Nonsense, if you're a hybrid tank, then aggro management is YOUR job. That's the fun in playing one. If you aren't teaching your damage-dealers horrible habits that'll get them killed the next time they group with a Warrior, you're not trying hard enough!
That being said, level 9 is a bit too low to accomplish that task, especially as a Shadow Knight. You don't have meditate until 12, so your mana will be pretty badly limited. Disease Cloud has a bit of a cooldown on it so you can't just spam it back to back, and it's rather less immediate aggro than your later aggro spells. Clinging Darkness at 15 gives you another good tool, but it'll be some levels after that before you also have the necessary mana pool and meditation rate to maintain such spell use for any length of time. Eventually, at 39, you'll also gain access to Shadow Vortex and (if you're really determined to make something stick) Heart Flutter. Proper use of your spells will allow you to tell the local Wizard to chain-cast Ice Comet upon pull and the mob will stick to you anyway, and you can bask in the delight of knowing the future deaths you're causing.
In general the Shadow Knight is something of a late bloomer class. It starts out slow and doesn't really come into its own until relatively late. Once it gets going though it keeps getting better as you level, basically all the way to 60.
Danth
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