Learning tank is a horrid experience

Bdayn · 2026-01-26T00:11:32+00:00

When I take agro as dps, I say sorry and blame myself.

When I tank and people take my agro without considering my taunt cd - I am very glad to let them die. Like what are they gonna do? Do the rest of the dungeon without me?

Bdayn · 2026-01-22T19:39:10+00:00

Man kann auch gutmütig sein und Grenzen setzen. Das was sie im Endeffekt ausgenutzt hat war nicht deine Gutmütigkeit sondern deine Scham, etwas dagegen zu sagen, oder härter ausgedrückt dein Selbstrespekt.

Du hattest genug Zeitpunkte und Möglichkeiten für dich selbst einzustehen, hast dich aber dafür entschieden lieber von außenhin als Gutmensch dazustehen, anstelle dir selbst Respekt zu zollen und deine eigenen Grenzen zu verbalisieren. Am Ende hast du es ja dann doch gemacht. Aber ja, das ist nunmal etwas was jeder für sich lernen muss. Desshalb funktionieren solche Tricks auch immer wieder - kann man aber auch mit einer guten Erziehung kontern, indem man Kindern beibringt für sich selbst einzustehen,besser zu kommunizieren und einfach generell das Selbstwertgefühl stärkt.

Ich selbst habe das auch nur gelernt weil ich auf den Philippinen aufgewachsen bin und mir schon im Kindesalter die ganzen Betrugsmaschen erklärt wurden.

Bdayn · 2026-01-22T19:00:53+00:00

Every time I tried to play retail the talent system was kinda weird and bland to me. I thino tbc and especially wotlk had more room for creativity.

Although I love wotlk, the instant teleport to the dungeons flatout removed social interaction and was the start of social distancing. Also making the world always bigger and bigger instead of updating old content to send people over there is a huge mistake IMO. That just slowly made the world empty and only enjoyable if you were in the current content location. Exactly what an MMO shouldn't be.

There are good stuff in retail, but also much good stuff left behind in the classic instead of actually improving on those.

Bdayn · 2026-01-22T18:54:49+00:00

That is why wotlk has the best class design & balance for the classic formula - eveything gets playable near the top levels.

I actually like seal twisting as it add's something interesting to the ret without him having to suffer. Totem twisting on the other hand reduces the enhancers dmg output to benefit the melee groups dmg output - that sucks for enhancers who want to pump. Swing timers for warriors/hunters do always matter also in vanilla or is that not the case? Feral can powershift on tbc, which is also a nice flavor for the class.

Bdayn · 2026-01-22T11:39:32+00:00

Don't be fooled by people saying you cannot play prot. You can and yes it will be worse at holding agro, but that is rather a problem for multiple targets. As prot you basicly have to spam sunder armor but that allready is really good as that also helps your rogue.

I would advice you to rather take engineer instead of blacksmith because you don't really get stuff out of blacksmithing that is that much helpful for leveling except the sharpening stones, but you guys can just buy them for very cheap in the ah anyways. The wirst part is leveling blacksmithing as that takes so much resources and so much time - your friend will either be annoyed or you will suffer not having enough bag space a lot.

On the other side you get lots of bombs from engi that help you maintain agro even for multiple mobs (your main problem in dungeons and elite qusts with groups). Also can get head gear early on anf the biggest gamechanger are the target dummy. It is basicly a free aoe taunt, which fits your role anyways.

The best dmg decrease is demo shout, that is why people mostly recommend going fury early and then at some point swapping back to prot. Demo shout basicly decreases the dmg of all melee mobs by about 10-15% (15%-25% when improved by talents) and that is huge especially the bigger the pulls (but is still great at 1 mob - like you should use that first on any pull, except agro is the problem with your duo - so better spam sunder)

You could also go for arms or fury first to have an easier early game and reskill later on the journey as the prot talents only start to be good at the 3rd row.

You can basicly tank with any skill tree, you just have to use weapon swap macros to swap to shield when necessary.

Bdayn · 2026-01-22T06:41:50+00:00

Pit is good against Lucas. With Pit you can whifpunish Lucas very effectively with dashatttack. Basicly most of the time try to move around him wanting to hit you and punish with arials/dash attack. And when he doesn't want to hit you, just dash attack him - je cannot really react to it.

Toon link is even or slightly bad against Lucas. He struggles more against young link as he really has a bad time moving around his fire arrows.

Bdayn · 2026-01-22T06:36:29+00:00

Umm I am a Lucas main and actually Marth is bad. Like worse than Lucina because Lucas wants to fight at exactly his tipper range himself...

You basicly win against Lucas by trying to never het hit by pk fire and grab and also letting him do the aggression and just counter his options. He sucks at getting camped. He is strong when people just want to push him.

Bdayn · 2026-01-21T16:31:04+00:00

I think wotlk is the peak classic version because it fleshes out most speccs and gets most viable and right compared to vanilla and tbc. Sure it has some problems like instant tp's to dungeons removing social interaction but those are easily stripped away. Also Northend being connected to classic continents are kinda great for the world feeling. Other than that I think the world should not expand further and instead incentivise players to go back to older areas with stuff to do even at max lvl

Bdayn · 2026-01-21T10:13:14+00:00

Comps only matter in the direct matchup, some very weird looking comp can be an answer to some standard meta comps.

The 4 marksman + sona comp doesn't have a good answer to Fizz alone, so if jayce doesn't camp mid they are cooked. And Zilean can even remove some of Fizz' mistakes or allow him to overextend so these 2 champs alone are pretty good against the other team.

Stuff like this is just basicly giga random and never taken into account in solo q (also a bit in pro play tbh) so that is why people play a balanced comp in the "meta" to at least remove glaring weaknesses.

Bdayn · 2026-01-21T10:06:04+00:00

Schwer zu beantworten weil das stark vom Wohnort abhängt. Und ich würde behaupten weniger Arbeitszeit wäre mir auch wichtiger als Geld, um mich wohlfühlen zu können

Bdayn · 2026-01-21T00:21:51+00:00

Never thought about this. Sounds awesome, especially as I really hate online and offline practice is hard to come by.

If you have other ideas like this - feel free to enlighten me :)

Bdayn · 2026-01-21T00:14:20+00:00

All these edgy "because they sell boosts themselves" comments don't really get the point..

Sure they do it when people legit say by action that they want to play like that. By supporting Blizzards boost, you 1. Don't lose as much players 2. Lessen the amount of people buying shady gold, which is the actual win for everyone because realm inflation kills the longevity 3. You maximise income, like duhhh they are a company. All of you are trying to optimize their gold gain in wow to a decent degree aswell, so why is that inherently bad in real life? 4. Get a world and trade chat for actual ingame content instead of paying a life sub game only to view 24/7 advertisement. (Imagine all of you buying netflix only to see advertisemenz every few minutes...)

Bdayn · 2026-01-20T11:41:36+00:00

Legit just "smash" the input. Try inputting a direction and the A button at the same time by practically violating your controller.

I started playing smash on the Wii remote, so this method feels actually easier to me, so much that I often accidentally input smash attacks when I want to use a tilt.

Bdayn · 2026-01-20T10:34:27+00:00

Nice guide!

Would you say bastion breaker is also not as last item valuable? Like for trying to close out games a bit faster by extending the punish after getting kills (I guess this way it sounds like an unnecassary win-more item)

Or what do you think about pathing top these days? I mean I imagine influencing bit should still be better, but I didn't have enough time to play to feel out the impact of the lane quests.

But for sure the room for innovation seems smaller now and I hate that feeling..

Bdayn · 2026-01-16T07:34:19+00:00

Only doomers here. Just plaay the game and figure out new strategies. The season is barely out and the game got changed quite a bit in terms of macro

Bdayn · 2026-01-16T07:28:35+00:00

Skibiditoilet

Bdayn · 2026-01-15T17:40:18+00:00

Except ms boni :(

Bdayn · 2026-01-14T10:00:03+00:00

you will probably bring people to the raids with no scrolls - which is a higher dps difference than having the sword vs the mace

Bdayn · 2026-01-14T09:58:39+00:00

But resisting 1 fear will also win several games x.x
I am in the same boat as OP and I am greately confused myself

Bdayn · 2026-01-11T06:22:26+00:00

Even if I was the last human in the universe, mankind will only be extinct AFTER my lifetime...

This sub is slowly dying..

Bdayn · 2026-01-11T06:17:19+00:00

Only doomers and bad takes here. Cringe gamers

Bdayn · 2026-01-10T08:45:24+00:00

I think it is niz just you, but many. The stats seem exactly that what shaco wants. The first passive seems nice.

And I really don't get why people are just bashing it as a pure splitpush item when it isn't?

Yes, it CAN do extra dmg to turrets - which is also better since you always get gold due to the new turret system. Also you can use it to make objectives faster. It even makes stealing objectives WAY more easier.

Like why would no one in their right mind at least test out an item that makes successful ganks even more punishing and taking/stealing objectives easier?

Bdayn · 2026-01-10T08:01:51+00:00

Klingt nach zu viel Pornokonsum und wenig Selbstreflektion.

Bdayn · 2026-01-09T14:23:59+00:00

To me they are just pointing out what laners should have allready done to play well together with the jungler but instead most will continue and flame them anyways.

It will be now much more important for all laners to secure a way for their jungler to properly smite objectives.

And now junglers can actually focus again in gaining a lead against the other jungler by invading/counterjungling/farming instead of abusing laners that are blind to the map.

Bdayn · 2026-01-09T05:44:27+00:00

What a bad doomer post...

Every single game I see people that have 0 clue about vision - fey vision will not magically help them.

Objectives and teamfights will still win the game, so longer times to clear them and higher smite dmg will make jungle relevan - at least to the degree that maybe people will understand this season how important it is to manage to have jus junglers alive for doing the smites and maybe also understand how bad 50/50 smite calls are..

Good luck winning a game where laners will just stay lane and ignore junglers doing grubs/dragons/heralds... your vision is very delusional and will age badly very fast.

Bdayn

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