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Mitigate – One of your key responsibilities as the Tank is to be sturdy and this means not only gearing in a way so that you have a hefty health pool, but also using any active abilities at your disposal to normalize the incoming damage as well as strategically using your “Oh Shit” buttons to avoid fatal damage.

It is a juggling act of trying to maintain DPS uptime while also trying to avoid making your healer mend damage that you didn’t need to take in the first place.

Avoid – You want to avoid any damage that you don’t have to take, which means you need to understand the attacks and which ones you can move out of safely without causing damage to the party.

Generally speaking this is turning the pack of mobs away from the party and giving easy access to the backside of each enemy for extra damage potential.

Place – When you pull an encounter you want to place it in such a way as to keep your party out of harm and also allow your DPS to kill the target with as little downtime as possible.

You want to make all of the mobs in a specific pull angry at your character and as a result focused on attacking you while the rest of the party kills them.

Aggro – This one is pretty straight forward.

To keep it simple I have broken down the role of a tank into five core concepts. Once you have the concept of tanking down, it can pretty much be applied to any game just swapping in various abilities to meet the goals of a tank.

I could of course explain how a player tanks in this game or that game, but in reality tanking is more of an ethos and a particular state of mind.

As far as I know it is a topic I have talked around the edges of quite a bit but never really focused on as a proper discussion. That said when my friend asked me last night if I had any primers on my blog to MMO Tanking… I had to honestly say no. When I was leveling all of the classes recently in World of Warcraft, I saved a tank as my victory lap because I figured it would be the most enjoyable thing for me to level… and was absolutely correct to do so. Over the years I have tanked in pretty much all of the MMOs that come out because I gravitate towards that style of game play at the core of my being. I am mostly known as an MMO Tank, and in fact this blog began as a very specific Warrior Tanking blog dedicated to World of Warcraft. Hey Folks! This morning I am going to try and write something that I have largely avoided writing for a very long time in part because I was always afraid I would fail to do it justice.