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Verb: to tank

Standing still and taking a beating from enemies instead of running away or kiting. Tanking is often used in PvE to make the healer's life easier (only one person to concentrate on). Tanking is especially effective in combination with Protection spells and stances.

It is important to be conscious of certain expectations while tanking:
 * Tank-on-Tank: This means that when assaulting an enemy group, the tanks should attract the aggro of the enemy melee fighters and keep it focused on themselves. Warriors who rush past the enemy warriors and head for the enemy spellcasters make bad tanks because they allow the enemy warriors to get to their spellcasters.
 * No running back: While tanking, warriors should not, when the going gets rough, run back with their tails between their legs. Instead, warriors should trust their monks and if concerned, they should run sideways and/or dodge. Pulling enemies into the heart of your spellcasters is a sure fire way to kill a few of them as well as get your monks in a panic which means they will not focus on healing you.
 * Keep tanks alive at all costs: A tank that has suffered multiple deaths and is running aroud with, say, 35% DP is of little use to the party in terms of tanking. The reduction to health greatly limits their ability to take damage. As a monk, if you have to choose between healing the tank and healing an elementalist, keep the tank alive. The elementalist can operate with 35% DP from the back if the tank is doing his job, the reverse is not true. A warrior who does not tank and instead rushes off to kill enemy spellcasters forfeits that privilege.
 * Prevention is better than treatment: With the exception of facing enemy mesmers who Shatter Enchantments, a group is best served by using Protection Prayers on their tanks (along with healing) than by just trying to spam healing on them. Protection allows the monks to control the amount of damage inflicted on tanks and protects from the unexpected hit that suddenly kills a tank.

To be updated later!