Tips for tanking with a controller?

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My tip is to use the target filter on character settings (or was it system settings?) and turn off party member and pets targeting when your weapon is drawn.
That way when you press left or right you will "tab" through available mobs, without targeting party members nearby or pets, making your cycling through mobs much more efficient since less button presses are needed.
This should be more than enough when you have only a few (3~4 or less) mobs.
Even if you switch to a healer it doesnt matter much cuz you can (and should) use up and down for party members.

That way left/right will only target mobs and objects, and up/down will only target party members.
You will never target pets at all, since you dont need to target them as tank anyway.


Another tip is... if for example a new mob is spawning and you must get aggro on it fast (won't happen much till much later in the game), press Circle to cancel your current target.
Face the new mob and press X to lock the target on it and then just Tomahawk/Shield Lob the enemy, and after that use left/right as needed.
You can also do that when no new mobs are spawning.



Another tip is to use Legacy Camera. The standard one sucks.



Hope that helps.