PLD any better than WAR?

[Adire]

I'm willing to give tanking another go with pld, before leveling up a dps job, but thanks for the advice.

Try tanking CT, ST, or WoD and watching the other tanks/asking for advice if needed, as someone just said. Or if you want even easier practice as a 50 tank with another tank you can watch with everyone being unsynced, try Praetorium and Castrum.

You may not be a perfect tank at them from the start (doubt you will be honestly, probably won't be for a while really as things get chaotic in raids at times and you seem inexperienced/nervous. There usually is less pressure on you though since there are 2 other tanks in raids, 5 other tanks for LoTA.), but as long as you're putting in effort, I'm sure people will appreciate you. Just let people know that you're newish. If they get mad if things don't go perfectly, that's on them.

I can't count the number of times I've seen ironworks/WoD geared tanks go into those, forget they're tanks, and just dps.

Your effort should be appreciated, and I can guarantee you will do a fine job compared to many more experienced and geared tanks that do what I just said. I know I'm personally much more patient with a newish/inexperienced/badly geared tank in there who is actually trying to tank than I am with experienced tanks who sit around and don't bother trying.