I feel like succesful raiding, PVE, can be summed up in one word, [size=24:dbde8c99d2][b:dbde8c99d2][color=red:dbde8c99d2]ASSIST[/color:dbde8c99d2][/b:dbde8c99d2][/size:dbde8c99d2]. If you assist the tank you win, if you don't assist you may lose.

I know the people who have posted in this thread know what assist is, but I am going to explain it for those who are still not sure.

If Dread calls out assist, this means attack what HE is attacking. Meaning DO NOT attack what is is not attacking. So, don't attack what is say hitting Dread from the side.  Dread does NOT care if some sissy blackhand assasin is sticking him in the side, cause Barbie or Masema is hooking him up with good heals.  What Dread wants is that guy attacking HIM and NOT you or Barbie or Masema. So, attack what he is attacking.

This is VERY EASY to do. You click on Dread and press the F button.  If you have someone targeted and you press F it switches your target to their target.  Now you are attacking the same target.  The target really hates Dread, cause he is an ugly warrior, and such he will not attack you, even though you are out DPSing Dread, the target will not attack you.  This is the point of a tank. Tanks don't kill, tanks hold so you cloth wearers can kill with out being killed.  

Please assist, please, please.  

As a mage please don't hit the sheep.  More over, if I have sheeped someone, and it breaks sheep, don't attack it.  I will resheep. I can take one or two hits, so don't try to be a hero and save me from the bad man, I will resheep and bandage.  QUOT from Barbie, "This is one case where I like to not be protected..." So, don't attack CC targets, just get your ass back on Dreads target.

So, as a mage I sheep and keep sheeped my target, btw I can only sheep humanoids and beasts, nothing else. And as a mage I do nothing but assist, well unless I am aoe.

As druid tank, I follow the same logic Dread uses, I attack first target, then second target and so one, then I yell and reduce their attack power and then move back to my first target, until it is dead.  If someone breaks free and goes for healer I taunt and bring him back to the pack.  And if all hell breaks loose I taunt the entire room and take all the abuse and pray for a phat heal or two.  But remember, assist the tank.

One nice benefit as a druid tank, is that if I get a knockback, I can feral charge, even while still in the air, right back to the npc, and grap agro back. So, as long as I dont get knocked more than once every 30 seconds I keep agro.

Thanks Dread.