The following concerns ONLY tanking, not solo or easy offensive type tanking. (Although I like the one person's idea of using damage up until your 70 then respecing for raid tanking)I have to completely disagree with anyone who would point points into the INT line, I looked at it long and hard but I personally don't think it is worth it at all. Now as far as I know and have researched, INT stat does nothing for us. So in order to go the INT line route you have to waste 4 AAs on on the INT stat. Then 4 more on a sword CA, and 4 more on a double attack or attack speed increase, now you can get the increase in parry and if you went one more thats the recast timer reducer. All in all, that is not worth it for any defensive tank, the parry is not as important as Miti or possibly defense, and the recast timer reducer is nice but not neccessary to waste 13 points to get. The wisdom path is a good one, you need the Wisdom stat for resists and the mitigation is definately worth upgrading. The final ability is only 1 point but for the defensive tank that 1 point is an increase of weapon skills by over 15. That's not terrible but only if you have the 1 point to spare IMO, I would rather put that 1 point into the STA or AGI stat.So going Wisdom you could do a 4/4/4/8/0 for 20 points.Next line for a defensive tank should be the AGI line. Upgrading all the way to get the final ability, and making the DEF line go up to 8. So AGI like that would be 4/4/4/8/1 for 21 points.This leaves you with 9 points that would best be spent on the rest of the stats, mainly STA.I don't think the STR line is worth it for a defensive tank, even for the aggro control. And of course STA is useless if its only for bucklers.I think this gives people a good set of defensive stats and some nice defensive lines, mainly the mitigation and defense, along with the 100% parry ability, even though it stifles you. I wouldn't pull with it but would use it after having enough aggro.Obviously everyone will be different, thats the whole point ; )