ALSO: MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALWAYS THANK YOUR HEALERS AND GIVE THEM YOUR COMMENDATION UNLESS THEY WERE DOWNRIGHT AWFUL. WITHOUT THEM, YOU ARE LITTLE MORE THAN A FLIMSY PIECE OF METALLIC MEAT.
Haha... thank you for this; just so you know, we healers also encourage similar habit of thanking our tanks and giving them our comms as long as they use their CDs properly.

On topic though, I have two questions regarding tanking. I only have DRK and not a very good one at that, so I apologize if these are stupid questions. For mitigations, I've been told that they do stack but not cumulative (i.e. shadow wall + rampart stacks, but the mitigation is not 50%) and thus it's better to rotate them instead of using 'em at the same time. Is this true? If so, what do you mean by "[regarding shadow wall] This ability should be used in concert with something else, as it is somewhat lacklustre on its own"?

Also from the explanation on determination, you make it sound like it only affects self-healing/healing BY the tank and not healing ON the tank. Am I getting this right? So determination doesn't affect healing on tank like convalescence do?

Thanks for the guide btw, it's helpful all-around