New to Tank Role N> Help Please

I new to tank and i'm been trying to work on marcos to help make things easyer heres a few that i have. I'm on a Japanese sever (Gaia) Ifrit so if anyone can help me with some marco atm i'm lv 20. i know i dont have to worry about alot of these below. but i like to use them cause its fun (ones use at my level)

**Note looking for people to forum a guild with me and also i've giving out (recruit-a-friend codes) so ask for that if you guys want the codes.

Tank Marking Macro:

/mk triangle
/focustarget
/ac "target forward"
/mk attack2 <t>
/ac "target forward"
/mk attack3 <t>
/target <f>
/mk attack1 <t>

=Provoke=
/macroicon "Provoke"
/focustarget
/ac "Provoke" <f>

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Macros GLD:
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Macros MRD:
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Marking is a bit silly when it's almost always better to AOE things. Especially when you hit 50+ and you'll be tanking groups much larger than 3.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Marking is a bit silly when it's almost always better to AOE things. Especially when you hit 50+ and you'll be tanking groups much larger than 3.

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Well, it doesn't look like the OP is 50 yet. In lower level dungeons, nobody has any good AoE skills, so they're going to be taking mobs down with single-target attacks and marking which mobs to hit is still useful (though only rarely done from what I've seen). I'd agree that in level 50 and above dungeons (or maybe late 40's) there isn't much point to it, though.

Honestly macros aren't all that useful. You might want to make one for calling out the name of the target you provoke, or for announcing the use of a skill that party members may need to know about (for instance Divine Veil on Paladin, which requires a heal within 10 seconds to provide a shield to others, or Living Dead on Dark Knight which requires you to be healed to 100% within 10 seconds). You could also use one for a countdown before pulling a boss. Anything beyond those few uses though, and you risk actually losing functionality, not adding it. Most skills should be manually activated, so you can use them when you need them. Stuff like hiding all your buffs on a single macro is foolish unless you're on a controller and hotbar space is at a premium. Also, marking targets is rarely used and even more rarely needed.

Here's the pulling countdown macro I use on my tanks, I think it's quite nice. The special characters don't show correctly on the forums but a direct paste in game *should* work, hopefully. In addition to the countdown you'll see in the screenshot below it'll put the 3/2/1 marks over your own head while it counts down and then a circle during "charge" which will disappear right after, it's a nice visual queue.

Pulling in:
/wait 0.5
/mk "attack3" <me>
  <se.5>
/wait 0.5
/mk "attack2" <me>
  <se.5>
/wait 0.5
/mk "attack1" <me>
  <se.5>
/wait 0.5
/mk "circle" <me>
 <se.7>
/wait 0.5
/mk "circle" <me>

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@KhyaraBloodvayne thanks anymore marcos that'd be great also :) i just like looking cool even if i am on a jp server

if anyone has skype add me wi1dace so it'll be alot easyer to talk then here

may look for a new /world to start my rp FC on anyone got any ideas?

Balmung is probably best for your RP needs, unless you're looking to stay on a JP server. Then I suppose Tonberry is where you'd find English speakers.

i'm ok with changing just trying to figure out just how to get on it with it being restricted atm

It's one of, if not THE most populated NA server.
Meaning in periods of high congestion you cannot create a new character. You can either wait until the wee hours of the morning (I know this at least works for Hyperion) or you may have to wait until the moments after maintenance downtime as this forces all players offline.

If you were to pay the transfer fee you could transfer without waiting, as character transfers are not restricted.

>.< i will get in someday

As King said, transferring to a new server usually ignores the character creation restriction (as in, a paid server transfer for your existing character, not simply creating a new character on a new server)... but again it might be the time of day you are trying to do so. Another alternative to Balmung is I noticed in your other thread you said your FC has a lot of EU players, hence maybe a EU server would be another choice? (Balmung is on the NA server group). I'm not too familiar with the EU servers, although I understand Ragnarok is probably the most largest EU server, and thus probably is just as congested (read: restricted to new character creation) as Balmung. But that is still an alternative.

Either way, don't despair! I hope you and your FC family finally find a server to call home, no matter where that server is. The main thing is that you stick together and by conquering the mountain that is getting onto the server that's right for you, you're pretty much ready to conquer any challenges the game throws at you! :D

my 3 eu friends is the reason i'm on the eu server but i am looking for a good na server or w/e server that would be good to start a RP FC on. cause i'm not good at translating english to japanese XD