So I completed this challenge pre-nerfs and yes, it was over tuned. But what they done now is perfectly fine, more people are completing it, so maybe you just need to learn your classes better.
Before MT I thought it was going to be easy, not LFR levels of free loot easy, but at least by having a level 50+ of every class I might actually get the mount, but boy was I wrong. I quickly realised you need to have enchants, gem sockets, the right stats and most importantly actual in depth knowledge of your classes.
When I first started guardian I could not even get past P1, it took me about 50 attempts to do so and I was doing it with 4 infernals. And what I learned very quickly was that tanking P1 was never going to work, you can DPS in tank spec, but you lose too much health, you can tank in and out of the boss aura in tank spec, but you donât pull enough DPS, so what was left? figuring out a rotation that would put use to all my spells, including all the spells of my chosen affinity.
After ~200 pulls later I finally had it down, finally learnt how to use moonkin form while tanking to effectively raise my DPS by some double the amount and learned that I am tankier than I thought I was.
Before MT I would run a dungeon, do a big pull, pop my CDâs and spam thrash and ironfur, it was effective and easy, but I would regularly run into issues by not having resources to rebirth someone, or use my frenzied regen, I was too busy spamming ironfur to survive the big pulls, until I learnt that I donât need to spam ironfur.
Halfway through my attempts I went and done some more research, looked into diminishing returns, got a better feel for it all and realised, you can survive just fine with 4 adds without even using ironfur, we have regrowth that can be used when the adds are dead, we can pop 1 stack of ironfur if you want and still have resources for regen (or in a group setup, rebirth).
No I didnât use barkskin on the 4 adds either, I learned to save resources and CDâs and use moonkin form while tanking the adds to kill them faster and get back onto the boss quicker, I learned just how tanky a tank can be without actually tanking or using CDâs.
And than it all clicked. You can survive the first annihilate without any defenses, you can pop a regrowth and dot the boss on P2, outside of bear form. You can really push the limits of tanking to get more than you ever thought possible.
And this learning, this coming from someone who can time M18+, a tank who can tank mythic raids, someone who at times has had an IO score in the top 5% worldwide still learning how to completely push your class and spec.
I see so many druids complaining about wanting to use moonkin, but why? Itâs a talent choice on the third row, how can you say you are a good druid if you wonât even use an entire talent row? Itâs like asking DHâs to not take spirit bomb for M+ because they donât need self healing, itâs the healers job to heal, that isnât right and neither is using a druid who doesnât want to swap forms to get the most out of their classes.
When you are going solo as either spec, do you ever stop to use regrowth on yourself? Do you ever think what could be a better setup than simply âBiS top DPSâ, like taking Lunar Inspiration while running around in the overworld doing WQâs or dailies? Maybe swap from Brutal Slash to Primal Wrath at the same time? Maybe take Resto Affinity so you can off heal on grievous week?
Or do some of you just take stock standard setup and never change no matter what M+ week it is or what content you are doing and wonder why you are not doing as well as you think you can?
MT isnât about just being a tank, or just being a DPS, or just being a healer, itâs about using every spell in the book for push yourself and if you canât do it, than thatâs OK, maybe you are just not as good as you think you are, or maybe you just donât know how good you can be if you just used everything you had.
Take the BM challenge as a perfect example, you can interrupt Tugar and save your pet from dying, but that CD on that spell is shorter than your interrupt, so what do you do? In a dungeon or raid you just do nothing, you expect someone else to interrupt and do a rotation, but you have no one.
I remember doing a high key in UR on my rogue, the tank (M+ rating puts them as one of the best tanks in the game) told me to interrupt this and that, but I ran out of spells, interrupt on CD, gouge on CD, blind on CD, so the tank took a big hit and died. What did they say? They didnât yell at me on discord or tell me I am bad, they simply reminded me âYou have vanish and cheap shotâ, and he was right, I could have vanished, popped a cheap shot and interrupted that one spell to save the group.
Itâs the same with the BM challenge, you have your pet stun, but you also have traps, you can throw a trap to interrupt enemies, you can fear beast the big worm, you can feign death your pet to pull aggro and than feign death yourself when your pet is back in combat and in some cases the cast stops because they are targeting an enemy who is âdeadâ.
Thatâs FOUR chances to âinterruptâ and enemy, your interrupt spell, ice trap, pet stun and feign death, and a fifth if the enemy is a beast. You are dreaming if you think you can get past these challenges or push high keys or mythic raiding if you donât think about using spells in this manner, even in group content you still need to use spells in a way you would never have thought possible, use your defenses, use the right talents and not always the hardest hitting ones, use every spell you have to ensure you are not just hitting hard, but surviving also.
Itâs obvious, some people want an easy mode MT, some people just havenât done the research and simply donât know how to play their class effectively, others are just bad. What MT has taught me is that I was not as good as I thought I was as I was not using 100% of my spec and class and you can learn this too.
Or you can just keep whining about it being too hard and not possible when in fact, it is possible as it has been done.
