I laughed out loud at the "Not a wanklord" bit. I had the good fortune of running into you in a mythic Tarragrue pug in 9.1 and you were anything but. Your content is fantastic and your tanking accolades impressive, but made all the more so because of the grace and humility you conduct yourself with. Thanks for the videos, and please don't change a goddamn thing.
I've been watching you since Legion for help with Mage tower and I hope you keep making content well into Dragonflight. It's easy to understand, fun to watch, and helpful. Also bonus points for the devilish good looks.
Literal legend! Your Blood DK M+ videos back in BFA were my go-to’s for understanding pulls and routing, helping me get my feet off the ground when I first started tanking. Looking forward to more content heading into Dragonflight!
Thanks mate hopefully get to dungeon guides sooner than later. I've kind of only really just started doing keys myself last week, so once I get a few under my belt and some decent key levels I'll try and get some out.
Most welcome mate! Mythic Trap is a collab site with Echo for a bunch of dungeon and raid stuff, Tank Notes is maintained and ran by Panthea who does a lot of the tank theory crafting and co-writes the Blood DK guides for Icy-Veins and Wowhead. The break down and tips on Tank Notes as a tank player, is amazing to know.
Bro. I have been tanking since Vanilla too (much... much more casually.). Found your content about 6 months ago when I started trying to do more progression and actually contribute better. In my opinion, you are the best there is on teaching to tank and reminding people about what they may have forgotten over time. Love the two minute tank tips; those are great! Keep up the great work! You are appreciated.
Appreciate that so very much mate, honestly thank you. Glad I could be of help, found myself an amazing editor for UA-cam so hopefully big ramp to Dragonflight with lots of videos inc
Excellent video and good watch! This is the kind of stuff Is still benenficial, even to someone who has been main tanking! You never know what you may forget and need a refresher on. Never stop learning!
Great video, great content as always. So much to learn and help getting over anxieties thanks to your channel. Also looking forward to more Brewmaster videos.
Gonna be honest I didn’t put much attention to different tank abilities. But when I’ve read which spells I can reflect using Spell Reflect, which mobs I can Turn Evil I was amazed to help CC. It gave me much more in depth strategy for tanking. I also agree with making lower keys in order to practice a dungeon - it’s not a shame! I did both Tazavesh on +2 to learn the ropes and it helped me much! Again, awesome vid by Darkmech 😎💕
PS I am so happy to have found your channel, you go into the detail without too much other chat :).....I used to LOVE a guy called befuddled gaming he did brilliant guides, but he seems to have stopped YTing :/
This is super good, however there is 1 super niche case for turning your back to the boss! Brewmaster can turn its back to guarantee dodges on particular mechanics with elusive brawler. I would really like a video on why tanking is so under represented in your opinion, the limitations of getting into this role as you are expected of so much more than every other role!
Thanks mate, yeh it wasn't really aimed at specific tank class niches, and to be honest I wouldn't advise many to turn their back to a mob to build elusive brawler stacks to then turn around for a guaranteed dodge, unless they really knew what they were doing type deal. Great to do on Mueh'Zala etc and a valid point for sure, but didn't really have a place in this video. Great idea for a video, we will def have a look at that one, thanks man!
Hey, great video as always. I would like to see a video about "Tank trinkets". What each tank would use in offensive and defensive build. What trinkets can be farmed in M+ if you dont raid (im thinking alts here, who mostly just do weekly keys). Id love such video.
@@Darkmech that sounds great, its one of the most common questions I see in twitch chat for Andy, Dorki, Naowh and all the others. Its definitly not the same trinket pair for all tanks, the bis trinkets are different in many cases. Also some tanks wants a more defensive setup while the highest keys just go full dps. That would also be an interesting angle in a video. I think a majority of active casuals like myself tank keys in the 15-20 area, but would like to try some 20+ now that we are geared alot. Looking forward to a Tank Trinket video from you
Watching your Videos and streams since WoD CM the prot CM guides where the ones ^^ since then i can say watching you gave me a better understanding of tanking and help me improve myself immensely but i think i terms of tips for tanking i became more open minded i have to say and it helps alot if someone gives me an advice i simply try it and see if it was helpful if not well then not but think you cant really say its a bad advice until you tried it (with the expection of advice which obviously will kill you or wipe your group / raid in a situation where you not want it to happen like tanking with your back n stuff) great content keep it up bro helping new players tanking is a good cause we all can profit from it so left my like and shared it
Thank you so mich for your tips! Even the first tip is sooooo important! I never played guardian druid before the mage tower challenge and after so many tries I looked at my abilities. Sadly I never used thrash, because I thought this is only an ability that deals damage. 😅 Thank you for your awesome content Darkmech! 🙏
You're most welcome mate, thank you so much for the support. On a side note if you had managed to defeat the Guardian Mage Tower without using Thrash that would have been the most amazing thing ever!! lol
the fact that someone had to use an addon that displays a CROSS on your character just to see where he is... is a testament that there's too much crap added to make the game playable.. i feel like everything is waaaaaay to convoluted now.. remember when you had to coordinate with your guild to get 2 or 3 mechanics down? now there's 27 mechanics being spat at you by just as many addons.. makes me sad
I mean, I think there are 2 sides to this one. The game has evolved, it needs to I think, the mechanical complexity we now deal with is sort of required due to the increasing player skill and in some cases addon capabilities. I do get what you're saying and I loved those old days, but it shows pretty clearly now, when we go back and run MC/BWL/SSC etc etc encounters with limited easy mechanics are a joke for the modern day player base. That's juts my opinion though ofc
Good tips, but forgot one major TIP #6 You are not GOD, Even you follow all the previous tips there will always be a run where the DPS/Healer don't help on interrupt, pull extra, complain for no reason, have no idea on what to do on the dungeon. Always look if you could have help somehow, but there will be times that you couldn't have done nothing more. Don't get triggered by negative comments stay cool.
I have to say I love tanking with my BDK....and any mistakes SHE makes are 100% my fault :) I do team tank lfr with my friend who's a warrior, its a pretty good team, he can take the big hits and I can survive the magic....:D BUT the #1 thing that makes us a good team is we're on discord chat...so he can tell me where he needs me or to take over if I haven't managed to notice whats happening or boss mods had got out of sync :D
Everyone is going to have their own preference for sure, I like having all my abilities central so I can track them, I actually don't think there is that much going on at all tbh, it's legit my abilities in the middle, interrupt tracker and a damage meter lol But some people like a really clean minimal UI, whatever works in the end =)
No one played BFA or Shadowlands, the credibility is shaky lol. I also was top 100 in Legion. All you need to be a good tank is download every single weak aura imaginable for every single encounter and write everything down on a notepad and put it down next to you on your desk. I think people do have a right to be pissy that the game is now a home work game, it's every aspect of the game, you can't get away from it, it isn't just in the high content or the imaginary content, it's all of it. Example: just came back to the game and I have no idea how Torghast works and it's basic, bottom of the barrel lowest content. I also don't really know how to get to Zereth Mort, I know it's some quest, but which one? The idea that people don't have the right to be pissy is actually absurd to me.
So you're telling me a top 100 world ranked Legion player, who downloaded every Weakaura imaginable and had a notepad couldn't use google? Yikes, dog. www.wowhead.com/guides/torghast-tower-of-the-damned-overview www.wowhead.com/guides/zereth-mortis-activities-how-to-unlock#:~:text=Unlocking%20Zereth%20Mortis-,To%20unlock%20Zereth%20Mortis%2C%20you%20must%20work%20through%20Chapter%201,Zereth%20Mortis%20storyline%20for%20alts.
I laughed out loud at the "Not a wanklord" bit. I had the good fortune of running into you in a mythic Tarragrue pug in 9.1 and you were anything but. Your content is fantastic and your tanking accolades impressive, but made all the more so because of the grace and humility you conduct yourself with.
Thanks for the videos, and please don't change a goddamn thing.
Ey appreciate that so much mate, thank you!!
You're a delight and I appreciate your advice!
Thanks Veri! Appreciate you
I've been watching you since Legion for help with Mage tower and I hope you keep making content well into Dragonflight. It's easy to understand, fun to watch, and helpful. Also bonus points for the devilish good looks.
Haha
Same here. Got hooked after mage tower and been enjoying this highly educational and fun channel ever since.
I'll be lost in Dragonflight without Darkmech
Love the content as always.
Thanks mate!
Literal legend! Your Blood DK M+ videos back in BFA were my go-to’s for understanding pulls and routing, helping me get my feet off the ground when I first started tanking. Looking forward to more content heading into Dragonflight!
Legend Nick! So glad I could play a role in helping out man, we gonna ramp all the way to Dragonflight, very excited!!
Amazing Video very useful as always
Love your work mate, always so helpful been watching your vids since legion. Keep up the excellent work
Thanks for the long ongoing support man, honestly appreciate it so much!
This is some really high quality content!
I love your videos and guides. Would love to see a Streets and Gambit detailed guide like you created with the other dungeons:)
Thanks mate hopefully get to dungeon guides sooner than later. I've kind of only really just started doing keys myself last week, so once I get a few under my belt and some decent key levels I'll try and get some out.
@@Darkmech Your awesome, I refer your guides to everyone I play with. Keep up the great work:)
Such a fantastic video!! Linking to my guild for better keys:) thx broseph!!
Thanks mate, appreciate that!!
I remember the first time I found out what a crushing blow was. Fixed that crap ASAP
cheers for the video dude - hadn't heard of Mythic Trap or Tank Notes before, so it's time for some reading!!
Most welcome mate! Mythic Trap is a collab site with Echo for a bunch of dungeon and raid stuff, Tank Notes is maintained and ran by Panthea who does a lot of the tank theory crafting and co-writes the Blood DK guides for Icy-Veins and Wowhead. The break down and tips on Tank Notes as a tank player, is amazing to know.
One of the best videos out there in todays time. I hope you get more recognition and keep pumping out quality content!
Really fucking cool to read that, thanks heaps mate my (newly found) editor and I appreciate the hell outta that!
Love the videos! So informative!
Thanks mate!
ngl u made me go bdk in bfa, kinda pog god
Eeey thanks legend!
Been tanking for the majority of my wow experience I can say that these are some pretty good tips for people looking to improve their tanking
Bro. I have been tanking since Vanilla too (much... much more casually.). Found your content about 6 months ago when I started trying to do more progression and actually contribute better. In my opinion, you are the best there is on teaching to tank and reminding people about what they may have forgotten over time. Love the two minute tank tips; those are great! Keep up the great work! You are appreciated.
Appreciate that so very much mate, honestly thank you. Glad I could be of help, found myself an amazing editor for UA-cam so hopefully big ramp to Dragonflight with lots of videos inc
Awesome as always.. You're definately my go-to for anything tanking! Keep up the awesome work!
That's really awesome of you to say mate, thank you!!
Great advice, even just to revisit and refresh my tanking-memory!
Yeh I could 100% use some of my own advice at times lol
Excellent video and good watch! This is the kind of stuff Is still benenficial, even to someone who has been main tanking! You never know what you may forget and need a refresher on. Never stop learning!
100% thanks so much mate, appreciate it!!
Started watching your streams and watching you mythics on a DK which got me back into playing my DK
Legend!
Great video, great content as always. So much to learn and help getting over anxieties thanks to your channel. Also looking forward to more Brewmaster videos.
Thanks legend! So happy to be helping with that side of stuff!!! Hopefully going to crack into a Brewmaster 9.2 guide going forward as well.
Gonna be honest I didn’t put much attention to different tank abilities. But when I’ve read which spells I can reflect using Spell Reflect, which mobs I can Turn Evil I was amazed to help CC. It gave me much more in depth strategy for tanking. I also agree with making lower keys in order to practice a dungeon - it’s not a shame! I did both Tazavesh on +2 to learn the ropes and it helped me much!
Again, awesome vid by Darkmech 😎💕
Great work mate and thanks so much for checking out the video. Keep pewing!
Awesome video, great tips
Thanks mate! Hopefully it helps a few people out there! (I could use some of my own advice at times too lol)
i watch other video and i already learn alot!
Great vid mate!
Thanks legend!
That hair is incredible
Haha ty!!
Came for the content. Stayed for the hair … and the content but mostly the hair mostly
Haha I love this!
PS I am so happy to have found your channel, you go into the detail without too much other chat :).....I used to LOVE a guy called befuddled gaming he did brilliant guides, but he seems to have stopped YTing :/
Oh that's no good, but glad you found us and we'll certainly try and keep making more content you enjoy =)
I always try to tank everything so that dps are at the backs of the mobs/boss yet dps still want to end up infront getting cleaved
It do be like that sometimes!
Man this guy loves wow
WoW
Banger as always ❤
Speeds in the house!!
New tank here, i'm going to use your tips, hope you continue making tanks videos in dragonflight
Thanks mate! Welcome to tanking, all the best if you ever need any help, feel free to come and join the discord.
This is super good, however there is 1 super niche case for turning your back to the boss! Brewmaster can turn its back to guarantee dodges on particular mechanics with elusive brawler. I would really like a video on why tanking is so under represented in your opinion, the limitations of getting into this role as you are expected of so much more than every other role!
Thanks mate, yeh it wasn't really aimed at specific tank class niches, and to be honest I wouldn't advise many to turn their back to a mob to build elusive brawler stacks to then turn around for a guaranteed dodge, unless they really knew what they were doing type deal. Great to do on Mueh'Zala etc and a valid point for sure, but didn't really have a place in this video.
Great idea for a video, we will def have a look at that one, thanks man!
Wank-lord is a brilliant term.
"wank lord" & "feelycraft". Sod the cool tips, I'm here for the vocabulary
haha! As long as we learning something!
Any tips on how to get a tank to learn this stuff? Asking for a mate
I think the one you play with is beyond help.
Hey, great video as always.
I would like to see a video about "Tank trinkets". What each tank would use in offensive and defensive build. What trinkets can be farmed in M+ if you dont raid (im thinking alts here, who mostly just do weekly keys). Id love such video.
Hey mate, thank you, good idea, I have a few videos on the go, but I think we could def smash a video around tank trinkets.
@@Darkmech that sounds great, its one of the most common questions I see in twitch chat for Andy, Dorki, Naowh and all the others. Its definitly not the same trinket pair for all tanks, the bis trinkets are different in many cases. Also some tanks wants a more defensive setup while the highest keys just go full dps. That would also be an interesting angle in a video. I think a majority of active casuals like myself tank keys in the 15-20 area, but would like to try some 20+ now that we are geared alot. Looking forward to a Tank Trinket video from you
Is reroll to BDK apart of this video?
Watching your Videos and streams since WoD CM the prot CM guides where the ones ^^
since then i can say watching you gave me a better understanding of tanking and help me improve myself immensely
but i think i terms of tips for tanking i became more open minded i have to say and it helps alot
if someone gives me an advice i simply try it and see if it was helpful if not well then not but think you cant really say its a bad advice until you tried it
(with the expection of advice which obviously will kill you or wipe your group / raid in a situation where you not want it to happen like tanking with your back n stuff)
great content keep it up bro
helping new players tanking is a good cause we all can profit from it so
left my like and shared it
Thanks so much mate, truly appreciate the support over such a long time.
hello do u have a ui sharing active and also weakuras??
Hey mate, yup that stuff is available for all UA-cam members, Patreon and Twitch subs.
I'm satisfied with just having learned the expression 'wank lord'. Anything more is surplus value... LOL
Let's gooooooooooo haha!
How do you get the cross on your screen ?
Hey mate, it's just a WA you find loads on Wago.io like this one will only load in raid - wago.io/XT4IztEhZ
Thank you so mich for your tips! Even the first tip is sooooo important!
I never played guardian druid before the mage tower challenge and after so many tries I looked at my abilities.
Sadly I never used thrash, because I thought this is only an ability that deals damage. 😅
Thank you for your awesome content Darkmech! 🙏
You're most welcome mate, thank you so much for the support. On a side note if you had managed to defeat the Guardian Mage Tower without using Thrash that would have been the most amazing thing ever!! lol
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@7:00 say it louder for the people in the back.
the fact that someone had to use an addon that displays a CROSS on your character just to see where he is... is a testament that there's too much crap added to make the game playable.. i feel like everything is waaaaaay to convoluted now.. remember when you had to coordinate with your guild to get 2 or 3 mechanics down? now there's 27 mechanics being spat at you by just as many addons.. makes me sad
I mean, I think there are 2 sides to this one. The game has evolved, it needs to I think, the mechanical complexity we now deal with is sort of required due to the increasing player skill and in some cases addon capabilities. I do get what you're saying and I loved those old days, but it shows pretty clearly now, when we go back and run MC/BWL/SSC etc etc encounters with limited easy mechanics are a joke for the modern day player base. That's juts my opinion though ofc
Good tips, but forgot one major TIP
#6 You are not GOD,
Even you follow all the previous tips there will always be a run where the DPS/Healer don't help on interrupt, pull extra, complain for no reason, have no idea on what to do on the dungeon.
Always look if you could have help somehow, but there will be times that you couldn't have done nothing more. Don't get triggered by negative comments stay cool.
I have to say I love tanking with my BDK....and any mistakes SHE makes are 100% my fault :)
I do team tank lfr with my friend who's a warrior, its a pretty good team, he can take the big hits and I can survive the magic....:D BUT the #1 thing that makes us a good team is we're on discord chat...so he can tell me where he needs me or to take over if I haven't managed to notice whats happening or boss mods had got out of sync :D
Haha that's great to hear, communication is super important and it's great to hear you have a good tanking partner helping out!!
War tank here.
These are good tips but geez your ui has a lot going on
Everyone is going to have their own preference for sure, I like having all my abilities central so I can track them, I actually don't think there is that much going on at all tbh, it's legit my abilities in the middle, interrupt tracker and a damage meter lol But some people like a really clean minimal UI, whatever works in the end =)
No one played BFA or Shadowlands, the credibility is shaky lol. I also was top 100 in Legion. All you need to be a good tank is download every single weak aura imaginable for every single encounter and write everything down on a notepad and put it down next to you on your desk.
I think people do have a right to be pissy that the game is now a home work game, it's every aspect of the game, you can't get away from it, it isn't just in the high content or the imaginary content, it's all of it.
Example: just came back to the game and I have no idea how Torghast works and it's basic, bottom of the barrel lowest content. I also don't really know how to get to Zereth Mort, I know it's some quest, but which one? The idea that people don't have the right to be pissy is actually absurd to me.
So you're telling me a top 100 world ranked Legion player, who downloaded every Weakaura imaginable and had a notepad couldn't use google?
Yikes, dog.
www.wowhead.com/guides/torghast-tower-of-the-damned-overview
www.wowhead.com/guides/zereth-mortis-activities-how-to-unlock#:~:text=Unlocking%20Zereth%20Mortis-,To%20unlock%20Zereth%20Mortis%2C%20you%20must%20work%20through%20Chapter%201,Zereth%20Mortis%20storyline%20for%20alts.
congrats on playing meta each expansion(dontknow about shadowlands)
Congrats on having no idea what you're talking about.