Guard high priority targets, meaning if the high priority target dies, your team will most likely lose the fight. Your job as a tank is to prevent that important player from dying.lilsabin wrote:this is a question i have in my head ( just asked it in an OP and decided to make one and let u people tell me your point of view) ...So : lets say you get in a scenario , with 2 tanks , 4 mdps , 2 rdps and 2 heals ( total 10) , since there are 2 tanks , it means that there are 2 guards available , SO , WHO IS GONNA GET GUARDED , AND WHO IS NOT AND WHY ?
Often, the highest priority is on a mdps player who has high renown rank, high gear, who knows what they are doing and who is going to brutally :| the oppositions front and bacline if you just ensure their survival. This may include guarding a maraWL/choppaSlayer/WEWH, depending on your previous information about that player and whether they are capable of slaughtering the enemy lines with the help of your guard. If there are two tanks and two mdps, then each tank chooses to guardhug one mdps and hopefully sticks with that plan.
If however things do not go as planned, and the enemy either ignores your mdps or there are none, you may need to switch guarding to healers, or if the situation is that there are many enemy WE/WH sneaking around going for your precious backline supporters.
General guarding rdps is a low priority, that is unless there are no mdps, or all the mdps player are low ranks and unlikely to achieve anything anyway, you might want to guard a high rank highly deadly rdps who will be the one deciding who dies and who lives, and with your help, the rdps player might just be able to save the day for your team.
In general however, plans change, enemy plans change, and your priority of where the guard will help your team most will change. You might have to change guard every 3 to 10 seconds even, placing it on whoever is taking the most heat from the enemy and doing your best to mitigate that damage for your team.
Situations and setups and fights can be vastly different, sometimes the single healer of team really needs the guard most, or sometimes you might end up guarding the sorc/BW who really knows what they are doing and are likely to be a deciding factor in the fight, as long as they stay alive.
You will eventually learn how to guard and whom to guard as you keep playing, you will learn which dps is worth guarding and which enemies you are going to need to focus with your CC.
