I can only answer out of personal experience, but here goes: 1: I found sea singer made tanking (no solo experience!) much easier. As a tank your dps won't matter too much anyway, so might as well focus on being a tank and let the DPS guys focus on the damage. 2: Yes, arcane works, and is, IMO, easier to learn tanking with thanks to the damage reduction. The prayer drain however is HUGE and the farseer is so much nicer to use. 4: just run past them with what ever gear you're wearing, eat a shark or two and enter the nex bank :)