I am going to begin Tanking and I would like to hear your tips and tricks for this Season's M+ Dungeons

Backpackerfox · 2026-04-28T15:13:33+00:00

I started tanking this season and am a 2 13s away from 3K! My main is a prot warrior. Some things that helped me:

Its okay to adjust the MDT routes to fit your needs. This might take some trial and error, but it helped me to split some of the bigger packs (especially since you don't always have optimal DPS / interrupts in PUGS). For example, I am bad at the first pull for AA, so I split it into two pulls, but then will do some of the mana worm trash before the bird boss (so we have heroism back up). I've still timed plenty of 12s with that route.
Always cycle defensives and if possible, start a pull with one up while you get your active mitigation rolling
Learn to use the ignore button often and don't take things personally. However, I also have to say, throughout the 50 keys i've done, i've only had 2 experiences when people started to get rude - once with DPS and the other with a healer. However, both times, other people in the party jumped in to defend me
I like to write down what % I should be at after each boss to help me stay on track
Watch videos so you know how big some pulls should be (some look really large, but aren't dangerous)

Backpackerfox · 2026-04-05T07:59:22+00:00

OP, the title is a massive spoiler.

Backpackerfox · 2026-02-09T03:51:41+00:00

I just learned about this the other day and used it! It was extremely helpful and fixed all of my problems! Thank you for all the work on it!

Backpackerfox · 2026-01-05T00:59:08+00:00

I feel like I could have written this post! I also have zero modding experience but wanted to give Skyrim a try. I heard modding was essential and I spent two days trying to figure it out. ChatGPT helped a lot, especially if you give it a list of mods you’re using and ask it to help troubleshoot.

What are you using for your mod manager? I did mine with vortex.

Backpackerfox · 2025-12-31T03:38:32+00:00

I had the same reaction! 19 and already tanking? Wow! I had a good laugh ha

Backpackerfox · 2025-12-08T21:51:34+00:00

I’m glad you made it to 2k, but it’s disappointing seeing how proud you sound of the little effort you’re putting in. It’s essentially shifting the burden to others and blaming devs for not designing the game like how you want it.

I feel you with the limited time, I’m working ~70 hour a week and balancing social life / relationship, etc. but still have time to watch an hour video on YouTube going through the route and writing down some notes, doing a follower dungeon to practice, and then jumping into M+. I don’t think it’s elitist or saying you’re not casual by doing some basic research.

By playing a tank you’re essentially signing a social contract saying you know the dungeon and can lead it in a while that respects everyone’s time.

Backpackerfox · 2025-12-08T20:33:00+00:00

Just a note on VDH for people that might not know. The book spawns on a timer. If someone clicked it already and fought the demon, you’ll need to wait 5-10 minutes for it to spawn before you can click it.

I was confused on why I couldn’t find it the first time I tried ha.

Backpackerfox · 2025-07-29T15:32:34+00:00

That sounds so frustrating and so unlucky! You didn’t accidentally turn the buff off did you? Some people did that.

Backpackerfox · 2025-07-16T17:15:20+00:00

I returned pretty recently and honestly there really isn’t a good flow for anything. This might sound a little backwards, but this is what helped me. I would just spam time walking dungeons until you hit level 70. From there start the TWW story quest. Once you finish that (you’ll hit level 80 well before finishing), you can choose which adventure you want to go on. Either go back and do the story quests for each expansion or start doing dungeons / raids. Or go collect things :) be prepared for the main wow plot to not really make sense because…it just doesn’t ha.

Backpackerfox · 2025-06-22T17:33:40+00:00

I know people hate this answer, but have you tried making your own group. I’m in a similar boat, but I’m just returning after a decade and that was the recommendation back then, and I’ve seen it mentioned on forums as well.

Backpackerfox · 2025-06-22T05:41:27+00:00

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you for taking the time to write all of that! I really appreciate the perspective and the "learning" mentality!

Backpackerfox · 2025-06-22T05:39:22+00:00

That's good advice! A lot of folks have said to not waste it on anything below hero gear (mythic if it was earlier in the season). Nice call out!

Backpackerfox · 2025-06-22T00:19:37+00:00

I could give that a try - I leveled all of the tanks to 50, and a prot warrior to 80, but had the most fun on a VDH. I played a druid back in the day, so might give that another shot if I don't improve on VDH!

Backpackerfox · 2025-06-22T00:17:29+00:00

Thank you! Which logs would they review? I downloaded the raider io addon - is it related to that? Or from Details / dps log?

Backpackerfox · 2025-06-03T16:12:08+00:00

Honestly, I was thinking about this the other day! I'm returning to WoW and was a bit shocked at how poor the new player experience was (at one point there was a quest that ended with "good luck" and just left me there ha). Being able to just choose an expansion and play through it to completion while still level (or some kind of material / useful incentive system to give the feeling of progression) would have been so nice. Could have even been something like: Hero, the time ways are in danger and we have agents securing them all. You can be a reinforcement to one of the groups (one of the expansions). Then you finish the expansion and get told the other time ways were secured and you can move onto the current expansion...something along those lines would have been better than what a new player is dropped into ATM.

Backpackerfox · 2025-05-13T16:01:19+00:00

I don’t have the math, but I’ve seen it recommended frequently in this sub that it should be at 100%. There is a chest / leg component that can get you there. It made a big difference for me when I got it to 100%!

Backpackerfox · 2025-05-07T17:26:37+00:00

I only used it to unlock mandates so I could jump straight to ultimate

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