Let's share some Tanking Tips and Tricks!

[Sevjin]

1. Situational Awareness: Watch for patrols! Sometimes it's better to wait that 30 seconds for the patrol to come back around than to take on the main cluster, only to get overwhelmed later. Move out of aoe/cone attacks and keep them away from your group.

2. Let your party members help: You don't have to be supertank all the time and stress out your healers. Your party members have useful crowd control skills for a reason. Get your BLM to mass sleep. Let your summoner use Titan to help off tank a mob.

3. Ignore the haters: The tank gets a lot of blame if things go bad. If you can't get out of an aoe fast enough because you got paralyzed, you'll get blamed. If your healer dies because he casted a mass cure right as you pulled that hard hitting mob group, you'll get blamed. If your DPS runs off the cliff, they'll blame you for not warning them about the effects of gravity. Such is the way of being the natural party leader.

[dynastyGM]

If your DPS runs off the cliff, they'll blame you for not warning them about the effects of gravity. Such is the way of being the natural party leader.

^ This, so much this. I lol'd!

One of the things I've come to make sure I'm aware of (and apologies if someone posted this), is taking note of how large certain mob's AOE attacks are, and positioning myself accordingly for each subsequent fight. Having that extra second, half second to move yourself when otherwise occupied has helped me feel a little less stress while tanking.

I've very rarely had DPS pull mobs off me, but Archers seem to be able to do a real damn good job of it if they unload too early. If/when that happens, I don't burn CD's unnecessarily or go crazy running after the rogue mob. Let 'em take a few swipes, and reel back in. Sometimes people only learn by getting a good solid smack upside the head.

Lots of great tips in here. Carry on~