Post your tanking derps and herps here!

[Lavelios]

Tanking iron giants on king bemoth. Dps was slow and meteor started to go with the giant still at half health. So i run to the one and only comet to hide and the giant follows and 1 shots the comet and we wipe. Oops lol

[Instrumentality]

Tanked the entirety of Ifrit extreme in Sword Oath. Died once to five stack breath, then again at the end.

Nobody noticed (Including me) until after we killed it.

[AlrikRouge]

I was not sure if I should post this as a new thread/in the DPS area, or on this.

I decided to get with this one thread.

I've been looking at the DPS threads to check out what it is like, rotations of and general pros and cons of the melee DPS roles to see if there is one that I could pick up, aside from my slowly-being-leveling BLM.

So my apology to all the melee DPS out there for which I tanked and kept the target moving around unnecessarily. I had no idea that more than half of the effective DPS damage was depending on your position with the mob or boss. And some including standing still (apparently). I truly thought it was more convenience and avoiding hits that you were either at the flank or rear of the mobs or boss.

It wasn't a face-palm moment for me - it was a head/forehead drop to the table with a thud moment.

Good thing I know this now for the future! Also really good to know now, about line AoE from melee. Didn't even know this existed. So I should also be able to help get that in order.

*sits in corner with visor down*

/sigh

[Mezlabor]

Tanking is my herp in general. I'm pretty new in this game and new to tanking in general. normally I play lncr but I keep marauder leveled pretty close. I just got out of a terrible run of hatali first time tanking that. I know I'm low level and nowhere near you guys running coil in il90. I just had a really hard time holding aggro and controlling the mobs. I dont know if I should keep tanking after this. I wanted to tank because tanks are really needed but this was so bad. I died twice to bomb self destruct cause I couldn't get out of mob range. I just did everything wrong. Uhg Should I even bother trying to tank before war? Seems like I just don't have all the tools yet. Or am I just bad and should give up on tanking all together. I would start my own thread but I cant not yet anyways... not high enough or something.

[Sagittarian]

Tanking is my herp in general. I'm pretty new in this game and new to tanking in general. *snip*

Keep at it! Gambatte!
Circular AOEs can be a pain. The general recommendation is to use Legacy movement. All your movement is relative to the camera, regardless of which way the character is facing. It means no more back-pedaling out of AOEs. It also means the camera never auto-turns, so it takes some getting used to.
If that doesn't work, blame lag

Pick up a few levels of gladiator for flash. It will supplement Overpower, which is the main way you hold aggro now. Flash also uses mp instead of tp

Also, you can post in the New Player section all you want. Here are the general limits - forum link. There are several "New to tanking - apparently I suck" posts.

[Instrumentality]

Or am I just bad and should give up on tanking all together.

Don't give up! Remember, as a tank, it is Never Your Fault when things go wrong. Sagittarian makes a good point about legacy movement, you should use it. Also as a MRD use Overpower when trying to keep aggro on more than two mobs at a time.

[Merkq]

Got two for you guys.

First is in my first Haukke Manor (Hard). Got a PUG and didn't look at start beforehand, but was still doing ok. We get to last boss and we wipe. Wasn't so bad, so we were all up for a retry... Except I had all my accessories at 0% Durability after that wipe. Everyone got really nervous when I pointed it out, but we managed and beat it.

Second, was MT for Titan HM. We had trouble and were on our 4+ try. I had a small lapse in my focus after Titan jumped. I was right on edge of the red circle and didn't fell, but I tried to position myself better and walked of the edge by going in reverse. I was with a friend that time and not a word was said in the ten seconds following that event. I can only imagine the scene (from his point of view) of the Darklight-clad paladin getting ready to slash Titan, only to back away and fall to his doom.

[Truefaith87]

El Snippo

Just so you know, early tanking as a mrd is literally "get everything in a cone in front of me, and spam overpower until my key i have it set to breaks". GLA before 26 or so is a pain as well, you lack your big emnity production. Leveling a DPS and a tank is actually a very good idea, because it makes you a better DPS overall, because you will understand how much emnity each hit produces, and be able to know your limits before you will swipe it from the tank.

[Vanifae]

I am a nub tank but the best herp-derp moment was on an Ifrit where I was DPSing as a Dragoon and the tank was either having latency issues or well was herp-derping as well and I ended up tanking Ifrit for half the fight until he died. Go go storymode Ifrit.

[Mezlabor]

Thanks you guys Ill give it another shot when