Learning to Tank

[Foo01]

I just made it to level 40 and unlocked shield oath but I haven't been able to test it. Assuming shield oath helps more with aggro, why would anyone use sword oath?

Having started this process of figuring out how to do the tank role, it originally started with me player healer having figure out how to keep the undergeared tanks alive, it seems now on the flip side and I am running into the problem of the heals coming late from the healer.

What do you do when the heals feels like they are coming in late? It is not like I am losing 70% of my hp in the first 3 hit, but more like I am taking a beating for like 8 seconds from all the mobs and boss and I am at less than 40% and I don't get heals until like I am at 20%. What should I do? Run? Heal myself? Or let it wipe and maybe that will call the healers attention?

I know as a healer doing DPS, I've sometimes made some tanks feel very uncomfortable because I have let their HP drop, so I suppose that might explain what I am encountering. So should I ask the healer to focus more on heals? Or is the healer worried about aggro from healing and holding off on the heals?