>I've found giant/minotaur shamans to be among the best tanks
>in the mid levels.
>Protection + Sanc + Giant Resist = Soaking Up Lots of Damage.
>Blindness helps too. Heck, I like frenzy.

I wasn't particularly enamored of my duergar when it came to ranking. And I was well practiced and geared. Sure I could do fine for a while, but then I was out of mana and had to rest for ~6 hours. Resist physical would have helped, yeah.

>You left out A-Ps and orcs.

If they can do damage then I don't consider them "hard to rank". All you need is to find a tank.