Tank

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A tank is a character designated to protect weaker characters in combat. Tanks often have defensive skills as well as high damage tolerance or armor class.

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The term originally came in use with players of MUDs, and was used as early as 1994 on Usenet to describe the warrior class on DikuMUDs which had high hit points and the rescue skill, which allowed transferring one attacking mob from another players to the rescuing character.^[1][2]

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