Troubs make decent tanks, mainly because they can hold agro through debuffs. Keep in mind, your swashy is probably a better overall tank, at least against single targets. If you have difficulty holding agro, you can cast your hate reducing song, then right click it off on your spell effect list, so it only cancels its effect on you. That should make it much easier to hold agro, especially in the long run.Pre-CU troub's were the best tanks around, and I was often MT for my guild in raids (pure defense buffs). Now, I'd say except for their ability to hold agro, they don't really have any special abilities in tanking. A pred or rogue's defensive stance is significantly better than our defense buff. Overall, I think troubs, especially with the sta AA line have potential to tank decently well - and I've tanked for xp groups before, and even against a green 2x raid mob when we didn't have ANY fighters on, but we're a poor substitute for someone with a defense stance AND taunts.Anyhow, don't let that discourage you from going out there and tanking if you want. It's certainly possible, and as you've pointed our debuffs make it incredibly easy to hold agro. As long as you have a healer and decent DPS you should have no problem fighting most mobs in the game (altho I wouldn't try HoF).