It is my personal view that standing in the back and trying to protect a healer is a waste. There is no mechanic to force a player to attack you. At best you can snare the attacker or if you are an iron breaker, knock them down for a short amount of time and hope the healer can get away. Although chances are the healer is being focus fired, so it probably will not do much good anyway. If I was forced to pick a tank class to stand back and defend? The healers though, it would be an iron breaker. They have many more aion gold for this at their disposal than a swordmaster does. Exact descriptions of all the abilities, tactics, and morals that you can get as a Swordmaster have been done by other players to a much better degree than I am able in this guide. For example, the Ward database has a very nice listing of all the skills and how they change with level. I will therefore not repeat their work. Instead, I will give a few short notes on the various skills and their uses.