Hey, looking for an easy to play tank. It doesn’t have to be the best but simple. Not looking to do anything too difficult, mostly normal mode raiding, occasional heroic and m+.
Is bear simple?
There are some minor optimizations you can make to how you play a bear. For the most part though - yes - get rage. Press Iron fur. Keep aggro. etc.
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Well every tank can be difficult, and easy. You should play what you like the most, to play any class efficiently you need practice.
To say bear is easy is an oversimplification, there are nuances you’ll need to learn to be successful.
Thrash and swipe and swipe and swipe and thrash and swipe and swipe and swipe…
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Most of the passive talents are quite strong, and in some cases the best choice.
The rotation for learning is very simple. But in my opinion no tank ia actually difficult. You have maybe 4 regular buttons and then some cooldowns.
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Bear tanking is easy, the hard part for tanking is just knowing routes, what to pull, what CDs to use and your own limits (or your groups limits.)
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That was a really fancy way of saying “Yes, it is easy”, OP.
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Easy, but not strong. In most cases you’re spamming Thrash+Swipe x3 and hoping you have enough defensives to not die.
Not quite as atrocious as previous patches this xpac, but still not especially great and it very much feels like it was half-implemented.
I have no issues with big pulls. Magic damage hurts, physical damage can be almost ignored entirely.
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Oh yes i agree. But sometimes (at least for me) it can be hard to be aware of my surroundings and learn about whats going on when im so preoccupied with playing the class itself. Especially as melee i have real tunnel vision problems !
Practice and repetition.
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Monk and bear are probably the easiest. Simple rotations, simple & easy to manage active mitigation that in most cases can be maintained 100% of the time.
This is honestly pretty true for most very casual content as Bear. Lol.
But as someone else said, baseline bear maneuvers are very easy but there are enough tricks and nuances that differentiate a good and bad bear.
It might help to practice the spec in lower-risk content until it becomes muscle memory and you have all your keybinds where you want them.
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Lol monk is the hardest of all the tanks
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I would agree no tank is “hard”, but I do think monk has a higher skill floor. Newbies do NOT find balancing and purifying stagger easy. As a healer, I see a huge difference between a monk played well and a monk played badly, more than any other tank.
OP, I do think Bear is one of the lower skill floor tanks (meaning easy to play at a low level).
BrM is the most mechanically involved tank and by far the the most challenging.
It’s not hard, but for a tank it’s the hardest.
Every tank certainly has a high skill cap that comes from a lot more than just knowing the basic rotation. Like I mentioned earlier it’s knowing limits, routes, mechanics etc.
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The only hard part to tanking is when your levelling and that over zealous DPS just starts pulling random stuff because Pew Pew and you may have a healer that’s a bit weak, maybe you don’t know the instance etc and can’t keep up. That dps dies blames you or the healer and everyone bails, hell you might even get kicked from the group.
I can’t wait to see those type try to play vanilla heh.
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Sounds like an exercize lesson
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You forgot moonfire. Moonfire all the things.
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