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TERA (2011)

Duration: 26:18

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A surprisingly fast run. I'm not pro or anything - just a regular guy running dungeons repeatedly as practice and trying to learn how to tank properly.

If you're tanking as a warrior, your responsibilities are, in roughly this order:
a) keep aggro
b) avoid taking damage
c) keep the boss facing the same direction
d) debuff the boss to help party DPS
e) interrupt the boss' biggest attacks if you can
f) contribute your own damage, both to keep aggro and to do your part in DPS.
Most Warrior tanks I've run into on instance matching may do the first two things, but DON'T keep the boss facing the same direction. Please do that, as c) is incredibly important to the party, even though it makes the warrior's own job harder.

I put up this video to show several things:
- Thanks to the instance matching buff, even a normal guy like me can warrior tank reasonably effectively as long as the healer is decent.
- If you know the above principles on how to warrior tank and you're decently geared/leveled for a dungeon, give it a try because tank queues are still in short supply. The instance matching buff is incredibly overpowered, and makes warrior tanking very, very forgiving as long as you don't eat all of the big hits for an extended period of time. I'm just hoping it doesn't become a crutch.

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