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[Grailer]

Get a decent weapon helps . Also the DPS can help by not going nuts on damage since they can easily see if they are going to pull agro .

Max out STR would probably help a bit too , until end game where most people go full vitality .

[TrystWildkey]

Get a decent weapon helps . Also the DPS can help by not going nuts on damage since they can easily see if they are going to pull agro .

Max out STR would probably help a bit too , until end game where most people go full vitality .

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Tell the archer to slow down a bit on the spamming skills, they really need to allow you to get a few hits in and establish hate before they start spamming skills. It's very easy for dps to be neck and neck with you on hate level if they go all out right at the start of the fight.

As far as STR, since I'm a crafter, I pretty much crafted all hq gear for myself and melded STR materia to it. That way my ability points went into VIT, but I had a rather decent amount of extra STR in there too. Make sure your gear is top notch for your level, it matters a LOT.

As far as flash goes, after I while I got so frustrated with losing hate that I used flash every 2nd move. Shield Lob, Flash, Fast Blade, Flash, etc.

It gets much better as you level up so don't get too discouraged!

[joshdavis271]

My combo for low lvl tanking is star a shield lob, flash the group, fastblade savage blade Flash repeat combo and flash keep that up and you can hold aggro, the rest is up to the DPS and healers. also good equips go a long way too. if out of mp the go with the riot blade combo, and flash every combo. Eventually you will get better tools and be able to improve on your rotation.