The ways i got over my Tank anxiety
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- So you want to tank? But a strong worry or fear is holding you back? No matter, in this video i highlight different mindsets and advice that helped me overcome the dreaded tank anxiety!
Intro - 0:00
Things you need to accept - 01:09
Why even play tank and how to get started - 04:53
Making mistakes is good for you! - 10:29
The fear of other people - 13:31
Outro - 23:01
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The advice to say that you're new can't be understated. I do it whenever im trying a new class or even a new spec. The single best thing you can do to have a good time in ANY dungeon not even just keys is to get the group talking early. Say hi, mention if youre trying something new and youre learning, ask how their day is whatever. Once you break that mental barrier that people have going into a dungeon it reminds them that theyre playing with real people and it drastically improves the vibes 99% of the time.
Easy way to get into tanking.. play a warrior, never get invited as dps.. start prot, realize it's sick and spam keys as prot warrior.
Man I did the same with the Druid 😂😂😂
It’s what I did as dk😂 smash win yay
Being dps warr is tough. It’s a decent class but people never seem to invite you. I’m 2500 io and still get insta declined for anything above a +14. Recently rerolled mage so I might just turn my warr into prot
Damn man they have no idea what they are missing out on! Every single time i have had fury warr in my party, they have always been top of the meters! Their burst is insane!
As a warrior main since OG TBC, this made me lol
Nice video, these are great points. I always told myself "It's just a videogame, stop worrying about it," but it's a different thing to hear it explained more fully/logically (I hope that makes sense).
Thank you so much! You are absolutely right! At the end of the Day we all play this game to have fun! Thats why I wanted to try and help People get out of that negative mindset and get the confidence to try and tank
You want to consistently time high keys? Start tanking them yourself. Being a tank let's you be picky about groups and players, and fill up your own keys fast. A good tank in my opinion is the make or break of a timed key. Sure there are healing checks and dps requirements, but if you pull well, and have a great route, success goes up MASSIVELY.
Its very much true, I took a break from tanking in the last season and mained dps again. Oh boy did my succesrate drop whenever i was not tanking. It really sometimes felt like the succes of the dungeon was just a coinflip. Being back on tanking its truely amazing how much influence you have on the run and your overall succesrate!
Tanking is nice, studying the routes and how to stay alive is part of the process from tanking. Currently gearing my prot pala and having a good time this expansion. Healing is harder than tanking imo because you need to be more proactive to keep your party alive. I love tanking and healing to be honest but tanking syncs with me more haha. Great btw and keep up with content ❤
Thanks for the comment and nice words
I've normally played outlaw rogue through most of the dungeon content. That said, I actually main a blood DK, and I think the only point of apprehension I have is not really having a route planned out. I'm used to riding the coattails of the tank, and I tend to get lost in unfamiliar dungeons rather easily. I think it ultimately boils down to me not wanting to waste everybody else's time.
i hate wasting ppls time or their keys which is also why i have been so reluctant to get into higher keys even tho everyone in my guild who regularly push into the mid 20s have all said they dont care
Good stuff. I’ll try to take it to heart, especially the part of not being in control of others emotions.
Great video, thanks for the advice
Good video! I'm starting to learn how to tank now on a druid and blood DK
I've always been afraid to tank past +16. This video was very helpful thank you.
I really enjoyed watching this, and i agree with you in everything you have said. Exactly how i have felt about tanking 😂.
Keep it up 👍
Dude I did the same thing! This is the first season where I just started with my tank rather than dps and I’m 2600io now. Tanked a few +20’s (first time ever) and I couldn’t be having a better time! What you said made it so much easier; going through the new dungeons on heroic mode and getting a feel for the route, pulls, where I could LoS and so on. Familiarize yourself with the run before the season drops really helps.
Also, you HAVE to get outside your comfort zone. If you’re pulling small and never having to use any CDs, you’re not learning. Make those double/triple pulls that force you to use your defensives. You’ll gain more confidence knowing what you can and can’t do.
Great advice
This video came at a right point of time. Thank you, pal! I started tanking on my DH when LFR Amirdrassil wings opened. On the first attempt of Smolderon I got freaked out, even that I had read all the tactics, watched videos with explanations and have DBM shouting at me XD But second attempt and later ones were easier. Now I'm not that much afraid of and want to try keys also.
DBM is really bad on that fight for tanks. When I was using it it was telling me to taunt before I was supposed to. I ended up switching to BW and a tank weak aura and I don't have issues any more.
@@derangedhermit7981 True! I was also taunting to early.
I tried to get the Bloodthirsty title in my tank gear when everyone else was wearing resilience gear. I got to 88,000 killing blows before I gave up. What it taught me, however, was to use my damage mitigation and self heals, as well as my burst dps and cc's. And because of this, I was able to start soloing current dungeons. At the end, I was one of the top three rated tanks for much of WotLK. You can follow a similar arc and you will do just fine.
I am actually in my begining of tanking and it's kinda hard i main dps for so long and i really wanna try tanking but got that anxiety but then played with friends and got some fun and tips with road and helps for tanks mechanics but thanks for that video to help guys like us who wanna tank and help them
I recently got back into the game after a 10 year hiatus. I main dps and I’m still trying to get used to the higher tempo of even normal dungeons. Getting into tanking is really intimidating, but this was a great video!
The problem with mistakes as a tank is knowing where you did a mistake, for example i started low keys +2/+4 and then +10/+15 and it went very well but i did not know what mistakes i made and im sure i did. By the way i love your opinions and it aligns perfect with what i think and more people need to see this video.
Nice video. I advice everyone to play every role in the game at least for a bit. Tanking S2 helps me a lot with healing and vice versa. And knowing where DPS take the hardest hits from my healing exp. helps a lot to avoid avoidable dmg as DPS.
Thank you bro you are usefull.
I feel that these tips apply to every role. I just started playing discipline priest and i was very scared of trying keys (started at 424 boosted). Watched guide and gameplay video so that i can mentally prepare myself for all the deaths and the raging from other players. Started with a 2 making my own groups and I've gotten myself all the way to 15s all while making my own group and dying a few times lol. Its been very enjoyable and I'm glad i started to play it. I'm now about 440ilvl
Hell yeah! Awesome to hear you are just jumping right into it!
Much love bro just started wow a few months back and wanted to get into tanking, really enjoying it so far even though I struggle getting past the 13s with a high enough ilvl I’m learning a ton and appreciate your vids.
Do you have any tips when it comes to learning the routes and getting the % down?
Wow man only played for a few months and already tanking 10+s? Probs to you! What is your ilvl? Because honestly for the most parts your survivability comes for good use of your cooldowns
Also for routes, I already have a few videoes up going through some of the different dungeons and my route to them but I use the addon mythic dungeon tool wherein i can select all the different packs and see how much % i would need. But for most of the dungeons, pressing w and just going straight though them should give you enough count. Hope that helps and thanks for the comment
Yes tanking has alot of anxiety, I've been a tank pretty much main spec since vanilla and if there's anything I can say to help people is to play with others you enjoy playing with. I.E. friends and guildies, less pressure and more constructive feedback when something goes wrong. Things will go wrong, you will overpull sometimes but understand that it's just you getting more comfortable and confident in your role. Not every death is your fault, people do stand in bad stuff, so don't get frustrated if you see someone die.
When i started tanking on my pally it was an eye opening experience i have a hard time to get away from. Every season i go back to my prot pally.
You can single handedly carry a key with one or two sub par players.
The impact you have on the succsess is something that i cant find on any other character.
Healer not coping, you got extra heals, loh, blessings. Alot of ways to keep party alive.
Dps not optimal, you can spec for pretty good aoe dps as tank. And save time.
I had an odd journey to becoming a tank.
In Wrath I tried tanking for VoA and didn't know how to tank swap correctly as I didn't use DBM at the time and had no idea how to track co-tanks debuffs. I was promptly removed and I didn't tank for groups again for awhile. But I love gathering up large groups of enemies and seeing if I can survive so I eventually joined started tanking dungeons. This went badly, with people pulling threat and getting one shot or people just attempting to pull for me, blowing all my defensive's when I hit 75% health, not knowing were I was going. It got better but it was a really slow process of me running first as dps than trying to imitate what other people did.
Than I met a healer fried and he would play how low can you go where he would wait till I was in single digit health percent before healing me. This taught me how to roll defensives instead of panicking and blowing them all. By Legion I was doing M+ up to about a +10 but I would sweat every time I joined a key and really had to be talked into coming by a friend. There always seemed to be so much you had to know. And I still didn't tank raids at all.
With BFA I switched to prot warrior and started working my way to +15s and watching more tanking content but I still always felt extremely uncomfortable and blamed any and all failures on myself for not being able to foresee it. I ended up finally finding a new guild that needed a tank and somehow ended up being raid lead which was odd given my extremely introverted nature (I mean my name is hermit.) I spent days studying fights so that I could explain them, worked on my UI so I could call everything out and tried to imitate some of the better leaders I'd seen over the years. I worked with new and returning players and taught them how to do low key and several of them ended up becoming fairly high M+ players who ended each season with 3K+. I didn't realize it at the time but despite the guild falling apart I had ended up being someone that others saw as dependable and knowledgeable and they would remember me in random pugs years later and we would reconnect.
SL's saw me switching to VDH and I took a spot as an off tank but I managed to somehow get my first +20 done and than talked some friends into pushing to get all of our portals done. We managed to do it in the last two weeks of SL's but again I always felt like I was on the verge of dying and wasn't contributing. But I didn't really know how to get better and when I tried different things people seemed to get... grumpy.
In DF I found I didn't like the VDH rework and I ended up playing my bear for the first time since cata and loved it. The expansion started as a mixed bag and I've been told everything from drink bleach to uninstall the game. It got so bad that I was thinking of quitting when a guildy ran the numbers and showed me that I was in the top 6% of players and in the top 6k of bears. It showed me that I needed to learn to take constructive criticism and apply it when and where I can but I need to learn to ignore people who want to pass the blame. I've pushed to a +22 and found a group that is more than willing to try off the wall stuff. Instead of waiting for a mistake to happen we go and try to make them deliberately (we call it limit testing.) Bolstering week on a +22? Why not try to pull the whole hall of alchemists after the second boss. We can CC and pop vortex right before they bolster and the evoker can rescue me and we can kite. The weird thing is it worked and we found a way to shave several minutes off the most difficult affix week by going out of our way to see if we can do it. We try things like this all the time now and I found instead of dreading runs I'm looking forward to just doing nutty stuff with friends instead.
Ok well that ended up a lot bigger than I thought but I hope something in here helped someone out.
I remember when I first started tanking keys on veg DH in legion. They used to be so squishy at the start and would have to be a kite monster 😂 was fun
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nice one.. its even harder for me because i was out of the game for a long time.... soo its pretty much all new... even DG... but i am set on doing it... lvling a blood dk right now.... trying to hit 70 this week... idk if i can.. but would be nice.... and ill start tanking.. idc... ill prolly stay on the low lvl keys for while.. when i get more confident ill try 10+ and climb.. ohhh and totally solo.. thats my plan... kind scared tho..but ill stick to it
What plater are you using?
Also i enjoyed the video!👍
Thank you for the comment! Im using Quaziis plater profile, you can find it on his youtube or in wago.io :)
If you’re nervous about something, it means you care
The way i lost tanking anxiety is just really by doing it. I cared a lot about peoples opinions but now i just put them on ignore.
Btw blizzard, increase the ignore cap 😂
I kinda like tanking heroics/lfr and stuff but somehow doing m+ as a tank gives me just bad thoughts like "which route do i take, what if i mess it up" and stuff. Like thats the whole point for me that i never saw a m+ from the inside at all which whatever class/specc
I like the idea of tanking but it feels like it take a lot of work like I need to do a lot of research on all the dungeons, the routes, and mechanics.
It sucks at first but once you know everything you’re basically the last one to die lol
I'm maining a tank this season after about 8 years DPSing. By one hand It is an exercise of humility cause you need to study the game thoroughly and be open to suggestions
But by the other, boy when you finally get the knowledge you feel unstoppable, like you know that you're the best player around. Not going to back to DPS ever lmao.
Most groups rush through dungeons and wont slow down for someone to learn. They just expect everyone to be expert in their role and run the dungeon as fast as possible.
I main DH also, though only as Havoc for now. Dont get me wrong, i absolutely love tanking, but the anxiety is killer. Even with 465 ilvl, im afraid to tank even a m0. Mine is compounded by the fact that i play on a potato that gets roughy 20 fps average, way less in keys.
After my last tanking experience in shadowlands I am not only avoiding tanking but m+ at all.
Just like with anything new, you just need to get over yourself and get out of your comfort zone. Put group chat in its own window and leave it alone, pull like a maniac because that is effective limit testing, its best to start knowing and understanding what you cant do and why you shouldnt do it. You will get removed from groups, its best to not assume you didnt anything wrong because people get off on group kicking randoms and tanks are easy targets. Once you understand what your class is capable of and what pulls are optimal for you, you are now better than. 95% of tanks. If you dont like that search, tanking isnt for you, you gotta do this repeatedly due to key levels.
I heal +17-20 keys and i have a DK that is like to try tanking keys on... but my only anxiety is routing. Even with MDT, that still fills me with dread lol
I felt the same when I first started out but I have never in my life ever experienced anyone saying anything mean to me about missing %, usually whenever someone says anything, its just to inform you that you might be missing %.
And in the worst case where you are missing some, you Will just have to go back and kill a pack or two. The more you tank, the more you Will get it under control!
A lot of tankxiety can be removed by simply doing some research and preparing BEFORE the dungeon. The only tanks I ever get pissed off at are the ones who walk blindly into a mythic+ or heroic raid and waste everyone elses time because they have no clue wtf they are doing.
Want to tank but nervous about it? Look up the mechanics beforehand and ask questions. No reasonable person will ever be upset with someone who is clearly trying.
having doubts about your skills in wow does not qualify as anxiety....but thanks for these advices thou, solid video
It absolute does. By definition. What are you talking about?
u missed out not doing m+ in BfA. in my oppinion Mythic+ was the most fun in BfA. there were so many ways to "cheese" mob pulls it was amazing plus Prot Warrior was the best in BfA
oh man i for sure did! But i took a break from the game for most of bfa, i only came back like a month or two before shadowlands dropped. Been hooked to m+ ever since!
Disable chat and confidence goes up 1000%
That's one way to piss off your party lol
😂😂
but you will never know that when you mute them all ;)
My advice would be to cherish that feeling, I distinctly remember that anxiety and i remember the learning process and how rewarding that felt. Now that I've been doing nothing but pushing high 20s That feeling is what I kind of miss in a way. I wish i could feel that again.
that 14 to 20 range is the absolute worst. so much toxicity , tanks quitting after 1 wipe , no buffs, food or anything
If someone tells me to use food or other buffs in a 14 i'd quit too
my tip, dont bother. if the group starts to flame u, just leave, u a tank, u get a new group in 20 seconds. why bother.. :D
Play blood dk and heal yourself...
comon tankin is easy
Started tanking keys for the first time this season on my monk. I now know which keys I'll pug and which keys I'll save for friends. Having a blast as brewmaster! Might have to do this full time. 😊