Why is tanking so rough for new players?

[Duelle]

Using cooldowns at start is standard operating procedure for all good dps.

That's standard for bad DPS. Anyone that's played these games knows the tank has to get ahold of aggro before you can start popping cooldowns. Was true in FFXI, was very true in WoW and continues to be true here.

[Ellatrix]

That's standard for bad DPS. Anyone that's played these games knows the tank has to get ahold of aggro before you can start popping cooldowns. Was true in FFXI, was very true in WoW and continues to be true here.

Thanks for confirming you don't know how to tank if you're unable to hold threat off dps burst at the start. Again, the enmity modifiers on skills are ridiculous, and in 2.4 they felt the need to buff flash/scorn.

A hallmark of a bad DD is one who pops cooldowns at the very instant a trash pack is pulled and go balls out before the tank even has a chance to get a 123 combo going, let alone the time to Flash once or twice so as to keep the hate off the healer.

If you're trying to 123 on a trash pack at the start, you're doing it wrong. As I keep saying, if played correctly, under no circumstance will a dps pull off a tank.

[Sapphic]

Thanks for confirming you don't know how to tank if you're unable to hold threat off dps burst at the start. Again, the enmity modifiers on skills are ridiculous, and in 2.4 they felt the need to buff flash/scorn.

Try doing that with ilvl 55 weap with a 110 BLM popping raging strikes and triple flaring just as you pull. Then tell me thats not a bad BLM...

Also the post is about new players. So take that down to lower level dungs. A learning tank having DPS go full throttle from the firt pull make it harder for them until they learn. Then, instead of giving advice if they know, the DPS go all nerdy and verbually blitz the tank. Albeit, there are too many that totally ignore any tips and just continue failing their way through. But thats a different story XD

But, for me, the harder something is to learn, the more rewarding it is when it all comes together.