch's Mark, the Crypt of Eternity, and the Monument of Corruption. The Sovereign Seal should be taken last, as it leads to the next boss. Once all of these key areas have been visited, it's time for the team to move on to the next boss.</p><p>General Crassus is a Corrupted boss that summons lower level Corrupt to aid him in battle. He has a three-stage combat mechanic in which different thugs are summoned. These phases are the Spear, Bow, and Staff phases. During the fight with General Crassus, the player needs a party member to pull all the monsters away from him and take them out so the DPS can attack without issue.</p><p>As the battle enters its final stages, he summons two fallen Cyclops. When this happens, the player needs to change strategy. Defeating the Cyclops will only cause them to be summoned again. Tanks need to pull them to the periphery of the combat area while DPS finishes General Crassus.</p><p>There is one creature and one mini-boss, Sah, that is active. Everything else in this area is dormant. Teams must defeat these enemies to advance to the final boss stage. If they wake up any dormant mobs, they will also have to be defeated. Once this is done, they will need to go up the stairs to fight the boss.</p><h3>Section Three Boss: Anpu And Heru</h3><p>Anpu is the player's last battle. An effective countertactic is to place the tank and healer on opposite sides of one of the room's four pillars. When he charges, he crashes into the pillars, stopping the pool of fire from forming. As soon as Anpu knelt, Heru intervened.</p><p>The second main mechanic occurs when Heru activates the four pillars in the room. Players must figure out a way to close these pillars using the Staff of Azoth, and once Heru is defeated, the two enemies will join forces against the group. The easiest way to get through this combat phase is to bring the two closer together and DPS them both for equal massive damage. Heru and Anpu must defeat each other within seconds, otherwise, the first one to fall will come back with 50% HP and the fight will continue. Once both enemies are down, the expedition is successful and the team can claim their final reward.</p><p>Complete these tasks are not so simple, first, you need to increase your level to 60, and you need to invest more time and energy to complete it. Many players are unable to spend more time due to school or work reasons. To experience Ennead Expedition like others, you can go to RPGStash to buy&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rpgstash.com/wow-shop/">Cheap New World Coins</a>&nbsp;to quickly complete the upgrade and make the character more powerful.</p><p>RPGStash is a professional supplier and one of the largest game service merchants in the world. It provides cheap New World Gold for global players, 100% safe, fast delivery, always insists on the customer first, 24/7 online service, and is the best One of supplier, to buy Game Gold, please choose RPGStash.</p>]]></description>
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