New To Tanking and Have Some Questions.

[SpecialKK]

I've met good tanks that think their bad and bad tanks that think they're good.

Funny because as an inexperienced tank, I never know how the party reacts. I had, what I felt was a bad run with me losing aggro a few times. A couple of bad positioning, that led to group getting hit by a good damage. Yet, I got a comm out of it.

Maybe it's because everyone else had logged out as I was still typing my meal culpa

[Erim-Nelhah]

You said you were waiting to get Provoke until you hit level 30 as MRD, correct? I'm of the opinion that Provoke is *the* single most important thing any tank could have, so you will make it much easier on yourself if you get it as soon as possible. It's just such a great cooldown, and it's nice to be able to practice using it before you get too ingrained in your ways of tanking without it.

This.

Also, Provoke can be cross-classed as soon as you get it, regardless of the level of the class using it (i.e. a level 15 MRD can use Provoke). I don't personally slot it that low on DRK, but I also don't generally have aggro problems on DRK either.

Speaking of aggro problems...if you're having trouble keeping aggro, you should look at your gear, especially your weapon. Having a weapon which has a minimum level requirement as few levels below you as possible (and which is HQ if it's crafted/white) will help greatly with keeping aggro, and having most of your gear that way will help as well (but not quite as much as the weapon will). Also, make sure you're putting your level-up points in STR, not VIT. The handful of HP you get from VIT isn't gonna help as much while leveling as the extra damage (and thus aggro generation) from STR will.

--Erim Nelhah