So while talking about low level tanking, I spoke a little about Rage generation and some of the abilities we have at our disposal. I forgot to mention how you actually get Defensive Stance , to be fair I had completely forgotten: it’s through a quest you can pick up at level 10 (Horde | Alliance | Draenei). What does Defensive Stance give you? Well apart from certain specific tanking abilities, ie. Sunder Armor and Taunt, it also affects some of your attributes. You take 10% less damage and your damage generates 5% more threat (at some stage we’ll talk a little more about threat, but in a nutshell this is what makes mobs stick to you). Once you hit level 16, you get access to one of the staples of tanking : Shield Block - it is considered so important because a blocked attack cannot not be a crit, so spam that button whenever it’s off Cooldown (CD) - once again be aware that things are changing in Cataclysm, but for now we’ll concentrate on what we know for sure. You can read up some more info on Block.