[Suggestion] The "Guard" skill.

[shal_zee]

It should be automatically blocked. It's a pain to manually trigger it.

[Abriael]

It should be automatically blocked. It's a pain to manually trigger it.

What else is a pain? Provoking? Self healing? Walking to the mob? Playing the game at all?

I'm a tank in all games I play. In general, I've noticed the games with the best tanking mechanics focus more on holding hate rather than trying to keep yourself alive. The tank should be tough as a matter of course, the skill is supposed to come in keeping the enemy off of other party members. Keeping you alive? That's the healer's job, not yours. Not to say there should be no active damage mitigation abilities, that's just silly, but having to manually raise your shield arm is getting close to having to press a button to blink.

Seriously now? That's quite funny. Have you ever actually tried a sword/shield fight? because NO enemy will just randomly slam his weapon against your shield for the simple fact that it's there. They will intentionally try to attack uncovered parts of your body, and you will need to make a conscious effort to move your shield to intercept their strikes.
Also, holding a shield in a guard position continuously IS a fatiguing effort and perfectly fits the stamina mechanism, not to mention logic.

Aggro control alone in ALL games is extremely simple. There are only a certain number of skills they can implement to control aggro, and for sure they cannot give you 20 provokes.
There's no game out there in which there are more tanking skills that focus on holding hate than to keeping yourself alive, and while a big part of the tanking job is holding aggro, keeping oneself alive and making the healer's job easy is another big part. Removing that tanking becomes just a matter of 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2, which is extremely dull.

[DeadRiser]

What else is a pain? Provoking? Self healing? Walking to the mob? Playing the game at all?

Thank you! I mean what's the point in tanking if you can't pick up your own shield when you want to? I never hated putting up my shield. Like ABRIEAL said, we are already getting auto-attack, I'd like to play the rest of the game as is