Since we constantly can see how people talk about the tank shortage and I don’t want to continue to wait in queue as a DPS for everything so Im Just gonna do what is needed and tank myself.
But Im gonna need the help of the forum hivemind.
What tank should I pick?
I don’t mind not starting with the most beginner friendly spec but I would like to not have to many keybinds.
I know tanks tend to have a bunch of abilities but maybe not every tank needs all of them every fight?
I’m not gonna go an tank +12 so it doesn’t need to be the meta tank.
And just cause I start tanking that doesn’t mean I will suddenly stop enjoying delvs so maybe there is like a tank that is really good at them?
Ive played a lot of different tanks this xpac. First blood dk then paladin, warrior for a bit and then this monk. 2 of them are above 3k (monk and paladin) with blood dk right behind.
Id say of all them, id probably recommend warrior. Its easy to start and is fairly bulky.
A very dumbed down version is:
Used shield slam and thunderclap on cd for rage
Spam your shieldblock (buff extends, its your active mitigation)
Use your offensives cds on… well cooldown
Spend rage on ignore pain (def) or revenge (damage)
Use defensives for high damage intake(though you could prolly not use them for key levels below 8 ish without being trucked)
Blood dk has a lot of buttons, but is a god on its own. Dont need no healers (below 10-12 key range). And has a lot of utility to circumvent different mechanics on bosses
Paladin as stated before is paper unless you know when to use your defensives (obviously you can outgear content). And had an ungodly amount of buttons from cds, to defensives to utility
Brewmaster is actually quite tanky once you get a little bit of gear. Especially at relatively high damage intake. Because of their stagger. But i felt like it was rough in low keys cause damage intake wasnt high (i know its weird)
I will keep the warrior as a safe plan b in mind and I will look up the blood DK further. I like the whole selvehealing thing.
Maybe I look up DH aswell heard they are similar to blood DK and they have that pretty cool fire breath attack
Blood DK if you don’t want nor have intention to push.
Blood does fine with healers of any skill-level, you can be fine even with healers that don’t know how DK works.
It doesn’t have a ton of keybinds and the APM is ok, maybe if you play San’layn you can have more APM but overall is pretty average (?).
The only thing with Blood though is that you need to know your opener, after that you’ll be fine.
Deathbringer dk is on the low side of apm, cause of not wanting haste. And yes sanlayn is faster. But its also def easier with haste (in my opinion ofc), since the openers can be bloated. Haste gives a bit of leeway
I believe guardian is estimated to be low a/b tier. The survivability is good, but for it to shine with the damage patterns they need to give up a lot of offensive power (from what ive watched/read)
Yea, San’layn is mostly about haste and stacking it to a point in which is just easier to get those globals off (maybe round 20% or something like that); it basically plays more or less like Blood DK in s3/4 SL, at least imo.
Kyrasis makes good guides about BDK and he’s pretty active on his discord iirc if @OP wants to know more about it.
Here’s the spreadsheet abou everything you need to know about Blood and the discord is there.
A big thanks to both of you you where really really helpful.
I’m still not entirely sure if I go warrior or blood but I am very confident one of them will be a good fit for me.
Especially the guide caylia dropped was incredible helpful not only for blood but for tanking in general
