I feel terrible, I let my friends down big time tonight. I have a close group we always run together. The guy that was going to tank changed his mind after the first week and we have been kind of winging it. I decided a few days ago to just be the one to tank for our group. Well tonight was the first shot and it didn’t go so well. We tried a M+2 and we couldn’t even kill the first boss. I was getting chunked so hard by just regular attacks I have never felt so weak as a tank before.
Than I tried a torgast 4 with one friend and we got pounded, finally made it to the last boss with only two chances to try. We got him down to about 1/3 hp and my cooldowns were all gone and I just couldn’t keep up. I made a few mistakes I think if I had played it better we could have beaten it but I just feel terrible I wasted my friends whole night and we got nothing out of it.
I feel like I have a slower reaction or response time than I should. I can do fine if things are going well but when shtf sometimes my brain just short circuits and I can’t hit the right buttons in the right order or fast enough. I am considering testing out other tanks that might be simpler. Any experienced tanks have any advice or suggestions?
tanking is not for everyone, but its good to try. I been tanking for 8 years and I love it, sometimes I switch to dps but dont feel good if am not tanking.
Prot paladin, I am under geared a little bit but I am not exactly new to tanking. I have tanked on and off since vanilla. But I haven’t tanked seriously in a while and I just don’t remember it being this brutal. Mostly I just feel bad letting my friends down.
I think I read about prot paly having some issues if they are undergeared going in
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A. prot pallies are fragile right now but do good damage.
B. You’re under geared.
You didn’t do anything wrong, but you’re not geared enough for the content yet.
When you are you’ll be fine. As a tank you’re going to get your butt handed to you every so often. Happens to the best of us. Take it on the chin and keep going man calm seas never made a skilled sailor.
https://discord.com/invite/hammerofwrath
Go there join the prot room. Ask there not the fourms for help as a prot pally. You will get mcuh better advice and access to the correct info in the pins and faq. This is where the people the write the guides on icy viens as well as the sim for simcraft to give a few examples hang out.
That’s the one downside to playing a support role like tank or healer, to my mind: you feel especially responsible when something goes wrong, even when it might not have been your fault.
You always think, “Oh, if only I’d made that perfect play I might have saved the wipe.”
Of course, that just inspires me to keep trying to get better… and I hate giving up the control.
https://tanknotes.com/
This has class specific info for mythic plus too.
Oh Darling, whenever a new expansion starts…tanks will take more damage because you are not geared and not experienced with the content add to this that people got lazy at the end of last expansion…over geared and not really needing to pay attention…healers and DPS are also struggling at this time. I remember when BC came out and I was an over geared vanilla tank that got my butt handed to me by elite trash in BC for awhile. Its a downer but you will gear up quickly