Tanks and Tankery

[Tal]

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.  Thanks!
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You've grouped with some craptacular warriors then. I've never had any trouble pulling aggro off a rogue so long as they're smart and not go full out on every mob. Just like playing a hunter/mage/warlock you need to learn to time your attacks to allow the tank to keep aggro and still do decent DPS. You'll get a feel for it as you progress. Your other role in groups is Crowd Control with sap and lock picking. Otherwise you assist the main tank with your DPS like the other DPS party members.

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)
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Thats the recipe for a rogue taking a dirt nap in later instances. Taunt is your friend and learning when to back off to normal attack's is the rogue's. Don't forget the liberal use of sunder armor, demoralizing shout, etc that I posted higher up in the thread.