How do I tank and how do I heal?

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I have a some experience as a tank, but I'm not sure if I've got it right. Often times, it's like I'm still DPSing. I know that I approach enemies first and gain their aggro so they can focus on me. A few times, I could lose the aggro (especially as marauder) and they go after the other members. Then it becomes something like a free for all; everyone just kill anything. The times I've died as a tank feels out of my control.

I have very little experience as a healer. I have an idea of how it works, but I have questions: How do I use "protect" on everyone at once (it seems like it'll go to everyone in the party)? How can I specifically (quickly) target party members to use "cure," instead of targeting enemies? As a healer, I know I should focus on healing the tank, but how do I manage healing everyone, while also avoiding over-healing. How can I gain experience killing enemies, while I'm off healing everyone. It almost seems like healers will gain the least amount of experience.

I see that you're MRD 15 and GLA 15. Use Flash to grab hate. early and often; it's what it's designed to do, create hate in everything in your vincinity. It doesn't even put Blind on them until level 20. Riot Blade in combo can replenish your MP to keep casting it if it becomes necessary, but it'll rarely get to that point. Get it as a cross-skill if you're playing MRD as a tank. You can continue to grab skills from GLA even after you move into WAR, so it's not something you'll have to give up. Use Shield Lob/Tomahawk to pull--you'll have to do your level 15 job quests to get these if you haven't already. Do so. Once you get GLA to 22, you'll have Provoke (which can also be shared with MRD), which you should use on a mob that's attacking someone else--it'll reset your hate to the hate of the person it's attacking, plus one. And, of course, attacking stuff helps hold hate on it. You'll also have damage mitigation tools, which you should use to make life easier on your healer.

Protect automatically goes to the whole party. As far as selecting party members to heal, you have buttons that allow you to select from your party list. If you're using a controller, it's the up and down buttons on the D-Pad. If you're using the mouse, you can just click on your party list. If you're using a keyboard, it is the function keys; F1 is yourself, F2 and after are your party members. (By default; both the controller and keyboard are completely reconfigurable) Experience in a party is shared; you'll get EXP from the mobs the other players kill. The real EXP is from completing quests/duties/FATEs anyways, not random kill EXP.