Unfortunately as a tank we have homework we have to do, all because of this thing called percentage. I don’t particularly enjoy this homework, but here is how I do it.
I planned to time my 10 dawn, I wasn’t confident in my route, so I looked up the route raider io has. Then, I went into a follower dungeon and ran that route, but I did slowly, making sure I knew what every pull looked like, land position, safest locations etc. then I adjusted the route that raider up has to make it even safer and easier for pugs. Then after that and feeling good about it I ran a 3 dawn breaker. Then after all that, I ran my 10. Guess what, route was great, got complements on it and we still bricked key. Healer left after they died twice on second boss. Point is, I spent about 3 hours doing homework prep before attempting. If I didn’t do that, unfortunately, right or wrong, I would look like a knucklehead.
Don’t get discouraged, I encourage you to look up the routes on raider io and test them out in followe dungeons. Mechanics is combo of experience and watching vids.
I have only leveled my guardian druid in this expec. trying not to dive into the alt world for a while.
moonbear is super smooth in delves. I have done 9s. got zekvir down at 605 ilevel with a druid of the claw build. i wrote up a thing in the druid channel fwiw
Heroic trash is a joke for the most part, you can almost one-pull all of the way between bosses. m0 is where people have to start paying attention if they don’t want to die on every pull and damage is high enough that moderately geared tanks cannot afford to blindly pull everything either. Many bosses also have slightly different mechanics in m0+ you won’t learn from normal or heroic.
The real training starts with +2s where damage intake ramps up significantly. +2s is usually where I go to figure things out.
Likewise don’t expect tanks or healers to stay in the key if the dps is not up to par
I would even tag “New tank - learning - welcome advice”. There are obviously real life goblins in this game but I also think some dps/healers are really cool and would be able to give you some solid advice about their preferences. That would put you leaps and bounds beyond a seasoned tank with an ego problem and no social skills.
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More directly, I would be suspect of anyone who seems a little too eager to give you advice.
Seek advice from the people who seem to be enjoying themselves and friendly. That’s where you’ll get earnest responses.
I don’t mind slow tanks. I don’t mind fast tanks.
To me, it’s like the driving rule. The driver gets to pick the music.
They don’t like it? Then they can drive.
You’re welcome to do Normals, Heroics, and even M0’s all you want. M+ is a timed experience where all 5 party members are expected to perform in order to beat the timer. Thus, you shouldn’t be going into them until you are confident in your role and your ability to execute it to the best of your abilities. I get what you’re trying to say, but that just doesn’t apply to M+.
I’ve seen job postings asking for more years of experience of a product than the product has existed. While I appreciate the humor, it doesn’t apply here. The guide creators / youtubers had all created routes / tested things out on the PTR before the season even started. There was data available if you were willing to look for it.
Still waiting for that nice battletag.