Advice for a level 60 Paladin?

[MassEffect007]

Hey y'all!

Just wanted to say I have been tanking for awhile and must say how impressed I am with the compliments I get from supporting and defending my groups. Before I was clueless on how to tank and was afraid of doing it due to the responsibility and stress factor it carried, but now I'm hooked. So I just dinged 60 yesterday, but I want to know is there a certain rotation and certain UI do many of you expert Paladins use that you can suggest? I still believe I get lucky and use common sense when tanking as well as am nice and supportive to my group no matter how many times anybody screws up, we will get the job done one or another!

Please help me become better!

[Myric]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Advice-please.

[Ultimatecalibur]

My standard core rotation sets are:

GB -> RA -> RA : the DpS rotation
GB -> RoH -> RA : Used when I want to keep the -10% STR debuff up.
GB -> RoH -> RoH : Enmity rotation used when DpS are really good or overgear me.
Flash -> Flash -> GB : AoE enmity rotation. 3 sets of this also has the benefit of full Blind up time.


Unless you need to Silence something, use Spirits Within on cooldown.
Unless a swap is coming in the next 15 seconds, use Circle of Scorn on cooldown.
Pop Fight or Flight on cooldown when you are doing you melee rotations. Popping it before a pull is a waste of uptime in exchange for a slightly stronger Shield Lob.

[MassEffect007]

Pop Fight or Flight on cooldown when you are doing you melee rotations. Popping it before a pull is a waste of uptime in exchange for a slightly stronger Shield Lob.

Thanks for the advice on the Fight or Flight tip because I would always see tanks pop that before pulling the boss when I played as a dps class, so I would do the same thing. I think one thing that has made me successful in tanking so far is because I was observant of the tanks that I got in duty finder with which were either really great tanks or really terrible ones. So I just remembered from those experiences and applied it to my present day tanking.