If you're looking for a community to join to make WoW friends, I would take a look through the forums to see if you can find a post from a guild that you could see yourself joining. Or maybe even just being really nice and engaging in pugs.
Yea finding peiple to play with is the hard part really. They gotta be on your level and be interested in what you like doing. Sounds easy but it isn't hehe.
Yep, I just cancelled my Abo, because I was only wasting time in there and it wasn't fun at all. Sad thing, but the multiplayer-experience in WoW kind of died for me. Some time ago, actually, tried to revive it with this expac, didn't work.
I was definitely expecting this type of video given the number of new players in the game, so if there's anyone new reading these comments, here's a few quick specific tips: 1. Interrupts. I've seen a painful amount of people in M+ that don't use interrupts, find it and use it. 2. Cleanse! Guarantee everyone has died to a debuff or dot they could have removed at least once 3. Class utility. I'm talking tricks of the trade, transendence, feign death, all those abilities you never think about until you spend time to learn them. Once you have the basics down, spend time finding situations to use a certain ability until it becomes habit Oh and stop staring at your rotation, you're standing in fire again :')
Ever since I came back to the game at the end of MoP (quit during firelands in cata) I’ve had tanking anxiety, despite it still being my favorite role. Just can’t bring myself to tank pugs anymore. People expect you to go at blazing speeds these days, not that I was ever a slug I still didn’t feel highly pressured to speed run every single dungeon before.
Agreed completely. I don't know all the fastest routes and which way is most efficient. Remember when you could just do a slow relaxing full clear of a dungeon over 45 minutes?
i feel exactly the same with healing. often in pug groups it seems if i'm not outhealing every ignored mechanic and non-kicked tough spell during the speed runs while also getting at least half the damage dealers' DPS, then i'm a "bad healer" :( i really enjoyed healing up until after MoP...
I think the pressure the players are putting on you is due to the lack of drops at the end of dungeons. The quicker you finish the dungeon, the more dungeons they can get done in their allocated play time. I don’t agree with rushing through dungeons but that may explain why some players have this attitude
In wow or ffxiv I ask the healer or tank what they’re comfortable with. If you can pull big or maybe give it a try let’s go! It’s a shame so many people expect perfection every time. I will say though tanking/healing in shadowlands is super easy.
A wise man once said, "Spaced repetition is the king for learning.", then again, and then... again. *taps temple* Also, making a set of keybinds for all my characters (using Shift and Control modifier keys for a bunch of things, too) and making that uniform across my characters was the best thing I ever did to improve my gameplay and enjoyment of the game. And that was back being main tank in Burning Crusade when I finally took the time to do that. I've got my Purge/Tranq Shot/Dispel Magic on the same hotkey for every character with something like that, same with my stuns, my situationals, all that jazz. Having a mindset built in innately for any character class that "Oh, I need a defensive skill for this. *boop*" and just hitting my defensive button is so nice. That's my best advice two-cents to toss onto this video. If you're someone that plays a lot of different characters then you will definitely benefit greatly from doing this.
Once upon a time, during the panda expansion, i came back to wow after a 2 year hiatus. I Logged my pally tank in, hit the LFG button, had a instant group and went with it. At some point during the run i noticed my healer had agro. I instantly bubbled her and continued on. Later at the end of the run i received my healers thanks, and i was left wondering where on my vanilla bars that spell was located, and which keybind cast it. I couldn't find it anywhere, and figured it was part of a macro. I did find the spell in a macro, but couldnt find the macro on my bars anywhere either. Still i had managed to cast it during that run. So eventually i found it on Bar 9. Back when i played, i used unitframes and a thoroughly custom UI. My fingers remembered how to save my healer from agro. After 2 years of not playing, my fingers knew, not my brain. Thats the kind of level you want to be playing at.
@@Shnozzu We're not lazy, it's just easy to do for the creator and doesn't really take that much more effort. While it makes it way easier to watch for thousands of people -.-
I’m a tad late but I want to say how thankful I am for this video. I know it’s just a game and it’s supposed to be an escape, but I’ve always been so hard on myself to the point where I do not want to accept I need to be better because that would mean I’m not good at something. I will make a list on what I need to work on to target my learning.
This video came at a very good time for me I just got into wow and have insane anxiety about anything in the game where I have to play with others so I hope these tips can help me
How old are you? I'm asking because when I was 16 and started playing WoW, I couldn't get past the starting zone. When I was 20 I couldn't talk to anybody and I crumbled inside whenever somebody whispered me. But then I was 27 and dealt with my anxiety for most of its part. Even met some best friends. Anyways, I had troubled playing with complete strangers until my last day in WoW. Tl;Dr Find a friend. :)
Destro warlocks are the best 1v1 class in the game and can do as much dps as afflication. Just need to watch my boi goryo from lightbringer server he is showing yall de way one parse at a time
my guide to getting good: collect mounts, shit on people who don't have mounts. if someone is bragging about a mount you dont have just say "everyone has that mount"
actually doing torghast with the motivation to do it well and not get super frustrated and annoyed can teach you to interrupt and dodge and watch what's happing and which mob you want to focus or CC
Also, develop a macro that automatically blames the healer or the tank. Since DPS can practice at a dummy or out in the world, but tanks and heals only getting better by wiping. Which makes them popular. There's nothing that makes the learning process more relaxing than having the group blame you. Including the toon that's doing a quarter the dps of the other two.
Well done for posting a video about how to help people do better and avoid anxiety. It’s crazy how people get so anxious and I’m included. I guess it’s coz I personally don’t wanna let my team down or feel stupid! But well done for making it. I will watch tommoz when I have free time!
yeah it's true, i got a LOT better and chill once i adjusted my key bindings and got through the tough phase of getting used to the changed layout (with a lot of sudden dismounting, pulling cooldowns and attacking random stuff 😬)
Play the way you want, how you want. Trying to play to someone elses ability will only drive you insane. Be happy with yourself and what you can do. Realize your limits and don't try to make something happen that can't happen - you'll never find a fish climbing a tree.
The only friend I have that is interested in wow usually plays with no sound, while answering questions from his wife, on a very tight desk, where his wow monitor is not centered, and he is also looking after his toddler, cat, and dog, at the same time. Enough said...
I’m producing 80-95% for my gear level “depending on the boss” (ret pally). I suck at using crusader strike and keeping concencrate down. Wow Logs is amazing for ppl learning like me.
everytime someone asked me for help over the years, they always say that the do exactly what the guide says, but somehow they do no damage. So many people have no clue about the game and have no clue what mistakes they do. And when they start getting better, they see their mistakes and get discouraged because they realise how bad they really are. But if you think about it, realising a mistake is the only way to improve. Seeing the mistake happen allows you react to it, gives you the opportunity to potetially save it from becoming a bigger problem a few seconds later. Seeing your mistakes shows you that you can get so, so much better. *Be thankful you can see your mistakes, not everyone can* Good Video Ps: Biggest tip, whenever you have any problem, actually fix that problem, don't sit on it.
I love Shadowlands at the moment. I think the real test will be over the next few months now as we say goodbye to the covenant campaign and settle down into a more ordinary routine.
I have same issue, i cant even get to appropriate m+ dung (7+) bcs of my spec, although i do almost every dung do by far most dmg and using interrupts+cc frequently. No matter how good player i am, i am simply outed bcs i dont play meta spec.
I’ve watched tons of your videos, but this one has a particular energy that makes it really outstanding, possibly my favorite although I just watched it in 2024!
In response to playing other video games, playing Monster Hunter made me a better tank back in the day, a game like that forces you to be aware of the environment, placement, and tells for big moves/spells.
I’m a Disc Priest who hasn’t healed any dungeons since returning to the game after a break because of anxiety. I don’t want to be the reason people have a bad time. But I’ll try it.
If you're so nervous respec to Holy for a few runs. I understand that the skills aren't completely transferable, but it's good for building up confidence, because playing Holy at a basic level is pretty easy.
The only thing that I need to learn is how to see where my character is on the screen when I'm playing a melee class. And yes, I've already turned down the graphics option to "essential" effects only. Also, a starter macro ... #showtooltip /cast [harm,nomod,nodead] _spell_ /cast [help,nomod,nodead] _spell_ /cast [harm,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_ /cast [help,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_ /cast [nomod,@player] _spell_ /cast [mod:shift,@player] _spell_ Replace _spell_ with the name of a spell from the spell book. That macro allows you to have one button do multiple things, depending on who you are targeting. Order of importance is from the top to bottom of the macro, so for example, if you always want the shift key to do something regardless of if you are targeting an enemy or a friend, moved the last line to the second line, right after the line with the #. Finally, without using an addon, you are limited to 255 characters per macro.
@20:30 I've never played a hunter, but I remember that the sleep-sting was called Wyvrn Sting. Boy I miss Cataclysm's class design for Holy Paladins: Holy Radiance gave me a Holy Power generator and an AoE heal with no cooldown. Exorcism gave me a ranged damage spell with no cooldown. Holy Shock's cooldown was shorter, Inquisition was a great finisher while soloing, having Rebuke on my spellbar was really useful, and on top of all of that, I also had Consecration and Holy Wrath on my spellbar (unlike in MoP and WoD) so I could handle AoE situations while soloing too. I keep missing those older abilities, and have since MoP! Blizzard really didn't go far enough with the unpruning!
I just wanna say something for how well this expansion has been. So me and my guild have been private server players for 2years as a guild plus some for each person's each experience. We have played both a TBC and WotLK server and planned to play another WotLK server that launches this month. However during our downtime me and a couple others tried Shadowlands and found it super enjoyable, so we convinced about 17 of our 25man guild to get on retail on the same server and we have been enjoying the content. As of last week we hit 9/10 heroic and are pretty excited to tryout Mythic. So personally I find it kind of crazy that we as a private server guild somehow converted into a retail guild. Just shows to me that this expansion has found a way to be enjoyable to people who prefer the old school version of WoW. Also we just love having actual resources instead of the wild west of information for the older expansions.
I feel like i learned a lot about my class running Torgast, i'm very well acquainted with my interrupts and oh shit buttons now, also the boosts made me research what skill does what ''forbearance increases damage by 25%'' okay, i need to know every skill that will grant me forbearance now
@@AiresLA I never had any real problems in dungeons, but the highest I ever did was Waycrest Manor Mythic+4. I met far more raving people in LFR Ny'Alotha.
I only started playing bfa and started m+ and raids in S4 (nyalotha). Right now I'm 1980 io and 6/10 m. My io is purely pugging :) My one tip is NEVER blame anyone. Ofc a tank can overpull or a dps body pulled something, but blaming someone once is way too dangerous of getting in the habit that once already too much. Theres always something you can do, maybe not to save everyone but to make the worst just a little better, no matter how dire the situation is.
I dont know why but watching this video made me remember a ZG run I did in Classic a few months ago. I was playing alot of arcane mage in BfA so when we got to Hakkar I zoned out and used POM and arcane power then landed a massive crit frostbolt and pulled all the agro off of the tanks and died to the soulflayer. We didn’t wipe though so thats good.
It’s so much fun for players to have raided each week without a single piece of gear drop. It’s also a blast to take stygia in the weekly vault. So much fun.
I haven’t had to take Stygia out of my weekly vault on any of my characters. If you do just a little bit of challenging content, you should never have to do that.
@@ExValeFor you talk about butthurt as being a bad thing then say you’ll imitate “the expert” in being butthurt. Are you always this easy to manipulate?
I want more videos like this!!! I wish you had a breakdown for figuring out which playstyle and then which class and then which spec actually works for the player. I'm actually serious here lol. I constantly feel like I like a lot of classes and specs but I think I get class envy pretty easily because I still don't feel like I've found the right class for me. I have a nostalgic feeling towards one class and another feeling towards another. If that makes sense.
Could be your just another altoholic like some of the rest of us xD I dont have mains anymore. But i play 6 classes on and off again depending on my mood or whatnot. They are all equally decent enough geared though. Sure they might not be bis geared but than again the highest content i do is heroic raiding and semi high m+ keys anyways.
I am surprised you focused on DPS so much in this vid and didn't even mention a tactic that can help get better with mechanics that works for me at least, which is.... play all the roles. Have alts to cover DPS, healer, and tank. Having experience in playing all the roles in all the various content greatly expands your understanding of all the mechanics and you will realize that sometimes the stressful areas of some various content isn't always the same based on your role and knowing when your friends are more stressed or more distracted can help you focus more on filling the gaps.
This is a great video mate. Returning after 8 years away has been at times an anxious process, and the whole keybind/UI relearning is so daunting. Still, enjoying the game even as a filthy casual lol
At 7:08 with Clova Warlock. What addons are you using? Specifically, what boss timer addon/wa is counting down the bottled anima? Is it BW or DB or a WA? I really like that visual better than the normal timer bars.
I found tourghast (however you spell that) has made me better at learning my new rogue spec as I can go in solo and still have a challenge without people judging me. I wish this kind of self learning content was available at lower levels for new wannabe tanks and healers
Great video! Have been researching the application of sports psychology in competitive game play. Have been wondering what makes a better player and is it all about playing as much as you can all the time. This gave me more to consider, thanks!
lol I was that destro lock, bottoming our raid meters... I didn't like affliction but I decided to just say fuck it, I'll learn it. Now I'm in our top 3 dps for basically every boss and loving it.
"don't go to narnia!" - very wise words. I've been having lots of talks with tanks about using their active mitigations and self heals - with DPS about using interrupts, and generally people just needing to learn their class. WoW is a complex game, because of all the abilities given to us, and the mechanics put in. If we all had 6 keys to push it would be easier, but it is what it is. I judge that everyone needs to take some time to really learn their class, if they expect to do group content effectively, and not be the one who has to be carried.
Lol amazing how fast things change… just eight months ago “World of Warcraft is in a pretty dang good place right now… I’ve not seen players so engaged…”
Yeah problem with this is that while people level there is no emphasis on interrupting. Like Ben in dungeons while leveling. So when people reach end game they really don’t understand the importance of CC and or interrupting because the amount of time they die to not interrupting or Ccing is non existent
Awesome content! I'm struggling to find ways to spend my Honor, it caps at 15k but I keep earning it... and I just know there is some older content where I can use that currency, if nothing else maybe get some gear for transmogs?? Maybe this would be a good video?
I would add play other roles. I learn so much I take back to tanking by playing a healer, melee dps, and ranged dps. Especially true if you play the class/specs your friends play. Play with different groups. Pugs and other statics. Invite other players and hear their recommendations.
Okay thank you for this. I really enjoyed this. Now to solve my struggle of what class to play. I have one of each, and I can’t figure out what to main! Gah! Lol
I really want to enjoy shadowlands, but I recently discovered private servers and have been playing wotlk since I hit 60 in retail. The difference in playstyle is so immense they feel like different games and honestly I like the wotlk feel more. It's not as easy as retail and thus feels more rewarding to me. But there are a lot of things from retail I like, so I'm torn. I haven't gone on retail in a month just bc it doesn't feel as fun in comparison. Idk...I want to like it more, I see the potential, but when I play it just doesn't catch me the way wotlk does. I think I ruined my shadowlands experience lmao
I feel like I need to keybind my cc and utility better.. I'd love to help by soothing and dispelling more, but I have to scramble to click those things. 😬 (suggestions for keybinds for those things are very welcome lol)
I’m not good with keybinds or macros, but I do have a mouse with two buttons on the side where my thumb is. I put my interrupt on it. It”s great for a spell you need to snap off quickly where you can’t be scrambling to find it on your hot bar. What tips do others have to share?
@@fairycardmakerlisa3359 Starter macro ... #showtooltip /cast [harm,nomod,nodead] _spell_ /cast [help,nomod,nodead] _spell_ /cast [harm,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_ /cast [help,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_ /cast [nomod,@player] _spell_ /cast [mod:shift,@player] _spell_ Replace _spell_ with the name of a spell from the spell book. That macro allows you to have one button do multiple things, depending on who you are targeting. Order of importance is from the top to bottom of the macro, so for example, if you always want the shift key to do something regardless of if you are targeting an enemy or a friend, moved the last line to the second line, right after the line with the #. Finally, without using an addon, you are limited to 255 characters per macro.
If this is the kind of micro management that is needed to see the content of this game then it’s not for me. I just want to have fun in the little free time that I have.
Agreed. Just chill and enjoy the game how you can. I play a Rogue, so I'm benched for the expansion anyway, no point in me worrying about raids, or mythic + for that matter, so I might as well just PVP instead. Maybe collect some mounts. In the end of the day it's just a game, best to keep your expectations reasonable.
it's not necessary it's only for those that wanna be "rock stars" like he said in the beginning 😎just have fun, chill and enjoy it that's what u want to do. some people just do pet battles and that's cool cos its the most fun for them! 🙂
There is a lot of content you don't need to do what Bel suggested: the current content (story, world content, achievements, collectibles), old content (on top of what I previously named, this also includes dungeons and raids), current dungeons on normal and heroic difficulty. You can even have some fun trying out the current challenges (the raid, Mythic dungeons, Mythic keystones, instanced PvP), but, without what was said in this video, don't expect it to go amazingly well.
Parses are basically how good you are compared to everyone else who plays your class. If you get a 95% percentile then you are better than 95% of people playing your class/spec. It doesn't directly translate to skill it mostly reviews dps over mechanical skill.
As someone who's been playing for around a decade (spriest) I'm finding it more difficult than ever to self audit. I find that I suck at M+ this xpac, but when I join runs in hopes of getting better, I just weigh the other 4 people down and feel super embarrassed, which in turn makes me never want to do them again. I can't really tell what I'm doing wrong, or plan a linear path of improvement. Likewise I parse in grey and green and have no idea how to get better. I though I was doing well since I'm like always top 5 on dps in Nathria, but after looking at logs, I feel like crap, and have no idea how to improve. Any help would be massively appreciated
Wauw, really cool to see high level out-of-game actually-real-life tactics implemented in how to improve your gameplay. I heard stuff coming by from books like Mastery from Robert Greene, Mindset from Carol Dweck, and so on :D Awesome
I just need friends that actually play the game :')
All my friends went alliance. I can’t do it.
Yeah I have the same problem. I’d have a wayyy better time if I had friends who played the game (sad solo player noises 😔)
If you're looking for a community to join to make WoW friends, I would take a look through the forums to see if you can find a post from a guild that you could see yourself joining. Or maybe even just being really nice and engaging in pugs.
Yea finding peiple to play with is the hard part really. They gotta be on your level and be interested in what you like doing.
Sounds easy but it isn't hehe.
Yep, I just cancelled my Abo, because I was only wasting time in there and it wasn't fun at all. Sad thing, but the multiplayer-experience in WoW kind of died for me. Some time ago, actually, tried to revive it with this expac, didn't work.
I was definitely expecting this type of video given the number of new players in the game, so if there's anyone new reading these comments, here's a few quick specific tips:
1. Interrupts. I've seen a painful amount of people in M+ that don't use interrupts, find it and use it.
2. Cleanse! Guarantee everyone has died to a debuff or dot they could have removed at least once
3. Class utility. I'm talking tricks of the trade, transendence, feign death, all those abilities you never think about until you spend time to learn them. Once you have the basics down, spend time finding situations to use a certain ability until it becomes habit
Oh and stop staring at your rotation, you're standing in fire again :')
Although people don't always want to PVP, Arenas are absolutely amazing at teaching you everything your character can do.
Damn! I was too busy reading your comment, and died in the fire...
Training dummies should have a score-board like on old arcade games showing highest score and a list of where you score on the list.
Ever since I came back to the game at the end of MoP (quit during firelands in cata) I’ve had tanking anxiety, despite it still being my favorite role. Just can’t bring myself to tank pugs anymore. People expect you to go at blazing speeds these days, not that I was ever a slug I still didn’t feel highly pressured to speed run every single dungeon before.
Agreed completely. I don't know all the fastest routes and which way is most efficient. Remember when you could just do a slow relaxing full clear of a dungeon over 45 minutes?
I agree, the game doesn’t feel fun if people are pressuring you to do fast pulls n skip mobs
i feel exactly the same with healing. often in pug groups it seems if i'm not outhealing every ignored mechanic and non-kicked tough spell during the speed runs while also getting at least half the damage dealers' DPS, then i'm a "bad healer" :( i really enjoyed healing up until after MoP...
I think the pressure the players are putting on you is due to the lack of drops at the end of dungeons. The quicker you finish the dungeon, the more dungeons they can get done in their allocated play time. I don’t agree with rushing through dungeons but that may explain why some players have this attitude
In wow or ffxiv I ask the healer or tank what they’re comfortable with. If you can pull big or maybe give it a try let’s go! It’s a shame so many people expect perfection every time. I will say though tanking/healing in shadowlands is super easy.
Bellular isn't giving me a better W.o.W experience. Dude be telling me how to solve my life problems here.
I came here in hope of release of the anxiety when I see a Firemage and a Sub Rogue Comb in the arena... well...
As a fire mage who runs this exact comb, I feel bad for the other team sometimes 🤣
Just mess up their opener
@@coolguy2242 You cant when you have sub rogues with perma burst every half seconds or so
😀👍🏻😀
Bring a druid healer. Immune to poly, can thorns and ironbark the rogue.
A wise man once said, "Spaced repetition is the king for learning.", then again, and then... again. *taps temple*
Also, making a set of keybinds for all my characters (using Shift and Control modifier keys for a bunch of things, too) and making that uniform across my characters was the best thing I ever did to improve my gameplay and enjoyment of the game. And that was back being main tank in Burning Crusade when I finally took the time to do that. I've got my Purge/Tranq Shot/Dispel Magic on the same hotkey for every character with something like that, same with my stuns, my situationals, all that jazz. Having a mindset built in innately for any character class that "Oh, I need a defensive skill for this. *boop*" and just hitting my defensive button is so nice.
That's my best advice two-cents to toss onto this video. If you're someone that plays a lot of different characters then you will definitely benefit greatly from doing this.
Once upon a time, during the panda expansion, i came back to wow after a 2 year hiatus. I Logged my pally tank in, hit the LFG button, had a instant group and went with it. At some point during the run i noticed my healer had agro. I instantly bubbled her and continued on. Later at the end of the run i received my healers thanks, and i was left wondering where on my vanilla bars that spell was located, and which keybind cast it. I couldn't find it anywhere, and figured it was part of a macro. I did find the spell in a macro, but couldnt find the macro on my bars anywhere either. Still i had managed to cast it during that run. So eventually i found it on Bar 9. Back when i played, i used unitframes and a thoroughly custom UI. My fingers remembered how to save my healer from agro. After 2 years of not playing, my fingers knew, not my brain. Thats the kind of level you want to be playing at.
You know what would make these videos more fun and fulfilling?....time stamps
Truer words have never been spoken
B- Rollllllllll
its another exercise figure it out yourself.... Lazy bones
@@Shnozzu Shouldn’t have to
@@Shnozzu We're not lazy, it's just easy to do for the creator and doesn't really take that much more effort. While it makes it way easier to watch for thousands of people -.-
I’m a tad late but I want to say how thankful I am for this video. I know it’s just a game and it’s supposed to be an escape, but I’ve always been so hard on myself to the point where I do not want to accept I need to be better because that would mean I’m not good at something. I will make a list on what I need to work on to target my learning.
This video came at a very good time for me I just got into wow and have insane anxiety about anything in the game where I have to play with others so I hope these tips can help me
How old are you? I'm asking because when I was 16 and started playing WoW, I couldn't get past the starting zone. When I was 20 I couldn't talk to anybody and I crumbled inside whenever somebody whispered me. But then I was 27 and dealt with my anxiety for most of its part. Even met some best friends.
Anyways, I had troubled playing with complete strangers until my last day in WoW.
Tl;Dr
Find a friend. :)
"Are you that destro warlock?" I feel personally attacked.
9:10 A warlock applying dots during movement? Strike 2 for me and my destro lock.
In our guild, we had a standing order, when the boss is about to fall, stop healing the warlocks.
Destro warlocks are the best 1v1 class in the game and can do as much dps as afflication. Just need to watch my boi goryo from lightbringer server he is showing yall de way one parse at a time
I like destro on most fights and it competes with aff. Just not sludgefist though. In m+ destro is nice as well.
my guide to getting good:
collect mounts, shit on people who don't have mounts. if someone is bragging about a mount you dont have just say "everyone has that mount"
Me af lmfaoooo
Are you asmons alt account?
STOP LOBBING FACTUAL STATEMENTS AT ME AS IF THEY'RE INSULTS...
@@Aizenong ...
mounts are forever my friend, we just need a damn reward for having 500 and 550 mounts B)
As Prot Paladin, I don't have to feel anxiety. We're just that good.
And i would politely like to say :
Fuck you guys in pvp! Thank you
Protection pally’s are dirty as hell. It’s rare if I ever die with mine
@bellulargaming, it's about time you make a video about the growing dissatisfaction with SL.
Love the Rockie RP in the background at the start.
actually doing torghast with the motivation to do it well and not get super frustrated and annoyed can teach you to interrupt and dodge and watch what's happing and which mob you want to focus or CC
Also, develop a macro that automatically blames the healer or the tank. Since DPS can practice at a dummy or out in the world, but tanks and heals only getting better by wiping. Which makes them popular. There's nothing that makes the learning process more relaxing than having the group blame you. Including the toon that's doing a quarter the dps of the other two.
Ok ok i feel this. Butttttt i also feel that if lvl 60s are dying in normal dungeons than the healer and/or tank is bad.
Well done for posting a video about how to help people do better and avoid anxiety. It’s crazy how people get so anxious and I’m included. I guess it’s coz I personally don’t wanna let my team down or feel stupid! But well done for making it. I will watch tommoz when I have free time!
yeah it's true, i got a LOT better and chill once i adjusted my key bindings and got through the tough phase of getting used to the changed layout (with a lot of sudden dismounting, pulling cooldowns and attacking random stuff 😬)
Knowledge + Practice + Feedback = Skill
My tip: if you go AFK on any hub, mount up your Brutosaur and kick out the auctioneer NPC.
Play the way you want, how you want. Trying to play to someone elses ability will only drive you insane. Be happy with yourself and what you can do. Realize your limits and don't try to make something happen that can't happen - you'll never find a fish climbing a tree.
Well said
Easily one of the best studio settings on UA-cam. So pleasant to look at it.
"Knowledge is power, I believe, as some strange mage in the game once said"
I didn't know Foucault was in WoW masquerading as Khadgar!
Spaced repetition is the king of learning.
The only friend I have that is interested in wow usually plays with no sound, while answering questions from his wife, on a very tight desk, where his wow monitor is not centered, and he is also looking after his toddler, cat, and dog, at the same time. Enough said...
That laps around Dalaran thing..
I'm not the only one?
I remember when I played some years ago, me and some friends always played hide and seek in Dalaran lol
nop, i call it the Dalaran-syndrome, and without explaining it, my friends know what im talking about, or have an idea of what it could be.
I’m producing 80-95% for my gear level “depending on the boss” (ret pally). I suck at using crusader strike and keeping concencrate down. Wow Logs is amazing for ppl learning like me.
everytime someone asked me for help over the years, they always say that the do exactly what the guide says, but somehow they do no damage.
So many people have no clue about the game and have no clue what mistakes they do.
And when they start getting better, they see their mistakes and get discouraged because they realise how bad they really are.
But if you think about it, realising a mistake is the only way to improve.
Seeing the mistake happen allows you react to it, gives you the opportunity to potetially save it from becoming a bigger problem a few seconds later.
Seeing your mistakes shows you that you can get so, so much better.
*Be thankful you can see your mistakes, not everyone can*
Good Video
Ps: Biggest tip, whenever you have any problem, actually fix that problem, don't sit on it.
Hey is there a link for the key bindings video?
The rocky montage was killer. Nice job!
Bellular, I am madly in love with your sweater!
Could you, please, tell where you bought it?
I love Shadowlands at the moment. I think the real test will be over the next few months now as we say goodbye to the covenant campaign and settle down into a more ordinary routine.
The key bindings helped me so much, brand new game. I started playing in August and I had picked up bad habits
This had the same genuine excitement as your lore videos, nice job!
looking at logs and watching log analysis videos helped me with healing SO much
[whisper]
A: Balance?
B: No, Feral
*Declined*
I did this yesterday in a 10/10 normal 1shot i made, IM SORRY 🤣
[Whisper]
A:Unholy?
B:No, Frost.
Declined
This no joke just happened to me today, got denied from rbg cuz “you are feral, not boomie”
I have same issue, i cant even get to appropriate m+ dung (7+) bcs of my spec, although i do almost every dung do by far most dmg and using interrupts+cc frequently. No matter how good player i am, i am simply outed bcs i dont play meta spec.
@@raze99 I main Frost and this doesn't surprise me.
The movement tip is SO important. Something I'm learning a lot this tier as a healer. Great stuff!
I’ve watched tons of your videos, but this one has a particular energy that makes it really outstanding, possibly my favorite although I just watched it in 2024!
In response to playing other video games, playing Monster Hunter made me a better tank back in the day, a game like that forces you to be aware of the environment, placement, and tells for big moves/spells.
I’m a Disc Priest who hasn’t healed any dungeons since returning to the game after a break because of anxiety. I don’t want to be the reason people have a bad time. But I’ll try it.
If you're so nervous respec to Holy for a few runs. I understand that the skills aren't completely transferable, but it's good for building up confidence, because playing Holy at a basic level is pretty easy.
The only thing that I need to learn is how to see where my character is on the screen when I'm playing a melee class.
And yes, I've already turned down the graphics option to "essential" effects only.
Also, a starter macro ...
#showtooltip
/cast [harm,nomod,nodead] _spell_
/cast [help,nomod,nodead] _spell_
/cast [harm,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_
/cast [help,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_
/cast [nomod,@player] _spell_
/cast [mod:shift,@player] _spell_
Replace _spell_ with the name of a spell from the spell book.
That macro allows you to have one button do multiple things, depending on who you are targeting.
Order of importance is from the top to bottom of the macro, so for example, if you always want the shift key to do something regardless of if you are targeting an enemy or a friend, moved the last line to the second line, right after the line with the #.
Finally, without using an addon, you are limited to 255 characters per macro.
spaced repetition is the king for learning...wait, why did i comment that?
@20:30 I've never played a hunter, but I remember that the sleep-sting was called Wyvrn Sting.
Boy I miss Cataclysm's class design for Holy Paladins: Holy Radiance gave me a Holy Power generator and an AoE heal with no cooldown. Exorcism gave me a ranged damage spell with no cooldown. Holy Shock's cooldown was shorter, Inquisition was a great finisher while soloing, having Rebuke on my spellbar was really useful, and on top of all of that, I also had Consecration and Holy Wrath on my spellbar (unlike in MoP and WoD) so I could handle AoE situations while soloing too.
I keep missing those older abilities, and have since MoP! Blizzard really didn't go far enough with the unpruning!
I just wanna say something for how well this expansion has been. So me and my guild have been private server players for 2years as a guild plus some for each person's each experience. We have played both a TBC and WotLK server and planned to play another WotLK server that launches this month. However during our downtime me and a couple others tried Shadowlands and found it super enjoyable, so we convinced about 17 of our 25man guild to get on retail on the same server and we have been enjoying the content. As of last week we hit 9/10 heroic and are pretty excited to tryout Mythic.
So personally I find it kind of crazy that we as a private server guild somehow converted into a retail guild. Just shows to me that this expansion has found a way to be enjoyable to people who prefer the old school version of WoW. Also we just love having actual resources instead of the wild west of information for the older expansions.
Hello I want to join in a wow guild, were i can find wow guild to creat my character in there server?
Fantastic! So true...slow down to get ahead.
i literally started that walking Frog Train in oribos while chatting with the guildies lmao
I feel like i learned a lot about my class running Torgast, i'm very well acquainted with my interrupts and oh shit buttons now, also the boosts made me research what skill does what ''forbearance increases damage by 25%'' okay, i need to know every skill that will grant me forbearance now
I prefer to simply have fun over "getting good" with these methods.
@@AiresLA I never had any real problems in dungeons, but the highest I ever did was Waycrest Manor Mythic+4.
I met far more raving people in LFR Ny'Alotha.
I only started playing bfa and started m+ and raids in S4 (nyalotha). Right now I'm 1980 io and 6/10 m. My io is purely pugging :) My one tip is NEVER blame anyone. Ofc a tank can overpull or a dps body pulled something, but blaming someone once is way too dangerous of getting in the habit that once already too much. Theres always something you can do, maybe not to save everyone but to make the worst just a little better, no matter how dire the situation is.
I dont know why but watching this video made me remember a ZG run I did in Classic a few months ago.
I was playing alot of arcane mage in BfA so when we got to Hakkar I zoned out and used POM and arcane power then landed a massive crit frostbolt and pulled all the agro off of the tanks and died to the soulflayer. We didn’t wipe though so thats good.
Don't know if it has been mentioned already but in my opinion Torghast is a great place to practice. It has pretty much all the basic WoW mechanics
It’s so much fun for players to have raided each week without a single piece of gear drop. It’s also a blast to take stygia in the weekly vault. So much fun.
I haven’t had to take Stygia out of my weekly vault on any of my characters. If you do just a little bit of challenging content, you should never have to do that.
@@KoyoteVS unless all your higher ilvl choices are all pants when wearing 235 leggo pants. Try again maybe?
@@ExValeFor you could just not go through life being butthurt over other people’s comments
Sucks to suck
@@ExValeFor you talk about butthurt as being a bad thing then say you’ll imitate “the expert” in being butthurt. Are you always this easy to manipulate?
I want more videos like this!!! I wish you had a breakdown for figuring out which playstyle and then which class and then which spec actually works for the player. I'm actually serious here lol. I constantly feel like I like a lot of classes and specs but I think I get class envy pretty easily because I still don't feel like I've found the right class for me. I have a nostalgic feeling towards one class and another feeling towards another. If that makes sense.
Could be your just another altoholic like some of the rest of us xD I dont have mains anymore. But i play 6 classes on and off again depending on my mood or whatnot. They are all equally decent enough geared though. Sure they might not be bis geared but than again the highest content i do is heroic raiding and semi high m+ keys anyways.
A lot of good points that don't just apply to WoW, thank you.
I am surprised you focused on DPS so much in this vid and didn't even mention a tactic that can help get better with mechanics that works for me at least, which is.... play all the roles. Have alts to cover DPS, healer, and tank. Having experience in playing all the roles in all the various content greatly expands your understanding of all the mechanics and you will realize that sometimes the stressful areas of some various content isn't always the same based on your role and knowing when your friends are more stressed or more distracted can help you focus more on filling the gaps.
My favorite video yet!
This is a great video mate. Returning after 8 years away has been at times an anxious process, and the whole keybind/UI relearning is so daunting. Still, enjoying the game even as a filthy casual lol
At 7:08 with Clova Warlock. What addons are you using? Specifically, what boss timer addon/wa is counting down the bottled anima? Is it BW or DB or a WA? I really like that visual better than the normal timer bars.
@BellularGaming any help is appreciated.
People are not having fun in the game and thats what is missing. Its just a game. Thank you for the fun video.
Suggestion for Title Change, Unlock A BETTER DPS (cause I'm not really going to give advise for anything other than DPS)
Generally speaking everything he said applies to all roles your dps as a tank or a healer matters a lot
I found tourghast (however you spell that) has made me better at learning my new rogue spec as I can go in solo and still have a challenge without people judging me. I wish this kind of self learning content was available at lower levels for new wannabe tanks and healers
Great video! Have been researching the application of sports psychology in competitive game play. Have been wondering what makes a better player and is it all about playing as much as you can all the time. This gave me more to consider, thanks!
“When you move you don’t have to move all the way to Narnia.” 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻
lol I was that destro lock, bottoming our raid meters... I didn't like affliction but I decided to just say fuck it, I'll learn it. Now I'm in our top 3 dps for basically every boss and loving it.
"don't go to narnia!" - very wise words.
I've been having lots of talks with tanks about using their active mitigations and self heals - with DPS about using interrupts, and generally people just needing to learn their class. WoW is a complex game, because of all the abilities given to us, and the mechanics put in. If we all had 6 keys to push it would be easier, but it is what it is. I judge that everyone needs to take some time to really learn their class, if they expect to do group content effectively, and not be the one who has to be carried.
Where is this keybindings video? I really need a guide like that. I'm not seeing it in your video list though.
Lol amazing how fast things change… just eight months ago “World of Warcraft is in a pretty dang good place right now… I’ve not seen players so engaged…”
*clears throat* For the love of God, use your damn interrupt!
Yeah problem with this is that while people level there is no emphasis on interrupting.
Like Ben in dungeons while leveling. So when people reach end game they really don’t understand the importance of CC and or interrupting because the amount of time they die to not interrupting or Ccing is non existent
Thank you for this. You rock, Bellular!
Some great tips and sources here 👍🏼 nice one!
As a new player this helps me a lot. Thank you!
Not sure if any of this would make me have fun against arms warriors in arena tho
Just made a comment about firemages and sub rogues in arena aswell... there is no release. Only pain.
Play sub, ret or fire mage. Counter/sit through Stormbolt and Fear and go ham.
Balance dudu is hell man
Everyday I debate switching to sub from outlaw despite how much I prefer the playstyle of outlaw.
I'm working on getting better at interrupts. I'm very bad at it, I miss more often than I hit, and Torghast has forced me to patch that weakness.
deletet wow beginning of january. felt like a second job and the Maw...what a pain. The Design is really nice...but ..yeah. Not my piece of cake
I'm not defending the game but, why do the maw?
@@JustAnotherGuy1991 think it's because of the socket.
@@CosmicCleric why try hard for a socket? From the way he explained it he should be fine without it
@@JustAnotherGuy1991 No idea, but there are those who will min/max those kinds of things, since the game design allows it.
@@JustAnotherGuy1991 Also, I don't see how his comment can be viewed as someone who would be "fine without it". Could you elaborate?
How do you set elvui to show what mobs to tranq shot?
Now, you mentioned the Proving Grounds. I'm wondering, are they still a good place to learn the rotations and how to play the class?
Awesome content! I'm struggling to find ways to spend my Honor, it caps at 15k but I keep earning it... and I just know there is some older content where I can use that currency, if nothing else maybe get some gear for transmogs?? Maybe this would be a good video?
I would add play other roles. I learn so much I take back to tanking by playing a healer, melee dps, and ranged dps. Especially true if you play the class/specs your friends play.
Play with different groups. Pugs and other statics. Invite other players and hear their recommendations.
Could you do a video on healers? I'm not a dps main but a druid healer main, and would love a video on healing. :) would appreciate it immensely!!
Yo, what happend to the bellular bews channel btw? Its been silent for 3 weeks and I cant find anything about it.
Loving the wide aspect ratio!
Okay thank you for this. I really enjoyed this. Now to solve my struggle of what class to play. I have one of each, and I can’t figure out what to main! Gah! Lol
thoughtful … and actually instructional for me
I really want to enjoy shadowlands, but I recently discovered private servers and have been playing wotlk since I hit 60 in retail. The difference in playstyle is so immense they feel like different games and honestly I like the wotlk feel more. It's not as easy as retail and thus feels more rewarding to me. But there are a lot of things from retail I like, so I'm torn. I haven't gone on retail in a month just bc it doesn't feel as fun in comparison. Idk...I want to like it more, I see the potential, but when I play it just doesn't catch me the way wotlk does. I think I ruined my shadowlands experience lmao
Always great content btw
I feel like I need to keybind my cc and utility better.. I'd love to help by soothing and dispelling more, but I have to scramble to click those things. 😬 (suggestions for keybinds for those things are very welcome lol)
I’m not good with keybinds or macros, but I do have a mouse with two buttons on the side where my thumb is. I put my interrupt on it. It”s great for a spell you need to snap off quickly where you can’t be scrambling to find it on your hot bar. What tips do others have to share?
@@fairycardmakerlisa3359
Starter macro ...
#showtooltip
/cast [harm,nomod,nodead] _spell_
/cast [help,nomod,nodead] _spell_
/cast [harm,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_
/cast [help,mod:shift,nodead] _spell_
/cast [nomod,@player] _spell_
/cast [mod:shift,@player] _spell_
Replace _spell_ with the name of a spell from the spell book.
That macro allows you to have one button do multiple things, depending on who you are targeting.
Order of importance is from the top to bottom of the macro, so for example, if you always want the shift key to do something regardless of if you are targeting an enemy or a friend, moved the last line to the second line, right after the line with the #.
Finally, without using an addon, you are limited to 255 characters per macro.
If this is the kind of micro management that is needed to see the content of this game then it’s not for me.
I just want to have fun in the little free time that I have.
Agreed. Just chill and enjoy the game how you can. I play a Rogue, so I'm benched for the expansion anyway, no point in me worrying about raids, or mythic + for that matter, so I might as well just PVP instead. Maybe collect some mounts. In the end of the day it's just a game, best to keep your expectations reasonable.
it's not necessary it's only for those that wanna be "rock stars" like he said in the beginning 😎just have fun, chill and enjoy it that's what u want to do. some people just do pet battles and that's cool cos its the most fun for them! 🙂
Then this video isn't for you?
There is a lot of content you don't need to do what Bel suggested: the current content (story, world content, achievements, collectibles), old content (on top of what I previously named, this also includes dungeons and raids), current dungeons on normal and heroic difficulty.
You can even have some fun trying out the current challenges (the raid, Mythic dungeons, Mythic keystones, instanced PvP), but, without what was said in this video, don't expect it to go amazingly well.
@@BranGeddon lol
yo can anybody tell me which addon his crisp looking raidframes is?
The opportunity for "Spaced repetition is the king of learning" to continue on for another 5-6 cuts has been missed.
people keep telling me to get good, now i can. going to link this to everyone. good shit.
I still don't know what parses are.......
Imagine DPS meters, but it includes everyone.
Performance analytics
Imagine not doing mechanics properly but padding a dps meter and you get parses.
@@Menky90 yikes bruh work on doing mechanics and getting good parses
Parses are basically how good you are compared to everyone else who plays your class. If you get a 95% percentile then you are better than 95% of people playing your class/spec. It doesn't directly translate to skill it mostly reviews dps over mechanical skill.
As someone who's been playing for around a decade (spriest) I'm finding it more difficult than ever to self audit. I find that I suck at M+ this xpac, but when I join runs in hopes of getting better, I just weigh the other 4 people down and feel super embarrassed, which in turn makes me never want to do them again. I can't really tell what I'm doing wrong, or plan a linear path of improvement. Likewise I parse in grey and green and have no idea how to get better. I though I was doing well since I'm like always top 5 on dps in Nathria, but after looking at logs, I feel like crap, and have no idea how to improve. Any help would be massively appreciated
Wauw, really cool to see high level out-of-game actually-real-life tactics implemented in how to improve your gameplay. I heard stuff coming by from books like Mastery from Robert Greene, Mindset from Carol Dweck, and so on :D Awesome
Prot pally; barely use my Blessings and Word of Glory on other players; time to tinker around with that... Ty for the video :)
So how is a Kul Tiran on the Pandarian Turtle? Just wondering.
Dude there was this DH tank that made everyone seem like pros and he never died after pulling so much mobs
You forgot drink beer. Nothing calms down a raid more then finding out the main healer is loaded. :)
✨ Alcoholism ✨
@@Seanyboy340 troll