Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

Ever since I finally chose to defect from my Ranger ways to a more hard hitting holy warrior, I’ve had the aim of being a tank. I even had visions of one day becoming the Main Tank though with my slow reflexes and awful coordination, I did wonder just how likely this was.

What’s a tank? I was anticipating this answer, not many of the readers I know of are actually MMO enthusiasts so will likely be confused, however in MMOs no matter what the classes are actually called, they fall under a number of types which are always called the same thing. In a group you ideally want the enemy to be paying attention to someone other than the weaker members of the party, like the cloth wearing healers as well as to keep the attention away from the people who need to concentrate on getting distance to use bows and spells. This is where the tank comes in, mobs love to focus their anger on the guy that won’t stop hitting them, won’t stop hurting them and they get royally annoyed by the guy who takes a beating without flinching. This is the role of a tank, to hammer the target with a lot of damage and to take a beating without falling. You don’t even want to concentrate on killing targets, that’s the job of the people who aren’t being directly attacked (or more importantly, defended against,) you just want to lay down the hurt.
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