From Healer to Tank

[File2ish]

I went from DPS(bard) to healer (whm, my main), then tank (pld). The jump from bard to whm to pld was easy for me, especially the jump to whm. I generally was a healer for multiplayer games with my friends (FFXI RDM and DNC, my main jobs, would be off[support] heals). Going to tank was daunting because of how the tank gets blamed most of the time though.

It get's easier once you get the full combo (rage of halone). Shield Oath becomes a must as a main tank for PLD level 40, holding hate becomes so much easier with it.

EDIT removed false information, see Lemon8or's reply to clarify.

[Lemon8or]

Provoke essentially resets the enmity on the mob and places you at the top (like everyone is set to 0 and you are set to +1)

This is false. Provoke only puts you 1 enmity above the highest enmity person, does NOT reset enmity whatsoever. I have my off-tank provoke off me in twintania for a second so he'd be second place on enmity bar and still outscale other people.

[File2ish]

This is false. Provoke only puts you 1 enmity above the highest enmity person, does NOT reset enmity whatsoever. I have my off-tank provoke off me in twintania for a second so he'd be second place on enmity bar and still outscale other people.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I haven't tanked anything that required two tanks yet. I was kind of saying from what I've experienced (provoke a mob off the healer and all of a sudden that mob is on a DPS who wasn't as high up on the enmity gauge as the healer was).