There will be plenty of patient players. There will also be plenty of jerks.
As long as you have a thick skin and can just ignore the grumpy-pants dorks and focus on the friendly and helpful folks it will go just fine. Just be prepared for some groups to have little tyrants stamping their feet. I guarantee you will meet just as many quality people attempting this.
THIS! I ran with a really good warrior i found while pugging in S1 as a healer and he would tell me which mobs needed to be kicked, which mobs had to be pointed away, which mob he needed externals for, and when/what mobs to cc. By doing this he helped me improve alot and also helped my surivability as a melee healer. Mobs are more dangerous than bosses imo o.o,
Start from level 1. Spam dungeons tanking. Learn your class. Get max level. Spam more dungeons. Learn from your mistakes. Repeat with fewer mistakes, hopefully.
I mean, it involves the basic principles that took us from ape to man.
With dungeons yes you can definitely learn to tank there even w/ the speed run. If anything it’ll teach you to be a better tank as you’re constantly on the verge of dying which will make you learn how you abilities work better.
With raid probably not unless it’s the start of a tier.
If you go this route you may have to be patient. At this point im sure any guild that does end content already has an established MT and maybe a few long time members have a tank alt wanting to get gear.
You might be a bench warmer until you get your shot.
Which is part of the problem imo.
As far as I know, not a single mmo actually does a good job of teach a new player how to play. And WoW is among the worst in this regard.
Try world bosses there’s always an opening, plus if your geared you can do them yourself may take awhile but you’ll learn, as for switching tanks that is another matter you’ll have to find someone on that one to practice with.
sure just make a macro “hey peeps, first time tank (or new tank) can we take it kinda slower than mass pulls while im learning, thanks” you wont have much problems
guild? pfft.
grow thick skin
use /ignore liberally
get 2 friends, hopefully one wants to be a healer, other is dps
practice on the 3 person instances - i think they were in pandaria expansion.
when running a 5 man, with 2 friends, u cannot be voted out and neither can they.
As others have said on here, the best way to become a successful tank is to start a new character and tank dungeons as soon as they become available all the way up to 70.
Create a macro that explains you’re new and ask for help with navigating dungeons that you aren’t familiar with. Learn your class and its strengths and weaknesses as a tank.
If I had to recommend a tank for a new player I’d suggest paladin. DH is my favorite tank but they don’t start at level 1.
Just learn it at the start of an expansion when 90% of players don’t know anything about the dungeons or raids.
Learning late in a patch (for raids) or expansion (for dungeons) is a recipe for a bad time, because you’ll be running with groups who have done the content 100s of times and have no patience left for someone who has done it 0 times.
Note: referring to content here. The classes themselves can be learned whenever. No one really cares about how perfect a leveling run goes, and you can get most things working well just by reading a quick rotation guide and screwing with a training dummy until muscle memory is kicking in a bit.
What? Bro watch a guide or something