A Detailed Guide To Tanking In FoW

Well...no offense but a lot of Warriors have no idea what they are doing in fow! So I will be presenting a guide to fix this problem...

A few things you should know:
-A Warrior is not always ment to do damage.
-A Warrior's main job is to protect the casters by blocking the physical damage.
-If you are planning on getting armor for your warrior get full glads (Except 1 Ascalon piece). This will give you bonus energy and the "Reduce Damage From Attacks" feature does not stack...

This would be an example of a good armor set:




http://img48.imageshack.us/my.php?image=armor54uf.jpg
So 1 piece (Helmet for me) is ascalon...the rest is gladiator.

15k Grotoo::
I would go with all gladiator and then ascalon boots


Droknar's Forge:
Go with All Glad's then 1 piece of Ascalon (Your choice)

How To Tank:
Tanking is the most important part of bieng a tank in fow...
And it is fairly simple.
Make sure all the casters stay back until you are ready. Go in and block the physical damage (Warriors, Shadows (If possible), Abyssals, Berserkers, etc...
When you have that down try and agro they physical damage to the casters (Monks Eles Mesmers, etc... and then your nukers can nuke everything at once.
If a group is large take out a long bow and agro...then switch to your axe and begin tanking the group that runs at you.
If you do overagro do not run away until either a member of your party with ressurection is safe or they are all dead.
Also do not cast to much at once...
Never Tank Numerous Groups!
Watch out for patrols!
Cast Stances before entering a group!

Builds:

Skills:
Warrior / Mesmer
Healing Signet, Cyclone Axe, Eviscerate*, Berserker's Stance, Dolyak Signet, Hex Breaker, Shatter Hex
Attributes:
8 Domination
11 Strength
11 Axe MAstery
8 Tactics
**That is just a build you can start with...more will be listed at a differant time

Warrior:
Commonly used skills:
Axe Mastery:
*Eviscerate: Does Damage.
Cyclone Axe: Does damage to all adjactant foes...great for gaining adrenaline
Evisverator's Strike: Does Damage
Disruption Chop: Disrupt foes current action. If skill it is recharged for 20 additional seconds.

Strength:
*Defy Pain: Gain additional health for a short period.
Dolyak Signet: You move 75% slower but gain a lot of armor.
Berserker Stance: You attack 33% faster and gain more adrenaline.
Endure Pain: Raises Health by a lot for a short period.
Shield Bash: NExt attack skill used against you is blocked and target falls down and there skill is disabled for 15 additional seconds.

Tactics:
*Gladiators Defence: Physical Damage targets have a 75% chance to miss you and take damage when they do.
Healing Signet: Heals you.
Bonetti's Defense: Physical Damage targets have a 75% chance to miss you and you gain energy when they do.
Shield Stance: You gain armor and foes have a 75% chance to miss you.
Shields Up: Additional Armor against Piercing attacks and 50% chance to block.
Watch Yourself: Gain an additional 20% armor for a short time.
Defensive Stance: Gain additional armor and have 75% chance to block attacks.
Wary Stance: 100% chance to block and you are granted energy and adrenaline each time you block enemy. Works for a short time.

Mesmer:
Domination Magic:
Hex Breaker: Helps protect you from getting hexes on you as your going in for agro.
Shatter Hex: Takes a hex off you and damages all adjactant foes
Ressurection Signet: Should bring although its a warrior skill...resses allie

Monk:
Protection:
Rebirth: Ressurects allie a long range back to you.
Mend Ailment: Swipe Condition off of you.
Aegis: Gives you 50% chance to block attacks.

Healing:
Healing Breeze: Gives you a high regen for limited time.
Mending: I never use it but it gives you a brief regen forever...onless your enchants get stripped.

***YOU SHOULD NEVER RUN OUT OF ENERGY!!! IF YOU RUN OUT OF ENERGY YOU NEED BONETTI'S DEFENSE!***
you can basically just shuffle these builds around and it will work...try not to use more than 4 attributes at once onless you have completed the attribute quests.

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I think considering this is a guide to tanking, the skills for doing damage should be removed, i never see a war with Eviscerate in FOW. Same with mending, thats going to get removed and going to be more of a pain than anything.

Also: "try not to use more than 4 attributes at once onless you have completed the attribute quests." If you havent done the attribute pt quests you shouldnt be in FOW =P

Sprint?

Good for aggroing groups together.

Nice guide.

1 thing caught my eye though, if you look at the "my build" image, at the axe,
you can see that it is customized for "Demarcus Johannus", while your name is
Morgan Frensley.

Haha!

Nice guide but u seem to concentrate more on builds/weapons etc. than on the actually tanking itself. only 1 sentence: (ofcourse this is what u must do but maybe ppl will not fully understand what u mean)

'Make sure all the casters stay back until you are ready. Go in and block the physical damage (Warriors, Shadows (If possible), Abyssals, Berserkers, etc...'

This is how I tank: Make sure casters and monks stay out ur aggro when u go in, go in, then try to survive a few secs (so try to be self-sufficient, although spellbreaker is always nice and i ask monks to bring that to fow) so enemies get around u, if u can try to walk to the casters, and after a few secs when enemies are still hacking into u, the casters can come and unleash their attacks, but still they need to make sure they dont come too close.
Sometimes its hard to hold the enemies on u, because sometimes the casters rush in too soon, they come too close etc. but i think it al comes down on this, and I tank this way.
Whatch yourself + dolyak signet + spellbreaker is usually enough to get almost 0 dmg from all attacks. but sometimes when i don't trust the party I switch ele secondary and bring armor of earth and obsidian flesh (drop whatch urself) and this way i really can't die. but then again, when those ppl rush in too soon its (almost) impossible to get ur aggro back.

If some1 tanks in another way/have commentary/tips, plz respond

Tanking = Absorp damage
And only 1 damage reduction skill ;O

and the axe, such a faker (;

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