Level 36 PLD looking for advice

[IndigoHawk]

Also, don't take ragers seriously or let them get to you.
When someone rages, tell them to stop.
If they don't, vote kick them or leave. Don't play with people like that.

If someone is better than you, then they should use their skill to help make up for your lack of skill or give you good advice.
Listen to good advice, but don't play with people who won't be team players and don't provide constructive feedback.

[Ashkendor]

Also, don't take ragers seriously or let them get to you.
When someone rages, tell them to stop.
If they don't, vote kick them or leave. Don't play with people like that.

If someone is better than you, then they should use their skill to help make up for your lack of skill or give you good advice.
Listen to good advice, but don't play with people who won't be team players and don't provide constructive feedback.

Of all of the advice in the thread, I think this is the most important. If someone wants to say that you are bad but not provide any constructive feedback as to how to improve, right there they've shown you that you shouldn't give a crap about what they say. It's the duty of more experienced players to help new players out. It's the duty of new players to let the experienced players know that they'd really like the help. :3

It sounds like you're doing pretty well. You're just at the point where the difficulty starts to ramp up. From 30-50 the learning curve gets pretty steep as far as tanking goes, simply because you're basically the de facto leader of the party. I know it was intimidating to me the first time through going into a dungeon and having to tell people that I'm new and I don't know the content. Honestly, good dps and healers can work with and/or around inexperienced tanks. Hell, they can work around flat-out terrible tanks in most content.

[givemeraptors]

Honestly, good dps and healers can work with and/or around inexperienced tanks. Hell, they can work around flat-out terrible tanks in most content.

This for sure. I've seen DPS lead entire dungeons (not physically of course) by marking and pointing out where to go, what's in what chest etc. Teamwork! It makes everything way more fun and far less stressful.