Well your way off has nothing to do with ae taunting , are you talking about my most for back to back pulls with guard not pulling ?
OK have some one in grp pull, press your range taunt, whatever u may have for your level, anger / supress, mob will come to you, attack, and use your best abilitys and tactics to hold aggro, when the mob you are fighitng gets down to 5% health or near death, the puller goes and gets a mob, when its in range, you hit your taunt, it comes to u, u attack it, the rest of the mele in your grp finishes off the previous mob you where fighting, then assist you on your current target, this way you have head start on it. it works well for non stop killing xp grps. as far as my personal tactics for holding aggro, that is my secret, selfish it may be but while others where whinning about how guards sucks, i was destined to figure out a way to be the best tank i could, and to be honest when i was lv 20 or so i had some of the same problems guards are complaining about now, so i sat down, looked at all my skills, head to toe, and learned to use them at there best, with tactics and skill. and now i have no problem what so ever with aggro. What im trying to say it can be done, your just going to have to figure out your own tactics. if i was to share what i do, and it dont work for somebody, then they are just going to flame your a noob, you suck, blah blah blah. all i can say is that guards are awsome and the abilitys are waiting for you to discover the class to its fullest, if you put your head to it.