What's a good resource or youtube channel with updated vids for dungeon runs I should be watching as a newb tank. I'm tired of getting yelled at to go watch a raid video as a sprout for wanting to experience dungeons blind.
Miss Tec (MTQ) on Youtube does guides that are pretty bare bones and straightforward.
I also use the console games wiki if I'm running a dungeon for the first time.
Some advice for tanking:
- Use your cooldowns and mitigations for trash pulls, not for bosses. This is something people from other MMOs carry over and it can be a bit of a misconception.
- Pull as much as you're comfortable with. Aurum Vale is a good example of one of the dungeons where babysitting retards might take precedence over w2wing. The first room, you can pull, hug left wall and go into the sorta wider circular area to tank shit (up to the mushroom dudes.) Then pull the rest by going into the boss room and hugging the wall, which leads me to
- Line of sight pulling can be helpful (and can get your healers malding) to corral up mobs. Any sort of wall/obstruction will cause mobs to stop casting/attacking from a distance until they can see you. This also applies to healers, so it can be a good way to get idiots to stop gawking in a no-no zone and force them to where you want them
- Understand that
most dungeon mobs aggro off of proximity (imagine a big circle around them and if you step into it, they get pissed), but there are some (particularly in ARR/HW dungeons) which aggro off sound (toggling walk will make it so they won't aggro...those daddy long leg mobs in Temple of Qarn are a good example) or sight (mobs have a big cone that starts narrow and widens out.) A lot of people think that mobs are sight aggro and end up triggering mobs because they are retards.
- Let people know you're new to the dungeon. Or if you split up a w2w pull because you aren't sure or are unfamiliar with the layout, just reiterate that. Most folks won't get pissy if you're trying to pull heavy.
- There are a few dungeons I would suggest being a bit careful on. First pull of Hullbreaker Isle (there are hornets that cast Final Sting and invariably you'll get hit by one of them, I tend to split the first pull up into 2 pulls due to DPS mistrust), first pull of Brayflox (there is an Ochu mob that casts an AE silence and no matter if you warn/heads up the healer, they will inevitably stand right on top of the fucker if you w2w the first room, first pull of Pharos Sirius (there's some caster mobs and it's the first 'long' pull, and healers struggle for whatever fucking reason. Go for it if you trust your healer), first 2 pulls of Bardam's Mettle (as discussed upthread), Holminster Switch (it can be a meat grinder if healer is a dumbass) and Mt. Gulg (same thing.)
Those are just dungeons I've experienced issues w2wing on because either DPS is shite or the healer is pants on head retarded. If you have competent party members, they're more or less fine, outside of maybe Gulg still being a bit spicy. But if you're asking for help at that stage, there's prolly bigger issues.
