Im going from having only played ranged dps to being melee.
I just did my first dungeon (normal) and it was pretty hectic.
I died. Dont know to what.
Any tips you can give?
Pretend im just a new player to the game 
Edit: seems i need to stand behind the mobs and thats what was causing me issues.
When im trying to stay at the back, it goes a lot better.
Died on normal? How?
This is probably it.
I was only on the lookout for what i was standing in.
Never thought to position myself at the back.
If i was hitting them and not in the fire, i was happy haha
Tbf im level 63 so its a levelling dungeon.
Not a level 70 424ilvl run 
Make sure tank has aggro before going full blown dps. As melee you’ll get smacked as soon as tank loses aggro to you
Try standing behind mobs.
Make sure you use ur interrupts
Use defensives often.
Im kinda the same on my hunter lol
Stand behind or side of target. Otherwise you allow the mob to parry. Which hurts the tank and drops your DPS. Look where any pets attack it can help.
Assuming you use Details, you can figure ouy what you died from by right-clicking the title bar (usually says Damage Done) and then picking some other metric it recorded from the combat log (see the image below).
Trash and bosses sometimes have frontal cones that ranged typically don’t have to worry about. As a melee, it’s possible to end up in front of the boss just because you’re not paying attention and move around while attacking. You always need to be aware of where the boss/trash is relative to the tank so you can stand behind the mob and not get sprayed, spit on, frontal’d, etc. (first boss fight in Brackenhide Hollow comes to mind). Helps if the tank has a mark on them (I see blue square or orange circle, but any mark will help you see where they are).
I dont have any addons but i think it must be from standing in front of the mobs and not behind them.
As a ranged it was never something i had to think about, so my mind was just on not standing in fire.
Back of pack, middle of pack, front of pack, all the same to me.
Ill do another dungeon and try to make sure my character is attacking from behind and see if it goes better.
On the plus side, it was pretty sweet running around and dpsing instead of standing still the whole time.
FYI.
Behind is a 180 degree arc. Avoiding those frontal attacks are imperative .
You have to master your rotation so thoroughly that you can spend your time looking at your feet rather than the mob you’re killing, so you can dodge any mechanic that’s about to land on you.
You have to have a good nameplate addon (barring DBM, which is better) that clearly shows when mobs are casting. You have to memorize what those casts do, and do your best to pop a defensive or interrupt/stun them before they go off.
You need to position yourself correctly or cleaves and frontals will one shot you.
You need to sometimes pre-emptively use defensives during large pulls, because two uninterrupted mob abilities can sometimes unluckily target you, and it’s not worth the loss in DPS to die to something that’s sometimes a draw of the lottery.
You need to do all of this while moving. And staring at your character’s feet.
Anybody saying it’s “easy” is wrong. It’s easy for me now, because I’ve built muscle memory.
And that’s not even mentioning the value of having a good monitor, good graphics card, good internet connection, good mousepad, mouse, keyboard etc. When I had a crappy system (bad FPS, cheap and overly sensitive mouse, uncomfortable keyboard) my DPS was far worse due to slower response times.
And that’s not even mentioning the most important factor: your total and utter focus. Have a roommate blasting loud music or talking to you while you’re pushing content? Congrats, you will die eventually. Is your phone ringing in a distracting way? That two seconds of losing focus is enough to kill you once and put you at the absolute bottom of the meter.
I have seven 70s, all 440+ ilvl and 2.4k io or higher. My main is just shy of 3k io. I have an outside life too, but I make a commitment to be the best I can at whatever content I sign up for.
Just ran 2 more dungeons and things have gone a lot more smoothly.
It can be hard to know where to position myself when the tank has pulled 40 different things so i cant see where the tank is and theyre all doing aoe around them so i cant even get close…
But otherwise all is going well now i know to stand behind them.
Dare i say… im having a lot of fun!
Wait and see if the tank knows how to stack the 40 enemies up. Once they are all looking at him on one side, then go in.
Melee is most fun when you’re dodging more ground effects than mobs pulled.
Btw which melee class did you pick?
Ive gone with a monk
Outside of picking something fun, my ideal class is one that does not have different forms or distracting visual effects (like druid, priest, or shaman) as i like my character to just be them.
A character who lorewise does not feel out of place. This was my main problem with warlock. It was just hard to imagine people being so welcoming to a warlock that they would let them solve all their problems and even raise baby dragons.
Has a healing spec as i did enjoy that when i was a disc priest main. Plus there are encounters in the world where you need to heal things to win.
And ideally uses staffs as thats the best looking weapon type imo.
I had ruled out monk as i only played ranged.
Melee has never been my thing in games before.
But here we are. It ticks all the boxes, has amazing mobility, and apparently playing melee is actually really fun.
Monk is such a good class 
My main is a monk too. To me, being a monk is about mastering yourself even when the odds are stacked against you. In a world where mages and shamans can use all sorts of magic to do what they want, there’s something honest and refreshing about relying on your hands and feet, combined with pure focus. He’ll always be my main
Call upon the holy power of the light?
Summon an army of demons to do your bidding?
Nah, im gonna kick that dragon in the face!
Its nice to play a class thats both thematically and in terms of gameplay, quite freeing.
Playing Steelson is fun too, but he can’t do backflips yet. I started this main in MoP and have too many good memories to switch now