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Night Fae Blood DK Finishes Keystone Master on Controller in PUGs

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Here's another Mythic+ non-meta victory, with a controller using tank finishing up the achievement in the worst Covenant for the spec in M+, in PUGs!

We look at the log rankings, tier lists and various other optimizations and standings a lot here, so it's also important to point out that you really can get most non-highest end content done with any spec you want. Berub proved this and then some, as they got KSM while tanking as a Blood Death Knight Night Fae, the worst Covenant for M+ for the spec AND used a controller while doing it! And the best part? The reason Berub chose Night Fae is because of the armor looks!

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And while many others have completed KSM with off-meta specs, and some did with a controller as well, the tank + worst Covenant + controller part is especially impressive, and Berub didn't quite mention the control method to the groups, or those runs probably never would have happened at all. Here are some comments from the journey:

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I'm too casual to join a guild, I like tanking, I like DK, I was Venthyr first but switched to Night Fea because I prefer the skin and thought it would be easier to kite, my hands hurt.
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Just out of curiosity, would you ever tell people you were using a controller? If you did what were their reactions
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I never did...

I thought I could tell in the beginning and probably would end up being kicked.

By the end of the instance I don't feel like gloating that (or worse if it failed that would automatically be my fault !).
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My harder challenges were finding better routes. By default I looked at Dratnos' no-skip routes as they seemed easier to operate, but some people complained when it was not optimal.

I learned some routes with skips requiring a rogue or priest and it helped a lot, but took more time to find a group. Necrotic Wake and Spires of Ascension do require skips to be run correctly (that I know of). Nothing a invi potion cannot solve though.

I rarely ran my own key (lucky being tank), so I didn't struggle with the members, but most of the time having a big aoe burster (fire mage for example) is a big help.
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Look at the addon ConsolePort and their discord.

Hopefully examples like this encourage players to try new things and now be quite as limited by the meta, despite it being pretty hard to get into groups, especially for DPS.

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I feel like this would be more impressive if they got KSM by pugging with an unfavored DPS spec using an unfavored covenant. You have much more pull as a tanking or healing class to not be kicked from a group.  

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1 hour ago, Macura said:

I feel like this would be more impressive if they got KSM by pugging with an unfavored DPS spec using an unfavored covenant. You have much more pull as a tanking or healing class to not be kicked from a group.  

Especially as a tank. Even as a heavily geared resto shaman I can have trouble finding groups just because there is such a serious tank shortage.

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"I'm too casual", yet he does the keystone master - with a controller, and he looks up guides on every run how to do them more effieciently. I'd say that's far from casual. 

What I consider casual is pugging it with what experience you have, and take it as is. Min-maxing by watching how to do things the best way possible, and fastest way possible, doesn't make it casual anymore. 

Never watched a vid or read a guide on how to run a dungeon faster on my veng demonhunter. I just enter, and learn from past runs. Slowly progressing to +15 - one day. Casually.

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