Tanking is easy but requires patience.
It took me to level 51 on a tank toon before I lost it. Players pulling shit when I have things on cd, etc
Tanking is easy but requires patience.
It took me to level 51 on a tank toon before I lost it. Players pulling shit when I have things on cd, etc
I gave up on tanking. The instant queues are not worth having to put up with idiots ninja pulling, DPS yelling at you to pull more when the healer is OOM or even worse DPS standing in stuff so the healer focuses them so you die. I've experienced all that in BfA dungeons and I've now hung up my shield.
But an opinion? Prot Paladin is fine. It's easy as heck and you have strong CDs to blow if it gets too intense.
If you're interested in tanking Preach did a basic guide in 5 parts for it.
I've never tanked either and I've been playing this game on and off since the south park episode.
Tanking has always appeared stressful and intimidating to me. I prefer sitting back and healing in pve, far less stressful.
dps players have to stress themselves out with the meters, and tanks have way too much responsibility that I don't care for. Maybe I'll give it a try one day.
Mechanically it's the easiest role.
But you need to know every nuance of the content you're doing and will catch shit about it from the rabble until you're experienced. It makes a vicious circle where people have too much anxiety to play a tank, thus the low populations. It's like volunteering for public speaking.
Top level tanking and very high mythic+ put a lot of responsibility on tanks and makes it very hard at that kind of level, either through lack of gear or controlling the fights. Tanking is more about knowing the entire encounter then it is knowing your "rotation"
If you play at a level where its not important if you do every mechanic then tanking is the easiest roll as making small mistakes that impact the group doesn't matter and tank class mechanics/rotations are pretty simple
It's easy, but very unforgiving. You fuck up, everybody dies.
Tanking does require you to act as the leader of the group in most cases, what's important is that you find a group that allows you to learn. Playing any spec/role in WoW is equally difficult/easy, it's all about experience. So i suggest you just get into it with everything you've got, worst that can happen is someone insults you, just shrug that of and keep on tanking!
Not to mention it's common to get blamed even when you haven't done anything wrong. DPS or Healer made a mistake? Shit tank!
I think tanking is fun provided you learn your spec, maintain a high level of awareness(rarely, if ever mentioned in guides for no apparent reason) and have the confidence to tell people to pipe the fuck down when they get mouthy.
Personally I've just found some tank specs are super clunky(monk and stagger and DK with rune regen) rather than being hard.
I'm going to disagree with some people here, but I will agree that tanking is generally pretty easy. But you do need some leadership thought, as you are the one leading the charge.
I think because of that, and needing to know where to go and what to pull and pacing, that tanking is the 2nd hardest.
I honestly think DPS is the hardest role, especially to do it well.
Healing is easiest, tanking being in the middle.
this exactly. The basics of tanking are mind boggling easy. You are pretty much a dps with a simplified rotation that has a forgiving set of healthpool & mitigation to passivly counter mechanics.
The hard part begins when the content becomes hard (mostly true for mythic+ dungeons, not so much in raids) - because with your pulls you make the calls what your group has to face. The rest of the group is just reacting and participating in your actions, hence you have the most responsibility. To face this you will need to know every crucial ability of every mob of each pull you do while estimating the abilitys of your own group to counter them. This is very stressful and even slight fuckups often result in wipes.
Most of the tanks i know hate going with pugs more then dps or heal character do because having a personal connection to your groupmates reliefs most of the stress. Beeing in contact in discord/teamspeak with them to talk about pulls spreads the responsibility and makes you feel far more comfortable while tanking.
That's what a prot paladin have to be in a nutshell!
Playing was a tank is not easy but also not hard, keep your eyes on the healer mana and try to understand the pace of the party. Keep the agro away from the party and interrupt as much was you can. Dispel, stun, off heal when need to keep the pressure away from the healer, use you CD´s when you see a there's going to be a huge damage inc. Basically keep thing's under control
This!
Keeping aggro, using that CD in the right time or dodging that killer ability are the base of tanking and the first thing any tank should do. Those are things easy to achieve and what separates a bad tank from a decent tank.
To be really good, there is more to it - as a healer you probably noticed it already, that "leeroy jenkins~- style tank" who goes in and pulls everything making a dungeon go fast, but frustrating the dps and making the healer work twice as hard for the same result, or the overly-cautious tank who pulls one pack at a time, making you fall asleep while healing...a good tank keeps a balance between all this, maximizing both the flow / speed of the dungeon and the dps / healing their team-mates are able to do, and in case of paladin tanking, providing some really good support. It's a really reactive role and requires not some special skill, but knowledge of the game and its mechanics and your class, which you gain with experience.
Tanking isn't bad, you just need to know what the enemies do, and how to properly place them so your dps has room to do their thing / cleave any stationary targets.
Never underestimate the unknown, or some shit. *shrugs i unno*
On one hand, I don't really understand why people are making like tank is a big deal to play. Tbh it's not as difficult as the others roles. You just gotta go through it. Much like DPS and Heal, it may not be easy to *master* it.
On the other hand I don't mind if there aren't any tank. Instant queues in dungeons until you get 120 are nice. Probably the fastest way to get your toon there.
I wouldn't recommend paladin for playing a tank though. There are easier classes, like BDK or Druid. The DH isn't difficult either if you quickly want to learn the basics of tanking and it has an advantage of already being a lvl 100 toon.
I prot pally tanked since blood elves were added to the game. Tanking can be rather fun, and not to hard, found healing way harder to do. Usually the stuff is pretty simple, hold threat and face the boss away from the group.
Never said they were bad. Actually it's quite the opposite. I said "easier" as in getting to know how to tank. Paladins have way more buttons than the others classes, and it needs to be played longer to be able to fully optimize them.
Look for example BDK : All you have to do is using Marrowrend and a few Death Strike to survive 90% of the stuff. Compare it with paladins where they can't get shield of the righteous up for an infinite time. Later on, especially in raids, they have to juggle up with differents defensive CDs.
Taken purely from a perspective of handling your rotation, boss positioning and mechanics tanking is rather easy to deal with most of the time. Since TBC threat hasn't really mattered and thus the significance of doing a good rotation matters a lot less. Mind you it helps, but it's not such a noticeable different as with a DPS or healer.
However that's what an average tank does, and if all you're content with being is average then it's easy to get there, but a good tank is one who sets the pace of the raid, who understands the bosses not just from what he or she has to deal with but what the entire raid has to deal with, who has a good awareness of everything going on and can help out at crucial times.
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