I've recently picked up my T2 Ironbreaker again to have a little fun and I thought to myself how does one defend as a tank? Well, let's consider this scenario. I'm standing in the back lines, chilling with a relatively attractive high elf. Now, normally I wouldn't be so interested in one of the full-growns but she has deep, beautiful eyes and a wonderfully large set of ca- hang on! Anyways, I am standing by this stunning woman who is a healer. Some big green mutant comes running up to her repeatedly swinging 2 tiny forks in circles in front of his body as he looks away and hopes to hit her as he flails aimlessly.

In order to defend her, I must kill the enemy instantly. Wrong! You should have already been attacking their healer, attempting to take their healer off the task of healing their ranks and instead make them GTFO and let their team die. The fact you don't put out much damage isn't reallllly a problem as you need to just put enough heat on them to get them to stop helping their team and instead worry about themselves. As a tank you're not going for killing blows (all the time), you are trying to organize the field like a chess game. You must force certain situations. I found myself smashing up healers til they were running with low health and then quickly turning to a DPS that was already being targetted and ripping apart their armour - rinse, repeat.

As a tank without a dedicated healer I have to make sure I stick by my healer - even if you think they are an idiot, show them that you've got their back and they will take care of you. Today, I did just that and had some ripper fights in T2 scenarios on the home of "bads"; "Badlands".

I'd like to think I was a Saint, taking care of healers who were neglected by other tanks - of whom forgot to Guard them, or even Oathfriend anyone, lol. I've done a good thing today, and soon there will be a book and a movie, bigger than the Twilight series, in fond recognition of my good deeds.