Question about Tanking in FF14

[Claire_Pendragon]

With the current tweeks to tanking, I'd say 90% of the time, tanking is going to be easy. 10% of the time you'll have issues.
(Some level ranges on some classes, with certain combinations of gear, can make tanking near impossible, even with skill. But it's rare.)

For now, just know when to range pull your primary target, aoe enough times to make all targets have threat on ya, and then single target which ever mob has the lowest HP. (As thats the mob you will most likely see DPS have the highest threat on)

Pop at LEAST 1 defensive CD at the start of each fight, once u have a few/enough to do this. (hard to do it at low levels, as u lack CDs)
Pop offensive CD at the start of a boss fight, to make sure u get threat.

Conserve ur resources (be it MP or TP)
You can spam all day, and hold perfect threat, but then when u run to the next group, you're out of resources.
(This is the main reason geared tanks pull more than 1 group of mobs, to make sure they can dump more resources, and get more out of them.)

Dont bother stuning attacks, as most of the time u help the healer by just dodging, as DPS continue to attack the mobs standing there trying to do their AoEs.
Some bosses might need it, but very rarely.
I'd suggest stuns for mobs who are close to death, and you may need to focus your threat on another target, but you're about to lose hate, or just lost hate to that low HP mob. (stun is 3-6 seconds, and the mob usually dies before the stun wears off)

Gear up your weapon 1st, then armor. (dont slack on them too much, as it WILL make things harder on ya.)

(also, if you play MRD/WAR, I found it easier to control the group of mobs, if u run through the group, and hit flash as u enter the center of the group. turn around, and overpower. Mainly since ppl love to range random targets, which cause yoru overpowers to sometimes miss mobs. Otherwise, as DRK and PLD, single targeting is fine, as your circle AoEs wont usually miss the stragglers. But its still good to turn mobs away from the rest of the group MOST of the time, just make sure the enemies attacks dont line up with the rest of the group.)