So… I spent the day levelling from 65 to to 70 purely through tanking dungeons. It was a lot of fun, I definitely think I will level my Druid and Warrior this way to 70 too.
For the most part - everything went smoothly. I must have done about 15-20 dungeons? Only really 3 of them had negative experiences. I’d say that’s a pretty good success rate…
On one of them a Warrior and a Druid kept rushing ahead pulling everything in Uldaman. I at the time wasn’t in the mood to go chasing around trying to get aggro off them, so I just stood back and let them deal with it. Like, if you want to do dungeons at your pace and pull then go spec into your tank spec?! I did let them die once… they didn’t learn their from the first few pulls where I stood back or walked ahead and let them do whatever they were up to. They were also rushing off to pull whilst the Resto shaman was oom constantly… Like… that place is bad enough to heal with all the AoE and stuff going on… weirdly I didn’t get any angry messages off them when I let them die… I’m going to hazard a guess that they knew exactly what they were doing and probably knew they weren’t in a position to flame the tank for not tanking when they were the ones charging ahead pretending they were the tanks…
I then had some more over eager pullers in HoI, I had tanked it a couple times prior without issue, but on this one a DK and Shadow Priest kept pulling and getting aggro on packs before the first boss. Had a comment on about how awful I was at keeping aggro… they immediately went on my ignore. I’m here for a quick 15 minute dungeon run, not critique on my gameplay. If I’m doing something wrong I’m normally the first one to see it. Also if you’re getting aggro don’t stand off in Narnia and maybe actually run towards me… things smoothed out after the first boss though once they stopped trying to pull… like c’mon, I’m perfectly capable of charging in on my pony and throwing hammers at things.
I also had a Brackenhide which I hadn’t tanked previously, or really done much outside of the first week of expansion on my shaman healing, so I was unsure of the pulls… but when I went in and saw a Demon Hunter immediately fel rush off to start pulling packs I just instantly left… no thanks… I’d like to learn that dungeon by me doing the pulls, thanks.
But yeah, the other 15 dungeons? Completely smooth sailing I thought. I don’t think I was ever going at a slow pace, nor going too fast for healers to keep up… most runs were completed within 15-18 mins. Keeping aggro on stuff doesn’t seem too challenging when I’m actually the one doing the pulling.
I also must have got lucky, I only had a small handful of incidents where other players accidentally butt-pulled patrols etc. However I was able to recover from those quite easily though.
So yeah! Charging on my horsey into packs of mobs and throwing hammers about at them is super fun!
Time to do some heroics now, get some gear, learn the class a bit better and when to start timing my defensives properly and then let’s see what Mythic+ brings!