Good evening/morning/afternoon Tank forums, I am a relatively fresh level 50 PLD and I have been struggling on one point in particular and I thought I would drop in and ask someone more experienced. That being, I have been having trouble establishing hate in situations where killing quickly is the primary concern.
To use a specific example, I ran Garuda EX with my FC the other day as the OT - as I had told them I did not know the timings for Wicked Wheel very well. As a relatively new tank I made several embarrassing mistakes I won't go into, but the one thing that seemed to happen most often (and has happened in other, similar, fights), was I had a very hard time grabbing Chirada when she spawned before a DD started waling on her, or a healer started cure bombing me or some other source of hate popped up.
That's a specific example, but I am well aware it is caused by a more general problem with my tanking style, so I'm wondering if there are some hints I can get either to (A) get hate faster, or (B) grab hate securely back if someone takes it early on. For (B), I'm well aware that Provoke is optimal for that, but I can never seem to seal the deal after provoking before someone else pulls the target away, and now I'm sans Provoke.
When grabbing a newly spawned enemy, I try to do this:
Code:
Stand close to spawn,
Circle of Scorn/Flash > (target if I haven't already) > Fast Blade/Spirits Within > (pull away if it's a situation like Chirada) > continue Harlone combo
Any help would be very appreciated.