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[00:57] back to the video the biggest mistake we found repeated across all dungeons was confident that this is the most important problem to fix if you want to climb you see there is a problem in Mythic plus and we're all guilty of it
[01:11] we want our damage to be high at all times but sometimes mechanics get in the way causing a loss in uptime and the feeling that we aren't doing enough DPS to a boss or priority Target so what winds up happening are situations like
[01:23] you're about to see here where this group of melee try and greet a bit of extra damage before moving away for soul Ren and now have to frantically deal with killing the mobs directly next to the spiders now thankfully no one in the
[01:36] group died but this situation could have easily gone much worse and was easily avoidable by just sacrificing a tiny amount of damage and if there is one takeaway we want you to learned from this entire video it's this stability is
[01:49] always more important than damage trying to squeeze in some extra DPS are sake of pumping up your logs might seem tempting but consistently Being Greedy is never benefit icial but what you saw earlier wasn't the worst case of greed
[02:03] ancient protectors fight in ever Bloom we can see another example where this Warrior will try and maximize up Time by staying in melee range instead of stationary boss and maybe without knowing they have just added unnecessary
[02:17] damage for the Healer to deal with and have even made it harder to cleave two bosses at once with a sea of green puddles standing in the way the fix to this is simple if you're willing to pull away for just a second or two not only
[02:30] group but in turn you might actually see a DPS increase since it's now easier to safely cleave two of the bosses at once we can see an almost identical problem on the coals time mob and garron's fall where melee try and get greedy during
[02:44] Chrono burst failing to pull away and then blasting the entire group with damage you might have seen groups on Twitch manage this mechanic without fully spreading out but as you can see here it requires personals and even
[02:56] external CDs to live which we know can be incredibly rare in any pug environment what you will find is that once again melee and hierar kees are damage in order to maintain stability for the group this is the winning
[03:10] mindset that carries the hardest especially in pugs stability can also be doesn't seem necessary here on the hearts span Triad melee will get the most value by kicking the non-active witches since the priority which only
[03:24] deals tank damage and since our tank here is a blood DK our R putting their kicks into malody is a complete waste since blood deks can easily survive or hierar Keys is that melee aren't simply tunnel visioning damage or interrupts on
[03:39] this fight and are instead Focus kicking the inactive sisters because by doing so they add more stability to the group and speaking of kicks this is yet another area where melee are making a very simple mistake even if they don't know
[03:52] confessors are probably the most important Casters in tazar having not one but two high priority spells that need to be kicked many melee get in the habit of sunning first thinking that it's more efficient to get their higher
[04:05] cooldown CD out of the way to stop the second cast with an interrupt hopefully you can see the potential mistake with this logic if there are two casts that need to be interrupted back to back then your kick should always be prioritized
[04:17] first and then your stop second because by doing so you will give your lower cooldown kick time to recover which now gives you a third interrupt that wouldn't have been possible if you had instead kicked second that's why you you
[04:29] need to get into a simple routine remembering to kick first and stop second so you can kick once more and that's exactly what we will see our high rated player do here where they stop the First cast with a
[04:42] kick and then the second cast with a stun and as you can see their kick actually gets a cooldown recovery period during the stun opening up the possibility to kick a second time well as long as we stay alive doing so
[04:56] interrupts for as long as possible which is something that we fail to see melee do especially on intense pulls like the first hallway and Throne of Tides where it's vital to interrupt the oracles once again on these mobs or any other pull
[05:10] where you need to stop multiple cast the logic is always going to be the same kick first and stop second which allows enough time to pass for your kick to come up once again the value of your interrupt is huge as a melee DPS since
[05:22] it has a much lower CD compared to most ranged and in order to tap into that disruption the next mistake we discovered was melee dying to some of the most frustrating and sometimes confusing frontals in
[05:35] season 3 lady vandas Raven Crest is the first mini boss in Black Rook hold who has a lethal ability called strike down which is really difficult to avoid for a few reasons you see unlike most frontals strike down doesn't have a clear Visual
[05:49] and covers 180° around lady Raven Crest with a 10 yard range so even if you are slightly off to the side you will get hit which is an almost guaranteed one shot if you don't have active Dr now of course most of you already know to avoid
[06:03] frontals especially when they have a very clear visual but there is one more hidden cleave just like lady Raven Crist that you need to avoid the last boss of ever Bloom can actually cause issues on tyrannical weeks if you aren't careful
[06:16] with the flourishing ancients these mobs also can pack a punch with their lumbering swipe which again doesn't have a clear visual while the damage isn't as lethal this fight is already quite healing intensive so you can't really
[06:28] afford to be lazy of course the fix to any frontal is to just not get hit thanks skill cap but seriously There is almost no situation where it's going to be bad to stand behind any mob so just be more careful with your positioning
[06:42] and you can avoid a ton of headaches and speaking of positioning our fourth mistake is not abusing hitboxes this is a concept we've covered before in our melee course and is more practical than you might think here we can see the
[06:54] boss's hit Box by using the targeting circle on the ground it's obviously really big which means the boss can be hit from a longer distance but notice here how our Demon Hunter is well within the interior of the hit box which means
[07:06] they have to move more to dodge the spikes which are closer together near the center of the circle remember that some melee including this feral Druid melee attacks which means for these specs you are doing way more work than
[07:19] actually needed since you could simply move less by standing slightly further away now if we look at a high rated player on the same boss you can instantly tell that they barely have to move because they're standing on the far
[07:31] side of the hit box on Arron there is a practical benefit to abusing hit boxes but there are very few cases if any where it's beneficial to stand inside of the targeting Circle it can even be risky to stand directly on top of some
[07:43] mobs with larger character models since by doing so you make it harder to see AOE that might be directly below the mob there are even some bosses like the manifested time ways who have a much larger hit boox than the ground visual
[07:55] suggests and by abusing maximum range it can be easier to play this bosses mechanics our next mistake is something that our healer expert begged us to put in this video in his own words he said please watch your Agro on pole there is
[08:09] a combination of situations where aggro can be an issue first off if your spec deals massive frontload of damage like Fury Warrior Havoc DH or R Paladin then during coold down Windows now if you combine front-loaded burst with a tank
[08:22] like blood DK and guardian Druid who can struggle to generate threat on P then you have a recipe for drawing aggro and potten entially dying these tanks need reduction during PS which means they have fewer damage globals to generate
[08:36] threat some poles are more dangerous than others bigger poles where mobs are Throne of Tides can be exceptionally dangerous since your tank will be having to be making big moves to get every pack clumped together all while possibly
[08:50] needing to spend resources on building damage reduction another poll where this can happen is with these spiderlings and black rold while traveling up the stairwell here your tank is needing to make a big movement in an awkward space
[09:02] which means they might struggle to generate Agro while also building Dr in the start of ever Bloom it's worth it to sacrifice a few seconds of burst damage in order to let your tank set up the pull first remember the Golden Rule
[09:15] stability is more important than damage your damage will be there and will be even more valuable once the pull is set so you should be willing to delay a small amount of damage in order to make sure your healer has the easiest life
[09:28] your healer there is one thing healers love more than anything else utility our last and final melee mistake is neglecting this vital part of your augmentation okre has dominated for the
[09:42] last two seasons and it's not their damage it's the fact that evokers make your group feel Immortal while you might not have nearly as much utility as augmentation of okre you at least have some and if you're lucky enough to play
[09:54] a spec like R Paladin you definitely have more than others always remember the golden rule of Mythic plus if you play Paladin you need to be taking advantage of your entire toolkit paying attention to your party's HP to bop Sack
[10:07] thanner will tell you that the best melee to play with are people who have a Healer like brain always looking out for the group and doing everything they can to maintain stability even if you play a melee which has limited utility like a
[10:21] glance at your team's HP bars during critical moments when you know there will be a lot of group damage a well-timed r rallying cry can be a Difference Maker in preventing a wipe because remember your HP bar isn't the
[10:35] matters all right and now you know the biggest mistakes melee players make that hold them back from climbing if you're still feeling stuck when you just can't rank up no matter how hard you try then skill caps is the solution you've been
[10:48] melee tips in our mechanics course that go hand inand with our class specific tricks and tell you what mistakes to avoid if you want to master your spec in season 3 so skeptical don't worry as you can try
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[11:16] that's it for today's video we want to thank you all for watching see you soon