How to Help Tanks in Dungeons 101.

[Sheer]

thanks again for helping us. I understood most of the rest of what you posted. thanks again.

It's not a problem!

I was in a dungeon and the Healer kept trying to call the shots by marking every monster, but I he lost focus on healing me and with the little HP pool GLDs I died.

Hm, odd. I personally don't think the healer should be marking the targets - the tank should be doing that, if anyone (DDs [DPS] would also work), but the healer should be worrying about the party, not the MoBs. The MoBs are the job of the tank/DDs.

[Jaquelidor]

Hm, odd. I personally don't think the healer should be marking the targets - the tank should be doing that, if anyone (DDs [DPS] would also work), but the healer should be worrying about the party, not the MoBs. The MoBs are the job of the tank/DDs.

Speaking from experience a successful Healer isn't just watching the HP bars. They need to be just as aware as the Tank to what's coming, perhaps more so. Frankly it's usually best to let the player with the most experience with a dungeon, regardless of their role, to do the marking.

[Sheer]

Speaking from experience a successful Healer isn't just watching the HP bars.

Correct, but in lower-level dungeons, they really don't need to worry about much other than the HP of their party members and making sure they aren't standing in the way of avoidable damage.

They need to be just as aware as the Tank to what's coming, perhaps more so. Frankly it's usually best to let the player with the most experience with a dungeon, regardless of their role, to do the marking.

Yes, but again, this is focused on low-level dungeons.

Let me be abundantly clear, because some people seem to be missing the point (I'm going to add this to my OP too): There are many, many, many tactics, tricks, tips, and other general rules that can apply to running dungeons. At the end of the day, most if not all of them will make a dungeon run more efficient by some degree. This is not a guide to learning those tips and tricks at a lower level. This is not a guide for dungeons at level 50 - in fact, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone over 25 (30 at most) simply because there is a lot more to dungeons that needs to be examined at that point in the game. This is a guide for people who are level 15 or 18 and looking to do a dungeon like Satasha Seagrot or Copperbell Mines; this is a guide to encourage people who don't want to do a dungeon because they're afraid they'll goof up the run.

Edit: I'm not an all-knowing tank, as much as I wish I was. I am not some e-celebrity jumping from MMO to MMO to master my tanking skills. What I am is just another player trying to pass off some general points that will get lower-level players through a dungeon without a problem. I'm aware many of you here are veteran MMO players and have refined dungeon strategies that would blow me right out of the water for all three roles (DD, Healer, Tank). I am more than happy to learn from you and discuss potential strategies - especially if I'm ever in a group with you, but for all intents and purposes, this topic is focused at getting extremely basic to-do's down for successful dungeon runs at lower levels.

At the end of the day, I'm just another guy on an MMO trying to help out people who are new to dungeons. I don't mean to disregard anyone's wisdom, but this topic isn't exactly the time or place - with that in mind, I'm always keeping an eye on the "Tank Roles" forum, so if anyone comes up with a brilliant strategy for higher-level dungeons (or even a sort of introduction to high-level dungeon runs), you can be sure that I'll be reading it.