New Quest to teach Tanks what Marking is for. Mandatory Please.

[Arkista]

IMO tanks should always mark in low level dungeons. Especially now, with roulette.

At low levels you don't have access to your full arsenal of hate holding skills. And you're often being paired with DPS in at least partial Darklight. And even synced that high level gear in low level dungeons can pull hate pretty easily if DPS decide to go after their own target.

If the tank is not marking, however, the onus is on the DPS to take a second and make sure they're attacking the correct mob. Look at the hate meters. Be aware. Be like Smokey the bear: "Only you can prevent party wipes."

Thanks cause this is mainly what I'm talking about.

IDK how people got all high and mighty about not needing to mark mobs because they can hold hate, when that's not what I was talking about. You're doing level 50 content and you can hold hate without marking that's great. Cause I've been to plenty of runs on my MNK where tank's Cant keep hate.

I guess some people just don't do low level dungeons, They missed the "Patch Notes" on EXP in 2.1....

So I am talking about low level dungeons.

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Got to love macros cause I can run toward a group of mobs, Mark and pull. But besides that Players need to speak up and say "Hey I'm the tank I will pull so please stop" I leveled WAR last week 41-50 in the stone vigil about 16 runs total. Didn't have a fail run or DPS acting stupid because I said what was going on, Its called communication some people should learn it.

Why don't you mark by yourself? I mean, if you want marked mobs and nobody is doing it, why don't you mark the mobs instead of asking for it? I play BLM mainly and I'm used to mark the mobs when the party starts to get messy.

If I'm on MNK I could care less if the tank is marking. I know my job and I know how to live if shit goes wrong. But I started leveling up SCH playing in low level dungeon and have seen some crappy tanking. Give them a lil advice and guess what the runs get better. Also it shouldn't be DPS or healers marking that is for the tank.

I'll usually mark 1 - the priority/biggest threat. For trash mobs I'll swap off when the main target is at like 10% to let everyone know the next target. We've seemed to get by so far. If I notice a different mobs hp dropping, I figure a dps is off and I'll switch.

What macros do people use for marking? I still have an issue trying to tab through enemies and having the focus jump across the room.

I'm on PS3 so I have L2+ Square(1) L2+Triangle(2) L2+O(3) on my second hotbar. But I have my pull macros with Marking 1 so if I'm doing a Speed Run I just mark one and if needed I'll just switch over mark the other mobs while I do my rotations. So when holding down L2 I can just use R1 to cycle through mobs.