Common sense when positioning monsters

[Dano]

these tanks dont play DPS classes/jobs and therefore have no idea DPSes require positioning to do damage.

[Noxifer]

these tanks dont play DPS classes/jobs and therefore have no idea DPSes require positioning to do damage.

You're right. Not having a class means you're a lot less aware of what that class requires to perform well. In my first dungeons (first runs and re-runs of the first four) I had really no clue about the positioning of things, other than to try to keep aoes away from the other people. Mostly I played with my friend who favours THM/BLM, and I had levelled up CNJ enough to get protect and raise, so I knew about the annoyance of interrupted castings. But usually I'd just run straight through the mob during cone aoes and then tank it from there. Sometimes I used strafe+forward to rotate the mob 90 degrees instead of 180. No one ever said anything to me about it, though, so I had no idea that I should do it any other way.

I think it was in a fate that I first saw someone else tank and noticed how they moved back to their original position after aoe execution, and thought that was a nifty way to avoid forcing mages to move. It wasn't until WAY later that I found out about the importance of positioning for melee dps classes. By that time, I was already used to keeping the mob relatively static. But I could have started doing that a lot earlier if just someone/anyone had pointed it out to me at the start ^^; Sadly, it seems many people think that the proper way to give advice is to yell "wtf are you doing" or similarly informative things when you manage to screw something up.