How to Help Tanks in Dungeons 101.

[CrisGer]

This may be one of the most useful threads on the New Player list ..thanks again...lots of good advice here. Sheer San your last post is very good, many of us are new to Tanking and want to do well and are afraid of messing up. This attitude of helping without trying to make us instant experts is just right. It is very nice when things go well. I died twice in my first dungeon as a tank but i kept coming back and the team were nice about it and we made it thru. I will keep trying hard and these tips have been invaluable. Like i said, i missed the in game live tips, because it started spamming right when i had to start the dungeon and i could not open all of the pages so i lost it, it never saved to my library of tips. I hope to find it somwhere online at some point but for now these tips have been a huge help.

Mark or have someone mark who knows what to mark - right click on the life bars of the foes that appear on the left side of the screen
Watch the colour key for Aggression from the foes...red for fully aiming at YOU, orange for getting there and green for Not at All
Realize that the Foes are ranked A-Z for each room of the dungeon and you can target them that way
Try to keep the Tank NOT fully healed so that they can pull aggression from the bosses and foes
Try to encourage people to target the marked foes
Bring Enemies TO the Tank - if you get attacked run TOWARD the Tank so they can grab the foe from you.

thanks again for a sane and reasonable and very nice thread.

[Sheer]

thanks again for a sane and reasonable and very nice thread.

You're welcome! I'm glad that it helped you.

[Jaminos]

Another problem I come across is players who try to lead the dungeon who are not tanks. I can not express how much it irritates me when a player runs ahead while I am leading or am waiting for my resources to recover. As a PS3 player it is hard to type in chat to keep people from running ahead while I need to wait a minute.

[Khalus]

Bring Enemies TO the Tank - if you get attacked run TOWARD the Tank so they can grab the foe from you.

Would be nice if that ever happened!

[Szalvias]

Would be nice if that ever happened!

sure would.
even after telling people multiple times, I find dps attacking #3 while I'm still on #1 then when it aggros they run away from me.... /sigh

[Khalus]

sure would.
even after telling people multiple times, I find dps attacking #3 while I'm still on #1 then when it aggros they run away from me.... /sigh

I've resorting to explaining how I run the dungeon before we get started: {gotta love it when a dps runs ahead and dies during the explanation too...}

#1 always assist me
#2 stay behind me, never run ahead and aggro/pull mobs
#3 if you pull aggro and run away I won't help, you will die!

Best part about #3, most healers concur and we let them die until they learn not to do it...rofl! And if they leave, big deal, there are a plethora of other DPS waiting to get in on the action!

General use of Topaz Carbuncle or Titan-Egi can mess things up and for the main part of the dungeon

the ACN should really use either Emerald Carbuncle, Ifrit-Egi or Garuda-Egi. I'm just saying that on a few of the dungeon bosses Topaz Carbuncle and Titan-Egi can be a great help. it does how ever require the tank, ACN and healer to work together.

Absolutely, do not use Topaz or Titan, ever, they are for solo and more dps is better!

And as long as everyone follows the #1 rule "assist the tank" I have no problems holding the boss and 4+ mobs. Also don't ever engage new adds to boss fights until I have them under control, it just causes havoc!