FFXIV is the first game I tanked in and really first dungeon experiences. So far it's been quite easy whether PLD or WAR.
You can do the guildhests to help give you some perspective but in any event you are leveling Gladiator.



I recommend grabbing some Signs from the sign menu and putting them on your hotbar. This isn't so much as for your benefit but the rest of your party who will be able to understand who you want dead first.
Select a target, Mark it with 1, tab mark the next with 2, tab mark the next with 3, and so on as you need. I don't feel a need for more than 3 generally.
Use shield throw on your initial target (you get this at class quest), and it'll give you some good initial enmity, the monsters will dogpile on you for a second but you need to hit Flash to establish real enmity on all of them. Once that's done you can hit one more flash if you want and then do fast blade -savage blade on your #1 target. You'll get it as you go along in the dungeons because they have a nice learning curve, when in doubt just run the dungeon a second time to cement your skills. We're tanks so it's not like we have to wait .

Imo communities been pretty nice, I haven't been insulted so far, and if I had any doubts in myself I asked others for feedback which was often that I was doing well. In the case something had to be changed I got the response without issue.



Since FFXIV is my first tank experience I looked up some general tips on stuff like reddit,google and here, first dungeon was daunting but no problem. Mark your targets and go to work, you may slip up but it's not huge, Satasha enemies don't one shot dps or anything like that so you have time to adjust your play and figure out how to be more efficient.