A Visual Guide to Tanking - Stormblood Edition

Howdy, howdy.

Made a new, large guide for general Stormblood tanking. The last one I saw was terribly outdated and needed a remodel imo.

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This is so cute lol, especially the part with the ranged enemy being away from the pack. xD

There needs to be "A Mobs guide to taking down Player Parties" with a "AND THEN THERE'S THIS ASSHOLE" with a picture of the tanks.

The "Earthly Star" part might be important for the vast majority of people using DF ...

Great visual guide! You have done a huge service to us all, and I'll use this to remind tanks how to tank properly when mentoring. (Not only Arhat has this, but also the crocodile, and the T-rex mob which I encounter often in 51-80 & 151-180 POTD floors have a rear attack.)

Thank you~ May we meet ingame someday :D

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Originally Posted by MercureXI

The "Earthly Star" part might be important for the vast majority of people using DF ...

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Yeah. If anything, AST's Earthly Star is the only healing AoE I didn't get to know well. But I felt a nice burst of healing when it exploded. I should make sure to stay in there on demand of healing and especially in raid parties.

Tankswapping part should probably account for Susano's tankbuster being a line attack, not a cone.

Then again, this is just a quick and dirty guide. Doesn't need to cover everything.

I wish DPS could hear you on the "stand on these circle" part too.
It's so boring when you have one that stand near it (or are very far), could make one step into it but don't move at all. Then he doesn't get the heal and you have to do a dedicated single target healing for him (or worst part, he dies...)

Thank you - excellent guide.

I main PLD, so nothing I hadn't figured out there, but a huge help for WAR which I just picked up and was wondering "WTH do I do with no Flash?" ;)

There were several helpful tips in the chart to help a thick Pally like me to understand how Warrior actually works. (I rolled a new character to try it out 'properly', rather than speed level it and kit it out on my main.)

Very fun and informative info graphic. As a long time tank I didn't learn that much new but I found it very entertaining and will share with other people learning to tank.

I've loved this series of infographic guides since forever and found myself sending it to many new friends who recently picked up tanking.
I play on a Japanese server and would love it if I could get permission to translate this to Japanese and share it on my lodestone/twitter with full credit to you + link back to this post.
If it's okay I would also like to make slight adjustments to some info (adding plungecut to the rush target section of aggro abilities), just wanted to make sure I get a green light before I go ahead with this!

Thank you so much for making this!

Really like this little guide. It really helped me when I started tanking. I always come back to it for the sprite work and the humor...especially for "AND THEN THERE'S THIS ASS****"

Great job!

Has this been updated for later expansions?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Zuilin

Great job!

Has this been updated for later expansions?

Thanks!

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There aren't really too many changes for it. Different abilities, lack of an AoE provoke and of DPS/Healer enmity abilities, but most of this information is still good.

Big changes in Endwalker are really the telegraphed tank busters (which is really nice) and each tank having a relatively "spammable" mitigation ability (i.e. DRK's TBN, GNB's Heart of Corundum, WAR's Bloodwhetting, and PLD's Holy Sheltron). OTherwise, the information here is still accurate. Is there something in specific that you're looking for? Azurite has some nice video guides that go into a lot more detail.