Tanks can't keep aggro.

[Malicewolf]

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As I stated, I did not level BLM all the way up, so I fall in your mind-numbing pre-60 category and I know the rotation gets much more difficult later on. And in this case, I'm purely talkin about the speed run rotation in which I'm looking to burn a large mob down in a dungeon.

And exactly. Bad tanks will lose aggro to a GOOD BLM. But a good tank who knows how to do his role will hold. Because if a bad tank tries to speed run and pulls too big of a mob with a healer good enough to sustain him, he will eventually lose hate as his TP and Mana aren't unlimited. Unless the DPS are also exceptional, he will run out of resources prior to the mob being burned and then it's a sh*tshow. But for clarification, the point I was making was directly in response to bardaboo's post. To say a tank just spams the same thing over and over and over and use that as an excuse for that job being "easy" is silly. It'll get you by for a little bit and that's it, but it won't sustain you through the harder content.

And I really hope your example is an exception ._. Because a tank should be trying to re-establish hate over a mob he loses.