A little help with Tanking

[Anubis_Nephthys]

1. I don't rotate my skills like that unless a DPS has slipped up and attacked the wrong enemy.
This is how I pull trash mobs: 1) Mark mobs with "2" and sometimes "3". I have a macro that combines Mark "1" and Shield Lob together. 2) Once things are marked, and I pulled the first one, I Flash. 3) I run through FB-SB-RH, and then i Flash again. 4) From here I just rinse and repeat. It seems to work fine. If a mob gets away, I'll Shield Lob it back to me and Flash.

2. The periodic Flash should be all you need to maintain aggro on sleeping mobs.

3. Yea.

4. From what I understand about Provoke, it doesn't do what you think it does. Provoke seems to set the enmity equal between everyone who's involved. Say the mob is attacking the healer; we'll say the healer has "70% of the aggro", and you have "30% of the aggro". If you do provoke, you both now have "50% of the aggro", so whoever does something to get its attention first, is the one to get attacked. So when I use provoke, I follow up with a Shield Lob, and a Flash like I said before.

5. Yea. I usually wait around for a minute or two to wait for some squishy spell-casters. I'm sure they as just as glad to see me as I am to see them. :P

6. Well, as a PLD, you can only cross-class from MRD, and CNJ. So, I would only level the MRD up to level 8. That way, you get Foresight, and Bloodbath (while not as useful as it is on MRD/WAR, Bloodbath can still be used to "stay above water", or pretty close to it.)

I hope my slightly more experience helps!