So here it starts...

I was in a party this afternoon (I had Gladiator at the time, and right after the next Duty Roulette, I quested and unlocked Paladin) and I was being harassed by someone (who was then later reported by me to a GM) who was a Thaumaturge and kept saying, "You need to learn how to do your class right if you can't grab aggro from multiple enemies." I told him, "well stop getting hate from monsters because you are using Fire II AOE to hit more enemies instead of putting them to sleep. I can only grab hate once you stop AOE and Flash can't grab all of the monsters attention if you keep hitting them!" He then later called me racial slurs and whatnot and calling me a noob and all. Plus he refused to then DPS afterwards so he kept spamming Blizzard I instead of using just Fire I, and he was not even using Convert properly while playing.

So I talked with my FC about tanking as PLD vs. WAR, as I could only grab so much hate with Flash. I brought up the point where I'm not as a WAR (I was trying to get GLA to become a PLD this afternoon) so I can't use Overpower to spam and get aggro from multiple enemies in a quicker succession than Flash (Flash can only do so much). I mean, you can cross-class with WAR and use Provoke on it, but Overpower can't go onto any other class or job.

I mean, I read when ARR came out that PLD was geared towards tanking one main foe while WAR was for multiple enemies. My FC said that it is somewhat true, but I explained to the poor Thaumaturge in the party earlier that I can't grab more aggro. So after that fiasco of a party, I was then in the party that got my GLA to Lv30. I was talking with that party and they said I was not doing anything wrong tanking, so I wonder if it was just that Thaumaturge in the previous party.

I mean, now all I have left to unlock is BLM, and I know how to do that rotations between Astral Fire and Umbral Ice with converting to regain lost MP. I was doing more damage just using Fire I on monsters rather than relying on Fire II's AOE, but that's a different story :P

So the question is... Do Paladins work best tanking one enemy at a time while Warriors are better with multiple enemies?