[Guide]Personal tanking tips

[Pro100Fox]

Very good begginer's guide. Thank you very mutch.

I am going to translate it to russian and place it to my blog (with your author's note of course), if you allow it.

[ReinjiMD]

Very good begginer's guide. Thank you very mutch.

I am going to translate it to russian and place it to my blog (with your author's note of course), if you allow it.

No problem at all, please feel free to use it

[BloodOath_Loyalty]

Thank you for this. I plan on implementing some if not most of these tips during my tanking. Great job.

[Netherblade]

to add to this - i play as healer or dps usually, and if there's 1 thing i really hate - it's tanks that go kiting mobs. why?
1. Mob AoE effects create chaos when its constantly moving around.
2. Melee DPS will have a lower dps when they're running after the boss, instead of positioning behind the boss for a perfect hit.

Let me know your thoughts, but in my experience, kiting does not work well in party play

[Khyranthir]

Only 30, so I haven't seen many bosses. Outside of the Ichorous Ire in CopperBell, I don't see any reason for a tank to kite things. At least, not yet.

[Herokun]

Ah, pretty helpful. This should put my mind and the minds of my party members more at ease if I can follow these general tips.

[Lastdance]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm a new tank with little experience due to login problems, hope you can help with my questions.

1) I've marked my mobs 1 and 2, is there any hotkey to go back to mob marked 1?

2) I've done a defensive macro like below, but "Second Wind" always fails. Is there any reason?
/ac “Rampart” <me>
/ac “Foresight” <me>
/ac “Keen Flurry” <me>
/ac “Featherfoot” <me>
/ac “Second Wind” <me>
/ac “Convalescence <me>

[Inoe]

Thank you for this! After my first dungeon I realized how clueless I really was. This is a great help to me.

[Hlogic]

nice tips thanks a lot

[Petrified]

I've noticed something: if your other party members did more damage on the monsters than you (the tank) monsters will go aggro on those members. So better ready those Provoke and Flash skills when that happens and don't forget to rotate the damage dealing on all mobs.