Suggested path
Tank
Control the fight, protect the crew, and keep everything pointed away from the people wearing cloth.
For players learning to tank — any class, any experience level.
Follow the stages in any order — nothing here is required or locked.
What you'll learn
- Understand threat, positioning, and fight control
- Use mitigation and defensives deliberately
- Pull, group, and pace dungeon content
- Handle tank swaps and raid positioning
Suggested Path
Stages, not requirements — jump to whatever you need.
What a Tank Actually Does
Own the fight — the rest is detail.
Enemy control
Where enemies stand and who they face decides half the fight before anyone casts.
Staying Alive
Role-focused survivability — not a class rotation.
Active mitigation
Keep your short-cooldown mitigation running during pulls rather than saving it.
Defensive cooldowns
Layer big defensives on the dangerous moments — large pulls, boss abilities, healer droughts.
Watch your healer
Their mana and position set your real pace more than the timer does.
Controlling the Pull
What you pull, how you gather it, and where it stands.
Pulling and grouping
Pull with a ranged ability, gather enemies into a tidy stack, then hold position.
Facing and line of sight
Front-facing attacks hit whatever's in front — that should never be the group.
Practice · Run a normal or heroic dungeon focusing on enemy positioning rather than speed.
Dungeon Tanking
Routes, trash, and boss movement.
Routes and pacing
A steady route beats a fast wipe — check healer mana and group cooldowns between pulls.
Trash management
Most dungeon danger lives between bosses — gather, face, interrupt, survive.
Boss positioning
Move deliberately, point breaths and cleaves away, and leave the group room to work.
Raid Tanking
Two tanks, one plan.
Boss facing in raids
Where the boss faces decides where twenty people can safely stand.
Talking to your co-tank
Call swaps, cooldown gaps, and pickups — silent tanks make healers invent prayers.
Go Further
Take the fundamentals somewhere harder.
Upcoming Tank Sessions
Live sessions on the crew calendar that support this course.
No sessions are scheduled for this course right now. Check the Academy calendar or ask the crew.
Need a hand?
Ask the Crew
Stuck on a stage, or want someone to practice with? The Learning Board exists for exactly this.
Keep Exploring
More lessons from the Academy library on this course.
Active Mitigation and Defensives
The universal tank toolkit — how active mitigation, defensives, and self-healing fit together across every tank class.
How to Position Enemies
Facing, grouping, line of sight, and movement — the tank's quiet art of putting enemies where the group wants them.
Pulling and Pacing
Judging pull size, reading your healer, and why the best tanks are boring in the best way.
Tanking Your First Mythic+
Routes, enemy count, boss positioning, and talking to your group — the tank's guide to a first timed key.
Where to next?