Tanking in FF14 question

[Claire_Pendragon]

You mean...outside of a Blackmage opening up with a double flare into Fire 3.
That is the only time I ever had issues with AOE agro and even then, Flash, Flash, Overpower to rapidly regain agro was a thing even if there was no proper usage of threat mitigation.

It wasnt really an issue, except in small patch cycles, and even then, the BLM goes back to a normal rotation, and u keep spamming ur AoEs and you quickly have hate again. 2.0 was the only cycle that was really bad with threat generation. (really just PLD) But it was still fine. I had my BLM friend go ham, while my MNK friend went ham. I mostly spammed flash, and used stun on the mob my MNK friend was targeting, since he would eventually rip hate using single target, while im spamming flash. (the stun kept him safe till the mob died) If it were any other DPS, actually using AoE, then flash spam was enough. (This was before the nerf to flare)
only a few whiny tanks complained about BLM openers, because they lost hate for 4 seconds, and then got it back again. (Which only PLD really sucked at. WAR, and DRK did just fine. I honestly cant think of a single time I lost hate to a BLM opener as WAR or DRK. They just did too much burst dmg.)