Forum Top: Tank Roles

As we all know Yoshi P has stated he doesn't want to add classes mid x-pac again, and wants to use classic jobs in new and interesting ways. So here...

Yeah sure we're the stalwart guardians of the party and we protect the squishies from harm but we're also human too and humans tend to derp a lot. ...

Just had a VA run where on the last boss a BRD pulled and none of the tanks (I was SMN at the time) could pull aggro off the DPS and Echidna just...

I've been gearing up with Void Ark and esoteric tomes for awhile now, but I've dodged around healer and tank gear. So I'm looking at some options as...

I have two macros: One that informs the group that I am using Divine Veil and for the healer(s) to NOT heal me. My second macro is letting them know...

Hi folks, I searched for this specific question, but only found general info on openers. I think my opener is relatively solid, this is specifically...

I love some armors like Gafgarion's armor, Knight's armor from FFIII, First Class Moogle's clothes from FF type-0, Spellblade's and Paladin's clothes...

Right now, if the healer goes down and you don't have a summoner in the party, it's a difficult task of recovering from that situation. Since PLD...

So I recently picked up tanking since I wanted to pick up Mercy stroke on my MNK but I would like to finish leveling up MRD/WAR. Here's the pickle,...

Is a joke like really especially the PLD's that wear fending gear. As soon as I enter a duty now with a pld wearing 2 pieces + fending I insta leave...

So up unto this point i have always played PLD, which i enjoy the looks of more then anything. But recently i have wanted to level drk and war and am...

TL: DR Looking for advice on how to handle the first few group dungeons as a tank new to this game. I have been tanking for years so am not new to...

Table of Contents: I. Opening Statements. II. Thread Objective. III. Job Design Philosophies and Implementation Explanation. A. Paladin. B....

Hello Everyone, I don't really ever have issues with capturing or holding threat, just looking to see if anyone has a better rotation than the one...

I mean, really, SE? You give us a wonderful spell (well...as wonderful as it could be, anyway) but then limit its use by letting it be interrupted....

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