Your role, put simply, is to do everything you can to take all of the damage for your party. No other class has the potential to control and dictate incoming damage. The Defender/Guardian is the ultimate crowd control class, both in PvE and PvP. Slot: A space in your gear in which you put lapis. Lapis: A gem that can be augmented into your gear to boost stats or give other bonuses. It is considered rude and repeated KSing may result in a ban. This is when someone attacks something that has already been aggroed to another player. This may include attacking it, debuffing it, or simply running by it and having it chase you. This term describes gameplay that involves interaction with human enemies.Īggro: Refers to getting a mob’s attention. This term describes gameplay that involves interaction with AI enemies.
UM get more stats, skills, and gear options than HM but run the risk of losing your character forever. HM get more stats, skills, and gear options than NM. This term is used to describe inflicting the most possible damage in a set time, usually by increasing attack power or attack speed.īuff: A skill that grants bonuses for a limited time.ĭebuff: A skill that puts a negative effect on an opponent.ĮM: Easy Mode. This term is used to describe a skill that inflicts damage spread out over a set period of time.ĭPS: Damage per second. This term is used to describe a skill or party that focuses on hitting multiple enemies at once.ĭoT: Damage over time. Note that many skills use both MP and SP.ĪoE: Area of effect. This stat is your pool for using physical based skills. This stat is your pool for using magical based skills. It also offers minor evasion from critical hits. This stat increases your critical hit damage and chances for critical hits. This stat determines your resistance to magical attacks, increases magical attack accuracy, and increases your MP pool. This stat determines the effectiveness skills of that inflict magical damage. This stat determines your accuracy and evasion from physical attacks. It is also a key factor in determining who gets attacked.ĭex: Dexterity. This stat determines your defense rating and increases your HP pool. This stat determines the effectiveness of your regular hits and any skills that inflict physical damage. If this is your goal, I would recommend to familiarize yourself with this first section and use the rest of this guide for reference only. By reading only this first section and ignoring the rest of this guide, you should have a fairly good idea of what to do and be able to learn as you go. Lastly, I will give you the shortest guide to tanking ever written that will set you on the correct path in tanking in just a few paragraphs. I will also give a quick rundown of what it means to be a tank and your role as a tank.
In this first section, I will go over some common terms used both in game and in this guide that couldn’t be described as ‘plain, simple English’.
Welcome to the wonderful world of tanking! Before you start thinking about builds, skills, tactics, or even equipping your armor, your first step is to denoobify yourself.
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