You'd be surprised as how many DPS do that. Even myself sometimes but a lot of it comes from the Tank not Flashing or Overpower, resulting in immediate healer agro once the heal starts coming. So if you can't handle the agro, I'd rather let myself die as a DPS than the healer dies because of the tank's mistakes.


More you can see sometimes is that a lot of DPS tends to hover around to see which target you're attacking and then attack those. If you pull using tomahawk, they're going to assume that's the one you're going to attack. MARKING is the solution for this problem, most of the time. Most DPS will respect you for marking than any other thing actually.

More than any other time is because they want to do it fast. When you tank, the group will always expect you as the tank to lead first. That comes with the expectation that you will pull once you see a group. But when you sort of say... scan the area for more than 10 solid seconds, the DPS would get restless and start to pull. Contrary to popular belief, dungeons in FFXIV has a lot of similarities between each other, so you shouldn't really sit there and wait too long.

If these don't really make you see why they're pulling target's off of you, or make the initial pull; I'll give you a latest example of me being a 33 BRD with a 34 synced WAR in Bray NM. First thing I notice is the tank doesn't mark, so i'll assume he knows how to keep agro. Turns he can't and mobs start swarming all over the healer. He panics but starts to Overpower as the initial start, SOMETIMES. Fortunately, I'm a BRD so I always stay beside the healer if the Tank starts to go wonky again. If the healer agros something, I'll immediately try to pull it to me (because you'd be surprised how many tanks actually don't care about us DPS). Then, he started to mark things (looks like he's learning). So, easier agro management and I was glad to actually have something to focus on instead of waiting for the inevitable healer agro.

From that example, marking just makes things right. If you're experiencing more DPS pull than half the time, I seriously suggest you learn how to mass-agro a group (spam Overpower/Flash at least 3 times) and better positioning. This will solve most of the "early-pullers" or "agro steal" problems.

Good luck.