A little help with Tanking

[juniglee]

Ok thanks for the tips. Got a few more questions too:

1. When would you use Shield Bash? Is it worth it to break your combo for the stun when you see the enemy charging up their AoE attack?
2. Long drawn out battles sometimes sees me running out of TP. Other than spamming Flash, what else do you do while you wait for TP to recharge?

Regarding Provoke: I do that with Provoke (have a ready Savage Blade/Rage of Halone, or Shield Lob), but it does not seem to work out right for me. I must be doing something wrong.

[Fornix]

Ok thanks for the tips. Got a few more questions too:

1. When would you use Shield Bash? Is it worth it to break your combo for the stun when you see the enemy charging up their AoE attack?
2. Long drawn out battles sometimes sees me running out of TP. Other than spamming Flash, what else do you do while you wait for TP to recharge?

Regarding Provoke: I do that with Provoke (have a ready Savage Blade/Rage of Halone, or Shield Lob), but it does not seem to work out right for me. I must be doing something wrong.

1. I hardly ever use Shield Bash. As it's on the GCD it breaks my momentum. I rather continue building enmity and hop on over to the next pack instantly rather than throwing in low enmity skills. Ifrit and Hydra are the only fights I use Shield Bash.

2. Tell my DPS to stop slacking and get their act together. In addition to that, I cast an additional flash every now and then to keep up the blind debuff on mobs. By doing so I'm getting just that extra bit of TP regen during fights already.

3. As for provoke, bear in mind that it gives you top threat + 1. So if someone stole threat, and you provoke and then shield lob you get netto the following enmity: 1 + 6x shield lob dmg, which.... isn't too high. Roughly a 350 enmity gain or so. If a BLM for example for some reason stole aggro, some of them can crit for well over 1k. That's bam, instant aggro regain to them. If a healer took aggro and directly casts an AoE heal? That's bam, instant aggro regain to them. Provoke isn't so much a skill which is used only by the tank, it's a skill to which others should respond as well by reducing their threat gain. Otherwise it's simply not going to work.