About co-tanking

[Noldornir]

the problem nowadays is u can't tell who's mt just looking at the stance - since war mostly tank in dps stance for cleaves even if they take the MT position. since they "balanced" the tanks its mostly War>Drk>Pala for MTs in casual grp content so - until 5.0 u shouldn't maintank that often in 8 grp content. aside of that no matter which tank you get paired with u will often face bad enmity control on mt-side (to greedy for dps) or heal aggro from spammed hots (brain dead healer). so being a pala knowing you are generally the offtank didn't prevent you to keep your eyes open and train reflexes for an emergency provoke/ultimate to save the day if needed - else focus on your dmg rota ^^

Thanks a lot, that starts to make some sense.

The healer was not spamming tho (I had no issues at all mantaining aggro and the DPS was close to healer in enmity).

Would you also be so kind to explain me these differences in tanking (WAR-DRK-PAL)? At lvl 50 i dont have access to royal authority/Goring blade combos and that makes my DMG rotation to be almost doin nothing/lil damage;

wouldn't it just better for 2 handers (WAR-DRK) to off-tank since they can't block but can dish out more DPS (for the time being at least i believe)?

Right so tanking in this game, you only ever start the fight in tank stance, after you have established aggro (usually only takes a few gcds) , you switch to dps stance, at level 50 WARs dps stance is just not being in tank stance. So if a WAR pulls then turns off tank stance, they arn't asking someone else to take over. Other than that, just try to communicate as to who is pulling the boss, thats the best way to figure it out instead of bumbling.

That's what I usually do when alone (Light parties) depending on content (most times i just stay in sword stance when I'm confident with the content).

I agree with you, if one swap stance he's not asking for me to take over but if he loose the aggro...