Seeking Help From Experts: Tanking

[Kaedan94]

Yeah, you seem to have the right idea. Here's what I posted in another forum about advice on tanking:

Provoke does not establish threat. It's an emergency skill that puts you at the top of the mob's threat list for a VERY short window of time. It's only purpose is to stop a mob from getting to the healer once you've lost aggro on it. It's useless as a way to accumulate threat. Here's a good protocol for a 3 mob pull:

-Shield Toss main target
-Flash
-Savage blade combo main target
-Flash (the blind debuff will have come off by the time you use Savage blade, allowing you to use it again)
-Blade of Halone secondary target
-Savage blade combo tertiary target
-Flash
-Blade of Halone main target


Also, many tanks think they can spam Flash for group threat. You cannot. While the Blind debuff is up from Flash, another use of Flash will have no effect. You need to wait until the Blind debuff is gone before Flash will apply enmity again. That's why you weave it in with your Enmity combo (it doesn't reset the combo... you can continue to Blade of Halcyon even after using it after Savage Blade). That, and Flash only works 3 times on a target before not having effect.

Not that you need this advice necessarily, but it's good information to have.

[Ruminate]

I spam Flash all the time on my GLD after the Blind enhancement and I can clearly see other people's enmity bar being lowered. Flash generates about as much threat as a comboed Savage Blade. Before Rage of Halone, you can Savage Blade every 5s. You can Flash every 2.5s. No reason not to spam your highest enmity per second move on trash.

The best advice I can give for struggling GLD/PAL is to keep your weapon up to date. Your weapon affects the potency of all your enmity skills, including Flash. If your weapon is 10 levels below you, you're gonna have a hard time holding threat. I was in a group with a GLD that was weilding the level 10 spanking stick in Halatoli the other day... boy did that run suck.

[Kenka]

Also, many tanks think they can spam Flash for group threat. You cannot. While the Blind debuff is up from Flash, another use of Flash will have no effect. You need to wait until the Blind debuff is gone before Flash will apply enmity again.

Is there any evidence to support this? From my experience Flash works everytime to increase my enmity, even if the Blind component has no effect/is fully resisted.