Tank training

[Akuha]

I figure I should ask before I get much farther towards endgame on my Paladin, but for how long is the basic Flash -> FB -> SB -> Halone -> Flash rotation I use viable? Is there a new rotation setup I should get used to using for endgame content?

[Nictuswolf]

I figure I should ask before I get much farther towards endgame on my Paladin, but for how long is the basic Flash -> FB -> SB -> Halone -> Flash rotation I use viable? Is there a new rotation setup I should get used to using for endgame content?

We talking single target or multiple mobs?

[Steeled]

I figure I should ask before I get much farther towards endgame on my Paladin, but for how long is the basic Flash -> FB -> SB -> Halone -> Flash rotation I use viable? Is there a new rotation setup I should get used to using for endgame content?

Don't be discouraged but when you hit 50 initially, you'll probably lose hate often. It's like a level 40 trying to tank off 45s. Don't let that get to you

If you've got 2 single target dps, like to Flash FB SB Flash Halone Flash.

If it's summoners, I weave in a lot of flashes, and then there's the demon I call SCHummoner. You'll find a lot of times you're double flashing. When you get to speed runs, flash until you've spent half your mp, at least.

[Yshnal]

I figure I should ask before I get much farther towards endgame on my Paladin, but for how long is the basic Flash -> FB -> SB -> Halone -> Flash rotation I use viable? Is there a new rotation setup I should get used to using for endgame content?

What I do is start with a Shield Lob, then use Flash twice to get a hold on the pack, and then use the FB-SB-RoH rotation changing targets from time to time. For example, FB on current target, SB on the next, then RoH on the first one again, and so on, using some SB or RoH on another target if it's losing aggro. Sometimes I throw another Flash too from time to time, depending on how I see the enmity on the whole pack or if there's more than four mobs (you also get a nice blind), but I find it easier to hold it if I do that rotation between targets, as it gives you a ton more aggro than Flash.

[Sunarie]

What I do is start with a Shield Lob, then use Flash twice to get a hold on the pack, and then use the FB-SB-RoH rotation changing targets from time to time. For example, FB on current target, SB on the next, then RoH on the first one again, and so on, using some SB or RoH on another target if it's losing aggro. Sometimes I throw another Flash too from time to time, depending on how I see the enmity on the whole pack or if there's more than four mobs (you also get a nice blind), but I find it easier to hold it if I do that rotation between targets, as it gives you a ton more aggro than Flash.

This is what I do as well, and I rarely lose aggro. Only exception is a black mage getting trigger happy or repeatedly casting flare without using quelling strikes. It also helps to pop Fight or Flight at the beginning of an encounter to give you that little boost (and your off GCD abilities, assuming you don't have to save the silence for something and you aren't CCing any mobs).

If the mob pack is going to be more than 3, I flash spam the hell out of it.

[Yshnal]

(and your off GCD abilities, assuming you don't have to save the silence for something and you aren't CCing any mobs)

Yup. For example, in the case of Circle of Scorn, even if it doesn't do a lot of damage it surely adds some tiny bits of aggro that might be the difference between holding a target or losing it, sometimes.