Editing Venomancer Dungeons (section)

==Tanking==

If you and/or your pet can tank the hits, there's no need to nerf your combined damage output.

# Know your mob. Some things your pet can tank. Some things you can tank yourself. What exactly you can tank is highly dependent on your pet, your level, and your build.
# If you're fighting melee, use Blinding Sand (genie skill) and Befuddling Mist to drop the mob's accuracy to 0, meaning everything is a miss. Magic, on the other hand, never misses.
# If another veno is pet-tanking a boss and she needs you to help heal it too, then please heal it! Even Hercs aren't all godly.


If you haven't been playing the role of the tank and the tank goes down, there's a couple different things you can do:
# If you don't have any intention of even trying to tank and it looks like a pretty fail squad, you may want to unsummon your pet and high-tail it. If the squad is going to wipe for sure and you can save yourself, do so. At least that way you can make it safe for the cleric to come back or res if they have a scroll. Be careful with this though, sometimes just unsummoning can hasten the party's demise.
# If the squad just needs a little bit of time and can recover, venomancers make the ultimate back-up-tank class. If things are really bad, venomancers are the ultimate suicide-to-save-the-cleric class. Hopefully your cleric should know whether to flee to safety or start reviving people.
#* Send in your pet with a high aggro skill such as Bash or Flesh Ream. Roar works as well if you need to snatch aggro quickly, but doesn't help if your pet already has aggro.
#** If the cleric is running away, keep the boss preoccupied until they can get out of range. When they are in a safe spot, go ahead and suicide. Just make sure you're not where the boss is planning on standing when he resets.
#** If the cleric is reviving and the boss is being a hindrance (AoEs, random aggro, etc.), run. More tips on this in the next section. Bring the boss back when the rest of the squad is ready, if you can manage to live that long.
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