What's a class that has an easy/slow dps spec to play that also has a tank spec?

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I’m playing a few characters now in BFA. I wanna get used to the game before Shadowlands but the classes I’ve tried feel very fast paced when I’m playing dungeons. Any pointers appreciated.

THanks

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I don’t think the classes are fast paced. I think people getting into a dungeon start running like their hair is on fire.

It gets worse when you start at Mythic-plus dungeons, where you are running against Blizzard’s clock.

Arms Warrior, Frost DK … personally, I’d have a look at Demon Hunter. It’s not inherently slow, and it feels fast, even though it isn’t, but it is very well equipped to keep up with dungeon pace.

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I’ve heard ret paladins can be quite slow, but I can not attest to this 100%. I haven’t played one in a while. DK’s can also be quite slow, but unholy is generally a difficult spec. Frost is usually easy and doesn’t require much thinking, depends on the meta build though. Usually melee DPS are more fast-paced than ranged, and ranged specs don’t have a tank option aside from druid (which you could also give a go, feral is hard but balance is usually not).

Here is an APM chart I found online, but I can not tell you how accurate this is. http://simulationcraft.org/reports/T25_Raid.html. The higher the APM, the faster the pace. Again, no idea how accurate that is. It looks like it might be roughly correct.

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That’s useful, but it took me a minute to find how to open the Actions Per Minute APM chart - open Table of Contents, then click Actions per Minute / DPS Variance Summary. I’m surprised Havoc is so high; I would have thought that the extended interludes for Eye Beam and Fel Barrage would have slowed them down a lot.

But, as I say, I suspect the problem is not in the APM proper, but just getting used to the pace of dungeons, which is unexpected for new players, or Classic players.

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I’m also looking for a slow dps. And by slow I mean low apm. At the end of the day, tired from work and family, the last thing I need is to spam button number 1 like my life depends on it. This is why I don’t like enhancement, or fury.
It is sad that situational decision making and clever use of cooldowns got replaced with haste capped gcd spam.

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Paladin is more relax paced than the rest, it also suffers from being slower than other classes with limited movement talents.

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Slow dps ret pala
They also fun tank

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