Tank training

[TrystWildkey]

I spend a lot of time worrying that my level ~30 Gladiator skill is not that great. I stress over dungeon runs, and panic every time hate bounces or a mob goes after my mage. After reading some of these threads about bad tanks, I think I'm going to have to revise my standards. If there are tanks that NEVER use Flash, then I must be much better than I think I am....

[Zakalwe]

I spend a lot of time worrying that my level ~30 Gladiator skill is not that great. I stress over dungeon runs, and panic every time hate bounces or a mob goes after my mage. [snip]

If you are stressing, and panicking, and worrying about maintaining aoe aggro, you are (or will be) a great tank. My toughest time tanking was at early cap because no primal decided I deserved a primal sword, despite well over 50 Ifrit and Garuda runs to try to get one. So this whole time I was running AK and WP often with +1 relic dps on my poor little green GC sword. I managed ok. Couldn't do speed runs, but managed to keep hate. I finally (after many many fail groups) ended up successfully tanking Titan HM with that little GC sword (though with full DL with a couple iLVL 90 pieces thrown in). Now, with a relic sword maintaining aoe aggro seems like a snap, given my many weeks of training.

Basically, the standard PLD way is pull with shield lob, flash, start your single target aggro combo on #1, sharing some with #2, flash again, do the same sharing some this time with #3, flash again, and by this time #1 is dead and keep on with the other two. This standard approach will alter some depending on whether you are with single target dps or with aoe dps.

Good luck!