New Tank in Need of Help

[Stalkster]

Kinda short but maybe helpful.

15-25: mark targets, (Fight or Flight if it's up)shield log the 1st target. Flash x2 > Fast Blade > Savage blade spam your focused target. Tell people to fight targets marked in order. If people fight different things your not gonna be tanking them this lv.


Provoke is used for 2 things 1:Long distance pull.(not needed early on) 2:To grab hate off someone, that's it. Shield lob is to pull not voke..

26-50: welcome Rage of Halone. Now you can hold hate on multiple targets, by cycling you rotation between mobs.
Fast Blade > Savage blade > Rage of Halone.
You will still want to add what you learned from 15-25. Now flash x1 is only really needed assuming 1:Your healer is not over healing or 2:Whm has more hate, maybe still be better to open with lob>flash x2.
I'm not going to go into details about cycling your 3skill rotation. But as a example 1Rage of Halone will hold hate off a healer, for pretty much the rest of a fight(trash mobs). 2-3 will hold hate off dps(again, trash mobs)

Key lv skills between/@ 27-50:
Sword Oath: Use this all the time till 40, if your off tanking it's used also but watch hate if your off tanking as it generates more single target hate the Shield Oath.

Shield Oath: Welcome to Pld, should be using this pretty much all the time unless off tanking or soloing.

Spirits Within: Yes it's silence but also very useful for hate, should be spamming this when it's up unless your avoiding silencing a boss or trying to use it to interrupt.

Circle of Scorn: Spam it.


AoE Tanking(more then 4mobs):
Flash Spam(+Circle of Scorn spam if 50) > Fast Blade > Riot Blade to recover MP.