How to tank properly, also known as...

[Dracon]

How to outtank Foxmaid.

Both she and I have Taunting on, but she usually gets the aggro, despite me having the better equip to deal with all the damage.
Unfortunately, the damage she sometimes gets exceeds both Defender's and my healing capabilities (including Lay on Hands), so I'd rather have the aggro myself.

Is there any way to ensure I get aggro over her or does it just ping-pong in her favor?

Edit:
Pretty much my Fox Maid experience:
Me: PV 151 DV 33
Fox Maid: PV: 39 DV 29

Fox Maid: I'm the tank of this party!

[Zackkk]

Maybe she'll stop taunting if you give her a fighter brain cell from little garden

[fairtoki]

You ride her...

Joke aside, You can ride or host her and become fusion tank they usually alternate damage receive from both of you and you both benefit from healing/buff spell when casted.

[Darx]

if you dont want to ride or host her then and are not that deep into the game yet to have a fusion generator, then the only other option would be to get a the mod that lets you set the personality of your pet. so you switch from tank to figther.

[pipey]

stop using the starting given pets, they have weak starting stats. If you need to be the tanker, use taunt, symbiosis. Get public performer/puppy fertilized egg, drop on bed, wait until you have 2 milk of it feed it to have it become adult do not feed a different pet milk, the growth stats is optimize when you use it on the same pet, unless you want it to grow differently, you can get their main stat around 30 to 40 on level 1 even better with bless milk. With Putit in Ember very early if you can tank rank 20+ evolve monster, they really helpful

Same go if your a mage get the hermit crab with 40 endurance, 25PV base, mount it so that it can tank for you, although they can only wear shoes, you unlikely to get that much PV early on

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by pipey:

stop using the starting given pets, they have weak starting stats. If you need to be the tanker, use taunt, symbiosis. Get public performer/puppy fertilized egg, drop on bed, wait until you have 2 milk of it feed it to have it become adult do not feed a different pet milk, the growth stats is optimize when you use it on the same pet, unless you want it to grow differently, you can get their main stat around 30 to 40 on level 1 even better with bless milk. With Putit in Ember very early if you can tank rank 20+ evolve monster, they really helpful

Same go if your a mage get the hermit crab with 40 endurance, 25PV base, mount it so that it can tank for you, although they can only wear shoes, you unlikely to get that much PV early on

Tell me you didn't read the OP without telling me you didn't read the OP.

[CornBreadtm]

Originally posted by pipey:

stop using the starting given pets, they have weak starting stats. If you need to be the tanker, use taunt, symbiosis. Get public performer/puppy fertilized egg, drop on bed, wait until you have 2 milk of it feed it to have it become adult do not feed a different pet milk, the growth stats is optimize when you use it on the same pet, unless you want it to grow differently, you can get their main stat around 30 to 40 on level 1 even better with bless milk. With Putit in Ember very early if you can tank rank 20+ evolve monster, they really helpful

Same go if your a mage get the hermit crab with 40 endurance, 25PV base, mount it so that it can tank for you, although they can only wear shoes, you unlikely to get that much PV early on

Fox Maid isn't a starter given pet. She's basically the ultimate endgame ally lol. Every 5 levels gives her more speed and HP.

The real question is... why does OP want to take over tanking for the OP Fox Maid, just give her your better gear, you will suck compared to her once she gets to level 15-20.

She'll get higher levels faster if you stay out of her way and let her do her damn job!

[Just Some Random Kid]

Originally posted by pipey:

stop using the starting given pets, they have weak starting stats. If you need to be the tanker, use taunt, symbiosis. Get public performer/puppy fertilized egg, drop on bed, wait until you have 2 milk of it feed it to have it become adult do not feed a different pet milk, the growth stats is optimize when you use it on the same pet, unless you want it to grow differently, you can get their main stat around 30 to 40 on level 1 even better with bless milk. With Putit in Ember very early if you can tank rank 20+ evolve monster, they really helpful

Same go if your a mage get the hermit crab with 40 endurance, 25PV base, mount it so that it can tank for you, although they can only wear shoes, you unlikely to get that much PV early on

Brother come one, you can't be doing this.

[DW420]

From my experience, allies have issues equipping the "best in slot" equipment you have available for them (in shared chests) and only look for the ones made from the "best material"...so i try to populate my teams with ranged/magic users.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by DW420:

From my experience, allies have issues equipping the "best in slot" equipment you have available for them (in shared chests) and only look for the ones made from the "best material"...so i try to populate my teams with ranged/magic users.

If you talk to them you can tell them not to use equipment from shared chests, then you can give them exactly what equipment pieces you want them to have.

[DW420]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by DW420:

From my experience, allies have issues equipping the "best in slot" equipment you have available for them (in shared chests) and only look for the ones made from the "best material"...so i try to populate my teams with ranged/magic users.

If you talk to them you can tell them not to use equipment from shared chests, then you can give them exactly what equipment pieces you want them to have.

Aye..did that when i took up a tank as a teammate.
She insisted on dropping a Godly wood amulet for a plain platinum one.

[Dracon]

Originally posted by CornBreadtm:

Originally posted by pipey:

stop using the starting given pets, they have weak starting stats. If you need to be the tanker, use taunt, symbiosis. Get public performer/puppy fertilized egg, drop on bed, wait until you have 2 milk of it feed it to have it become adult do not feed a different pet milk, the growth stats is optimize when you use it on the same pet, unless you want it to grow differently, you can get their main stat around 30 to 40 on level 1 even better with bless milk. With Putit in Ember very early if you can tank rank 20+ evolve monster, they really helpful

Same go if your a mage get the hermit crab with 40 endurance, 25PV base, mount it so that it can tank for you, although they can only wear shoes, you unlikely to get that much PV early on

Fox Maid isn't a starter given pet. She's basically the ultimate endgame ally lol. Every 5 levels gives her more speed and HP.

The real question is... why does OP want to take over tanking for the OP Fox Maid, just give her your better gear, you will suck compared to her once she gets to level 15-20.

She'll get higher levels faster if you stay out of her way and let her do her damn job!

We are both lv 37, and I need to have heavy armor anyway since I'm a Paladin.
The other reason is that NPCs will just stand there when they taunt something, while you can actually move in a way AOE attacks don't hit the entire party.

Also, she somehow refuses to tank Yth. for me-.. I wonder why...

Last but not least, I deal extra damage against undead due to having Jure's lance. (Foxmaid has Horome's weapoon though)

[Dracon]

Sorry, gotta pull this up... I really need to know how to outtank her as long as the AI doesn't move her tails far enough away from the group to not have everyone inside the fire and ice AOE...

[raviolles]

this is just from my experience, and my opinion
since i'm did not play as a paladin and my defender feat only at level 2 and i don't have fox maid
i play as a priest but my play style more like a paladin, i'm the tank of the party
my usual party consist of defender, and my experimental baby bard
none of them have taunt

from my observation
i don't think taunt actually function as keeping aggro to you
it more apparent when fighting a boss
even if i have taunt on, the boss still attack other party member
which is usually after a successful attack from the party member
i will have the boss aggro again after i successfully attack the boss

for me taunt is a covering skill, its directing damage to you from your party member within range
mercenary warrior also have taunt, when they use it, it does not prevent us from attacking another mob and damaging them, but they divert the damage to them

your taunt skill will always overlap with the fox maid taunt, and she will take some damage even if she don't have the aggro

in my opinion, to get aggro of a mob is by attacking them and have the highest damage inflicted
so you need to have the highest damage and hit rate to sustain aggro
if you fear of the fox maid dying, like the others said, just ride her or let her parasitize you if you have higher speed