New 50 looking for help (Trash/AoE tanking + gearing)

[Tman]

Mitigation comes with familiarizing yourself with your own cooldowns. Most say don't use both Divine Veil and Sentinel together, you want to stagger these for maximum mitigation potential. Rampart is kinda meh since Def suffers so severely. Don't use Aegis Boon while Stoneskin is up and don't cast it on yourself if you plan on using Aegis Boon. Which Stoneskin works wonders with sentinel and veil. Another thing that makes you a rather sturdy tank is being able to cure yourself, there are tons of tanks out there that will finish a fight with full mp, a sign of a bad (or lazy) tank in my book. A PLD will always have a need or a want to cure themselves, even if just for threat. Another decent self healing tool is to combine Bloodbath with Spirits Within. All in all its just familiarizing yourself with your own tools.

Hate resets are a whole different ball game, and quite honestly I think SE loves them too much, all you can really do is do as much threat as possible and hope your DD's play it smart and know when to back off. Saving both Provoke and Flash for those resets is definitely desired, as well as perhaps Rampart if those 2 are on cd and a reset happens again. 1 trick I try to time is managing to combo phalanx as a reset comes, but this is EXTREMELY hard to do, if not impossible. I've only ever really consistently managed it on CC, because he does an animation for Animal Instincts (the hate reset for him).

[PiedPiper]

Hamlet drops for tanks:

Ale port: Head, Body

Golden Bazaar: Feet, Neck

Hystmil: Hands, Legs

Any of these pieces can drop at 40k or more, with better chance at 50k and best chance at 60k. The boots are trash though, sent sabatons even single melded win. Hands are good pre hdl hands, and hat and body are great (IMO better than hdl if your build can support it) and the pants are excellent. Note I am an enmity stacker as opposed to damage stacker like Molly.

4k is a nice number, but 3.8 is enough to make you two-shot proof on any boss. I roll 3880 and have no issues tanking raids with solo whm.

If you're gonna do an enmity double, do it on your belt not sword. You can get tones of sword upgrades but a nice 40+ enmity belt will last forever. Personally, I suggest plds aim for 150+ enmity, 300+ mind and 3.8k+ HP. Str is ignorable if your enmity is up. (Mine is 229 lol). Vitality and defense will give you next to no returns on bosses. You will find that enmity stacking, as opposed to str, will help you hold trash pulls past the first flare drop. After that, if necessary, cover is your friend.