Tank from 11 going to 14 tanking

XI tanking had everything to do with tempo. You had to manage your casts inbetween enemy hits, whereas here you will mindlessly spam certain skills, depending on single/multi-target etc.

Even more so, no utsusemi, no cures, no nothing. Use your skills, manage your defensive CDs and that's about it. It's as easy as it can get if you were used to the tanking of XI endgame back in the old days.

Marking is more or less useless, only good if you're undergeared for the content. Otherwise, build multi-target threat (through Flash, Circle of Scorn, Overpower, whatever's your job) and have your DPS go happy casting.

In FFXI you had to sleep mobs and so on, here it rarely is an issue.

You will find situations where it is useful / necessary to mark mobs though, so make sure you have a hotbar ready for it, just in case. But I personally don't bother with it 95% of the time.

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Originally Posted by Kosneffect

Do I need to really mark every mob so the party can see what to attack?

I'm also wondering if cure works just like in 11 for hate. Does it give more hate or do the mobs just ignore me when I cast it. I know I'm gonna get hate mail for casting cure as tank all I need to know does it help with hate, or should I just ignore trying to cure myself?

Any help would be nice :p

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Marking everything is a good idea in cases where you're grouping with people you don't know. With friends and people who you feel are more capable, it's really left up to your discretion.

Curing for hate isn't the same in XIV as it was in XI. It generates enmity, but your main tanking abilities will end up generating much more. Don't ignore healing yourself if you have to, but also don't expect it to be a main source of maintaining enemies' attention.

Enmity in this game is very very simple, especially when coming from FFXI.
Basically, it's (damage * 2 * skill multiplier) = enmity, and (cure / 2) = enmity

You cannot loose enmity, even when taking damage.
There is a single enmity, not cumulative and volatile enmity.
There is no enmity decay over time.
There is no enmity cap.
There is no gear with enmity modifiers either (I think determination raises enmity a bit, but it's probably tiny to a point it's not worth being mentioned).

So yes, enmity in this game is a little dull, and very basic, and there aren't much ways to manage it.
In fact, it's feels like they took away all the fun of enmity management. In longer fights, you'll even reach a point where you can stop generating enmity because there is no way dps or healers will catch up.
It feels more like dpsing with cheated modifiers than tanking... but well, I guess that's the price to pay to make tanking attractive to more players :(