SK Tanking

[spanktastic]

I am a WoW refugee, so slightly noobish when it comes to things in this game. In that other game, there was a pretty set order to what skills you used while tanking, and taunt was not often used unless you are taking agro off someone else. So the question is: Is there a preferred or "best" order to SK skills? There's many that say increase hate or whatever, but which ones are best for peeling a mob off your healer?

[hellskitten]

Best is to have already secured agro thru damage. Failing that... death march, rescue, and the harm touch series are the "O CRAP" hate grabbers. That and FDing who ever has grabbed agro though be ready do your job cause theres chances of hate list bouncing around group at that moment.

[ReficulFonwaps]

In my opinion it's best to hit your taunts every time they come up. The single target taunt is also a DoT, and the encounter taunt is also a disease debuff. Both taunts give you more damage and more hate to hold aggro. Once you get higher level you will get Death March, Death March till pretty much snap aggro on you even if you are fighting multiple encounters. Other than that, I think every SK has their own order of abilities they cast, you'll have to find your own rythm there.

[ganng]

The only real must have is that your ward must be up while pulling most encounters, this will buy your healer a few seconds before they need to heal allowing you to build the agro needed to maintain controll once the heals start rolling in.   Giving a SK a few seconds to establish controll is critical in most fights for both heals and DPS so just get into the habit of turning and setting your encounters and your group mates will eventually get the hang of it.