What Route Guides Don't Teach You (Important)

[00:01] thing that low-rated and high- rated tanks do differently what would you say most people think that better tanks can handle bigger PS after all that's what Mythic plus is all about tanks need to be Fearless willing to take a few risk

[00:13] for the chance at a massive payoff but here's the truth being a good tank is more than just being cool what matters the most is being smart in fact what about how big they make their pulls but more about how and when they decide to

[00:28] pull small we're not playing Mario Kart here you can't just plug in a route and press the W key all dungeon instead you need to learn how and when to adapt your knowledge of each player and the mistakes that are bound to happen that's

[00:42] why we teamed up with Mez a multi MDI Champion and World first Raider from Ekko to guide us through every dungeon in season 3 with the goal of teaching you how to adapt your runs based on the millions of things that can and will go

[00:54] wrong he even took the time to go through his own keys in a brand new course at skillcap tocom where he explains his thought process in each dungeon one poll at a time along the way he points out his own mistakes showing

[01:06] you exactly what to avoid during your runs this is a rare opportunity to learn from one of the best players in WoW history and Implement proven strategies into your own gameplay that are guaranteed to make you play better and

[01:18] smarter in your next run so after this video be sure to check out our brand new course at skillcap tocom and learn more about our rating gain guarantee you can even use the links below for an exclusive discount offer to sign up for

[01:30] now let's get back to the video there are three Core Concepts that affect how and when you need to adapt your route we will be getting most of our value at the base level coold Downs which directly affect how big or how small we can pull

[01:42] most people would stop here but not you because the next layer is group composition and how the unique strengths and weaknesses of your party matter a lot more than most people think and finally we have our last layer time

[01:54] being able to conceptualize the distance between pulls to optimize cool down recovery if you can manage to master all three then you can pull just like Mez and Mythic plus to build our foundation let's dive into a tall desar where Mez

[02:07] will teach us about our most important layer cooldowns most of you probably fundamental variable for determining pull size more CDs means being able to pull bigger and vice versa this is basic information but even the basics have

[02:21] nuance and later in this video we will explain why Mez chooses a slightly while most people would simply grab these small mobs here Mez actually in the middle of the dungeon and if you look at any popular route right now for

[02:35] a tall desar there are almost zero guides that tell you to do this Mez made explain why later in this guide but one part of this decision was based on his team's defensive cool Downs let's hear what he has to say therefore we opt out

[02:49] to do this small pull here um as this pull doesn't require any cool Downs in just defensive Coons um this is quite nice because as you can see from the boss fight no one take Tak takes any damage basically so

[03:01] you can see the demant has blur ready the through has B ready the warock has ready so no one in his group should be in danger apart from the shaman he has his Earth Elemental but he also has a group utility any he does damage he will

[03:17] heal us now let's move on to a poll later on where once again we need to budget and already you should tell that we are a bit limited all right let's Warlock and Demon Hunter are missing multiple major cooldowns our Shaman is

[03:32] less cool down dependent but now we need to make a decision should Mez pull big or pull small the answer should be obvious pull small with a limited cool aggressive so for now we will play conservatively pulling three mobs into

[03:46] our group while we wait for cool Downs to recover even though this might seem too safe we will be rewarded next pull because right after this we're going to be dealing with a much larger pull where we will be dealing with a five mob pack

[03:58] that can deal a ton of damage but since we just played safe we will have everything we need to deal with this new challenge here Mez will also do his group is still positioning for the pull in this moment he is indirectly

[04:12] sweeps not only as a form of damage leeway for positioning in the room anyways because he played conservatively safely take his group into a more dangerous pull since now is the right

[04:26] moment for cool Downs to carry it should be no surprise that once this pull is done Mars will then go back to pulling small only taking three mobs while we wait for cool Downs to recover and this is where things get interesting because

[04:38] now we not only have a big pull in front of us but a boss immediately after most of their cool down budget which means we need to make another decision do we send CDs now or do we save them for the boss here the answer is a bit

[04:53] more complicated we need to think about the difficulty and mechanics of the boss themselves with with transfusion which means as long as everyone does their job we really don't need CDs at all for this encounter this is why Mez introduces an

[05:07] extra mob in front of the boss when his group CDs are ready that way we can use point knowing that CDs probably aren't needed for the upcoming fight actively tracking CDs helps avoid the classic Goldilocks problem in wow where tanks

[05:20] either play too aggressive or too safe and is one of the many traps we actively try and teach players to avoid especially in our tanking course to see the goldilock problem in action let's check out some gameplay here this group

[05:33] will advance past the first boss with Paladin and Hunter CDs almost ready but instead of pushing towards a larger pull our tank will decide to pull small not just one time with these non- Elites and not just two times with this small pack

[05:45] on the bridge but three times in a row resulting in a 2-minute period where our R Paladin doesn't even use Wings because using it on these smaller packs doesn't safe was the reason why this key went untimed so just to recap when deciding

[06:00] how to navigate your route the first step is to think about cooldown Cadence to go big but when they're limited this is one clear sign to scale things back using our team's available cooldowns to affect our decision- making the next

[06:14] level is more advanced your group composition and how the classes that make up your party can influence the size of polls to begin to understand how this works let's look at the first pull in this Throne of Tides where Mez admits

[06:26] that he makes a big pulling mistake but let's it in his own words so we're trying to stack up a big pull here as you can see is here we're Gathering the first two mobs at the second pack we're trying we're going to kick the second

[06:39] Caster in here and we're also adding the third pack in this is actually quite here now is that we don't have really interrupts for these back mobs here and used on the front mob here and now we used a single kick from a warlock of the

[06:56] doesn't walk in this makes it really difficult to stack was something we should have not done we should have not added this last pack here that has two castom Ms or comp can straight up just not deal with it good

[07:11] um so don't do this if your group comp is looking like this if you can stack up the pack Easier by moving in this other caster and you have more kicks in your group comp this is definitely a viable choice but not for us in this case we

[07:24] can see here the tank is dropping very low Aon is a little bit struggling using defensives left right and Center uh we can see here clicks even dying because there's too many water bolts of these C

[07:37] is going off we straight up do not have kicks to deal with them we only have one melee kick that's got used we have one Mage kick ready that we could use but he's also getting chased on by

[07:49] Spide generally just a very bad pull should not have done this as you can see this first Caster here that we left the load in the back at 80% HP basically basically and we didn't almost gain anything from adding this last pack into

[08:03] the mix here going back to a tall desar we have a similar situation with two witch doctors that will chain cast but this time we have a kick budget that can actually support this with four short CD interrupts in fact at this point we

[08:15] might be over budgeted with kicks for this pull but the point still stands your group comp affects how your decision- making you can't just think of further and adapt your pulls around the

[08:27] hand sometimes doing slightly larger pulls can be beneficial for your group Mar's pulled this pack on the right before jumping down to the first boss this is because Enhancement Shaman can

[08:40] do a lot of funnel damage with more mobs to attack and since this is an easy boss and the additional mobs pose no threat it's a no-brainer to introduce them into the fight later on the group will intentionally spawn some Raptors once

[08:52] without much additional risk it's crucial as a tank to understand the tank decides to pull the first boss without introducing any of the non Elites this is really bad considering that our Shaman Fury Warrior and frost

[09:06] Mage will all benefit from introducing additional mobs all without any risk to established that coold Downs are important for pull size but so is group right tools to manage larger poles especially if multiple stops are needed

[09:21] pull size can be handled by damage profiles now we need to add our final layer time here's what they things get a bit abstract but have you ever put a timer thinking to yourself I know when it's going to be 10 minutes but then 10

[09:36] minutes go by and instead of a golden brown crust you arrive to the most diabolical creation your oven has ever created the truth is we are all bad at keeping track of time in our head and more often than not we underestimate how

[09:48] long it takes to get from point A to point B at this point you might be asking what any of this has to do with Mythic plus let's go back to our pyramid important consideration from pulling

[10:00] based on the time it takes for cool Downs to recover remember at the start of this video when we said that marz chose a slightly different route after calculating the time it would take to go to the next possible big pole in the

[10:12] dungeon by thinking about distance marz is able to choose the best route based on cool down recovery this leads him down a relatively unconventional route the center of the dungeon and by the time the pull is over he can then use

[10:25] some important cool Downs allowing him to chain two big pulls back to back party's cool down budget when navigating your route and deciding what to pull you have to think about more than just group cooldowns now keep in mind that there

[10:40] deciding how to pull and what mob to prioritize and in a follow-up video we will cover dungeon pacing and the micro decisions you need to make on every pull because let's face it Mythic plus is complicated for that reason we had marz

[10:54] put together full commentaries for every dungeon this season which can only be found at skill cap.com in this brand new course Mars explains his thought process some of the most common mistakes that players make when navigating pushing

[11:07] higher keys this course goes hand inand with all of our class guys which teach you high level information you need to do the biggest damage while also increase the value of your entire toolkit including CC and survivability

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[11:34] until then we want to thank you all for watching see you