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Although I've played a warrior in EQ1, most of my playing time was on my ranger Trackor. It was with him that I had my greating tanking experience. Typically when I wasn't "/shout WTB Rez", I was bailing out my friend, the Drunken Dwarf, with my leet damage and skillz.
Anyway, the highpoint of my ranger tanking career took place one evening in Kael. The Staute was up and the guild was mobilized. After quickly dispatching the statue we progressed to the Avatar of War (AoW). I believe this was the second time our guild was trying him, so it wasn't trivial. During the fight we pushed him into the corner with only the tank facing him. At about 50% the tanks defensive skill wore off and the next tank took over pretty flawlessly. Well, except for a few rogues. Anyway everything was going fine done to about 10% when the warrior went down. Unfortunately the next tank couldn't grab agro and a few cleric bought it. After that is what is commonly known as "the wipe". A few people stand there and take it while the wizards tend to run it around a bit.
Well the rangers usually go after the rogues and clerics, but this time we seemed to be ready. Using weapon shield, each ranger added 15 seconds to their by tanking the AoW. Slowly but surely his hit points were dropping. When it was my turn, I faced him and hit weapon shield waiting for my death. I threw on a couple a resisted snares just to piss him off enough, so he wouldn't forget me. After my 15 seconds were up I noticed a few heals hit me. He was still at 3% and I thought there was no way I could hold on. One by one the wizards nuked him until he dropped.
I stood toe to toe with the AoW for about 45 seconds not counting my weapon shield time. Rangers rejoiced! Warriors said I was lucky. Oh well, it was my greating tank job.
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