Warrior Mitigation, and how to do it

[Kietsu]

edit: Also, while this is definitely helpful to the community whether you try to build it out into a full guide or just keep stressing the defensive side of things, I do think that Xeno's (non-text, video only) guide does do a good job at covering how everything interconnects and how to use all your abilities in an intelligent manner. Just mentioning that in case you aren't aware of it.

Xeno's guide is great and I'd definitely recommend it, although I think it contains some comments on gear that are about to be outdated.

Fixed that for you. My little Auri Warrior lady don't need no 'manliness'.

Are you sure about that? If a Raen Au Ra changes to a manlier race like an ogre Sea Wolf Roegadame, they'll see a VIT increase of a whole 5 points! And a STR incraese of 6! And they'll be the only female Sea Wolf on your server!
(Xaela actually have fantastic tanking attributes though.)