I am a terrible tank.

[Reechee3]

While I'm not at all new to eq, I'm new to the hidden forest and very new to boxing. I just recently hit 70 and got my epic 1.5 for my war/clr/rog/mnk/wiz and am starting to work on aa... I have some terrible number like 40. So far after hitting 70 my main issue is my warrior, I do fine when pulls go as planned but do any of you boxing or tank vets have any tips for saving the group when that unexpected add or repop starts smacking around my healer? Maybe I am overlooking disc or aa but I'm pretty bad at picking up multiple mobs quickly, taunting doesn't seem to be quick enough without poping DA on the cleric..

To make a long post short, is there a trick for snagging the aggro of multiple mobs before my cleric turns to paste.

[Nilbus]

Hurricane Swipe Rk. I - the buyable from players T8 disc/combat ability. It's an ae swipe that is good ae agro.

[Reechee3]

Okay thanks a lot, I'll start looking for it, my cleric thanks you.

[Ydiss]

Until you get that, you have cyclone blade for free. It's a discipline. Plus, the tov breastplate click is a group 3k rune, which should easily gain your tank agro if it's just an add.

Finally, as an emergency single target taunt, you can use bazu blade (disc) and the cloak of flames from pofire.

[jsre]

Kiss of life procs are an option for effortless AE aggro, they are a heal which seems to outaggro cleric heals pretty easily. You can get aug's with the proc from LDON vendors.

[Rude]

Definitely keep kiss of life proc augs on your weapons at all times as a warrior. Kiss of life is different from a traditional lifetap proc, which you may want to avoid as a warrior. Kiss of life is a DD with a HEAL recourse. Lifetaps are dmg+heal combined in the same effect. The difference? Lifetaps generate ZERO AE aggro and very very small targeted, whereas KoL is essentially a heal just like your cleric's. Heal spell aggro from procs + aggro moddifier you can find on a number of items = your healer will never steal aggro again unless it's very early on in the pull.

Before long you will very rarely be pressing that cyclone button for AE aggro - it's just turn on attack and forget (outside of keeping aggro from DPS'ers, which doesn't sound like your problem )

SK's are a little rough off in the aggro department because of this little quirk. Early on we rely on lifetaps to keep us alive (thanks to lifetap AAs that increase heal from lifetap procs), which makes us choose between tankier lifetap procs or better aggroing heal procs. I always keep 3 AE aggro spells primed at the ready (t8, the freeby, and the clicky from ToV pants) + single target aggro + visage buff + donor weapon/aug, and I still lose AE aggro to other melees with heavy KoL procs if I slack up on my AE twisting spells at all