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[Zadocfish]

This thread has taught me a lot about tanking. I was thinking that I should wheel enemies around so that their AOEs point away from the other party members; I now know to only do that for bosses, and only dodge when necessary.

[Sida]

This thread has taught me a lot about tanking. I was thinking that I should wheel enemies around so that their AOEs point away from the other party members; I now know to only do that for bosses, and only dodge when necessary.

That is not totally wrong, even on normal encounters. In most cases especially with single group pulls you can just run through the group and stop in their backside. They all handily turn to you, turning their backs to your party and then you can just keep them there. That is, turn them away from the party at the start is good, constantly moving can be irritating. About dodging AoE, when they are casting it they stay still. And you can return back to the same spot as soon as the ground image disappears. That way they are animation locked the whole time you are dodging. Other mobs in the pull of course might turn a bit but that's about learning the dance.

[SgtPepperUK]

This thread has taught me a lot about tanking. I was thinking that I should wheel enemies around so that their AOEs point away from the other party members; I now know to only do that for bosses, and only dodge when necessary.

This might be worth a look, lot of good tanking tips on it

http://i.imgur.com/smNx1ZX.jpg

[Mykll]

This might be worth a look, lot of good tanking tips on it

http://i.imgur.com/smNx1ZX.jpg

OMG I love that! I obey all the good stuff, but I never heard of, umm, I guess safely here the "butt-corners".

This thread has taught me a lot about tanking. I was thinking that I should wheel enemies around so that their AOEs point away from the other party members; I now know to only do that for bosses, and only dodge when necessary.

The above picture reminded me about this. On those especially bosses that do a frontal cone attack, I will tank up toward the tip of that cone that is coming from the boss, even if the boss is huge and it far inside the targeting circle. There is less of the cone to dodge when you are towards the tip, than farther back and now you have more distance to cover before you are out of it.