Tanks and Tankery

[Ravage]

My question is, if I should ever want to join a warrior-focused group, what should my role be?  If the answer is either “re-spec to a stealth build,” “do what you’re told” or “stay out of the way,” I already know what to do about it.  But if I can, from the warrior perspective, have a crucial and effective role in a group, I’d love to know what it is. 

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I have a lev 29 warrior and until level 22 or so I hadn't grouped at all. I then got into a group doing Wailing Caverns, and since I had been soloing, I had no idea about aggro. Nothing was hitting me and the druids were doing all the tanking.
They asked me about it, but it wasnt a big deal as they were about 5 levels above me anyway and one could go to bear form and the other could heal.

After that, I started looking into argo. Up till then I hadnt even used Defensive stance at all. Now, I think I am a reasonably decent tank, and have learned how to gain agro, and hold it in most situations.

Since you have a high damage rogue, I wouldnt be able to pull agro off of you, so, as long as you tell me that before hand, and you are able to stand up to what you pull in, we should be fine. I would recommend that you look out for the healers and casters, and let me handle the 2-4 monsters that all get pulled in. If I am tanking 3 monsters, and one peals off to whack a healer, if you are able to spot that and rescue the healer, that is one less thing I need to worry about. Otherwise, try taking out one of the mosters that are whacking me in the back of the head, but try to do it in a way that will not pull ALL the monsters onto yourself. I have the armor and health to stand up to several mosters hittingme at once, and as long as the healer stays alive, they can heal me while you kill them all one at a time.
Remember that my defensive stance cuts my dmage bu 10% i think, so I cant kill the things as fast, but defensive stance also radiates more agro. I will spam demoralizing shout, and try to taunt things back to me if they are attacking someone else, but if you start hitting something, and it starts hitting you back, I'm cool with that :)

I guess, just try to use single target attacks and not AOE attacks and let me know you can handle the one so I dont think I have to rescue you.

Dobuya (Orc warrior on Proudmoore)