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Tank

WoW

The role that holds the enemy's attention and takes the hits, so everyone else can do their job. Warriors, druids in bear form and paladins in vanilla-style games.

“We still need a tank for Scholo.”

“Tank pulls, DPS waits three seconds, healers keep the tank up.”

See also: Healer, DPS, Aggro

How to use it

  • “We still need a tank for Scholo.”
  • “Tank pulls, DPS waits three seconds, healers keep the tank up.”

Related words

  1. HealerThe role that keeps the group alive. Priests, druids, shamans and paladins. Healing generates threat too,…
  2. DPSDamage per second, and by extension the damage-dealing role and the people playing it.
  3. AggroThe attention of an enemy: whoever it is attacking. Built up as threat; tanks want it, everyone else wants to…
  4. ThreatThe invisible number every enemy keeps for each player. Damage and healing raise it; the highest threat gets…
  5. TauntAn ability that forces an enemy to attack the tank for a few seconds and sets their threat to the top: Taunt,…

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